The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-22
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
Easton has a skating rink.


Seaford wants fire company.
1t is reported that Boss - Tweed is in
Talbot county.
The School Commissioners of Dover have
abolished corporal punishment.
The St. Michaels Comet advertises Col
ectors' sales of ia separate pieces of
property. Fearful!
Mrs. John T. Harrison, of st. Michaels,
was seriously burned, recently, by the over
throw of IA lighted coal Oil lamp.
/ There is lady living in Slaughter Neck,
near Dover, who weighs over $50 pounds
avoirdupois, and is still growing.
The storehouse and store goods of Mr..
VIM. A. Moore, of Seaford, were destroyed
by fire, on the night of the 10th inst.
/ Mr. George NJ. Reader. editor of the
Easton, Pa, Express, was accidentally shot
in the face on Wednesday last, by detective
Jacob johnson.
! Jas. C. Anderson, of Marydel, brake
man on the Md. & Del railroad, was killed
at Goldsborough station, on Thursday of
last week.
| Letters of administration upon the estate
of David Ford, late of Pencader Hundred,
have been granted to w. 3. Ford, son of
the deceased,
/ Last week tenement house near Easton
was burned, and two children, who had
| been left by their parents locked in, were
consumed with the house.
A submarine cable has been laid from
the Delaware Breakwater to Cape Henlo-
pen, in order to maintain communication
between the TWO light houses, and for other
purposes.
At a meeting held at Middletown, on
Friday of last week, it was determined to
institute suit at once against the American
Steamship Company, for loss on the peaches
shipped to Europe last Summer.
Two boys named Kirk Layton and Frank
| Wilson, each about II years of age, were
drowned near Middletown, Saturday last,
! while skating on Drummond's mill pond.
! Their bodies were afterwards recovered.
! A man who gave his name as II. T.
/ Nickers, and his home as Kent county,
/ Nd, was locked up in the prison at New
castle, on Monday. How he came to New
| castle DO one knows, and as he is not very
communicative, very little information can
be got from him. He says, however, that
/ he is a relative of Senator Nickers at
! Chesteltown.
| On Saturday last, farmer, Jas Stroud,
/ who lives about three miles from Smyrna,
! WAS driving HO'lle WHeH MS horses DecOin-
ing frightened, dashed off suddenly, upset
ting the wagon in which he was, and the
! occupant was hurledviolently to the ground.
I He was Instantly killed, having struck upon
his head and fractured his skull. He is
well known and popular farmer, and his
death is sadly regretted.
! A large fire occurred near Middletown,
| on Saturday last, on the farm of S. F.
! Shallcross, Esq, about two miles from
town. All of his outbuldings but his
/ granary were destroyed. His whole stock
of implements and hay, and one calf and
one sheep were in the buildings and were
/ totally lost. The fire was caused by some
boys who were shooting at pigeons on the
! building.
/ Peach growers in vicinity of Milford are
not talking of reducing their orchards, but
are actually doing it. An orchard of sew
eral thousand trees was grubbed off Gen.
Torbett's farm last year; and since the last
( peach harvest, Col Fiddeman has dug up
an orchard of some three or four thousand
( trees. Several other growers in this vicin-
/ ity have likewise curtailed their acreage to
greater or less extent.