The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-14
LOCAL BRIEFS.


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-Rev Thomas Guard will lecture i'll
North East, Oh June eth.
A number Of our citizens visited the
various fishing shores this week.
George 4. Blake, Esq, is visiting the
home ,f his parents i'll New Jersey.
"A drunken man on our streets, on Tues
day, didn't look like total prohibition.
-itev. Mr. Mallery, of Wilmington, has
declined the call to a New Jersey church.
Mr. w d. Dunbar is building new
stable near his residence on Church street.
North East is to have shelled streets
Our streets make the tax payers shell (ont }.
Flower gardens and grass plats on Main
street are being put in order for the season.
The boys are bathing in the creek The
season has come whether the water is warm
or nor.
The lodge o.! Red Men of Cherry Hill
talk of giving an excursion to Atlantic City
shortly.
The choir of the ". T.. Church of this
town is looking for a corn-tist 10 help them
make music.
Mr.. L. I. c. Crouch is having erected
over the entrance 10 his stables a large and
handsome sign.
The Cecil County Medical Association
will hold its annual meeting in this town,
on Tuesday next.
Apples, pears, piums, cherries, and all
other fruits except peaches, give promise OF
an abundant yield
Mr. Hamilton pisston and Il company
OF friends on the steam yacht Mischief are
shooting on Chincoteague Island.
Numerous persons from all parts of the
county daily visit the government fish
Matching station below Havre de Grace.
1t is said that Mr.. Hinckley, President
Of the p, W. & B. Railroad will be sue
ceeded by 4 Mr.. DuBarry of New York.
1t is rumored that Captain Woodall, Of
Georgetown, will shortly erect an elevator
capable of storing SOC, 900 bushels of grain
The NJ. f Church at Chesapeake City
applied 10 the Church Extension Society
of the conference for aid, and received Sl50
North East hasn't given it up yet:
Messrs. Murphy X Burke, Of Havre de
Grace are to build a canning house there
this time
A trip down the river On the steam tug
used in towing the dump scows. is now a
popular afternoons amusement with the
young folks. n
w. V. Phelps, Esq, of Spring Lawn
Paper Mills, has purchased a mill at Sher-
herdstown, West Virginia, and placed his
son in charge.
The ladies If the Presbyterian church
Of this town propose 10 hold strawberry
festival about the first of June, or as early
as the berries be procured.
The Elkton Cornet BAN. has changed
quarters from the armory, North and High
streets, to the second floor of Marshbank's
furniture warerooms on Main street
Everybody that owns or has charge OF
plat of ground is busy getting it under
cultivation. The weather of the past week
has been favorable for such operations
Samuel McMullen, Il member of the
freshman class ut st. Johns College, Il ma
tive of Berlin, Worcester county, Md, was
drowned, on Wednesday, while bathing, at
Annapolis.
The thermometer, on Wednesday and
Thursday, ranged from $40 10 95o in the
shade. Warm weather for the season.-
Where, oh, where are Nenncr's snow storms
of the 10th?
John Writ, Esq. recently practicng his
profession in Chicago, las removed to this
town and will take the place of his late
brother Henry, i'll the law firm of Cr1ik-
shank Il Writ. II
Two young children of Mr. Jas Hiuson,
of Elk Neck, died recently within three
days of each ether. One was buried on
Friday, and the other on Monday last.
They were two and three and i half Years
Of age respectively.
AT the Methodist church, in a neiebor.
ing town, on Sunday last, the minister
preached on the subject ot ''Thc Prodical
Sons Brother" We propose that some
Elkton minister hold forth on his>uncles,
his cousins and his aunts. v
w. j. jones and f. \. Ellis Esus.. of
this town, attended Hartford county circu;.
court, at Belair, this week, as counsel in
the case of Miller Lodge, l. O. o. F.. of
Easton, versus The Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of this county.
The Farmers Convention for Balti
more county will meet on the fair grounds
at Timonium, on Thursday, 18th inst. AS
this is to be a meeting of unusual interest
farmers from adjoining counties are cor
daily invited to be present.
1t is thought that the Grangers, the
Masons, and one OF two OF the Sabbath
schools of this town will 1--WE "down the
bay" steamboat excursions this season,
There is some talk also Of an excursion by
the Socia! Club of this place.
A Havre de Grace woman utilizes he,
invalid mother, who has been confined Il
bed for number of years, by placing duel /
eggs in bed with her for the purpose of in
cubation. She has on hand a large lot o
young ducks Matched by this process. II
The Rev. J. w. Pierson, an old ant
prominent member of the Wilmington Con
ference of the NJ. E Church. died at hi
home in Wilmington, on Friday of las
week. Mr.. Pierson in years past filled sew
eral different appointments in this section.
Thomas Coffee was recently four,
drowned in Galveston harbor There wa
too much water for the quantity of coffee
There are strong grounds for the belief tha
it was n suicide, and the community is muc]
stirred up about it. The matter hasn't We
been settled.
A stranger who visited certain hons
in this town, on Tuesday, remarked, afte
leaving it, By the way the half-drunke
men crowd round the bar and by the look
of the bottles and the smell of things gene,
ally no one would take that for q tempe,
ance house NJ
Mr.. John Wilkinson has contracted
with Mr.. c. G. Wright for the coustructio
Of a first-cass road buggy. Mr.. Wrigh
docs the iron work himself and has til
wood work, &c, done by Messrs Meise
and Camblin. This is the way to. get Il goo
cheap wagon. "
The residents on South street, common
~ known Dolly Warden, complain loudl
of the amount of fast driving done on tina
street. We are informed that children-o
bara