The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-08-30

| Tue pup Worhs arrived mere on W edneSuay
A number of vessels were already at til
wharves and the river presented a livel,
appearance.
Campbell and Plummer will be til
Elkton battery today. Gibson will pla,
either second or short stop. Fl. Henry an,
Perkins will both be on bases. 1t will be
fine exhibition of playing
Bishop Adams, of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, will visit Elkton, Sept. 81
Port Deposit, Sept. -; North East, Sept
232 %; Chesapeake City, Sept Goth; Earle
vile, Sept. 9th; North Sassatras, Sept. IS
-Messrs. II. Clinton McCabe and Robir
Nelson, of this town, will start on Monday
next to attend the Wilmington Commercial
| College where they will take a course in
stenography. They will go and return
daily on the cars.
Divorces are getting to be common oc-
| currences in Caroline county. An absolute
divorce has been granted to James D.
Shockley. of the 3rd district, from his wife,
On the grounds that she left HIM and has re.
manned away for more than three years.
Miss Mollie Davis, youngest daughter
of Wallace and Mary j. Davis. formerly o.
Elktou, died on Wednesday at Upland, Pa,
of typhoid fever, aged 10 years. She was a
niece of Mrs. George w. Ash, of Elkton,
and sister of Mrs. Charles Jones, OF this
vicinity.
"A lamp has been placed by the P. W.
& B. Railroad company on the south side OF
the track between the station ard the Eel
ton House. 1t is about the place where
baggage and express are unloaded from
northbound trains and will prove conven-
lent on dark nights.
The Baltimore and Eastern Shore Il all.
road Company have chartered the fast new
steamer Tockwogh to run between the ter
minals of the road at Bay Ridge in Anne
Arundel county, aud Bay City in Talbot
county, thus making the connections be.
tween the Eastern and Western Shores.
There will be an ice cream festival
tonight at the Salvation Army Barracks.
Captain Sigler and wife who for six months
past have been in charge of the work here
will FAREWELL on Sunday night. New
| officers will arrive next week, Captain Sig
Ter does not yet know where he will be sta
toned.
"A Mt. Pleasant, Del, merchant sent 2
tramp, who he had hired four weeks before,
to Wilmington market on Saturday last.
After selling the produce the tramp spent
the proceeds for whiskey. He drove thc
team to Elkton where 1t was recovered.
The merchant was out about seven dollars
but decided not to prosecute as he did not
want to attend court.
The dead body of 4 well-formed male
infant was found Wednesday hidden in a
bureau drawer in the room of Alice NJ. Bay
young unmarried woman, who with heI
mother, Mrs. Laura V. Bay, manages the
dinning-room of the club house at Bel Air,
recently vacated by Mr.. d. Il. Burroll. y
post mortem was held by DR.. Munnikhuy-
sen. Both woman are under arrest.
Charles Summer Post, &. a. r., oil
WILMINGTON, accompanied by brass band
came to Elkton on Thursday on special
| train over the p, w. 81 B. railroad and
spent the day on the Holly Hall grounds
A game of base ball was played in the after
noon between Elkton and Wilmington col
ored clubs which resulted in victory fol
| the home team by a score Of So to Il.
"A rather curious feature of the visit o.
| Dir Faryilla nf Ralti,oora tn farm nj II
| II. Steele to investigate the cause of the
| fatality among his cattle was the meeting
of the Veterinary with Mr.. Frank B!andy {
civil engineer ofArizona now visiting friends
at Newark, Del. The two gentlemen had
met before but once and that was on 4
cattle ranch in Arizona five years ago.
| -Melmar Academy, at Zion, Md, viii
open for the third year on September OIL
with full and competent corps of teachers
The prospects for this year are encouraging
and the academy will have higher stand
ard than any previous year. In the senior
class young men are fitting for college
| Students can board at reasonable rates il
the town. Music and art departments viii
be in charge of first-Class teachers. For fur
Their particulars apply to Rev. j. Il. Mill
gan, principal.
| The funeral of William Homewood
who was drowned last week in the Chris
tiana river, took place on Sunday from st
Thomas Episcopal Church, Newark, ant
was one of the most largely attended funer
ais in that town for years. The bearers wert
John I. Steele, James Hossinger, JOSEPH
B. Luton, James a. Wilson, William Nor
rison and Samuel Lindsay. The service
were conducted by the Rev. Geo. NJ. Bond
and the interment was in the family lot il
the graveyard in the rear OF the church
All of Mr.. Homewood's children, 16 il
number, were present except one, who Is il
the west.
Two residents of the "Barrens," VIII
were evidently somewhat intoxicated, Iii,
some local talking on Saturday nigh
and made some people think that the.
wanted to fight. They We're missed on tn
streets and it was reported had gone to tn
fair grounds where several young men, in
Guiding cotemporary who doubtless want
ed full report for his "Sporting Notes,
journeyed IN a fruitless search for the seen
of the "scrap." The newspaper man and
friend sure that there was fight On ham
walked down to Red Mill but failed to fin
the bruiser5. Men who swear at each othe
for half an hour seldom do much fighting
Ex-senator Richardson, of Dover, wa
at Saratoga Springs last week, and Will
there he had a careful conversation with
citizen of Wilmington in respect to the cul
rent discussion upon the timed plate ques
ton. This conversation has been reporte
to the Morning. NclrS ,s follows; "Talkiu
with State Senator Richardson last evcnln
l asked him to what extent the propose
increase of duty on timed plate would e
feet the cost of the tin cans used in his bus
ness. His answer was-'wouldn't affect
at all worth speaking Of. L expires sed SUI
price, and he continued: The great bulk {
of our packages are of the smaller Size
from one half to one, two and three pound
On these cans the increased cost under til
Mckinley bill would be one and onefourt
cents per dozen cans for the smaller, up t
two cents per dozen cans for the large
sizes. On our larger cans-say from tel
pounds to twenty pounds of which we us
comparatively few-tEe increased cos
would be five cents per dozen cans "li
said: taking the average OF all sizes,
will not reach anywhere near .that-it wi
noa be over two and one-fourth cent
per dozen cans.