The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-11

| The White Hall farm, at Ffenchtowi
owned by Mr.. w. $. Sommers, is under
going a number of Improvements.
-Messrs, VIM. S. Evans, Henry j
Briscoc, j. Ross Comfy and Elliott Graham
represented Cecil in the Democratic State
Convention on Wednesday.
Whatever you do, do not fail to go and
hear the Dickinson College Quartet, al
Honeywell NJ. f Church Tuesday evening
June l4th, ut s, p. m. Admission tor
Adults % cents. Children under y years
II cents.
! Mr.. Warren j. Haines, son of /. Nj.
Htines, E,q, is a member of this years
| graduating class at the Friends School,
Wilmington. The commencement exercises
will be held on next Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock.
Mr.. Carlos y. Sanchez not being able
to sing at the concert given last night at
Odd Fellows Hall in this town, through the
kindness of Messrs Otto Sturo " Co of
Baltimore, his place was ably filled by Mr..
j. kluger Of that city,
| "a nc SlCs1lu anu SllhN ptl' lCobAN O.
| will be held in Porter's Hall, Cherry Hill
on Saturday evening, june 18th. Should
the weather be Indictment it will be held tue
next fair evening. Proceeds for benefit of
| the NJ. f. Sunday School.
The ladies of Bay View, NJ. P. Sunday
School will hold their annual festival on
Thursday evening June 23rd. All the
delicaces of the season will be served in
abundance. Ii the weather should be
Indictment come out the next fair evening.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that on and after June 9th the
train leaving Wilmington at s 10 a. IN. will
connect at Harrington for Rehoboth Beach,
arriving there ut l. 30 noon. Train return
ing will leave E-hoboth for Wilmington
and Philadelphia a: 5 10 p. IN.
A granary containing a large amount
of shel.ed corn on the farm owned by w.
ID. Bradford situated in Middle Neck was
totally destroyed by fire ON Thurs day night
The loss was partially covered by insurance
for SllO0. The origin of the fire is not
known. Mr.. j. Ii. Short tenants the prop
erty.
-Messrs Harvey, Hinchiffe. Hynson
and Stitt, known as the Dickinson College
Quartette will favor the citizens OF Cherry
Hill by a concert to be given in Porter's
Hall on Wednesday evening next, June
10Th. The reputation of these gentlemen
as vocalists ought to insure good audience
Admission Is and % cents.
The festival held on Saturday night
last by the Pierson Grove Sunday School,
proved successful. The attendance was
large and a considerable amount was rea-
lized which will be used for the benefit of
the school. Those in charge of the various
tables We're: Miss Maggie Gilpin, Mrs.
Matthias 7. PiersOn, Miss Emma j acquette
Mrs. Fred Mack, Mrs. W. Mahan, and
Miss Martha Jacquette. Assistants: Misses
Stella Ceilings, Amanda Tyson, l.. Samms
and Ella Eaton.
"A novel civil suit will soon be called up
in the Philadelphia common pleas court,
wherein Jacob Il. Maxwell, formerly OF
Middletown, Del, but now of Rochester, \.
Y, is plaintiff and Richard Binder, a Phila
delphia barber, defendant. Maxwell AYERS
that the barber shampooed him some time
ago and by reason of that shampoo his
head was poisoned and in corquence he
was compelled to miss mum Der of business
enga gements for which financial loss he
now brings legal proceedings. The barber,
on the other hand, declares that he Will lay
grounds for a plDl defence.
MI. Thomas II. Brown a son of Mr.. l..
X. Brown, formerly of this county but for
a number of years past an efficient officer
in the office of the Fourth Auditor OF the
Treasury Department at Washington was
one Of the graduates in the Law Depart
ment of the Georgetown University the
commencement exercises of which were
held in the new National Theatre in Wash
ingtou on Monday evening last. Mr.. Brown
deserves credit for his industry, and
ability as he is not yet twenty years of age,
and while pursuing his law studies, also
worked long ho&rs in patent attorneys
office.
SO far Hymen has been propitiOus to-
ward June, ard the following marriage
licenses have been granted by the Clerk of
the Court: June 2rd, Levi I. Jackson, of
Moth East, and Hannah u. jackson, Of
Rising Sun. June 3rd, James X. Smith,
of Elkton, and Mary y Jackson, of Prin
cipio Furnace. June All, George w.
Stevenson. and Gertrude d. Smith, both
of Havre de Grace. June 4th, John NJ.
Cloud, aud Ella Haven, both of Chester,
Pa. June OH, David Startling, and Sarah
Jane Fields, colored, both of Eirlviile.
june G5h, T. Franklin McCiuley, and
Elizabeth Anderson, both Of Fair Hill.
-ChestertOwn is reported as in a state of
intense excitement by tie return to the
Jail there OF the four colored men, Charles
Brooks, FIisby Comegys, Fletcher VIII
Jams and Pete Bradshaw, who are accused
of the III urder of DR.. James IL. Hill of Mill
ingtor, on April %. Two attempts have
been made u get AT them, but the illness
of the sheritf's wife prevented violence.
No sooner had the fact OF the negroes pre-
sence become generally known on Saturday
last than threats were heard in various
quarters. The sheriff and his deputies are
apprehensive of trouble and the prisoners
are alarmed. The re Isou Tor bringing them
back is that the sheriff lad to pay for
keeping them at Baltimore and Kent
county authorities refused ID allow him for
the expense.
The quiet of Sunday morning last was
disturbed on Willow street by hostilitles
between two colored men, John Earle and
John Bou.den, u hich ended in Ohm Earle
receiving three ugly wounds on the head,
inflicted with the Hat of al axe in the
hands of BouIden. Earle was arrested in
the morning and released on bail, and in
the evening Boulder fell Into the clutches
OF the law and remained in Jail until the
hearing before Squire Scott on Monday
morning. The hearing brought forth
mum Der of the " illow streeters and resi-
dents of tina. vicinity as spectators, as well
as testifiers to the fraCas that had cast such
a reflection on the neighbOrhood, aud after
the deliverluce of several narratives, and a
semi Grafton on the part of one witness, the
case was over with all except Boulder,
who returned to all in default of paying
fine of So aud costs, amounting i'll all to
Sl49S John Earle was given hearing
before Squire Partridge in the morning on
the charge Of disorderly conduct, the case
being dismissed.
The carpenters engaged in repairing the
FrenchtUwn property recently purchased
by Mr.. Chalkley Phillips sent that gentle
man on Tuesday box containing three
young birds of peculiar pIumage taken
| from the cornice OF the dwelling house on