The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-09-02


the head, whereupon the peach picker drew
knife and inflicted severe wound in
Lober's stomach, barely escaping severing
of some entrals. The peach-picker was
arrested during the evening, and had a
hearing the next morning, when he was
committed to the New Castle jail to await
the result of Looer's injuries.
The repairing of the Smyrna Methodist
Church will not interrupt the services.
On the 21st ult., James p. Barker, of
Georgetown, had left at his tent, at the
camp in Pepper woods, a new born infant,
which had not been provided with swad-
ding clothes. Although caring for it
kindly, yet he is anxiously looking for "a
claimant. see
A young man named Smith, from Lin
coin, in company with Miss Stewart, was
about leaving the camp in Reynolds woods,
on the Goth ult., when he discovered that
he had left the bits out of the horses
mouth. He removed the bride to adjust
the bits, when the horse took fright and
dashed wildly through the woods. He ran
but a short distance before striking tree,
and Miss Stewart was thrown violently to
the ground and quite seriously injured
At last accounts she was lying in critical
condition.
Work has been resumed upon the new
Jail at Dover. after Il short stoppage, while
waiting for iron and other trimmings. 1t
is expected that the stone and brick work
will! be completed in about six weeks.
Morris & Lyons put up over 5000 cans
of fruit weekly at their cannery in Seaford.
KENT.
The Kent papers contain an account of
proposed railway between Baltimore and
New York, which is to run through that
county. To prove the whole thing a myth,
we copy the following from the Transcript:
"The projectors of the proposed additional
railroad through Kent county, sent to
Chestertown for a justice of the peace and
carried him to Annapolis to take the
acknowledgment of the proposed incorpor-
ators. Arrived there, after much consul
tation, they determined the very difficult
point that a Kent county justice had no
jurisdiction on the other side of the bay;
so the corporators returned with his Honor
Justice Graves, to the bay-side of Kent;
and the papers were duly executed and
sent to Chestertown for the Clerks certifi-
cate" Such men don't build railroads.
QUEEN ANNE's.
The corn crop promises to be large.
The camp meetings at Blacks woods,
near Suddlersville, and at Church Hill,
closed on the goth ult
A temperance convention will be held in
Centreville on Tuesday, 9th inst.
The Brick hotel property, in Centreville,
was sold at sherff's sale, on Tuesday last,
for $40, subject to mortgage of $500,
with interest from Jan. 1st, 1870. Pur-
chased by Ellinger and Myers, plaintiffs.
The Citizen states that train on the
Queen Anne's Railroad recently Gran over
a flock of sheep, belonging to John Boyer
killing three and gripping two Others"
Considering the FLOCK was run over we
think the number killed and wounded
exceedingly small.
On the night of the 18th ult, at Church
Hill, in a drunken row, Benz. Meredith,
Jr., shot Thomas Seeney. Meredith and
young man named Green became engaged
in a quarrel, and Meredith attempted to
draw pistol, when Seeney dealt Meredith
a blow, nearly knocking him down.
Seeney then ran and Meredith fired at him,
the ball taking effect in the spinal column,
producing partial paralysis of the lower
extremities Meredith was arrested and
held to bail in the sum of $500. Seeney
says he struck Meredith to prevent him
from shooting Green, intending to knock
him down and disarm him. 1t is thought
Seeney will recover. On the 21st ult., a
colored man named Nathan Coker acciden-
tally shot himself, at Wye Mills. He was
handling pistol, and was looking down
the barrel, when it fired Off, the ball enter
ing the left eye and penetrating the brain,
causing instant death.
CAROLINE.
The county levy for this year is 81 cents.
Capt. Caleb Eaton, while walking the
deck of a canal boat, laying at Baltimore,
fol .,,fp f1o6 n1I RAtl g = h.
part of one leg were fractured.
Curtis Towers, aged 81 years, eschewing
carriages, visits his son on foot, distance
of ten miles, and calls it a pleasant walk.
A county temperance convention will be
held at Hillsborough, on Thursday, Sept.
It'll.
DR.. Beattie, an aged and respected ply
stefan died recently.
The Fountain farm, containing 24j acres
has been sold at $33 per acres. T. f.
Carey, purchaser.
]. Clinton Keets, late tax collector of
Chapel District, died suddenly at his home
at Wye Landing, on Friday week.
A young man named w. B. Framptom,
a sailor on board of the Dexter, Capt. j. S.
Leonard's schooner, fell overheard and
was drowned, at Baltimore, on Wednesday
night of last week. He was from the
neighborhood of Royal Oak. His body was
recovered and sent home for nterment
DORCHESTER.
On the 10Th ult., L. E. Tubman was hit
on the head with a large block and seri-
ouSly injured, while assisting in raising
windmill, near Church Greek.
Although there were probably not half
the people at Beckwith's that were at Hur-
locks yet the number of tents exceeded
that of any other camp in the county this
year.
The schools will open on the 4th inst.
An effort is being made in Cambridge,
to erect monument to the little girl who
was drowned there, recently, in trying to
rescue her brother.
wIcoMlCo.
The colored camp near Salisbury was
success.
The corn crop promises an abundant
yield.
The Republicans will hold their County
Convention on the 9Th inst.
Timothy Mullen, lad about IA years of
age, was run over by the cars, near Sails
bury, on the 21st ult. lie went with his
father, in hand car, to near Yorktown,
when the parent went away, leaving his
son to take care OF the car. Being tired,
he laid down on the track and fell asleep.
In the meantime the train came along. and,
passing over him, crushed both of his legs.
He died in few hours.
SOMERSET.
Capt. Robert II. McCready, of the Oys-
ter Police force, captured six captains and
boats dredging for oysters contrary to law,
in Tangier Sound. Four of the six We're
fined $50 each; the other two were acquit-
ted. Dredging is prohibited until after
the 18th inst.
WORCESTER.
The residence of Jesse Truitt was entered
by burglar on the night of the Goth ult.,
and robed of $40 cash and many valuable
papers. Many of the papers were found
next morning scattered around the prem
Uses.
The citizens in the upper part of the
county have been attempting to cut ditch
connecting Synepuxent Bay and the Allan
tic Ocean, at Hommock Point. This is the
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