The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-02-17
lLOgAL DEPARTMENT. "

Fred c. Talbot for copies OF Congressional
Record, 53rd Congress, first session
The letters advertised at the Eikton
postoffice this week are addressed as follows
Mrs. Edith A. Queen, Miss Maggie Fore
acre, Mrs. Mahoney. Miss Larrie Coldwell.
The Armstrong Stove and Manufactur
ing Company's works at Perryville which
have been shut down for the past three
weeks for repairs expect to start up on
Monday with full force.
The large sign of Frank j. Kerr " Co.,
the merchant tailors on Main street, has
been again swung in place after being hand
somely repainted and lettered in gold leaf
by j. b. Rsuland, of this town.
A very large acreage will be planted In
tomatoes in Kent county this season.
Already several Baltimore firms have con-
tracted for the planting of about 800 acres
and it is estimated that 200 acres are still
available.
Abe Smith, the demented colored boy,
who last week ran away from the farm OF
Jacob Swayue at Sylmar, was captured III
Oxford, Pa. He had wandered around
aimlessly spending one night In the woods
The boy was returned to Mr.. Swayne's.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Managers of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Cecil County, was held IN
Elkton ON Tuesday. The usual business
was transacted, L. Marshall Haines, Esq,
was appointed counsel to succeed the late
W. j. Jones.
The double team of farmer James Hol-
land, of Fair Hill, ran away In Newark
last week and dashed into the safety gates
of the B. s. o. Railroad on Main street,
which were down for a train then standing
at the station. Both gates were snapped
off by the horses in their mad rush across
the track.
The property situated in Elk Neck
known as Hyland's Discovery, was sold at
mortgages sale in Elkton on Tuesday
morning to Joshua P. McCay, of Elbton'
for $500. The property contains 90 acres
of land and is improved by small dwell
ing house. John A. Kline of Elkton, also
purchased a track of AZ acres of land in Elk
Neck for $500.
The post office department has issued
instructions to the postmasters at Slate
Hill, Pa, and Conowingo, this county, to
deliver the mail to the carrier one-half
hour in advance of schedule time, from
December 81 to March 81 of each year, pro-
vided no connection be broken and no COM
plant be made.
Several hundred people witnessed the
whippings in the New Castle Jail yard on
Saturday. Two men stood in the pillory
for an hour, one being Levi Gibson, colored,
formerly of Elkton, who brutally assaulted
the school teacher Josephine Ltndy, a.
Newport, fracturing her skull with club.
Gibson will serve five years in prison. Six
men were whipped at the post.
-EA-Congressman James R. Lofiand
day afternoon, the 10th inst aged II years,
after an illness of several weeks from the
grip. Major Lof1and was prominent law
yer and an active Republican political
leader. One daughter the wife of Joseph
E. Bruff, of Baltimore, survives him. The
Grand Chancellor Adam Peoples, of
Port Deposit. presided at the twenty sixth
annual session of the Grand Lodge OF
Maryland knights of Pythias, held in
opening of the session on Tuesday after
noon the principal business was the reading
of the report of the Grand Chancellor. Mr..
Peoples was elected Past Grand Chancellor
for the ensuing.
MIR. D. L. McCorkindale, manager of
the Marley Paper mills of G. S. Garrett 81
Son, has in his possession two Interesting
copies of P .iladelphia newspapers. sOne
is the first daily issue of the Public Ledger
of Friday morning, March %, 1886, aud the
other is copy of the Saturday Erening
Post, of May "a. 1928. Both of them CON-
tain what now appear old fashioned aud
curious advertisements and reading matter.
The marked improvement in the con-
dition of Mr.. William Reed who has been
i'll at his home in Chesapeake City is very
gratifying to his friends throughout the
county, and it is expected that he will be
able to leave the house in short while
Mr.. Reed is now in the nineteesh year of
his age. He was connected with the old
Frenchtown aud New Castle railroad when
that line was a connecting link between
the North and South.
II n
took place from her late residence in Elk
ton on Saturday afternoon at half past two
O'Clock and was largely attended. The SER
vices were conducted by the Rev. William
Schouler, rector of Trinity Church, of
which the deceased was lifelong member,
and the interment was made in the Elkton
cemetery. The pail bearers were: Col. A.
w. Evans, DIR. G. NJ. Ellis, DR.. r. C
Mackall, Alfred Wetherill, Ciuton McCul,
Tough and John S. Writ.
The program for the March meeting of
the Teachers Association is as follows:
Music, readings, Mrs. T. W. Currier and
Miss BERTHE Graham; music; Chautaqua
work, Miss Picker; address, Miss Rich
mond; essays, Miss Annie Cameron and
Miss Benigna Holm. Question for dis
cussion, Resolved, that the State should
have compulsory school law" Dispu-
tants. Messrs. Eugene Reynolds, S. j. Tam
many, V. n. Watts and T. w. Currier.
T. w. CURRIER. Secy.
-Herber: Kennedy was fined So and
costs by Squire Spence. of Cherry Hill, on
Saturday for cruelty beating mule from
the effects of which the animal died The
mule was owned by Till Mason and was
one of team driven by man named
McCrea. The wagon had become stalled
in the heavy road and Kennedy went to
McCrea's assistance in starting the mules,
and maltreated the animal so brutally that
1t died from the effects of the blows. This
lesson by Squire Spence it is hoped will
have good effect.
The gunners of Cecil county who
found our game supply so depleted the past
season could with profit follow the example
of the sportsmen in Kent, our neighboring
county, who are now carefully considering
means and methods of protecting the game
remaining in the county. There is a divi-
sion of opinion as to the advisabiity of
suspending cunning for a certain period
but all agree as to the vast good to be
derived from stocking the county with
birds. Legislation requiring visitors gun
ming in the county to take out license
was strongly desired. Let game Protect.
tive Association be formed IN Cecil, to pre-
tect and replenish the game supply and sse
to the rigid enforcement of the CANA laws