The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-11-11
PeninSular and State Items.
DELLA WARE.

have purchased twenty-one acres of land
on the east side of the Brandywine, to
locate the shops on.
| Chestnuts roaSts are the latest dodge by
which to secure church funds. Ofone held
in Wilmington the Commercial says: This
new, novel and interesting manner sfspend-
ing socially pleasant evening, was intro
duced last week, at the Calvary =. f..
Church. A large cook stove and boilers
had been provided. and into the latter had
been poured chestnuts without stint, which
when boiled in connection with a bountiful
supply Of apples, furnished an elegant re :
past to large collection of friends, The
small admission of 25 cents made in the
aggregate handsome sum for the support
Of the church.
Prof. Theo. Wolf. of Edwardsville, ILL.,,
has been elected to fill the Chair of Chem
istry at Delaware College.
Kirkwood Building and Loan Association
funds sold at sSt cents.
Cantwell Clark's barn, near Glasgow,
was destroyed by fire, last week, together
with three horses, one COW, about 600
bushels of corn, carriage, and a valuable
lot of farming implements. The fire is
believed to have been of incendiary origin.
This is the third time, we believe, this barn
has been burned.
VIM. Cooch, of Newark, who has been
an assistant in the laboratory of Delaware
College, goes out to Rolla, Mo-, in few
days, to take a similar position under Prof.
Williams, in the Missouri School of Mines.
He is the son of Levi G. Cooch, Esq.
Between one and two o'clock, on the
morning of the 9th inst, Charles S. Wool
sey, school teacher at Ogletown, was shot,
and instantly killed, by Stephen II. Costen,
a justice of the peace for White Clay Creek
Hundred, the occurrence taking place at
the village of Christiana. For number
of years mutual friendship had existed
between Woolsey and Costen, which led
each to seek frequently the society of the
other. The former making Saturday last
the occasion of a visit to his friend, was
received with cordial greetings by the lat
ter, who had been making arrangements
tending to the happiness of the expected
guest. Unfortunately, the evening of this
day was spent by the friends in bar-room,
where both partook of Intoxicating drink.
Repairing thence to the butchers, sup
ply of beef was procured, and late sup
per prepared at the home of Costen. In
the course of conversation at the table, a
| controversy arose although such good
friends, it is said they never met that they
didn't dispute bitterly, but always parted
better friends than ever between the two,
| which led to quarrel, resulting in the
stabbing of Costen by Woolsey, and the
death of the latter by shot from gun in
the hands of Costen. Both parties were
bachelors. 1t is said neither had INDUCED
to excess at the hotel. Costen made no
effort to escape, and was committed to jail,
at New Castle, on Sabbath afternoon.
An old negro woman by the name of
Price, died, on the Goth ult, at the ad-
vanced age of Ill years. She was formerly
a slave in the Francis family, and lived on
the land of her old master, in Appoquini-
mink Hundred.
General Levi Harris, prominent resi-
| dent of Milford, and editor and proprietor
of the Mutual Friend newspaper, died in
that town, ON the Sd inst. Gen. Harris
was a native of New York, where he had
served in the Legislature, with honor. He
| removed to Delaware some years ago, and
real estate in Central and Southern Della
ware. We chronicle his death with regret,
as that of an upright and valuable citizen.
His age probably about IS or 60.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E. Church
| at Milford, was laid on the 3Oth ult.
The fourth quarterly meeting of the Kent
| County Good Templar's Association will
| oe held at Smyrna on the 18th inst.
The oyster shuckers at Seaford, includ-
ing men, woman and children, work from
| two o'clock at night to eleven o'clock in
the morning and the fastest can open TWEEN
| ty gallons in this time, for which they re-
ceive 121 cents per gallon.
An adjourned meeting of the Peninsula
Fruit Growers Association will be held at
Seaford on Wednesday, 18th inst. The OBJ
;jects of the meeting are: 1st. To call at
tention to the magnitude of the fruit inter
est. I'd. To invite the aid and cooperation
of all those engaged in the business. Sd.
To consult together as to the best means of
promoting and protecting the interests of
Fruit Growers throughout the Peninsula.
George H. Walls, indicted for the MUIR
der of Robert Hackett, was convicted on
the 23d ult., of manslaughter, and SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Col. John ii. Taggart, of Philadelphia,
we'll known as leading Republican, and
senior proprietor of the Sunday Times, is a
native of Kent county, where he was born
in January, 1921.
| w. M. Stay, Esq, formerly of Camden,
Del, has been admitted to practice in the
Kent county courts.
QUEEN ANNE's.
The school-house of the colored people,
at Salem, Tor Browns Corner,) was burnt
down on Wednesday night of last week.
1t had rained hard all day, in conse-
quence of which there had been no
school and no fire in the house since Tues
day. The house was very neat building,
and had been erected by the colored people
at their own expense, and it's destruction
will be a severe loss to them, as it is prin-
cpally during the winter season that they
have an opportunity of sending their chill
dren to school. The Citizen adds that such
an occurrence as this is no matter of sur
prise to any one acquainted with the char
acter of a ma ority of the speeches which
have been delivered by Democrats at the
various public meetings held in the county
this Fall.
Robert Thawley, a prominent citizen,
died at his residence, in Tuckahoe Neck,
recently.
A protracted meeting of unusual interest
is now in progress at Thawley's Chapel, in
Tuckahoe Neck.
Mutton thieves butcher the sheep on the
farm, in Talbot.
Private theatricals nave been all the rage
in Easton for some weeks past.
wICoMCo.
A few days since, in Salisbury, blind
horse became frightened and ran into the
window of liquor store, receiving such
injuries that he had to be killed. Whether
it was his contact with the whisky or win
dow that mortally wounded him, we can
not say; but he had no business to be going
1t blind in that style.
Pea nuts are largely cultivated in this
county, and the business promises to BIZ
remunerative.
On the Gath ult., VIM. E. Cantwell was
thrown against a circular saw, at Hufty &
Bros saw mill, and literally sawed to pieces
A little three-year old son of Thos Long,
was recently run over by an ox-cart and
instantly killed. On Tuesday of last week,
a colored boy, while out hunting with a
man, was instantly killed by the accidental
discharge of a gun.
The Herald says that the schooner of
| Capt. Baily, from that county, while lying
off New Castle, Del, was boarded by a
band of pirates, who demanded the Cap
tain's money and other valuables, all of
| which uoro ba nd cd ouar tho ,,,opop