The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-12-13
LOCAL BRIEFS.

creek is said to be in need of repair.
Mr.. James j. McCauley qualified as
County Surveyor, on Thursday last.
The blackness of darkness reigned SUI
preme in Elkton, on Thursday night
A horse is worth more after it is broken,
but It's different with ten dollar bill.
The Railroad Company have placed
warning posts at the crossings near the
depot.
M. l.. Realey, while turning his car
riage near the Howard House, on Tuesday
evening last, broke the front axle.
Does our lamplighter carry that lantern
that he may find the street lamps when
on his rounds to extinguish the lights?
Judge Wickes, who was unable to sit at
the September term of court, has resumed
his seat on the bench, having fully recov-
cred his health.
Samuel !. Price, of the Hive in the
Hollow, has been confined to the house by
indisposition during the past week. His
son Don fills his place with much ability.
-;-Wn.T. Giles, the obliging oysterman,
who-had net been away from Elkton OH q
visit for fifteen years. visited his friends in
Wilmington and Philadelphia, this week,
Mr. Joseph Wells shipped, on Monday
last, car load of prime steers to his son,
John c. Wells, who carries on the whole
sale butchering business in Philadelphia.
MIR. S. A. Nannort has been appointed
postmaster at Port Deposit, vice Alonzo
Snow, who declined a rcappointment OH
account of the infirmities incident to old
age.
There will be festival held in the lee
turs room Of the church at Bay View, on
the evening of the oath instant The public
are cordially invited. \ pleasant time ex-
pected.
Sheriff Logan took the oath of office
last Monday morning, and entered upon the
discharge of his duties Immediately after
wards. Ex-Sheriff Boulder has been APP
pointed deputy.
Mr.. Don Price, well known to the Gus
toners of the Bee Hive, who has been clerk
ing in Atlanta, Ga, for about q year, has
returned to Elkton, to spend the holidays
with his relatives
This gives promise of being what is
called can open Winter" and the old pro-
verb about a ''green Christmas aud " fat
graveyards" may prove true before the
roses come again.
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qualified and took their seats as Associate
Judges of the Orphans Court, on Tuesday.
Hon. James McCauey at the same time
took his seat as Chief Judge.
There is no truth in the report publish
ed in some of the city papers that the body
of Medford Waters was stolen. An exami-
nation of the grave, on Tuesday, disclosed
the fact that his remains were undisturbed
William Darlington, well-known law
yer of West Chester, who sometimes at
tended court in Elkton, dropped dead in the
court house, in the former place, on Satur-
day morning last. He was in the 18th year
of his age.
ALI soldiers and sailors who wish to at
tend the Grant reception at Philadelphia,
on Tuesday next, can have free transporta-
ton there and return by applying to John
f. Wilson, Elkton, on or before Monday
noon. A badge of red, white and blue will
he worn on the breast.
Mr., Henry Vinsinger has removed from
his late residence, near the mill, to the dwell
ing of Colonel Towards, opposite the Pres
byterian Church. David NJ. Taylor and
in the east end of the town.
The Medical Society of Cecil county
met in Odd Fellows Hall, on Tuesday, with
increased attendance. The papers present
ell, the cases reported and the discussions
that followed were highly interesting. The
Society will hold its next meeting at Port
Deposit, on the second Tuesday of January.
Rev. J. II. Nanley will give two Or
guinette entertainments in Elllton, in Prov
idence Church, on the evening of December
18th, and in Bethel Church, on the evening
of December 10Th. These entertainments
are given in the interest of religion and
morality, and are endorsed by many evan
gelical ministers.
The suit of McGonisal against Harten.
stein for damages for Islander, growing out
of the burning of Hartensten's house, neal
Iron Hill, last August a year ago, which il
was expected would have been tried ut New
Castle last week, has been compromised
each side paying their own costs and Har
tcnstein paying McGonigal SIS.
II practical workman from Baltimore
who has had many years experience in tn,
business, contelnplates starting brass foun
dry at Rising Sun, which will give employ
ment to forty or fifty hands. Our enter
prising friends of that thriving village
should encourage this effort, which, if sue
cessful, will add much to the business o
the town.
Isaac Palmer, an old African. who live,
not far from Christianna, was badly beaten
about two weeks ago, by two colored men
Elijah Price, and Benjamin Taylor, from
the effects of which he died last Saturday
The two colored men were tracked in til
direction Of Newark the morning after til
row, but were not caught, and are believe,
to have escaped into this county.
We call the attention of our readers +
tue advertisement of the Warning Fertilize
Company. which we publish to-day, from
which it will be seen that the Compan
offers extraordinary inducements to it
stockholders. Those in want of good fertili
zers-and there are none better than thos
made by this company-wiil do we'll t
avail themselves of this opportunity to OF
tain them at reduced rates
A few weeks ago, a party of gunner
from the vicinity of Cowantown visited Re
Point, on the North East river, for the pun
pose of hunting rabbits, taking with thel
. black and white hound, which went ma
and wandered off in the woods 1t subst
quentiy visited New Castle and Delawa,
City, and bit carriage maker ut the latte
place. 1t was afterwards shot near POI
Penn, and subsequently identified by il
owner.
"a well-known Elkton sportsman, it
said, recently went cunning, taking wiz
him thirty-twO cartridges for his breec
loader. He soon found flock of partridg,
and used all his cartridges except two: aftt
which he visited a friend, aud while at h
house large woodcock was found in h
garden, at which he fired the other tw
cartridges, but strange to say, the sport