The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-10-25

) Our former fellow towsman, Mr. JOIN
:. Russell was in Elkton on hurried visi
on Saturday.
bout forget the Fowler sale Of farm
and personal property near Childs on Wed
nesday next.
john w. Falls, Esq, of North East
will address Il temperance meeting at Bay
View this evening at $50.
Services will be conducted at Wesley
Chapel. Elk Neck, to morrow's afternoon,
by Rev DIR. Murray, Presiding Elder.
Thursday, the 23l inst, was The rainy
day of this very rainy season. On that day
a year ago we enjoyed the surprise OF an
autumual snow storm.
The Anti License League of Ceclton
will hold Il public meeting on Thursday
next, as usual under the direction of the
Rev 7. A. II. O'Brien.
Ralph Bingham, the talented boy ora
tor. will give one of his POI ular entertain
mcnts at Harris, Elk Neck, on Monday
evening next, and at Wesley Chapel ON
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. McQuilkin our enterprising machn-
list and iron worker, completed this week a
handsome iron fence for the front Of the
cemetery OF the Cherry Hill Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The Closing exercises of Pierson Grove
Sunday school will be held to. morrow week
Nov. ID. They will consist OF recitatl3ns
and singing by the scholars, and an adj
dress by the Rev. DIR. Osmond and others.
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Mccullough, of Wilmington,
which had been announced for Tuesday
evening, was postponed on account OF the
illness of Mr.. William Il. Mearns of this
county.
The chief judges and ballot clerks of
the county are requested to meet in Elkton
on Tuesday next, the 2Sth inst, for instruc-
ton and practice under the new election
law, and for which they will be allowed one
day $ per diem.
1T is reported upon the authority of a
Wilmington daily that the Rev. j. p. Otis
has notified the Quarterly Conference of his
desire to leave Port Deposit in the Spring,
and that the Rev Adam Stengle has been
selected to succeed him.
The Rev. l.. f. Barrett, of Wilmington,
will deliver temperance lecture at Hope
well NJ. E Church on Thursday evening,
! the Both inst, at 730. High license voters
are invited to come out and hear the ques-
| ton discussed.
Rev. James a. Murphy, of the Catholic
| Church of this town, attended this week
the annual synod of the diocese of Whining
ton which was held in ST. Peters Church of
that city. At solemn high mass on Thurs
| day he was master Of ceremonies.
Little Miss Helen Burkley gave birth
day party at the Howard House on Wed
nesday evening. A number of her friends
attended and the evening was pleasantly
spent in playing games, the little folks de
parting for home about nine o'clock.
Happy Russell . 21I%, the property of
Edward b. Emory, Esq, of Queen AIMS
Co., was sold at public auction at Poplar
Grove Tuesday TO Mr.. Harry Brooks, of
Baltimore for SD, 600. 1t is reported that
Mr. Brooks has since refused $4,000 from
Hentschel Il Hoops for him. y
While digging grave in ImmanuGl p.
| f. Cemetery, at New Castle, the skeleton OF
an immense Indian was unearthed. The
frame was seven feet in length and proper
tionately az large, and had been buried for
at least 200 years. The Red man had been
buried wrapped in blanket without coffin
Or box.
MIR. Roger Witworth, the entrrprising'
West End Hardware Merch ant will move
into his new dwelling house next week. He
will at once occupy, the whole of the build
ing ON the corner for business uses, and will
have one of the largest depots OF the kind
in the county. He received this week a
large invoice of stoves of all kinds.
Its some consolation to the public to
know that the rascally ice trust has been
caught with over 10000 tons of ice on hand
in their Maine houses. There was really on
scarcity of ice this year, yet consumers
were compelled to pay four prices for what
lhey used, simply 20 put their money in the
pockets of theSe relentless monopolists.
The Masonic fair now being held in the
Fifth Maryland Armory Hall, Baltimore,
is attracting attention all over the State.
and visiting delegations of Masons are in
daily attendance. On Wednesday, II afford
county was well represented, Messrs. A. d.
Spencer, Robert X. Vanneman and w. S.
McCombs, of Havre de Grace, being among
the visitors to the fair.
john c. Hiudnan auctoneer for VIM.
s. Evans Esq, Trustee, sold on Saturday
last on the premises the farm now in the
occupancy of VIM. Il. Porter in the Eighth
district and containing 151 acres TO j. L.
Walker of Lancaster county Pa , for 81 90j.
At the same time and place Stephen j.
Caldwell purchased an undivided one half
interest in twenty acres of land lying on the
Susquehanna at Conowingo.
The Oxford Press states that Col S. G.
Slaymaker with a corps of Engineers was
in that town last week surveying another
entrance for the Lancaster, Oxford and
Southern railroad. Two routes have been
surveyed. and the indications are that the
projected road Will run either to Landen-
burg passing South of New London to
Wilmington, or to Singerly in Cecil county.
The road will be under the control of the
Baltimore & Ohio and Reading Companies.
The hotel keepers of Cecil county met
to consider the situation, at the Howard
| House in this town on Tuesday the different
districts of the county being represented
Mr.. VIM. Grason of Rising Sun called
to the chair, and Mr. Thomas Pierce of the
| First district, was selected as secretary.
The business of the campaign was discuss
ed, and methods suggested looking to ways
| and means to promote their interests, at
| the coming election. A similar meeting
will be held next Tuesday, so at least it is
reported.
-Hamptsn Johns, a young son of Mr..
Arthur Johns, of Sissafras, meet with an
accident last Sunday morning. Two dogs
| on the farm were fighting and the boy tried
TO separate them. One of the animals snapp
Ell at him and bit the end of one of his fling
ers on his right hand nearly off, so that it
hung only by piece of the Skin. 1t was
| done so quiGhlS lhdb INC uoy ulu noI leailLe IL
at the time and it was noticed as he raised
his hand up few seconds afterwards. A
physician rendered the necessary medical
aid. Nddtetoun Trancript
-"Borrowing" says the great poet of
the human heart, "dulls the edge of
husbandry." and the following from an
exchange can be read with profit by
! farmers: "To lend unto the needy and
give unto him that asketh is both charitable
and neighborly, and, when the practice is