The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-26
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= The trustees of Elkton Academy on
Saturday last elected Viola Matthews,
daughter of Pierson Matthews, of Elkton,
to the vacant scholarship in that school.
DR. Flagg's free minstrel show, which
was in Ekton last summer, is drawing
crowds now at Chestertown. The doctor
still sells liver pads and various Dostrums.
The Union NJ Z. Church festival at
West Nottingham last Saturday evening
was a very successful and pleasant enter
tainment The net receipts for the benefit
of the Sunday school were $3.50.
Mrs. Litzenberg in new card in this
weeks WHIG calls attention to several spe'
cialties which she is Offering to the ladies'
of this vicinity Read her advertisement
for particulars.
The Messrs. Duyckinck with their
usual enterprise are about to erect a largc
warehouse on the line of the B. O. be
tween Zion aud North East. The business
of it will be under the management of Mr..
y. L. Duycknck.
Frederick H. Clash, of the firm Of Dren-
men & Clash, insurance agents of Elkton,
and a graduate of the class of 1884 of St.
Johns College on Monday evening last de-
livered an address before the Philakalian
Society of that college.
Owing to the fact of the ith of July
coming on Sunday, we will observe the fol
lowing Monday, July 9TH, and close our
store excepting one hour at noon for the
distribution of the mail only. CARH AKT *
Co, Zion, Md.
The Elkton and Newark Base Ball
clubs played very interesting game last
Saturday at the latter place. The Newark
nine won by score of to &. The fielding
in the last few innings was particularly
fine, neither club scoring after the fifth
inning.
"A country lad lately wrote the edi-
tor of the Baltimore Sunday Herald from
Elkton as follows: "Please tell me what
are good table manners; | mean, What are
the things which lad should remember
when he is asked to dine out in company ,"
The editor enlightened him.
The overhanging branches of TIRE IS in
many parts of the town prevent the thor
ough lighting of the sire cts, particularly
during rainy weather when the branches
are heavy and hang lowest and the nights
are the darkest. The commissioners should
rememb Der the biblical injunction not to hide
their lights under bushel, and have the
branches trimmed.
There is expectation, says the Lancas-
ter Ne,o Era, that passenger car will be
attached to the first freight down the Co.
lumbia and Port Deposit Railroad. This
would land Lancaster and Columbia people
at the romantic and sporting points down
tine river at an early hour in the morning,
instead of at half-past II o'clock, as at
present. :,
The barn OF barns is that one raised
during the last week between Tw eedville
and Fair Hill by William Holland 1t is COX
80 feet Mr. Holland was himself the boss
carpenter, and although it took part of
three days to raise it, yet the timbers fitted
nicely together. The first day of the rails
ing 115 men sat down to a sumptuous dim
ner of chicken, turkey, mutton, etc. The
entert aininent must have cost a good round
sum.
We have received the following from C.
j. Smith, of IIolmesburg, Phil .delphia,
LOTT IA Of Il. I,al Nnlu
teers, of which large number were from
this county: "Some two dozen of the sur
vivors of the SecoLd Delaware Regiment
met on the Goth inst. in Philadelphia and
organized a meeting by electing the follow
ing named officers: Pre- sident, Lieut.. Chas
retary, Charles j. Smith 1t was decided
upon to hold il reunion at an early date.
The next meeting will be held at Anna NJ.
Post, Post Room, Hutchinson and Girard
Aves., Phila., on the afternoon of 9th inst.
to which all the surviving mem bers of the
regiment are invited, and correspondence
is solicit a.
The applicants for positions i'll the Bal
timOre Custom House who were examined
recently by the Civil Service examiners
have received notice of their standing. We
understand that of the Cecil county appli-
cants Mr.. George NJ. Reese, of the firm of
Reese 4 Freeman, received the highest
grade, he being among the ten highest of
the more than hundred that We're exam
ined for clerkships 1t is highly compli-
mentary to Mr.. Reese to have stood 50 high
in an examination participated in by the
brightest young Democrats from all parts
of the State. Among others receiving a
higher than the necessary grade were ex-
County Commissioner William s. Potter
and Deputy Register of Wills George X.
Ash. We hope they may each get good
fat office under Collector Groome.
Julia Chambers, an industrious colored
woman of Chestertown, thinks she has
made narrow escape with her life. A
friend of hers di,d week before last and
was burit in a dress belonging to Julia
through mistake. A superstition among
some of the African race is that when thi:
is done 'as the dress mOuldereth away
the owner would mould away with it. julia
firmly believed this, and says she was very
unhappy when she heard of the dreadful
mistake her friends had made, and unless
this mistake was rectifed she must soor
die. She Immediately sought the relative:
of the buried woman and gained permis
sion to open the grave; and with a male
friend she visited the cemetery at night
dug up the corpse and removed the dress
AMI now Julia feels safe Kent Ne,rS
"A correspondent of the Sun asks "I
the collector of customs should call on tn,
proper officials for names from the register
that he may select ten men for appoint
ment, how many names would be sent fol
the collector to select from Forty or ten?'
Collector q roome says in the event of a va
cancy the civil-service commission woult
certify four names to him from which t.
select one. The other three are entitled Il
two further certications for vacancies, ant
on second application for names, thcs
three and one other would be sent to max
up the four from which to select an ap
pointee. When name has been certified
to him three times and is rejected, that can
didate il dropped unless the collector speci
ally asks fo: it. The probabilities are thai
If the collector were to ask for names from
which to fill ten vacancies, he would hav
thirteen sent to him. The highest average
made in the late competitive examination
for the several grades of the cu.toms SCI
vice were about %.