The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-01-12
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

The ice harvest began last Monday
morning, long before it was light.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Lay will preach
at Trinity Church tonight and to morrow
morning.
And now in ye fullness OF time, We ice
has covered ye streams, and ye urchin
buckleth on his skates and rejoiceth muchly
John Gordon, a photographer, commit,
ted suicide, at the Deer Park Hotel, New
ark, on Thursday night last, by taking
poison.
Mr.. John Bowen, late of The Democrat
office, we are pleased to learn, has obtained
situation as compositor in the office of
the State Printer.
MIR. D. T. Strickland, of this town, has
accepted situation as travelling agent for
the firm of George R. Coffroth e Co., to-
bacconists. of Baltimore.
WIN. Veach has sold his interest in
the butchering business to Mr.. Charles
Boulder, who will continue the business at
the old stand in Little Elk.
The ice is about five inches thick and
those who have ice houses in Elkton and
vicinity have been busily engaged for the
last few days in filling them.
The Eikton NJ. E. Church, on Sunday
last, raised $3.50, by subscription, to enable
the Trustees to pay small debt and the
current expenses Of the church.
The early morning train from Port
Deposit to Perryville and Baltimore leaves
Port at 6.25 A. NJ, instead of 5 % A. NJ, as
enormously published in The Whtg
The old colored church on Water street
will have no existence by the first of March,
for the colored people in that locality are
using the Notwithstanding to keep them
selves warm.
MIR. Joseph H. McNeal, of Bell Hill,
secured enough ice to fill his ice house, be-
fore the rain of Wednesday last. The ice
which he obtained from the Westamwell
dam was from six to eight inches thick.
MIR. Joseph johnson, of the firm of
johnson & Gray, of Elkton, has sold his
interest to Mr.. Reese Gray, of Baltimore
The confectionery business and bakery will
hereafter be conducted by the Messrs. Gray.
The horses attached to the wagon of
Mr.. !. ID. Davis were left standing, I'M
hitched, a. Ricketts, MILL on last Saturday,
concluded they would 60 home, and started
for that place at rapid gait but were
stopped at McNeal's smith shop before any
injury was done.
On Wednesday last Mrs. Harriet
Jeffries, of Elk Landing, suffered the am
putation of her left leg. She has been
suffering from liberation of her limb for
some months past, and the bone became
exposed which made the amputation
necessary.
We were gratefully remembered by DR..
II. G. Register and lady by the receipt of a
piece of fine cake, on Friday. On Thurs
day evening he led handsome young Phil
adelphia lady, Miss Sta Bartol, to the altar
They have the we'll wishes of the members
of this office.
Rev. Jos. Travis, of Philadelphia, will
preach in the Free Methodist Church, on
High street, tomorrow morning, at TO-
o'clock, and at ! o'clock in the evening
There will be an experience meeting at
o'clock. The subject of the evening dis
course will be Bible Holiness"
I'm l., d. he, lou
ed colored damsel, by the name of Mar.
Emma Scott, who was charged with steal
ing the dress of Lizzie Smith, also colored
She was taken before Squire Foard, bu
there not being sufficient evidence to con
vince him of her guilt, she was discharged
Information wanted-If any of the
readers of The Wing know anything abou
the history of Matthias Van Bebber, who a
one time was chief justice of Cecil county
and also proprietor of St. Augustin,
Manor, on the Delaware river, they will
confer a great favor by sending it to the
office of Tile Wig.
Some person or persons visited tn,
stable of Mr.. Shivery, who lives in Ell
Neck, just beyond the Elk Neck crossing
on Saturday night last, and traded "bucks
with him. Mr.. 5. was the owner of fin
buck, which the parties carried away witt
them, leaving in its place an inferior ant
rather diminutive substitute.
The best crop of corn we have heart
of the past year is reported from Ceci
county, Md. Samuel Clifford near Zion
whose field of corn while growing wa