The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

w. j. Smith has sold Birds'.ll thresh
ing engine a thresher and STAG er to the
Harris brothers Mechanics Valley.
Thomas Foard, formerly of lear Elk
ton was arrested in Wilmington Oh Tues
day for cruelty to a horse he was driving
A hot air furnace is being put in the
residence of Miss Martha Finley, on East
Main street, by Morris & Son, of Philadel.
phia.
l Mr.. H. f. Witworth Town Treasurer
will be at Council Hall on Wednesday and
Friday afternoons next to receive town
taxes for 1898.
The Elkton base ball club will play a
match game on the Fair Grounds this after
noon at three thirty o'clock with the \. Nj.
c. A club of Wilmington.
MIR. Job Haines of Rising Sun will offer
several valuable properties in that town at
pubic sale on the Goth inst. Notice the
adv elsewhere in this issue.
The carpenters are pushing work on
Prof. George s. Mattingly's new house on
Cecil avenue, North E tst, and which will
be an improvement to the town.
| The Town Council was in session on
Wednesday night. 1t was ordered that a
saver be put in Church street, aud that the
sewer on Gas House hill be repaired.
Mr.. Thomas Kitchen, 20 years OF age
who resided at North East with his son
George died on Saturday last of dropsy and
general debility. His funeral took place
Monday, interment at Mt Pleasant, Md.
The Elktou Grange Patrons of Hus-
bandry have decided to max. an excursion
| to Colchester on Saturday, July Goth. The
steamer Chester will probably be chartered,
| no definite engagement having yet been
made.
j, Hayes Gallaher, real estate agent at
Childs, has sold the property of Henry
Henderson at Pleasant Hill containing six
and a half acres of land with improve
ments, to Elizabeth Dixon, of Chelteuham,
Pa, for $3.50.
Elk Lodge, No. 2479, Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows, accompanied by the
colored band participated in the grand
celebration at Havre de Grace on the
Fourth under the auspices OF the lodge of
that city. Lodges from Port Deposit and
Cecilton also attended.
William Benson, who was wounded at
the Kirkwood riot Tuesday and afterward
conveyed to the Delaware Hospital in
Wilmington, is son of James Benson of
Earleville, in this county and has the
reputation of being an exceedingly quiet
and inoffensive young man.
Services appropriate to the Fourth of
July were held in the Elkton NJ. E. Church
on Sunday. In the morning sermon,
subject, "Our Inheritance" was delivered
by the pastor, Rev. 1. L. Wood, and w. j.
jones addressed the congregation in the
evening, at which service special music was
rendered.
-Maryland's agricultural exhibit at Chi
cago is SO small that it has been practically
lost in the Agricultural Building, and
must be s, mt over to- the Maryland Build
ing to insure its being seen. 1t sesms that
our farmers did not rise to The occasion
and send an exhibit to Chicago that
would have compelled recognition.
Governor Brown, Comptroller Smith
and Treasurer Jones met at the Safe De
post and Trust Company in Baltimore on
Wednesday morning and made the quar-
terly examination of the State securities in
custody of the State treasurer. Mr.. Jones
also clipped and deposited in the Mer-
chants National Bank the coupons due on
securities held in the sinking fund.
Farmers residing near Warwick, Md,
have had much trouble owing 10 having
their sheep stolen; A few evenings ago j
r H Price residing in the neighborho0d,
missed one of his flock and upon searching
the field found where it had been butchered
in the pasture and the carcass carried away
The pe!t and head were afterwards found
on the premises of negro farm hand, who
made his escape ere the arrival of the off
GERS
Mr. L X. Brown of this county who
for many years has been Chief of a Division
in the Treasury Department at Washing
ton has been asked for his resignation. Mr..
Brown is a son of the late Thomas Brown.
He is Union veteran and most efficient
clerk. His retention has been asked for by
prominent Democrats of this State and his
removal is in response to the general clamoT
for place, which neither faithful personal
service can withstand, nor the Administra
tion's weak profession of Civil Service
Reform can control.
/-Several accidents from fire works on
the Fourth are reported in Elkton.
George Stevenson who lives at West
Amwell, and is employed at Warmers
Racket Store WAS painfully burned on the
hand by giant fire era ker which he had
picked up exploding. Sterling Dunbar son
of Iustus G. Dunbar, was burned in the
eye by the explosion of a shooting cracker,
During the display of fireworks at the
residence of w. NJ. Singerly, Esq, rocket
in falling struck Mrs Frank L. Bradbury
on the shoulder painfully bruising her,
from which she tainted.
Nam Boulder we'll known colored
woman formerly OF this town died in
Ckester, Pa, this week, her body having
been brought here for burial in the colored
cemetery on Thursday. She was the wife
| of the Rev. Charles Boulder local preacher
| of Elkton when she voluntarily left a
number of years age. She was above the
average OF her race in shrewdness, and
earned a wide reputation as conJurer,
and as being able to cast evil spells on
others. She was generally feared by colored
people, and there was general sense OF
| relief among them when she lett town.
But whatever her gifts as witch, she was
| given respectable burial by those VINO
| bore her name here.