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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
The s veuteen-Year LOcustS.

The impression seems to be general
locusts in Maryland this year, although
but four years have elapsed since their
last appearance IN this State, which was
in 1885. They have already been seen
this year in certain sections of this county
although not yet generally reported in
any considerable numbers. Their appear
ance is being predicted by entomologists,
the following which we take from the
Baltimore Sun being of interest.
A visit of he unwelcome seventeen
year locusts OF big scale is tn eatened.
At least entomnlogists predict their pres
ence in MarN laud during tie sui mer, and
the reasons upon which these wise men
base their pr 'phrcy seem good. It was
generally thought that when the insects
disappeared in 1885, as mysteriously as
they appeared, they would absent them
selves for at least seventeen years. 1t
not have to elapse before the pests are
resurrected. T Hentv different hroods OF
these insects. which scientists call cicada.
have been es ahlished and studied by
Professor Riley, the entomologist of the
United States Department of Agriculture
and each brood, he says, can have a year
all to itself to come forth from its grave
Or mysterious hiding place. pl,y it's own
havoc, and then quietly retire for a nap
or die, its place to be taken by another
set of cicada.
Dir. Unler, of the Peabody Institute.
discussed the pecuharities OF these in
sects with SIN reporter He said:
As to when they may be expected to
app:ar DR. Uhler said that they were due
anyv here bet weeu the 18Th and Goth of
May The wet w a her had undoubtedly
kept them back, as when it is damp the y
cannot mott They are probably ready
To come out in great numbers, and have
bored iuto irregular clumps of earth in
order to get above the ground. A report
from Harper's Ferry and else here indi
Gates that they have already appeared
/ D.. Howell of the John Hopkins Univer.
sitv. has found the shells from which the
| lars;e of the e;cada had escaped ON Il tree
i'll ID, uid Hill Park. Ii they come by the
end of the week they will surely be gone
say the eutomologists, by the middle o.
June.
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Letter From Aiken.

AIKEN, June 9Th, 1889.
Mr.. James G. Logan, of this place, who
has for the past two years been foreman of
the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Spar
rows Point, has removed his family to Bal
timore where he can be more convenient to
San has many friends and acquaintance
through this section who regret his going
away. but wish him success.
Many persons visited the b. & o. Railroad
bridge on Sunday evening last where an ex-
celent view of the raging Susquehanna
could be had and some faint idea formed of
the lamentable terrors that must have been
suffered by the unfortunate inhabitants who
were caught within bounds of this over
swollen stream.
We are glad to note the satisfactory and
successful career for the last year of the
principal of our public school, Mr.. Walter
b. Kirk, of Liberty Grove, and hope to see
him return again at the opening of the next
term.
Miss LidIa Mitchell. of Hartford County,
is visiting Mrs. George w. Taylor, of this
place.
Rev. T. B. Hunter, of the Charles
town Circuit, has removed his family to
Ocean Grove, for the summer season. Mr..
Hunter expects to spend part of the season
without returning once week to fill his
regular appointments.
Cnildren's Day at Asbury on Sunday
off nd los
of more than unusual enjoyment, and the
young ladies of the church and Sunday
School are deserving of great praise for so
beautiful and exceedingly well rendered an
entertainment. The church was appropriate
ly and tastefully decorated. Sometime before
the opening hour the church was crowded
beyond its seating capacity and throughout
the afternoon many were obliged to stand.
Rev. Mr.. Hunter at the opening made an
appropriate and touching prayer for the tu-
ture successes of the children assembled
there, and also for the encouragement of
Sabbath Schools throughout the land. A
very liberal collection was raised for the BEN
EFT of the Conference Academy situated at
Dover Del Mr.. Hunter very ably described
the workings of this institution and told of
the many good works il was doing and in
tended to do. He also added that while
Cecil Countians, through the kindness of
the Hon. j. Tome, of Port Deposit, were
soon to be blessed with a free school from
which this and future generations may re-
ceive untold benefit, he hoped they would
ever be mindful of their less fortunate
neighbors and never fail to contribute to the
Academy at Dover, the support of which it
was worthy. At the close of the programme
Mr.. Hunter dwelt eloquently upon the great
and beneficial influence that Sabbath School
training cal, be made to exert And said it
was IA source of considerable enjoyment to
him and he knew it would also be to future
historians, in speaking OF the greatness and
goodness of one of the shining lights of the
present administration at Washington (the
Postmaster GENERALLY, to tell OF him being
leader and superintendent of a Sabbath
School which he always found time to at
tend, and thus are the beauties of the pro-
verb illustrated, 'bring up child in the
way he should go, and when he is old he
will not depart from it.
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Contributions from ElktOn.

