The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-08-21
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arrested on Tuesday morning charged witt
assaulting his wife and brother law Lem
mel Jennings and being otherwise disorder
ly.
/ The depot at Singerly on the b. Il q
railroad is approaching completion and will
be occupied next month. 1t is partly 'i
brick and partly frame and is quite attrac
tive.
The extreme heat of last week wa
hard on horses. Mr.. James Clark on tn
Smith farm on the Blue Ball road lost an ex
cellent COW last week, and Thomas Drennel
lost a valuable Guernsey.
The Chestertown strawboard mill begar
operations on Tuesday last. 1t is the first
that place. 1t will run day and night an,
employ about fifty hands.
On Thursday of last week Sheriff Baker
of Chester county took James Irwin VIII,
is charged with selling liquor without Ii
cense in Chester county, from the Elktor
Jail to the Jail at West Chester.
The Oxford Base Ball Club played re
turn game with the Newark club on Satur.
day last. The Delaware boys were the vic
tors by a score of IL to s. Two weeks az,
the Oxford nine defeated the Newark by
score of 16 to 8.
There will be picnic held all of today
by the Sabbath school of Harris NJ. E. chnrcl
at "Red Point" fishery. There will also be
a picnic at Wesley Chapel on Saturday
Aug. 2Sth. Refreshments will be served OF
the grounds all day. Rev. Asbury Burk,
is the pastor in charge.
//-Mr. Thos. McGowen, one of the mana
gers of Singerly's paper and pulp works,
met with accident on Friday of last
week, when he was thrown from his CARR
age on the plank road and dragged some
distance. His arms and body We're very
badly bruised.
Mr.. Benjamin f. Sippington, aged 80
years, died on Friday afternoon of last
week at his residence East Neck Island,
Kent county, Md, of complication of dis.
cases. after a sickness of about six weeks.
Mr.. Sappngton was one of the most extern
sive peach growers in Kent county.
Il. Alfred Boyd one of the best known
baggage masters of the Philadelphia Will
mington and Baltimore railroad was serious
ly hurt by being caught between the cars of
his train at Grays Ferry on Tuesday. One
of his legs was badly mangled near the hip.
He was taken to his home at Perryville.
Mrs. Emily Drake, wife of Mr.. George
Drake, of Wilmington, Del, died on Sltur-
day last at the residence of her brother-in-
law, William Drake, on the Drennen farm,
few miles west of Ekton. She had been
tons and was ~ years of age. Her funeral
took place in Wilmington on Tuesday.
On Tuesday last Miss Elizabeth A
Purnell, daughter of Col. VIM. IL. Purnell,
president of the Frederick, Md, Female
Seminary, was married 10 Charles Graham
Blandy, of the firm of c. G. Blandy & Co.,
members of the produce exchange New
York. Both of the contracting parties for
merly attended Delaware Dollege of which
the brides father was president.
The Rev Irwin l.. Cation, pastor of the
Presby terrain church, at Chesapeake City,
has been taking well earned vacation from
the engrossing duties of his pastorate, at
Champlain, Clinton county, New York,
near the Canadian line. The Reverend gen.
tleman returned on Thursday to Chesa-
peake City and will resume the usual ser
vices at his church tomorrow the I'D inst.
Two young men were arrested by one
of our county constables on Saturday night
of last week on the charges of horse steal
ing and brought to Elkton Jail. They were
afterwards released on bail. As it is claimed
that the cases against the parties is very
weak it will be time enough to parade the
reports of the matter when the accused are
declared guilty if this ever happens.
Nathaniel Butcher, a colored youth
was committed to Jail on Saturday last by a
Port Deposit magistrate, on the charge of
having stolen considerable money from
Thomas Dulaney several months since. He
is also charged with other thefts. His
mother has been confined in ill for some
money which, it is alleged, he stole from
Dulaney.
Paul Read, who is charged with being
one of the murderers of Chilly the Joker >
spends bis time in Jail in counting the let
tiers, words etc, in the bible. He claims tc
have counted all the letters, words, verses
chapters and books and shows visitors the
figures. IL was at first thought that he had
copied the list from some newspaper but he
has tally lists aud memoranda which makes
it appear otherwise.
EARLY Saturday morning last the barn
and outbuildings of Mrs. Mary G,m aud
the barn of Postmaster Albert n Sutton in
ST. Georges, New Castle county were burn
ed. The dwelling of Mrs Gam was ais,
partly destroyed. The Odd Fellows Hall il
which our former townsman j. William
Perkins conducts harness making adjoin
ed some of the bu ildings destroyed an,
would have been consumed had there b eel
much wind at the time
/ On Thursday of last week as a little Sol
of Mr. James T. Watt of Cecilton was play
ing along the road, Mr.. j. G. Cruikshanl
drove along in carriage. Unexpected by
the driver the boy endeavored to pass be
fore the team and before it could be stopped
he had been knocked down by shaft an,
two of the wheels passed over his head an,
neck. Although considerably bruised an,
stunned he was not very seriously injured
On Monday night last the tent of Mrs
James Fl. Hurlock at Woodlawn camp wa
entered by thieves while the ladies wer
sleeping and S2S belonging to Mrs. Hurloc
stolen and So belonging to Miss. Cora HUI
lock. The money was taken from the pock
cts of their dresses which were lying nea
their bed. There is no clue to the robbers
but it is thought that they were the sam
persons that entered the house of Mr.. HoI
kins in Port Deposit on Sunday night.
Geo. Clifford and Schurer, who were ar
rested at Colchester some time since an,
lodged in Chestertown Jail upon the CHI re
of robbing bath houses of money and othe
valuables, and b. p. Farmer, who was al
rested on the charge of selling liquor, oscar
ed from that All Monday night about
o'clock. Soon after their absence was dis
covered the sheriff was informed that the
had been furnished with a conveyance by
young man named Schurer. Schurer wa
then arrested He admitted that he ha
taken them AS far as Bette"ton, and il
thought that they took the boat for Bait
more. Elwood Card, the other person a
rested at Colchester, was released on bail