The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-01-07
IDEAL Department.

NsMr. Allen II. McLane, of Cherry Hill
was, last week, granted an increase of pen
sion.
Many people of E'kton were annoyed
by their cellars Hing with water the early
part of the week.
The Oxford Pre,s states that nine frame
and three brick d yelling -heases were erected
in that town during the past yenr.
The first issue for the new year of thf
Electric Light published OF Havre de Grace,
shows IN arked improvement over last year
We have received very pretty cAlen
dar from b. C. Bibb " Son, the well-known
stove manufacturers of Baltimore and Port
Deposit.
Miss Jennie Stienecker, of Baltimore,
- who WAS visiting her friend, Mrs. B.
Dunbar, of this town, returned home on
Tuesday.
Mr.. John e. Davis, of the firm of Ward
& Davis, formerly Of this town, but recently
of Brdgeville, Del, spent Sunday with
friends in Elkton.
The Never-slip Horse Shoe should be
put on all horses during the wintry weather,
Mr.. w. d. Dunbar the well known black
smith, adjoining the JAIL has them.
A young son of Caleb Grant residing at
Westam well, fell through the ice at that
place on Tuesday, and was in danger of
being drowned when he was rescued.
A blunder in the Philadelphia postof-
flee caused the Philadelphia Sunday papers
not to reach here until the next morning TO
the great annoyance of many of our citi-
Zens.
Revival services are being held at the
Elkton Free Methodist Church by Rev. L.
ID. South worth, who is assisted by Miss
Emily Woodsook OF she Susquehanna con-
fereuse.
Notwithstanding the stormy weather Of
last Saturday night there was a tair atten-
dance vt the watch meeting service held in
the Elkton NJ. Z. church, in charge of Rev.
j. p. Otis.
Miss H. Good announces TO the citizens
of Elkson that she will continue the laun-
dry business at the Exchange Hotel. Goods
collected and delivered and laundried in the
best city style.
Rev. e. Lloyd Goldsborough,o of Burling
ton, n. j., who recently purchased a resi-
dence in Eikton with the intention of re-
moving here in the spring, is reported 10 be
dangerously ill.
Habit is hard TO overcome. Although
the postoffice WAS removed from The WING
building about ten months siroe, absent
minded people bunGer into our office every
day to mail letters. =
William S. Evans, Esq, elected States
J. Attorney in Novem bsr, assumed the duties
- his position on Monday. Daniel Brat
ESQ, the retiring States Attorney, was
;ispa:5rs official.
Is -Te.srs. George Booth and Henry Vim
singer, ice dealers, each succeeded in har-
vesting considerable good five-inch ice on
= Saturday last before the snow and rain be-
Agan and injured the quality of the ice.
There was even less noise than usual in
A,shering in the New Year in Ekton. A few
: bots were fred on High street and the Sex
. an of the Presbyterian church welco ned
4new year by ringing the bell Of that
jrch.
gMr. Samuel B. Foard, clerk at the
Howard House, is the champion light
weight of Elkton aud has tho belt in his
4possession which can be seen at the Howard
House and which he will defend aga inst
all Corners
1t has been proposed to engage a good
speaker or two and have public meeting
i'll connection with the w. g. T. U. OF ST
Johns and Rock Churches, in ST. Johns
Dk4nrch or Lewisville Hall early in January
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hughes enter.
tanned nearly half a hundred of their friends
ut their new residence on North street ex-
tended on Saturday last, the occasion being
the celebration of their silver wedding, they
having been married twenty-five years.
Rev. w. r. Arnold, presiding elder of
the First district of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, lecture.l on Wednesday
night in the church of that denomination in
this town on 1.-THE Intellectual and Moral
4 Progress the Colored Race Since the War"
John S. Writ, Esq, on Wednesday re-
moved his law Office FROM the room used by
IN for many years in the house of George
mxns-- Cruikshank, Esq, to the lower floor Of
the Jew brick building of Mr.. Jas. L. Foard,
on NSrth East street, opposite Odd Fellows
Hall.
William T. Jones has donated and
decided to Msssrs. Joseph s. Terrell, Parker
l. George, William T. Lee, Malvin Jones,
William j. Jones, William Fowler. Robert
Noes and William T. Jones, as trustees,
piecs Of ground on which TO build new
chapel near Johnsons school house in Els
Neck.
Henry Bell was given . bearing before
Daniel Bratton, Esq, president Of the boa rd
OF town commissioners, on Saturday on the
charge Of drunkenness and disorderlJ con-
duct. Taking into consideration that he
did not cause any trouble to Bailiff King,
who arrested him the night before, is his
custom, a fine Of only 81 and costs was i'm
posed.
Dick williams, a colored man in the
employ of DIR. w. T. Skinner, of Glasgow,
having suffered greatly recently from a
large thorn that had been run into his arm
near the wrist, was brought to Elkton on
Tuesday evening, where DIR. Mitchell, as
sisted by DIR. Skinner, extracted it, The
sufferer was placed under the effects of
ether, and while in that condition became
wild, it taking four men to hold him.
The building boom is not exhausted in
Elkson yet, it would appear from recent
sales Of real estate. Mrs Fl. II. Lyons, who
inherited the Maffit estate in this town, has
disposed of a lot on west High street to Mr.
Hugh McGready, who will build dwelling
thereon. Mr.. A. G. lutte has sold lot on
the plank road near Davis, Keys & Co.'S.
lumber yard to SIR. W NJ Strickland, the
consrsotor and builder, who will erect
dwelling
Mr. Arlington Frazer who has acted as
assistant freight agent at this place, first
under Mr.. w. e. K. Frazer and later under
Mr.. H. G. Baker, has been transferred to
another department Of work on the PhilaG-
elphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
and now resides in Wilmington. We under
stand that he will shortly take the position
of brakeman on passenger trains, where he
will doubtless win advancement by tn.
same close attention to business that no
gave at his former position. Mr.. Malcolm
r. Gilpin, Of this town, was appointed to
the position vacated by Mr.. Frazer.