Great sympathy is felt in Elkton for
the sufferers in Conemaugh Valley. This
sympathy has had some practical express
sion during the week. A fund has been
raised to send to the sufferers Mr.. Geo.
H. Blake is treasurer and VIM. Feehly
an energetic young man has brought the
matter to the attention of our citizens.
The subscriptions to the fund were as
follows, up to noon yesterday.
Thomas Drennen So; VIM. s. Evans So;
Daniel Bratton %; Wm. II. Elder So; John
Perkins So; Chas P..vord 50; Reuben
Haiues So: VIM. j. Jones So; John 5.
Writ So; Harry T. Alexander 81; R Reese
81; c. c. Strickland 81; John T. Brown
81; Cash 81; Cash 81; Ii. II. M. So; R. G.
Lewis So; Cash 81; Cash 81; NJ. Lieber-
man 81; L. NJ. Haines 81; S j. Keys So;
Thos. B. Miller ST.; Scott Fertilizer Co. So
R. Witworth 50; W. II. May 50; DR.. J.
W. Cooper 81; c. M. Boulder So; l. D.
Davis 50; Cash 81; P. G. Strickland 50;
H. H. Gilpin 81; W. W. Burkley 81; W..
T. Giles 81; G. F. Hinchliffe 81; j. d.
Moore 81; Joseph Hlnchcliffe So; John
Partridge and SISTERS So; John Gllpin So
John Frazer 81; W. M. Mahoney 81; Hen
ry M. Mccullough 81; J. A. Lewis 81;
W. T. Warburton So; H. R. Torbert 50;
A. ]. Scott 81, Miss Margaret Finley So;
DR.. J. III. lamar So; Henry VInsinger So;
Cash 81; James E. Dean 80; B. B. Dun
bar 81; Thos. H. Lort 81; Jacob Rambo
81; - Bradberry 81; r. Marshba 81;
H. Warner So; G. H. johnson 81; C. NJ
Ellis s.; Cash 81; ]. W. Anthony 81
Cash 81; L. T. Buchanan 81; NJ. J. Rick.
etts So, Mrs L. II. Liszenberg 81; J 6
Queck s. Sons So; John T. Bennett 81
Total $4,000.
/ Several other citizens sent money
through other mediums. The Phila
Record acknowledged the receipt OF SO
from Alfred Wetherill, and S. each from
| Thomas MCGOWAN and VIM. Trimble
Robert Frazer sent SO to The Drexe
Fund. The P. W. & B. railroad EN-
ployes have fund and among the con
tributors are the following Elktonians
Benjamin Wells s.; L ]. Finnan 50; A
B. Grosh 81; Thomas Smith 81; Feehl,
81; d. Feehly 81.
Contributions of clothing for the suf
ferers are urgently solicited by a commit
tee of ladies. Articles may be lett at tn
Agricultural SocieJy's room ia ODD Eel
lows Hall. A box will be packed ant
sent off on next Monday.
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Sixth District Items.

