The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-09

the house by indisposition for day thi
week.
. Mr. Fredus Robinson, of Camden, ha
heen visiting his sister, Mrs. John E. Alex
uder.
John McCauey and Robert d. Craig
/. of Elliott City, spent Sunday last with DIR
S. Claude Sykes,
Mr.. James C. Davis of North East, ha'
been appointed to an $40 position in thu
Baltimore custom house.
-Thos. H. Dodd has sold his crop o
wheat of 1890 for 81, 20. to be manufactured
into -four in Centreville Queen Anne county
Mrs Litzenberg has finer stock OF
trimmed bats than many city millinery
houses. Good work and low prices are her
rules.
Reuben Haines Esq, has rented for the
, summer the beautifully located property
owned by Miss Mary McIutire adjacent to
the East End of the town.
Mr. Frank Z. Williams, of Chesapeake
City and very favorably known in this
community, graduated at Princeton Theo
logica. Seminary this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Biddle, the widow of
Tobias Biddle of North EIst, died at her
home at North East in this county on
Thursday, the 23d ulto., in her 92d year.
The Rev l. G. Fosnocht, pastor of the
Chesapeake City NJ. E Church, will fill his
pulpit tomorrow at the usual hour both
morning and evening. He will preach at
the Manor at p. IN.
The drama, ENLISTED for the War;"
with after. piece 1.-THE Rough Diamond"
will be played in the town hall at Rising
Sun this evening by the cornet band. Adj
mission, 25 and So cents.
"A new whipping post is to be built at
New Castle Jail. The old one was sold
to Wigglesworth, the Wilmington museum
proprietor One curiosity seeker wanted it
to exhibit at the W orld's Fair in Chicago.
AT meeting of farmers and dairymen
in WILMINGTON, Delaware, on Saturday last
the Delaware Dairymen's Protective Asso
citation was formed. An effort will be made
to stop the unlawful sale of oleomarg uine.
Mr. Daniel Z,chariah DunoSt, a son of
DR.. Thomas Dunott of Harrisburg and a
grandson of the late DIR. Justus Dunott OF
this county, was graduated in medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania this week.
He took high class standing.
The thirty second semi annual meeting
of the Local Preachers and exhorters as
ISOLATION of the NJ. E. Church Wilmington
Conference will be held in the NJ. E. Church
at North East in this County commencing
on Friday evening May 22d. The services
will continue over Saturday and Sunday.
Col. A W. Evans and Mrs. Evans have
decided to join their friends Mrs. L. NJ.
Keitt and daughter in trip to Europe this
Summer. They will sail on the Aurania
from New York for Liverpool on the 10Th
inst, and expect to be absent several
Months, their trip embracing continent
tai tour.
On Wednesday morning Constable
Benson brought to Ekton upon commit
meut issued by Justice Duhamel of the
First district, a colored man named Moses
Ryan. charged by George W. Green,
another colored man, with having threat.
ened his life There is some doubt as to
Ryan's sanity. o
The president Of the Maryland Annual
Conference Rev. w. NJ. Strayer will preach
Providence permittinGin Mt. Olivet NJ. P.
Church May 10Th at 1890 a. M, at Moores
Chapel at p. M, and at Bay View at 7.30
p. m. Rev. George, R. Donaldson will
preach in Leeds NJ. P. Church at 10 80 on
the same day. Rev. j. B. Jones.
AT a con gregational meeting held in
the Chapel of the Elkton Presbyterian
church on Monday evening DR.. John H |
lamar and Mr.. Daniel Bratton were re
elected trustees, and Messrs Henry NJ. Nc.
Cullough, and Clarence C. Strickland were
elected Trustees to succeed Mr.. John Will |
kinson removed, and James McIntire de-
ceased.
The passep ger service officials of the |
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad appeared, for the first time this |
season, in their summer caps of white duck, |
on Monday morning last. The blue caps |
were worn until midnight Sunday night, |
when, according to strict orders, they were |
taken off and the white ones placed on, |
everywhere on the Maryland and Delaware |
divisions. |
Snow and hail as late as May 9th are |
unwecome visitors in this latitude, al |
though the jewellers in this precarious |
oil ara oil Sorrs of |
sudden changes. The severe frosts of this |
week have undoubtedly injured the fruit |
prospects, and in some sections of the |
peninsula destroy I'd early vegetables Very |
conflicting reports are at hand respecting |
the extent of injury done to the peaches. |
Wicomico county seems to have suff red |
most. From Delaware the reports are
conflicting, with the chances still in favor |
of a good crop.
The Annual Convention of Maryland |
Republican clubs met at the Coucordia |
opera House annex in Baltimore on We'd |
nesday. About $50 delegates were present. |
Mr.. Samuel Whiteside called the conven-
tion to order, and Mr.. Stephen r. Mason |
was selected as temporary chairman. |
Delegates were elected to the next rational |
convention as follows. At large-J. Frank |
Supplee, John E. Wilson, Abraham Lincoln |
Dryden, r. L. Ewing. Congressional
districts-First, l.. E. p. Dennis, of Somer-
set county, w. J. Vannort. Kent county;
second, Joseph B. Burleigh, baltimore
county, Eli Tucker, Hartford county; third,
Georg w. Golden, James H. Reid, Bati-
more; fourth, W. H. Mules, Harry S. Cum
mings, Baltimore; fifth, Thomas Parran,
Jr., Calvert county, S. d. Muirhead, Anne
Arundel county; sixth, Fred Benjamin,
Montgomery county, and John C. MotteT,
of Frederick county.
The wisdom of the saying while |
there is life there is hope" was singularly |
impressed on Centreville, Md, physician |
last week. He was called some distance to |
see child suffering from double pneumo-
MIA and in such condition that its death |
would have been no surprise to him at any |
hour. Still he prescribed for it, and left |
the house with the injunction "to notify |
him in case of death 10 save him from a |
long ride unnecessarily" He, however. |
maue TWO successive VISITS, Gut 1ound no |
improvement in the child, and repeated |
the former injunction. On the fourth day |
he received postal card saying, "You |
need come no more" He of course took |
it for granted the child was dead, and so |
did the mother and others of the house
hold. Then coffin was ordered and pre-
parations were made for burial, but on the |
succeeding day, very much to the doctors
surprise, he was notified to go and see the
child again. When he went back he found