The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-02
ELKTON, MAY ?, 1891.
GhOgAL DEPARTMENT.. "

Rankin who was so i'll ON Sunday last
very much improved.
Write to William Il. Reynolds, Middle
town, Del, for prices on Hand Mad
Harness and Turf Goods.
-FoR RENT-A four room house, wit
immediate possession. Inquire of Mark
Lieberman in the Hollow.
Prominent peach growers around
Wyoming, Del, expect to ship 600, 900 bash
cts of peaches from that station this season
Rev. VIM Schouler will hold service il
the church of the Good Shepherd, Chesa
deake City, tomorrow Sunday at p, m
w hen you visit Baltimore, stop at u
Maltby House, where will be found first
class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mch1 7tf
The Misses Mearns will have a large
barn built this summer on their firm near
Zion, by L. o. Cameron, contractor and
builder.
The Delaware Legislature has beaten
all previous records, by granting twelve
divorces in one afternoon. There's good
field for reform.
Ask your grocer for Harvey's Crvsta
and Cyclone Brands of Flour and be con
WINGED that they are the best on the market.
Telephone call 81. 5S.
MIR. William P. Lewis, brother of Il
c. Lewis of this town and the eldest son OF
the late Norris Lewis, returned to his bore
in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday.
Mrs. L. NJ. keitt and Miss Keitt, who
have been visiting Col. and Mrs \ w.
Evans left town on Monday. Mrs. Keitt
went to South Carolina, and Miss keitt to
New York.
The Revs. \. I. Scott, John France,
and Isaac Jewell have been appointed a
committee by the Wilmington NJ. E
Preachers Association to visit the Rev.
Vaughn Smith who is ILL.,
MIR. Clarence S. Nesbitt, son of Mr..
Henry C Nesbitt of Port Dep osit, was one
of the ushers at the wedding of Miss Bessie
Paris to Robert J. Ferguson at the resi-
dence of Mr.. George Paris, In Dover, Del,
last week.
Mr.. Zen +. Culleny has opened gro
Gerry and notion store on the corner of
Bridge and High streets, in the Hardness
property. He is good clever fellow and
respectfully requests share of the public
patronage
For sale, on very liberal terms !: \
Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, No.
8, almost as good as new; also feather bed.
Apply Immediately to Mrs. Josephine
George, Main street, four doors west of
agricultural warehouse.
Our popular machinist, Mr.. George W.
McQuilkin, of the Enterprise Machine
Works, received an order from the Beaver
Creek Lumber Co., this week for a lumber
trimmer, a machine which costs about $500
He also has in hand several platform cars
for the same company.
An Easton horse was recently attacked
by collie in Trappe, and was treated by
crowd of human sympIthizers. Doses
of baking powder, kerosene, cayenne,
gunpowder haxseed oil, laudanum, pep.
permlnt, ginger, vinegar, EPSON salts,
whiskey, camphor, castor oil, beer and
molasses, aconite, choloro form, catnIp,
tansy and soapsuds were administered in
succession-and yet the horse lived.-EaS-
ton Star.
Patrick Scanlon "A well known citizen
of this vicinity died in this town on Sun
day last in his 9th year. MIR. Scanlun has
recently removed into the town from the
farm located on Grey's Hill. and lately
purchased from him by Mr.. Frank Whit.
ney. Mr.. Scanlon's wife has been deceased
some years his two daughters both highly
respected women and himself constituting
his household. His remains were inter
red in the cemetery of the Catholic Church
OF this town on Wednesday.
Last Friday the oath inst being a day
of special fasting and prayer set apart for
observance by the Womans Home Mission
airy Society of the NJ. E. Church, a special
service was held in the evening in the Lee
ture Room of the Elkton NJ. f. Church.
The service was opened with silent prayer,
followed by Mrs. Jno. f. Alexander the
President of the Elkton society in oral
prayer. After IA hymn, the 5lst psalm
was read by Mrs. John Perkins, followed
by prayer by the Rev. Chas. Hill An
address was then delivered by Mr.. Hill, on
the duty of confession; fasting and prayer
Miss Marry Terrell then sang solo. Thank
offerings amounting to S769 were reported,
the notices on the envelopes containing
them being read by Miss Maggie Hill.
After prayer by Miss Jane Torbert and
the singing of hymn the exercises were
closed with the doloxology, and benediction
by the Rev. Chas. Hill
AN event of livel y interest to Method
lists this year is the coming pilgrim re of 4
party of Epworthans to Epworth, in En-
gland, the home of the Wesleys, the birth
place of the first Epworth League and
fountain head of the Methodist Episcopal
church. This is the first Epworth pilgrim
age, and is especially appropriate in this,
the year when All Methodism is commemor
ating the Tooth anniversary OF John Yves
ley's death. Some of the most skillful and
enthusiastic young workers in the church
have taken part in making the arrange
mtnts for the trip. The excursionists will
gather on Tuesday, July 9TH, at p. m, in
the New Book Rooms in New York, where
a reception will be held and addresses IN AIDE
by one or two bishops and many prominent
ministers and laymen. After the reception
the pilgrims will go aboard the ocean racer,
and at o'clock the next morning she will
steam ont of the harbOr. An Epworth
League School of Methods will be held every
morning ON the steamer, and each afternoon
an Itinerants' Club will meet, under the
charge CT the Rev. DR.. s. +. Upham of
Drew Theological Seminary. In London
the party will be given reception in the
City Road Chapel, where addresses will be
delivered by the famous Rev. Mr.. Spurge IN,
General Booth of the Salvation Army,
United States Minister Robert I. Lincoln
and others. A London committee will
show the visitors all the points of interest
in the great metropolis, and arrangements
are being made for the Americans to spend
an hour with Mr.. Gladstone at his home,
Hawarden. The party will then proceed
to Epworth. Some Epworthians within
the precincts of Wilmington Conference
contemplate making the pilgrimage.