The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-02-27
ELKTON. FEBRUARY -. 1892.
-GLOGAL DEPARTMENT., Z

at p. m.
Charles E. Shannahan, Esq, prom
ineut lawyer of the Easton bar was Il
Elkton last week
Mrs. Frank Whitney gave dinner on
Tuesday, in compliment to her guest Mrs
DR.. Sellman, of Baltimore.
Bishop Coleman of Wilmington vii
preach in Trinity Church, Elkton OF
Thursday night of next week. Service a
40 p. m.
The Union Sunday School will hold
. their missionary anniversary tomorrow
Sunday. Recitations and singing at half
past seven o'clock.
w ashington's birthday was duly com
memorated in Elkton. One or two patriotic
flags waved, and the banks and public
offices We're closed.
A session for the purpose of correcting
the assessment for 1892, WIS held ny the
County Commissioners on Tuesday, We'd
uesday and Thursday.
DR.. S. p. Roman Of the Eighth district,
was present at ire annual meeting of the
Princeton Alumni Association of Maryland
held in Baltimore, on Thursday of last
week.
-DrWm.C. Karsusr Of Chesapeake City
has been appointed weigher general Of
grain by Governor Brown. DR. karsnor Is
a gentleman of character and intelligence,
and should pro-e 4 very capable officer.
The flour mill of Howard Brown, near
Calvert, this county, which was destroyed
by lightning in July last, has been replaced
by substantial three and one half story
building. The mill is now running regu,
larry.
A colored man named Lewis was com
United to Jail Friday of last week, by Jus
tice Duhamel of the First district, being
unable to give bonds to keep he peace.
He was brought to the Elkton Jail by Con-
stable Benson.
The young people of Zion, with the
Loyal Temperance Band, are rehearsing
the cantatas Little Red Riding HOOD, and
The Fallen Kingdom" They will be pre-
scented in the near future, tor the benefit OF
the church fund.
-Messrs. Edward 7. Perkins. and Harry
P. Hinchlife. of the Univerity Of Pennsyl-
vauia, Albert Constable, Jr., of Princeton
and Harry Glen pson, of the University Of
Maryland, spent Washington'S birthday
in Elkton, with their parents
The American Comedy Company,
headed by the well known soubrette, Miss
Nettie Bond, will appear in Odd Fellows
Hall on Monday night, Feb % This COM
pany has just finished an engagement in he
Academy of Music, Wilmington, Del,
whore it played to crowded houses.
At tho test Of the Singerly fire engine,
on Saturday a stream OF water was thrown
164 feet through 1000 feet OF hose, IA inch
nozzle The engine was run to the race
gates at Farr creek, the hose extending to
the residence of John ). Writ, Esq. Hose
racks have been placed along the wall OF
the engine house.
Mr.. George s. WOoliev, of Chesap eake
City, whose advertisement is in another
column, holds his second annual sale OF
fine stock on Wednesday next at II O'Clock
on the farm one half mile from Chesapeake
City. Mr.. Woolley has i reputation AZ .
breeder, and his sales accordingly well
patronized Note advertisement.
The annual session of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of the Whining
ton NJ +. Conference, will be held in the
EIkton NJ. E. Church on Thursday, March
a. huu
mess sessions will be held, at night the
anniversary meeting will be addressed by
Rev. John y. Dobbins of Grace Church
Wilmington.
The Rev. 7. f Msrtildale, will preach
in the NJ. f Church, Chesapeake City 20
morrow Sunday morning, and will deliver
missionary address a. night. The Sunday
School will take part in the evening exer
cises. Approp Iiate music by school anC
choir Services will be held on the Manor
Tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock
weather permitting.
Mr. {. 5. Mosher, ofthe East Tennessee,
Land Co, will present Happy Hartman
or an evening IN Tennessee, with stereop
ton illustrations, iii the parlors Of TIN
Howard house, Ekton, on Frii'y evening
March Alb. Il Is descriptive ehtertain
ment showing how new town in the new
South ha. grown from one farm house /
1000 in two years, etc.
Or. S. +. Smith, the venerable autho
of "My Country lis of Thee" told tn
pupils of Boston public school, at thei
Washington'S Birthday celebration, tina
he wrote the well-known song while he wa
a student at the Theological Seminary .
Andover, at the request of William {
Woodbridge, who had noticed with VIII a
effect songs were used in the schools i
Germany. He wrote the song and CAV
the Ms to Lowell Mason in February
sixty years ago Neither mentioned til
subject again until DR.. Smith, the follow
ing Fourth of July, passing Old Par
Church, went in, attracted by the sound
the music, and, to his astoniShment, foun
his song on the programme.
Mr.. c. S Abraharns. postmaster
Woodlawn, and Mrs Abrahams, entertain
ed the Winter Club at their residence z
Tuesday night. Among those present, b
sides Mr.. and Mrs. g. :. Ahrahams al
their daughter, Virginia Ahrahams, we
Mr. Thomas c. Bond and his daughter
Misses Mary, Essie and George BON
Misses Clara and Matte Noyrs, Mrs. The
J. Vanneman, Misses Virginia G. AZ
Margaret T.. Nanuemau, Nj. Joshua
Mccoy aud Misses Florence ana Magg
Mccoy, Alien NJ. NanneEan, John NJ
Clenahan, Miss Belle West. Dr. II.
Hopes, DR. S. G. Fisher, John Armstrou
of North East; James Martin, Perry NJ
CuIlough, Gwinn Shure, Cecil Squire J.
Heckert and others
Bishop Andrews who will preside
the coming session OF the Wilmington y
f. Conference, and who has been makiI
an investigation of the church troubles
Dover district, gave preliminary hearil
to both sides of the question for the pu
pose of getting at the true inwardness
the complaints and charges as yet inforr
ally made against Presiding Elder j.
b. Wilson. The opponents Of the presidi
elder, represented by about fifty iaym
from Dover FELTON,, William Grove, Ca
den and st. Johns Churches, were fiji
given an opportunity to present their grie
ances to the Bishop. The hearing was he
in First Nj E Church Dover and last
from 10 o'clock in tho morning until
o'clock ia the afternoon. At o'clock I
Bishop went to the residence ofthe pres
ing elder and listened to the presentati
of the case from Mr.. Wilson's standpoi
by a number of his friends. .,
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