The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-08-18
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-hlcnaru II. GfOVSS, VINO advertised
reward for a lost horse, found it himself ON
Saturday last.
There will be service next Sunday at
half-past seven o'clock at st. Johns in the
Wilderness, Elk Neck.
The new caunery of Mr.. Samuel H.
Miller near wilma is in operation. Peaches
and tomatoes are being canned.
The Harrison and Morton club of North
East will be addressed this evening by
Henry NJ. Mccullough. Esq, of Elkton.
Rev. F. Williams, of Chesapeake
City, will preach in the Elkton Presby terrain
Church Sunday next, morning and evening.
Our correspondent is informed that
the interesting letters from Rockbridge
Island SPRING., Virginia, will appear next
week
A colored woman in blue riding habit
on horseback was an unusual sight in Elk
ton on Tuesday and attracted considerable
attention.
Mr.. Edwin V. Hinchliffe a local preacher
of the NJ. E. Church filled the pulpit of Pro
violence A U. NJ. P. Church, Ekton, last
Sunday morning.
When you visit Baltimore. stop at the
Maltby House, where will be found first
. class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mch17tf.
A spirited tariff debate between two
we'll known Elktonians in front of the
Howard House on Tuesday evening attracted
quite crowd of listeners
The improvements to Marley Mills are
nearly completed and operations will be
commenced about Sept. 1st About 60 per-
sons will be employed.
Rev Mr.. Hoffm m, of the Philadelphia
Conference, filled the pulpit of the Cherry
Hill M. E. Church last Sunday morning
He has been visiting Mr.. James Smith, of
that place.
There will be an especially interesting
sermon by Rev. j. L. Vallandipgham, at
Head of Christiana, on Sunday next, the
18th. Subject, Everlasting Life" All are
invited.
A festival for the benefit of the M. p
Church at New Leeds will be held in Mr.
Daniel Harvey's Grove on Saturday even
ing, August %. large attendance is
solicited.
"A tent meeting will be held under the
management of the pastor of the A. NJ. f.
Church in Elkton beginning on Sunday
next and continuing until the Friday fol-
lowing.
The Big Elk Sunday school will hold irs
annual picnic in John Fl. Blackstone woods,
on Thursday August 23rd. Should the
weather be unfavorable it will be the next
clear day.
The newly elected board of mana gers
of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
Cecil county organized yesterday at II a IN.
Mr.. Thomas Drennen was. reappouted
secretary and treasurer.
WIN. Purnell, employed as fireman at
Sing rly's pulp works was taken suddenly
i'll Thursday while at work and a physician
was summoned. His illness was caused by
excessive drinking of ice water
We have received an attractive cata.
logue from the B. C. Bibb Stone Company
of Baltimore. 1t contains descriptions of
their excellent heaters and stoves and many
testimonials regarding the same.
The Town Commissioners have reap-
pointed Jacob LOTHIAN lamplighter Owing
to the increased number of lamps to he
lighted his salary was raised to to $500 He
is required to furnish oil for a number of
lamps.
Owing to the wnsheet of a boiler
being burnt at an early hour last Monday
morning Singerly's pulp works were shut
down until Thursday morning. A coIored
man whose neglect caused the accident was
discharged.
Rev. Asbury Burke will preach next
Sunday in Elkton NJ. f. Church at both the
morning and evening services. Mr. Burke's
pulpits at Bethel and Glasgow will le filled
by Mr.. Edwin V. Hinchliffe, a local
preacher of Elkton.
The seventeert university of the
Band of Hope Temperance Society will be
held at OFT Chapel, Chestnut Hill, on Thurs
day the 2srd inst, afternoon and evening.
Addresses. recitations and music will make
up the exercises.
insane asylum was attacked on Thursday
by James Barber an inmate. In defending
himself and subduing the insane man Mr..
Racine was compelled to lnfiict some slight
injuries to Barber
-Amassa Brown, the North street mer.
chant, Accommodated a stranger one day last
week bv changing five dollar note The
note proved to be counterfeit and Mr.. Brown
will probably be shy of strangers with
money to char ge hereafter.
Mrs. j. B. Quigg, wife of the Rev. J B.
Quigg, of North East, went, last week to
Flushing, Long Island to the bedside of her
son, Lemuel Ely Quipg member of the
editorial staff of the New York Tribune
who is i'll with typhoid fever.
collecting the taxes promptly. At the frs
meeting of the county commissioners il
August last year the county treasurer had
only collected S94S. At the same time thi.
year, Treasurer Hopper had collected ST,
48S10.
A series of revival meetings will b,
held in Providence A. U. NJ. P. Church
beginning Sunday, August 26th. The pas
tor Rev w. HI. Fax win be assisted b,
Revs. C. w. Sides, of North East, j. w
G ihson, OF Havre de Grace, and Mrs. Archie
OF Wilmington.
Mr.. Chas. j. Rudulph, the efficient tele
graph operator has been indisposed fol
several days and confined to his home
His brother Robert, who was very i'll is con
valescent. Mr. Chas G. w .lls has been in
charge of the telegraph office during Mr.
Rudolph's illness.
"A tin box was placed in the corner o
the new Methodist Episcopal pa rsonage OF
Tbursday. 1t contained the names of al
the persons contributing money for the pur
chase of the lots, the minutes of the las
session of the Wilmington Conference, snG
comics of the THE CECIL WING and othe
papers.
Young, old, and middle aged, all ex
perience the wonderfully beneficial eff
fects of Ayers Sarsaparilla. Young chill
dren. suffering from sore eyes, sore ears
scald head, or with any scrofulous faint
become healthy and strong by the USE
of this medicine. Six bottles, %.