The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-05-19
Our NeighbOrs.

Edward Mclnall, Sr., OF wilmington,
died on Saturday last.
Black bass are said to be very plenty in
Chesapeake Bay now.
The Methodist Episcopal congregation
new church.
Quite number of horses in York county
have recently died of a disease resembling
the epizootic.
A $40 COW tried to stop train of cars
near Smyrna. Verdict: Death from acct
dental causes.
A contagious disease has broken out
among the cattle on 4 large dairy farm
near Jarrettsville.
The next annual meeting of the Mary
land States Teachers Association Will be
held at Easton, on the 10th Of June next.
4 small barn, on a farm near Milford, was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday night,
with lot of fodder, and few bushels of
grain.
A chandelier in the NJ L. Church near
Lewes fell on Sunday night, breaking the
lamps and spillng the OIL The carpet
caught fire, and the damage amounted to
about SO.
John Rhoades (colored) was convicted Of
murder in the first degree, at New Castle,
Del, on Saturday, for the killing of a
colored man named Temple. The quarrel
was over woman.
Messrs. John f. Dawson and p w.
Downes are spoken of in connection with
the Democratic nomination for Senator in
Caroline county, and Clement Sullivan in
Dorchester county.
The Bel Air -tgis states, that the first
person perhaps in Maryland who made use
of bones as a fertilizer was Junius Brutus
Booth, the great tragedian, whose home
was about three miles northeast of Bel Air,
Han ford county. In 1925 or 1927 he adver-
tised in the Bond Of Union, published at
| Bel Air, offering to pay cash for all bones
brought to him. Money was scarce and
bones were plenty in those days, and they
were carried to him from the surrounding
country in carts, bags and baskets. women
even carrying them in their aprons. Many
old citizens remember seeing the enormous
| pile of bones which soon accumulated.
These bones Booth burnt, pounded and APP
piled to his land. The neighbors all con
cluded he must be crazy.
FIRING A CRowED BUILDING.-A Ill
Famous Attempt to Roast q Whole Temper
ance Meeting.-In Wilmington, on Sunday
afternoon, there were over three Thousand
people in the Grand Opera Honse, attend
| ing Il grand temperance rally conducted
under the auspices of the Moral Suasion
clubs of that city. During the exercises
smoke was seen issuing through the crevices
of the floor, and the alarm of fire was
| No. Of ptl1 Oh, do
for the door, and what might have resulted
in great loss of life was avoided by an cid
lady shouting "glory, hallelujah," and
those on the stage singing a hymn. An
investigation proved that an incendiary
had applied a match to a lot of burlap il
the celler, which smouldered instead OF
blazing, and produced dense smoke
4 man named Baird has been arrested on
suspicion as the incendlary. Several were
tramped but not badly injured
A CARD TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
For many years we have made two med
icines suited to the ailments of a vast class
of sufferers. Thousands of cures have
been made by them, and, in fact, the wore
failure could never be coupled with them
But within the last two years counterfeit:
of our medicines have sprung up, danger
ons in their close imitation of our Trade
Mark. To secure the people we have
placed upon each genuine box of Holloway.
Pills and Holloway's Ointment the fat
smile of the signature of our Agent, Mr.
Jos. lIaydock. To counterfeit this is felony
We shall relentlessly pursue any one who
initiates this with the utmost vigor of the
law. We most earnestly beg that the
great mass of the American people vii
aid us in our efforts to protect their health
and help us in our task of bringing thes,
most unprincipled men to the bar o
justice. Uniformly refuse to purchas.
Medicines purporting to be ours unless Mr.
Jos. Haydock's signature is attached t.
each Box of Pills or Pot of Ointment ant
the end will soon be reached.
, The public's obedlent servants,
HOLLOWAY & Co.
Us Let us be clean, in order that we ma,
be healthy. To be thoroughly so, and tt