The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-07-02
ELkTON, JULY 2, 1892
-sGLOgAL DEPARTMENT., u


The special mail service between
Conowingo, and Fiintviie, Hartford County,
has been discontinued.
The Elkton baseball club defeated the
Appleton club on the Fair Grounds on Sat
urday last, in a six inning game, the score
resulting II too.
But one marriage license has been
issued by the c,eric OF the court since Fri.
day of last week, june p, George Watson,
and Ade!iue Longer, both Of Frederick
town.
Preaching III Chesapeake City NJ. L.
Church Sunday 10 A. a Ia. ard s, p. m.
Sunday School at 9 80 p. N. Morning
Subject. s'Politics for Christians" evening
Subject. 1.-THE grumhier slleuced." Preach
ing at the Manor 800 Sunday School at
. n. M. Reception of Prcbationers at
Chesapeake City at the morning service.
John j. Ross has had - men DAYS
working IN scarlet clover, and has four
stacks which are curiositias in this part of
Delaware. Each stack IS to feet III circum-
ference and leo feet high and it is expected
that each will thresh out from 100 TO 120
bushels of scarlet clover seed, at $500
bushel, will made u handsome revenue
from this c.op. l. was grown in peach
orchards which have not borne since 1885
Wltord Cron;cIe.
Joseph 3. Miller a son of Mr.. Thomas
: Miller. bright and Intelligent lad just
entering his twelfth year died at the home
of his parents near Union NJ. +. Church on
Thursday morning about half past eight
o'clock. For some weeks past he had been
suffering from an affection of the brain,
and although every remedy that skilled
nhys;cians could suggest had beed tried,
death came to his relief At last MIR. Miller
and his family have the sympathy Of their
entire neighborhocd in their bereavement.
Charles Henry Boyer son of Edward ard
Clintie Boyer who graduated in 1886 at the
,n,titute for colored youths at Philadelphia
was graduated on Thursday the 23:d inst
ut the Hopkins Grammar School at New
Haven. Connecticut. There were twenty
graduates Ill the.class, and the deGlamatlUns
at the commencement exercises are report
ed as excellent. These declarations were
ccrupetitive the first prize of $40 being
awarded to Mr.. Boyer, whose defamation
was 'Spartacus to the Gladiators.' Al!
the graduates OF the Grammar School com
nIeting the classical course of whom there
are ten, Mr.. Boyer being one of these, will
enter Yale College in September.
William Freem an, a notorious coloFed
man of this town, was arrested last week
s i, of
fighting within the town limits. On Mon
day he was arraigued before Squire Scott
and given . hearing on the charge of
being habitually disorderly. lie WAS seu.
renced to six months Imprisonment iii the
House of Correction, to which lie vac taken
that day by Bailiff Boulder. Ga the same
day thirteen others from Baltimore were
altogether in cane, covering den,johns,
chair seats, and baskets. There are now
two hundred and eighty two employed
there at this work.
The Clayton CAL printed on Wednes-
day peach crop estimate furnished by L,
n. Mills, special agent of the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad; L. p.
and Delaware Bay Railroad, and also from
the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad.
All agree that the crop will be almost a
total failure, and there will be hardly
enough peaches for canning purposes. The
estimates give about 400, 0OC baskets as the
crop of the peninsula, but the peaches arr
still dropping from the trees, and it may b
l. tla y, tbo Fr,r 1ly ri
there will bs none left. There is also
scarcity of smali fruit, such as gooseberries
blackbsrries, rospberries and whortleber.
res, and the apple crop will be extremel.
short. Mr.. Mills report is AS follows: "Iu
answer to your request for the estimate OF
the peach crop this year | enclose the fol
lowing: You will understand this is tht
estimate of growers given to the railroad
agents at our several stations. Thes
agents report that it is very difficult TO &c
any correct estimate, as some ofthe grower
report peaches still dropping, and they ar
doubtful as to whether they will have evei
the small quantity reported to ship whel
the time comes to market them. Grower
in Sussex and Lower Kent report all thei
fruit on early and late varieties, the middl
varieties, such generally constitute tn
bulk of the crop shipped, being almos
bare of fruit this year. Delaware Rail
road, SOTO baskets; Queen Anne an
Kent Railroad, 24,705 baskets; Delawar
and Chesapeake Railroad 22,255 baskets
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad
85,315 baskets; Cambridge and Seafor
Railroad, 1900 baskets; New York, Phls
delphia and Norfolk Railroad, &c, 235 ba:
kets." Superintendent Stacey, of the Ba
timore & Delaware Bay Railroad, estimate
the crop along that line at 10000 basket
The peaches are still dropping from til
trees, and there is very little fruit left
hardly enough for home consumptio
The Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroa
estimates their share of the crop at 400
800 baskets.