The Cecil Whig., 1883-01-13

the road, numbering in all thirty-six men,
bers-thrty-th of whom are performers,
and appear on the stage at the same time.
Property owners should be required to
ments, especially ON the most trequented
thoroughtares, an ordinance requiring |: eX-
lists. why not enforce it. The walking is in
some places abomnable. OF course to those
" ho have no pavements and whose side
walks are neglected by the Commissioners
this will not apply.
On Tuesday last new Board of Direc-
tors for the National Bank of Rising Sun,
was elected No change was made IN tie
Board except the substitution of the name
of Job Haiues, Esq, in place of the late
Luke Brown. The Board now is composed
of Jas. NJ Evans, Jesse A. Kirk, Dr. L. IL
Kirk, Timothy Haines and Job Haines. H.
n Haines. ESD. will continue to act as
cashier.
MIR. C. b. Leslie, of Houston, Texas, a
son of Capt. Leslie, of this town, WAS re-
Gently attacked by five masked men rs he
was passing from the otfica of the raiiroau
company, III whose service he Is, To his
home and considerably bruised about the
head before he succeeded in frightening his
assailauts away by drawing his pistol and
wounding two Of them. All five OF the
roughs escaped. Mr.. Leslie is a man SIX
feet in height and hard to handle.
of II ,1TimDre.
well known here, having been for IA number
of seasons past employed in towing birgeS
carrying wood, coal, &r., between this place
aud The. city of Baltimore, and Other points
on the Chesapeake, was burned to the
waters edge DIT Canton (lSaliim"re) on
Thursday last. The Domestic elevator was
burned ut ihe some time. The Hattie Wooa
will be more clearly remembered AZ the tug
which carried away a boat belonging to Mr..
Thomas George of this place, last Fall.
The past week was the annual week of
prayer, As fixed by the Evangelical ALI
ance, subject being provided by the asso-
citation for each day, pray ers, so tia
christians throughout the world would pray
for the same Object at the same hour. The
call was pretty we'll observed here, services
being held in several of the churches. Even
ing however, being substituted for the
hours fixed. Therefore our people were not
in concert with the naiority of the churches
of the Land.
AS Mr.. j. McClery and his son Franklin
were driving towards town, on Thursday,
they met the Providence Mill teams loaded
with wood The horse SHE'D ut the wagons,
and giving IA quick turn As he ram upset the
Sleigh inIo tn. snow bank. The young man
was thrown ont clear of the wreck, but Mr..
McCiery was caught under the box and
confined there, the horse meanwhile pulling
the sleigh some distance with him under II.
The animal was caught before he had gone
far by III. driver of the team. and the pris-
oner released from his unpleasant prr'ica
ment \ survey of the state of affairs
showed that little or no damage was doue
and that no one was hurt.
Justice Joseph Steele, of the Fourth
district, met with a painful accident few
DAYS ago. WEile in the act "f removing
the body from n dearborn, he struck il with
his hand to loosen it at point where it had
caught The blow was given with consider
able energy which drove large mail Gun
observed by him and on which his hand
struck nearly through that member The
Justice has suffered considerably from the
wound which gathered and caused much
pain, the inflammation extending nearly 10
the elbow. BY careful nursing and judicious
applications, however, the Inflammation has
been reduced and the pati-ut is able to go
about and attend to business. Wounds of
this character are very dangerous-lockjaw
being Il not uncommon result