Mr.. and Mrs. Street Brown, of Colora
celebrated the thirty-tiftn anniversary of
their wedding, on Saturday evening last
The house was crowded with frieD and
relatives. and DouuG .ful supper was en-
joyed by all present
Marriage is not considered a failure, here
abouts. but grand success. We have sew
eral citizens who have for the fourth time
entered the sacred relation, and three wild
overs now on the war path, one of them for
the third time. The good luck of some fel-
lows is perfectly exasrerating to those whose
lines are "cussed" with dreary monotony.
improvements are now the order of the
day. Mr.. Joseph A. Harris has improved
the appear ince of his inviting homestead by
painting the picket fence enclosing his front
yard, where the variety and beauty of the
shade trees are very much admired by pas
sers-by. He has also had his barn and
fences neatly whitewashed. Mr. j. b. Coale
and cap" Shippers have also had their
fences made white as the driven snow, by
an application of Stacked lime. The work
was artistically and expclitiously done by
Master Neale Gillespie of Liberty Grove,
champion whitewasher of the world.
MIR. Joseph Richards, of Philadelphia,
who lately purchased the mill property at
Porter's bridge, contemplates making ex-
tensive improvements during the summer.
Mr.. S. T. Hindman, county surveyor, has
workmen engaged on the church at Noting.
ham, scaffolding for the frescoers, lowering
the pulpit, etc. He has also almost finished
a house for Mr.. Hardin near Pennington,
and barn for j. Groome near Zion.
Mr. E. Douglas, the talented and eloquent
young minister, sent to Mt Pleasant by the
Conference this spring, has resigned his
charge and left the neighborhood to the deep
regret of all who had the pleasure of listen
ing to the earnest scholarly discourses which
he delivered while here. 1t is reported that
he has gone into evangelisJic work.
A great many of our citizens viewed the
high river on Sunday last, some went to
Rowlandville, and some to Port Deposit to
view the rolling tide.
Miss Emma Moore accompanied by her
Altoona on Saturday last, for short visit
Decoration Day was observed he.eabouts,
the storm on the day of
of the ceremony. Flowers were sent from
baltimore and placed on the graves of Mr.. |
VIM. 7. West and wife, the grave of Col. |
Joseph R. West was also handsomely dec. |
GRATED by his friends and by mem Der in |
behalf of Garfield Post.
The Pioneer Corps of West Chester sent |
handsome wreath which was placed on the |
grave of Harry Coale, who died in February |
1888. Deceased was a mem Der of the "Pio- |
neers." These graves are in the Friends |
ourying ground at West Nottingham. Those
who went out to Rose Bank to participate
In the ceremonies and hear Col Lang's |
speech were disappointed in the latter an
ticipation as the rain sadly interfered with
the arrangements for the day. "A "
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A Successful Festival.

The festival given by the ladies of
Trinity Church on the Green" opposite
the Church on Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings last was a pleasing and
successful affair. A tent had been erected
for the occasion. This was brilliantly il
lumated with electric light, wires having
been run from the Pulp Works through
the kindness of Mr.. George B. Kerfoot,
manager. Chinese lanterns also added to
the beauty of the scene. Miss Cora
lamar had a general supervision of the
tables which were in charge of the follow
ing ladies: First, refreshment table, Mrs.
John S. Writ, aided by Misses Flora
Wright and Gelert Cruikshank; second,
Mrs. Chas. M. Ellis, with Misses Frances
Schouler and Emma Cannon as assistants;
third, Misses Flora Ash, Edith Dun
bar, L,ttie Ash and Annie Foard; fourth,
Misses Lille Bennett, Maud Crow and
Give Ellis; fifth, Mrs. H. =. Wells and
Miss Fannie Marshbank. At the cake
table were Mrs. Susan Currier. Mrs, Jen-
ME McCabe, Miss Mollie Foard and Miss
FIorie Tuite. The flowers IN charge of
Misses Helen Ash and Maud Price we're
very beautiful. The young misses acting
as flower girls were Kittie Constable,
Mary Smith and Rosa LETTER. The
strawberry table was in charge of Misses
Annie j. Smith and Marie Davis. A con-
siderable sum was Melted for the organ
fund The ladies desire to thank DIR. and
Mrs. lamar for their kindness in allowing
the use of grounds. Had the festival
not been held at this particular place the
electric light would not have been avail
able. A band of music played choice Sc
lections free of charge. The band was
composed as follows: Justice Dunbar,
baritone; John Dunbar, cornet; John
Morgan, bass; Ulysses G. Deibert,. list
tenor; Victor Bennett, I'd tenor. Mr.
Delphos Price acted as cashier.
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Glasgow Items.
GLASGOW, June &, 18

GLASGOW, June &, 1889.
The pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
Rev. L. E. Anderson returned from New
York last week and occupied his pulpit as
usual last Sabbath.
Miss Ida Green spent last Saturday and
Sunday at her home in Wilmington.
Professor Skinner, of Dover is stopping
with his brother DR.. W. 7. Skinner for q
few days.
The Presbyterian Sunday School will hold
a strawb berry festival in the lecture room of
the church next Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings.
DR.. W. T. Skinner will deliver an address
before the Medical Society, June the 18th
which meets at Dover.
Our farmers are all busy in their corn
fields, the numerous storms of the past
four weeks has hindered them considerably
in their work. G. A. M.
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The Pennsylvania Railroads Fa-
ciJitieS to Atlantic City.

