The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-12-27
PORT DEPOSIT BRANCH.
LOCAL NEWS.

LOYAL IN Il w -.
From this date THE CECIL WIG wiH be
serred to ,ceekly subscribers in Port Deposit
6v ROBERT L. SrEBBINs. Robert is an
industrious and enterprising boy, and ,'ill
merit the good 1tH Of his customers By has
PROMPT service and o6liging disposition.
Patronize him.
Brevities.
The timid man now predestrisnates in
the middle of the highway.
-Ex-Judge Richard L. Thomas, Of the
Orphans Court, for this county, is i'll of
pneumonia at his home in North East. We
trust he may speedily recover.
The run on the toy stores for play
wagons, wheelb arrows and such things has
been something unusual here this season.
Several of them having sold out all their
first stock, and are pretty we'll through
with the second.
Tho county commissioners, having put
nice, new pine overcoats upon the court
house steps, should now go over to Oak
Hall, just oppe,ite, and put nice new wool
en- oversoats upon themselves. Ball has
them there of all kinds; very cheap for
cash.
A good many changes will take place
in the comiu. spring among farm tenants
in this vicinity, and already some are being
made public. Tho following changes are
reported to take place in Elk Neck, that
Mr.. Chas. Holt, son of Captain Washington
Holt will TAKE the tenancy of tho Weight
man farm cold Fields Point" and that
Mr.. Thos. Bryson will occupy the McNamee
farm. The latter has been in the tenancy
of the Lazalere farm.
Mrs. Mary Purnell, wife of Mr.. Will
liam Purnell, of this town, died at her
home on Main street on Wednesday morn
ing last, after brief illness. Mrs. Purnell
met with an injury a short time ago by
falling down stairs. 1t now appears that
she received internal injuries at that time
which eliminated in her death. The cir
cumstances of the case render it moro sad,
because of her leaving an infant child but
little more than year old.
In our Christmas notices last week we
failed to mention the neat little drug and
fancy goods store of DR.. j. B. Butler, on
East Main street. The Doctor has rs nice =
little store as any one could desire, and has
it stocked with carefully selected stock,
~ fsl, xhot
the residents of the east end will find it
both convenient and profitable to buy of
him. He keeps all the staple drugs, and is
a thorough pharmaceutist.
Its a sin and shame to laugh at
fallen fellow-creature, we admit; and he
who so far forgsts himself as to make game
of the downfall OF another deserves the
severest censure; but indeed We could not
down our r:sibilities the other evening
when dapper young miss, with several
articles in her hands, came dancing over
the slippery pavement chatting others for
taking tha roadway to walk upon, came
down kersplash, and articles Of merchan-
disc foated all about her. OF course we as
sisted her to carol her efforts and regain the
perpendicular. She didn't even smile, but
we noticed that she trod gingerly there
after.
"A large PERCENTAGE of our street lights
have refused to shed their usual brilliancy
during the past week of cold snaps, and
had it not been for the faint light of
the new moon struggling in pale yellow
a. -rJ, 10 -. 11o, L.
our streets in many places would have been
in darkness. Everything is taken in good
nature about Christmas time. Even the
fellow who falls emitting a faintish laugh
when he comes down on the hard ice, so
the darkness was made light of, (this is
not meant for joke) and the lamp-lighter
sympatkized y 18th heartily. His match bill
will be large this winter.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tho boys are
marching" not the soldier boys, but the
hummer boys The woods are not exactly
full of them, hut at times our town is. A
regular battalion of them filed down into
the commissioners Office, in the basement
of the court fpuse, one evening this week,
expecting to get orders for lodging in Jail.
In this they We're disappointed, as the COM
missione:s have put stop to that. They
then requested the use Of the fire for driving
up purposes. Clerk Rossell was too tender
hearted to refuse this, so they surrounded
the hot stove and began removing their
foot-gear and hanging it up to dry. As we
were not suffering from cold in the head,
we left at this juncture.
The fording at Gilpin's crossing on the
Big Elk creek, north of town, is in such a
terrible condition that the county commits
sioners have found it necessary to appoint
some one to take permanent and constant
oversight and charge of it. The bridge
carnot be used, and all travel on this road
must of necessity be by the fording place.
The approaches on both sides are so narrow
that only i. :. few places can two teams
pass each q her, and then it is a tight
squeeze, they are also steep and badly cut
up. They have made a good selection in
the person O.; Mr.. Henry Warner, manager
of West 4 mwell rolling mills, who is given
authority l. have all necessary repairs,
alterations, ETC., done, and to keep it in
good condition.
"A number Of the contractors for the
various bridges in process of construction
throughout the county have failed to COM
plete the work in the time specified in their
contracts, and now the freezing stormy
winter is upon US. and work has to be sus-
pended leaving the bridges in an unfinished
condition, unfit for use, thereby putting the
residents of the neighborhood, or whoever
has OCCASION to use the roads, to great in
convenience and in SOM cases loss. Under
the circumstances We think it nothing more
7slzas ,s.5tfce Ior the county commissioners,
As they propose to do, we understand, to
jeuforce the penalty laid down in the con-
tract. The contracts provide penalty OF
$40 per day for each and every day the
bridges remain unfinished after the date
upon which they contracted to have them
completed. Among them are the follow
ing The Wrought Iron Bridge Company,
of Canton, Ohio, contracted to complete a
bridge at Baldwin's Mills by November %
and the Pittsburg Iron Bridge C mp WY to
complete a bridge at Marley Mills by
November II, the two to cost S4,950. The
Penn Bridge Company have three iron
brid 5es-at Rowandville, Basin Run and
New Bridge, contracted for in Septem Der al
cost of Ss, 766. 26, to he completed Deem
Der 5, Is and %, respectively. The contrAc
tors are all old experienced bridge builders