The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-20
LOCAL NEWS.

Bv ROBERT L. STEBBINs. Robert is al
Industrious and enterprising boy, and tcil
merit the good aciH of his customers By In
PROMPT sercice and oJliging disposition
Patronize lin.
BrevitieS.
Mr. Dunbar Morgan, is improving his
dwelling house on High street by the erec
tion of broad piazza on two sides of the
building.
Those in search of dress goods will fine
on the first page of THE WING some inter
esting quotations of popular summer fabric:
from the great regular stock of Cooper \
Conard, Philadelphia.
Quarterly meeting services will be con
Quoted in the Free Methodist church of this
town tomorrow by Rev. VIM. Gould, OF
Brooklyn, n Y. Love feast at A. NJ.
preaching at 1890 A. NJ. and P. NJ. AL
welcome.
Rev. l.. H. Jackson, the recently ap,
pointed new pastor of Wright's A. NJ. E.
Church, in this place, announces that there
will be preaching in that church every Sab
bath afternoon at O'Clock, as we'll as morn
ing and evening.
The Sunday School of the NJ. f. church
at Chesapeake City, will excursion to Tol-
chester today on the steamer Nelly White.
There will be two Cecil county excursions
there today, the North East school having
chosen the same day. The latter go on the
Chester.
The new Catholic church of Newark,
Delaware-Saiut John the Baptist, will be
consecrated ON Sunday, June %, by Right
Rev. Bishop Becker, assisted by all the
clergymen of the diocese. The service will
take place at II o'clock A, NJ.
The lecture of the Right Rev. DR.. Thos.
A. Becker, Bishop of Wilmington, at the
Catholic church of this town on Sunday
evening last, attracted large audience.
His subject was 1.-The Last Supper, ''and he
held the closest attention of his audience
from beginning to the end.
WIN. j. Jones, Esq, of this town de-
livered an address at the Children's day ser
City last sunday evening. The celebration
was better attended than usual, the church
being crowded. Mr.. Jones' address was of
a very interesting character, and highly en-
joyed by his audience.
A great improvement has been made on
High street, by the removal this week of
the old cabins which have distignred it for
many years. DIR ohm H. lamar the owner,
houses on the ground where they stood.
Work was begun on the cellar excavations
on Wednesday last.
The introduction of the music of the
cornet at the NJ. f church last Sunday
evening was something little cut of the
ordinary here. The music made by it, how
ecer, was greatly enjoyed. As a leader for
congregational singing it is difficult to sur
pass. Some persons object to it. but why
not as we'll object to an organ or any other
instrument.
Mr.. l. d. Carter and wife, Mrs. A. w
Mitchell and children, Reuben Haines, Esq,
and Messrs. Chas. b. Finley, VIM. McCrery
and Harry Lewis of this town were present
at the marriage of Mr.. r. c. Lewis and Miss
Hattie Cannon at Dover, Delaware, on last
Tuesday evening Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
Alexander of West Chester, Pa, were also
present.
Mr.. johnson Shippers, in the ninety.
fourth year of his age, went to his potato
patch last Tuesday, stuck his cane in the
ground, hung his coat on the cane and
skillfuly welded the hoe among the hills
for several hours.-North East Star Bfr.
Shippers is probably the oldest at well as
one of the most highly valued citizen of
Cecil County.
1T appears that the trouble between the
faculty and board of trustees Cor portion
of it) of Delaware College is about settled,
by the retirement of Professors Webb and
Chester. At meeting Of the trustees at
Dover on the 18th inst, the designations of
Professors Weeb and Chester were accepted
with regret. The designations of President
Purnell and Professor Benton will probably
not he accepted. The co-education of the
sexes was recommended to be continued.
The County Commissioners met in spe-
cial session on Tuesday to open bids for a
new bridge at Chesapeake City. The con-
tract will be awarded next Tuesday. WIN.
I. Miller, Joseph S. Terrell and James Ora.
ham were appointed examiners on pro-
posed new road in the Seventh district
John E. Jackson appealed from the decis
ion of the Beard in ratifying the report OF
the examiners in the matter of altering
and widening the Principle and Woodlawr
road, and the case now goes to the Circuit
Court.
The fine new building erected upon the
fair grounds here, last fall, is without any
protection whatever from lightning, but OF
the contrary standing invitation is ex-
tended to the electric fluid to drop down on
the building, in the shape of a flag pole with
an iron spear or rod in the top of it. nearly
as effective as lightning rod as an attrac
tor of the fluid, but without the property OF
conducting the fluid to the ground possessed
by the former useful invention. This build
ing is entirely of wood except the roof ant
would readily burn if struck by lightning
This matter is in our opinion, worth look
ing after, and if the society managers d,
not think it necessary to put up lightnin,
rods, they should at least take down tn
flag staff.
Tho politicians are pushing thing
vigorously. A leader of one of the severa
wings of the Democrat party, this wee
visited decided temperance man, an
promised that if he would support hi
ticket he would see to it that the next legis
lature passed law prohibiting the sale G
cider. He then visited a man in favor O
free liquor, and declared to him that if hi
ticket carried "they would knock the bo,
tom out of this Id local option" Th
two Promises happened to be famiia
friends, and when they compared notes tina
evening they concluded that the promis Sc
was delusion and fraud, and so thi
would be leader is minus the votes of bot
temperance and liquor man and thei
friends. Funny, isn't it,
Mr.. Harry Sanders, of the firm of San
ders & Stayman, dealers in pianos, organs
etc, No. 10 North Charles street, Baltimore
was in Elkton on Thursday looking afte
the interests of the firm in this section. MI
Sanders reports business in the line of hi
firm in satisfactory condition and tha
the demand for the Decker, Bros, and othe
pianos, has not been affected othe
lines of trade have BEEN Mr. Sander