The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-22

Bethel NJ. L. church at Pivot Bridge is
being re- painted and handsomely ptper"a
Next Thursday, August 27th, the col
ored cornet band will hold a picnic in CID
pins woods east of Elkton. There will he
three brass bands present
MIR. s. b. Foard, the polite clerk of the
Howard House, who has been quite sick
and confined to his bed this week, is now
much better and is at his post again.
Thieves tried to hrea. open the back
door of James b. Marrett's dwelling house
in Little Elk last Tuesday night, but We're
frightened off by some of the inmates bear
ing the noise.
detective Jones of the =. w. Il b. ser
vice has visited our town three times in
connection with the late attempt to rob the
safe of the agent of the company but no ar
rests have been made.
If you want good watermclons, canta-
leupes, peaches, pears, or any and every Vege-
tables that can be possibly procured, call
at Giles old stand on North street next
uDOr 10 IHc pOSlolllCe
Mr.. Arthur Harvey, of wilma mills,
New Leeds, who has been considerably in
disposed from an injury to his foot, received
while walking among the ruins caused
there by the recent cyclone, is now rapidly
recovering
The tramps must go and the order of
the town commissioners under authority of
"act of assembly" will give them the choice
of leaving the place or spending term ut
"Jessup's cut where they will be put to
work.
Mr. james S. Ford, formerly of Sassa
fras Neck, Cecil county, now of Kent, was
married last week to Miss Emma Dunster,
of Baltimore. The ceremony was perform
ell at the NJ. Z. parsonage, Galena, by Rev.
| w. r. Graham.
The handsome new dwelling built for
DIR. II. Cult Wells, on the corner of Main
street and Delaware avenue, is now about
completed, with the exception of papering,
and the owner will shortly move into it.
| DR.. Wells has sub-rented the house he now
occupies on Church street.
MIR. Daniel Harvey, of wilma Mills,
who had his mill badly wrecked by the
recent cyclone, is abont to repair and ex-
| tensively improve the mill Gone of the Of
dest in the county, by introducing the
rollers which will take the place of the old
burr system of grinding
The fourteenth annual jubilee of the
Band of Hope Temperance Society of Otis
Chapel, Chestnut Hill, will be held at the
chapel next Thursday afternoon and even
ing. The exercises, beginning at and $50
o'clock p. NJ, will consist of Rotations,
declarations and vocal and instrumental
music Refreshments will be for sale, for
the benefit of the society. The public is in
vited.
A new charcoal house to replace the
one destroyed by fire last fall has just been
completed at Principle for Mr.. Geogre p.
Whitaker. The new building is % by 90
feet Mr.. II. NJ. Anderson, of Principle,
was the contractor for its erection. He also
recently completed two-story and Man
sard roof office, with belfry, just south of
/
used as general business Office by the Geo
p. Whitaker Company.
Mr.. John w. Cantwell, the popular
butcher and dealer in provisions, on Main
street, in the "Hollow, killed and butchered
this week fine beef bought from the herd
owned by VIM. j. Jones, Esq. The re-
porter of THE WING ate a first class tender
loin steak from the choice beef offered for
sale at his meat store, and advises all who
wish some good tendcrloin steak to call at
his place next Saturday, when the mate of
the choice beef above mentioned will he on
hand.
There was a considerable scare over
mad dog on Cathedral street last Weln es-
day afternoon, a dog owned by Vim. Pur-
NELL exhibited symptoms of hydrophobia,
and attacked several children living in
houses adjacent, fortunately biting none of
them. The owner as soon as he heard of it
procured a revolver and killed the dog, and
probably saved the lives of several children
who had been playing in the immediate
vicinity; one of them having pettei the dog
Several building lots on cast High
street were sold at public sale on the court
house yard last Saturday afternoon, by A.
p. Shocklcy, auctioneer, for the Elkton
Building Association. No. l, 3Sx125 feet,
sold to John f. Wilson for S251. No. .,
3Sx12j, to Calvin Merritt for S225 No.. 5,
25x73, to Calvin Merritt for $780, No. 4,
59xG6, to Daniel Bratton for S15l. A double
frame dwelling house recently built by the
association in Little Elk, was offered for
sale and withdrawn for lack of bidders.
The county commissioners at special
meeting this week have decided to rebuild
the iron bridge at Far creek, near Elkton,
which was partly destroyed by the flood of
February of this year. They also decided
to replace the wooden bridges at Crawfords
factory and at Scotten's, both near North
East, which We're swept away by the flood
of June, 1884, with iron bridges. A delega-
ton of citizens of Elkton were before the
board asking that the town be given this
year more than the usual allowance of $500.
The board decided to allow 5000.
"A great many citizens VINO reside near
the central part of the town were awakened
from their peaceful SAUNDERS about o'clock
last Tuesday morning by the loud cries of
woman. They armed themselves with va
rious weapons, from the shotgun to pitch
fork, and sailed forth CALAMITY to succor
the needy female. The sound was located
ut the house of Mr. James Moore, in the
rear of Mr.. b. b. Dunbar's livery stable
office, on North street. 1t turned out that
some person, who was aware, no doubt, that
the man of the house was employed on the
night force at Singerly's pulp mills, had
attempted to enter the house through a
window.
Petty thefts and burgaries have be.
come very frequent in this town No dou bit
some of them are the work of tramps, who
are rather numerous in this vicinity at the
present time, but others required a better
knowledge of facts and premises than these
wanderers are supposed to possess. The
Board OF Town Commissioners have de-
creed that the tramp must 60 Posters have
been printed with the word ''Tramp'' in
such large letters that the travelling gentle
men must be blind if they do not see it.
They are posted extensively in and about
the town. 1t is warning to them to keep
out of the town limits, under penalty of
being sent to the House of Correction. as
the law provides