The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-17


omitted to morrow Sunday.
Owing to the illness of several officers
of the board the meeting of the school com
missioners called for Tuesday last was not
held.
A new heater is to be placed in the rear
cellar of the Episcopal church of this town.
Mr.. John f. Alexander has secured the
contract for the work.
The Rev. \. 5. Miller preache1at North
East on Thursday last instead of New
| Leeds as announced in the mid-we"k
papers.
| Until further announcement services
will be held in Wesley's and HATS chap
els, Elk Neck, on Sabbath mornings and
afternoons respectively as usual.
Miss Sallie IItnnicl, of Baltimore, re-
| turned to her home on Saturday last after a
pleasant visit of several days to the family
of Mrs. Jas. =. Merritt of this town.
Mr.. John p. Merritt, who is now EN-
ployed in the freight dispatchers office of
the Delaware division =. w. & Il. railroad
at Wilmington, Del, has been spending
ten days vacation ut his home in this town.
The luscious persimon now claims the
attention of the small boy and every tree in
the nei hborhood hearing this fruit has been
raided and all their plump sweet crops have
vanished down the unsated throats of the
youngsters.
Almost every gunner in Elkton tired
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last, the game law being mp on that day.
Upwards of 800 of these quick footed ami
mails were slaughtered, and all We're in eX-
cellent condition.
There will be service in the Presbyter
ian church tomorrow (Sabbath) both morn
ing and evening qy the pastor, Rev. Il. w.
Beers The morning subject will be "Some
Meditations on Autumn and the evening
subject, 1.-The Career of Judas lscariot."
The excellent little electric burglar
alarm, for which Mr.. Charles q. Wells of
this town is agent, will come into popular
use here, as its general excellence is being
widely recognized and several have already
been placed in the stores and houses here.
The obituary poets of the Oxford Press
are on a fine road to surpass Tennyson. If
they continue to use couplets from Gin me-
moriam" without giving the Laurette credit
the corpseS they celebrate will b, apt to
haunt them in the form of defunct plagar-
isms.
Mr. Howard Cantwell was removed by
his friends to the Maryland State Insane
Asylum on Thursday evening last. His
mental disease has placed him in a violent
state for several days past, and it is hoped
the professional medical tire atment he will
receive at the asylum will effect cure.
Mr. w. p. Chick, who was lately in
the employ of Messrs. McCrery & Boulder
and Mr. John NJ Terrell OF this town, row
holds a fine position in the large clothing
establishment of Jacob Reed X Sons,
Philadelphia. We wish him success in his
new field of labor.
Three criminal cases were tried before
Justice A. j. Scott on Friday last. Samuel
Foraker, Frank Ferguson, and Thomas
Shivery were the offenders. The charges
made were for drunkenness, disorderly
conduct and fighting. Foraker and Shiv-
cry were fined $500 each, and Ferguson
81. 90 and costs and all three were released.
The quarterly meeting of Elkton and
North East Circuit of the Free Methodist
church began in the church in Elkton, on
Friday evening last, and will continue
over Sunday. Rev. y. q. Miller, the chair
man of the Philadelphia district, preached
on Friday, and will preach Saturday and
| Sunday morning and evening. Love Feast
at 9 o'clock Sabbath morning,
The West Chester Village Record states
that the pupils Of the Oxford public schools
| are taught 'botany, rhetoric, logic and all
that sort of thing" and then complains
that there is IA lack of the "s0l,d" rduca-
tiona l6anches. 1t botany, and rhetoric,
and logic are not solid enough for any pub.
| lie school scholar the best move he can
make would be towards the Elnburgh
| University, or Harvard or the Polytecli-
| mic.
The remains of Samuel Boyd, for many
| years Il supervisor on the p. w. * Il. rail
road, We're taken to Charlestown, Md, on
Thursday morning for burial Tue funeral
was largely attended, the relatives aud
friends of the deceased filling three cars at
tached to the mail train which left Viii
mington at 1906 o'clock. At Charlestuwn
funeral services were conducted in the NJ.
L. church by Rev. c. w. Prcttylnan, of
Wilmington. The interment was made in
| the NJ. +. cemetery.
| Large crowds were observed last week
gathered around a telescope man At the cor
ner of Eighth and Market streets, Phiadel-
phila. Our reporter stopped to ascertain
the cause of SO much excitement, paid his
five cents for look and discovered across
the face of the moon at which the Scope
was pointed, "Best thing for cod--Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup" He just concluded
that DIR. Bull was a high old advertiser, and
that Bulls Cough Syrup was the best thing
out. Some one had stuck a strip with those
words across the end of the glass.
AT meeting of the Medical Jurispru-
dence Society in the Hall of Physicians at
Phila last Tuesday night DR.. II. C. Wood
read paper on the trial of Charles Barnes,
| w uo was recently lOlnu Sullty Ol lnuruSr
in the second degree by court of Judges in
Elkton, in killing. his sen and his brother
in-law while labcring spnder mental excite
ment produced by long indulgence in alco
hol. 1t was contended by the prisoners
counsel that he was insane. The Court did
not SO hold, and sentenced him an imprls-
onment of fourteen years The finding of
the Court harmonized with the testimony
of d.. Wood, who had been called as an ex-
pert. The paper gave rise to a general
discussion on the legal responsibility of
those who commit crime with under eX-
traor!nary excitement.
The chestnut is not strictly fruit, but
thousands of boys and girls like TO eat it in
late fall or winter, and many of them do
be pleasant eating in winter. & morally it
soon becomes as hard and dry as marble
but this unnecessary. When first gathered
put the nuts in a common bag-not Il paper
one-and expose them few days to the
sun and on some roof, wood pile or fence
Stir them over occasionally, so that they do
not sweat and mold. They will become Il
little witty, and when this is the case uni
formly and they seem dry, hang them in
the celer-not in any chest or closet up
stairs-SO that no mouse, squirrel or RI: can
reach them lfp"operly cured when placed
, there they will remain sweet and soft all
| wTntpr. If NOT rurpI they will nDull N Ma