The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-01-17

6v ROBERT L. STEBBINs. Robert is an
industric ls and enterprising boy, and aeiH
merit the 9 ,od eM Of his customers By his
PROMPT service and o6liging disposition.
Patronize him.
Rrevities.
We're for more shells.
High street is quagmire from one END
to the other No shells were put upon this
street.
-Lort's lane from Main to High street is
virtually i'm pa ssable. No one has yet found
the bottom. I Is all mud on top.
The ice a4eu are praying for blizzard
from tie uvy. pole, but the clerk Of the
weather woa'r listen to them.
MIR. Roger Witworth, Of this town, has
purchased from the Mutual Building A.
ISOLATION, lot Oh east High street.
A revival is in progress at Elk Neck A
NJ P church. The meetings are largely
attended nightly and great interested is
manifested.
-Ex-Sbsriff Beloni Cooling has engaged
in the mercantile business at CharlestoWn,
in this county. He takes the place of Mr..
j. j. Butler.
The Baltimore Morning Herald's calsn-
dar for 1885 is very handsome piece of
work 1t looks as though it came from .
live go-ahead newspaper.
Mr.. Edward Taylor, liveryman of this
town, has purchased the house and lot on
Church street, now occupied by Mr. Gin
ton j. White, from E. A. Ph1bus for 500.
The Cecil county Agricultural Society,
have purchased the fair grounds occupied
by them, containing something over 26
acres from A. G. Tuite, Esq. fcr $5,S07, so.
The Mccullough Iron Company works
at North East, started again on Monday
last at reduced rates. This is much better
for the three hundred men employed, than
idlsness.
Andrew G. Gray, Esq, president of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal company,
and of the Farmers bank at Now Castle,
died at his homo in New Castle on last Sat-
ur,lay, after protractsd illness.
The Baltimore Sun Almanac for 1885 is,
as always, a gem of its class, superior if
possible to that of last year. 1t is not only
a handsome piece of printers work, but
contains large amount of vnluabl infor
nation, statistics, &c.
james S. Crawf ford, superintendent
department of foreign mails, Washington,
a citizen of this town, sailed on the steamer
Alaska from New York last week for Lis
bon, Portugal, to represent this government
in the postal convention to meet there in
February.
Mr. and Ms. j. Wilmer Bristow, who
were married in Baltimore on the 9th inst,
visited #; ends in this town this week. Mr..
Bristow was one time An smploye Of the
WING office, and is now engineer on tho
steamer Octor 10, of the Erickson limo, be-
tween B.. Jim re and New York.
The sabbath school of North East A.
NJ. P. church aeld its annual celebration on
last Monday evening. A large number of
persons wert present. Rev E. w. Scott,
pastor of the church, delivered an interest
ing address. Tie children sang and rscited
very nicely, md all present had pleasant
time.
Mrs Eve I. Denny, wife of Samuel L..
Denny, of Philadelphia, died at the home
of her father, Mr.. James Clifford, near CAL
vert, in this UNITY, on Monday last. Her
funeral too. place at - o'clock M. on
Thursday, Increment being At Rose Bank
cemetery. sns was in the 23d year of her
age.
At the recent fair of the Cecil Agricul-
tural Socie v, Mr.. Samuel J. Arbuckls who
resides abou mile north Of Cherry Hill,
in this couutr =, made seven entries of light
brahma aud plymouth rock chickens, and
took six prizes. Considering The large num-
beers of fow. shown III the fair. this was re
markable and should be a good card for the
strain of chickens raised by Mr.. Arbuckls
See his advertisement in another column.
Mr., F. E. Wells, of Philadelphia, son
of NJ. Joseph Wells of this town, who has
for number of years been engaged in the
J commission business on Dock street, hal
made a change in his business He has en-
tered into tbs noulders frame or case max
ing business, with his father-in-l law, Mr.. Jno
limerick, W no has made quite fortune in
this business. Mr.. Wells has been quite
/ successful in the commission business, but
( will no doubt be much moro so in the en-
! terpi.e into which he has entered.
Judging from the quantity of pike fish nc
other denizens of the briny deep Of lesser
note shipped from this point to the cities
D and sold 10 local dealers, we cannot but be
] lievs tha; Elk river and its tributaries teen
y with the fnny tribe On Wednesday last
u Captains Clay and Lort, and half dozen
! others who go down TO the sea in ships afte
fish, brought to Giles North street isl
market some of the finest pike and pickera
we have ever seen here. The lot contained
1 fish weighing from four to five pounds .
piece and scarcely one below one and
half pound
-T->ers of the Cecil County
Agricultr al Society, ON Tuesday last
elected the following board Of managers for
the ensuing year: Adam R. Magraw, DR.
G. NJ. Ellis. Geo. Ricketts,, WIN. Armstrong
II. H. Duyckinck, 1. D. Davis, H. S. Cou
/. don, A. W. NJ tchell, Clinton Mccullough
r VIM S. Potter, A. G. Tuits, John Gilpin
I The retiring mem bers from the old boar
are VIM. T. Warburton, Thomas Drenns
! and Hon. Frederick Stump, who are SUE
ceeded by Dr.. C. NJ. Ellis, Geo. Ricketts, an
II. S. Coudon.
One of the most remarkable cases o
extreme aud acity, occurred on Howar
street on y Wednesday afternoon last.
/ flock of pigeon and a number of chicken
were fee ling the rear garden Of the resi-
dence OF Mr.. i. Bond Brown on the after
noon named, when without any warnin
whatever, large chicken hawk swoope
aloft in its t.i"us an innocent little pigeo
only Wee. or SO before from the materns
nest, and mac of with him at his bes
speed Mr. s;rown whe was looking at hir
from win W too far away to do the ma
rauder any yod;ly harm, raised the sas
and called L to him in such . stentoria
tone of voir4 that he scared the hawk a
most out OF b,s wits and he dropped tn
pigeon and ade off at the top Of his speed
When thy picked up the victim, tie
found tina lie was more scared than hui
though IT, slons of the hawk had mad
an ugly wound upon his side They libsl
ated him aster he had rested and he .joins