The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-04-08

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purchased the five year old Blackmore col
owned by HyIand Harcus, the price bein
S225
An oyster supper and ice cream testivs
will be held at Leeds in the old churc
building on Thursday evening next, Apri
18th. Proceeds to be devoted to the orgal
fund.
While engaged in putting belt on
pulley at the Cecil Paper Mills on Frida,
of last week William NJ. Reynolds brok
his left arm, his face also being badl.
injured.
On Sunday afternoon two acres of woo'
land on the Cecil Paper Mill property ver
burned, the flames originating from fir
several boys had kindled in the woods tt
cook eggs.
The Delaware House of Delegates oil
Wednesday passed the bill empowering The
Delaware Railroad Company to build :
branch from Middletown, in the direction
of Elkton, to the State line.
jesse French, a resident of the Eight
| district died on Friday evening of last week
from paralysis, in the sixty second year O.
| his age. The funeral services were held on
Monday, interment at Little Washib gton
| A wife and son survive him.
Forest Fires are now general through
out the county. GA Friday the woods on
the Wilson property on Red Hill, was
| fired and it was only through strenuous
efforts that several buildings were saved.
| Bacon Hill was burned over on Saturday
night and Sunday
The case of Col. T. Egenton H0gg VS..
The Jackson and Sharp Co. of Wilmington,
was argued this week in the Court of
Appeals, C. c. Crothers, Esq represent
ing Col. Hogg, and l.. II. Haines and
Albert Constable, Esqrs., being counsel for
the defendant.
The last term of the Academic year
commences at the Elkton Academy on
Monday, April II. The academy under the
efficient principaship of Prof George a
Steele has attained a high standard of
scholarship which is evidently being recog-
rizsd in the liberal patronage the school
receives.
Prof VIM. Kershaw of this county,
who has of recent years been prominently
identified with educationa! matters IN
Germantown, Pa and who is now princi.
pal of a fiourishing academy there, has
been selected one of the honorary vice
presidents of the Educational Department
of the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
In the columns of the WING appears
this week the advertisement of Henry Vim
singer who has recently engaged in the
Undertaking and mba Inning business.
Mr.. Vinsinger has secured a complete out
fit, having purchased handsome new
hearse and pair of black horses, aud his
courtesy and attention will insure him
success.
Mr.. w. T. Wilson, of Newark, Del, and
a corps of surveyors are now engaged in
making complete survey of thestown. a
plat will be made, and the building and
grade lines established. Mr. Wilson several
weeks ago located the boundary lines of the
town by the points of the compass. The
entire work will require two or three weeks,
the cost to the town being $3.50.
The funeral services of Robert n.
Hindman, who died at his home, the Hind
man HON estead on the Octoraro, on Wed
nesday of last week in the 18th year of his
age were held on Saturday. The interment
was in the West Nottingham Presbyterian
Gem tery, of which church he was for many
years n member, and was probably the
oldest membs of the congregation.
The Scott Fertilizer Company of this
town, shipped this week, forty six tons of
Sure Growth Superphosphate to Amos
Thompson, who is operating the cannery
at Newark, Del. The fertilizer will all be
used on sugar corn. Mr.. Thompson is a
Hartford county man and was well
acquainted with the reputation of the Scott
goods in his own county before locating at
Newark.
Mr. Il Porter, the we'll known mer
chant of Cherry Hill, will open furniture
store next week in the store house lately
occupied by Charles B Spence Mr. Porter
has purchased in the city a fine line of
furniture consisting of parlor and bed room
suits, lounges, extension tables, chairs,
rockers, bed springs, mattresses, cribs, cots,
sc. Also line of ingram and rag carpets
and mattings. All these goods will be sold
at the lowest city prices.
Record of m arriage licenses issued by
the Clerk of the Court for Cecil county:
Mar. 81, Isaac W. Hammond OF Woodlawn,
and Edna L. Thompson of Port Deposit.
April !, Ernest S. Miller aud Lizzie B.
McVey, both of Mechanics VALLEY; Robert
b. Russell of Liberty Grove, aud Sarah E
Craig Of Colora; Frank Hill and Laura
Leegsr, both coored of Hsvre de Grace.
April 3, Ezekial Hammond, and Ida NJ
Mahoney, both CT Mechanics Valley; j.
Swami Everist and Llbuta ID. Pussy, both
of Port Deposit; Walter G. Clayton of St
Augustine, and Mary +. Freeman, of Ches
ape4ke City April ), II AIRY Wilson and
Katie Deffish, both of Havre de Grace.
"A man named Duffield Savage, Of
AcComac county, Va, recently had an
unpleasant experience on his arrival at
Wilmington By the Delaware Railroad.
Savage had just sold out his business in
Virginia and was journeying to Wilmington
whom he fell into the hands of thieves"
and was relieved of large sum of money.
He had sent his wife on to Baltimore and
expected to follow her in few days. He
had on his person the sum of 500, tbs
u. L. IN
Virginia. He was a passenger on the
Norfolk express which arrives in Whining
ton at 1 Is O'Clock in the morning. When
the conductor came along to take up ii ;ksts
Savage was unable to iud his. Two men
occupied seat just behind HIM and were
watching his movements. Savage searched
his pockets for his ticket and was unable to
find it. He thought perhaps he had plased
it among q roll of bank notes which be had
in his vest pocket. He pulled out the roll
of notes with the hope of finding the ticket.
His actions were W atched by the two men
| in the seat behind, and when he alighted
| from the train in the city they followed
him into saloon, where he declares he was
| beaten and robbed of $500. The men were
arrested and $3.50 of the money found in
their possession They are in Jail at New
| Castle charged with the robbery.
The following is the list of candidates
for prominent federal positions in Mary
land as alreidy avowei OF prominently
spoken Of For Collector of tho Port
John B. Brown, Queen Anne: Col Edward
| Lloyd, Talbot; ex Governor James B.
Groome, Cecil; Murray Naudiver Hartford.
| Collector G internal Revenue -Phiip ID.
Laird Montgomery; DIR. George w. Wells,