The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-04-26
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LOCAL NEWS.
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children. are visiting friends in Dover, Del.
A robin red breast, that crows, pre-
cisslv like a bantam cock, makes his home
ON North street, above the railroad.
-Elkton was overrun by drunken men
on Sunday last. They were of the quiet
,-;,a b,wevar and made but little disturb
aHce.
-Sbad are now selling at so per hum
bred at the fishing shore and herring at 10
cents per hundred. The catch is very
small.
A fish trader exhibited some very fine
rock fish on our streets on Wednesday.
Some of them weighed as much as twenty
five pounds.
Mr.. John Wilkinson is rejuvenating the
property recently purchased by him on
Main street in the Hollow, and will soon
have it as good as new.
An old family horse, thirty-one years
OF age, belonging to Mr.. a. j. Michener'
of Colora, in this county, was found dead
in his stall a few mornings ago.
Prof. D. P. Wyatt has gone to Cam
bridge, Maryland, to instruct class of
amateurs in the Oratorio of Esther, which
will be rendered in short time.
The first swallows Of the season arrived
here at about o'clock on Monday evening,
making their appearance near the railroad
and alighting upon the telegraph wires.
The fish making their way up the creek
over falls and rifles attracted great many
people on Sunday last. among them num-
Der of bows who would have been better off
at Sabbath School.
Pussy Mcconnell, resident Of Rising
SUM- in this county, a breakman on the
Baltimore Central Railroad, had his right
arm badly crushed while coupling cars at
Penn Station recently.
Work is going ahead on the new drying
house at Singerly's pulp mills here. The
pulp mill has been nearly all the time in
operation since it began, they having but
one or two brief stoppages, caused by break
downs.
Col. c. w. Balm, the brilliant Ken
lucky orator and great temperance advo-
cate, leetured in the NJ. +. Church at Ris-
ing Sun, this county on Wednesday even
ing last on s.The Prohibition of the Liquor
Traffic" The lecture was we'll attended,
and was pronounced strong one.
We were the other day shown an inter-
esting relic in the shape of a copy of The
Jackson Picket Guard, published at Elkton,
September 18th, 1886, during the Buchanan
campaign whose cause it espoused. The
editorial matter is sharp and plain. They
did nor mince words in those days.
-Messrs. James and Hiram Alexander,
boot and shoe makers, have made consid-
cradle change and improvements in their
store room on Main street nearly opposite
the bank by which the room is much en-
larged and made lighter and better in every
respect. They now have very pleasant and
agreeable quarters.
"A few days ago, while little child of
Mr.. Wesley Arrison, who resides near North
East, Fifth district, was playing in the
field and following the grain drill, he some
how or other got his finger between the
cogs of the machine, and that member was
crushed up terribly. DR.. Mitchell was sent
for and dressed the injured part.
The New York Star says, eve have
seldom heard an audience laugh more than
the one that greeted Peck's Bad Boy last
night" ''The Philadelphia Press OF March
4th says, Peck's Bad Boy provokes a run
ming fire oflaughter from beginning to end"
Odd Fellows Hall, Tuesday, April 29th.
Diagram and tickets at Mitchelrs drug
store.
MIR. James Richardson, Gather of
Mr.. Richardson who recently died after
having attempted to end his existence by
the knife), died suddenly at his home III
the second district last Monday morning,
from debility and the effect it is said Of dose
of laudanum taken to ease pain, and induce
sleep. Mr. Richardson was a man of adj
on the street is not entertained by those ac-
quainted with him.
AS the section men under the direction
of section master, Thomas c. Lewis were
going up the road to their work on hand
car on Tuesday last, the front axle of the
Car snapped in two just after they had
crossed the iron bridge across the Big Elk
creek. Had the car been going down in
stead OF up grade as it was, and running as
fast as they do sometimes, serious acct
dent might have resulted. AS it was they
We're moving slowly up the grade of Iron
Hill. When the axle snapped in two the
front of the car fell to the ground throwing
the men on that part of it in heap upor
the track, shaking them UP roughly but not
seriously hurting any Of them.
The members of the Oratorio company
of this town, have concluded to postpone the
rendition of 'The Haymakers'' until fall
when they hope to be able to present to tn;
people of this community something pleas
ing and novel in the way of music Two OF
three reasons are assigned for the postpone
iHent. The members OF the company ar,
pretty well worn out with their long prac
tce and performance of esther" TIN
weather is growing warm and uncomforta
BILE for rehearsing, and besides these Prof
Wyatt has an urgent call to Cambridge
Md, to assume the direction u the uratori
reasons it has heen postponed.
The machine tender, William Rev
no!ds, at Cecil paner mills recently got int
Ian ugly as well as dangerous predicament
He went into what is known as the Stui
chest, large iron tank in which u set O
arms revolve, and keep the pulp in agita
tiCn, to repair some part of it. While Their
the pulp was turned on and the machiner
started by some one, not knowing that an
one was inside. To keep on of tha way {
the revolving arms, Mr.. Reynolds was OBJ
liged to walk round aud round, the pull
lueauwhile pouring down on him. II
walked and cried out at the top of his vote
for a long time, and until he was Iearl
exhausted, but at last his as.es were hear
aud the IpalA,aeEy stopped. At this tim
.Ae pulp was waist deep, and Mr.. Rey
nolds was covered with it from head to foo
Rather bad fix.
If Pangborn, when newspaper MAJ
displayed half the ingenuity and orr.
nality he has since his ad.e.. with tn
B. 8 o., he certainly must have kept thing
lively. He Is out with another Il. s. {
book, as wholly different in conception an
general style from last weeks publicat:o
as possible to imagine, Tho latest Is Ell
titled Mountain and Valley Resorts" an
IS most exquisite thing. 1t is printe
upon heavy paper; the views of the dieeral
resorts most exqpisitsiY rendered Tin L
one can tell how many colorsl, aud couI