The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-03-04

| ReV. w lLllam ScBGuIer.
AT public meeting of the Philoma
thean Society he'd in Frederick on Monday
evening an original poem was read by Mr.
Folger McKinsey, formerly of Elkton.
An entertainment, consisting of dia
logues and other choice selections, will be
given by the pupils of Fair Hill public
school, on Friday evening, March the 1O,h.
If stormy, the next evening.
S. Shank, of Conowingo, a fireman on
the railroad fell from a coal bin at Perry
vile on Friday of last week, breaking his
collar bone and sustaining internal injuries.
He was removed to his home.
| The Ladies' Mite Society of the Chess-
| peake City NJ. L. Church held festival
and poultry supper in the town hall on
Thursday and Friday evenings and which
is continued to night. Proceeds for benefit
of church.
Mr.. Evans Taylor has purchased the
residence on West Main street owned by
| Captain j. Wilson, for $1,000. Captain
Wilson has returned to Havre de Grace
from which town he removed to Eikton
| about two years ago.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is erecting new signal tower at Perryville
which it is stated VIII contain 20 switch
levers, % of which will operate II different
switches. the remaining 6 being reserved
for use in case of the others getting out of
order.
Rev. w. j. DuHadway preached two
excellent sermons in the Chesapeake City
NJ. Z. Church last Sunday. The Ii visionary
anniversary exercises were delightful and
instructive, and the collection reached the
amount app0rtoned TO this charge for this
cause.
AT fox hunt last Saturday afternoon
Deibert Aiken, proprietor Of the Gillespie
House at Warwick, Md, lost valuable
mare in novel manner. He Lad just
mounted and started TO follow the hounds:
wien another rider jostled against his mare
the animal staggered snd fell, expiring
instantly.
The libel case of John Z. jackson VS..
Evan G. Seminar docketed for the March
term of court has been compromised, the
conditions being, as reported, that Mr..
Sentman pay stipulated amount Of money
and publicly retract the charges made. The
retraction appears in this weeks issue of
the WING.
-Bailiff Boulder has been calculating.
Since the day he was appointed town
tI,o oil li,,nt
turned on, period of two years and eight
months, lie has walked 4 distance of five
thousand miles in lighting and putting out
the street lamps. THIS includes the filing
of the several coal oil lamps.
Samuel Short and Thomas Shivery
were arrested on Saturday by Biilif Boul-
den Tor drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct on the street. They We're each fined
81, and costs amounting to 81 50, by Squire
Partridge. Shivery was released upon
payment of fine but Short was committed
to Jail being unable to raise the amount
-Iu the case of the Baltimore Copper
Smelling and Rolling Company against the
Eureka Fertilizer Company of Cecil
county, which has been on trial in the
Hartford County Court, continuing five
days, the Jury rendered verdict on We'd
nesday in favor of the Copper company for
81, O84 for damages TO the boat General Ned
Williams.
We make a plea in behalf of tha birds,
on which the past winter has been I'M
usually severe. Every exchange we
receive locals the finding of birds frozen TO
death. Mr. D. Williams, of Waterbury,
Anne Arundel county, found 81 ptrtridges
frozen in a bunch in his neighborhood
recently. Other birds are reported to have
baen picked up frozen in different localities
in that county. -
The last bulletin OF the Census Depart
ment at Washington presents in detail the
strength of the Methodist Protestant Church
in the State of Maryland. Cecil County is
credited with II org anizltlons, IL church
ediices, S32 $50 in church property, and 663
commandments The Free Methodists have
one organic alton in the S5ate-that in Cecil
county. The number of communicantsI or
members is 81, and the church is valued at
500.
The Frenchtown farm situated on the
Elk river two miles below ELTON was sold
at public sale on Saturday by w. l. War
burton, attorney, to William NJ. Singerly,
ESQ, editor of the Philadelphia Record, for
S1450 subjecs TO a mortgage OF $1,000. The
property was recently purchased by Chalk
ley Phillips from Townsend Pool. 1t con-
tains 100 acres and is improved By twenty
room brick dwelling house. a. P. Shockley
auCtioueeT.
-Romela Griffin, young colored girl of
this town, aged II years months, at the
instance of her grandfather was committed
by Justice Partridge to the Industrial
Home, to which institution she was taken
on Tuesday by Constable I E Lee. Hester
c. and Martha E Brown, coored, living
near Pleasant Hill, were also then taken
to the same institution by Constable Lee,
having been committed by Magistrate
Spence of Cherry Hill.
George Matthews, colored, suspect ID of
burning the valuable barn aud stock of
J VIM X lockwood of the First district, and
charged with being the author OF several
other fires, has been located in Wayne,
Pa Several days ago letter addressed 10
his wife vas received at aiasssy's postothce
in Kent cou~E, and at the same time
postal card topks postmaster, George A.
Ireland, askinf I'm to see that the letter
was promptly ss.l. This, OF course,
was tho desire; measures we're at
| once taken to I. 4 Immediate arrest.
Record of Age licenses issued by
the CLERK OF tn Z1rt for Cecilcounty: Feb
%, Richard fson, Of North East and
Laura May lowell, of Delaware City;
Samuel wig and Martha c. Fahey, 10th
of Havre deGrace. Feb %, Romanoff B.
Waters, 4 Somerset county, and Ella f.
Oldham, of Zion. Feb. %, William f.
Cox, otElk Neck, aud Maggie r. Shallcross
Of NJrth East. Mar. /, Noah ID. Congo,
clored, of Elkton, ard Martha Morgan,
} !colored, of Cherry Hill. March 2, Eugene
Clifton, of Philadelphia, and Emma IL.
Wilson, of Prospectville, Pa.
The pupils of Leeds public school cele
brated the eighty sixth anniversary of the
birth of Henry w. L1ngfellow, the s. hill
dren's Poet" with the following program
| 'Ioagfelow's Life" Sarah NJ. Settle; 'The
Chldren's Hour" Willie Mahoney; From
my Arm Chair" Isabel I. Marrett; "Long
fellows Literary Work." Florence Spence;
"Paul Revere's Ride" Leroy Galliher
"The Day is Done" Willie Booth
"Curfew," Miriam Spence; "The Rainy
l Day." Yiola Mahoney; "a Psalm of Life, >
I concert recitation. In literature the eight