The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-12-04
OUR NEIGHBORS.
DELAWARE.

DELAWARE.
| An effort is being made in Dover to Or
ganize a hook and ladder company. Smyrna
wants one. Milford has one.
| Bernard Curren, adrinking saloon keeper
in Wilmington, has been held to bail in
$4,000, for passing counterfeit currency
The gas works in Smyrna are advertised
at Sheritf's sale.
The Baptists having purchased Wyoming
College, will hold appropriate dedicatory
services on the first Sabbath in December.
John II. Bewley has purchased of VIM.
| T. Short, his farm in the Neck, four miles
from Smyrna, containing 200 acres, for
$4,000. The machine shop in that town,
recently sold to Scout & Mannering, for
| $500, is included in the sum above men
toned. Mrs Bewley has also purchased
Is acres from John Shortess, for $140O, sit
uated in Severson's Neck.
Hon. j. P. Comegys, as trustee, sold last
week. the Capt. Edward Attix estate, in
kenton Hundred, as follows farm of 214
per acre also farm of "a acres and 80 per-
ches, to same, at $3.50 per acre, and farm
of 100 acres and Is perches, to Patrick Grady
at S23.25 per acre.
Miss Olive Logan has been engaged to
lecture in Middletown, on Thursday even
| ing, the 18th of December for the benefit
of the public school at that place.
At the next meeting of the Dover Dis
trict Preachers Association, which con-
venes in Milford Oh the 9th instant, pro-
position will be made to the preachers of
the Easton District, looking to 4 consolida-
ton of the two associations.
The mud machine is cleaning out the
creek on both sides of the wharves, from
| &ho Of 10 +o+ 81,
bridge.
Paradise Lost, or rather the Panorama
of that name, which we have not heard of
for a long time, is now found, and is show
ing down the Peninsula.
The railroad between Seaford and Cam
bridge is completed. 1t passes through
fertile country, and is SO miles in length.
KENT.
Track laying on the Kent road is now
being pushed forward at the rate of about
one-third of a mile per day, and is now
within three miles of Kennedyvillc, to
which point the grading has been completed
| by the energetic contractor, J. Mahoney.-
| 1t is contemplated to finish the track-laying
| to Kenncdyville by the 10th instant The
| Company have purchased of the p. w. &
b. II. r. Co. the locomotive "Thomas
! Clayton which is now on the track, run
ming material.
On Monday, the 21st ult., negro girl
named Reed, near Hanesvillc, while incau-
tiously handling Sharp's revolver, which
was lying on the bureau, accidentally dis
charged the weapon. The ball entered her
left breast and lodged in the apix of the
lung. The patient is said to be in a fair
way to recover.
The new sheriff bonded on Tuesday, 22d
or6 fbo Int -
office.
CAROLINE.
| The springs continue as low as they were
| at almost any time during the summer.
The steamboat leaves Baltimore one hour
earlier than formerly, and Denton one hour
| earlier on the return trip.
John D. Kemp, Esq, has abandoned the
practice of law, and will lead a farmers
life upon Kent Island.
Tho Mancha Bros, of Denton, report
still further sales of land this week.
The farm of Mrs. Flynn & Son, near
Hillsborough, containing $40 acres to Isaac
Cheveling, of Columbia county, Pa. lily.
Ridgaway's farm, near Ridgely, and con-
tanning 140 acres, to Louis 2. Mosher, of
Cayuga county, N. Y, for $40 per acre
| The real estate market seems very active
at present, and the indications are that it
will continue SO throughout the winter.
So barely is a Thanksgiving day and all
national holidays observed in Denton that
the closing of the stores was at frs. thought
to indicate the death of some of our mer-
chants or member of their families.
| The editor of the Denton Union says -
"Ours is a new policy of financiering.-
We've run this Office for more than month
with ten cents. If Secretary Boutwell, can
| heat thic hos Ve1cnmo n do If
| TALBOT.
| Reuben Dulin came to his death on We'd
nesday, 24th ult., in a most shocking man.
ncr. Dir. Dulin was in tie 6Sth year of his
age, and kept to his room most of the
time. On the morning of his DEATH Mr..
Craft, his son-in-law, made good hickory
fire in the room, and in short time after
the fire was in full blaze, one of the family
went into the room of Mr.. d., and found
him lying across the bed of Goals with his
lar bones destroyed.
The new NJ. +. Church, South, at Colds
borough Station, on the Md. & Del r. r.,
will be dedicated tomorrow (Sunday.)
Major Vanderlip, of Gen. Towards staff,
of the the Frecdmen's Bureau, left Easton,
last week, where he has been engaged for
several days in paying bounty, back pay,
ETC., to colored soldiers.
Lloyd Lownds, who broke his leg in
practising for the tournament in Septom-
Der last, is again going about. But he has
yet to use crutcheS and no doubt will have
to do so for some time TO come.
DORCHESTER.
On Tuesday night of last week, some one
entered John Bradshaw's hotel, in Cam,
bridge, took out the money drawer, and
carrying it to graveyard near by, scatter
| ed the papers around pocketed the money,
and left the drawer behind.
Nothing is more certain to observing
persons than that the negro population is
rapidly decreasing in Dorchester, says the
Necs. When the census was taken in 1860
nearly onc-half of the population of Cam
bridge districts was negroes, now they will
not number fourth, and in many districts
the falling Off is in much larger proportion
A stone, oval in shape, weighing II
ounces was taken from the bladder of a
hog slaughtered by Stephen B. Woolford,
recently.
The Nsns thus administers comfort to
its rcaders:-The people of this county
should rejoice that they are financially bet
ter off than the people in most eff their
neighboring counties. There has been a
less number of trustee sales in Dorchester
this year than in any other county in the
State; and though the number of Sheriff
sales have ben large, it does not equal
many of those in adjoining counties In
the Centreville Observer we count thirteen
advertisements of Sheriff sales inserted in
one issue, besides a number of others, in
serted one or two weeks previous The
people of Queen Annes county may well
sing, "Hard times come again.
| HARTFORD.
Sarah Seminar VS.. Tobias Peterson S
administrators From Cecil county. This
case occupied the Court from Tuesday, the
18th, until Monday, the 22d ult., inclusive,
and excited much interest, although the
parties were strangers in this county. The
plaintiff, as it appears from the evidence,
attended upon and took care of her father,
the defendants intestate, for some years
prior to his deceasc, in 1867, for which ser
vices she claimed compensation to the
amount of account filed for 81, $50, some
credits for sums already paid, to be allowed
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