The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-11-03
Our NeighbOrS.

Edw Reynolds, editor of the Middletown
Transcript has also gone to "store keep
ing"
The young people in Laurel, Del, are
getting up theatricals in aid of the Presby-
terrain Church there.
A little babe named Biocksom, born at
Little Creek Landing, Del, recently, has
now living five grandmothers and four
grandfathers.
Attorney General Pennington of Delaware
is accused of settling, without trial or fines,
the cases presented to him againt the IL
censed liquor dealers of Dover
The organist of the NJ. E. Church at New
Castle Del, recently moved away, and now
Rev. Mir. Bristor' the pastor, does the play
ing, leads the singing and delivers the
sermons.
The large straw house of Frank Went
worth, in East Coventry township, Ches-
ter county. Pa, containing 1000 sheaves
of oats, drills, moving machines, horse rakes,
I five plows, and other farming utensils, was
burned on Tuesday evening.
More than twice as much land as ever
before, it is said, has been sown in wheat in
| Wicomico county this fall, and with a
! iaNoidUle SEASON, d large pfOuucb may De
expected. A general improvement in the
style of farming throughout the county is
also noted.
/ A writer in the Delasoarean asserts that
"There has not been single case where
an Americas has permantly made money
by selling liquor in the town of Dover.
! Temporarily, he would reap rich harvest
but to die poor, generally as no one would
! Il IL L.,
! Newton Record and Gazette; On Sunday
night last, during the prevalence of the
/ thunder storm, Captain Chandler was asleep
in the cabin of his vessel at Chincoteague
Island. The electric fluid struck the mast
of the vessel, communicating to the cabin
and instantly killing the captain.
At Wilmington, Del, on Tuesday, the
horses of the Reliance Fire Company at
tached to a wagon took fright and made
for the bridge over the river at Third street.
The draw being off and no protection pole
across the bridge the horses, valued at
$500. plunged into the river and were
| drowned.
John Place, of Spring City, Chester
county, Pa, was shot and killed on We'd
nesday afternoon while on cunning eX-
cursion. Place, with a companion, was
driving in wagon, and in removing his
gun for the purpose of shooting a bird, in
some unaccountable manner the trigger
was pulled and the weapon discharged.
The contents entered Places heart.
oxford Press.
The Somerset Herald says a colored
woman, the wife of one John Dashell,
living on Deals Island, was engaged in
making fire on the second floor of the
new store of Messrs. Joseph Yetra & Son;
the fire did not burn fast enough, and she
took coal oil can-supposed to contain a
a half gallon of oil-and commenced to
pour oil from it on the fire The can ex-
ploded, scattering the burning fluid in every
direction and enveloping the unfortunate
woman in flames; every stitch of clothing
was burned from her person and her flesh
roasted in the most horrible manner
After few hours of great suffering she
died, and was thus relieved of her intense
sufferings. The store was set on fire by
the explosion, but it was extinguished with
out much damage.
Mr.. Job II. Jackson, of Wilmington Del,
who was arrested on a requisiton from the
Governor of Georgia and taken to Atlanta
where he was baiied, arrived at home on
Monday morning, where ne was greeted by
a large number of the most prominent
business men of the city, and warmly well
coined with expressions of sympathy. The
Wilmington Ecery Epening and Commercial
says Mr. Jackson made brief and clear
statement of the facts in the case, which
satisfied those present that he has a good
and sufficient defence against the charges
brought by Kimball, but the statements
being made hastily and without oppor-
tunity to consult his books and papers, he
asked those present to regard it as contiden-
tial, and he will prepare a more complete
statement which he will submit to meet
ing Of business men first and subsequently
to the public. The Commercial thinks this
statement will show that gross wrong has
been practiced upon Mr.. Jackson in putting
him in the shape of a criminal indictment.