The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-12-27
be done as promptly and as we'll as it would
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be done for an individual.
The art of sitting down easy on the Ice,
is now studied, prohcients, however, are
rare.
Tho ladies don't fall, they just let 60
everything and sudsido into soft bunch.
This is an art utterly beyond the capacity
of the lords of creation.
Capt Michael Really, has been buying
up turkeys for the Chester, Pa, market.
Mr.. A. P. Shockley also bought large lot
for New York dealer.
The frescoe and paint work in the in
terror of the Catholic Church of this town
is very handsome, and when fully conplet-
ed will be the most attractive piecein town.
Tho snow and rain of Sunday and Mon
day converted six inches of clear solid ice
into seven or eight inches of frozen slush,
utterly unfit for harvesting, save for the
ice-cream makers.
Several pew buildings not yet under
roof stand - ossd to the winter storms
hCiC ot tulS lithC. IL 10 o h1ioe"hS ~
postpone commencing building to such a
late date in the fall.
This is tho season when benevolent peo-
pie spread ashes, saw-dust, or any other
substance calculated to prevent person s
shoes from sliding from under him on the
sidewalk.
MIR. John W. Queen, of Fair Hill, who
was appointed road commissioner by the
county commissioners at their late session,
qualified ON Monday last and entered upon
the discharge of his duties.
Did it ever occur to you that in nine
cases out of ten when man sits down on
the icy sidewalk, he at once proceeds to adj
just the disarrsnged shoestring which &C.
casioned his fall. We have sknown this to
happen when the victim wore long boots
without any strings at all.
Frank Fitzpatrick, stonecutter, en-
ployed at Elder & McCullough's masonry
work for the b. & o. extension, near Cow
broken below the knee on Monday morning
by being caught between the wall and a
large stone which was being hoisted by a
derrick.
On Monday last, Mr.. John R. Gallaher,
of this town, and Miss Clara H. Deal, of
Philadelphia, were married, the ceremony
toking place at ths residence of the BRIDE
groom, on Main street. Rev. j. J. Havi.
land, of tho Free Methodist Church, per-
formed the ceremony. UT best wishes for
the lifelong happiness of the newly-mar-
ried couple are freely extended.
The Baltimore Morning Herald of Sum
day last, the oath inst, published an ac-
count of the accident at McClennahan &
Bro quarries, at Port Deposit, by which
= valuable horse was killed. On Tuesday,
the 23d, the same piece of news was pub.
lished by another leading journal of the
Same city, forty-eight hours behind the
Herald. The Herald is lively paper; cheap
too, only ono cent copy.
AT the granite quarries of Messrs. Nc
Clenahan & Bro, at Port Deposit, on Sat
urday last, valuable horse was killed. The
animal, attached to a cart, was being back
ed along chute to unload stone, when the
cart was pushed over the edge. The horse
and cart were precipitated over stone wall
sixteen feet high, the horse turning over,
the cart landed upon his back upon the
railroad track, breaking his back and legs.
He was Immediately killed.
The county authorities have given each
set of the troublesome stone steps leading
to the court house yard an overcoat of pine
boards, for the purpose of preventing them
from tripping up any one this winter.
Slippery places on the court house yard are
expensive luxuries as has been ound by
experience, and it is we'll enough to cover
them up There is no question but the
board covering is great improvement over
the hard cold smooth stone, on which pass
ers by were liable to slip at any time.
Robert R. vandiver, Esq, a member of
the Elkton bar and former practitioner in
the Cecil courts, but who has been . resi-
dent OF Havre de Grace for several years,
died at his fathers residence in that town
on Saturday last, aged Al years. Deceased
for few years practiced here. He was a
young man of more than ordinary talent,
a brother of Col. Murray Vandiver, of
Hartford county. His funeral took place on
Tuesday last at p. NJ. from his fathers
residence, in Havre de Grace.
Mr.. Jesse Taylor, an old resident of the
vicinity of Cherry Hill, showed US the other
day Henry Clay badge worn by him
during sthe campaign of 1874, bright,
clean and fresh, as though it had been OK
posed to the elements but little, if any. 1t
is printed on a quarter yard of fine satin
ribbon. At the top, in scroll, are the
words, "His country's friend in the hour of
danger" then follows Henry Clay, pride
of America, "People's Choice, ''''Protector
of American Iudustry;" then comes coat
of arms and an eagle, a portrait Of Clay.
and a small viguettA. The whole thing is
much in the style of such badges of the
present day.
Mr.. Folger McKinssy editor of the
Shore Gazette, published at Ocean Beach
New Jersey, visited friends here on Tuesday
last. Folger is the youngest son Of Mr..
James McKinsey a former resident of this
town, and is a young man of unusual
promise. He is the author of number OF
poems of more than average merit, and as
he is yet quite young. his limits for the
future are unbounded. He conducts his
newspaper in an admirable manner having
largely increased its circulation since he
took charge. Ocean Beach i. thriving
permanent town and watering place on the
coast between Long Branch and Asbury
Park, and is rapidly growing.
We last week mentioned rumor in
circulation here that all the chairs taken
from the court house to the wigwam at
Main and Bow streets were not returned.
We are now assured upon the statement of
Mr.. Taylor Howard, who had them in
charge, that, every single one of them was
safely and surely returned in as good condi'
ton as when borrowed We believe this
to be fact, as Tay is as truthful as figures,
and it is said they never lie. The report
that they bad not all been taken back arose
from the fact that two of them were left at
q store near the site of the wigwam for a
day or so, but were afterwards carried to
the hall of justice. Tay says 80, and what
he says is as true as preaching, whether he
gets the wheelbarrow or not.
Tho Port Deposit correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, on Tuesday last writes az
follows Of the condition of two steam tug.