The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-02-21

Mrs. Jno. Tucker returned from Wash
iugton on Saturday last.
Miss Minnie Massey, of MasSeys, was
!. the guest of friends in town on Sunday.
Hal lamar and Victor NJ. Torbert
returned to St. Johns College Annapolis on
Wednesday.
/ Mr.. Wilmer Hardness is building a
dwelling house near the corner of Bridge
and High street.
Miss Maggie Ricketts, left Eikton ON
Saturday last for Brooklyn n. Y. where she
is visiting friends.
Miss Lille Alexander daughter of John
. f. Alexander is visiting friends IN Baiti
more and Washington.
The next meeting of the Cecil Farmers
Club will be held at Mr.. Joseph CoudOn' $
on Wednesday March 18Th
Rev. William Schouler will hold ser
, vice in the school house at Andora, to-
morrow, Sunday at $50 p. IN.
Rev. j. G.. Fosnocht will preach the
annual Missionary sermon at the Manor
NJ. Z. Church to morrow afternoon ut go
Rev. Keusey j. Hammond, of High
lands, Del, will preach in Trinity Church,
Elkton, on Thursday evening next. Service
at 7:3O.
Mrs Rebecca E. Young who has been
confined to her room by illness, for several
days, we are happy to report is very much
improved.
MIR. John c. McIutire starts OIL a pros
tecting tour west next week. His objec-
tive point will be indianapolis where his
brother resides.
-Workmen engaged in excavatipg near
the bridge which crosses the Little Elk at
the Landing last week exhumed mans
skull and bones.
Mr.. Kinsey Matthews represented the
Friendship Lodge No ~ knights of Pythias
of North East, in the Grand Lodge which
met in Baltimore last week.
Mr.. James c. Davis of North East in
this county, has accepted position as
salesman with a lumber manufacturing
company of North Carolina.
-Messrs. Andrew Anderson and A. A.
Sturgeon of North East have gone to Roam
oke, Virginia, on prospecting tour. They
will visit a nam Der of other town while on
their trip.
-Elkton has; been losing too many good
citizens lately by removals. The latest is
the intended removal of Mr.. James Halves
and his family to Philadelphia where their
son Clearance Halves has been for some
time past located.
The w. C. T. u, of Newark, Del, will
bold its Fifth Anniversary, Tuesday even
ing, Feb. 9th, in the oratory of Delaware
College Hon. John P. St. John will make.
an address. Exercises beir G at As o'clock,
p. m. All are invited to be present, admiss-
ion free.
Miss Matte Parish will tegin closing
out the stock in her store on Main Street
this evening. Rumor has at, that the Store
House now occupied by her will be opened
with a stock of ready made clothing by a
well known Elkton Merchant Tailor after
he Goth Of March.
Mr.. Benz f. Chmabers whose home
! has recently been at Trenton New Jersey,
will remain here until after the sale of the
personal property of the late William p.
Fowler which takes place on the 18th of
March, and under whose will he was desi-
| grated rs Executor.
Rev. Mr. Eckels of Newport. preached
an eloquent sermon in Trinity p. E. Church
| Thursday evening. He took his text,
IL, 1l.l
an able manner, showing the results of an
evilly spent life, and the good to be derived
from living righteous life.
The ladies' of Harris Church, Elk Neck,
will give a supper in the lecture room of
their church next Wednesday evening,
Feb, 18th. Ice cream, cake and fruits will
be served. Tickets to supper so and 25
cents. Should the weather prove unfavor-
able on Wednesday, the supper will be held
the next clear evening
Mr.. Harry o. X. Foster of North East.
| the busy newsma an and Industrious reporter,
asked us to say to all who can sing as we'll
as those who cannot, that he is agent for
the sale of that melodious and beautiful
religious song Glove Found Me" We
cheerfully comply with his request and
recommend the song to everybody.
The Rev. j. G. Fosnocht Pastor of the
Chesapeake City NJ. E. Church was in
Elkton on Wednesday. The Methodists
in that town have good reason for congratu
lation upon the work of the pas year. They
have increased their membership by up
wards of fifty, and have paid off about one
thousand dollars of the Church debt.
The popular Wren combination will
give an entertainment at the Odd Fellows
Hall on Saturday March 7th under the
auspices of the Ancient Order of United
Workman of this town. The programme
will be a beauiifu! domestic Drama entitled
"Devotion, or the Soldiers ret rn," and
will be followed by a laughable Comedy
entitled "Bam boozled, or Jonah's Mascot"
During the evening popular vocal selections
will be given by members of the Company.
The entertainment will be first-class in
every respect, and it is hoped it will re-
ceive the patronage of our public which it
deserves The Company has given many
entertainments which have been very high
ly endorsed by all audiences before whom
they have appeared. General admission
% cents. Reserved seats So cents.
Judges Fowler and Burke held another
consultation at Towson on Monday last on
the motion for new trial in the suit of the
State against Stevenson Archer and the
sureties on his bond given in 1886 At
o'clock in the atternoon Judge Burke went
into the clerks office and directed the clerk
to make the following entry in the case:
'The court being divided on tn, motion for
a new trial the motion is overruled, and is
so ordered by the court" The failure of
the motion will, it is thought, practically
end the case. The suit was on the first
bond given by Ex- State Treasurer Archer
in February, 1886 Defendant demurred to
the declaration of the State on the ground
that the bond was only liable for two years
; and one month from the date it was signed
and could not be extended until November,
1889, when second bond was given. Tho
demurrer was argued at length and was
, overruleG, the court unanimously decided
that the boudsmen of 1886 were responsible
for all defalcations of Archer up to the time
of the giving of the second bond. The case
g went to trial on this, Attorney General
t Whyte and Mr.. John z. Poe representing
: the State and MIR. Bernard Carter and Mr..
Edgar IL. Cans the bondsmen. When the
evidence had been concluded the State
amended its pleadings in order to meet
the claim of the defense that Archer en-
bezzled the money and not the bonds. The
g defense resisted this amendment of the