The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-10-31

- f"~-v countian MIR. Joseph
Hill, TO Miss Mystic v
ice of Mr.. and Mrs j.
,hngtou ID. C, on Wed
of November
st at Rising sun in this
Eas broken fO: tha new
Il which Father Carey
town is engaged in build
pei will be known s..
corner of it will he
% Curtis on Sunday Nov. - |.
,raig, we'll known citizen Of
district, died at bis residence
ty Grove Sunday morning,
t8 He had been i'll for severed
suffering with enlargement of the
s which disease finally caused his
Mr.. Craig leaves three daughter
lille Tosh Mrs S 7. Hindm IN, md
Lizzie Craig the youngsss-aud one
Mr.. Jrhn Craig, residing near Row
k2f lie
r Samuel b. Mofit venerable and
ted citizen of the Fifth district rssi
his farm North f asst died sui
on Monday afternoon last from
.ysis. When u ken i'll, he age,i
ork in a field, but the stroke was so
len that life extinct before he
s- be removed to his house. Mr.. NJ fiji It
'amier by trade aud the Stone
Mil. He was just entering his seventy
- tn year.
On Monday Annie, Ellie and Bessie
al, the Children of Hannah Hall Widow
John Hall, and aged respectively seven,
- ne, and two years into custody
y Constable Thomas Z. Lee upon com
,laiut OF neighbors of Ms. Hall that she
y was not suitable person to raise them
properly, and that she BILE sup
Z port them. The heard before
Magistrate A j. Scott, who after taking
~ the testimony of several persons ordered
that the children be taken to the Henry
Watson In s.itute for homeless children
I in Baltimore
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
at Calvert was dedicate on Sunday
morning last in She presence of large
congrega ton. The Rev. Doctor George L.
Reed Presi lent of Dickinson College Car
Isle. Pa, preached able dedicatury
sermon. IL the Evening be tutiful com
munion service was presented to the
church by the Calvert Womaus Christian
Temperance Union Mrs. j. K. Milligan o
Zion making the presentation adore Rev
7. L. Tompkinson former Pastor OF Iior
NJ. E. Church, and the Rev j. r.. Millig Al
Pastor of the Zion Presbyterian Church alsc
participated in the services of the day.
Rev. Father Murphy of the Catholic
Church of Thu town desires Us to say, tha
the statement in the NeiCS OF this week
that the clever swindler alleging himself t
be Alexander McNair Clerk of the supTen
court of New York recently in + kton, had
no knowledge whatever of Father Murphy
antecedents except mutual knowledge o
prominent Catholic clergymen Of tn
country. Nor is it the fact that any mem
Der of Father Murphy's congregation calle'
him aside at the Fair being held at Oh
Fellows, and informed him concerning tn
swindler because neither the Philadelphi
Times nor any other paper in this section
published anything about The swindle
until the following day.
john c, Mccullough, aged % ye-rs O
Conowingc, freight brakeman on the Colum
ba and Port Deposit Railroad, while in til
act of coupling cars at Hanes Pa, tweIv
miles north of Port Deposit early Fridl
morning. full under the car which passe
over his right leg, crushing it in irightfr
manner. He was brought back to POI
Deposit and DR.. A. c. Crothers of thu
town. and DIR. Smith of Havre de Graz
amputated the leg above the knee NJ
Mccullough was 80 weak from the loss
blood that he died shortly afrsr the oper
tion was performed. He entered tie servi,
OF the company the first Of last week, an
was making his fourth trip when the acc
dent occurred. He was unmarried.