The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-10-09
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The Rev. Mr. Hume. of Long Island,
New York, is visiting friends in this county.
IT. Allie Price, formerly of this vicinity,
who is employed clerk in the freight de-
partment of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad at Chicago, is home on visit.
The freight train which landed the
Baltimore daily papers here at an early
hour has been taken OF, and the papers of
the Monumental City Go not reach this
place until S.2S.
Julius L. Bradford, former resident
of the Second district of this county, and a
brother of Judge Edward &. Bradford of
Wilmington, Del, died on Thursday OF
last week at Wilmington, aged 60 years.
Lost on Monday evening last on the
Cecil county fair grounds, boys chinchila
(brown, with white cord running through)
overcoat. The finder will he suitably re-
warded if returned To this office or W. w.
Neal North East.
DR.. r. C. Mackall, one of the lay dele
gates from the Easton diocese to the trien-
NAL convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of America, left this place on Mon
day for Chicago where the convention is
now in session.
The finest melon we have tasted this
season was raised on Mr.. John Hogg's farm,
near Elkton. We can say this through the
kindness of the Misses Hogg, to whose
courtesy we are indebted for this splendid
specimen of home cultivated fruit.
A P. Shockley auctioneer for VIM. S
Evans, trustee, sold on Saturday morning
last at public sale the farm of James Yates,
deceased, situated near Iron Hill station on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, containing IS acres to Tim
othy Rose for $500. =,
Our old friend, John Meekins, of North
Z asst, has just flushed the foundation for
Mr. j. H. Bacon's dwelling house in that
town. and is about to begin the brick work
ou the other stories. john is a 60 nj work
man and we wish him success all the year
round.
We are glad to be able to say that the
enterprislng junior of the w-ll-known firm
of B. C. Bib Il Son, Mr.. b. 5. Bib, and
b ) mother have just returned from a two
months sojouru in the Adirondicks very
much improved in health, which, We know,
will be good news to his friends. "
\ A petition askirs Governor Lloyd to-
commute the '-..ntence (not yet imposet) OF
Paul r. d, colored, convicted of the muir
per of Billy the JOKER" from hanging to
imprisonment, is being circulated and ex-
tepsively ssgned by leading citizens inciud
jag the counsel for the prosecution.
The Rev. j. p. Otis preached the first
of series of sermons or prohibition last
Sunday evening in the NJ. E. church. The
other sermons of the series will be preached
on each Sunday evening until they are con-
cluded. The reverend gentleman said that
if he was given to choose between the
poorest prohibition and the best license law
he would prefer the former
"A resident of this town who was not
very well pleased with the result of the
trial OF Read and Maunoa for the murder
of Chilly the Joker says that after hear
ing the testimony in the Case and dellber-
ating carefully thereon he has reached the
conclusion that the Joker committed sui
eide by crushing his own skull with the
hammer, and that mice ran away with the
money!" He is convinced of the pldusi
bility of his theory. believes it could be
used to advantage in Reads favor in case he
is granted new trial, and respectfully re-
quests us to submit it to the public.
A well dressed man who must be the
sreenest of the green else an imbiber OF
pear cider, rang the doorhel of the Jail the
other day, and when answered by the lady
of the house asked if he could get his
dinner there. Az tramps sometimes requ est
lodging and meals of the sheriff, if it were
not for his good clothes, the lady would
have classed him with these. The hungry
stranger noticing the ladies hesitating
manner, said they told him the hotel was
large brick building near the railroad. He
was hunting for mine host of the FELTON,
House, aud had got slightly out of his
latitude.
-Dodd, Mead & Co., have just published
two new stories by Miss Martha Finley of
this town, 'The Thorn in the West" and
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Times in noticing them said: "In the forne r
the story opens in Western Pennsylvania
in the spring of 1897, but the scene is soon
transferred to Chilreaths which had been
only recently laid out by General Nathaniel
Massie in what then known as the
Northwestern Territory. 1t is good story
of Western life. when Ohio was the West,
and it is quite as interesting, if not as SEN
s,tional, as the tales of border life written
years ago by Dr. Bird. "Elsie's kith aud
Kin" is an addition to the Elsie books.
Our old friend, VIM. &. Mercy, gave
us a few days ago fire specimen of ba
mana cantelope raised by him in Elk Neck.
1t had rich aromatic II .vor, only found IN
the best varieties of the musk melon, Its
prolific growth As a fruit bearing vine Is
only another evidence of tie possibilities OF
Elk Neck, and fresh proof of the adapta
bility of the soil of that favored section OF
our county. Bounded by a noble river on
either side, ffordiug the easiest transports
Iion for its products, there is no reason why
it should not become in the near future ona
grand fruit and vegetable garden, in cult.
waiting which it would yield the richest re-
turn. 1t grows The best wheat, the finest
peaches and outrivais New Jersey in its
sweet potatoes.
-Junus Goffney, the mulatto who, after
planning the robbery of Chilly the Joker, -
managed to no, be present when h, WAS
murdered aud also managed to steal the
money which had been taken from Green,
was released from Jail last Saturday Golf
ney having received $40 for attendance az a
witness shook the dust of Cecil county of
his feet and took the cars northw ard vow
INIT he would not return. Gntfney is
considered, by many, to have b-en worse
man than Read. HIS testimony on the stand
and the manner in which he batf1ed the
lawyers for the prisoner in ths C ise Of State
VS.. Mannon, showed him to be shrewd
aud crafty fellow. Goffney was light mu,
latto, good looking, a native of Virginia
and perhaps carries some f. f. V. lega
Llood in his veins.