The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-10-21
TIME TABLE.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

ton of belfry on the Episcopal Church OF
this town.
Send your orders by mail to Mrs. Lit
zenbergs stores, personal attention given to
filling them.
Now is the season for the boy to gather
chestnuts on Sunday and be absent from
Sunday school.
Rev. WIN. Schouler will hold service
in St. Augustine Church, Bohemia Manor,
tomorrow, at $50 P. NJ.
-Rev. VIM B. Rose will preach in the
Elkton f. NJ. Church, tomorrow, morning
and evening, at the usual hour.
Some person or persons, stole from the
Landing one day last week, batteau, be-
longing to Mr. Thomas George.
The repairs on the Elkton gas works
have been completed and our citizens may
now expect plentiful supply of gas.
Some of the late risers in the morning
have been getting up early, the past week
in order to get view of the comet.
Are you going to the Philadelphia BIZ
Centennialo 1t will only cost you S1.35
for a round trip ticket from this place. Il
Rev. Geo. T. Porter, pastor Of the Pres
byterian Church at Newark, has resigned
that position, because of failing health.
Mrs. Ltzenberg has cent counters in
both uf her stores Have you seen her as
sortmeHt OF - cent hats, all new this week.
Rev. C. +. Sheppard, of North East,
announces that the regular preaching ser
vice a. Boul,lens Chapel is next Sabbath a:
2. 80 p. ~
Mr.. W. r. Grosh left some of the finest
sweet potatoes we ever saw at this office,
last week, which were grown on his farm,
near this town.
b. 3. Dunbar, of this town, has sold
his colt, which took the premium at the late
Fair, to Mr.. S. Il. Foard of the Howard
House, for $500.
Mamie Scott, a little girl of eleven sum
mers, died, at the residence of her mother,
near ASKS bridge, on Saturday evening
last of diphtheria. 4
George w. McNeal has resumed the
stosm aking business at Cherry Hill. He
is good workman, and enjoys large share
of the public patronage J.
Mrs. Rebecca Stephenson, an aged color
cd lady, died. this week, at the residence of
her son-inlaw, Philip Brown, on the Not
tingham road, short distance from town. ,
Prof Theodore Ascherfeld, former
resident of this town, and music teacher
by profession, was quite severely injured
by fall, at the depot at Havre de Grace,
one day last week.
Mr. McQuilken at the new Enterprise
machine works, is going right along and his
place is full of work. To have nine ma
ehiasts engaged is not Il bad beginning for
a GesS machine shop.
1t will soon be decided, we hope, to
place a new street lamp on Church street.
IF our town fathers had to travel that way
they would doubt less be assured of the
necessity for such lumiuary.
Extra services began on Sunday night
last, at Crouchs' Chapel. Services were
conducted, on Tuesday night, by Rev. w.
+. Avery, and on Wednesday evening by
Rev. G. S. Conway, of Elk Neck Circuit.
The ladies of the Head of Christiana
Church will give an oyster supper, for the
benefit of the church, ON Wednesday, the
18th instant. Supper served from four till
nine o'clock. Ii stormy, it will be held the
next evening. l.
One of the plumbers ..ged at Hon.
u III
n seatYuld, on Thursday, and sprained his
ankle quite badly. A physician was sum-
moned, aid the injured member received
proper attention.
The cunning season will begin on the
list of November. Game of some kinds is
said to be abundant The small boy and
the amateur sportsman should be warned
that it is unlawful to shoot or trap game
before the date mentioned T.
The Rev. George r. Phoebns, now sta
toned at st. Georges. Del, has been quite
i'll for some weeks past. He was visited,
this week, by an Elkton friend, who found
him in excellent spirits but physically very
weak. i
Some evil disposed persons took Il gate
from its hinges, on the farm of Sheriff Dun
bars near this town, and after breaking the
top piece off carried it some distance away
and threw it down. 1t is a pity that such
characters are allowed to run loose.
"A team of four horses owned by VIM.
V. Moore, took fright on Thursday morning
At passing locomotive, and started frcm
the depot in full tilt for Cherry Hill. The
team was captured however, before it had
reached Mr.. Collins gate, without having
done much damage.
Thomas Davis, of Havre de Grace, on
Monday last, caught in a net fish that
Hooks something like 4 Lizard. 1t is %
inches ia length, 8 inches in circumference,
with fiat, eire.llar head, IRIS body taperins
to its TAIL which Is like that Of IL catfish.
1t has two feet on EACH side about six inches
apart. and its skin is smooth like that of an
eel. 1t has been sent to the Smithsonian
Institute. II
-Ify0u want to see activity and enter,
George Witworth. He il manufacturing
one hundred and n:nety-siK di fferent mum
beers of grades, for sixty seven different kinds
of stoves. To this stove casting work. IL
added an endless variety of other kinds,
plough castings, barn door hangers and the
Thousand and one other shapes into which
cast iron is fashioned by the skillful mould.
er.
just 1T this time il is almost impossible
an Elkton. to get mechanic for love oil
money. The carpenters, plasterers, brick
layers are all busy. Laboring men are equal
ay scarce. We are happy to know that there
need not be an idle man in Eikton excep,
from choice. There is employment fo,
everybody. Elkton is looking up in ths
building line. Is the New Wing Building
Dir. Creswell's ue~ residence Mr.. Bratton's
new house, Mr.. kesss'3 improvements and
other work shows. 4
Station master Shivler of tue p, W &
Il. station, at Newark, sold during the weel
of Elkton fair. about 500 ronnd trip tickets
including admission into the fair grounds
at that place aud would have sold more hat
it been known to the people that the rate
had been reduced for the time being Their,
were 100 tickets sold to Barnum's show an.
back including admission to the circus OF
Friday last; in all probability there woult
have been about 200 more sold had the,
been on hand at that station.
The baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany, have commenced the erection of thei