The Cecil Whig., 1885-11-14

eral new names are not added to our sub
scripton list, yet our Jealous local contem-
porarieS delight to yawp about the grow
ing unpopularty of THE WIG" With
the exception of IA few Half breed names
not one subscriber has stopped his paper,
and our paid subscription list has increased
more rapidly within the past two months
than it ever did before in so short Il time.
The only inference we can draw from
the statement made by contemporary
| that some of our citizens are having their
clothing made III England is that their
| American tailors' bills are so large they
fear to add any more to their burden OF
debt 1t is about time American tailors
| were iustituting the "cash on delivery
| system in their business. There will be
fewer dudes :hen and more genteel young
gentlemen.
| The mail agents on the express trains
that pass through Elkton on Sunday morn
ings bearing the early newspapers are not
the most careful people in the world On
last Sunday morning an Elkton news
| dealer lost 81 copies of the Philadelphia
Times by the carelessness of the agent who
threw them from the train SO awkwardly
| that they were drawn under the flying
wheels and quickly cut into innumerable
shrCls.
| Tho Philadelphia Daily NetrS is the only
| Philadelphia paper that uses daily ilustra
| tions in It's columns. 1t has beyond doubt
the ablest editorial, reportorial and special
| ,,H.. e 81,
| try. 1t is not a dry, dull, -maidish
sheet, but every line in it sparkles with
some vivid and original thing 1t is a paper
that will interest, that will delight and in
struct, and it should become daily visitor
| to the library tables of the newspaper read
ers of Elkton. 1t can be purchased every
afternoon from Mr.. Joseph Hinchlitfe for
one cent per copy.
Constable Crow arrested two young
men on Saturday last for violation of the
| laws of the S. p. G. a. They drove through
this town towards Wilmington with
horse that had already been driven thirty
miles at rapid rate, and the officer thought
that too much for any animal to bear, so he
arrested the young men, who left their
| team here and returned to Wilmington on
the 9:1i train north. The name of the
father of one of the young men was dis
| covered by Mr.. Crow, who telegraphed him
of the circumstances He arrived here on
Sunday and took charge of the much ex-
hausted horse
The wedding on Wednesday afternoon
last of Miss Emma Shepherd, daughter of
Rev. Chas. f. Shepherd formerly pastor of
the Elkton NJ. f. church, and Mr.. JAS c.
Davis, son of JAS A. Davis lately elected
Clerk of the Circuit Court, took place in the
NJ. +. church at Zion, Cecil county. When
| the hour for the ceremony arrived, although
no cards had been issued, the church was
filled to the doors with the friends, admirers
and relatives of the contracting parties. The
father of the bride performed the wedding
ceremony, after which the newly married
couple received the kindly congratulations
of those assembled and host of handsome,
ornamental, and useful presents. The bride
and groom were both plainly but becomingly
dressed, and everything connected with the
wedding was, instead Of gardy and glitter
ing, rich and wholesome. Many handsome
floral decorations adorned the church build
ing. Mr.. Asher Scott of this town performed
the wedding march. A large number of
the friends of the bride residing in this town
were present at the ceremony. The happy
couple started northward from North East
on the evening express, which was stopped
especially for them, for an extended bridal
tOur Mr. Davis has al beap rreatlv
admired and popular young man, having at
one time just missed receiveing a nominal
ton on the Republican ticket for member
of the legislature. Miss Shepherd is a lady
of many excellent qualities, and the con-
gratulations of their friends upon their hap
py wedlock were timely and very much in
place.
The Belair correspondent Of the Balti-
more Sun gave lass week very graphic
account of meeting of the Hartford His
torical Society. 1t may interest those who
are proposing the institution of such So
ciety in Cecil to know the character of the
matter discussed at the meetings of such
organizations in other counties: Prof. H. b.
Adams, Of the Johns Hopkins University,
before the Hartford County Historical So
ciety. His subject was ''Joppa and st.
Johns PARISH He traced the formation
of the parish system in England, from the
old Teutonic village clmmuVty. Jopra,
in Hartford county, was part of the col
ony of Maryland, and was probably named
from Joppa, n seaport of Palestine. The
neighborhood names, Salem, Jerusalem,
jericho and Paradise, probably sprang up
by association. Nothing is left of it but 4
few bricks and stones, and house which
was standing when the town was laid ont
This house is the residence of Mr.. James
Murray, whose farm embraces the original
site of Joppa some time ago, On visit to
the site of ,Joppa the speaker had brought
back to Baltimore with him an Indian
stoneaxe and brick, which were the foun.
daIlon of the present excellent musuem of
Johns Hopkins University. Joppa is at
the confluence of the Big and Little Gun
powder rivers, where large vessels came for
cargoes. There is also tradition that
war vessel was built there during the revo
lutionary war. During the same war the
men of Joppa, commanded by Col. BENZ.
Rumsey and Col. Fall, saved the present
Baltimore from destruction by British
sloop-of-war. The smallpox struck Joppa
and killed off large portion of the commu-
nifty. and the SURVIVORS, removed to the
new settlement on the Patapsco. The har-
Dor of Joppa also filled up with mud, and
ships could no longer get up to the wharves.
The parish church being abandousd, Ed
ward Day built the present St. Johns
Chourch, Kingsville, Baltimore county, in
1916, and obtained The consent of the vestry
of the original St. Johns Church, at Joppa,
to remove the furniture in the building to
the new church. The speaker read some
spicy passages from the church records
written by Col. benjamin Rumsey, clerk
of the parish, and spoke of other churches
which have grown out of St. Johns. A
resolution of thanks to DR.. Adams for his
address was passed. Rev. G. a. Leakin, of
Baltimore, also made an address, in
which he congratulated the Hartford So
ciety upon being the first one organized in
the counties of the state.
Orphans Court.
| The Orphans Court of Cecil county
was in session on Tuesday and Wednesday
last.
Present-IIon. James McCauley, chief
judge; Hon. James NJ. Evans and Hon.