The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-05-01

4 bnilding, now owned by him, reprinted.
| DR.. Butler advertiSeS for sale his house
and drug store on the corner OF Main street
and Delaware avenue.
! Civil Service examinations for positions
in the Baltimore custom house will he held
on May 10, 20 and n. Applicants from
Cecil had better file applications at ouce.
Miss Smith, who was employed during
the winter terms as an assistant teacher at
the EIktou Academy, left last Saturday for
her home in Frederick.
The front OF VIM. j. .Alricn's new store
room when completed will present a hand
! some appearance. The woodwork on the
! inside will also he nicely finished.
A party of young men of Elkton have
made arrangements to receive the scores OF
professional baseball matches in all the
cities by the r. x O. telegraph immediately
after they are finished.
Mr.. John Saunders, of Port Deposit,
has contracted to build Presbyterian
church at Lower Chanceford, York county,
Pa, of Port Deposit granite, from the quar-
res of McClenahan Bros.
Luke Goodyear was brought before
Magistrate Partridge on Saturday at the
| instance of John +. Wilson, Esq. Good
gear was put under 5000 bail to keep the
peace. Warrants are out for Two sons Of
GoCdvearS.
Mr.. Singerly's famous IInl>ten heiter,
Constance s, died last week of rupture of
the stomach at the "Record Farm" Mont
gomery county. Her record of eighty-three
pounds of milk in one day is said never To
have been beaten 10y a two year-od.
Mrs. Luke Long, Of Elrlville, had six
o. her fingers lacerated on last sunday
morning by the explosion of a cap used To
ignite dynamite charges which had been
found by one of her children. She was
pickin. the charge trotA the cap when il ex-
ploded.
William Whitley, Associate Judge of
the Superior Court, died Friday in Viii
mington, Del, aged % years. He served
two terms in Congress Just before the war
was delegate to the Democratic National
Convention of 1860 and 1876, and was
Mayor of Wilmington from 1915 to 1873.
The Presbytery of New Castle at its Se5-
sion last week appointed rs commissioners
at the General Assembly Of the Pfe,by-
terrain church, which meets at Minneapolis,
Revs |. l.. Cation, of Chesapeake City, aud
j. T. UmStead, of Smyrna, and MeSsrs. J.
Toadvine, of Salisbury, and + Il. Frazer,
of Port Deposit.
john +. Wilson, Esq has issued a cir
cuiar in reference to the book which he is
preparing TO be entitled "Maryland in the
Civil War" The work will be well bound
contain 800 pages, and Will be sold at s. per
copy Those wishing it, should address the
author, as the sale of 900 copies should ha
assured before it is published
Edwin Prettyman, of Dover, Del. who
has succeeeed Ward x Davis, has an en-
trely new stock, which is said to be the
largest and most complete assortment Of
shoes ever exhibited in Elkton. MeS>rs
Ward & Davis moved their stock To their
new store ut Bridgeville, Del, Mr.. Pretty
man only purchasing from them their fix
lures and good will.
In another column we publish the card
OF Mr.. w. c. Laws, who is associated with
the firm of WINS X Bro, dealers in furui
ture and plain and fancy coverings and
hangings. at No. - North Second street,
Philadelphia. Mr.. Laws desires his Cecil
friends TO visit him and see the large and
carefully selected line of goods of the firm
which he represents.
On Tuesday night last the PliHripio
Furnace Literary Society debated the ques-
ton" Resolved, that the Press Has More
Influence than the Pulpit" The negative
side won the decision, Messr-. w. +. Char
shee and y. +. Jackson being the deb1tegs
on the negative side, and MeSsrs. w. T..
Coale and Michael Moore and Miss Della
Jackson argued for the affirmative part Of
the question.
Tuesday evening last. Mr.. Patrick J.
McNumee, supervisor Il. X O. road at i'rin-
cipio, and Miss Julia Entter, daughter of
Mrs. Frank Patterson, of the same neigh
berhood, We're married by Rev. Joseph L.
Barry at his residence in Havre-de- Grace
| They returned the same evening to Priuci-
pio and We're enthusiastically serenaGed
\ reception and fine treat followed, at
the residence of Mr.. Il. Il. Eutter, the
brides grandfather.
Mrs. Mary McLane Ward, widow of
the late Thomas V. Ward, of SlsSafraS
Neck, died at an early hour on Tuesday
morning, after a lingering illness, AT the
residence of he. Sor in-law, Rev. DIR. II. II.
Cruikshauk, ut Dubois, tleartitld county,
Pa, aged about 80 years. She was a daugh-
ter OF Or. Allen McLaue. OF Delaware, and
first cousin Of eX- Governor Mci.&np, of
Maryland. She leaves two sons and two
daughters to mourn her loss. The sons are
William Ward, an eN-nember of the House
Of Delegates, and Mr.. Thomas Ward, both
now residing in the First election district
this county. The daughters surviving her
are Mrs. DIR. Cruikshank and Mrs. Lore
The remains were taken to SaSsttras Neck
on Friday and inferred in st. Stephen,
Gem etery beside those of her husband
We wish to call the attention of our
re aders to the advertisement of Head <
Nanneman general commission merchants,
whose office is at No. "A South Gay street,
These gentlemen are both native Cecil couu-
tians, having formerly resided in Port DE
post. They have ample capital as well as
a valuable mercantile experience to insure
the success of their new enterprise They
solicit consignments of grain, -four, hay,
straw and other country produce As each
/ partner has had 10 years experience in the
business theE can safely promise all ship
pers to guard their best interests at all
| hazard, and will make liberal cash ad-
vances Oh receipt of bill of lading ana
| prompt returns on sale. With this liberal
offer their excellent references and we'll
known business ability we safely predict
| their success.
The case of Mrs. Hannah N. Hogrlaud
vs.. The T., w. Il Il. Railroad Compan was
| begun on Wednesday in the Circuit Court
for Kent county. Mrs. IIogeland, while
crossing the railroad track in wagon in
| August, 1884, was struck in the head BY an
engine and badly injured. She was re-
| moved to the residence of Mr.. William r.
| Giles, i'll Elkton, where she lay for several
| weeks between life and death, and was
afterwards taken to an hospital in Ph.la-
| delphia at the railroad company's expense
| When she had sufficiently recovered, suit
WAS brought in the Cecil County Circuit
Court for 900 damages. On the motion