The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-03-24

buI llluJ never Wits ldlE ldhS Iic
should try again, fortune may be kinder
next time.
A company Of musical patent medicine
vendors spent several days here this week.
They gave free concerts, consisting mainly,
of vocal music. and banjo diversities, and
| sold all the medicine they could. The cold
of Tuesday evening prevented an outdoor
concert announced.
OF interest to the ladies' of Elkton and
vicinity is the card of Mrs. l.. Wheen, to be
found in another column. Mrs. w. comes
to Elkton highly recommended as an adept
in the art of ladies' hairwork, and she also
makes specialties of dyeing an' shampooing
She resides on Howard street south of
Main.
! On Tuesday morning. after the pleas
ant spring like weather of Monday, it WAS
! somew hat phenomenal to see heavy lei
! cies hanging from the caves of houses
| The rays of the spring sun, had no effect
upon them except to cause Them to giisten
and scintilate. This means that it was cold
! upon Tuesday.
An unusual number of wild fowl visit
ed our marshes during the early part of the
past week. They were mainly blue wing
teal and sprg-tail. During the high tide
and heavy wind of Monday morning they
came in in great numbers, some of them
alighting within a short distance of the
wharves.
On Wednesday evening last, Robert
Mccullough, of this county, was married at
Reid'S Hotel, in Baltimore, to Miss Annie
| f. Price, member of the Salvation Army,
and known in that band, and generally
throughout the city, as "Sngins Annie. -
She is lady of prepossessing appearance,
about thirty years OF age.
The Clerk Of the County Commissioners
and the Register of Wills came together on
the road on Wednesday morning, on their
way to town, and of course had race. The
ground was rough, and the result of the
matter was the breaking Of wheel of one
of the bnggieS, and the smashing up of a
basket Of eggs in the other.
; DR.. Geo. w. HumeS, whose death we
mention elsewhere in this issue, had been
/ i'll for twenty-seven years of dropsy. He
| was is years of age, a brother of Mrs. NJ. A.
Craig, of Towr Point; and leaves large
! fortune, consisting mainly of Baltimore
city property. He was an uncle to George
| W. Hume Craig, aitorney-at law, of Chesa,
peake City and Baltimore.
The members of the Board of County
I Comm iSsionerS, accompanied by Deputy
Clerk Rosseli and Judge M:Cauley, Sur
veyor visited Perryville on Thursday, for
Ihe purpose of surveying the route of the
| proposed new road from that town to
! Frenchtown. The present road, in Il dis
| lance of three miles, crosses the railroad
! five times, and is dangerous
An interesting feature of the course of
instruction at the Elkton Academy is a
lecture illustrated by experiments, every
Wednesday, from eleven to twelve o'clock.
The only embarrassment under which Mr.
Graham, the principal, laborS in this branch
of instruction is the insufficiency of instru-
lnentS. The lecture TO he given by Daniel
Deugherty, next week, is for the purpose of
LraiSing money for the purchase of instru-
mentS.
The attention of our readers is called to
the card of Mr.. Chas. II. Collins in another
column. He will open on Monday on Main
street, opposite the Court House, a full line
Of boots and shoes, etc. Mr.. Collins is an
a.i;ible and agreeable Young man, thorough
ly acquainted with the business, and no
doubt but that buyers will find in his stock
just the goods they need at fair prices.
A drove of fourteen head of horses ar
rived in Port Deposit on Wednesday, from
Ohio, coming over the Il. & o. Railroad to
Baltimore, and thence by the F., w. & g.
10 Port. They range from four to seven
Years of age, weighing from |, 100 to 400
pounds. This stock, belongs 10 Mr.. G p.
Barnes. ard Will be sold by him in that
neighborhood.
A colored man of this town is suffering
from paraly>i, of one >i.le of his face, caused
by injury TO the jsS bone, in the operation
of drawing a tooth. Ills mouth is di,tig-
ured and drawn to one side, to such an ex-
tent that he can scarcely talk, and the
sight az n,:e eye is gone entirely. In draw
ing the tooth the dentist fractured the Jaw,
Il small piece Of hone coming away with the
tooth, other fragments of the bona, were left
| in the NV, anh from these it is thought the
disease came.
Jacob Tome the well known Port De
pusit capitalist, has filed cross bill in the
Circuit Court, at Baltimore, in the Peoples
hallway litigation cas-, in which he al
iegeS that the first mortgage hondEo!ders
have been deirauried of their rights lie
ask, that lr te admitted as Il defendant in
that aai'. The bill sets forth that the first
Ymort gage for 500, 900, made to Mr.. Tome, as
/ trustee, has def,ultel in interest, and that
its provisions for his taking charge of the
! property have not been carried out.
The number OF guests at the Howard
! House has been larger du:ing the past week
than is usual during the meeting of the
Circuit Court, the hotel being actually crowd
ed. On "Wednesday thirty-two persons re-
| gistered in addition To the crowds of Mon
day and Tuesday. Over a dozen persons
interested in the Mccullough will case
stopped there. Mr.. 5. &. Folrd the clerk
of the house is very popular withits patrons
and by his attabiity and attention to guests
renders their stay pleasant. sam is a first
| class hotel clerk.
Three stray members of the canine fam
! lily came to the house OLA prominent citi-
! zen at che Sayipn ka CIV iIrjpp the winter
! and without permit or invitation. qnartered
themselves for permanent residence. One
Eof them is "A we'll broken an no ionbt val.
liable setter, another is female pointer and
and the third Il full-booded bull dog. The
pointer, has since her arrival, produced lit
ter OF puppies, increasing the number of the
colony 10 about Il bakers dozen There is
| considerable. 'loubt whether this Chesapeake
4 gentleman is to be called n lucky man or the
| reverse.
Mr.. L. II. Purnell, of this to wn, travel.
ing salesman tor the house of Llppincott,
Oglevee & Co, dealers in hats, caps, etc of
Philadelphia, met with little unpleasant-
ness at CentreviIle in this State on Thurs
day of last week His business is to travel
throughout the country, carrying samples
of the goods offered for sale BY his firm, and
take orders from dealers. At Centrevlile
he WAS arrested under the llw requiring
non resident statesmen to pay a license ie,
for the privilege of selling in Maryland, ant
fined $50 and costs in two cases. This Law
is loudly and strongly denounced by com