The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-12-04

Mr.. Singleton Parker aud Miss Florence
Janney, both of this vicinity, wrre married
on Wednesday evening last.
-Singerly's pulp works will be lighted
withthe electric light beginning with abouv
the first of January next. The Sawyer elrr-
trio light system will furnish about 100
lights which will light the works, office aud
stables.
Ada Dunbar, aged Is months, vounge-l
daughter of VIM. &. Dunbar, of Newark
but formerly of this town, died on Monday
morning of diphtheria. Her remains were
Inferred in the Elkton cemetery the sane
day.
An idtiou is being bnit 10 : nser.ys
pulp works FOR the use of new machinery
which is to be introduced to evaporate the
water from the liquor from which the black
ash is made. Workmen FROM Wetherll's
machine works, of Chester, are at work
placing two large steam boilers.
Tho report of the Pennsylvania Rtil-
road Voluntary Relief department for Octo-
Dor shows that a total of SI7 1881 20 was dis
burssd. OF this amount 81, 292 20 was for
the Philadelphia, Wilmington Il Baltimore
road The widow of the late Edward w.
Charsha received $500.
MIR. James Mercy this week moved
into the residence which he recently Pur-
chased from DIR. Butler. DR. George t.
Morrow took the house Mr. Mercy vacated
fro; "a
moved into the house on Church street va
Gated 10y DR.. Morrow.
BY the advertisement in this issue Null
lin g. Son, the clothiers of Wilmington,
make the extraordinary offer of giving an
elegant watch, chain and charm to custo-
mers who will buy boys clothing to the
amount of $40 and upward. They ar. do
ing this to reduce overstock and to id-
vertiso themselves more extensively.
Concerning Miss Imogene Chandler,
the elocutonist, who will accompany the
Schubert Q.rtette next Tuesday evening"
the Danbury Neacs says: ''N1iss Imogene
Chandler is a bright charming young lady,
and her selections we've in admirable taste.
She fairly earned the applause and encores
given her. In enumeration she Is distinct:
in gesture happy, and in expression pleas
ing"
The Rev. Mr.. Vallindiyham on Sunday
last preached sermon which closed his
thirty third year at the Head of Chistidpa
church. He took for his text the words If
St. Paul "Lord what will thou h I'VE me to
do" He said that he had not pre- ched for
SO years simply to entertain his hearers, but
with the hope of building them up in the
faith. His anniversary sermon WAS listened
to with unusual interest
There is nearly every year. an exciting
contest for mayor of our neighborlng city of
Havrs de-Grace. The election takes place on
the first Monday in January next, aud al
ready candid IteS are looming up for the
various positions. Among those mentioned
as possible candidates for mayor are Muir
ray Vandiver, the present mount bent, Ar
thur Vosburg, S. j. Seneca and Col. j I.
Frieze. The coming election promises 10
be exciting one as several local questions
will be- brought out tor the various candi
dates to answer.
BARRIERS are a much abused class They
are generally amiabe and chatty fellows.
not like tailors who are melancholy men,
and now because they considerate
erS, while being served by them, some crank
in New York city proposes to start clubs all
over the country to squelch them He says
they talk TOO much, and that the thing to
do is to organize and take a vow to leave
any shop in which the barber talks except
on business during shave. 81 am disiu-
terssted myself" says he, "because | never
get shaved in the same shop twice and have
not done 50 in years. There are 1900 shops
in New York, and at two shaves a week |
can get along for more than twenty years,
by which time l shall cease to need shay
ing"
S lie johnson. a colored girl in the EN-
ploy of George A. Blake, Esq, was arrested
on Wednesday night by Deputy Sheriff,
Harvey Mackey. She was charged on the
oath of Jno Il. Gopce with havin. obtained
goods from his employer Il. G. Lewis, on
false pretenses. The girl came to the store
and said that Mrs. Blake had sent her 70:
samples of dress goods which was not fact.
She went away selected one to suit her and
returned. The goods We're cut and
handed over to her. Upon learning
that Mrs. Blake had not sent the girl
for the cloth, the storekeeper had the
warrant issued. The goods We're recovered.
The girl was released the next day, the in
jured parties not desiring to prosecute her
She said that she had expected to work out
the amount of the goods at Mr.. Blake's.