The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-03-30
George Farrell, an Elkton solored man,

Miss Hammersly, of Chester. Del VIII
had been visiting the Misses Hill. returne
home this week.
-Heister Hess Esq, read law in tn
office of Judge Stanley Matthews of the U
S. Supreme Court who died last week.
There will be religious services in Jones
Chapel, Elk Neck, tomorrow Sunday
evening at 7.3O p. NJ. All are invited.
! Among the first fisheries to begin opera
lions was that of Mr.. Charles Pearce a
Hance's Point on North East river. HI
caught about 600 herring on Monday
Pound nets were used. Other fisheries viii
begin early next week. Pound nets will b.
used at most of the fisheries.
The following postmasters were thi'
week appointed for fourth-class offices il
Cecil County: Perryville, John p. Stryker
vice E. X. Taylor, removed; Colora, Jas. T
Wiley, vice VIM. L. Fryer, both removed
on account of alleged inefficiency. Joseph
j. Cantwell at Cherry Hill, vice j. S. Whit
aker, resigned.
Quarterly meeting services will be held
at the Free Methodist Church commencing
Friday evening, 29tb, and continuing over
Sunday. Preaching Friday and Saturday
evening, also on Sunday morning and even
ing by the newly. elected chairman, Rev. j.
L. Micheal. Love-feast on Sunday at 2 80
p. m. Everybody is invited.
The wooden span bridge on the Coluui-
hia & Port deposit Railroad over Conowingo
Creek at Conowingo, was burned on Satur-
day night between 9 and 10 o'clock. The
fire is thought to have been caused by a
passing engine. A gang of men were en-
ployed on Sunday constructing bridge for
the trains to run on the following day.
"A horse belonging to Mr.. James Smith,
of Cherry Hill while driven by Mr.. George
on Thursday ran away. Mr.. Roberts was
thrown out and his head cut. DR.. j. w.
Cooper dressed the wound. A horse belong
ing to Mrs. Lewis T. Roberts which ran
away once on Main street and demolished a
team ran away again this week and broke
up another.
In spring young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love. But comfort and
appearance should not be forgotten. Whether
m arried or single gentleman always wants
to be well dressed. A spring overcoat is a
wearing article of dress to every man, and
you should inspect onr stock. You will be
sure to find something satisfactory both in
quality and price Frank Kerr & Son. Mer-
chant Tailor, Elkton, Md.
The Pennsylvania who contemplated
removing his business of manufacturing
canal boats to Chesapeake City is said to
have decided to locate it at Elk Landing
and rented the wharf and adjoining ground
from DIR. H. H. Mitchell for that purpose.
We understand that 20 or more men will be
employed and that some of these will &C
company the builder from Pennsylvania
where he is at present engaged in the bust
ness, but owing to the hostility of the man.
agement of the canal on which he is located
has been compelled to remove.
-Messrs. William NJ. and George A. Sim
gerry, dCCtu pdulou ny Slib LAWS, LILO
well known horseman of Harrodsburg, Ken
lucky, the driver and developer of "Prince
Wilkes" just sold by George Singerly for
$50, 10000, were in Elkton this week. One
ton Stock Farm to this gentleman of the 2
year-old colt Filter by Red Wilkes, sire OF
the great trotter, Prince Wilkes, just named,
dam Messenger Girl by Messenger Chief, for
So, 900. Filter is an exceptionally fine colt,
is now fourteen hands and a-qrarter high
and doubtless will be heard from on the
track.
Two well known young men of Cecil
County were among the graduates of the
Maryland College of Pharmacy at the 37th
animal commencement held in Lyceum
Theatre on Tuesday evening last. They are
Benoni Cooling, Jr., and John T. Veasey.
Mr.. Cooling, who is the youngest sen of Ex-
Sheriff Cooling, of Charlestown, took his
junior course in Philadelphia and finished
in Baltimore. He has charge of S. n, APP
pleby & Co. 8 drug store, corner Baltimore
and Green streets, and is held in high es-
TEEN by this firm. The other graduate, Mr..
Veasey was with Housekoeper & Moore, of
North East, before going to Baltimore to
attend college. We wish to acknowledge an
invitation to the commencement exercises.
The Sheriff of Cecil County recently ap-
peared at a village in the 9Th district and
read notice to "a storekeeper who was
wanted as a witness in liquor case. After
the reading the sheriff was told that he had
read his piece to the wrong fellow; that he,
the man desired, was not at home. A small
boy witnessing the affair slipped out and
told the desired man of the presence of the
man in seven league boots. The place is not
far from the Pennsylvania line and few
minutes later an excited storekeeper was
seen skipping northward Casting glance
ing and concluding he was the sheriff the
merchant quickened his pace until over the
line. The second man walked on past him
and the storekeeper sat on a fence in the
keystone State until his wife called him to
supper. x oxford Press.
Francis Green, well-known farmer
resident of Cecil County, died on Saturday
last at the residence of his daughter in Phil
adephia MIR. Green came to this county
from Ireland when a young man. He set
tied near Cherry Hill and was engaged for
many years a contractor and builder Of
dams and built many large ones in Della
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He built the plank road from Elkton to An
dora about 1855. He had suffered much re-
Gently from rheumatism but the immediate
cause of his death was heart trouble. He
was widely known and highly respected.
His funeral took place on Monday evening
from the residence of his daughter. The re-
mains were brought to Elk ton for interment
in the Catholic cemetery. Mr.. Green was
an enthusiastic Union man during the war
aud strong Republican. He was II years
old.
Our old friend VIM. r. Mearns who
lives about mile above North East in the
same house in which he was born in 1890,
and which his father John Mearns lived
and died in, found recently among some
old papers of the latter a copy of the returns
of the e.ection held in this county in the fail
of 1920. Cecil County then had four election
districts. Elkton, Charlestown, Warwick,
and Rising Sun. AT this election the total
vote cast in the county was 2,1S1 of which
number William Moffit who was elected
sheriff in that year received 1894, while his
opponent Mr. Wroth received 1887, the for
mer being elected by Z majority. IL is an