The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-12


row-Sabbath School at \. NJ.
-Berklev, tonsorial artist, odd Fellows
Hall, put up a very handrome sign Lantern
this week.
An excursion by water from Nortl
East to Bay Ridge, Chesapeake Bay, take
place to-day.
Mr. Alex Evans, of this town, has re
turned home from Branard, MINI, wher
he has been for some time past.
Mr.. Joseph Booth had his dwellin!
house, on his truck farm, near town, hand
somey papered during the past week.
Mrs. Caroline Oliver, of Baltimore, ha
rented and will occupy the residence o
Miss Jane Torhert on east Main street. dur
ing the coming summer
Mrs. Vim. j. Jones, of this town, will
leave on Tuesday next, for Il visit of ahou
one months duration, to her daughter, Mrs
w. \. Avery, at Asbury, Somerset county
The masonic ledge, of this town, was
represented at the meeting of the Grand
Lodge, of the State, in Baltimore, ON Tues
| day and "Wednesday last, by DR. John II
lamar and John Perkins and VIM s
Evans, ESqS.
Mr. John Gilpin, brickmaker, of this
town, has hee9 awarded the contract for
| furnishing the bricks to he used in building
SingerleyS new mills. and the tenant
| houses. Several hundred thousand will
probably he used.
| The work of deepening and putting in
order the Court House wels and resetting
the force pump therein, was. on Tuesday,
awarded by the commissioners TO p. c.
Strickland Mr.. Strickland will have the
| matter attended 10 at once
Mr.. Samuel II. Miller, who has the lar
gest and finest peach orchard in this vicinity
says that the prospect for n CROP of fruit
from his trees is very tlatteri,.g, at this
tine, and if nothing happens 10 ininre
t en-, he will have the largest crop he ever
had.
Howard Ellis, Esq, of New York City,
has made arrangements for his wife and
children 10 spend the summer in this town.
Mrs. Ellis had contemplated a trip to Eu-
rope, but her health will not permit it, and
she comes here to he treated by DIR. c. VI.
Ellis,
AT n meeting of the Board of Managers
of Wood Lawn Campmeeting Association,
held on the ground, Tuesday, August "A,
was fixed on as the time for holding the
Of
was appointed to take charge of the rei
gious services
The funeral OF Thomas Heath, who died
last week, took place on Sunday afternoon
John Lee, George Turner, Captain Jacob
Clay, Jacob Dean. Nicholas Lrrzaere and
lriah Fowler acted rs pail hearers The
body was inferred in the Elkton Cemetery
The directors of the Cecil County Auri-
cultural Society met at their Office in Odd
Fellows Hall, on Tuesday. The session
was devoted chiefly 10 arranging the pre-
MUM list for the next fair Some changes
We're made in the list, one of which was the
offering of premiums for unregistered thor
oughbred stock.
An Elkton canine carried away prize
at the dog show in progress in New York
city, during the past week Dashing
Belle" now owned by Mr. Jester, of ST.
Georges, who purchased her from an Elkton
g ntleman, took thir,l priz" in the class
in which she was entered. Belle is a
handsome L!ewellyn setter.
/-An old gentleman, resident of this towr,
eighfy-siN years of age, this week, perform
ell the task of cutting through the heavy
stone found alton walls of his dwelling house
with hammer and chSel. The wall is an
old and solid piece of masonry, and the task
was not an easy on, even for man of
younger wears his object was to make a
window. n
The suit of anthony Reybold vs.. the
New York and B,ltirnnre Transportation
Company for breach of contract, which has
been pending for a long time N Whining
tor, Del, has he"n settled by the payment
of Il sum reported TO exceed $50, 900, to The
plaintiff. S.rIae time ago he received YER
die, for ssh 81, hut the defendant moved
for new trial.
-louuE America of this town, regrets,
that The school t'uilding W rs not burned To
ashes. They would then have had an extra
and extended holiday One of them was
heard Ia cXrltim: 'Oh, how | wish the old
tarnal Thing had gone clear up" Another
sud: 81 don't know what in thunder they
brung tit"ru old engines up there fnr any
how: ifth.v hadn't been there She'd Il went
mp certain T.
WIN. Perkins, eldest son VI John Per
kius, Esd of This town, has located al Colo
/rado Springs, Colorado, for the present. lie
is engaged AT his business, that of harness
making there. lie is greatly pleased with
the place, and speaks Of it in the highest
terms The climate, he states, is delightful,
and peculiarly beneficial to persons suffer-
ing from disease of the lungs, Il great many
of whom annually visit the springs.
About one o'clock on Saturday night
as a driver of one of the livery stables was
coming from the depot he almost STUN
bled over the PROSTATE body of 4 man, on
the corner of North and High streets. He
was lying stretched across the sidewalk,
and the driver thought it was IL dead man.
This scared him, and he ran as only a
frightened man can run, and could not he
induced to return to the spot. An exami-
nation developed The fact that the body
was that of a rolored man, not dead, but
,lv.l,i drunk He was left In Sla.r, otf
The annual congregational meeting of
members Of the Presbyterian Church, of
fhi> town, took place on Monday evening
last The condition of the finances of the
church, which are in excellent shay
was set forth in a report which was read,
and MrsSrS. James McIntir-, w. 5. Evans
and i. III. CleaVer Were elected to member
ship in the Board of Trustees The board
now consists of James r. Mccullough, ESD,
the senior elder Of the church, James Nc
Intire. Vim. McCrery, Thos. bremen, L.
c. Lewis, DR. j. II. lamar, p. II. Cleaver,
John Gilpin and VIM. s. Evans.
Who says dogs are useless? y saga
/ cious canine, one night last week, in dark
ness so profound that one could almost cut
| it with Il knife recovered his masters bunch
of keys that he had dropped on the street.
| The gentleman dropped the keys between
| the Howard House and the corner of How
ard street, where he discovered his loss He
| Immediately started his dog back telling
| him to g look for them" The dog found
/ them Opposite the National Bank and came