The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-09-08

of the church. If stormy it will be held the
next fair evening.
james Lyle, died at his residence on
Elkton avenue, Newark, Del Tuesday
night aged about 6S years. He had been i'll
for many months. Mr.. Lyle was recently
engaged in the coal and lumber business al
the p. w. & B. depot, Newark.
| "A range in the kitchen of Mr.. John
| Wilkinson became overheated on Wednes-
| day evening and ignited some woodwork
Their Was considerable difficulty experien-
ced in getting at the fire. DIR. H. G. Wells
assisted to extinguish it with his "Babcock. "
| Marks Lieberman proposes to sell the
stock of clothing in his store on Main street
in the "Hollow" al haltcost This is owing
| to the fact that a part of it was slightly
damaged by water at the recent fire. The
reduced price will continue for thirty days.
Call and examine the goods.
! -"Rover," the fine large black New
foundland dog belonging to Mr.. Roger
| Witworth has been missing for over two
weeks L; is thought that the dog may
have been taken by peach traders, many
of whom pass Mr.. Witworth's store daily.
| Mr.. Witworth valued the animal highly.
The trustees of the poor at Il meeting
| last Saturday morning decided to remove
j. h. Polk Racine from the position of sup
erintendent of the insane asylum that he
had held since that institution was opened
4 ,,,I rod LOFT
Carhart, of Kinks Mills to succeed him.
The change takes effect Septem Der 25th.
Qualified persons will be given an oppor-
tunity to register on Monday, Tuesday ami
Wednesday next as the officers of registra-
ton will sit in their several districts on
those days for this purpose, as well as to
| transfer those who have moved from their
| districts. All young men who will come of
age before Novem Der 9th can register and
vote.
The Town Commissioners are having
the Bow street sewer walled from where it
crosses Wing street to the site of the How
| ard House stables. 1t will be given sutfic-
| Gent fall to cause the water to flow to the
creek and not stagnate and produce un-
pleasant and unhealthy odors as at present
Baliff George 4. King has the work in
! charge.
The bottle has had another victim. At
| Cold Springs, Pa, on Thursday morning of
last week the body of a man YVES found hor-
ribly mutilated on the track of the Port
nd yol n P,i1 he
was a tramp and he had been run over dur
ing the night by south 1ound freight
train. An empty whisky bottle was found
beside him.
Jabez A. Bush and Jacob Roop, of Carroll
county were in Elkton Wednesday. They
came to Chesapeake City by boat from
Baltimore and had with them a carriage
and pair of horses. They made tour
through the second district of this county
and the lower part of New Castle county.
They left Wednesday afternoon for Port
Deposit.
Among those in the upper section of
the county who have lost horses recently
by influenza are the following; VIM. Boyd,
near West Nottingham, John B. Tyson,
near Woodlawn, George Williams, near
College Green, j. w. Rowland, near Port
Deposit, Charles Resler, near Calvert,
Frank Nickels, of West Nottingham, Ed
ward Brown, near Principle and Charles
Wilson, of Calvert.
Frederick Y. Lane, son of Thomas
Lane, formerly of chesapeake City, died
on Monday in Wilmington in the 18th
year of his age. His funeral took place
from the residence of his parents No 1910
Lombard street, Wilmington at o'clock
Thursday morning. The remains were
brought 10 Elkton ON the cars the same
morning and taken to Bethel NJ. E. bur-
al ground, for interment
The public schools throughout the
county opened on Monday. The Elkton
school is in charge of the following teachers:
George A. Steele A. NJ, principal; Misses
Bertha Thorpe, Florence Mcfarland and
Mollie Mccoy assistants. One hundred and
ninety names were enrolled. Should the
average attendance of the school be 10 an
other teacher will be employed.
Frederick H. Racine died at his resi-
dence in Elkton on Friday of last week
aged about 40 years. He suffered greatly
from cancer. He leaves a wife and FIVE
children. He recently sold his farm near
town to Mr.. WIN. NJ Singerly. His funeral
took place Monday, Rev. VIM. Schouler, of
Trinity p. E. Church, officiating. The choir
of that church sang several selections. The
intermcnt was at the Elkton cemetery.
There is '.wildman' yarn going the
rounds in Elkton and causing considerable
talk among the colored people and others.
Charles Fronk, an Elktonian states that
| while with bis daughter picking berries in
the woods on the farm of Thomas Drennen
east of Elkton recently he saw two tents.
| Soon afterw ards he was startled to behold
| two naked men. They were colored. He
started in search of his daughter and saw
no more of them.
| There was a serious runaway accident
in the upper part of Cecil county recently.
| 'th' -h'tiOu H. NV OS1 VI hCai I%iou, "ds
driving with his friends, Mrs. c. A. Ray Of
Reading, Pa, and daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Fritcher and child when the horses fright.
ened at threshing machine in operation
| near the road and ran off All the occupants
OF the team were thrown out. Mr.. McVey
was badly bruised and Mrs. Ray was bruised
about the shoulders and rendered uncon
scious for time. Mrs Fritcher escaped
injury but her baby had number of rib.
broken.
With the September issue Book Neu
(John Wanamaker, PHILADELPHIA enter
on its seventh year. Book NeUs has Ions
passed the experimental stage and nov
easily ranks as the foremost publication O
its kind. The leading article is by Julia,
Hawthorne, who describes with his usua
felicity the quality he calls "Atmosphere'
in the literary art. The monthly chat "Witl
the New Books" and the reviews are full
up to the standard; the miscellany is varie
and interesting, and accompanying tn
mum her is an excellent woodcut of the lat
E. p Roe.
Mrs. James Beers, who resides a
Beers Corner. in the Fourth district
f certainly remarkable woman. Althoug
ninty-three years old she walked from he
place of residence to Elkton on Tuesda
last, a distance of about four and a ha
miles. She has not been well recent
either Mrs. Beers draws a pension, havin
had son who was killed in the war
the Rebellion and once in three month
comes to the Register of Wills office