The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-01-19
quested to encourage them in their effort
in paying for their new building.

Governor Carroll, issued upon requsi,
ton from Governor Hartranft, of Pennsyl-
vania, and was taken to Lancaster city to
await her trial.
| Charles England, a young man, who
resided near Brick Meeting House, com
mitted suicide, on last Wednesday night,
/ by shooting himself through the heart.
He was sober, steady and industrious
young man about twenty eight years of
age, and cabinet maker by trade. He
left letter addressed to his brother George.
in which he disposed of his property and
gave directions about his funeral.
! Harry LarZalere, son of Nicholas F.
Larzalere, of Elk Neck, when starting to
visit Elkton, last Tuesday evening, met
with an accident. He had just got into
his carriage when the horses were frighten-
ed by small negro boy who was beating
ju6a, and they giving quick jerk, MIR.
Larzalere was thrown from the seat, and
had his wrist dslocated. 1t was put in
place by DR.. Mitchell and he is now doing
well.
Elizabeth johnson, a colored woman
living on High street, was assaulted, on last
Tuesday morning, by the ubiquitous John
Smith, who cut her head with a hammer.
Another colored gentleman had escorted
the dusky damsel home from the colored
church few evenings before, wheGeat the
redoubtable John became exasperated, the
green-eyed monster whereof the poets
speak was gnawing at his soul and so to
give him ease he went for Elzabeth's head
with the hammer.
One of the prisoners in the Jail has
been amusing himself and Willing away
the time knitting stockings. After spend
ing some time in this way, he took to writ
ing poetry of highly religious and imagi-
native tone. Whether the occupation Of
knitting was in any way connected with
the poetry, we do not know, but we men
ton the circumstance for the benefit of
some of the would-be poets, whose muses.
refuse to work to their satisfaction that
they may profit by it.
1t is notable fact in connection with
the hardness of the times and the depravity
of the people, that the tramps have been
robbing the poor house. Some weeks ago,
some of them, who were allowed to lodge
there broke into the pantry, in the base
ment of that institution, and stole guam
tity of eatables therefrom. On Friday
night of last week, number of them were
kindly allowed to sleep on the floor of the
furnace room in the basement of the aims
house, and some time early on Saturday
morning, some of them broke the lock off
the pantry door, preparatory to making
raid upon the eatables it contained, but
they made so much noise breaking the
lock that they were discovered, and Mr..
Pluck, the overseer, very promptly inform
ed constable Grant, who arrested several
of the tramps and brought them before
Squire Foard, who committed them to Jail
till Monday, when he gave them a hearing
but on account of the want of evidence to
identify the guilty one, he was obliged to
discharge them all.
William Woods, a mulatto, who says
be recently came from Raleigh, n. c., and
who has been following the profession of a
tramp, was arrested, on last Wednesday
morning, while heading towards Conowingo
bridge, by a Mr.. Cummings, whose suspi
con was aroused by a conversation he had
with him. He was riding horse, which,
it afterwards appeared, he had stolen from
Thomas Williams, near Brickley's Mill
He was taken to Port Deposit and had a
hearing before Squire Abrahams, who com
mitted him to Jail to await the action of
the grand jury. Deputy Sheriff Janney
happened to be in Port and conveyed him to
ElktoD, where he is confined. This tramp
is the third horse thief arrested during the
last three weeks in our county. For the
last few weeks he had been roaming around
the country frightening the women and
children and threatening to break into the
houses of the farmers. While engaged at
the former business, he feigned insanity
but soon recovered his senses after the APP
pearance of the male members of the fam
lily.
We were led into an error, last week, in
stating the dog that was. killed because its
owner thought it was suffering from hydro
phobia, and which it was afterwards dis
covered was suffering from the effect of a
snake, which was coied around its liver,
because we had not seen the reptile and
took the statement of parties who had seen
it. The fact is that the reptile. parasite,
or whatever it is, is not a snake, but
species of worm peculiar to dogs. 1t is
called the iStrohgylus Gigas, and nfests the
interior of dogs and other animals and has
been found at rare intervals in the human
kidney. 1t is a long, cylindrical, red mon
ster. The males sometimes measure ten or
twelve inches, while the females sometimes
attain the length of three feet. 1t is called
by some scientists the sea serpent of the
human entozeo. The locality in which the
dog in question lived is supposed to be
well adapted to the development of these
worms Some years ago dog died there
whose liver was all destroyed by one of them
and not till the monster had penetrated
the walls of the heart, did death kindly re
lieve the poor brute from suffering.
-" Wade Hampton" alias TRAMP"
the travelling "dorg," belonging to Robt
Frazer, of this town, has gone upon an
other tramp. He has recently visited Sas-
safras Neck, Glasgow, Newark, Zion and
Elk Neck. This time he has gone to visit
Pennsylvania. Whenever he is unclaimed
he watches for an opportunity to escape
from the house, and as soon as he finds
one, he starts to visit some new land to
him) unexplored region. Mr.. Frazer
is anxious to recover the troublesome
canine again, but has paid SO much for re-
wards for his recovery already that he is
precluded from Offering any more.-Since
writing the above, we have learned that we