The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-09-22

The Sixth District Republican club on
Thursday next, the 9th instant, at p. M,
will have pole raising on the lawn OF
Jethro Mccullough, Esq. On the same
evening at 730 at the headquarters of the
club at Rising Sun Harrison and Morton
banner will be flung to the breeze, to be fol-
lowed by a torch-light parade by the club in
its new marching uniform. After the parade
a meeting will be held at their hall to be
addressed by R. G. Thackery and III. r.
Torbert, of Elkton. A general invitation is
extended.
A meeting of the managers of the Cecil
County Agricultural Society was held on
Tuesday. All the members were present
but two. They authorized the executive
committee to furnish such amusements as
they may see proper. They have arranged
for an athletic performance on the last day
of the exhibition. Il will be in charge of Mr..
w. F. Kurtz of the Warren Clue, Whining
ton, Del. Athletes from the Warren Club,
the Scuylkill Navy Club of Philadelphia
and the New York and Baltimore Clubs are
expected to enter the contests for the hand
some gold medals offered. The exhibition
will begin at 10 a. m.
Mr.. Henry S. Coudon, one Cecil county's
most prominent farmers has been unfor-
tunate recently with his cattle, number
| dying recently. Two weeks ago last Thurs
day he bought &c head of cattle in Baltimore.
| They had been brought to that market from
| Indiana. After he had the cattle d week
one was taken i'll and died. AS others were
| i'll Mr. Coudon went to Baltimore and had
| one of the government inspectors visit his
farm. The inspector pronounce d the disease
Texas fever. Up to Wednesday last eight
head of the cattle had died and others were
ill. The cattle were not from Texas but they
are supposed to have contracted the disease
in the cars.
Rev. Jonathan S. Willis, well-known in
Elkton is prominently mentioned as the
Republican candidate for Congress in Della
ware. A correspondent writing from Mil
ford, where Mr.. Willis resides, to the Will
mington Morning Ne,cs says Mr.. Willis is
undoubtedly the strongest man we can
name. He has all the qualifications neces-
sary for the place. He is an orator and can
hold the attention of Congress on all impor-
tant matters. He is a man of general infor-
IN alton and ready thinker prepared at any
moment to handle any subject with credit
and ability. He has mingled in society,
participated IN public, private and benevo-
lent enterprises for the advancement of he
human race.
On Thursday, October 4th, at the Cecil
County Fair Profs. Hunt and Price of Cleve-
land, Ohio, the noted balloonists will make an
ascension on the fair ground IN their large
balloon when 5000 feet above the earth will
perform the Parachute drop from the bal
loon in mid air. This remarkable feat has
been witnessed by thousands in other parts
of the country. On Friday October 9TH, the |
Warren Athletic Club of Wilmington, Del,
the Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia and |
members of the New York Athletic club |
will give an exhibition in front of the grand |
stand. 1t will be remembered that last |
years athletic exhibition was one of the |
great features of the fair. There will be |
good racing and fine music every day.
ments were suspended, and fractional cur
rency scarce, and change difficult to make,
a number of responsible gentlemen of Kent
county and elsewhere in the state issued
small notes of various denominations, rang
ing from Granddaughter to fifty cents.
The notes went by the name of "shinplas-
tiers, and passed as currency in the com mu-
nifty. A gentleman of Baltimore recently
picked one of these notes up in the street of
that city, and sent it as curiosity to the
Kent Nelcs. 1t bore the following inscription:
"On demand we promise to pay to bearer
twelve and-a-half cents, in current bank
notes, at either of our stores in Chestertown
or Millington, Md. December 6, 1889. j. w.
Walker, Theo. Walker" The late Geo r
Westcott and James Uric, of Kent county,
and probably others, also issued this kind
of currency.
Mr.. Edwin V. Hinchlitfe who for nearly
five years past has acted as organist for the
Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday
School of Elkton was presented on Saturday
evening last with purse containing forty
dollars by the choir and congregation. The
presentation address was made by Rev.
Chas. Hill who referred in feeling manner
to the approaching departure of the young
m an for college, saying that he would be
missed from the church service, from the
Sunday School, from the organ, from the
choir, from the class meeting, from the
prayer meeting, from the Young Peoples
Association, from the Children's meeting,
from the pulpit, from the social circle Mr..
Hinchliffe who is local preacher, lett on
Tuesday for Carlisle Pa, where he entered
Dickinson College and will take four years
course preparatory to entering the regular
ministry of the NJ. E. Church.