The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
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valuable carriage horse by death this week.
Mr.. Benjamin Drew is confined to bed
with threatened attack of typhoid fever.
Hon. Jacob Tome and wife of Port De-
posit are absent at present upon an eX-
tended western tour.
DR.. Chas. NJ. Ellis, DIR. G. w. Clifford
and Dr. p b. Housekeeper have been APP
pointed Examining Surgeons for this county.
Father Scott, of Chestertown, was in
Elkton on Tuesday last making arrange
ments for a fair soon to be held at the former
place.
After the 10th of November the man
ayers of the Cecil county agricultural So
.ciety will pay all premiums awarded to eN-
hibitors at the late fair.
The old bank building on Main street,
in which is now located the hardware
store of Mr.. Charles Jamison, was bought
this week by Mr.. VIM. H. Elder.
Tuesday, election day, being legal
holiday the bank will be closed. All paper
falling dne at the bank on that day will be
settled the day before to save protest.
Mr.. r. C. Crouch of this town left here
on Thursday last with several teams of
mules for Darby, Penn, where he will be
employed upon the new b. x o. Il. at
that point.
This is Indian summer, say the ma
jority of the county journals, but they are
rather previous in this statement, as that
delightful season will not arrive this year
until the middle of November.
Work was commenced this week on
the eastern abutment of the Farr Creek
bridge. The western abutment i'll its al
most completed condition looks strong
enough to withstand a century of fl Dods.
An attempt was made By petty thieves
TO carry off the dog house belonging to Mr..
Samuel b. Foard and situated in the stable
yard of the Howard House on Monday
night last.
MIR. Benjamin L. Cook, son of Rev.
Joseph s. Cook former pastor of the NJ.
f. church of this town, has been nominated
by the Republicans of Queen Anne's county
as a candidate for the Legislature.
Mrs Thorpe and Miss Charlotte Thorpe,
for long time residents of Bow street,
this town, left for the home of Mr.. Henry
Thorpe near Galveston Texas, on Wednes-
day evening last, where in the future they
will reside.
One of our prophetic county exchanges
states that 'politics will soon be over"
Yes, over head and ears in the mire of cor
ruption, if Mongrelism, and Hybridlsm,
and Bossisin, and Partizanism, and a
Thousand more "isms" are to continue to
grow green and flourish
The marriage of Miss Emma ID. Shep-
pard, daughter of Rev. Charles +. Sheppard,
of Zion, Md, and Mr.. James &. Davis of
North East, Md, is announced for the
eleventh of November. The ceremony will
take place at p. NJ, in Zion NJ f. church.
No cards
The clothing stolen from Mr.. j. Queck
of this town, last Saturday night week has
been recovered, it having been the same
dropped by the colored man whom DIR.
Clifford met last week on the road to Calvert
with the goods stolen from Mr.. Thos. Wor-
rail- of Rising Sun.
The verdure of the forests about Elkton
is rapidly decaying ROW and lovers of ma
ture will soon have to content themselves
with barren and unpicturesque landscape.
The leaves this season have been more beau
tiful than for some years past and many of
them have been gathered for album and
scrap-books.
The Ne,rS states that ice formed in Elk
ton on Wednesday night of last week. On
Wednesday night of next week, when all
the election returns are in, a colder lot of
ice will form over the sturchy lake of Mon
grelism than ever "froze on" to Il Cecil
county political question before.
DR.. A. w. Mitchell is slowly recover
ing from his late severe i!lne Though
convalescing daily the physicians do not
think that he will be enabled to leave the
house for many weeks yet. His familiar
face and form have been greatly missed
from his store and the streets of our town,
and it is the universal hope that his recov-
cry may be more rapid than is anticipated.
We have received notice from Prof NJ
a. Newell that the annual meeting of the
association of Public School Commissioners
will be held at the State Normal School,
Baltimore, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
November oath and 18th. Between the hours
of nine and twelve the members of the as
sociation and their friends will be invited
to visit the several class rooms and witness
the ordinary exercises of the school.
The meeting of the members of the
Cecil county agricultural society in Odd
Fellows Hall last Friday week was occu-
pied mostly with the auditing of the bills of
the late fair and planning for their payment.
Many of them have been settled by those
holding them accepting heavy discount.
and those that have not been paid at all
will meet the attention of the society soon
As sufficient can be borrowed to defray the
deficiency Caused byT5> financial loss OF
the last exhibition. Another meeting OF
the society will be held next week.
The Port Deposit Cal and the Dover
Farm, and Home were new visitors to our
sanctum this week. The former journal
is a weekly local newspaper published and
edited by Mr.. w. II. Pennington, formerly
of the Rising Sun Journal and bears about
it marks of the wisdom and enterprise that
characterized Mr.. Pennington's former
paper. The Farm ard Home is an agricu
tural and literary journal, ably edited and
very interesting to the general reader
Both are welcome additions to our exchange
list. To both their editors we extend a fra
ternal 4 Totre !Sa,,te.
Again our columns are burdened this
week with innumerable reports of petty
robberies in Cecil county. This gang OIL
this vicinity and it is time some forcible
movement should be made towards its per
manent extermin ton. The citizens oil
Rising Sun have shown their determine
ton to wind the organization up by lnsti
tuting a local vigilance committe and of
fering large rewards for the capture of the
depredators, but this purpose cannot be eff
fected until concerted action is taken by all
the citizens of the county. 1t is disgrace
full to the character of our laws and their
officers TO have such a state of affairs exist.
ing among us, and everyb body should make
an earnest personal move to ferret out the of
tenders and cause their delivery into thu
hands of justice. If they set of men
who from poverty are really in need of food
clothes and money there are other ways Of
obtaining the articles than by bold daring
and frequent burgla ries, and when com