The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-04-25

pOIldub eNtllI I1e election OF II
board of town commissioners and bailitf
for the coming year, will take place on
Monday May 18th next.
The Groom Guards of this town will
participate in the parade of the Maryland
| Malta in Baltimore on May eth. The
| Elkton Cornet Band will accompany them.
-Forepaugh's circus train in three sec
tions passed through here on Sunday last.
The first section went through at about six,
the second at seven, and the third about
eight o'clock A. NJ.
An alarm of fire was caused on Sunday
morning last by the burning of the SCOT in
the chimney of the house occupied by Mr..
f. w. Janney, on Bow street. No damage
was done.
The spring fair will continue for three
DAYS, june 2nd, 3rd and 4th. There will
be six trotting matches for II purse of 800
each. Seven running matches will take
place, the purses ranging from SO to $50,
The funeral of Mrs. Henry c. Mackall
took place on Monday afternoon last, the
remains being inferred in the Presbyterian
cemetery Rev. VIM. Schou!er, of Trinity
p. E. church, otliciated.
Willard +. Abrahams, of Port Deposit,
was on Tuesday last commissioned mail
messenger between Port Deposit and Phila-
delphia, on the Phila. Il Baltic Central rail
road, in place of James a. Del, whose Com
mission has expired.
The lettuce raised by Mr.. Henry Bell,
of this town, bears an excellent reputation
in the Philadelphia market. While other
growers could get but five and six cents per
head this season, his readily commanded
ten, and he could not half supply the de-
mand.
A rumor is current here that the county
commissioners are endeavoring to negotiate
for the purchase of the Partridge property
on Main street below Bow to be used as
site for new court house, but it is only
rumor as the commissioners themselves
know nothing about it.
The regular spring meeting of New
Castle Prssbytery opened at Port
Deposit on Tuesday evening in Rock Run
PRESBYTERIAN Church. The sermon was
preached by Rev. J. l.. Nallandigham, of
Newark, Del. Rev. w. w. Wolverton, of
Pocomoke City, was elected Moderator, and
Rev. Christopher Evans clerk.
We were recently sh own some very fine
specimens of upholstery work by Mr.. w.
r. Nelson, of this town. While such work
as this can be done here at such moderate
charges as Mr. Nelson makes it is a wonder
why people will 60 TO the cities where their
work is not nearly as well done, and where
they are compelled to pay twice as much
for it.
Mr.. B. f. Mackall of Moorhead City,
Minnesota. attended the funeral of mis-
mother, Mrs. Henry G. Mackall, in this
town, on Monday last. He was recently
appointed postmaster of Moorhead by the
president. 1t is reported that Clinton Nc
Cabe of this town, a nephew of Mr.. Mack
all, will at an early day leave for Moorhead
where he will engage in business with his
uncle.
Willie Orr, a six-year old son of John
y. Orr, of Port DEPOSIT, i'll this county, fell
overheard in the river from a raft on which
he was paying near his house on Tuesday
last. He was completely exhausted, and
about to disappear beneath the water for
the last time when John Rehr, youth of
fourteen, plunged in and bore him to the
shore. He was taken to his home and
after some considerable labor resuscitated.
Michael Burns, railroad lahorer, who
has been in the employ of the B. & O. rail
road company on their new line, near this
town, for some time past, was on little
| "go-easy'' one day this week. He went
| into barroom for some refreshlnent, and
| finding his small change in his pocket ex-
hausted he whipped out big knife, cut
| slash in the lining of his coat, and brought
forth $50 gold piece, remarking as he did
so, ooh, that's nothing; I've got them all
| over me-" And he had, as several others
| could be felt through the material of his
| garment.
Capt. Cello Caesar Moreno, a leading
| Italian of New York, and publisher of IA
newspaper devoted to the interests of Italian
emigrants, was in this vicinity recently
| looking up cases where the emigrant has
been imposed upon. He states that the
| Padrone system prevails all along the liue
of the new B. IL 0. railroad. The men are
brought over here under promise of large
wages and easy work. They enter into an
agreement on the other side to work ont
| >ba;r h., hav hara bay
| are held in as firm bondage as ever was the
African slave. To break up this system is
the mission of Mr.. Moreno, and he is bend
ing every effort in this direction.
| The fishermen are very busy just now
Herring are very plentiful, more being
taken than the market demands. ON the
| Susquehanna river two to three thousand
are taken at a drift. The hauling seius are
doing fair business. On Tuesday iast the
catch Of herring was so great that it was
found to be necessary to liberate a portion
of them. Prices range from 25c per hun
dred and upwards. The herring taken are
the regular glut herring, with few branch
herring among them. Shad are getting
more plentiful, but are yet SO scarce that
prices keep up. They sell at from SIS to
S24 per hundred.
Mr.. w. Il. Nelson, cabinet maker, on
Main street, opposite the National Bank,
has curiosity in the way of pigeon. The
bird is a young one not more than three
months old. 1t has no use ofits wings, and
it's toes are all curled up in little rolls over
the top of the foot so that it can scarcely
walk at all. In this helpless condition it
was the butt for the other pigeons of the
flock who punished it numerically, 50
much so that Mr.. Nelson took it away from
them and made Il pet of it, and it has now
become so tame as to have no fear of man at
all, but it will upon invitation jump upon
ones hand and eat from the fingers. 1t is
more thoroughly domesticated than any
| bird of any kind we ever saw, and it is
worth a visit to his establishment TO see il.
Pound net fishing has almost super
coded the hauling seines on the Elk and
North East rivers, indeed on the first named
river there are no hauling seines at all, and
but two or three on the North East. The
hedging of one pound on the latter river
near Charlestown, extends clear ocross the
channel and considerable distance on the
flats on the other side, and boat to pass is
compelled to make an extended detour
around it. Numerous reports of the viola
ton of the pound net law reach us. In fact
it appears to be a dead letter. Fish taken
in these nets are said to be far inferior to
those caught in hauling seines. The con-