The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-03-27

The Cherry Hin public school, Of ~ hich
| Miss Martha Biddle is principal, was Wis
tied last week during the examinations by
/ st persons.
Sheriff Mackey was considerably indis-
/ posed this week, being confined to the house
for three days. He is now able to be out
! again.
/ Jacob r. Logan nov of Washington,
! ID, c, but formerly of Elkton, preached
| in the Free Methodist church On Tuesday
evening.
Patrick ,iorrrll who was committed to
| Jail last week 10y Magistrate DeFcrd on the
charge of beating his wife has been re-
| leased she not caring to appear against him.
/ ~ bill passed the Maryland House of
| Delegates on Tuesday providing for the col
lection of taxes by the clerk of the county
commissioners, under the supervision of
! the commissioners.
Several families who had intended to
| change their residence did not do so, owing
10 the fact that the persons occupying the
house they were to move into refused to
get ont.
There appears to be dearth of houses
for workingmen in Ekton real estate
agent after he had disposed of the houses in
his care had over fifteen applicants for TO
rent dwellings.
The enlargement and improvement of
the store room of Mrs. litZenberg will be
I Il, law
lis and Hughes. As previously stated in
THE WING there viii, be a handsome glass
front to the store.
Water works are to be erected in Eis-
| ton Mr. Casson, of Smyrna, has been EN-
poyed as engineer. and has made prelilni-
nary survey. The work will probably be
completed in July, and will cost about
twenty thousand dollars.
Seven agricultural machine agents
from Kalamazoo, Michigan, are canvassing
Cecil county for Il patent plough sulky.
The manager has his headquarters at the
Howard House and will soon have more
agents at work.
Daily I.enten services are held in Trim
days, when the hour is 80 p NJ. Service
is also held in the Church of the Good Snep-
herd, Chesape Ike City, regularly on We'd
nes,lay evenings at 80. All are welcome.
A new time table ent into effect the
first of the week on the +. w. X. Il. rail
road. The only change of trains stopping
at this station was the accommodation
which formerly left EIkton moving south
ward at 10 ~ \. NJ which was changed to
three minutes later.
AS will be noticed by an advertisement
in another column the three persons sup
plying the people of Eikton with ice have
agreed on scale Of prices To be charged by
each of them this summer. Owing to the
great competition and cutting in rates, il is
said, that but little money was made by any
of the dealers last season.
-uur town election will be held six
weeks from next Monday. Balitf George
T. King, and Captain William Wright, the
two candidates who announced themselves
sometime since for baliti' are as yet the
only ones in the field and it is likely that
the contest will be between these alone.
We have heard OF no one who is p,r;icu'
larry deSirious Of the office of town com
mission with the town financies in their
present bad condition.
Our readers should not fail TO take
trip to Wilmington and visit the famous
"Bee Hive store OF K. l. RUSSELL SOC Mar
ket street. and secure some of the many
bargains that are now being offered there.
He is selling all wool dress goods at - cts.
yard, AMI bas dress goods As low as j cts
a yard. The saving in the price of goods at
| this house as compared with elsewhere will
more than pay the expenses of the purch-
er'S visit.
-"Lrdy Brank,mere," a new novel by
The Duchess, has Just been issued in Low
ellis Library. This publisher having Sc
cured advance sheets OF the work has man
aged to get it III the market many days in
advance Of otherp publishers Joseph Hinch
life has laid in = large supply of the book.
Price zoe. at TIE store, or pc. by mail The
Duchess is the most popular OF living wri-
tiers and the author Of "Molly Bawp,"
"Phyllis, Airy Fairy Lillian, "poris,"
/ and other stories.
The dramatic society of k-nnett Square
| which purchased the manuscript of the
copyrighted play of Hazel Kirke' from
the Eikton Amateur Dramatic Association,
! rendered it on last Saturday night. The
! kennett NcrS and AdcertiSer says of the
production This play was one of the best
ever undertaken by our amateurs and the
acting was higher scale than hereto
| fore, all who took part in the entertainment
did remarkably well, and the play passed
along in Il natural easy manner, which de-
! lighted the audience. The music of the
evening was very good. The sale of tickets
amounted to over Sill. Had the night
been pleasant the hall would have been
much too small to accommodate those who
wished To witness the nliv.'
The Newark correspondent of the Viii
mington Ecc,y Erening writes as follows to
that journal: L lilroad rumors are flying
around here promi scuously lately and find
many firm believers. However some are
well substaDliated particularly the coup de
capture the Hons share of the Newark pas
senger traffic from the Il. X Q. railroad.
| As is known, the L. w. X Il. station for
this town is about ii mile south of town.
The new station of the rival corporation
will be situated at the western euu of town.
To overcome this advantage Of the Il. Il Q.
the Pennsylvania intends to establish a
branch depot at the estern end of town, on
the site of the present depot of the Newark
x Pomery railroad. \ party of Pennsyl.
yania's officials including Superintendent
Carter, Superintendent iiipckey and others
came out on a special train aud viewed the
proposed site and determined positively tt
either station regular train at this brancf
depot in town To connect at the present de
pot with all the trains or to change the
main line that it will touch the eastern
ent route. With this latter project in view
they ordered the line surveyed, and th
has been accomplished. The road, if tn,
place is approved, will diverge from it
present route about three miles east O
Newark and run on a tangent to this tow
and then reioln the original line two mile
e below.
~ large number of Elkton peop
changed their residences on Thursday
Robert Frazer went into the house purchas
ed by him some time ago from Mr.. Nc
= KinSey: Miss Eliza Mccullough took tn