The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-02-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

A house on the Lowery property, near
Charlestown, was burned on Tuesday night
last.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next, 10th instant.
p. C. Strickland received car load of
the celebrated Syracuse chilled iron pIows,
at his agricultural warehouse, yesterday.
Joseph H. Booth, of New Leeds, follow
ing the advice of the late philosopher of the
New York Tribune, will go West next
Spring.
-Creswell Post, No. 10. meets in Elkton,
Thursday, February 18th. 1880, at : o'clock,
p. NJ, in the old bank building. a full at
tendance requested.
This is leap year, and the boys arc
thinking how many valentines they are
going TO receive on the fourteenth, and how
they will save them all to use next year.
Mr.. VIM. j. Smith, of Elkton, has been
appointed Inspector of Customs in Balti-
more and will enter upon the discharge of
the duties of the office, on Monday next.
Mr.. Lyle, of the Welsh Point farm, has
recently purchased all the pine timber OH
the Bayard estate, on Bohemia Manor, for
the purpose of manufacturing it into paper.
A gentleman in Back Creek Neck, while
trying to shoot a strange dog, one day last
week, missed it, but succeeded in putting
III Of h.
and breaking eight panes of glass
The Wclde- scarborough case, and the
case of the State is. Scarborough, will come
up for trial in the Hartford court, next week
One hundred and two summonses for wit
nesses have been served in these cases.
The Medical Society of Cecil county
will meet at the Odd Fellows Hall, Elkton,
Tuesday next, 10th inst, at the usual hour
1t is expected that several interesting essays
and papers will be read at this meeting
Samuel Bratton, Esq, of this town, has
accepted a situation in the Engineer Corps
of the p. w. &. b. Railroad Company and
has been engaged in relocating part of the
track near Canton, in Baltimore, during
this week
-Our ice dealers commenced to gather
the ice crop yesterday. 1t is of poor quality,
owing to being partly composed Of slush
with which the ponds were covered after
the late snow, and is only about three and
a halffnches thick
1.-The Stockholders and Directors of the
Elkton Cemetery, at their annual meeting,
on Monday last, elected John w. Anthony
superintendent for the current year ANY
person wishing to visit the cemetery will
find the key at Mr.. Anthony's residence,
and will find him ready to wait upon them.
We call the attention of our readers to
tho advertisement of Mr.. /. w. Gibney.
which appears in our columns to-day
Should they be in want of anything in his
line, they will find him an af1able, polite
and obliging gentleman, who will be de- .
lighted to make it, to their advantage, to
deal with him.
There will be preaching at the church .
on the Rolling Mill Bank, North East, to-
morrow, at 10l3 4. N. and T. NJ. The ser
vices Of the past week, conducted by Mrs.
Emily Dickson, of Philadelphia, and Rev.
A. w. Parry, of the Elkton +. NJ Church,
were well attended. Further announce
ments will be made on Sabbath.
If the traditional ground hog came out
of his subterranean abode, last Monday, as
is said to be the custom Of the critter, he
certainly had \ fine opportunity to see his
shadow and those of us who don't have a
snug retreat like his, in which to ensconce
ourselves, will have to SILVER and shake on
the surface of this mundane sphere for five
long weary weeks to come.
Stock sold we'll at the sale of William
Gillinger, i'll Elk Neck, on Wednesday last
Dry cows bringing from 500 to $50; year
lings from SIS to $50; sheep $3.50 per head;
shoats sold for 81 per head Farming i'm
pliments and provendsr sold for good prices.
hay OF inferior quality selling for Sl3 per
ton. About s., 900 dollars worth of property
was disposed of in three hours by A.P.
Shockley, the able and efficient auctioneer.
who called the sale.
"A bill poster, who said he was EN-
ployed by the Greenbacker's OF Baltimore
visited Elkton and Port Deposit, on Thurs
day last and embellished sundry old board
fences and other places with placards and
pictures, the design of which appears TO be
to influence public opinion against the pas
sage of the law taxing mortgages now pend
ing before the legislature The bill poster
informed us that he was one of three that
had visited all the important towns on the
Eastern Shore, for the same purpose.
-Hezekiah c. Caldwell, who la, latbered
and shaved the elite Of Elkton for thirty
seJen years two weeks four days and three
and a-half hours, as he informed lis. ut
O'Clock p. NJ, on Thursday last, except for a
brief period in 1879, has accepted a position
as extra porter in the service OF the Pullman
Palace Car Company, and will assume the
duties of that position on Monday next,
Mr.. Caldwell will leave his business in Elk.
ton in charge Of Francis S. Dennis and
William H. Turner, who may be found at
the old stand on Main street.