The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-02-14
LOCAL BRIEFS.
st. Valentines day.
Lent began on Wednesday.

made good use of the time in the early pant
of the week and succeeded in securing
good supply.
The anti-local option advocates through
out the county are actively circulating petit
tons in opposition to the passage Of a local
option law for this county.
Andrew Lyon, Esq, of Port Deposit,
who is in the SIND year of his age, started
on Monday last, to visit his sons, who are
engaged in the lumber business in Sherman,
Texas.
Hon. j. A. j. Creswell and William j.
Jones, EST, Trustees, sold the old hotel
property at Perryvile, Oh Tuesday last, for
81, $50, To the p, W. & b. Railroad Com
pany
The County Commissioners, rs will he
seen by the notice in another column, will
meet on Tuesday and Wednesday of each
week during the remaining part of this
month.
George W. Crukshank, Esq, recently
elected Clerk of the Board of County Com
missioners, took the oath of office and bond
ed, on Tuesday last. Mr. l. f. Vanarsdale
is at present acting rs his deputy.
The Sunday school exhibition at st.
Johns NJ. f. Church, Lewisville, Pa, last
week, was a decided success. Upwards of
SOL were realized from it, which will be
applied for the benefit of the church
The Sheriff7s sale of the real and per-
sonal property of George W. Oldham, Esq,
advertised elsewhere in The Wig, will
positively take place on Tuesday next, the
18th inst. The real estate will be sold first
For some weeks past about two hum
dred and fifty wood choppers have been
engaged cutting wood in the forest near
Bacon Hill, for the use of the MCCULLOUGH
Iron Company, which uses large quantities
of charcoal.
The Weldc-Scarborough case, which it
was expected would have been tried, this
week, at Belair, was continued until the
May term, owing to the sickness of Mrs.
Scarborough, who is an important witness
for the defendant.
Mr.. +. NJ. Gray, of the firm of Gray &
Bro, Of this town, has disposed of his in
more in short time, to engage in the sale
OF periodicals, &c. The confectionery bust
ness here will be continued at the same
stand by d. NJ. Reese Gray.
Mr.. Downingham residing on the Mar
ley road, recently, while cutting wood for
the Mccullough Iron Company, cut his foot
very severely across the instep, making a
cash in it two inches deep and four inches
long. He was attended by Dr. Worrell and
Is doing as well as can be expected
Charles Earl, a negro vagrant, who has
been wandering about town for some time
past, unable to procure employment, was
committed to Jail, on Tuesday last, by JUS
tlce Foard, and will be taken to the House
Of Correction, at ,Jessup's Cut, near Ralti
more. in the early part of next week.
The Baltimore & SusGuehanna Steam
company are about to discontinue business
and Will otter their steamboats, and propel-
lers ut public sale, on the 23rd instant. An
effort, we understand, will be made to Or
sanize new company with a view of pur
chasing the stock of the old one and con-
tinuing the business
Senator Miller, who we believe is chair
man OF the committee to which was referred
the bill fixin. the salary of the Clerk OF the
County Commissioners of this county Mt
$1,000, and authorizing them to contract
for tho county printing, limiting the price
to 5000 per annum, reported favorably upon
said bill, on Wednesday last.
-Geor.e Lobb, and five of his neirhbors.
from Chadd's Ford Pa, were in town, on
tuesday night last, looking for the thief
who stole his horse last week. that had been
traced as far as New London. They went
on down the Peninsula. Mr. Lobbs bors.
Is the ninth one that has been stolen from
the neishborheod of Chadd's Ford, during
the last twelve months.
Last Monday, while on its WAY from
Edgewood to Belair, the stage coach con-
tanning the plaintiff, defendant and one of
the counsel in the Welde-scarborough case,
owing to the carslsssness of the driver,
Who drove into ditch, was overturned.
which mixed the parties up in a very I'M
ceremonious way, but fortunately without
serious injury. The roads in Hartford are
said to be in a dreadful condition.
The legal gentlemen, who at present are
members of the Board of Town Commits.
slonefs, recognizing the inadequacy of the
powers conferred upon them by the present
act OF incorporation, have given it thor
oush revision, and will ask the Legislature
to make several changes in the existing act
lAsRa tl,n,
enlarsing their powers and aut horizing the
voters of the town to elect the bailiff, etc.
We are indebted to our friend Hobert
NJ Walmsley, of New Orleans, for the an
nual invitation card to the Madrisras festi-
val, with which the denizens of the Cres-
cent City are wont to amuse themselves.
Inc card, which is triangular shaped, was
lhciosed IN triangular envelope, hand
somely illustrated with number Of highly
artistic pictures, symboliral of the rites and
ceremonies rracticed at the carnival, and is
very handsnme.
-Paul fitzsimmons, sailor, formerly
from New York, but recently from Balti-
more, came to Elkton, on Wednesday, as
I'll ING CarS, LOT lie was so Iull
OF whisky that he could not tell positively,
ana was so disorderly that he wanted to
hSht everybody and everything in town,
"hereupon he was arrested by Constable
foard, whose nose he threatened to knock
on. He was subsequently committed to
lall until Thursday, when he had hearing
before Justice Foard, who discharged him,
and lie started for Chesapeake City.
Captain j. T. Jones left two specimens
oil iron ore at Frazer's drug store on We'd
nesday last, that lie recently procured in
Baltimore. One of the specimens is part of
large cargo, recently received by the Bal
timore 4 Ohio Railroad Company from
Algiers on the northern coast of Africa for
the purpose of making Bessemer steel The
other specimen, which was consigned to
the sarle Company for the same purpose,
fa.ae from hlba, the island to which Napo-
leon Bonaparte was Cnce l.anisbed. The
specimen from Algiers bears a striking re-
semblance to some of the ore on Red Hill
Alexander Johnston, alias Cuff, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary, in 1876,
for the larceny Of clover saed from Michael