The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
The festive crab has put in an ap-
in Elk river

The festive crab has put in an ap-
pearance in Elk river.
The hay harvest has begun. The yield
it is thought will be nearly an average crop.
Extensive prepations have been made
for the conservation services at the church
of St. John the Baptist, Newark, Del, to-
morrow.
We understand that an iron fence is
about to be substituted for the wooden one
around the grounds of Trinity =. f. church
of this town.
- The Rev. l.. L. Coyle, of Brldgeton \
j -, will prea III in the Elkton Presbyterian
church tomorrow, (SabbathD morning and
evening.
Rev. Lewis 7. Watson will assume the
duties of rector of st. James Protestant
Episcopal church, of Port Deposit, on Sun
day July 3rd, next.
Hon. John A. j. Creswell and Hon.
James b. Groome, OF this Town, attended
the funeral of the late Hon. II. 7. Merrck,
at Washington, d. c., on Thursday last.
Mrs. Lucy Litzenberg, of this town,
gave her Sabbath School class picn'c on
Thursday last, as has been her custom an
nually for several years.
Mrs. OKeif, who was seriously
burned last week when her husbands on.
O'KeiD boarding house at Frenchtown
was destroyed by fire, is recovering.
Miss Jane b. Campbell, of New Leeds,
and Miss Hannah S. Iaddock, of Zion, are
this week the guests of Miss Mary J. Rick
etts, of Ricketts, mills, near Westamwel.
The county commissioners on Tuesday,
awarded contract to Robt. Il. Morrison n
Son, of New Castle, Del, for constructing
the substruc tions of long bridge, Chesapeake
City, for So, 636.
Mr. VIM Falls, of the Howard House,
who has been confined to the house by in
jures received by being thrown from his
sulky at the recent fair was out for the first
time yesterday.
R. c. Thackery, Esq, who has been i'll
for some time past, was this week removed
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his mother, mile or two in the country, in
hope that the change will be beneficial to
him.
A six-year-od daughter of William
Moore, living near Pilottown, this county,
was stung on the shoulder by locust wasp
on Saturday last. The shoulder swelled
very rapidly, and the child suffers intense
pain Its condition is considered critical
A telephone wire on Main below Church
street, hangs so low as to almost touch the
tops of the carriages. A wagon loaded with
hay or straw could not possibly pass with
out catching it. 1t appears as though ii
had recently swagged considerably.
A slight change was this week made in
the time table OF the p. w. &; b. railroad, it
however, effects the time but one train at
this station. The train north heretofore
reaching here at IA a. NJ. now gets here
at 11:10, four minutes earlier.
Bishop H. C. Lay, of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Easton, was visited
on last Saturday morning by DR.. Frank
Donaldson, of Baltimore, with Drs. Earle,
Bate:nan and Chamberlain, of Easton. DIR.
Donaldson performed difficult operation
Withdrawing from the thoraX forty
much relief. He was resting quietly and
comfortably last Monday evening
Perry Harden, an aged colored man
well-known to many citizens of this county,
li.li pn1ti tla Ei |, i,,pt
He was said to be 103 years old, and there
is little doubt but that he was close on TO
this age, as we are told by a gentleman who
knew him that when ne (now nearly eighty
years old) was a boy, Perry was middle
aged man. His funeral sermon was preach
ed by Rev. f. w. Scott, recent pastor of
the North East y. NJ. p. church.
Owners of property within the town
limits on which there are ailanthus trees
! were this week notified by the town author
tiles to remove the trees at once, or they
will he removed by the town bailifi, One
of the condemned trees is upon a lot on
High street owned by H. G. IIurn and has
stood there more than fifty years. Another
is in the front yard of the dwelling of Mrs.
r. T. Tull on Main street. and others on
the rear of premises on Main street opposite
the National Bank There may be Others
but we are not aware of their location.
The trial of the Hayward Hand Gren-
ade, previously advertised, took place on
the vacant lot, corner of Main and Bow
streets, on Thursday evening last a rep
resentative of the company arrived here on
| the evening train to conduct the expert
ment, which proved decidedly successful
| showing that this invention is no humbng
| but something useful beyond question. \
| large wooden box was constructed for the
| purpose of the trial This was covered with
pitch and saturated with coal oil and then
| fired. When the fire reached its hottest, the
flames going up from Is to 90 feet, a grenade
was thrown into it, and in an instant-in
| the twinklng of an eye-it was extin-
| guiShed. No one ever saw fire subdued in
less time; indeed, it would be impossible by
any means to extinguish it in less time. IL
must be remem bered that it was tar and
| coal oil-two of the most conbustible of
| substances and most difficult to eXtinguish
that was burning, and we have some
doubt whether or not half a hogshead OF
water would have put it out. The trial was
witnessed by a large number of our citi-
zens.