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

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list, will use the office lately vacated by Dr
Cooper, as a night office
Miss Helen lIasson, one OF our most
efficient teachers, has been appointed 10 the
public school at Chesapeake City.
DIR. j. w. Cooper is having furnace
placed in his residence on East Main street.
Charles .Jamison is doing the work.
MIR. Charles T. Alexander, for ndm-
Der of years foreman of the Cecd county
Ne,cs Office has accepted position III the
office of THE CECIL WING.
Mrs. Il. d. lamar, and Miss Cora
lamar returned to Elkton on Saturday.
after a visit of several weeks to Mrs. Dr.
John T. Owens of Chicago.
Rev. j. A. Brindle, pastor OF the NJ T.
| Church at Cordova, is assisted in his revival
services by Mrs. Lydia kenney of Philadel-
phla, and Miss Nellie j. NanName OF New
York.
In his charge to the Kent county grand
Jury, at Cbestertown Monday, Judge
Wickes spoke of the depressed condition OF
| the 1irinlug = Interest anu ul5cu i'i"'~A' w.
| live within their means.
| Mrs. Maria Avery has been chosen
president of the Women's Foreign Mission
airy Society of Mt. Salem Church, Will
miugton, OF which her husband, Kew.
Walter f. Avery is pastor.
A handsome gold Ii. y. Il. badge re-
Gently CHANGED OFT by Wingate Post OF
| North East, was delivered on Tnursdhy to
Captain Charles y. Conner, of Havre de
Grace, he holding the lucky ticket.
-Rev. De- Oslnond will tomorrow even
| Ing preach at the Presbyterian Church the
sermon on "IutoxiCatiUn, which was post
| poued on Sunday evening last, and was not
delivered as stated by mid-weekly paper.
-Erery Ereni,tg says that L esley Jan
new WAS on Thursday appointed Govern
ment stor.-keeper at ElhtOn, Md. The Gov
eminent has no store keeper at Ekton,
Baltimore, we take it, is the city really
meant.
There is law in Kent county, Md,
against any person betting on an election.
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five hundred dollars, and the deposit made
on the wager is forfeited for the use of tie
county.
A Letter was received by the local COM
mittee this we. k from the Rev. Frank I.
Ellis the eloquent Baptist minister of BAlti-
more, stating his inability from other en-
gagements, to speak on prohibition in Elk
tor next week.
The trees are now decked in all their
gorgeous beauty and Ioveliness. Those will
be repaid who visit the county and gather
IA supply of Autumn letveI for winter bou-
Duets, crosses, wreIIhs, festoons, etc with
which to decorate their homes.
Scott NJ. +. Church of Wilmington,
was reopened Sunday. the morning sermon
being preached by Rev. George Edward
Reei d. D., President of Dickinson College.
The eliticr has been rep tired at cost OF
$1,000, which amount has been Subscribed
by the congregation.
On Monday night of last week John
Mailman, Il carpenter of the Che sapeake and
Delaware Canal Company fell into Back
Creek near the canal locks at Chesapeake
City and was drowned His body was re.
covered on Thursday morning near the
place where he is supposed to have fallen in
Jesse Price, a native of Charlestown
in this county but for the past thirty years
a resident of Lapidum in Hartford county,
was strc ken with paralysis on Sunday last
and died on Monday, lie Leaves a wife and
seven children. He was in the employ of
the Susauehanna and Tidewater Canal
Company.
On Friday evening of last week the
regular meeting of the Foreign Missionary
Society of the Elkton Methodist Episcopal
church was held at tie residence of Mrs.
Joseph Hinchiffe, Mrs. John T. Alexander
presided, and number of musical seec-
lions were rendered by the Misses Hill,
Miss Wamsley and Miss Davis gave read
ings. The Novem Der meeting will be held
at the NJ. +. church parsonage.
On Wednesday at the meeting of the
Baltimore Synod in Wilmington. The Rev.
DR.. Gayley, D. ID submitted the report of
the synod Committee on Home Missions.
They reported SO societies in the bounds of
the synod, in which there are 3,4S5 MEM
bers, SO missionary boards, 10 contributing
Sunday schools 733 meetings had been held,
and cash contributions of S7,192,O3 and
missionary boxes valued at 81, S3l 81 have
been received and distributed.
il a old pountrv Sav,ur that winter
comes when the springs are filed, and ex-
perience verifies it. In the opnien of
weather prophets, all signs indicate that
the approaching winter will be an earl and
notably rigorous one. They say the early
appearance this season of the fall cricket
aud kltydid, the early tiocking of migratory
birds and especially the early deluging and
prolonged September rains, all presage the
early advent of winter, and hard and
stormy one.
Rev L. w. Scott pastor of the Proyi.
dence NJ. F. church of this town publishes
small paper called the Darn. La his last
issue he gives his colored brethren the fol-
lowing good advice There is some
effort on the part of some of the race to do
like white people. The only and best way
to be lik: white people is to be religious and
get money and buy land and buy houses
and get rich and your chances will be better
for the next world. A man hasn't much
chance for the heavenly world if he is too
lazy to wol k in this world for the Scrip
lures say the lazy man shall not eat
An unusual fire occurred in Bel Air on
Tuesday. A wagon loaded with three tons
of hay, belonging to the Henry Reckord
Manufacturing Company, was passing
through the streets Of Bel Air, on .bat day,
where some work nan were engaged in join
ing water pipe, using burning pitch for the
purpose The work men told the driver to
go ahead, that there was plenty of room for
the wagon to pass around the fire but there
wasn't, and soon there was considerable of
n fire, right in the midst of water pipes.
The hay was burned, and also the hay car
riage. Mrs Henry w. Archer's fence was
damaged to some extent.
The Presbyterian Synod of Il .lti more be-
gan its al nual session in the Central church
Wilmington on Tuesday evening. Some of
the prominent visitors present were Gen. A.
| H. Whitley of Baltimore, Gen. j. Irving
| Gregg, U. S. a and Hon Charles Lyman
| of the Civil Service Commission. The open
| ing sermon preached by the Rev. ID.
| Simonton. On the call of the roll sixty
nine responded to their names. Rev. S. A
| Gay ley of West Nottingham nominated the
| Rev. Albert V. Keigwin as moderator who
was elected without opposition. Cecil county
b 4sides the Rev. DR.. Gayley was represent
ed by Rev. S. NJ. 0smond, and George A.