The Cecil Whig., 1885-05-09

by ROBERT l.. STEBBINs. Robert IS an
Industrious and eaterprising bog, and aoill
merit tie good seiN Of his customers By has
prompt serrice and o5Ijging disposition.
PdtroHi=e him.
BrevitieS.
Several valuable properties are advei-
tised for sale in this weeks issue OF The
WING.
--Wm. Veac,l, a former resident of this
vicinity, died at his homein Sassafras Neck
this week.
-Werk has been begun on the new house
OF Mr. VI nj. NJ. Singerly on West High
street.
TO lovers of root beer, we would say,
read the advertisement of Evans & Showell
in another column.
Services will be held at Trinity Church
tomorrow Gas on last Sunday at 4:5O z.
NJ: at the Church of the Good Shepherd,
Chesapeake City, at 1880 p. NJ.
The Spring Fair of the Cecil County
Agricultural Society will be held on June
,, ; and i, and that of the Oxoford, Penn
sylvauia, Society on the 10th, IL and i2th.
The time for Mr. Ben Bolt, former
dweler in this vicinity, to walk out OF the
state penitentiary free man, is drawing
near He will be discharged some time
during this month.
Mrs. C. Hall entertained the directors
of the Overland Telephone company at her
saloon on Main street, after their meeting
last Tuesday, in return for privileges grant
ed her at their office, which adjoius her
establishment.
While there was a large crowd at the
p W. s. B. railroad station here on We'd
nesiay evening last, strange man, "a tramp,
made a narrow escape from death by being
struck by an engine. A by-stander snatehed
him from before the locomotive just in the
nick of time.
Mrs Lucy Ltzenberg will have grand
spring opening on Tuesday and Wednes-
day next when q display of millinery, such
as was never seen in this or any other town
before will be made. She is now opening
some OF the nobbiest things in the way of
bonrets imaginable
Constable Benson, OF the First district,
on Thursday last brought to Elkton and
lodged in Jail two colored youths named,
Bennett and Webster charged with the
larceny of sheep skin from Benz. Robin
son of that locality. This is the first time
We ever heard of the larceny of a sheep skin
without the sheep being inside of it.
Some portion of the machinery of the
locomotive of the 142 F. 81. train south
broke near the station here on Thursday,
disabling it so much that it could not haul
the train any further. A freight train be-
ing here at the time, the engine attached to
it was substituted for the crippled one, and
the train went on its way.
There will be services at the Presbyte-
rian Church tomorrow Sunday as usual
by the pastor, r. w. Beers. The subject in
the morning will be "Mistiness of Belief"
and in the evening. Judging one Another"
All are welcome. Next Friday evening the
pastor will deliver his fourth missionary
lecture on South America in the chapel
sneak-thicf, who was arrested in Philadel-
phia last Saturday, charged with an at
tempt to rob the Peoples Bar of that city,
has been identified by Albert c. West, a
baokkeeper in the Citizens National Bank
at Washington, of which Hon. John A. j.
Creswell, of this town, is President, as the
man who some time ago robbed depositor
in that bank of $500.
Frederick Wright, colored, of Penca
dar hundred, Delaware, an uncle of Henry
Chase, of this town, jolly old soul, has
engaged in the sale of meal, feed, &C., for
which be takes orders and delivers to the
purchaser. Fred says the people tantalize
(patronize) him pretty well. He says he
carries his zamples with him, and zlsits
orders whenever he has a chance. His
meal is ground in a patent portable mill,
and is of good quality.
We have received copy of the first
number of The Wilmington and Peninsula
Railroad and Steamboat Guide, published by
Bowen & Brother, Newark, Del. 1t will be
issued semi-monthly, contains the time
tables of the various railroad and steam
boat lines running out of Wilmington, with
good map of the railroad system of the
Peninsula and the P, w. g. B. line, and
cannot fail to be useful to the travelling
public.
Some time age the Village Record an
nounced that rooster belonging to Robert
Dye, Charestown, had taken to sitting on
a nestful of eggs with the evident inten-
tion of Matching them, our correspondent
saying thas the bird showed fight whenever
any one came near to disturb him. His pa
tience was duly rewarded: all the eggs
Eatched but one, and that rooster now leads
rounds those II chickens as proudly as any
pulet ever did her first brood ". G, TiUaqe
Hccord.
The latest and best thing out in the
shape of IL fruit jar is the "Woodbury." an
article entirely novel in its principal and
construction, combining all the best fea-
lures of those heretofore in use, with sew
eral others never before known. This in
vention virtually revolutionizes the process
of preserving fruits and vegetables The old
method of cooking the fruit or vegetables
before placing them in the jar is done away
with, and by an ingenious, though simple,
contrivance, the process is almost reduced
to the simple operation of putting tho arti.
cles in the vessels. Housekeepers should
e this article before supplying them
- sith fruit jars. Messrs Ruth, Ben
net~>o., of No. 5o4 Market street, Phila-
delphia, are he manufacturers agents, and
their representative, Mr.. Wash. II. Bennett,
is now on trip throughout the Peninsula
taking orders for them, and in a very short
time they can be bought at retail from all
reliable local dealers. Mr. Bennett will be
in Elkton on Monday next
Ladies' Day at the Ranch" is the TAX
lug title of paper in the forthcoming
(June) Hdrpers', describing life on a West
ern ranch, owned by "quite An ideal firm
'consisting as it did of millionaire bliss
fully indifferent to the ways in which his
millions were being spent, Man of Leis-
ure. with nothing to do but to travel-for
the best interests of the sconceru'-between
New York and Carneiro, and an enthusiast
who desired nothing but the privilege of
doing all the work" 1t was the Enthu-
siast, of course, who lived at the ranch, and
one spring the family of the Man of Leisure
took it into their heads to visit him, and
liked the life so well that they stayed from
l April to November. The paper gives very