The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-26

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offering great bargains in clothing Look
in on him.
Presiding Elder Hill will preach at the
| NJ. f. church tomorrow evening. Love
Feast will be held in the morning at nine
clock.
-Chiidreu's Day will be observed next
Sunday at Johnson's school house. Revs.
j. p. Otis and Asbury Burke will deliver
addresses.
The Elkton Grange have selected the
23rd of July as the day OF their annual ex-
cursion. They will go 20 Bay Ridge on the
steamer Chester.
The Rev. Chas. A. Hill, of Cherry Hill,
preached an able sermon before the scholars
of the Wilmington Conference Academy at
Dover, on Sunday evening ST
designations in the Baltimore custom
house are still in order. Captain Middle
man, captain of the night watch, has ten
dered his resignation to take effect July 18TH
Persons desiring to purchase ready
made clothing, will do well to bear in mind
that Ball still liveth. He Is still at Oak
Hall, opposite the Court House, and has
new bargains to exhibit.
| "A quarterly meeting will be held at the
Cedar Hill a. L. NJ. p church on Sunday
| (to-morrow) with love feast at 9 o'clock n.
m, and preaching by the pastor Rev. C. II.
Williams at II o'clock a. III.
The mecl~nts of EIkton have agreed
to close their stores on Monday, July 9Th.
The clerks got up paper, pedging their
employers TO that effect, and the merchants
were prevailed on to sign.
| Aaron kinsloe, living near Union
church, brought double poided bean to
I this office on Thursday. Aaron is a subs
and selfrespecting colorsd citizen and de
serves double reward for his labor.
A game of ball at Cherry Hill last Sat
urday between the Cherry Hill and Cat
Swamp clubs resulted in victory for the
| Swampers they making 50 runs to their OPP
ponents II.
The Elkton Amateur Dramatic As
sociation held meeting at Odd Fellows
Hall on Wednesday night and rehearsed
Engaged. They propose to render the
play on the evenings of the 9TH and sth of
July.
The Rev. T. o. Ayres has been selected
by the preachers of Dover district the
successor of the late Rev. \. w. Milby to
the presiding edership of that district, and
| he will likely receive the appointment from
the bishop.
The Sabbath school at Crouch Chapel
will meet at the usual hour-half past two
TO morrow. A specially full attendance
is desired on this occasion, particularly the
friends and the parents of the members of
the school.
The right to manufacture and sell Haw-
ley's Improved Double Agitating Clothes
Washer in Cecil county has been purchased
by w. w. Burkey and Charles ID. Jami-
son. 1t is claim to be a very good article
at a low price.
The Kempa orchestra concert for the
benefit of the ElktJn Presbyterian manse
fund, and which was postponed on account
of the storm last Tuesday evening, will take
place on Wednesday evening next at Odd
Fellows Hall. Admission % and 50 cents.
to Colchester Beach on Thursday passed
Elkton about 7:3O o'clock. The ex-
cursionists went to Perryville by cars
where they took steamer for the resort.
Owing to the threatening we lther 10 cars
were sufficient to hold the crowd y
p
Grace, and an ex-member of the Legsla-
ture WAS marri' on Wednesday at the ho-
tel Bellevue, Philadelphia, to Miss Annie
Clayton, daughter of Mrs. Mary Clayton of
112 North Second street, Philadelphia.
There were many invited guests and the
wedding was elegantly conducted.
y A branch of the Women's Christian n
Temperance Union has bs en- organized at
Calvert. The officers are president, Mercy
Mcdowell; vice president Mary z. Swayne
sc ecretary, Mary S. Martindale; treasurer,
Mrs. S. S. Reisler. A public meeting wa
held on June 18th at which addresses were
delivero by Revs. Sheppard and Miligan,
of Zion.
Y There was race last Saturday evening
on the fair grounds between horses belong
ing to DR.. George f. Morrow and Col |. ID.
Davis. 1t was merely a friendly contest,
and not for a wager. Mr.. Il T. c. Crouch
drove Col. Dayis's horse. The race was the
two best heats in three. The horse driven
by Mr.. Crouch. took the first and third
heats, and that of DIR. Morrow, the second
Time, SOP, 2:j4, 2:52
The lesse of the Overland Telephone
Companies lines intends to extend them to
Cecilton, Bay View, Zion and Calvert.
Communication will then be had by tee-
phone with eight of the nine election dis
tricts in the county, the eighth or Mount
Pleasant district, being the only one not
connected. The exchange at North East
has been removed from the North East ytu:'
Office to Housek' eper and Moore's drug
store.
Mrs. Butcher, a color | woman of
Cokesbury, three miles from Port Deposit
was brought to Jail last Saturday morning
by Constable John \. White, of Port De-
posit. She had been committed on the pre-
vous day by Magistrate Abrahams to await
the action of the grand jury on the charge
| of receiving SO which, it is charged, her II
year old son Nathan stole on Thursday,
from Thomas Delany, a colored man, of
Cokesbury. The boy left the state. The
woman has a two year old child with her in
Jail.
Judge Bryan gave the decision of the
Court of Appeals on Tuesday in the we'll
known case of Palmer Strickland vs. Lee y
Bro. Lee x Bro, indorsed a note of Rich
ard Thomas's for a machine, and the plain
TN, on the dishonor of the note, proceeded
against the indorsers, who, elaine |, under
the agre .ment, Strickland was bound first
| to make the money ont of Thomas if he
| could. The court below thought that Strick-
land had the right to proceed directly
against the indUrsers, and the Court of Ap-
peals atfirms the judgment.
The annual adjustment of salaries of
| Presidential postmasters, based upon the
| gross recei pts of the offices, under the act
of March 9, 1888, has been completed. to
take effect July The readjustment makes
the folio wing changes in Maryland: Balti-
more, from $4,000 to $4,000; Annapolis,
81 900 to s2,30o; Cambridge, 81, 800 to 81, 400;
CentreN lille, 81, 200 to 1900; Easton, 81 900
to Sl,70O Elkton, 81 800 to 81 400, En- mts-
burg, $ 600 to 81, 200; Frostburg, 81, 100 to
1900; Port Deposit, 81, 200 to 81 900; Tow
son, 81 100 to 81 900.