The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-12-11

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| Miss Mobile Pmuel returned home %
Saturday last from Washington, where sh
had been visiting friends for nearly eigt
weeks.
MIR. b. Il. Dunbar this week purchased
a two seated Sleigh i'll Philadelphia, an'
also purchased cutter from Mr.. Roge
Witworth of this town.
Mr. W. Irving Walker who has been
long and trusted employee Of the MeCuI
Tough Iron Company succeeds Mr.. Slmper
as chief clerk at their North street works.
Some of our old residents say that tn
snow storm of the early part of this weel
was the heaviest that has visited this place
since the 22nd of February, 1854, the nigh
of the burning of the Elkton Academy.
|. -Messrs. Richard Carpenter, Geo Wit
worth aud Levin Shockley, young oarpen
tiers of this town, left this week for Darby
! Pa, where they will work on the new
depot for the Il. 4 O. railroad company.
The trustees OF the A. L. NJ. p. churcl
of this town on Saturday last made pay
meut of 500 to Mr.. Jacob Collins in par
payment for "A lot on the corner of High and
Collins street, where they propose to cree,
a new church.
The Rev. w. I. Savoy, pastor of the
| Providence \, L. NJ. Z. church, whils
cleaning snow Oft the roof of his house on
| l,. f..Il loo
badly. He was attended by DIR. IL. H.
Mitchell.
| 1t puzzles many people to select suita-
| BILE Christmas presents. Umbrellas havs
become popular as such, becau,e they are
both useful and ornamental. Read Cooper
Il Conard's card on the subject of umbrel
las.
Thomas C. Crouch, the well known boot
and shoe dealer, will close his entire stock
ofboots and shoes, and also boot and shoe
cases, shoemaker's supplies, and entire
store fixtures, on Monday afternoon next,
at +. NJ. and at p. NJ, at public auction.
The Maryland Farmer for December is
finely illustrated and filled with valuable
| lnformatIOn This book is conceded to be
the favorite of the farmer. Published by
Ezra Whitman, Baltimore, at the low price
of 81 per annum in advance, with 4 pre-
MUM.
The goa head" clothiers Oehm & son
offer for short time genuine waterbury
watch with every cash purchase exceeding
I of, I'D
vertisement in another column. 21a three
story warehouses Cor. Pratt & Hanover
street britntul of bargains i'll mons, youth
and boys clothing.
The old adage that Love laughs at
locksmiths" has again proven true in the
case OF the marriage of James Drennen, an
employee of S.nserly's pulp works, and
Miss Minnie Long, daughter of John Long
of this town. The ceremony was performed
bv the Rev. ChaS. A. Hill, at the Cherry
Hill NJ. f. parsonage on Monday night last
Mr. Clifford Is. Cook, OF Little Britain,
! Lancaster county, Pa, and Miss Helen +,
| Mearns, of Zion, Cecil county, We're mar
ried on Thursday of last week by the Rev
3D. II, MlInpdn OF Llon ne CtreulOhv "as
performed at the residence of Mr.. Joseph r.
England, relative of the bride Mr. and
Mrs Cook went to Washington, ID. c., on
their wedding tour.
! Harris NJ. f. Sunday School has closed
for the winter. There were eighty-siy
| scholars during the season. The officers Of
the school were as follows: Superintendent,
p. NJ. Groves; assistant superintendent
R-v. Asbury Burke; secretary, Miss Flor
euce w. McNamee; treasurer, Miss Kat,
Wilson; librarians, Edward Wilson and W
GaIuor; organist, Miss X. NJ. Wilson.
AT special meeting of the County
| Commissioners on Tuesday petition was
filed asking that Elk Neck railroad cro.sius
be designated as one at which a tlagnar
should be placed Upon the recommended
ton of the building commission and til,
| trustees of the poor, the board decided /,
have the third story of the Insane asylum
completed, thus giving third more room
| in the building.
-Sudie Ethel Ricketts,, only daughter o
Thomas II. Eicketts, formerly of this vi
cinity, bat at present in the Baltimore Gus
tom House, died AT its parents home il
Baltimore on Saturday of membraneou.
Group. She was very interesting child
nearly two years old, and was at the break
fast table with her parents Oh Friday morn
ing and died the next day at four in til,
afternoon. The iutsrment took place OF
Sunday evening at Eikton cemetery.
The sleighing, the early part of thu
week, was not of the best owing to the drifts
Messrs. McElwee and Armstrong, W no wert
riding in "A sleigh, were overturned in from
of Browns provision store. Several sleigh
came near upsetting ON Tuesday in front o
Mitchell's drug store where the snow was
at that time, higher on one side of the roa
than the other. Several ladies' cried oa
with fright as one runner went up so muct
higher than the other and nearly upset tn.
sleigh.
which will be at Odd Fellows Hall mex
Tuesday, the Musical Critic says: 9Th
Schubert Quartette has entered upon it,
fourth season with the prestige of past sue
cess, and now stands in the front rank O
the musical organic atoms Of Philadelphia
The members of the company are ssloist
of marked ability, and member of promi
nent church choirs. BY careful and intelli
gent training they have attained great ex
celence in quartet singing.
Alexander Johnson, alias Cuff, " no WA
several months ago convicted of the murde
OF John Sharple>s, i'll Delaware county, Pa
was on Monday last sentenced to be hun
by Judge Clayton. \ motion for a ne,
prisoner will take the case to the Suprem
Court of the State. Cuff lived in Csc
county for many years and was severe
times sent to the penitsntiary for thevlug
Although he is a natural born thief it
doubtful if he be a murderer. Many thin
that the evidence on which he was convicte
did not justify the verdict.
Our old friend, Peter Peterson told Il
on Monday of = coincidence in his life. ii
was married on the 9th of February, 1874
1t was his birth day. He left the home
his wife's father, Jacob Derrickson, nea
Stanton, Delaware, at eight o'clock on til
morning of that day, and drove ten miles t
the house OF Theodore Carlisle which stoo
near the London Tract Baptist church whel
he aud Mary Ann Derrckson were mad
man and wife b- the Rev. Thomas Barton
Exactly 40 years after ards, at the san
hour aud on the same day. his wife die,