The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-03-24
A.LOgAL DEPARTMENT. J.

Rev. ]. P. Otis officiated at three funer-
ais in Elkton on Monday.
The Original New Orleans Minstrels
will anpear at Odd Fellows Hall on Mon
day, April I'd.
Miss Kate Wilson, of Elk Neck, has
been visiting Mrs. Annie r. Griffith, OF
Middletown, Del.
Thomas b. Mar-ett, of St. Paul, Mimi,
paid his brother, James B. Marrett, short
visit on Saturday last.
The Right Rev. Bishop Adams will
visit Trinity Church, Elkton. for contirma-
ton on Friday, April 9th.
Owing to the condition of the roads
there was no meeting of the Farmers Club
as called on Wednesday last.
Bishop Adams, of the Easton p. e.
Diocese, confirmed a number of candidates
at Newark, Del, on Tuesday evening.
Next Friday, 3Oth, instant, being Good
Friday and a legal holiday in Mary land the
banks, and public schools will be closed.
Jefferson w. Purner's postponed sale OF
stock and farming implements, will posi-
lively take place on Thursday, March 29th,
at his farm in Elk Neck.
The qua rterly distribution of State
funds for school purposes has been made.
Cecil county receives S2,92l. "a for its white
and 1926 AZ for its colored schools.
When you visit Baltimore stop at the
Naltbv House, where will be found first
class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates Mchl'tf.
Marks Lieberman, the popular clothie'
in the "Hollow," appears in an attractive
card in todays WING. He offers the finest
stock at the lowest prices. Read his adver-
tisement.
Rev. w. H. Fax, preached an able tenn
perauee sermon at Providence A. Q. NJ. P.
Church on Sunday last after which num-
Der OF persons IL the congregation signed
the pledge.
Mr.. Amos Lewis brought the first her
ring caught in Elk river this season to Elk
ton on Tuesday and disposed of them to
Mr.. William Giles. They numbered only
half-adozen.
The Maryland Editors Association will
hold a meeting at the Maryland Hotel,
Annapolis, on Wednesday evening next.
After short business session banquet
will be served.
School Commissioner Frank S. Everist
and Mr.. j. Harvey Rowland with a force
of men cleared the roads of heavy snow
drifts near their residence in the Seventh
district on Monday.
The public sale of personal property of
William Wright, Lewisville, Pa, was post.
poued on account of the rain Tuesday until
Wednesday, March 2Sth, when the property
will positively be sold.
A plumber of the ladies of the Elkton
NJ E. Church began his week to hold
prayer meetings weekly at the homes of the
church members who are unable to a attend
the services at the church.
Cards are out for the wedding of Regis
ter of Wills Reuben E. lamar and Mrs.
Mary E. Whitaker, formerly of this county.
The ceremony will be performed in Phila-
delphia on Thursday next.
Rev. O. H. Tiffiny, of the twentietb
street NJ f. Church, Philadelphia, who
preached so ably at Woodlawn camp meet
ing last summer, has accepted call to St.
James Church, Harlem n. Y.
Rev. j. P. Otis removed with his family
to Port Deposit on Wednesday. Rev. Chas
Hill, wife and daughters arrived here on
Friday. They were given a reception at the
parsonage by the ladies of the church.
The Misses Walmsley removed on Wed
nesday from the house on the south side Of
Main street, formerly occupied by Mrs
David Taylor, to the residence near the NJ
f. Church vacated by Mrs. f. A. Ellis.
The Masonic Lodge met in their new
room in the Gilpin building on Tuesday
evening for the first time. They partook OF
an excellent oyster supper at the restaurant
of William Giles in honor of the occasion
Emma Blake, wife of Thomas Blake
colored, early on Saturday morning acci
dentally killed her five-weeks-old infant by
lying on it in bed while asleep. DIR. Brattor
was summoned and found the child dead
The school board decided on Tuesday
that the twenty dollars fine paid by Mrs
Julia Ivory, colored, for disturbing the
Elkton colored school should be used il
purchasing maps or other conveniences fol
the school.
William II. Lorman, son of DR.. NJ. f
=, 6 81 hos
into the drug business at Merricktown
Queen Anne's county. He had been il
charge of one of his fathers drug stores il
Philadelphia.
Rev. Charles Hill, the new pastor of thu
Ekton NJ E. Church, filled his pulpit las
Sunday morning preaching with accepta
bility. Revs r. w. Todd and G. P. Smiti
occupied seats in the pulpit and the latte
preached at night
Mrs. John E. Brown was stricken will
paralysis on Thursday morning at the resi-
deuce of her son, Mr. John T Brown, teller
of the Elkton National Bank. This is he
second attack of the disease and her condi
tion is considered dangerous.
~
ElAton that the iron bridge at Marley Mill
had Sbeen washed away by the freshet. in
yestiAation proved that the report originated
from Manage to a small bridge between
LuttonSs Corner and the almshouse.
-TboAmas Maloney who was arrested sew
er.l mon ths since on the charge of breaking
into a scIkoolhouse in the Second district
CARVING Il he stove out, ETC., has sued JOIN
Milburn Il trustee of the school who brough
the eharse for malicious prosecution.
DIR. r m. lamar has received lette
from Cant. SAegrave, British Consul at Bal
timore, thank ling him for information con
corning John j ennings, the English sailor
who died in iaRl about a month since, an,
for the care and attention given him !
which due record was made in archives o
the consul's offic&.
MFR. Samuel ". Clayton, son of MI
Wesley Clayton, a well-known citizen o
the Second district, left on Monday last 70
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he ha
received an appointment in the Eurek
Spring Railroad Company under his uncl
Ex-Governor Powell Clayton, who is presi
dent of the company.
Barlow Brothers and Frost's Minstrel
appeared in Odd Fellows Fl all on Tuesda
evening before small but appreciativ
audience. AS they were only billed da
in advance and did not advertise in any c
the county papers, large attendance COIL
scarcely have been expected. The troup
was a better one than the majority visitln