The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-02

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York Racket store prices.
MIR. George A. Lee of Baltimore, la
/. been Wishing friends in Elkton this week.
Miss Mamie Haines returned on Mol
day from a two weeks visit at Princeton
Nj.
l. Miss Florence Armstrong of Baltimore
has been visiting Mrs. DIR. g. NJ. Ellis thi
week.
Miss Lille Schofeld of Wilmington
is visiting Miss Stevens on West Higl
street.
Mrs. John Tucker and Miss Molh,
Drennen returned from Washington or
Monday last.
The hour of evening service at Trinity
Church beginning with tomorrow Sunday
will be eight o'clock.
Mrs Geo w. Cruikshank, since heI
return from Camden, y. j., has been quite
sick at her home il this town
The State Convention of Republican
League Clubs OF Maryland will meet in
Baltimol on Wednesday next. May oh.
Mr. Herbert j. Smith, son of Postal
Inspector William b. Smith OF this town
has just graduated at the College of Phar-
macy in Philadelphia.
Mr.. George Stenge, son of the Rev.
Adam Stengle, pastor Of Tome Memorial
Church, and recently employed in this
Office is in Jacksonville, Florida
"a, w hos
has been confined TO the house by severe
indiSposition for almost two weeks past,
is now sufficiently recovered to be out.
DO you know what "Rlcket" store is?
Go to \. X. Warmers in the Hurn building
and you'll find the racket lies in the
large amount of goods You can buy for a
| little money.
| The citizens of Middletown are asking
the General Assem- bly, for authority to Dor
row $40, coo for the purchase of an electric
light plant. The contract with the present
electric company will soon expire.
Rev j. Il. Milligan of Zion, in this
county, Rev. II. L. Buustein, Messrs. j. f.
Price and w. S. Dickinson, were selected
as delegates to the General Presbyterian
convention which will assemble at Detroit,
Michigan.
A youth named Warren while driving
with an acquaintance on Saturday afternoon
on the road from Chesapeake City to Elkton
was thrown out, and received painful but
not dangerous scalp wound. He was at
tended by DR.. j. w Cooper
We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of the new firm of CARR |
age builders in Port Deposit, Messrs Lamm
& Gather, who succeed Wesley Nickle
there. They are excellent workmen and |
good clever fellows in every sense, and we |
bespeak for them a liberal share OF the |
carriage trade of that vicinity.
"A walking party" of pretty young |
ladies from Newark, Delaware, attracted |
some attention on North street on Wednes |
day morning. They had started from |
Newark about o'clock a. H., and reaching |
Elkton about 10 o'clock, returned to
Newark by the 10. 81 a. m. train. The party |
was composed of the Misses Hossinger, |
Lindsay, and others.
Our excellent town bailiff, MIR. VIM.
I. Boulder has just finished the pavement
in front of the new town council hall,
which is a marked Improvement to North
street All the old pavement has been
removed and the grade raised TO the le:el of
the sill of the new building, as well as a
sewer trunk laid under its entire length.
Amos Pearson did the brick work.
A few nights ago while two fishermen
named Groves and Mckinney were asleep
in the cabin of their boat at White Point
on the North East river, the rising tide
careeued their beat sufficiently to upset
lighted lantern, which set fire to their nets
lying near, and which We're entirely de-
stroyed. The loss is a heavy one to them,
as the nets Were new, and were valued at
500.
Mrs. Helen Bullock of Elmira, n. V,
National State Org .niZer and Lecturer, will
deliver an address in the North East NJ. E
Church on Sunday, May 80, at $50 o'clock
p. N. The public are cordially invited.
Mrs. Bullock comes highly recommended,
ami we hope the people of North East and
vicinity will show their appreciation of this
talented speaker and her noble cause by
greeting her with crowded house.
Captain James Curtis of Chesapeake
City who was in charge of barge owned
by the Elston and Mcmahon Transportation
Company vas drowned on Saturday night
last in a blow near the mouth of the Great
WicomiCo river. The barge of which Capt
Curtis was in command, was with a NUN
Der in tow OF the steam tug Peerless bound
for Baltimore, and during the gale was
froia the others, when Captain
Curtis was washed overheard, his crew
having no means at hand to rescue him.
Captain Curtis was about fifty years of
age and had been with his employers about
% years. He leaves wife aud several
children.
George Burns, of Beair, met with
day. He boarded the caboose Of wrecklug
train No. 223, which was standing in the
yard, to ride to Conowingo. He was or
dered off by Fiagman Wesley Aument, in
charge Of the caboose. Burns refused 20
comply, whereupon Aument it is claimed,
attempted to eject him. Burns was
thrown eff head foremost, his head striking
upon the step and rail of the track and
suUaining a very severe scalp wound. Pro
badly the skull is fractured. Burns was
taken to the depot hotel, where he was ex-
amined by the company's surgeon, DIR. a.
G. Crothers, assisted by DR.. Shure, who
pronounced his condition serious Aument
is confined in the lookup pending further
development in Burns condition. Burns
was taken to the Mar ylaud University
Hospital in Baltimore on Wednesday.
The Notbern Convocation of the Dio-
cese OF Easton, held its session in st. James
Church, Port Deposit, on TUESDAY, We'd
nesIay and Thursday of last week. There
were present the Rev. VIM S:hUuler DEAN
and the Rev. Messrs. Roberts, of Chester
town, Sutton. of 81. P,Iul's, Kent, Farrar,
of Shrewsbury Parish, Kent county, with
Rev. DIR. Duncan, of North Sassafras, and
the Rev. Hunter Davidson Rector at Port
Deposit Besides these were the Revs.
Messrs. Humphrey of Havre de Grace, and
Wroth of Darlington, from the Diocese of
Maryland. Services We're held on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday followed by ad-
dresses), and on Wednesday and Thursday
mornings with sermon. In the business
m Getting the Rev. Geo. G. Sutton, was nom.
mated to the Bishop for the office of Dean
(the Rev. Mr.. VIM. Schouer having declin-
ed re-nom.nation) and the Rev. Dr. Dun