The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-05-26

front of the church on Friday evening,
June St. Strawberries, ice cream cake and
fruits in abundance. If Friday evening
should be unfaVorable the festival will be
held on Saturday evening, June nd. Pro
ceeds for benefit of Sunday School.
Willie Ricketts,, fourth son of State
Senator Clinton Mccullough, died on Mon
day morning of iptercular meningitis. He
was an interesting child of five years and
his death is a sad bereavement to his
parents. His funeral took place on Thurs
| day, Rev. VIM. SchOuler officiating. The
interment was at the Elkton cemetery.
The roof of the coalhouse adjoining the
pumphouse at the P, W. &. station i'll
this town was discovered to be on fire on
Tuesday last. \ freight engine was near at
the time and hose from it was turned on
| the blaze 1t was exUinguished before gain :
ing much Roadway. The fire is supposed to
have ignited from spark from passing
engine.
| Mr. Edward TAYLOR, of Elkton, has
recently sold several horses. The promising
young horse recently purchased by him
| from Mr. John c. Thackery, was sold to
Sheriff Biard of Camden, y. J., for 5000.
A roam horse was purchased by Mr.. WIN.
Evans, near Rising Sun, for Sl75. Register
of Wills r. Z. lamar also this week pur-
chased a horse of Mr.. Taylor.
| The Cecil County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Executive Committee
will hold their quarterly meeting at Chesa,
peake City, on Thursday, June tn. at 80
A. NJ. A public mass-meetiug will be held
in the evening, when addresses will be
given by county officers upon different
branches of the work of the organization.
| a cordial invitation is extended to both
ladies and gentlemen to attend this meeting.
Mrs. Rorer, whose lectures on cooking
in this town are we'll remem bered as also
her service as judge of the household de-
partment at our tair, has prepared a volume
fo7 her fellow-housewives entitled the "Hot
| Weather Dishes" 1t has just been issued
| in attractive form by Arnold 81 Co., pub
fishers, Philadelphia, and promises to
achieve the same wonderful popularity of
the 'Cook Book" by the same author.
john Lahees, a lineman assisting in the
erection of new telegraph poles along the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
met with painful accident near Newark
on Tuesday last. He was using a drawing
or a scalping knife which slipped, cutting
cash several inches long in one of his legs.
He was taken to the office of DIR. Kollock
where the wounds were sewed up. The
man was sent to his home in Philadelphia.
The ladies of Trinity Church will hold
a strawberry festival on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, June and I, in the
house owned by DIR. j. H. lamar, on the
"Green," opposite the Church. The pro-
ceeds will 80 to the organ fund. Miss Cora
lamar, the skilled orga mist of the church,
has already received contributions from her
friends for this purpose to the amount of
over 5000. Her intention is to purchase a
pipe organ, when sufficient amount of
money has been raised.
In the Chester county, Pa, court on
Tuesday of last week the Case of Joseph S.
Pogue, agent, of Rising Sun, vs.. David H.
Davis, of East Nottingham, Chester county,
was decided by a jury in favor of the de-
PENDANTS. This was case concerning
drill. Twenty witnesses were present. Mr..
Pogue, it is stated, failed to prove that
Davis contracted to purchase drill and the
jury was out but short time. This was
the third trial of the case. Mr.. Pogue won
in both the other trials.
Edward Brown aged II years, son of
Mr.. John Brown who lesides on the Ray
mond farm in Delaware near the line divid-
ing that State from Maryland, had one of
his legs broken on Tuesday evening last. He
was riding horse home from blacksmith
shop when he lost control of the animal and
was thrown. The horse tramped on his leg
in two places, breaking it about half way
between the knee and thigh and badly
bruising it below the knee. DR.. H. HI.
Mitchell set the fractured limb.
Some weeks since two EIkton youths
left Ekton for the West. One only went as
far as Baltimore and returned home. When
he last saw his companion he was boarding
freight train. Kirk Mahan was the latter
and letter was recently received by his
friends stating that he was in Columbus,
Ohio. His expenses from Harper's Ferry
to that place were only tan cents. He
rived in Columbus at three o'clock in the
morning, and four hours later obtained
work at his Notwithstanding. Manan
learned his trade with Mr.. Dunbar Morgan,
of this place
We were this week shown by x-Sheriff
VIM. 7. Boulder an invitation card to a
social basket picnic which was held in Mrs.
Hollingsworth's Grove, near Elkton on
Wednesday, September 8 tn. 1858. The
names of the committees on invitation and
arrangements are printed on the card. They
mbered twelve, six of whom are now
living and six are dead. The names of the
deceased are VIM. Ward Henderson, w. +.
A. Torbert, Tobias Rudolph, Samuel B.
Foard, James w. Maxwell and James w.
Clayton. Those surviving are Hon. j. A.
j. Cresweil, Hon. James B. Groome, DIR.
Chas. NJ. Ellis, Henry II. Torbert, Benton
Hollingsworth and Nicholas P. Manly.
Harry I. Pyle, Calvert, miller of over
twenty years experience, has had his sa wing
ingenuity taxed to the utmost. \ few days
ago William Dawson, of Colleg, Green,
brought him poplar log sixteen feet long
to be made into inch boards. the girth of
the log was much beyond the capacity of
the saw and it had been already rejected by
| one knight of the blade but Harry cou-
Guided to try it and placed it on his dissect-
ing table. Alter skillful and successful
manipulations he completed the order and
| measuring up his work found he had eight
hundred and forty feet of inch boards. This
| is the largest amount of sawed stuff he has
| ever taken from a sixteen foot log in his
| long experience. School boys will find a
| problem in this to ascertain the diameter OF
| the log, allowing the saw kerf to be one
| quarter inch, and the slab waste equal to
the kerf- OXFORD Press.
Port Deposit Items.
! PORT DEPOSIT, May %, 1888.
A meeting of citizens was held in Frazer
| Hall few nights since TO take into con-