The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-25

Mrs. Della McGrady gave u lawn part
Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Mar
!. Russell OF Wilmington, Del.
MIR. Geo w Roberts is hard To eXc'
in potatoe raising. He planted six Potat"t
and harvested one hundred and titty.two.
Mr.. William Falls has moved back int
Elkton, having rented the house owned b
Miss Mary Mccullough, adjoining her res
dence.
The Rev Mr.. Dnhadaway, pastor {
the NJ. L. Church, Newark, Del, preache
an able and eloquent sermon, last Sunday
in the Elktou NJ. f. Church.
I Mr.. Jacob Rambo is rebuilding tn
: property adjoining that of Roger Witworth
on West Main street, owned by Miss Mill
cent Howell, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Frank Bradbury formerly of Elk
ton now conducting a livery stable i'll vii
miugton, lost one of his best driving horse
this week, owing TO its having been over
driven.
! Bessie Bratton, daughter of DAME
Bratton, Esq, editor of the Nc'cS, assisted
by her cousin, Lizzie Mitchell, gave lawn
party to her many young friends on Wed
nesday July 10.
Owing to the failure of Delaware
College trustees to authorize it, the college
cadets will not 90 into encampment. II
was intended to encamp within Fort Della,
ware on July 5Oth.
"A festival will be held at Hopewell NJ
Z. Church, Wednesday, July 18th. Should
the weather be stormy, it will be postponed
until the next evening. Proceeds for the
benefit of the Sunday scho.l.
A steam tug and sc1ws are now lying
at Singerly's wharf in waiting for the ar
rival of the dredging machine, when active
work will be begun in dredging Elk river.
| The appropriation is ten thousand dollars.
AS Mr.. George Denny, near town, was
driving to town Monday morning, his horse
STUN bled aud fell on the hill at Holly Hall,
breaking the shaft OF the cart and cutting
its leg on stone so badly as to be unfit for
| driving.
Mr.. G. F. Stadger, of Philadelphia,
whose wife, Mrs. Lou Bennett Stadiger, has
many friends in EIkton, has given her an
agreeable surprise, in the purchase of a
handsome residence, No. 2006 Mt. Vernon
street, in that city.
Mr.. Joseph Bradbury drove down from
| Wilmington, Friday last, in fine turnout.
| Mr.. Bradbury is now the proprietor of a
| livery, boarding, sale and exchange stable,
222 French street, Wilmington, Del, and
reports business good.
Rev. DR.. Myres, of Baltimore, will
preach at Cherry Hill NJ. f. Church at 1890
a. M, Union, p. m. Cherry Hill, S p. M,
Sunday, July 10Th. Rev. DR.. McCauley,
of Baltimore, will preach at Cherry Hill.
1890 a. m, Sunday, August 81.
The Rev. l. G. Fosnocht, pastor Of the
NJ. E. Church. Chesapeake City, will preach
tomorrow, Sunday, July 26, on the follow
ing subjects Morning, "The Philosophy of
Christian Suffering" evening, "Christ
Mighty to Save" At 3 p. m, service will
be at Bohemia Manor.
MIR. John l.. Grosh, of this town, as
agent for j. II. Bunnell Il Co, New York,
is prepared to furnish and I'll burglar alarms,
electric alarm clocks, medical batteries, and
every thing in the electric line. Mr.. Grosh
is practical bell hanger, and can do all
work at bell hanging skillfully and
promptly.
The Philadelphia Board of Health, in
view of the thousands of baskets of prema-
ture fruit that is in course of shipment" is
considering war against bad fruit. Well,
why not? If bad meat is prohibited, why
rot bad fruit? Is it any less reprehensble
to sell spoiled vegetables? Either will kill
and neither can do more.
Judgment was given on Tuesday in
the action brought in the interest OF Mrs
May brIck against an insurance association
to recover the sum of $40, 900 insurance upon
her husbands life. The London court de-
cded that Mrs. Msybrick had murdered
her husband, and that consequently she
could not recover the amount for which
his life was insured. as his death was
caused by the person for whose benefit the
action was brought.
The annual meeting of the Mutual
Building Association OF Cecil County will
be held Monday evening, July 27th, when
officers will be elected. The report of the
board of auditors, composed of Messrs.
Clinton Mccullough, X. G. Lewis and John
NJ. Tucker, will be read. The new series
for July is now open and stock is being
taken. The officers are: President, DIR.
Chas NJ. Ellis /; vice president Robert,
Marshbank treasurer, L. Nj. Haines sec
rotary, Geo. A. Blake directors, Roger
Withworth, John Perkins, C. b. Finley,
George W. Cosden, S j. Keys, John Gilpin
and DIR. j. II. lamar.
In writing to the Peninsula Methodist
DR.. w. l.. S. Murray says that Elk Neck is
delighted with Edwin Garner as pastor.
The church AT Harris has been repaired
and greatly Improved. The Sabbath ser
vices came near exhausting the catalogue.
We began with a love feast, followed with
the Lords Supper; then the sermon, aud
quarterly collection, closing with the sac
rament of baptism, in which service the
twd4Ittle boys of Frederic and Sallie Whor-
| ton, viz: Chester Frederic and Joseph
Jackson were baptised. North East greeted
US with full house. The quarterly collec-
| ton for the day reached almost a hundred
| dollars. The pastor, Rev. j. b. QIigg, was
voted vacation, to be taken at his own
discretion. Edwin Gardner was also gran
ted vacation. The quarterly Conference
| at Scott Church, was unusual in its tinan-
| cial report, collections exactly meeting
expenses and spiritual influences making
| the service more like an earnest PRAYER
and testimony meeting than the quarterly
| conference.
"A Newark, Del reporter gives the
| following account OF an accident to a COW
aud blight to well: "a peculiar accident
to COW and blight to water well is re-
| ported from the neghborhOod of the White
| Clay Creek church, several miles east Of
| through the top of a well and went crash ing
| down head foremost to the bottom of the
| well, 40 feet below, very much after the
| fashion described in McGinty's requiem
| In the morning the COW was missed and so
| was its rIilk at breakfast. Quite naturally
| it did not at first occur to the owner to look
| down the old well, but " hen he did he was
SO surprised that he almost fell down him
self. The COW was dead-no doubt about
| that-but its tail was more erect than ever
1t was pointing Zenithward, while its head
was clear under water. The COW was still
| in that uucOm f0rtahle pDsjt on at last az
counts and the farmer was not using the
water of the well for drinking purposes,
although he does not see Why, with his
best milk COW at the bottom of the well
/ tho old L hrir, firth