The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-04

! Mrs. Anna 5. Wilkinson of Whining
ton was in Elkton on Wednesday.
Mr.. VIM. S. Potter of the Baltimore
Custom House was in town on Tuesday.
MIR Charles b. Foard has just returned
| from Atlantic City where he spent ten
days.
| MIR. Ward Cruikshank of the Phila-
delphia Press has been visiting Elkton this
week.
Mrs. Bessie Boswell of Florida is visit
ing her parents Mr.. and Mrs. John Stump
of Perryville.
Misses Alice and Francis Schouler are
visiting friends in New Hampshire and
Brooklyn New York.
| Miss Narcissa Smith art teacher of
Hannah More Academy Reisterstown Md,
is visiting Miss Lucy Litzenberg
Mrs. r. f. lamar accompanied by her
son Mr. n Price Whitaker left Elkton on
Tuesday to visit her sister at Colorado
Springs Colorado.
Constable Mckinney brought to the
Elkton jail on Sunday night SalIie Davis
Young colored woman of North East, upon
commitment for Larceny issued by
Magistrate Anderson.
The vestry of st. Mary's Parish North
East have decided to invite the Rev. Giles
b. Cooke of Denton Caroline county, to the
Rector ship of that Parish just vacated by
the Rev. L. X. Miller.
George L Fisher, A NJ, graduate of
Bucknell University, Lewlsburg, Pa, will
take the principalship of the Friends Nor
nal School at Rising Sun. Mr.. Woodruff,
the retiring principal. is studying for the
ministry.
The Young gentlemen of Eikton will
give a hop at Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday
evening the 7Lh inst. Messrs John Wilson.
Albert Constable, Harry Clemson and
Herbert D. Litzenberg are on the Com
mittee of arrar gements.
We were shown this week number of
excellent specimens of free hand drawing
done by Miss Hattie Morgan daughter of
James Morgan of the second district. Miss
Chesapeake City Academy.
-Hecht's saloon on Main street, nearly
opposite the Court House, was invaded by
burglars on Monday night, and 4 keg of ale
with some other liquors stolen. An en-
trance was effected in the rear of the store,
a window having been forced with a
Chimney"
j. Frank Kirk, a son of c. Frank Kirk,
one of the Democratic nominees for the
Legislature of Cecil county, was awardad
the silver medal offered the pupils of West
Nottingham Academy at the late COM
mencement exercises for general excellence
in scholarship.
"A Fourth of July picnic will be held
today at Mount Pleasant Church, Liberty
Grove, in the evening. Speeches will be
made by Mr.. j. I. Graham and Prof
England, dialogues, etc, by others. The
Rising Sun Cornet Band will be present
and make the air resouud with music A
pleasant time is anticipated.
George w. Cruikshank, Esq attended
the Democratic State Editorial Association
which met at Easton Tuesday. Officers
were re- elected as follows; President, j. NJ.
Street; vice president, w. b. Usilton; sec
rotary and treasurer, Fred Sasser; execu
tive committee, G. L. Haddaway, j. S.
Wilson, Frederick Raine, b. c. Williams, |
Vim. H. Ruby. The ASSOCIATION adjourned
to meet in Annapolis next winter at the
call of the president.
The latest fad" clown east is telling
ones age with a hair. 1t is not new, but
an old fail that has been revived, and 1t Is
generally tried on the horse, the hair being |
taken from the tail, although on human
beings it works just as well' The idea is
this: Suspend gold ring from piece of
hair over half glass of cold water, and |
the ring will begin to swing TO and fro |
until it hits the sides of the glass. 1t will |
strike the exact age of the horse, OF, if 1t be |
persons hair, of the person upon whose
head 1t grew"
On Monday, the 24th ultimc, at the
annual commencement of the University OF
Syracuse, New York, the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy was onferred on the Rev.
Isaac l. Wood of Zion in this county. The
post graduate course was commenced five
years ago by Mr. Wood while On Lincoln
circuit. Delaware, and in addition to his
regular pastoral duties on Lincoln and
Zion circuits he has by great industry
completed this difficult course. We con-
graduate Mr.. Wood on receiving this well
earned degree from an institution of such
high standing, this being only the second
time it has been conferred upon membe
odist Episcopal Church.
Mr. William Trout of Chester, Pa, &C
com panied by Mr. +. Frank Kershaw have
recently been guests at the Howard House.
Mr.. Trout is machinest by profession,
and in 1916 superintendent the erection of |
the machinery in Lords Cotton Dainask
Mills near this town, ne then being en-
gagged with large firm of machinists at |
Chester. He and Mr.. Kershaw met acct |
deutally on a steamer on the Delaware |
river recently, and it was pleasant dis |
covery mutually, that each had been en- |
gagged previously in Cecil county and |
which they have just visited in company, |
Mr.. X ershaw's father, the late Rev. VIM.
Kershaw having been engaged at Lords,
now Blldwiu's mills, for number of years
They Iefs for Chester on Monday where
both Mr.. Trout aud Mr.. Kershaw reside.
One OF the latest novelties on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, was a swarm Of bees
which settled on tree opposite Independ-
ence Hall on Tuesday and rem aimed two
hours. The unusual sight attracted curious
crowd of men and boys, aud every passar
by had some suggestion to make as the
method to capture them. The bees were on
the lowest branch of the tree, clustered
closely about their queen, and shortly after
they settled, policeman attracted by the
crowd appeared and mounted guard over
them. The boys had been stoniug the
swarm from safe distance but the police
mans arrival prevented further fun of that
kind. No one knew just what to do to hive
the swarm. Finallp, when the policeman
happened to be looking in another direction
a small boy threw stick at the swarm and
it rose from the tree, mounted up and flew
over Independence Hall to the southeast.
The old ferry rolling mill property of
the Diamond State Iron Co., at Whining
ton, was bur ned last Sunday and some ad-
joining property damaged. The fire started
in an oil shed, and famed by a stiff breeze,
it swept the old Ferry Mill, the large ma
chine shop on Herald street the office, the
| horseshoe building, and several small
structures were a mass of fl lme. Several
small dwellings on the east side of Herald
| o,uuht IHnr ,ruarau ar,uud tho