The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-19

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The non jury term of the circuit court
meets next Monday.
4 Miss Mamie McKinsey, of Philadelphia,
( is visiting Mrs. l.. NJ Haines.
-kempa Ladies' Orchestra, Odd Fell ows'
Hall, Tuesday evening, 22d inst.
The forty seventh anniversary of exer-
cses at Pennington Seminary, in New Jer
sey, will take place ON June 20 to oath, in
elusive.
The Elkton Cornet Band last Friday
night rendered a serenade to Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bennett and were handsomely en-
tertained by them.
Next Sabbath will be Baptism Sunday
in the Presbyterian church, and the ordi-
nance will be administered to several chill
dren of the church.
The Elkton Academy closed for the
summer vacation yesterday. The last week
spent in examinations The school
will reopen on the Monday in September.
There was no service last Sunday night
at the Elkton Presby terian church in order
to allow the congregation to attend the
"children's day" celebration at the Metho-
dist church.
The Annie, Captain Fowler's steam
yacht, took party of friends down the
river as far as Port Herman on Saturday
afternoon. The run was made in short
while, the boat at times making ten miles
an hour.
R. c. Thackery, Esq, was taken very
i'll at an early hour last Saturday morning,
and his condition for day or two was such
as to cause his friends much alarm. We
happy to say that he is now GONZALES.
cent. =,
Mrs. A. f. NJ Finley and daughters,
Mrs. Charles b. Finley and son and Miss
Martha Finley, the noted authoress. have
rented cottage at Ocean Beach, n. j.. for
the summer, and will take possession of the
it next week.
There was much swearing and bad talk
on Wednesday evening done by two indi-
viduals near the Temperance Hotel. 1t
looked for a while as if the affair would
Sio'S u "ibh h6Ht, out ouC hShel tuC
other in to take drink and that ended the
matter.
Roger Witworth at the old corner has
received this week fine line of gas stoves
for summer use. The aurora vapor
stove, The Golden Star, The Silver Star.
Call and see for yourself the large variety
of useful domestic articles he offers to make
housekeeping easier.
|L-Messrs. S. G. Rowland and J b. Steele, of
jthe Port Deposit lawn tennis club, visited
Elkton on last Saturday afternoon and
played series of games with Messrs. Rich
ard Reese and Jules Cuttings, of the Elkton
club. The home players won two of the
three sets played.
MIR. Samuel L. Craig, son of Capt. Alex
Craig of Cecil county. was married on June
Sd to Miss Julia A. Smedley of Philadel-
phia, by Rev. T. Darlington of Delaware
county, Pa. Mr.. Craig formerly resided in
Cecil, but for some years has been engaged
in business in Philadelphia
A syndicate of about twenty persons of
Elkton and vicinity who are fond of speed
ing their horses, have contracted with the
managers of the fair grounds to pay $l0O
for the use of the track to drive on. The
understanding is that the managers are to
keep it in order.
-Elkton needs better mail facilities with
Baltimore. The latest mail for that city
now closes about 1910 p. NJ. The 5:25 train
should by all means carry mail. We have
three mails at convenient hours for Phla-
delphia and should have the same number
for Baltimore. At any rate the time of the
afternoon mail should be changed.
i The Susquehanna Pleasure Club, of
Port Deposit, will take their annual trip
farthast point which they will touch will
be Old Point Comfort S. A. Vannort is
president, G. &. Sill, vice president; James
Rice, treasurer, and John f. Mohrlein,
secretary.
The annual reunion of the Conard-
Edwards families was held on the I'd of
June in the grove of Jesse Edwards, near
New Lexington. Highland county, Chic.
About $50 connections of the two families
were present, among them Joseph Hamble-
ton, Mary Hambleton, Jesse Hambleton
and Samuel Hamb mbleton, of Cecil county.
The annual meeting of the Maryland
State Teachers Association will be held at
the Blue Mountain House, Washington
county, Md, July 9th, 7th and Sth. The
Western Maryland railroad will sell round.
trip tickets from Baltimore to Blue Noun
tain for s.. This is very low figure, as
the usual fare from Baltimore to Blue
Mountain one way is s2.15. Round-trip
tickets to Baltimore will be sold at all sta
tions in Maryland on the p. w. & b. rail-
road at tue rate of two cents per mile each
way. Teachers and their friends wishing
to avail themselves of the reduced fares and
hotel accomm odations should make appli-
cation for tickets for the same to Rev, John
Squire at an early date.
The commencement exercises at the
Ogontz School for Young Ladies', ON the
grounds that were formerly Jay Cook 8
country seat, near Philadelphia, were held
on Wednesday. Among the twenty-three
young lady graduates was Miss Carrie G.
Brady, daughter of Henry II. Brady, Esq,
OF Chesapeake City. The program COM
menced with part song, in which Miss
Brady was one of the six partici pants. AT
the close of the program in the spacious
parlor, everyone went out to the beautiful
lawn in front of the building, W here, under
the large trees by the fountain, skirted on
either side by woods, the class exercises
were read. The graduates formed half.
circle; then Miss Clayton bore plate with
the class vine on it and delivered it to Mis-.
Brady, who, after expressing some beauti
ful sentiments to her schoolmates, planted
the vine at the foot of large oak tree.
AT the regular monthly meeting of the
Maryland Historical Society, held in Balti
more on Monday night, Mr.. Edward NJ
Allen, OF Hartford county, read paper en-
titled "Lafayette's Second Expedition t,
Virginia in 1881 He gave sketch of til,
period, and mentioned S4OO as the price of :
pair of boots, and 800 as the price of .
handkerchief. Lafayette left Elkton fo
the South on April II, 1881, and spent III
first night at Joe Haines', at Rising Sun
The next day he crossed the Susquehanni
at Bald Friar's and stopped at Colone
Rigby's. The scow carrying Lafayette sum
when near ths Hartford shore, and Aquill
Deaver took Lafayette ashore in his arms
Mr.. William J. Burton presented the societ
with a carved boundary stone that serve'
to mark the line between Maryla and an,