The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-01-24

~ ROBERT l.. STEBBlNs. h0Oort ~ u"
jndustJ!ous and enttrprising boy, and ril
merit IT, rood ,M Of his customers By A,s
prompt .srsice and obliging disposition
Patroni2S him.
Brevities.
-Eue, AT. y home talent and go see Oil
yer Twi. o.. Wednesday and Thursday
evening. I sS.-
Mr.. Levi Boulder, Of this place, an
old soldier tn. of making application for
admission + ''.e soldiers homo at Washing
ton, D. c
A hcI-. telsnsins to Mr.. Wrl. Falls,
Of the II! = -. louise, died Of collie on We'd
nesday last ara was hauled out to horse
heaven.
Doctor s. !, Ford, formerly of North
East, Ii, III, county, now of Queen Anne's
county, has 5esn elected director of the
National .,sak of Cantreville.
Go 70 sks Hall on Wednesday and
Thursds, evenings next. Considerable ex-
pcUSe P"iL" H'@'o SSSN s"NS'A w
make Olivia. i visit a success.
A valuable young horse belonging to
Mr.. Samuel NcCrone, who resides near
this town, rs, found dead in his stall one
morning recently.
We re-puhlish on our first page at re-
quest Of reader, poem by Emma Alice
Browne, at ons time quite famous as a
writer in this part of the world.
An unruiy beef, who objected to beir z
roped, and knocked in the head at Terrell )
slaughter house on Tuesday last, was shot,
Mr.. A p. shckley doing the shooting. He
brought him the first crack.
-We acknowledge the receipt of copy of
the report of Comptroller OF the State j.
Frank Turner, for 1884, a carefully prepared
resume Of the financial condition OF the old
State of Maryland.
Thomas Warning, administrator of VIII
liam Waring. deceased, will sell at public
sale, on Thursday, February 5sh, the stock
and farming implements. See advertise
lnsnt in another column.
The ice gave way beneath Master Will
liam Bratton, while skating on Vinsinger's
ice pond, on Wednesday last, and he went
into the chilly aampnes. up to his waist.
He wasted no time in getting out Of the wet
An Elkton man who wanted mess Of
fresh Ash broke through the ice into water
and soft mud, far too deep to be comfor-
~; Srhi hnla ba
marsh near town on Wednesday last.
The wind carried away the roof OF tbs
old photograph building, on Bow street.,
near the railroad, on Saturday last and
since that the owner of the property has
completed the demolition and the building
has disappeared.
We publls,i upon our first page this
week an article from Harper's Bdzar upon
scarlet fcvsr, disease dreaded by every
head OF famil, a careful perusal Of which
cannot tail to be of benefit to hosts of our
reader.
An ae esiring the very choicest of
fowls We would recommend them to call on
Mr.. S. J. Ar. rckle, near Cherry Hill in
this county Fowl from his yard cannot
be be;st - .nyone any where. Soc his
card il &C r column.
WI. , = certain Eiktonian learned that
= new eornt ,it U. S. Treasury note of
the series ot So, letter "a" had been is
sued, Ia hI.re ID home to see if he had any
Of that yss I'd lettsr, when he found he
had , r,t
"A 6 Hod -; ortunity for any ono desir-
ing to e. 5,-,. n the boarding house bust
pess, is o;ieE-i by Mr.. Thomas Drennen in
. card in s,.2' her column. He offers for
rent tho ar dwelling house attached to
The Craad Central store on Main strest.
MIR. ,t,Staed H. Groves, who resides
near St. G'orses, Delaware, has leased the
Tuite dSicy f2rm, near this town, now oc-
cupisd :! III. James Sterling, and will
take pl,ss,is'nn March 18th next. Mr..
Groves "a. formerly resident of Elk
Neck, in this county.
One &C tie finest condiments we have
ever usec: 'ther with flesh, fish or fowl, i,
the WorcesteI (not Worcestershire) sauce
an American preparation, sold by Mr. John
Terrell, On Main street. 1t beats the i'm
ported article all to pieces in every partcu-
lar, and i. so.j at much less than half the
price.
Alexander Rutter, Jr., infant sou of
Mr.. Alexander Ruster, of the Fifth district,
An infant Of but ten months, but the only
al +Af nft In ia
Thursday, the 18th inst, and was buried a.
North East on Saturday last. Mr.. Rutte,
has the ~ N 1athy of the entire neighbor
hood in his g-aat bereavement.
Rev. W. W. Heberton, former p ,.tor o
the Presbyterian Church, of this. town, re
novel kis furniture from bore to Philad
elphia this week, in which city he has de
tsrminsd to hereafter make his future home
Mr.. Heberten has had his best furniture
stored here since he resigned the pastsrat'
of the Presbyterian Church of thia town.
MIR. Samuel Macksy, who left Cscil fol
the west in 1866, is now on a. visit to this
county. Mr.. Macksy like all the rest of the
residents of the western side of tho cont
Snent thinks there is no place like it, and W,
inclined to agree with him, tn,
denizens OF The west are thorough going
people. He is visiting relations and friends
1T Fair Hill.
An auction sale OF a lot Of plows, bar
rows, cu!tivators, pumps, shovels, spades
forks, rakcs, sythes and almost all othel
kinds Of farm implements took place at tn.
ware rooms of Hessrs. Ceilings s. Son, OF
Main street, n Wednesday last. Every
thing sold low, many artic Is not bringin.
one-fourth their actual value. The sails wa
forced one n charge of Constable Grant
on an exocu, on. John Terrell was auc
rione1r.
A mann sr Of the tramp family at
tempt to j mp upon train on the p w
& b Railroad, while in motion near Irol
Hill at'cn, last Saturday evening. Th
conse, 'Tencs Of his rash behavior was that
he W., .':il along by the leg for some dis
tance, :na Ter the car step lot 90 he foun,
he we he unhappy possessor of fractures
leg bona. tramp or son Of tramr
should tao a freight train while in mo
ton. If h. does he's bound to got left
more G. iemora allied.
Mr.. II mus Price, son of tho late ex
Sheriff ,r.F b. Price, of this town, ha
engage ~ &c local hauling business hers
His car nay be found elsewhere in thi
paper, v.sgEsin he offers his services to thu
people of + aton and vicinity. He has on
Of TIE lest outfits good able horses ant
new ra.,Irs and carts) in town and pro