The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-05-04


We acknowledge the receipt from tn
Bull Run Pauol anna Company of compli
mentary tickets to view the panorama o
the battle of Bull Run now on exhibition OIL
10Th street, Washington, d. c., two block
south of the U. S. Treasury building.
james Irving, an inmate of the aims
house, who had wandered away, was fount
Wednesday morning in an unconsciou
condition on the road leading from Elktor
to Cherry Hill about mile from the forme
place. He was removed to the almshouee
There will be an entertainment in Win
gate Post Hall, North East, on Tuesda,
evening next, in which the following ladies
will participate: Miss Minnie Harlan, reader
Miss Rhoda V. Wilson, vocalist; Miss AL
berta Weye, violinist Miss Virginia Carver
pianist.
Col George w. Balm, of Kentucky, viii
deliver IA temperance lecture in the Oratory
of Delaware College, Monday May 9th, a
7.45 p. III. All are invited. There will be
no charge of admission. This lecture will
close a series OF meeting held under auspices
of the w. C. 7. u of Newark, Del.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Elk
position to be held at Pimlico in September
next under the energetic management Of
| Postmaster Frank, of Baltimore, promises
to be a great success. Mr.. Brown has in
at IL o'clock a. m. next Monday at the Eu
taw House, Baltimore.
| Mr.. John Quincy Adams Elder, formerly
of this place, has served as railway postal
clerk longer than any man in the service
He will have spent twenty-five consecutive
years at this work should he continue in ii
until the first of next September. 1t is un.
necessary to state that Mr.. Elder is one Of
the most competent men engaged in the
work.
The Inauguration Centennial was ap.
propriately observed in North East. Ser
vices were held in the morning in the NJ.
| E. and p. E. Churches, Revs. j. B. Quigg
and E. K. Miller the respective pastors de-
| livering addresses. The Order of United
| American Mechanics attended the service
| at the P. E. Church in body. A num- Der
of business places were dedicated with flags.
He may become as famous a newspaper
correspondent as Gath who was once an
Eastern Shore boy, but has much to learn.
| The Elkton lad referred TO writes occasional
| news notes to a city daily that is unable to
pay for the services of an experienced man
He gravely impaired the information re.
Gently, that a whale which had been cap
tured in the Chesapeake and Delaware
canal" was on exhibition in Elkton.
There are said to be nine candidates for
the positisD of lamplighter in Elkton. The
position pays $500, and the lamplght ter
provides oil, wicks, ETC., for the oil lamps.
Among those mentioned are James X. p.
| Racine, William Hall, BENZ amin Kitchens,
Richard Thomas, William Lieher and
Jacob LOTHIAN, the latter the present incum-
bent The five persons elected commission
ers next Monday will name the man.
DR.. George E. Morrow, dentist, Office on
East Main street, Elkton, few doors above
the bank, offers to perfom all dental opera
| duced prices for the next 80 days. Sets of
teeth ordinarily costing SIS, will during that
| ii me be made for $40 Parts of sets proper.
tionally low. All kinds of filings at nearly
| one-half the regular prices. Work warranted
to give satisfaction and to be first-class in
| every particular.
john Feehly, former Elktonian, Ell
ployed as telegraph operator az Wilmington
by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad had the honor of riding on
and party to New York. Mr.. Feehly &C.
| companied the party from Washington to
| Philadelphia. 1t is usual to have a tele-
graph operator on trains carrying the presi
| dent, as his services would be valuable in
| case of accident.
| MIR. Chas. H. Hopkins, artist, musician
and lecturer, gave three Evenings of Illus.
| trated Song in Odd Fellows Hall, this
week for the benefit of tue organ fund of the
N. E. Church. The entertainments were
very enjoyable. About five hundred views
of the most interesting places in the world
were shown. The illustrated choruses were
very impressive and much information was
impaired b. the lecturer in explaining the
views which were remarkably realistic.
| Reuben Haines, Esq, this week received
a pamphlet on the life and character of tine
late Tommaso Mongano, a banker of Mes
sina, Italy, with whom he acquired an &C
quaintance during \ visit to that country
some years since. 1t is usual in Italy fol-
the friends of a notable man to publish a
pamphlet concerning him. Mr.. Haines is
engaged in transating the work into Eng
lish and will send the manuscript copy tc
the relatives of his deceased friends in Italy
old design and of dates over half century
ago have been circulating in Elkton recently
One business person refused to receive {
specimen of the coin on Saturday last from
| a customer as she did not believe it wa.
good money. The coins have very new
appearance and have evidently not beer
loi G in circulation. 1t is said that a lady
deposited several hundred dollars of ole
money in bank recently and it was thu!
circulated in the town.
The May number of Book Ne,os (Johr
Wanamaker, PHILADELPHIA leads off will
an article by Edward Z. Hale on "Goot
Nature in which he gives instances of thu
kindness and forbearance of some of on
most noted authors toward their weake
breshren. The number contains reviews O
about dozen of the books of the month
notably Motley's Correspondence" Mrs
Burnett's new book, Amelie Rives' lates
novel, and the "reminiscences of Lester Wal
lack, with illustrations from some of them
The miscellaneous reading matter is inter
esting, and the detached portrait of Coun
Tolstoi which accompanies the number i
good.
One of the most important "hull-le les
OATS note cases was decided in the Ken
Court court this week. Judge Wickes re
; viewed the points of the case and was atten
lively listened to by full bar and a crowde,
courtroom. This was the case of Meginni
VS.. johnson. The latter gave note of $40
in payment of ten bushels of oats At tn
same time he received paper in the form
of a contract which bound the Grain an,
Cereal Company of Carroll County to sci
for the said Johnson twenty bushels of oat
at $40 per bushel, that the oats and tn
contract were the consideration for the note
This note fell into the hands OF Mr.. JOSEPH
| Mepinuis of Queen Anne's who nhtaina,