The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-12-06
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A large Band of Gipsies are encampe
near Elkton on Gray's Hill.
Mr.. George B. Money of Delawa.e Cit
was in Ekton on Saturday last.
Rev. VIM. Schouler will hold service il
the schoolhouse at Andora, tomorrow
Sunday, at $50 p. m.
Ten persons were received on probation
in the Methodist Episcopal Church of tbi
town on Sunday night.
Mr.. Joseph L. Mcdaniel, Vice Presi
dent of the Mccullough Iron Company wa
in Elkton on Sunday last.
Mr.. Singerly's yacht received some
slight INJURY by being in collision with !
wood schooner on Monday.
MIR. G. T, Berriker who is a teacher of
school in Chester county Pa visited hi
relatives at Calvert last week.
An unusual number of cases of typhoi'
fever havt1been reported in the upper sec
lions of the county this Fall.
Mr.. George B. Kerfoot, Manager of thu
Pulp Works has been confined to t he house
by sickness for several days past.
Elder and Kershaw have for rent a
reasonable rates , stables each having
stalls, with NOW overhead 16x26 feet. 2t.
The Happy Harvesters Mission Band q
Zion Presbyterian Church gave oyster
supper in the Academy Building last even
ing.
Capt. Milton A. Osbourn, for eight
years passenger conductor on the p. W.
Il b. railroad died in Baltimore last Satur.
day.
$500 WORTH of handkerchief's for holt
day gifts, Lad es', Gentlemens' and Chill
drens' handkerchef's, ut Mrs. l. IL. Litzen-
berg's.
When you visit Baltimore, stop at tie
Maltby House, where will be found first
class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mchl7tf
The annual meeting OF the Cecil Detec-
tive Association will be held at Rose Bank
Hall, Calvert, on Thursday the 11th inst,
at 10 a.. m.
Chesapeake City NJ. E. Church tomorrow,
Sunday evening, Subject of sermon, How
and when to have a Revival"
Mr.. WIN. NJ. Terrell, wife and family,
of Washington, d. c., have recently visited
their frierds in Ekton. Mr.. Terrell holds
s position in the Patent Office.
The Be! Air NJ. E. Church people don't
know whether or not they want female re
presentation. Their vote on the proposition
resulted eight for and eight against. :
The House and lot now occupied by
John T. Grant in the Cherry Hill was sold
on Monday last by VIM. 7. Warburton Esq
Trustee to Mary s. Arbuckle for $500
Nine persons have been rscently affiict
ed with typhoid fever in the family OF
Joseph Richardson near Rising Sun IN thi:
county, although none of the cases proved
4 fatal.
"A Brown mare and bungy were stoler
3 on Saturday night last from Mr.. Thomas
] Conrey of Chesapeake City. Mr.. Conrey
Z offers liberal reward for the arrest of thu
Il thief.
-Dr. C. NJ. Ellis has been in vi.ed to reat
and essay on County Fairs" before thu
Cecil Farmers Club, whose next meeting
T is TO be held at Mr.. George w. Sutton I
8 near Perryville,
Mr.. Samuel Smith of C0nowingo whil'
N ducking on the river one day recently sa"
large grey eagle perched on tree nea
him. He succeeded in killing it ant
measurement showed it to be seven feet tw'
inches from tip to tip OF its wings.
John II. Witter, of Harmony Grove, ha
natural freak in the shape of turnir
which, when cut open, revealed a hollo'
inside filled with sprouts that seemed to b
growing within the cavity, having bee
diverted from their natural course.
While out hunting near Crum's mill i
Carroll Co. Mr. Theo. Beeler shot and Kill
ed a white partridge. 1t is a curiou look'n
bird, the only colors about it are siigt
touches of a yellowish brown on some {
the feathers, the rest being pure white.
In the Circuit Court, in TowSOn, Nd
on Mouday, the case Of the State agaiu'
the sureties of Stevenson Archer, the (?
State Treasurer, now serving five year,
term of imprisonment for embezzlement
state funds were fixed for trial on Decen
Der 18th.
Mr.. Walter Bailey, living near Carsin
Run, day or two ago killed the large:
crane ever seen in that neighborhood.
measured 6 feet l inch from tip to tip
wings, and 5 feet 10 inches from bill to Ell
of tail feathers.
DR.. f. p. Hagman veterinary surget
of Philadelphia has temporarily located
Elkton. He has established his hea
x-ouarters at Mr.. Edward Taylors live
Office on Main Street where he will suces
fully treat all the ills domestic animals "A
subject to.
The last Quarterly meeting for the ye
will be held at the Chesapeake City Meth
dist Episcopal Church. Tomorrow Lo
Feast at 80 a. IN. Preaching by DR.. MI
ray Presiding Elder at 10.30 a. m. Quartz
ly Conference this Saturday, evening
/ 73O.
Mr.. H. H. Haines President of t
National Bank of Rising Sun, in this count
will open the annual course of lectures
the Friends Normal School in that town
Thursday evening the 18Th inst, with a ia
abont the scenes and incidents of Il
abroad made in the summer of 1889
William Il. Freeman has rented {
Locust Hill Farm in Sassafras Neck
which his son William H. Freeman liv,
to Mr.. Conner, recently on the Gro0me far
1t is reported that William II. Freeman
tends to engage in business in WilmingtC
He has a big sale of horses and stock on
Goth inst.
DIR. George L. Dare and DR.. Charles
Bye, two aged physicians for years IN pr
tice along the upper edge of Cecil coun
and whose deaths recently occurred, WI
nearly of the same age, 81 years, they re
medicine under the same physician, a
graduated at the same time at the sa
medical school. Their deaths occur
nearly simultaneously.
The Club House" property on
River adjoining lands of WIN. NJ. SINCE
abont two and half miles below Elkt
was sold on Friday of last week by Shock
and Smith auctioneers for VIM. L. W
button Esq, to Amos Lewis for S955.
property contains 1Sacres ofland, impro'
by frame House.