The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
ELKTON, JUNE IA, 1879.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

-Thes. Drennen, Esq, is erecting Il new
porch in front of his dwelling house, Il
Main street.
S. b. Foard, Jr.. imconsoable for the
feminine persuasion.
The new meat shop, next door to Reese
is nearly completed and will he a great I'M
provement on the old one.
The Shelemiah Sunday School, of Bay
View will hold Il festival, on Saturday even,
ing, June 2lst, for the purpose of repleniSl
ing this library.
The commencement of the West Mott
ingham Academy will he held in the Lower
West Nottingham Presbyterian Church, on
Tuesday evening, June 18th.
The new lamplighter has been cleaning
and renovating the street lamps, of which
they were in great need, and for which he
has the thanks of our citizens
The ladies of the Glasgow NJ. +. Church
will hold strawberry festival. on We,lnes-
LAY and Thursday evenings, the 18th and
18th instantS for the benefit of the church.
-ltev. l.. w. I.ayfield will preach at
Crouch Chapel, tomorrow Sunday after
noon, at 81 o'clock. The public is cor
daily invited. Sunday school ut ~, T.. NJ.
The closing exercises of the Normal In
stitute, at Rising Sun, will take place on
Friday afternoon, 10Th inst, at L., o'clock,
n,,.lN
essays, Rotations, etc.
Providence permitting, Rev. Mr. Scott,
OF Philadelphia, will preach in Harry ID.
M1ller's woods, near Baldwin, Factory, on
tomorrow afternoon, 18th instant, ut 81
o'clock. The public invited
Geo. \. Lee, the North street butcher.
cut his foot, one day this week, by dropping
large butcher knife OH it which fell point
foremost and penetrated through his boot
into his flesh for some distance
Katie, the little daughter of James r.
Merritt, accidentally fell backwards from
the railing of her fathers porch on Thursday
evening, and striking her head against the
pavement sustaining painful but not serious
injury.
Rabbits and partridges are said to be
unusually plenty in all parts of the county.
Ihe pientifulness OF the former is supposed
to be owing to the protection they have
received by the passage of the special game
law for this county.
The public school room at Elkton was
la.y I'll, ~,
county, last Monday that being the dav of
examination of the public school teachers of
the county. About fifty candidates were
examined, large majority of whom were
females.
Mr.. George Ricketts, Central American
monkey has succumbed to the heat. 1t fell n
victim to sun stroke on the first dav of June
We are pleased to be able to state that Arts
alligator is still living and grows more
Sprlnhtly as the heat of the atmosphere in
creases.
we have been requested to correct Il
typographical error that occurred in the re-
port OF the proceedings of the Medical So
cIety i'll last week issue. The word "vati-
'~ nave Dttll tfTtfnftU, rs the
subject for discussion by the Society at its
next meeting.
Key. l.. w. Layfield will preach at the
Bethel NJ. f. Church course of sermons
as follows: Sunday, June 10Th, on s'Christ's
Universal Reign" 22nd-"Our Reign with
Christ" 29th-The Surrender of the King
uom to God the Father Services at 10 IL
A NJ. All are cordially invited
The Elkton NJ. f. Sunday school will
give an excursion from Elk Landing to
Colchester Beach, on the steamer fhestcr
on Tuesday, the 9th inst. The boat will
touch at any prominent point on Elk river
to take on passengers. Tickets for the ex-
cursion, 10 cents; children ~ cents
The light seen by many of the citizens
OF Elkton, Tuesday evening. was caused bv
the burning of the large barn of David
Lyhuin, near Stanton, which was struck by
hShtnlng and totally consumed. Four
horses We're burned. There was no insur
ance and the loss is estimated ut about
$1,000
The Delaware \. G. Conference will
hold their meeting on the 18th, 18th and 18th
lnsts,, in the Household of Faith Church.
near Perryville. Preachers are expect.j
from all places where Advent societies exist
There will be preaching every evening dur
ing Conference, which is to continue three
or four days
dur friend, VIM X. ReckefilS, recently
presented lis with box of the finest straw
berries we have ever seen. They wore
grown in the garden of Andrew LYON. ESQ.
near Port Deposit and it was IL pleasure TO
look ut them to say nothing Of the satisf;,c
ton we derived from eating them.
An enterpriSing citizen of Hayre d..
Grace, recently captured four young hawks,
winch he painted in imitation of parrots
He succeeded i'll selling one of them to Il
Nerdant citizen of Havre de Grace. who
thought 1t was veritable parrot and was
surprised that he could not teach it TO talk
The 18th annual commencement of the
Baltimore Female College was held on
thursday last. Among the names of the
graduates We find that of Miss Alice Harlan
daughter of George f. Harlan, ESD, of this
county, who graduated with much honor
ana delivered the salutatory address TO the
members OF the graduating class.
The ditch from the pond in the east end
of High street TO the mill lane is nearly
completed and bids fair to he a success
five-inch tile are laid in the bottom of if
tor the purpose of draining the pond. which
has been nuisance for many years, and is
supposed to have been the cause of much
sickness among those living in its vicinity.
There VIII be preaching Cd. W in the
grove near Union Grove school house. o.
miles northwest of North East. by Rev w
NJ Parry, pastor of the Elkton Free AI.tb,-
dist Church, on tomorrow (Sabbatb) n,
1910 a. NJ and 3 r. NJ The weather nr,,.
ing unftvorable for opcIf air services. the
preaching will he held in the school house
at same hours. All respectfully invited.
Last Saturday, the workmen engaged
in digging the ditch to drain the pond ON
Back street, exhumed Il human skeleton.
about midway between Main street and
Hinslnsers mill The skeleton WAS apuar-
emily that of a woman who had died in
middle life. 1t was found about two
anu half feet below the surface of the
ground, and had evidently been there for a
great number of years
"A. T. Shockley, auctioncer for Hon. !
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