The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-20
Port Deposit Items.
SAD ACCIDENT,

SAD ACCIDENT.
Most of the readers of The Whiq have
heard something of the very lamentable &C
cIdent that occurred here, on Friday of last
week, by which one of our most worthy
and promising young men came to a sudden
aud violent death. Mr.. Hazlett O. Touch
stone, a younger brother of James M.
Tombstone, of the House of Delegates,
and blacksmith by trade, not having
much to do in the shop and being indis-
posed to idle away his time, as many of our
young men are prone to do, took the oppor-
tunity whenever anything offered to which
he could turn his hand, to do something
else, and mad that morning. with Henry /.
Wakeman and others, Just finished unload
ing canal boat of lumber on the wharf of
Mr.. James \. Davis After partaking of
his dinner, he went to the wharf where the
boat lay to receive his pay, and with young
Wakeman was reclining against a pile of
pickets that lay ON the end of the wharf,
while back and west of them were two
piles of green boards each about eight feet
high. They had just taken their positions
when furious gale of wind from the north
west struck the piles of boards and lifting
a portion of them from the further pile,
carried them over the second pile of boards
to the pile of pickets where the young men
were who becoming alarmed at the force
of the wind and the rafting of the boards,
started to run to a safer place. Wakeman
succeeded in jumping on the deck of the
canal boat but Just AS Touchstone started
to run, one OF the boards from the upper
pile coming end foremost and driven with
all the fury Of the blast, struck him fairly
on the back of the neck, killing him in
stantly. Wakeman, when he saw his friend
fall. ran to his assistance. and when in the
act Of picking him up, was himself struck
by the dying boards and knocked senseless
to the ground, having his face badly cut
and bruised, and his lip also cut through in
two places. They We're both picked up by
the other workmen and carried into the
warehouse of Mr.. Davis and medical as
siStance summoned.
Wakeman soon revived and though suf-
fering much had no bones broken and is
rapidly recovering. But poor Tombstone
Law there on the floor, surrounded it'll sym
pathizng friends, but past all need of help.
He could not have felt the blow, it was so
sudden and terrible. The bones of the
neck appeared to be completely crushed
The board that struck him must have
weighed fifty pounds at least and driven by
the fury Of The blast would strike with ire
meudous force.
Mr.. 1ouchstone was about twenty seven
years OF age, and was very industrious,
sober ard worthy young man. a member of
the Episcopal Church, which lie had joined
about year ago, and took an active inter
est in the Sabbath school attached to that
church His funeral took place on Sunday
afternoon, from the Episcopal Church, and
was very largely attended, the church being
filled to its utmost capacity by the friends
of the deceased. The funeral procession
was one of the largest that ever left our
town. He was buried in Hopewell GENE
terry.
RESUMED BUSINESS.
Our old mercantile friend, Jesse r. Coul.
son, has again enlisted in the retail dry
goods and grocery business at Rock Run,
in the old stand under the Rock Run hotel,
where he is prepared to receive his old Gus
toners with his genial welcome. Jesse is
4 good salesman and his competitors must
look out or lie will walk into some Of their
trade.
TIE TEMPERANCE
people of Port Deposit, as well as many
others, were completely taken aback by the
report since confirmed that the trustees
of the Odd Fellows Hall had rented the
basement Of the building for restaurant
aud rum shop The people are amazed,
and ask each other, Can it be possible that
the large and Influential Independent Order
of Odd Fellows would, i'll the light of the
present day, do such thing? The ODD
Fellows number in their society some of
our best citizens, who are deeply Interested
iii the success OF the temperance movement
aud must feel aggrieved and mortified at
the action of the Order. The temperance
society rent the hall for their weekly meet.
ings, and it is sad commentary on their
profession of principles to have the rum
traffic carried on in the same building
where they meet to talk and urge temper
ance on the community. But the ways Of
incorporated bodies are past finding out.