Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-09
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ELRTON.

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
ELKToN, Dec. 2.-Mrs. Stephens of
Wilmington, President of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Will
miugton Conference met the members of
the Elkton Society on Tuesday night at
the residence of Mrs. Lucy Litzenberg.
Mrs. Stephens read an address, and others
sang and recited. About 20 members
were in attendance.
Last evening at 2 80 o'clock Charles
M. Boulder prominent merchant of this
town was married to Miss Mary McOul-
Tough, daughter of Hon. James Il. McCul-
Tough of the Cecil bar, and q cousin Of
Judge Frederick Stump. The ceremony
was quietly performed at the residence of
the BRIDES father in Main street, by the
Rev. r. w. Beers, pastor of the Presby
terrain Church. But few were present ex-
cept the relatives OF the contracting par
ties. The bride was the recipient OF many
handsome presents. The newly married
couple left on the 912 train for north
ward tour.
Il. O. Thackery, trustee, yesterday sold
at private sale the Enoeh Howell farm,
containing liz acres, situated near Fair
Hill, for $4,000, to Henry Fl. Kimble,
treasurer of the Farmers and Mechanics
Fire Insurance Company of Cecil county.
A young Italian, known as Mike, while
handling gun, yesterday afternoon, at
his home, four miles from here, was acct
IDENTIFY shot. A painful wound was in
t1icted. The injured man was brought to
this place and received the surgical care
of Dir. G. M. Ellis.
ELKToN, Dec. 8.-The snow is very
much drifted in this locality, the drifts in
some places being higher than the fences.
The mail carrier from Lewisville, Pa,
who usually reaches here with his stage
coach At s o'clock in the morniug, did not
reach the post. office until O'clock yes
terday afternoon, and came in sleigh.
Trains on the p, w. & b. railroad were
greatly delayed, and the mails late. An
officer of the company said that the drifts
were much heavier between Elkton and
Stanton than above.
Owing 10 TIE heavy storm the eonyen.
ton OF the northern convention of tho
diocese of Easton, which was to have met
in the Church of the Good Shepherd al
Chesapeake City last night and continue
for two days, has been indefinitely post
poned.
James DrenDen, an employe in Sin
gerly's pulp works here, was married on
Monday night TO Miss Minnie Long, the
17-year-old daughter of ohn Long, a
well-to-do. citizen of Elkton. The cere-
mony was performed at the Cherry Hill
(Cecil county, M. E. parsonage, by the
Rev. Charles Hill. The couple went 10
Philadelphia on q train several weeks ago,
with the intention of getting married.
They were taken in custody by an officer
on reaching that place, as the father of
the girl had telegraphed for Bremen to
be arrested on the charge of abduction.
They spent the night in the station house.
The marriage of the young lady was in
opposition to her parents wishes, but, she
being over 16 years of age, it was lawful.
William j. Jones, Esq, trustee, yester-
day sold the small brick building on
Ninth street opposite Odd Fellows Hall,
belonging to the estate of the late Hiram
Mccullough, to State Senator Clinton
Mccullough, who at present uses it as an
office $500 was the price paid.