The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-03-18
LOCAL BRIEFS.
The mud vet prevalent.

midi and pleasant.
The beautiful snow piled up three inch
e. deep, on Wednesday night.
--Gnurt meets on Monday next. Tie se>-
Sion prnlnes To he "A short one.
-Rev. Joseph Miller is living very i'll at
his home At Mechanics Valley.
Lettuce and spinach from Wilmington
hot beds now plentiful in our market
Rev VIM Schooner will bold service
in Rnldwn's Chapel, Elk MiIls) tomorrow
AT y. NJ.
Ann R.,l,len an oil Cnlor+i lady OF
Chesapeake eiry, died there on Sunday last
i'll her 9. year.
Rev. Thomas +. MartinClale, will preach
in the Methodist Episcopal Church of PORT
Deposit 10 MORROW
Our Devil says Honesty is the best Pol
icy, and that the man for whose eyes this is
meant will understand it,
Cecil connty'S share in the State school
tax just distributed is sI,05S, 80 for white,
and Sji2 81 for colorrl schools.
Many persons here are now indulsing
in the luxury of oleomargarine in conse-
qu-uce of the scarcity of butter. !,
Geo. w. Crrikshanks, Esq has been
chosen to succeed the late Daniel Bratton
as Trustee of the Elktnn public school.
John Wilkinson, our sewing machine
and music man, has just received new lot
of piano stools from the factory, which he
will sell low.
The successor of the late Daniel Brat
ton, Esq. Is Trustee Of the Ell1ton Acade-
nv VIII be chosen at the first regular meet
ing of the board !,
Mr.. John T Davis, successor to Steph-
en- Pluck, overSear of the poor, will not, it
is Thought, take charge of the County Aims
House before May 1st next
An Elkton sport while walking on the
street in Baltimore, recently, pumped into
u cellar, the door Of which was oper before |
he was aware of what he was about II
"A rolore man by the name Of Abe
Wilson. a resident of the Delaware border !
dei the other day from the effects OF the
kick of 4 horse received sometime ago.
!
cleaning the snow from the pavemeuts |
around the publ" Off "es, peie trans are
compelled To wade through the drifts. II
The name nt Wm, I. Bye, Esq, of the /
Fourth district, has hee, named ,S success |
or to the late SImuel J. England, as a MEM
Der of the Board of School Commissioners. |
The Rev. j. France, who has been ap-
pointed Pastor of Zion circuit, will preach |
Tomorrow the 18th inst, Mt St. Johns, in
the morning, and at Uuion in the afternoon.
Rev L. NJ. Daniels will preach at Grit
fms Chapel, Cedar Hill, this county, on
March 18Th, at II a. NJ. All the friends of
the church in that section are invited to
attend i
"A party of eight gentlemen from Ian
caster county, Pa, registered at the How |
ard House, on Tuesday. They were in at /
tendance upon the Orphans court, which
was in session.
Il Second district sport attempted to ,
pool his losses at pool, atthe Howard House !
the other day with counterfeit five dollar |
bill. The pool man however, was not SO |
easily phooled.
MIR Samuel 3. Foard, of this town, on/
Tuesday last, rendered to the Board of Coun- !
ty Commissioners his resignation of the |
office of constable, which he has held for a |
number of years. d
Mrs. Clark, of Wilmington, Del. a |
daughter of Mrs. Stephen Pluck. of This !
county, who has been dangerously i'll at her
home in the first named place, is now in |
fair way to recover II
WIN. G Carter, Esq, of this place, sold /
his household goods at public sale, on Tues- |
day last, preparatory to removing to Balti !
more. The sale was largely attended and
fair prices We're obtained.
james S. Crawford, Esq, was reported
yesterday in the Washington papers as
being dangerously i'll. His friends howev
telesrarhed to Elkton, that though sick.
his condition gives them no uneasiness. 4
An Elkton hotel keeper omplains ear
nesfly OF the apparent mpecuniousness of
Number of his regular guests He pro-
poses to sell out to some one who has learn !
ed to run house gratis-if he can find the
man.
1t is currently reported that the Rev.
Vaughn Smith will decline the appoint-
ment rendered him by the Conference late
In session ut Middletown, and that he will
locate npon his farm, a few miles north of
this town.
The new dog law before the Legislature
makes it the duty of the officer to shoot or
otherwise kill all dogs upon which the tax
is not paid. 1t such II law is carried out
here there will be lively times, and PERHAPS
work for the Coroner. !
Charles w. Hornberger, a brakeman.
aged, - got one of his feet fastened in :,
switch ut the west yard Wilmington, on
We'inesl lay morning and before it could be
eNfricatei he was run over by IA shifting en-
glue and instantly killed
Il frantic horse made tooth picks of
about the last buggy belonging to Carriers
livery stable collection ON Saturday night.
The operation Of reducing complete wagon
to fragments performed by this enter
PrisIng animal upon the road from the Red
Mill to town.
ne handsome programmes used AT the
Missionary Anniversary. held ut the Pres.
byteran Church. on Thursday evening,
We're printed at the office of TIE Win As
aspecmen of neatnes- and taste in the art
of printing they surpass anything yet at
tempted i'll this town. l.
WIN. NJ. GoldSborough of Cum berland
well known here, WAS on Thursday of last
week, committed for the action of the Grim
inal court of Baltimore, by Justice Rhodes
to answer the charge of forging the name of
L. p. ID. Newman 10 acreptances of draft,
to the amount of 500.
Charles, son of Mr.. VIM. Il. Heatzlu of
this town, who has for several Years past
been in the employ of Mr.. Lewis as IL clerk
at the Glass Front on Main street, has sev-
cred his connection with that eStahli Shnent
tor the purpose OF entering upon n course of
study Of the art of fresco painting in Balti-
more.
Sweet potatoes Of fine quality, preserved
by the growers i'll this nrighb"riiood, We're
offtrr,! in market this week This is
novelty here. as usually the stock of our
local truckers * exhausted much earlier in
the season, and whom obfanable at all ut
this season the Jersey product is the only
lind 10 he had