The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-04-12

For one night only-''Esther" {" Odd
Fellows Hall on Tuesday night next.
Read in another column the advertise
ment of the sale, at Cooche's Bridge, OF the
Barnard property.
Mr. Louis T. Roberts removed from
his farm to his dwelling house at Elk Land
Ing last Tuesday.
Esther, the beautiful queen, at odd Fell
lows Hail. on Tuesday night, April 10Th.
For one night only.
Tho Farmers and Mechanics Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, Of tEis county,
lose quite heavily by the Port Deposit fire.
Mr. James Young, of Chicago, son of
Mrs. Rebecca Dung, Of this town, spent
Saturday and sunday last here, visiting
his mother.
Easter services viii BE- held nt the
Church of the Good Sheppard, Chesapeake
City, to- morrow Sunday at , Il NJ. All
are cordially invited
Large quantities of herring were caught
ut the head of Elk river This week. one
young man with a small net, captured Two
or three thousand on one tide.
Easter services will be held at Trinity
Church tomorrow Sunday at 1870 y. NJ.
and $50 +. NJ. The annual Easter festival
of the Sunday school will lie held at the
evening service.
Capt. j. 7. ZONES, in his large barge
went out from Elk Landing on Tuesday
last in tow of Il steam tug bound for Locust
Point, Baltimore, for a cargo of coal for one
of the mills on the Elk
Tile Appedi is the little of another new
newspaper in Elkton, the first number of
which was issued on Wednesday last. 1t
is published by The appeal Publishing
Company. Elkton now has four weeklys.
4 noisy row between two crowds of col
ored young men, took place on High street
on last Sunday afternoon. The noise ere
ated, disturbed the usual quiet of Sunday
afternoon, and attracted persons from all
directions.
Mr.. j. Montgomery Brown, formerly of
the Glass Front, has accepted the offer Of a
position with MesSrs. \. c. Crothers < Co,
at Conowingo. The Nessrs. Crothers are
brothers of Ex-State'S Attorney c. &.
Crothers, OF this town.
An Elkton man, anxious to have early
vegetables, planted his seed during the re-
cent warm spell and they were pushing
through the ground, when the snow storm
and freeze cf Wednesday bit off their noses
and blasted his hopes.
Work upon the foundations of the new
dry houses at Singerly's pulp mills was be-
gun on Tuesday last. The house is to be
the same width as the mill in front of which
it is to stand, and in the neighhorhood Of
one hundred feet deep. =
The Right Rev. Bishop Lay will Off
ciate at Baldwins Chapel, Elk Mills, on
Saturday Of next week april 49, at 80
p. NJ. All are invited. The Bishop will
visit Trinity Church, Ekton, and the
Church of the Good Sheppard, Chesapeake
City, on the Sunday following april 20).
Daniel Bratton, Esq, is about to in-
prove the tenant house on his lied House
Fam" and the dwelling on the home place
near town, by giving them thorough
painting. Mr.. George y. Brown, who IS
just completing job of much the
same kind for nr. 4. c. Narkail. 1T Elk
Landing will do the work
There will lie service in the presby-
terrain Church to morrow (Sabbath) appro-
pirate to Easter by the pastor elect, Rev. L.
w. Eiers. The subject in the morning will be:
''The stone rolled away from the Sepul
chre, - and in the evening, "Why seek We
the living among the dead" All are cor
daily invited 10 attend.
The sale Of horses and cattle by MeSsrS
r. r. G. Crouch aud Henry Wood. al Tay-
lor's exchange stables on Tuesday was
quite successful. Fair prices were realized
and every body seemed satisfied with their
purchases. Horses appear - be in demand
just at this time, AID anything promising
the least III the way of a dri: er or worker
goes OFF readily at fair prices
Mr.. John S. Rossell, clerk to the County
Commissioners, will be engaged with the
| menih hers of the board and the Read Commits
| sioners in the sale Of the roads during all
of next and two or three days of the fol
lowing week, and will in consequence be
away from the office much of the time.
| Persons having business with the office
| will govern themselves accordingly.
BY an advertisement in another col.
umn, it will be seen that Mr.. |. y. Peunell
has established a broom factory in Charles
| town, this county. There is no more prof
table business than growing broom corn,
when it can be readily made up for market
| without the expense of shipment to dis.
tant points. Our farmers will find this To
be fact if they will give the matter Il
trial.
| arrangements had been made by the
| teachers of the Elkton Public School, to
take the children to the woods on We'd
nesday last, for the pIrpose of frolic and
to gather arbutus flowers, to be used for
purposes Of decoration at the exhibition
| last evening, but the snow storm prevented.
| Notwithstanding this failure the supply of
| the sweet scented flowers on Thursday even
ing seemed pretty large.
Mrs. Lucy Litzenherg Main street is
agent for the sale of Butteriuk's New York
| Patterns, for ladies ana childrens wear. and
will keep constantly on hand every thing
IN this line, receiving all new styles As soon
as out. She this week received one of
| Butterck's cases, made expressly for the
| purpose of keeping the patterns in CLASH
| fed order. This case is a wonder 1t con-
tains nearly three hundred divisions or
pigeon holes, locking exactly like a horev
comb.
Mrs. Casper W. Morris OF ened her new
cottage tt.lkton by the Sea- 1T Atlantic
City, New Jersey on Thursday The house,
| which IS large fine one, just completed is
| located OH Kentucky avenue below Pacific
avenue, very nearly opposite her former
establishment, and in arrangement and fit
| tings it is unexccptiona The location is
one of the best in the city, very near the
| ocean and convenient in all other partcu-
| lars. We have no donbt but that Mrs.
| Morris will he equally as successf FIJI in her
new and wider field As sIl. has been in the
past
| The Mutual Fire Insurance COMPANY
OF this county, fortunately, had but one
policy upon the property burned in Polt
Deposit on Monday last, that was On the
| furniture Of Mr.. l.. i, Brickiey. The actual
loss will be from 5000 to $50 The report
that there was IL large insurance in that
company is Incorrect. The company loses
5000 by the burning of the property of Mr..