The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-07


Our popular and efficient deputy post
master Mr.. Calvin Strickland, spent Sttur
day and Sunday last in Washington.
Rev. Hunter Davidson of Port Deposit,
will preach in Trinity Church, Elkton, on
Thursday evening of next week. Service
at half-past seven.
The orange supper and festival recently
given by the ladies of the Mite Society OF
the NJ. L. Church of Chesapeake City, was
a success, netting about 800.
Mr.. and Mrs. David NJ. Reynolds have
removed from Rising Sun to jacksonville,
Florida, where they have taken charge OF
the Carleton House, popular hotel of that
city.
The Rev. l. G.. Fosnocht will preach at
the Manor church tomorrow at 2.3O p. IN.
Morning subject for Chesapeake City Tears
of Jesus" evening, "Whst Christians like
To tell.
MIR. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, enter
tanned number of his friends at dinner
on Friday of last week. Among the guests
were Jacob Tome, Esq, and Mrs. Tome of
Port Deposit.
DIR. Lewis H. Steiner, the popular and
and accomplished librarian of the Enoch
Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, will
accept our thanks for copy of his fifth
annual report.
WIN. p. Swisher, young farmer OF
Rowlandville in this county, and Miss
Mary C. Rowland, daughter of Mr.. Finley
Rowland of Liberty Grove, were married
on Thursday of last week.
The missionary anniversary of the
Chesapeake City NJ. E. Church, which was
held on Tuesday evening, was one of ur-
usual interest. Although the weather was
! Indictment the house was filled.
| George NJ. Gillespie, administrator of
| Margaret II. Gillespie, deceased, sold at
public sale on Wednesday last the farm of
156 acres, near lakewood, Cecil county, to
Miss Annie E. Gillespie. for So, $50.
AS heretofore announced in THE WING
MI Frank Kerr will occupy the store house
on Main street recently vacated by Miss
Martha Parrish. Mr.. Calvin Merritt is
putting it in fine order. Mr.. Kerr will dis
play there fine line of ready made clothing
at popular prices.
Miss Martha Hogg of this town was
bitten on the arm by a dog belonging to
neighbor, whose house she was about to
enter near their property on the Delaware
line on Thursday last. We are glad to say
that Miss Martha while alarmed at the
time, was not seriously hurt.
MIR. Classin, the engineer employed by
the Board of Town Commissioners to pre-
pare a plot of the town, locate places for
fire plugs, Sc. on which the Board will
advertise for proposals to construct the new
water works, was here this week and made
a survey of the town on Thursday.
Charles c. Crothers as trustee sold on
Saturday last the farm of the late William
j. Gillespie, containing one hundred acres
near Conowingo in the Eighth election dis
trict of this county to Mr.. William A.
Montgomery Of Lancaster county, Pa, for
$1,000. Forty acres of woodland were also |
sold at the same time to Mr.. J. j. Bennett
for $500.
A horse Of DR.. Jacobs of near Sassa |
fras, in this county while htched near the |
depot at Middletown, Del, Saturday even |
ing, became frightened at a mort bound |
passenger train and backed into freight |
car which was standing on a side track. |
The carriage and harness were badly bro
ken, but the occupant of the vehicle jump |
ed out in time to escape personal injury.
The circumstances of the deaths of |
Edward McGuirk and his wife, Martha, of |
North East, are unusually sad. She died |
on the afternoon of Monday of paralysis,
while his death occurred early on Tuesday |
morning, their double funeral taking place
on Thursday. Roth being i'll in the same /
house. Mr. McGurk died unconscious of his |
wife's death. They were buried in St.
Mary's church yard in that town.
Samuel Brown, an old and estlmable
man, formerly of the Sixth district of this |
county, died on the 22d of February at |
Miss Mary NJ. keetley's West Dillingham;
township, Chester county, having suffered |
intensely with rheumatism for about six
months. Formerly he was one of the lead
taking great interest in the affairs of his
native community besides raising large |
family who survive him.
The Newark Ledger tells of the Ise of |
person who boarded Newark Centre
train at Wilmington last Tuesday morning
in mistake for a Delaware railroad train to
Dover, never discovering his blunder until |
he arrived in that town. The man had in |
his possession Legislative pass, and did |
not seem to care whether school kept or |
not He remained in Newark most all day |
in hazy condition, and the Ledger strong |
ly intlmates that he was drunk. No one |
there knew him, and every one is asking
was he really Legislator?
The following little piece of Romance |
of the Maud Muller type has been going the |
rounds of the Daily Press. The late Sena- |
tor Wilson of Maryland, was very kind to |
a poor widow. She had pretty daughter, |
about whose education and other affairs she |
often consulted Judge Wilson, and left |
them in his hands when she died, just as
her daughter was grown up. He settled |
ter as to her plans. These plans we're very |
Judcous but were all broken up by the
judge himself, who fell in love with the
pretty daughter and married her-a regular
Maud Muller case.
Mrs. Mary j. Ferry Of this town,
widow of the late Daniel Ferry of Balti-
more and sister of the late ID avid Scott (of
James, of this county died on Sunday night
last at the residence Of his sister Mrs. Han
nah Johnston on West High Street IN her
73d year. Mis- Ferry had been engaged in
nursing her sister as well as her brother in
law the late George Johnston, and was pros
strated white in attendance on them. She
was a most estimable lady and had been
for a number of Iyears IAN exemplary mem
Der of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She leaves son Mr.. Harry Ferry with
whom she resided. Her funeral took place
on Thursday, interment being at the Head
of Christiana Cemetery.
"A peninsula Correspondent of Will
mington paper is responsible for the State
ment that the prospects for crop OF
fruit was never better than at present. The
buds began to swell during the warm wea
Their of last week, but not enough to be in
jured by the present cold weather. Sun
day night was the coolest of the season and
Monday night the snow fell several inches
deep. This clear, cold weather, the farmers
say, is just the sort of weather wanted to
produce crop of peaches. They are con-
fident that their predictions of big yield
of fruit will be verified. A Chestertown
ma y saws. The preseut weather