The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-11-14
SUNDAY TRAINS:
ELaTON, NOVEMBER IA. 1891.
GLOgAL DEPARTMENT., u

The Wakefield Fire Brick Company, OF
North East, are making an addition t.
their works.
Mrs. Mercy Sturgis and her daughter
Mrs. Essig, of Philadelphia, are the guests
of Mr., W. w. Moore near Colora.
George KILLER, who resides near ST.
Augustine in the Second district, owns
nine horses, eight of which are sorrels.
The seminary and academy at West
Nottingham under the charge of Prof. Con-
uer, are both Furnishing and the former
bids fair to become a successful institution
The ladies of the Elkton Presbyterian
Church contemplate giving supper tor
the benefit of the church at Odd Fellows
hall. in this town, on December 10Th and
18th.
The ladies of the Elkton Methodist Epis'
copal Church propose holding supper III
Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, Novemb Der nth and 18th, for the
benefit of the organ fund.
On Tuesday last a. P. Shockley, auc'
tioueer, sold at the Court House door for
Clinton Mccullough, Esq, trustee, small
lot of land near the village of Colora. Mr..
Charles E. Moore purchased it for $3.50
james G. Blaine, Jr., son of the Sec
rotary of State, entered on the discharge OF
his duties last week as clerk IN the
foreign ticket department at the general
office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, Philadelphia.
Cards are out for the wedding of Mr..
j.. Crothers, of Calvert, in this county,
to Miss Mary w. Rutter, daughter OF Mr..
j. Alexander Rutter, of Elk Neck, in the
Methodist Episcopal Church Of North East
on November 19sh, at o'clock, p. IN.
Cards are out for the wedding OF Mr..
j. Walter Dickinson and Miss Carrie Nir.
ginla Coleman, daughter of Mr.. William
B. Coleman, postmaster Of Chesapeake
City, in the Methodist Episc pal Church of
that town, on the evening of November
25th.
The CentreuGle Record says: Rock
fish are so plentiful at this time on the
Chester River side of Love Point, on Kent
Island, that they are being caught in the
hands and by crab nets Martin Dougherty
caught several in his hands few days ago
weighing on an average seven pounds each
The Conference Chronicle. edited by
Rev. j. w. DuHadway, pastor of the NJ
E. Church at Newark, has been sold to
Rev Robert w. Todd, of Greensboro, Md.
The publication OF the paper will be con
tinued at Newark until March next, when
Mr.. Todd expects to locate and publish the
Chronicle at Dever, Del.
Right Rev Bishop Curtis, of Whining
ton, Del, will officiate at the laying of the
corner stone of the new Catholic Church,
at Rising Sun, Md, November 22d, at
O'Clock, p. M. Half fare tickets will be
sold FROM Ekton, for train No. 10, passing
Elkton at u 80 noon and connecting with
special train at Perryville for Rising Sun
A number of cases ofdiphtheria having
appeared in Port Deposit, the town com
missioners and resident physicians inter
changed views this week when it was
agreed to recommend some sanitary regu-
lations for the benefit of the town, and to
advise parents not to permit children to go
where the disc exists ani not to play
with others on the street.
MFR Granville Richards lad a sale of
household goods, etc, on the last Thursday
in October. Mr.. Richards has taken his
twoy youngest children and gone to Bal
timore to board for the winter. Mr.. Lewis
Cooper has moved into the house on the
Richards farm, and for the first time in a
century is the old mansion occupied by
people not bearing the name Of Richards.
Harvest Home services will be held in
the NJ. E. Church, Chesapeake City, of
which Rev l. G. Fosnccht is pastor, to
morrow, both morning and evening, with
responsive Scripture reading and sermon
by the pastor on the subject of Fearful
Sowing Joyful Reaping." At night ex-
ercises by the Sunday school and select
singing. The church will tie suitably
decorated.
There is tradition for the sayiNg that if
the trees retain their foliage until Martin
mas which fell on Wednesday last here
will be cold winter; and that il the goose
in the mud at Christm as. There has been
little more than a skim of ice anywhere in
the country thus far, and the foliage has
chung on with.uuusual tenacity, 80 that the
outlook is good tor plenty of cold weather
EARLY on Saturday morning last the
barn OF the farm of James Hartnett near
Marley Mills in this county was destroyed
by FIRE together with its contents consisting
of large quantity of hay, grain, farming
implements, carriages. and one horse. The
building and contents were partially in
sured in the Farmers and Mechanics
Mutual Fire Association. This is the
third barn destroyed by fire iu this county
within a week.
"A picture to every third page or so OF
November Book Meas (PhladelphiI) gives
foretaste of what may be expected 70
the coming holidays. Mr. Dole in his letter
from Boston, tells of a number of Christ
mas books, and this is supplemented by thu
announcements of publishers in the adver
Using pages. The price lis. of current books
which Book Ne,Cs always describes so well
covers over twenty pages. All this for fiv,
cents. The author portrait of E. w. Howe
will interest all readers of his 'tStory of q
Country Town" The biographical sketch
by Miss Gars:de is a well written and ex
tremely readable article, prepared ex
pressly for this number of Book NeWS
The dead body of Joe Naylor, the II
year-old son of Joseph Mayor, of Mile
street, Crum Lynne, a small town nea
Chester, was found on a siding near tb
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on Tues day
with a bullet wound in the upper part G
the breast bone. 1t was subsequently
learned that a number of small boys ha
been shooting at mark, with toy rifle
at the place where Naylor body was found
and that the last person to handle the riff
was 9.year- old Albert Longbottom, son q
Smith Longbottom, of the Fairview Wors
ted Mills. Albert was seen at night at tn
residence of his father, on Darby pike, an
told how Joe received the fatal shot. He
bright intelligent looking little chap, bu
ia lied to realize the cloud that had com
over his young life He had walked up til
railroad in company with his year oil
brother, Walter, and Naylor. At the sit
ing they met Alfred Hopkins, colore
youth, who owned the rifle, Willie Dola
ard Walter Bryan. Albert had never har
died gun before. He picked it up
look at it. Naylor was a few feet in fror
of him. He did not think the gun wa
loaded. Suddenly there was a report an
Naylor dropped. They attempted to pic
him up, but finding be was dead, they ra
hnna tallinp no one of the circum Stance