The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-06

6y ROBERT l.. STEBE1Ns. R0jct Is a.
Industrious and eaterprisiag bog, and ocH
merit tie good ,oU cfhjs customers dy hs
prompt sercice and o5ltging disposjtion
Patronize him.
Brevitics.
REV. William Schouler will hold service
at Baldwin's chapel, Elk Mills, tomorrow
Sunday at 3 T. NJ.
Rev. j. p. Otis will preach at Crouch
chapel tomorrow (Sabbath) afternoon at
$50 o'clock. Every body is invited.
A heavy thunder storm visited this
section just at the time of the closing Of the
Fair on Thursday last.
A package of samples belonging to a
mercantile traveller valued at about so,
was stolen from the Howard House tho
other day.
Cards are out for the marriage on the
10th inst. of Mr.. r. C. Lewis, of this town
and Miss Hester Cannon, daughter of Viii
son l.. Cannon, Esq, of Dover, Del.
R c. Thackery, Esq, of this town, de-
ivered an Grafton at the memorial service
held by the G A r Posts of Baltimore in
that city last Saturday evening.
A white and colored man were eject.
ed from the fair grounds on Thursday after
noon for disorderly conduct and fighting.
We are sorry to say one of the parties was
jock our well known "Shine 'em up"
The contract for the erection of a par
sonage building for the congregation of the
Presbyterian Church of this town has been
awarded to William Beatty, of Whining
ton, Del, and work on the foundations has
been begun.
Two hundred and fifty thousand shad
fry from the United States hatchery at
Havre de Grace were placed in the Big Elk
creek at the iron bridge, in this town, on
Monday night last. They We're brought up
by the 9:14 p. NJ. train.
Union Sunday school, Zion, will hold
their children's dag exercises on Sunday,
June 7th. Speaking by the pastor, Rev.
c. f. Sheppard, and others. Services will
commence at 3 o'clock p. NJ. All are in
vited.
The Elkton Colored Cornet Band was
out on general serenade on Thursday
evening, giving several of our citizens a
shake-up. Among other places visited by
them was Mitchell's drug store, where they
gave Mr. Arthur Mitchell serenade.
The Maryland State Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at Deer Park, Garrett coun-
ty, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
July I, s and 9. Rev. John Squires has
railroad tickets for sale at reduced rates,
which he will furnish teachers on applica-
ton.
We have spoken before of children
romping on the board walk, on Howard
street, to the annoyance of dwellers in that
one-time quiet neighborhood Not content
with week days for play, they have now
begun to do the same thing on Sunday af-
ternoons. We are requested to say that an
officer will be on hand next Sunday after
noon to arrest all who are noisy.
"A colored man, while assisting in put
ting ups some machinery on the Fair
grounds last Monday lost one of the fingers
of his right hand by getting it caught be
tween two cogwheels. He walked down
town to the doctors office with the almost
severed finger hanging by a bit of skin,
dangling as he went along. The man was
grinning, but not in fun, as some thought
but from great pain. DR. Mitchell fixed
him up, and he went to work again.
William Falls of =, "a
Howard House, of this town, met with an
accident at the Fair grounds on Tuesday
morning. He was driving his mare, vii.
lowswitch, in the wagon race, the first race
of the fair, and while scoring for :he first
heat he turned too short and his wagon
was upset, throwing him to the track, in-
juring his thigh and also his head, we un,
derstand. Mr.. George S. Price took Mr.
Falls place and drove the mare during the
race, coming off victor.
The second accident to be chronicled
as happening upon the line of picturesque
bridges, Or foot ways, across Big Elk creek
at Far Creek fortling, occurred on Tuesday
last, when the railing, or some other guart
of the bridge, being insufficient, a little girl
a daughter of DIR. John II. lamar, of thi:
town, fell off into water more than deel
enough to drown her, and she would have
drowned had not a young companion, a sol
of VIM. II. Evans, Esq, came to her rescu,
and dragged her out. This is accident No
upon this picturesque structure.
AS Mrs. Frank Devalanger, who re
sides on the Frenohtown and New Castl
turnpike, few miles from this town, wa
going home from the fl r on Thursday aft
ernoon last, small colored boy driving
they were overtaken dy the heavy thunde
storm of that afternoon, and in the excite
ment attending it, in consequence Of a sud
den lurch Of the vehicle, she was throw
out the back of it upon the lard road in
juring her severely. The boy detached til
horse from the carriage, jumped on him an,
came to this town for a physician. w
have since been unable to learn how badl,
Mrs. Devalenger was hurt.
Thieves broke into the store of Mr.. Al
fred NJ. Mahoney, at Lutton's Corner, tw
miles and a a-half north of this town, on las
Tuesday night, and from there gained &C
cess to the dwelling house adjoining, whic
they ransacked from one end to the Other
with the exception of the room occupied b
Mr.. Mahoney and wife. They carried o
81 wo sets of silver spoons with knives
match, and lot of other articles valued i
all at from S25 to $50, and about twenty fly
cents in pennies. 1t appears that they be
came dry while engaged in their scare
and, pulling out a bottle of whiskey, 5;
down at a table and had a social drink, an
upon leaving they forgot the bottle, whic
Mr.. Mahoney found upon the table ne,
morning, half full of whiskey. They C
in by way of a window, which they prie
open, and departed leaving all the dool
unclosed.
A piece of vandalism of such Il chara
ter that, could the perpetrator be dscovere
he or she should be severely punished o
CURED in this town recently. On Decori
tioa day the graves of soldiers in the Pre-
byterian cemetery We're decorated. anon
them the grave of the late Lieutenant Jo
eph L. Mahon. His last resting place wa
profusely dressed with handsome flower
and floral designs by relatives and friend
Inside of an hour after the last of the dec
rating company had left the grounds, Liel
tenatS ,Mahon's grave was stripped of ever
,P IT had been put upon it. Emtranc
o . Is was gained by way of an ol
8 - and as Lieutenant Mahan