The Cecil Whig., 1882-04-29


bond of Coroner-elec LitZenberg was the
only business transacted by the court
An entertainment to consist of vocal
and instrumental music, and Headings
from standard authors, will be given 1T
Crouch's Chapel, on Tuesday evening, May
23d, The best musical talent of the neigh
borhood will be enlisted. Prof Ford, of
Wilmington, will be the elocutionst. The
enterprise is for the benefit of the Sabbath
school. Tickets will be sold at the low
price of - cents.
1T is reported that under new organ
ization of the Mccullough Iron Company,
Mr.. Wm. Scotten, the present manager Of
the North Fast Mills, has resigned his po-
sition. 1t is rumered also that Il number
of other changes will take place in the ser
vice of the Company at their various mills
Mr. Scotch is one of the oldest and most
practicle managers in this line of tnanufact-
ure in the county.
The following County officials, recently
appointed by the Governor, qualified be-
fore Deputy clerk of the court Reckefus.
this week and received their commissions:
l. S. Deford justice of the peace, Fifth
district: George L. Nansant, Justice, First
district; James Spence, justice, Third dis
trict; Edward Moore, justice, Fourth dis
trict; and John Frazer, Register OF voters
for the Third district.
Mr. Samuel Clifford, n young man of
great promise and son of the late Benjamin
/ Clifford, a former citizen of this county died
in Philadelphia, ON Wednesday evening, Of
typhoid fever. Mr.. Clifford started busidess
! in Philadelphia, six years ago and had been
LFery successful. He married Miss Jennie
! Frazier, of Baltimore, about 1S months ago.
His remains will be buried in Green Mount
| Cemetery, on Saturday afternoon. April so.
| He was 2S years of age.
Mr.. Fred Smith, the New York horse
/ man, who at one time contemplated leasing
the track of the Cecil Agricultural Society
| as training course for this season, had
/ rare streak of luck within ten days past. y
/ brother residing in the West, dying be-
queathed him his entire property, valued
at from $15O,000 to 100000 This puts
| Fred 4 notch two above training horses
! as business for which his friends feel as
much sratified as he possibly can.
( An official Of the Elkton National Bank,
while on his way TO the banking house on
/ Tuesday morning, left a package contain
| ing large sum of money upon the desk Of
a business place, where he had stopped on
his way, and reached the bank before dis
covering his loss. Upon Fastening back,
he fortunately found his cash safe-no one,
probably, having noticed it during the short
time it laid there. In the present stringent
condition of the Elkton money market, we
consider this a decided streak of luck.
Rev. Henry A. Skinner, former Rector
|<of Trinity Church of this town, has spent
the past week among numerous friends
| here. He will remain for perhaps week
| longer, when he proposes to return to Sun
bury, Pa. for limited stay. 1t is proba-
BILE that his vacation will be a short one,
J though as yet he has made no engagement
| for the future Many of Mr.. Skinners'
friends here express the hope that he may
receive a call such as he would accept
nearer to Elkton than his last parish.
: John A. Rankin, Esq, Matchmaker of
! the East end, has not walked down town
| for two years and six months. Twice he
has ridden down these being the only oc
casions during that time that he has left
his house. He attends regularly to his
| business and walks freely about the prem
Uses, but does not leave them. He proposes
as soon rs the weather becomes fine 10
abandon this mode and take his exercise
upon the street. The many friends Of this
gentleman among our readers will be pleas
! ed to know that he is enjoying better
health now than for some years past.
! An exchange remarks that beef at 20
cents per pound and wages 10 cents to 81
per day is an incongruty that effects both
stomach and pocket. We are not suffering 8
from this disease here just yet. Wages
! don't seem to be crawling down very fast
on the contrary, they are going up. But
the way in which the price of beef is climb
ing up after them is wonderful to behold.
4 terrible cry of scarcity Of cattle now
7 COiucS lIOiI VIC ttlltl tHF loit'iti
they cry the faster The price of the article
vtlimbs. No doubt the scarcity of fish has
great deal to do with this unnatural state
of affairs in the beef market.
| Among the two hundred and more bills
| which had passed the recent Legislature Of
the State, and remained unsigned by the
| Governor, at the time Of adjournment is the
| new dog tax law for the county. The law
requires the signature of the Governor to lie
attached to all bills IN the presence Of the
speaker of the house, and Speaker keihotz
being i'll at the time of the adjournment OF
| the Assembly, and yet remaining so, over
two hundred bills remain unsigned. The
4 date of their becoming laws now depends
upon the health OF the speaker. The failure
of the dog tax law to get through promptly
| here.
AT the great Dog Show of the West
minister Kennel Club, at New York, last
week, LESTER" a young "Lewelin " or
" Field Trial setter dog belonging to Mr..
| +. w. Jester, of St. Georges, Del, took
first prize in the one-year-old puppy class,
| and was sold afterwards for $500 Mr. Jes-
ter had catalogued him at only one 500,
and sold him at this figure, his purchaser
4 being Immediately overwhelmed with offers
| of all sorts of sums for him. Jester " is
a litter brother to " Dashins Belle" owned
by Mr.. S. b. Foard, of this town, and is not
thought to be near As promising an animal
as the latter, which unfortunately was not
entered in the show. Mr.. testers Blue
Belle" mother Ct the two above mentioned
was awarded first in the class for native
English settlers of her sex. This is big
card for j.. as a successful breeder.
The work of improvement at Messrs
Scott & Brothers fertilizer mills is being
pushed rapidly forward. The new build
ing is assuming shape and the extension of
territory upon the MARSH and creek on the
south being rapidly completed. Much diff
ficulty has been experienced this week tfo;u
water in the excavation for the foundation
for the new heavy machinery and the ele-
vator pit. n heavy spring of water was
struck at Il depth of eight nine feet,
! which soon so orertlowed the whole exeaya-
ton as to put a stop to the operations of the
masons. Pumps were put in service, and
by this means the water was kept down
When these improvements are finished the
Messrs. Scott & Bro. will be able to boast
of having, if not the largest, the most coul-
plete mills of this character in the State,
containing the latest improved machinery.
I, A meeting of young gentlemen favora-