The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-03-14
Brevities.

tonight.
-Rev. Charles E. Edwards has declin ed
call to Zion and Rock Presby terian
Churches.
A dancing party took place at the home
of Mr.. Mark Cannon on High street last
Tuesday evening.
If Thomas jackson, the colored man
who murdered Manzo, the Italian railroad
laborer, is not brought to justice, it will be
IA lasting disgrace to Cecil county.
Mr.. II. Vinsinger, is having new
barn carriage house etc, erected on the
property on east Main street, recently pur.
chased by him from Mr.. w. E. X. Frazer.
Rev. Edward A. Smook of Lewes Del,
will preach at Zion Presbyterian Church,
tomorrow Sunday morning. and at the
Rock church in the afternoon at the usual
hour.
Mrs. Robt. NJ. Walmsley removed from
the dwelling on Main street where she has
resided for NUN Der of years. to the prop
erty of Mrs. David NJ. Taylor further east
on the same street.
-Competent judges pronounce Martenet's
new map of Maryland As near perfect as
anything in this world can be made. A copy
of it can b, seen at the office of the county
commissioners.
We came across one of the deputy
clerks of the Circuit Conrt, the other day
engaged in carpenter work. He said that
buSiu-ss was SO dull in that office that he
had to go out and hunt for something to do.
When the reporter for one of our CON-
tsmpnraries again criticises such celebrities
as George Eliot" he should FIRST consult
his own English grammar, and not commit
an objectionable error in the same sentence
in which he points one out.
Capt. Alfred Cozzens, one of our
teemed citizens, who has recently inherited
a considerable estate by the death of re-
lation, will shortly embark for England
where he will be put in possession of his
legacy.
The barrel race at the skating rink ls-
tween two youngsters was quite amusing.
Me.srs Middleton, Armstrong, Haines and
Burckart, of Newark, Del, visited the rink
OF Thursday evening last, and gave an +x-
hibition of very fine com bination skating.
A dinner and supper will be given at
the parsonage of Elk Neck charge, NJ. E.
church, on Thursday the 18th inst, from
three until ten o'clock P. NJ. This is the
same day on which tho sale of Alex. Hart
takes place.
-Messrs Scott s. Bros schooner, f lith
w. Scott, Capt VIM. Wright, arrived here
Oh Thursday last from Baltimore. She has
been engaged in the oyster trade during the
rast fall and winter, whenever the ice did
not prevent.
Mrs. Lucy L teen berg, of this town,
spent several days in Philadelphia this week
taking lessons in the art of stamping in the
latest style for embroidery, etching, outline
&c, so a. to be ablo to serve her customers
here as well as they could he in Tho city.
The ten plaques of a newspaper office
are bores, poets, cranks, rats, cockroachss,
typographical errors, exchange tiends, book
canvassers, delinquent subscribers, and
paper better than the editor does himself
Paper World.
The volume of noise made by the pu-
pills of the public school, Of this town, a,
they pass over the boardwalk after dis.
missal would drown out the racket of hall
a dozen fog horns. Each indiqidual en-.
deavors to make more noise than their
eighbors, and they usually come out about
square.
Miss Mary McKinsey, late of Newark,
Del, has located here and will carry on the
dress making business in all its branches.
She may be found at the residence Of Mr..
James I. Alexander, at present GA Main
street, but after March 18th on High street,
nearly opposite Groomes alley.
Capt N. p. Manly, this week COM
pleted tho erection of a new barn upon the
rear of his property on east Main street.
After it was fully completed it was discov-
cred that it was about six inches over upon
the property of ex-Shsrif Morris Dunbar.
On Thursday the building was moved, put
ting it entirely upon its owners land.
One of the largest congregation. thai
ever assembled in the Elk Neck A. NJ. p
church, net there last Sunday. 1t was al
all day meeting az they are termed, that i.
the congregation remains at the church or
in the vicinity ali day. Usually refresh.
menfs and provisions are sold, though .
great many take their provisions with
them. Three sermons were preached
morning, afternoon and night
jackson, tho murderer Of tho Italian
Manzo, is still at large and it appears that
no effort is being made to arrest him. He
~ TO be at his home in Virginia, and
J -tiGu bSarrested with little or no trouble
The county commissioners should make an
appropriation to cover tho expenses of his
arrest and transfer from Virginia to Ceci
Jail. The sheriff, OF course, cannot be ex
pected to undertake it at his own expense
jackson should be brought to trial for this
atrocious crime, even though il costs tn.
county thousands of dollars
crowds Of young colored boy. tram
the country over in this vicinity almo,
every day, carrying every conceivable kind
~ hie arm one tnnskeIS, HOcn6ut InuZZle
, leaders, banging away at any living thing
that comes in their way. We heard tn,
other day of a pair of these little scamp'
who had shot n number of red birds, ii n,
.ongstors, but totally unfit for food, as the >
feed i'll winter upon the berry of the green
brirr, which is poisonous Ths law provide,
fine of 81 for each bird of this kind shot
and it should be enforced against thes,
plnnderers.
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