The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-24
Our Neighbors.

A mad dog was shot in Oxford, Pa,
last week
The Kent county Agricultural Society
has built new hall, which was dedicated
last week.
Hon. John Bewley, of Smyrna, had
his pocket picked on a Philadelphia street
car on Thursday.
In Kent county, where the bulk of the
peaches is said to lay, the fruit is falling
rapidly from the trees.
-Thos. NJ. Harvey, of West Grove, Pa,
supplies about 800 pounds of butter per
week to the Philadelphia market, at 80 cts
per lib.
South Milford, Del, in debt, levies a
tax of 20 cents on the 800, and North Mil
ford, with money in the treasury, requires
but cents.
During thunder storm, one day last
week, two cows standing twenty six yards
apart in an open field in Hartford county,
were killed by single lightning stroke.
On Friday night of last week, man
named Rogers, living near Havre de Grace,
had his hand mashed and leg broken, by
being damned between the freight cars on
the $50 way train. Rogers was not an
employee of the p, w. u B. Railroad
Company.
knights Templar Encampment at Rid
ley Park. On the 2Sth inst, the Grand
Commandery of Maryland, with several
Communicates from other States, will en-
camp at Ridley Park, where extensive pre-
parations are now being made for their re-
ception.
The Brandywine Summit Camp Meet
ing will be held in r. Johnson's woods,
about two miles from brandywine Summit
Station, p. & B. c. r. r., commencing on
Monday August 2lst, and closing Friday,
Sept. 1st IL will be under the supervision
of Rev. Geo w. Lybrand pastor of Sloan
NJ. E. Church, Delaware county, Pa,
MEETING or THE BOUNDARY COMMITS
sIoNERs AT CRIsFIELD.-The Maryland
and Virginia Boundary Commissioners
met at Cristield, on Tuesday of last week,
and have since held daily sessions. The
Commissioners are of the opinion that they
will be able to finally decide the question
during the Summer. meeting is to be
held at Washington, on July 18th.
THE DELAWARE SHORE RAILROAD
| The engineer corps are pushing the work
on the Delaware Shore Railroad to rapid
conclusion. They are now within about
three miles of the end of the route (Penns-
grove, on the opposite side of the Della
ware and expect to finish the construction
before the close of the month. By the lst
of July the directors propose to have every
thing in readiness for the operation of the
road.
MURDER IN LANCASTER CoUNTY.-Jacob
Weller, aged about rs years, a citizen OF
Brecknock township, who owns little
place of ten acres in the poor district about
three miles north of Churchtown, was
murdered on Monday of last week. His
body was found by his daughter short
distance from his home, wedged in among
some rocks, with gunshot wound in his
forehead and Il large cut on the back of his
head. A gun was found near by, with the
stock broken, having apparently been used
in the terrible business of breaking the old
mans head. Two young men named
Clement Skiles and John Hurshberger (the
former grandson of the murdered man,
have been arrested and lodged in Jail at
Lancaster charged with the terrible crime
1t is supposed the object was to obtain about
$50 in money which the old man carried
with him, and which was not about his
person when found.-Oyford Press.