ShAthCS w n OAOys
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
facilities for reaching Atlantic City were
never so complete as they are on the opening
of the present season. During the past
winter and spring the road-bed of both the
West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic has
been greatly improved. The West Jersey
road has been bettered in various ways and
reballasted; the track of the Camden and
Atlantic has been renewed on many por-
lions of the line and track tanks have been
added for the use of fast trains. The equip
ment, both in locomotives and cars, is su-
perior in every respect, and will be ample
for the comfortable conveyance of the lar
gest midsummer crowd.
The terminal facilities at both ends of the
line possess the advantage of superior Iocl-
ton. The Market Street station in Phila-
delphia, from which the fast trains of both
the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic
Railroads start, is the central seashore sta
ton of the city, accessible from all sections
Gy direct lines of street-cars, aud within
fifteen minutes OF Broad Street station by
the Market Street cable cars. In addition
to rhe central station at Market Street, there
is also ferry from Vine Street and boat
running from Vine and Shackamaxon
Streets direct to the Camden side of the
Market Street ferry.
At Atlantic City passengers are landed in
the heart of the city, at point from which
every part of the city and suburbs are easily
reached by the new electric railway
The special excursion travel is delivered
at the large and handsome new excursion
house, the Sea View Hotel, which is JUS,
completed This is the most commodious
and best appointed house of the class on the
coast and offers every facility that the day
excursionist could demand
With all their facilities improved and
strengthened, with ample equipm ent and
fast trains, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
| pany's branches to Atlantic City will grow
( stronger in the favor of the travelling public
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marr1ed.

Observation-Disclosures the 5th inst. at the
home Of the bride, by Rev. Charles Hill, VIM.
]. Mcknight and Elizabeth McKelvy, daughter
of Robert McKelvy, all OF Cecil county, Md.
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}. w. & B. BRANCH OF PENNSYLVANIA R. r.

,R. W. JOHNSON. WHOSE PosToFrioE BAY VIEW.
s:sL COUNTY, MARYLAND. AUTHORIZED AGENT OF rHE
RsoslP1 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BILLS
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- Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
Biliousness. take
BROWNS IRON BITTERS.
1t cures quickly. For sale by all dealers in
medicine. Get the genuine.
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A Very Pretty Wedding.

Grace NJ. E. Church, Baltimore, was
she scene of pretty wedding Thursday
evening-that OF Mr.. W. Irving Walker,
Of the firm of Lapsley s. Walker, Balti-
more, and formerly connected with the
Mccullough Iron Company at North
East, and Miss Catherine Ford, daughter
of the late Budd S. Ford.
The ceremony was performed at eight
o'clock by the pastor, Rev. Ebert S.
Todd, and was witnessed by large audi
ence. The bride was dressed in a hand
some gown of faille Franchise, trimmed
with Duchess lace, and wearing pearl or
naments. A tulle veil hung gracefully
about her form, strewn with nephetos
buds. Mr.. Martin E. Walker, brother OF
the groom, was the best man. The ushers
we're Messrs. w. Beatty Harlan, of Bel
Air; Charles III. Parrish, of Baltimore,
and Walter L. Butler, of Wilmington.
A reception was given after the ceremony
to the bridal party only, by Miss Emily
Ford, sister of the bride at the home of
DR.. Ford, 500 North Arlington avenue.
Among those in church were: VIM. ].
Hooper, James S. Haggertv, Hugh Nc
Cullough, VIM. Horner DR.. S. E. Ford,
George Warfield, V. V. Klineielter, T. ].
Fluharty, the Misses Flack, Miss Lulu
Miliman, the Misses VapLill, Miss Liz
zie Adams, Miss Emily Ford, Miss Helen
George, Mrs. Samuel Corcoran, Miss Lii
liam and Eugenia Hooper, of Phladel
phia; NJ. V. O'Neal, Mr.. and Mrs. T. ].
Lapsley, Jr., Frank Cook, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Mccullough, of Wilmington; Enoch
Mccullough, of Rowlandville, Md; Mrs.
Lynn G. Byrd and Miss Gertrude Hooper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker left on midnight
train for Northern tour.
Fast Time by an ElktOn Horse
Katherine S., the trotter belonging to
Mr.. VIM. M. Singerly and trained by r.
| t. G. Crouch at the Elkton Stock Farm,
won the free-for all race at Belmont
| Course, Philadelphia, in fine style on
| Wednesday. In the first heat K ltherine
s., took the leal and held it to the wire,
winning easily in 1924! X Uterine S
went to the front at ouce in the second
heat reaching the quarter pole in 3G
seconds the hall in 1l2 and finishing
strong in ? POI. THIS is probably the
fastest time on record to a road wagon
Mr.. Singerly wished her to have record
She was entered by Mr.. George Ii. SIN
J gerll.
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Beingmanufacturers of these
we give you twice the quantity
for the same money that you
generally get of other makes.
They are put up in screw
cap bottles, handy for the peck
ct.
Sent by mail on receipt OF
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BOATS ON THE HIGHWAY.

