The Cecil Whig., 1885-11-28

pItIttl Ill me rear VI llt iloNdiC
on west Main street.
Mrs. Walter E. Avery and infant
daughter, of Crisfield, is ,isiting at her for
mer home here this week.
The Building Association will meet on
next Monday evening at the office of Mr.. +.
A Ellis on North street.
The Mite Society of Trinity Methodist
church Chesapeake City, held a successful
oyster supper on Thank ksgiving evening.
A new time table of trains on the p. w.
x Il. Railroad will take effect tomorrow.
Travellers will be wise to note this change.
The court house bell in this town was
tolled on Thursday morning last out of re-
spect for the memory of Hendricks.
Quite number of the young people of
Elkton visited places of amusement in Phil
adelphia on Thanksgiving Day and even
ing.
Register of Wills, Reuben Z. lamar,
ESD, has so far recovered from his illness
of the eyes as to be at his office again.
Mr. Winter l.. Wilson, of Lehigh Uni
versity, and Mr.. Wm d. Bratton. of Prince
ton. spent Thursday at their homes in Mi
vicinity.
-'ihe new assistant teacher for the Elk
ton Academy, Miss Smith, arrived on
Monday evening last and has assumed her
duties.
Mr. James Alexander has been con-
-, tbis ypaal. with
attack of typhoid fever. 1t is sincerely
hoped that he will soon recover.
Surely the "Stern Conquerer" has de-
scendei in his wrath upon this town. Death
has laid his hands upon many of late, re-
vealing the dread uncertainty of life.
The county commissioners met in spec
ial session at the Office of Clerk Rossell on
Monday last, and transacted unfinished
business of an unimportant nature.
A number of our local business men
and politicians visited Westminster on
Wednesday last to consult with Represen-
tative Shaw, of the Second Congressional
district, in reference to the postmastership
at this place.
Mr. f. c. Collins will have a public
sale at the FELTON, House in Elkton, on
Thursday, December 3rd, consisting of
horses and colts, new carriages and sleighs,
double and single harness, farming uten-
sis, &c. The sale will begin at o'clock.
Reuben Haines, Esq, of this town, de-
livered his popular lecture on the 'Rnins
of PDmpeii'' Tuesday evening last before a
large and appreciatiye audience at Risiag
Sun. The speaker was listened to atten-
lively, and frequently applauded during his
address
We have been requested to announce
that no children under the age of ten will
be admitted at the Hall on the evening of
Dec. 14th, unless accompanied by their
parents The public is cordially invited to
attend the meeting, as the members of the
lyceum association have endeayored to
make it particularly interesting.
Three rowing bands of the nomadic
tribes Of Turkey, Arabia, and Hungary,
were encamped at various points in the
vicinity of Elkton this week. Their cas-
tern nomadicism appeared very much like
common, every day, American tough
ness when they persued to disagreeable
extent their practise of begging from door
to door.
The Security Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, of Wilmington, appears in our
columns this week with what should be a
convincing advertisement. Such institu-
tions as these are an undoubted benefit to
the industrious working communities of our
country, and we can guarantee the above
organization to be one of the first and fore
most and best of its kind.
For three successive years there has
been an execution ordered in Dorchester
county. George Lake was hanged for telo-
nious assault upon d lady in 1888, and Fred,
alias Bug" Cephas was executed in 1884
for the murder of Mrs Celia Bush. The duty
of executing the sentence in the case of
Williams, sentenced for criminal assault
upon Mrs Keene, will devove upon the
newly elected sheriff, Mr.. Luther 2. Martin.
The MSS of the play "Hazel kirke, -
to play in Odd Fellows Hall has not ar
rived yet, but soon as it does they will be.
gin their rehearsals and be prepared for the
entertainment some time during the Holi
days. A scene from the. play was enacted
at the Camilla Crso entertainment at New
ark on Saturday last, and all who saw il
then will be able to judge of its general ex
cellence.
The funeral of the late Vice President
Hendricks will take place next Tuesday a
Indianapolis, and will be attended by the
President and members of the cabinet com
mittees from the United States Senate ant
House of Representatives, as well as othe
public officials. The public buildings il
Washington are being draped in mourning
and the same emblems of sorrow are beinI
displayed in many other cities throughout
the country.
That is a very restless spirit of improve
ment and very faithful spirit of enterpris
THAT dwells in the bosom of the proprieto
of the pulp mills. 1t has now led him t
build another addition to his already larg
manufactory. Tue new building will con
sist of black ash furnace and will be 3SxS
feet in size. Work upon it will be CON
menced Immediately. The pulp mills hav
been running steadily, of late, employin
upwards of seventy-five hands.
Quite an excitement was created her
on Wednesday last when a resident of til
vicinity of Elkton reported that he had see
man walking along the road near her
whom he.thought resembled the suspeote
murderer of John Sharpless of Chester. ii
says the man looked like one who had jus
washed burnt cork from his face and wa
viliianous in many ways. The suspicion
were ide, however, and without foundation
No effort was made to detain or arrest til
man.
AT midnight on his silent roost, TIL
wattled gobbler sat and dozed away tn
hours, and heeded not the stealthy step {
lothian on his towers" 1t was Thanks
hencoop quiet stood beneath the slopin
hill, its feathered inmates clucked in uuiet
dreamy mood, nor thought of harm to an
of their cherished brood; while lothian (hal
dened, unsentmental sinner, surveyed til
coop and planned the morrow's dinner. Th
fat young gobbler long had filled his eye, t
mate with Susan's matcbless pumpkin pie
Sotothat peaceful coop he SLY bent his wa
and seized with iron grip his hapless pre-,
No more that golbber spreads the fan-lik
f,I lt,t ,,ll l.; hat