The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-03-21
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LOCAL NEWS.

From this date THE CECIL WING will BE-
,srpsd to ,osekly subscribers in Port Deposit
bvRoBERT L. STEBBINs. Robert IS an
industrious and enterprising boy, and aotl'
merit the good ,cil Of his customers BY h''
orompt service and 0bliging disposition.
Patr0nizs him.
Brevities.
An all day meeting will be held at
Cedar Hill NJ. p. church tomorrow, Sunday.
Newton Jone. was arrested on last Sat
urday night for assaulting William Fowler
Justice Scott fined him 81 and COTS.
The Rev. W. A. w. Maybin, will hold
service in St. James church Port Deposit,
on Sunday March 22nd, both morning and
evening.
The first slad of the season was on ex-
hibitiou at Giles fish market North street
on Thursday last. He will have fresh her
ring in few days.
The next meeting of the Wilmington
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which will take place one year
hence. will be held in this town.
Lost, somewhere between the Elkton
Academy and Howard street, a lady's mon
osram breastpin on two-dollar-and half
gold piece. Tho finder will receive reward
if left at the WING Office.
The ladies of Hopewell NJ. E. Church
will have an oyster supper 1t the house of
Edwin Barnes near Wood Lawn on Tues
day March Oath. Supper from to 10 P. NJ.
Tickets 50 cents. Proceeds to 20 to furnish
ing church. If the evening should b. stormy
will have it the next evening.
The Rev. Theo. P. Barker, D. D., of
Cambridge, preached at the Lenten service
at Trinity church on Thursday evening of
last week. The doctor is still engaged in
his effort to raise funds for the completion
of his new church in place ofthat destroyed
by fire more than two years since.
An Italian laborer on the Baltimore &
Ohio R,ilroad Company's new Philadelphia
c4tcnSlOu WAC Veil ihJuioH VII S's'e N"s
evening by bank caving in upon him.
His limbs were broken in several places and
he laid until Monday morning without med
ical attention, when hs WAS taken to a hos
pital in Philadelphia.
The first meeting Of the new board OF
town commissioners of Port Deposit was
held this week. John r. Bond was re-slect-
ed president, p. Walter Paxton bailitf, and
George A. Enwachter engineer of tho fire
department. George H. Buck was chosen
as clerk to the board, vice Theodore j Van
neman.
Miss Mollie Phillips, Of Port Deposit,
who was injured by fall in skating rink
last week, is suffering great pain. Her con-
dition is such as to cause much alarm to her
friends. Her injuries are said to be Of such
nature that if they 10 not result fatally
will in all probability leave permanent
malformation Of the spinal column.
A hitherto unpublished portrait of Mr..
Lincoln taken just before he became Presl-
dent, will be the frontispiecs feature of the
April Hdrper's. 1t is accompanied by
poem, written by w 2. Garrison, Esq, a
son of VIM Lloyd Garrison and namesake
Of Wendell Phillips, on The Vision Of
Abraham LincolR, April ii, 1863"
Last Monday afternoon a party sent 4
dispatch to his counsel, in Elkton, over tue
Overland Telegraph and Telephone wires
announcing his coming to see him. Wher
81. tel bar
not yet been received. Next day, long after
his arrival, the message came. The nex'
time he will put one in his pocket and bring
it with him.
The impression and belief quite com
mon among many of our weather prsdictor:
that the prevailing state of the wind at an
about the time of the equinox will be TIT
prevailing wind for the next six months il
said to hit so often, that it will be we'll 70
those who may be curious to watch wei
the points Of the wind during tomorrow ant
the nextdav
The alterations and repairs to the new
extension of Oak Hall are now about COIN
plsted, and the proprietor will leave TO
New York, perhaps today. to lay in tn
largest aud finest stock of clsthing, gentle
mems furnishing goods, hats and caps, &c
ever brough to Elkton. He contemplate
buying stock to the amount Of from s., 90
to $4,000. The new store room is well an
conveniently fitted mp. His present stor
room will be used as the furnishing good
department.
Princeton college alumni association {
Philadelphia and vicinity, will give
dinuer at the Hotel Bellevue PhiladelPhi:
on Friday March 9th 1885, and Invitation
are out for the same Several Elkton graz
yates are invited and will probably attent
This dinner is given instead of the usu;
annual reception. Among the invited guss
are this following distinguished gentlema
who will be present and respond to aPpr
pirate toaSts. De. James McCosh, DIR. WIN
Pepper, Samuel c. Perkins, Rev. l. Howar
Furness, Chas. Emory Smith. Hon. Tho
y. SicCarter. Dinner will be served
b 80 NJ.
Mr.. Jacob ,tm.n, of this town, r.
ceiy-d this week four-hundred an
odd dollars as back pay, upon an incfeas
of pension. We are pleased to know tn;
Mr.. LOTHIAN has been THE far successful
securing his rights in this direction He
entitled to all he has resolved and goo
deal more. The government is slow in a
knowledging its obligations to men wi
staked life and health in its defence. The
ara of cnurss some frauds among those
this az we'll as in other neigh borhoods wi
have received pensions, but Mr.. LOTHIAN
not of this number, and we congratula
I'm >npou the successful issue of his clail
success of tho artist Boughtor
papers o. Holland in Harper's Magazir
and Of the book which followed them, W
make the reading public deadly eager
fhe series which another American art
has written for that periodical. Mr.. Frar
ID. Miiiet is the writer, he and Mr..
Swain Clifford collaborate in the illustrate
and the general title of "a Wild Goo
Chase covers a trip made by them, on
commission for the magazine, along t
shores of the Baltic, through Lubbock,
p-nhagen, and many picturesque out of-tl
way places. The first paper, "The Rise
will DO given in the April number, and W
have great abundance and variety of ill
tration.
The Sabbath school union of the A.
p. church for this district met in st. NJ
thsws church Baltimore on Saturday IA