The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-05-18

by the Sunday School Convention held at
that place last July, and by the Whining
ton Annual Conference at it's last session,
instant, to arrange for the proposed con-
vention. Bishop Scott was selected to pre-
side, and Prof. ]. T. Sweeney, of Chester,
was selected as musical conductor. A regu-
lar programme of subjects for essays and
discussions was prepared and will be pub
lished shortly. The indications are, that
this will be by far the largest and most
interesting Sunday School gathering ever
held on the peninsula.
WHERE ARE THE TRUE TEMPERANCE
REFoRMERs:- %. No less than three cases
were reported in the Republican, yesterday,
of drunken husbands attempting to kill
their wives, two of them using knives and
the third an axe. Surely rum is having a
holocaust. A prominent temperance lee
turer has also for the last three Or four
days been staggering through the streets. y
- Wilmington Daily Republican. Probably
the temperance lecturer referred to in the
above extract is a disciple of Harry l..
St. Clair, who was the pioneer temperance
lecturer that inaugurated the temperance
crusade in Ekton, about a year ago, and
whose career of villainy is too well known
to need repetition. From that time to the
present, at brief intervals, our town has
been visited by strolling lecturers, one of
whom, though professed member in good
standing of Asbury NJ. Z. Church, Will
mington, denied the efficacy OF the atone
ment of our Saviour and appeared to be
reading the Bible backwards, for he con-
fessed his ignorance of that part of it pre-.
ceding the prophecies of Isaiah. " He rep
resented no one but himself" and was
about as we'll qualified to instruct others in
the great doctrines of temperance as per-
son ignorant of the multiplication table
would be to teach mathematics. Another
of these wandering temperance apostles,
| Whose ostepsible mission is to teach Chris
tianity, but whose true errand is to get a
good living, without earning it,, after find
ing fault with our town and everybody in
it, suddenly made his exit from town,
leaving a diiapidated old travelling bag to
remuncrate the widow at whose table he
had fed The Wilmington man, whose
mission appears to be to erorcise the demon
of intemperance 10y the sweet strains Of the
jews harp, has not yet made his advent
among us, consequently we are ignorant of
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evangelization. There may be something
in him and his harp. We hope there is
for there has been little in his cotempcra-
ries who have visited us, except what we
have referred to, and wonderful ability to
murder the " Kings English" Tile Wing
has always been, and is now, an advocate
of temperance, and for that reason protests
against the employment and encourage
ment Of those whose ignorance, meanness
and rascality effectually repel the virtuous
part of the community as we'll as the poor
inebriate, and whose efforts at evangelical
ton can only end in bringing the cause
into disrepute. Let us have no more of
this sort. When intelligent, religious and
earnest temperance workers are seeking a
ripe field for evangelical work. we will vel
come them to Elkton. Speculative and
seedy gentlemen, essaying the lecture plat
form, either for pleasure or profit, may as
we'll give this town a wide berth.
A VISIT TO COURT HOUSE POINT
Prompted by desire to see the site of the
old court house, on Court House Point we,
in company with the printers of Tie Wing
office, on Tuesday last, embarked in the
splendid little craft, the Dauntless. kindly
furnished by Mr.. Elsie Wright, of "White
Hail." and sailed to that Point. 1t was a
cold raw day, and drizzlng rain began
about 10 o'clock A. NJ, which made what in
warmer weather would have been a delight
full excursion, a cherries and uncomforta-
BILE one. The house now standing on the
Point, and used as farm house. is said to
have been used by the Sheriff of the county
when court was held there nearly a hun
dred years ago. 1t is well constructed
house and gives evidence of much taste in
its architecture, which evidently belongs
to the eighteenth century. Owing to a
brisk breeze, We arrived at the Point early
in the day, and having some time to spare,
we visited the little town of Port Herman,
mile or so farther down the river, passing
the remains of the old ferry house, on the
Elk Neck side of the river, near which
Herman kinkey kept hotel in the palmy
| dayS nf rho fairy than bpp1 rod
years ago. While at Port Herman, we
called on Mr.. VIM. Fears, who kindly in-
vted us to dine with him, and entertained
us with some local "reminiscences of the
village. The room in which we dined is
part of the house once owned by DR.. Bird
in which he wrote the play of the "Gladi-
ator," which became one of the prominent
dramatic features of Edwin Forests roper
toire. The plantation now owned and &C.
cupied by Mr.. Fears, was held until re-
Gently under a lease from Ephraim Angus
tine Herman, who, in 1913, leased it to
Henry Linton and his wife, Susanna, dur
ing their lives, and the life of Mary Par.
sons, or for SO years, if any of them should
| live So lOuS, iOT Oue Gal Vi luuldu CUIH,
payable in month of November annually, if
demanded, and for the further considera-
ton of the said Linton keeping two hunt
ing hounds that should be part of the cry
of hounds kept by the said Herman"
Port Herman was purchased several years
ago by Mr.. Fears, who is native of Cape
Ann, Mass, and descendant of one of the
first families that settled in that State. He
has surrounded his dwelling with fruit trees
and flowers, the latter being planted and
superintendent, as he informed us, by his
estimable lady, who has displayed much
taste in their arrangement. Seldom have
we seen more beautiful lawn, or met with
a more intelligent, hospitable and happy
family. This gentleman has fitted up a
large room in one of his buildings, in which
religious services are held, by both Metho-