The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-08-14

pastor.
A full attendance of the Elkton Ggang
7. of IL. is desired at the Regular Meeting
ls6n August DIST.
A festival for the benefit of the New
Leeds Church will be held in the woods o
Daniel Harvey Esq, on Saturday evenins
2lst instant The public are respectfully in
vited.
The 18th annual picnic of Big Elk Sab
bath school will be held in Jesse Taylor
| grove, Thursday August 10Th. The public
are cordially invited TO attend. If rain thu
next fair evening
Reuben HaineS, Esq, trustee, this week
| advertiseS to be sold AT public sale on Sep
| TENDER 9Th Il very advautageously located
| farm on Elk river near Locust Point in tn,
Second district.
Judge Stump, +. Owens and James
Ward were a delegation before the County
Commissioners this week in the interest OF
a new school house in Perryvile and were
successful in their mission.
The Masonic excursion from Whining
ton To Bay Ridge by way of the F., w. x
b. railroad to Baltimore and from that
place by the steamer Empire State to Bay
Ridge was patrouzed by about - persons
of this vicinity.
The commission having in charge the
repairs to the Court House have decided to
put an entire new floor in the first story.
This was not stipulated in the contract and
Contractor Talley will receive several hun
dred dollars extra for the work.
1t has been found that the steamer
Nelly White, which was reported in our
issue of last week was beached TO save her
from sinking will prove total loss She was
valued at $50, 900 and belonged to the ST.
Michrls Steamboat Company. She was
not insured.
Be where you may, even stranger i'll a
strange land, and somebody that you know
is bound to turn up. This was illustrated
in Quebec, Canada, last week where Mr..
William Kershaw quietly sauntering along
the streets met face to face Collector Groome
and wife of Elkton.
Judge James A. Lewis having leased
portion of a warehouse above the depot will
shortly begin the grain, coal and phosphate
business. He has put in a pair of large
scales. r.Lewis has many friends through
ont the county and will doubtless be sue
cessful in his new undertaking.
About nine o'clock on Monday night
two employees of Providence Mills eng 'ged
in fist fight in the business part of Cherry
Hill. They hammered each other until
neither was greatly injured. 1t is said that
woman was the Innocent cause of the row.
We call the attention of our readers to
the fine property in Elk Neck which VIM.
j. Jones, Esq, trustee, advertiseS in this is
issue at public sale in Elkton, on Tuesday,
Sept. 7th. The property is known as the
RuUter farm, and contains l66 acres and is
one of the most productive farms, not only
in the Neck, but III Cecil county.
The pupils of the Friends Select School,
b. NJ. House, will be pleased to meet the
kind genial face of their former teacher,
Florence y. Dance, who will return and
take charge of the school on the sixth of
9th month. All who have been under her
care we know will gladly welcome her back
and those who have not should avail them
selves of this opportunity.
There is a vacant scholarship allotted
to Cecil county at Washington College,
Chestertown. The judges of the Orphans
Court have the appointing power and will
name some one for the place on Tuesday
August 9th. Applications should be sent
to the Register of Wills. Applicants must
spell and write well and have the rudiments
of good education.
We have received the first number of
the Church Hill Nc,rS which will be pub.
lished monthly. This paper is intended for
Church Hill, Sudlersville and Millington.
The editorial board is composed of William
DuHamel, b. A., managing editor: VIM. j
Evans, local editor and manager for Church
Hill; w. O. Thomas, l)cal editor and man
ager for Sudlersvllle, and Il. ID. Evans, NJ.
N'~'''
ton. The Nr,"s is neatly printed and newsy
and has our best wishes for its success.
Senator German has expressed himself
as follows in regard to the Shaw-Talbot
that he proposed to keep aloof from com
plications there and in the other districts.
He had plainly indicated that Congressman
Shaw should have the Endorsement nomina-
ton usual to party customs. But he can
not presume to dictate where others do not
agree with him, nor to have differences with
democrats who are his friends. He regrett-
eli the complications in that district.
On Tuesday afternoon, DIR. w. \. B.
Sell.nan of Baltimore, who is spending a
couple of weeks with his mother-in-law
Mrs. Oliver, who is Sumipering in Elkton,
started to go Grabbing accompanied by a
friend. When they had reached Morgan's
shore less than mile from Elkton the doc
tor in endeavorins to transfer his watch
from one pocket to another disconnected
the watch from the chain and the former
fell overheard into the channel of the river.
The watch was valuable gold one and
VALUED at S225. DIR. Sellman offered Il lib
eral reward for its recovery and Capt John
without success.
Some months since it became the Gus
tom in the city to have a little bell attached
to ones clothing to ring when stale joke
off win no fro IF n.,ll lin
out "chestnuts." The ''chestnut' bell
reached Elkton this week and the boys and
girls ring them whether witticism is at
tempted or not. The ringing of the bell is
even more seuseieSS and more of a nuisance
than stale joke.
VIM. NJ. Siugcrly, Esq has purchased a
new steam yacht from Thomas Kane 4 Co.,
of Racine, Wisconsin. The yacht is about
% feet in length, about 81 feet across the
beam and will accommodate twelve persons.
The deck is open and has an awning cove T,
ing. The engine is run by coal oil. The
steamer is called the "Nlable'' and was
launched in Elk River from Singerley S
wharf on Thursday. She is probably the
first new steam vessel ever launched in Elk
river. The freight on the boat from Racine
to this place was 500.
The station agents for the Baltimore &
Onio railroad have been selected There
We're many applicants for the places and
two We're selected tor each of whom the
| first named is to have the preference. At a
large majority of the stations the agent will