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

Rev. Benjamin f. Price, formerly pas
tor of the NJ. E. Church of this town, paid
. brief visit to friends here on Thursday
last
The ice now being gathered here is far
superior TO that Of the hrst freeze up. II Is
clear rs crystal and we judge, just as thick
as the other.
Oliver Twist, Nancy, Bill Skies and
Messrs. Bundle and Brownlow, and twenty
other characters will meet you at the Hall
Wednesday and Thursday evenings next.
Reuben Haiues Esq. of this town, lee
tured before good audience at Glasgow,
Del, on Thursday evening last, His sub
ject was "a Descriptive Visit to the Buried
City of Pompeii."
The County Commissioners, accompa-
| MED by Engineer LatIobe, visited Rowlauds-
vile and vicinity on Tuesday last and
examined the new iron bridges. The struct-
ures proved satisfactory, though they have
not yet formally accepted them.
| While Antonio Bra.co and two other
| Italians were engaged on bench of rock in
Drake & STATIONS quarries on Saturday
last drilling for blast huge MASS of rock
and earth above them became detached and
| began to move; They were warned U i their
| danger, and the two strikers succeeded in
| escaping, but Brasco, who WAS sitting down
holding the drill, was overtaken by the
avalanche and horribly crushed and MAIN
ed under it. His neck was broken and his
skull was so badly fractured that the brain
| oozed out He gasp;d once or twice after
being eNtricated from the tons If debris
| which covered him, and life WAS extinc t,
Reuben Cousins, Can sdian employed in
Drake & STATIONS stone quarries at Port
Deposit, had his left leg broken between the
ankle and the knee on Saturday afternoon
| last by the slipping Of the chain of 4 der
rick which he was attending. DR.. c. A.
Shure, this company's surgeon, attended him.
On Wednesday evening last, well on
towards the hour when all thoughtful per-
sons are in bed, and perhaps asleep, two
horse carriage rolled up to the county Jail
on North street. Tho sheriff was not at
home, and bis deputy had gone out, 40 the
duty of attending to the supposed prisoners
(for that was what they thought the Goa
tents consisted of,) dsvolvei upon the
female portion Of the household Very re-
luctantly and with many miseivings the
front door was opened, and, greatly to the
astonishment of all, instead of a trio of
prisoners, . jaunty young man, in a nobby
suit of clothes and plug hat, accompanied
- Id 49,
Their presence was a surprise, but when they
told their GRAND the astonishment of the
ladies went up higher still. They asked to
be allowed to sse Mr.. William Green, alias
"Billy the JOKER" who is serving a term
for little eccsntricites of his in connection
with tho local option law. They invited their !
visitors in, and soon the sheriff got
home, "Billy" not being a prisoner bshind |
the bars for felony or such crime, but ouiy
as he puts it, "for treating thirsty fellow
man," he was allowed to como out to the |
Office to receive his visitors. Here the
strangest feature Of the case developed
itself, whom the trio announced the fact
that they had come to have their fortunes |
told. No one here ever knew of "Billy" a.
a soothsayer, no. did he ever intimate such !
= thing to any one, but it appears from what
TRANSFERRED that evening that he has prac-
ticed the dark art for years, and can see i,
far into the future as tho best of them. He
read tie fats Of the three ladies and their |
escort, received ono dollar from each, and
danced back to his cell with three Bland |
dollars jinsling in his pocket. At the sug-
seston of the gentlemen present his skill |
reader of the future was afterwards
tested by the ladies, but the test did not
make good showing tor Billy" He
prophesied that the two married ladies
present would be married within the year, |
and consoled gentleman, who is already |
the happy possessor Of wife and several !
children, with the information that he saw |
in tho horoscope Of the future that his
bachelor Say would seon be ended. As 4
soothsayer "Billy the Joker" did not prove
a success to any great extent, bu; as col |
lector OF foes he is great success. We are
aware of tt. identity Of the parties, brt for |
fear Billy's prophesy may not be realized
No withhold their Names