At one o'clock Sunday afternoon with
hoodtide the water attained its greatest
height, and then from Herring Run on
the south to the quarries ON the north
the street was under water, with the ex-
ception of a few patches ranging from
fifty to one hundred feet in length, the
largest extent of dry ground being in the
vicinity of what is locally dubbed Rum
Square," and extending TO the residence
OF r. E. McCeuahan. A milk wagon was
about The only wheeled vehicle that was
driven tor any distance along the street,
but fishing boats were in abundance, and
the venturesome were rowed over the
swift currents, which rushed around the
corners of west.side dwellings, and poured
into cellars, and three ieet of the depots
and telegraph Office were below the sur
face, and only the skeleton derrick aud
slight eddy showed where the wharf of
McClenahan & Brother lay some feet
below.
We're it not for swayIng fences and the
tops OF fruit trees, overturned pig pens,
chicken coops aud other outbuildings no
one could tell that there had been any
gardens in the rear of most of the houses
on the west side.
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BALTIMORE MARKETS.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS o. MoGLoERHY's wharf,
BALTIMORE. MARYLAND,
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market Report.
EIKTON MARIE
ELKTON, June 6, 1888!

REPORTED DAVIS KEYS a co.. DEALERS IN LUMBER GRAIN
HAY. FERTILIZERS Ao., ILkros MO.
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CHURCH SERVICES SUSPENDED.

Congregations were too busy watching
the waters, by which they were to all in
tents imprisoned, to attend church ser
vices Sunday, and none were held at the
Catholic. Protestant Episcopal. Metbo-
dist Episcopal or Presby terrain churches.
Part of the yard of the last named was
submerged, and the water dashed the
stone steps of the Methodist Church,
which was separated by thirty-foot
stream from the parsonage across the
street.
More than sixty dwellings on either
side of the street had water in their cellars,
though every inhabitant escaped safely.
The doors and shutters on the first floors
were swayed to aud fro by the tide, and
residents watched their pigs in imprisoned
pens on The higher ground, wandered
about in gum boots catching driftwood
with long boat-hooks, or sat listlessly on
the front porches of their more fortunate
neighbors, calculating their losses. The
street running from the depot to Falls
Hotel looked like small dock with it's
two dozen boats drawn in to shore.
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SOME WHO HAD LOSSES,

Following are the names of persons
whose property was most seriously dam
aged by the inundation: Patrick Murphy.
Mrs. William Williams, S. Z. Beedles,
Morgan Morris, Haines Dickson, the Of
flee of the quarries, NJ. Glesler, Nelson
Ware, Edward Collier, John Givins, VIM.
Kinds, the cattle yards, l. w. Burling,
VIM. Walker, Frank Hall, VIM. Jones,
Mrs. Barr, Alexander Oliver, P. Kerwin,
Davis & Pugh's lumber yards, Thos. W.
Rowland, George Lamb, James Farr, d.
Kelly, T. II. Strout, William Wilson, E.
p. Brickley, William w. Nickle, j
d. White, John Sherman, r. Rosenthal,
Alexander Walker, James Mccullough,
VIM. Thompson, John Archer, Geo. H..
Stebbins, Morris Mccullough, Thomas
Duke, Charles Dunkle, Ed. First, Harry
otebbins, William Bounce, John Mont
gomery, William Ewing, Samuel Beatty,
John Cunningham, George w. Conner,
| Harry Westerfield, Herman Brewer, ID.
G. Hedges, Clifford Calvert, Washington
Price, A. Wentz, Richard Dawson, Rob,
ert Tigner, P. White, John Fox, DR.. w
G. Carson, b. Williams. William Lyons,
! J. Graut, Urias Berry, Jacob BuckinhearJ,
Jesse T Fox, stephen McKeever, Johu
Thomas, w. ViIcent, George unds
John George VA Mort DR.. G.. A Suure
VIM. Coulson. 5. A. Van Mort, Washing
ton D'vis, James Davis, Frank Cook
John Atkinson, John Van Mort, Levi.
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lrlan, w. Abrahams, Capt. Skinner,
Robert Stephenson, John Pusey, James
REYNOLDS, Wm. Mckinley, Geo. Wentz.
William Foster, Levi Johnson. Frank
Boyd. j. Taylor and r. Overly.