The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-02-13

lege, will preach in the NJ. T.. Church q
this town tomorrow morning, rs well 4
evening.
The George w. johnson, who was ,ho
in the arm near North East on last Sunday
week, has since died from the effects of hi,
injury.
This is the day the temperance con
vention meets and it is desired that ever!
true temperance worker in the county -
in attendance.
In the year l1712 Easter fell rs it fails il
1886, and Good Friday aud Corpus Christi
the feasts of Saints George and John The
Baptist.
The large bulk window in the tobacco
store of Mr.. Charles IL. Smith, on Mair
street, was crushed in at the top on Mon
day last by large quantity of snow and
ice falling upon 1t from the caves above.
An esteemed contemporary states III
its issue this week that "Blind Tom will
play the piano for his friends at odd Eel
lows hall" 1t was always our opinion
that Blind Tom played the piano for about
twenty-five dollars per week.
The David Orr G. y. Il. Post No. 81 OF
Port Deposit will hold Washington birth
day ball, at Odd Fellows hall, on Monday
evening, Feb. 22nd, Past s. Y. Commander.
in chief VIM. +. w. Ross, and other COM
rades from Baltimore will be present to
participate.
Miss Emma Miller entertained her CO.
members of the Elkton Amateur plmatic
Association at a banquet at the residence of
her father $. X. Miller, Esq; at Cherry
Hill, on Saturday evening last. The even
| ing was one Of pleasure and enjoyment to
all who were present.
| Why some of our euterprsing capital
lists do not build a number of small com
Portable houses IN Elkton which could be
rented for reasonable sum we cannot un-
derstand. Many moyings will take place
in the Spring and it is difficult matter to
find vacant houses.
-Elkton seems to have been aroused to
| its duty lately in the matter of amuSe-
ments. There have been several entertain
ments each week in the hall for month or
more and the same condition OF ati,lirS is
likely TO continue Throughout the present
month.
The great storm of Thursday caused
the water in the creeks and river here to
rise rapidly to an unusual height The
marsh at one time was like the Chesapeake
and the torrents of water We're rushing in
every direction, threatening property, but
eventually doing little damage, at one time
the water in the river rose twenty inches
above high-water mark in less than a half
hour.
The County Commissioners We're in SEES
sion on Tuesday and w eduesday, engaged
mainly i'll the correction of the assessment
for 1856. Proposals for erecting the bridge
at Head of Sassairas were received from
George Il; Tarbutton At 500 and William
II Spratt az $50 y delegation of citizens
of Chesapeake City waited upon the board
and urged them to add 81 600 to the school
appropriation for the coming year, So as to
enable the School Commissioners to build ii
suitable school house i'll that town.
A correspondent of the Erety Ercning
writing to that paper from Mddletown this
week says i'll reference to the peach crop:
If we have two more days like Friday and
Saturday the peach crop for next season will
be counted among the missing. Years ago,
when the peach tree was genuine, and had
not been subjected to various experiments,
the crop was considered safe until the
thermometer dropped to 1J9 below zero.
The nurseymen have tempered with the
trees so much that now such weather as we
are having ruins them. So much for efforts
to produce new and excellent" varieties
permatureS for instance.
Breton Riviere's charming picture
"Sympathy" has been engraved as a pre-
MUM for G"dey'S Lady's Book for 1886, and
is one of the most desirable Inducements
EVER offered by that or any other magazine
The plate is an unusually fine one, very
faithfully produced, and Of size that
makes it acceptable either for the porofolio
or for framing. "Sympathy" represents a
fair haired little girl sitting on stairway,
jectedly on her hands, while a comcal old
dog presses close to her side, poking his
nose over her shoulder, and saying as dis
tinctly as any dog could say, '''m awfully
sorry for YOU" The picture is wonderfully
expressive and has had an immense sale in
Europe.
1t is evident that the Philadelphia
Dddg Ner$ is the most widely al city
paper in Cecil county. Some weeks ago
the manufactures of Heckers Buck wheat
offered several prizes through the columns
OF the NctrS to those who constructed the
largest number of words from the letters
contained in checkers Buckwheat." The
prizes We're won by Philadelp hilns, bat the
following Cecil county folks endeavored to
make the largest list: b. A. Smith, Port de-
post, 1850 VIM. w. .Alrich, L kton, 12J6;
&. +. Price, Port Deposit, 1893; Mary Il.
Thomas, North East, 10fl; ID .niel Feeihey,
. Elkton, 9lG Annie Deshane, E.rlvlle, 40,
Miss |. b. Wight, Iron Hill, 72l; G!nnie f.
Herber, Port Deposit, 4i6; Alice Dryer,
Cherry Hill, 42l; H. Saving, North East,
3+4; w. w. Crow, Appleton, 6;jS
| A freight train on the Philadelphia
| Wilmington and Baltimore railroad jumped
| the track about II o'clock Tuesday morn
| ing at p rryman's station the other side of
! Havre de Grace, and delayed for five or six
hours trains going either way. The freight
train was made up of twcnty-Seven cars
The locomotive bounded off the track, and
after going short distance managed to get
back again. The locomotive separated
| from the cars, but they followed it off the
of the cars we're damaged and the freight
had to be transferred to other cars. A force
| of men went to work as soon as possible to
! clear the blockade. Trains left Baltimore
on time and waited at Perrymln'., and all
trains going to Baltimore stopped on the
other side. Gov Lloyd was one of the pas
sengers delayed. The first train that passed
| Perryman's after the acci lent left there
about five o'clock in the afternoon Four
trains arrived at Aun Station shortly
after other. The train due at Baltimore at
1910 u. NJ, was over five hours late. Trains
for Philadelphia We're correspondingly be-
hind time. Mob pdy was hurt by the acci
dent.
ALL Hartford county turned out at
Havre de Grace on Tuesday last either As
spectators or participants i'll sleighing
carnival. GOV. Lloyd was unexpectedl '
present He was l passenger on the Wash
ington limited express, which was DELAYED