The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-20

above town. He supposed it was gone
never to be heard of again. On the follow
ing day, however, Mr.. Thos. Lewis, while
passing over the same ground, found thu
ring and returned it to it's owner.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr.. w
F. Baldwin, of Elk Mills was severely, i
not seriously hurt, on Wednesday, by being
thrown down an embankment while haul
ing earth for the repairs to the mill dam a,
that place. His injuries are internal. DR.
Mitchell pronounced them not necessarily
fatal.
Hon. ]. A. J. Creswell is having erected
at his residence, near town. cistern capa
BILE of containing Is, 1000 gallons, from which
to supply the premises with water. The
brick used in its construction were furnish.
ed by John Gilpin, Esq, of this town, and
the work is being done by Mr.. Harry Lar.
zalere.
Mr.. David Devlin narrowly escaped al
the track to siding, near the depot, or
Saturday last. He was driving across the
track and failed to notice the train backing
towards him. The engineer CHANGED to see
him, and slackened up just in time to allow
him to escape.
The store of ]. T. Williamson & Son,
of Newark, Delaware, was broken into, on
Friday night of last week, and large
quantity of goods carried away. All kinds
of merchandise were taken, nothing SEEM
ing to come amiss to the thieves. Groceries,
dry goods, hardware, tobacco etc., were
carried off. The thieves made good Their
escape.
An Elkton clergyman, who this year
essayed the role of gardner, knowing that
Paris Green was death to potato bugs, con-
upon cabbage. He at once began sprink-
ling his crop with it, and kept it up al
intervals during the season. The trouble
now is to extract the Paris Green from the
cabbage head.
"A package of letters was dropped
from the mail car attached to the 4.57 p. NJ,
train north, on Tuesday, between this place
and Newark. The package was marked
for Wilmington. Notice of the loss was
sent to this station, and search was made,
but the package could not be found, some
one having in all probability picked it up
soon after it fell from the car
To our sportsman who are preparing
for the Fall campaign, it will be of interest
to know the date at which the shooting OF
partridge is lawful in this and neighboring
counties. TO day (the 20th) the season
begins in Cecil. In Kent, Talbot and Queen
Anne's counties, it is not lawful to shoot
until the first day of November. In Penn
sylvania the law expired on the 18th inst.
Many families that keep coal fires over
night are accustomed to close all the pipe
hampers and leave the stove door open.
The gas thus generated is a deadly poison,
and if it escapes into sleeping rooms will
first stupefy and then kill. Leaving the
covers off cook stoves at night is a danger
GUS practice, unless the kitchen is carefully
closed to prevent the escape of gas into
sleeping rooms.
"A number of our exchanges have an
nounced that lit is proposed to test the
sense of the people of Cecil in regard to
Local Option, at the coming election, by
having the words For Local Option and
Against Local Option printed at the bot
tom of all tickets used on that OCCASION -
We haven't yet heard of any such arrange
ment at home, but believe it would be a
good plan to ascertain the sentiments of
our people.
"A traveller named John McCrudin, OF
McCrugan, native of County Monahan, lie
land, died at Principle Furnace, Cecil
county. Md, on the 10th instant. He had
dark hair, brown whiskers on chin, brown
eyes; was five feet nine inches in height,
and about forty-three or forty-five years old.
He had sisters and relatives living in New
York, for whose information this notice is
made to crafty dying mans wish. New
York City papers are requested to copy.l
We received short time since from the
author, Francis Vincent, City Treasurer of
Wilmington, Delaware, copy of the first
volume of his history of Delaware, for
which he has our thanks. 1t is an intensely
interesting book, and shows that the au-
thor has been at great pains and. trouble to
procure the information it contains. We
hope he may be able to complete the his
tory, and feel assured, if he is spared long
enough to do SO, that much information
that is now inaccessible will be placed
within the reach of the public.
On Tuesday last, Thomas V. Ward,
Esq, Of Sassafras Neck, was married to
Miss Henrietta G. Davis, of Smyrna, Del,
daughter of the late Henry Davis, of Tai
bot county. The ceremony took place in
St. Peters Church, Smyrna, Rev. Lewis
Wake, officiating. The bride and groom
left Immediately after the ceremony for the
residence of the former, where the con.
CALCULATIONS of their many friends were
received. We acknowledge the receipt OF
a cut of delicious cake, and hereby tender
to the newly-married couple our most
hearty wishes for their happiness.
The repairs to the dam at Marley Paper
Mills were so far completed as to secure
water enough to begin running on Tuesday
last. This work, under the supervision OF
Messrs. Green & Son, was done liz an ex-
ceedingly short space of time, considering
the fact that but limited number about
thirty carts could be used upon it. As
high as 1900 cart loads of earth were placed
on the break in one day. DR.. Mackall is
building wooden dam at his mill below
Marley, to take the place of the stone one
washed away. At Baldwin's mills suf1i
cient water has been secured by repairing
the upper dam, to run the machinery while
the creek remains as high as it is. The
repairs to the new dam will be completed
during next week.
CHARGED WITH RoBBINe A House.