The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-11-28
Local Affairs.

The Mutual Building Association of
Elkton meets to night.
Mr. Howard has let the water into his
ice pond, preparatory for the Winter crop
of crystals.
The New York express, which passes
Elkton at r. NJ, ran into coal train, on
Monday last, at Elizabeth, N. j., and three
coal cars and mail car were demolished.
No person was injured, but the train was
delayed three and ahalf hours.
Mr.. Randolph Bye, who has recently
returned from Omaha to this town, has
been appointed postal clerk on the North
ern Central Railroad, between Baltimore
and Canandaigua, New York, at salary
of 81, 200 per annum, and entered on the
discharge of his duties on Wednesday last
"A company of our sportsmen went on
a ducking excursion, on Monday last, to
the Chesapeake flats, but the day proved
the most inauspicious of the season. But
few ducks rewarded their enterprise. So
unfavorable was the day that number
of the Havre de Grace duckers did not 60
out.
The Teachers Institute of Lancaster
county passed the following resolution.
Let our Teachers Associations make a
note of it:
Resolued, That District Institutes and
Debating Societies should be supported in
every school district of Lancaster county.
-Storms.-On Sunday and Monday vio-
lent storms, with wind blowing hurricane,
are reported in many places. A very heavy
gust passed over this town on Monday
afternoon. A black cloud rose up from the
northwest, and soon passed over the town,
with rain, hail and violent wind. At
Port Deposit there was no disturbance Of
the elements of sufficient consequence to
attract notice, although the storm SEEM
ed to come directly from that quarter. On
Monday night another severe blow was ex-
perienced, with decided lowering of the
temperature in the atmosphere.
Chaplain C. C. McCabe will give his
celebrated Lecture on THE Bright Side
of Life in Libby Prison; Pictures of Prison
Life" in the Cherry Hill NJ. E. Church,
on Friday, the 18th of December next, at
o'clock. The lecture is preceded by a
Vocal Concert at y o'clock. Chaplain
McCabe is one of the sweetest singers in
this country; and his lecture will have the
additional interest in this county of his
having been companion in Libby Prison
with the Rev. Joseph T. Brown, former
resident of Cherry Hill. Tickets, % cents.
-Fire-On Wednesday morning last, it
was discovered that the wood work about
the fire place of Mr.. J. Partridge's dwell
ing house had caught fire, and on examina-
ton it was found that the fire had been
communicated through a crack in the
plastering, and had worked up to the cell
ing and behind the castings. The alarm
was given Immediately on the discovery of
the fire, and Mr.. A. W. Mitchell FASTENED
to the scene of threatened calamity with
his Babcock Fire Extinguisher, and insert
ing the nozzle in an opening that COM
municated with the fire, with a few jets of
gas soon extinguished the flames.
Passengers on the Philadelphia and
Wilmington Road who have stopped at
Darlington Station, will remember bright
faced, bustling little woman who had charge
of the station, and took much pleasure in
answering all the questions propounded by
those who were waiting for the trains.
Her name was Mary O'Neal, and her hus
band was track layer on the road. One
day last week Mrs. O'Neill started to walk
to Havre de Grace (two miles distant, but
before she had got many yards from the
house she noticed passing locomotive had
set fire to the dry sedge grass. She thought
lessly began to tramp on the burning grass,
but the fire caught her dress, and in an
instant she was enveloped in flames. She
ran back to her home, where she fingered
few hours, and then death relieved her of
her sufferings .-Baltimore american.
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