The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-02-21
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Patronize him.
BreVities.
Liberty Grove Lyceum ha decided
that capital punishment shoultbe abol-
ished.
The infant son of Mr.. H. C.yells, Of
this town, about two months ola. died on
Wednesday evening last.
Monday next will be obserl as a
holiday, the o.d falling on suny. The
bank willed be closed.
DIR. Reuben Fl Tuft is lying riously
i'll at hi. residence near Cowanto', few
miles from this place.
Mr.. Frank Mcfarland, Of til town,
formerly bookkeeper at Marley PapMills,
has accepted position at Bellefon Pa.
Mrs. Theodore I. Wooden has 81 her
farm located in this county, to :. Eli
Clsndennin, Of East Nottingham, ie.ter
county, Pa.
Mrs John Lewis, of this tow met |
with an accident on Thursday inning |
last, ulSiOCdlluS ucl Nlloe' wv ioieetoly |
escaped other injury.
The contract for building the newotel |
at Conowingo, in this county, has'een |
given to Samuel A. Reynolds, of PolDe
post.
John A. Russell, of Havre de Gee, |
has sold his tract of woodland, contang
forty acres, situated in the Third distr of |
this county, to Robert G. Thackery, l., |
for $500.
A hotel is in course of construction
Octoraro junction, four or five miles ndl
of Port Deposit, in this county, by 10
Lamm 1t will be leased and managed
Mr. Abraham Willis.
The Water Power and Paper Company
mill at Conowiugo was forced to shut doy
for while this week on account Of an I'm
sual quantity of back-water from the Sui
quehanna river.
Mrs. Catharine Ritchio, mother of Prof
John Richie, of Wilmington, gentleman
well-known here, died at his residence il
that city last Sunday morning, at 80 o'clk
She was eighty years OF age.
On Saturday last Sheriff Smith, Of thi
town, by order of the circuit court, tool
George Hill, VIM. McKeever and Georg
Short, three insane persons, who have besr
confined in Jail for some time, to an insan
asylum at Baltimore
The flood has been a God send t.
many poor people in this vicinity. 1t CAM
Just in the midst Of a heavy cold spell whe1
their stock of fire-wood was low. Man
persons caught out of the rushing water
enough wood to last them month.
The Oxford Press of Wednesday says
"Elkton has roller skating rink and i
happy. This happiness is only at the be
ging, before the "afterclaps" have bee
heard, seen and felt however" We ar
waiting to hear the claps.
-Lenten services are held daily at Trim
ity church during each week, at 4:30 p. NJ.
excepting on Thursdays, when the hour
7:3G p. NJ. The services are followed by ad
dress from the Rector. All are cordiall
invited.
The meadows along the creek were lit
tered over last Tuesday morning wit
plank boards, timbers, logs, fence rails
wheebarr0ws &c, washed down by tn
flood of Monday. They We're quickly gath
cred up by enterprsing persons.
1t is rumorsd in society circles her
that the marriage of Miss Hylie Drennen
daughter of Mr.. Thomas Drennen, of thi
town, to Mr.. Tucker, of Atlantic City, New
Jersey, will take place on the seventh o
April next.
An error occurred in the public sale Q
horses, cows and hogs, advertised to tax
place on the farm of Mr.. G. c. Biddle, nea
Chesapeake City, on Thursday, Februar.
18th. 1t should have been Wednesday, Feb
ruary 18th. See advertisement elsewher
in this issue.
The ladies of Wesley Chapel Elk Neck
will give supper at the residence of Ris
den Crossley, Vickers Farm, on the 26tl
inst, for the benefit of the church.
stormy, the next day. Supper from to 1C
Good accom- mO,ations for horses. The pub
lie are cordially invited.
u. S. Senator Groome, of this town
ha aroused the ire of ths Federation o
trades unions OF Baltimore, by his vot
against the foreign contract labor bill, ant
at meeting of the Federation on last Wed
nesday evening resolutions SO expressin
themselves were passed.
AS will b. seen by the proceedings q
the board of school commissioners in an
other column, the disagreement existing
between Miss Hcckart assistant teache
in school number 5, at Port Deposit, an.
the principal and trustees of said school
was on Tuesday las: decided in favor of tn
former.
Cecil News, young man sixteen year
of age, died at his home on the old Bar
farm, on the Newcastle and Frenchtowl
+3rnpike, few miles from this town, OF
- --.ay last of Bright's disease His fu
neral took place on Wednesday afternoon
at O'Clock, the remains being inferred il
Elkton cemetery.
Among the recent sales of real estate il
this county, We're the following: j. f. Jen
nings sold his dwelling house and lot situa
ted in Port Deposit, to Louis q. Harlan 70
100000 and Mrs. Augustine Windolpl
sold her dwelling house, in the same town
to James G. Reynolds for $50 90. Thes
properties are both laasehold premises. TIL
first.named being under a ground rent o
Si2; the latter $50 per annum.
The water flooded the chicken house o
Mr.. Daniel Pearce, at Nnsinger's mill, a
the time of the flood on Monday last, an,
at one time it looked as though the Who'll
flock would be swept away. After consid
cradle exertion Mr.. Pearce thought he haC
rescued the entire flock, but the next morn
ing lie found two Of the most valuable
FOWLS dead and frozen fast on the floor o
priced by the owner.
-Pascarel Mama, the Italian who was
beaten by Il colored man named Thomas
jackson, on the new'a. Il o. railroad, neal
North East, few We IS ago, is in jail her,
lying at the point ,ath. The physician
to the Jail, DIR. j II. lamar, says h,
cannot recover. His injuries are mainly il
the head. Sheriff Smith went to Richmond
Va, this week with requisition from tn,
governor Of Maryland for JacksonS arres
and delivery to the authorities of this state
but the governor of Virginia was away from
home on a visit to the New Orleans EXPO
sition, and would not return for week
The sheriff was, therefore, compelled to re,
turn without the accused man, and will