The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-06
Our NeigllbOrs.

Agents of Boston houses are buying up
speet potatoes around Milford Del, in large
quantities.
Abraham p. Shannon, ESQ, died at his
residence in the village of Christiana, Del
on Saturday last, in the so year of his age.
! Seth II. Evits, a bachelor aged 81, died in
Caroline county last week on the farm
where he was born, and where he lived all
his days. He had three maiden sisters,
each of whom lived to be over 80 years old,
and two brothers, who were very old men.
The political campaign in Caroline
county promises to be a spirited one. A
full independent ticket is nominated and
considerable opposition is manifested to
| Hon. Daniel Fields, candidate for the
State Senate upon the regular Democra tic
! ticket.
On Tuesday, 90 inst, as VIM. Chambers
colored, who lived in Still Pond, was walk
ing along the road with his gun on his
shoulder, he stumbled and fell, the gun
being discharged thereby, lodging its con-
tents in his groins, causing immediate
death.
| On Sunday a resident of Glenolden,
| Delaware county Pa, found the nude body
of man lying in ditch, and the man S
clothing near by. From letters found on
his clothing it is supposed that his name
was John Alexander, and that he commit
ted suicide because of restitution.
| Constable Sewell. who arrested the wo
man Waddell, of Fitzjarrell murder fame,
has himself been arrested in Easton on the
| charge of trying to seduce her whilst in his
custody. 1t is further charged that he
threatened to shoot her to scare her into
submission. So says the Easten Star.
! On Saturday evening. Sheriff Morrison
attached all the money belonging to the
Oxford Agricultural Society in the hands
of the treasurer, DR.. J. X. McCissick,
which included the receipts of the Fair
| The levy was made to satisfy the Judg-
ment of Michael Wise, to whom the So
ciety owes about .-Orford Press
On Monday morning little son of the
Rev. Alfred Scott, Wilmington, was acct
IDENTIFY shot while playing with revolver
which he had obtained from bureau
drawer. The ball entered the palm of his
right hand, and came out several inches
above the wrist. DR. Harlan dressed the
wound and to-day the boy is able to out.
Eoery Ecening.
A Calvart county correspondent of the
Baltimore County UAiOn in commenting
upon the good results of local option in the
former country, draws this picture: THE
good effect of the law is seen in the improved
industry of the people and the more thrifty
appearance of house and farm. The office
of .iailor in Prince Frederick is almost a
sinecure. He is fast becoming a gentleman
of leisure. The business of the court is
growing less. Give us ten years of good
enforcement of this law and we will show
an empty jail, lawyers with scarcely brief,
judges without criminal cases, taxes largely
reduced, churches better filled, and univer-
sal good order"
Lieut.. Samuel c. Barney, of Cambridge,
who was summarily dropped from the L.
5. Navy in 1858 by the arbitrary action
of the then Secretary of the Navy without
even reason being assigned, is in all
probability, about to be restored to the
rank to which he would have been entitled
that of rear admiral, and placed on the
retired list in consequence of an infirmity
contracted in the service of his country
The back pay to which his restoration will
be from S32, 900 to $40 900. The proposed
action of the naval authorities is based on
the ground that there was absolutely no
reason for the dismissal of Mr.. Barney,
and the discovery of the sole ground of it,
only recently came to light, which was a
false representation maliciously made to
Secretary Welles by a personal enemy of
this misjudged officer Cambridge Cronicle.