The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-02-16
LOCAL NEWS.
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Seventeen freight trains passed over the
p. w. & B. railroad on Sunday last.
A hen belonging to youth on Bow
street. has i'm mortalized herself by laying
two eggs on Monday last.
Rev. r. w. Biers will preach at the
Presbyterian Church, of this town. to-mor'
row and the following Sunday. -
Mrs. Araminta Howard, widow of the
late Jacob Howard, of this town, celebrated
her eightieth birthday on Monday last.
Some of the youths of Elkton amused
themselves at midnight on Monday night
last bv CARRYING water for the young white
fish.
-Luugrens, Louisville and Elkton stages
now require three hours to travel the nine
miles from one town to the other over the
muddy roads. J.
S. w. Lewis, railroad agent at Rising
Sun station, recently had one OF his feet
very seriously injured by large piece OF
iron falling on it. i
Mrs. Catherine c. Balderston, wife of
LLOYD Balderston, Colora, an estimable
Christian woman, died on the 18th inst,
after an illness of about two weeks, from
kidney disease.
The first fresh herring of the season
we're Offered for sale by Giles on Thursday.
They came from the lower Chesapeake, but
are Just as good as those caught at the head
of the bay later.
Two Italians engaged at the b. Il O.
railroad work at Watson's Island, We're
drowned by breaking through the Ire while
walking TO the Cecil shore on Thursday
evening of last week.
Rev. w. w. Heberton will offer for sale
at his residence next Wednesday, the Goth,
at p. NJ. sharp, number of household
articles. This is prior to removing his
family to Philadelphia. j.
Mr.. James H. lamar and wife, of st.
Paul, Mimi, visited Elkton this week. Mr..
lamar is son of the late James H. lamar,
of the Elkton bar. He is engaged in the
railroad business in St. Paul.
Trains were passing over the p, w. &
b. railroad all day on Sunday last, yet no
flagman is kept at the crossing upon that
day. A watchman is just as much if not
a little more needed on that day az on any
other.
Ellis NJ. Terry, administrator nr Thcs.
Terry, deceased, will sell at public sale on
Thursday, March 9th, on the farm near
Mechanics Valley, large amount of
personal property Of deceased. See adver-
tisement in another column.
The ELIZA Jane" one of Mr.. Siugerly's
wood scows that was sunk with a load of
sand aboard, in the creek near Morgan's
shore last fall, was raised last week by
Messrs. Jacob LOTHIAN and William Nc
Dow-ll and towed up to the wharf for re-
pairs. II
native and resident of this town, visited
friends here this week. Mr.. Aldridge is a
son of the late John Aldridge, of Elk Neck.
He has been engaged in business in Chicago
for nunb Der of years and has been very
successful.
Capt. John T. Jones advertised his farm
in the WING last week. and before noon on
Saturday had found customer. Quick
work. He determined not to sell as ad-
vertised, but rented it to Mr.. w. c. Thomas
of Clayton, Delaware. He had numb Der
of applicants.
Mrs. n. f. johnson, in another column
advsrtises public sale on the 28th inst, at
her residence in Elk Neck, two and a half
miles south of Elkton, of stock, farming
implements, wagons, hay, household furni-
ture, SC. This will be large sale and well
worth attending.
Valentines, good, bad and Indifferent,
have been circulating freely this week.
Some of the class known AZ comic, are out
rageous, and the custom of using them
gives viciously inclined persons to offer in
suits, without laying themselves liable to
answer for their acts.
John Dubois. a Pennsylvania lum Der
king, is said to be the richest man in that
State. He is worth $1,000, 900 and EN-
ployes 600 men in his lumber mills.-Ex-
change. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Du Bois was the owner of the lumber mill
that was burnt at Havrs de Grace, Hartford
county, last spring.
We received a call this week, from Mr..
Samuel C. Terry, of Okay, Plat county,
Nebraska, formerly of this county, and had
the pleasure of placing his name upon cur
subscription list. Mr.. Terry has resided in
Nebraska for eight years, AM. speaks highl y
of Platt county as a farming district. His
account of the wild goose shooting on Plat,
river would make our spOrtsmen long for 4
visit there. He is just in the midst of the
great goose shooting district
"A movement is on foot looking to a
change in the name OF the place now known
as the Bull Frog, on the Chesapeake road
three miles from town. AS there is n ford
able stream on each side of the village
Hickory Run on the north and Perch Creek
on the south, it is proposed to give it the
name of Waterford" The Frog is neither
apest Office or an incorporated town, and
instead Of growing in size is going back
v--rds. 1t is not as large by four or fv.
rsS ses now, as it was fifteen or twent,
ye4ps ago. Some of the residents think it
name keeps it back. If this is the cas-,
change it at once by all means and let IL
have Waterford.
"A book club has been organized a
CJlora, in this county. A meeting wa
held on the 9th inst, at the office of Tn
Warins Fertilizer Company, when WIN
Waring, Jr., was elected president, $. 7
Hindman, vice president, T. A. Clendenin
secretary aud treasurer, and 5. T. Wiley
librarian. A committee to procure book
was also elected. The plan of the organi
cation is to use the mem ership fees, ii
this case 81 per year, in the purchase q
books which will be used by the member
as any library are, and at the end of tn
year any books that may he no longe
needed are sold at auction and the proceed
added to the mem bership fees in purchas
ing q new lot for the en- suin. year.
MFR. George McKinsey, driver of one
the Mccullough Iron Companys team:
between West M we'll mills and this town
uicu al MS uoiue al tue HilllS On odturua
last, after a brief illness of pneu,noni,
Mr.. McKinsey was a native of this county
His mother resides in this town and b
brother John manages a farm belonging,
Delaplaine Mcdaniel near North East. II
leaves a widow and four young chi,drer
Deceased was a large muscular man, uu,
sually vigorous and healthy, yet this di
ease laid him low in the short space of 81
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