The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-02-09
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
POINTS FROM HERE AND THERE
Various Local Items of Interest Collected
in this Vicinity.

The establishment OF Il National Bank mt
Conowingo, is being talked Of
ON sunday morning at seven O'Clock the
Thermometer registered five degrees below
zero at Elkton.
William Cook has rented the Belle Hill
flrm from W. P. Wright and will move on
the property March %.
George =. Sage. who swindled the H..r
ford County Bank by means of forged dra..-
was on Monday sentenced to eight years u
the penitentiary.
The Pastors Aid Society of the Elktos
the residence of Mrs Charles b. Finley Thu
Saturday afternoon from / to 5 O'clock
Over 125 miles of public road in Hartford
county are in charge Of the several road
Leagues, recently organized, and great
improvement in the highways is looked for.
The ground hog didn't see his shadow on
Saturday but he found the ground covered
with snow and doubtless went back into his
hole for forty days so we will have the
winter anyway.
Capt. II. j. Poplar of Havre de Grace,
who is wcll-known in Ekton, will accompany
a Philadelphia party on Il hunting and fish
ing trip to Florida. The trip will cover a
month or six weeks.
Albert Constable, Esq, attorney for Mrs
Canaan, OF Galena, has docketed Il new suit
for $1,000 damages, against jeremiah Pea
cock, for injuries received by the plaintiff in
falling into cellar of the defendant
While playing about the fire on Monday
morning the six year old daughter of John
Earle, colored, of Elkton, received terrible
burns, her clothing catching fire. The child
was burned about the face and body and its
recovery is doubtful.
Charles G Wells, assistant station agent,
has rented the Merritt property on Main
street now occupied by EX-Sheriff Mckinney
and will occupy it after March 25. Sheriff
Mckinney will remove to the farm he
recently purchased near Perryville.
Caroline McCabe, well known colored
woman Of Elkton. died on Sunday morning
at the county insane asylum, to which institu-
ton she had been admitted several months
ago. Sotening Of the brain was the cause of
death. She W Us buried on Tuesday.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Elkton Cemetery Company was held
on Tuesday. DR.. II. C. Mackall was elect
president; John Partridge, secretary; DR.. j.
H. lamar, treasurer; W. II. Elder, superin-
tendent. The members of the executive COM
.l.r
Henry Ninsinger.
Mr. J. Will Perkins the well known har7
ness dealer on Main street is an enthusiastic
fisherman and during the fishing season when
( his business will allow, he is found on the
river with his rod AMI reel. Mr.. Perkins is
now having an aquarium made and pro-
poses to have II fine collection of the iinny
tribe soon exhibited at his store.
colored population of Elkton was
thrown into state of excitement on Monday
when it became known that Mrs Geor, e
Oakley had left her husband and four chill
dren to elope with James Johnson, who was
also bound by the bonds of matrimony to
another 1t seems that johnson had been
making mis- home with Oakley and took this
WHY of paying back his friends kindness.
A serious slcighing accident occurred in
Newark on Saturday morning. As I.
Maxwell and his son Clarence were sleighing
on Main street near the Centre station Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, the young horse,
became frightened by the cars and upsetting
the sleigh. threw Mr. Maxwell out with great
force on tho frozen ground. The blow
fractured the leg bone near the hip joint, and
is IA serious fracture.
Past Archon George McQuilsin and
Archon, w. j. Smith were installed at thu
regular meeting OF Elkton Conclave, No. 3l9,
Improved Order of Heptasophs on Monday
night The new officers installed last wech
were: Provost, c. NJ. Chilas; Secretary, W.
H. Sprinkle: Fiuancier, II. ID. Bowland; Trea-
surer. w. r. Witworth Prelate, A. L. Taylor;
Inspector, W. H. Silk; Warden, n. X. Warner
Sentinel Charles d. Jamison.
The weather report for this section OF
the state, shows that the weather durn-;
January was colder than it has been during
any January for seven years. The meain
temperature III NhS thii'S ''' ~
grecs, tine lowest since 1888, when II was
twenty nine degrees. The lowest temper
AZURE of the month was on the l3th when it
was nine degrees. and the highest was on the
It'll when it was sixty degrees. The average
temperature for the month for twenty-five
years at Baltimore is thirty-four degrees.
One afternoon recently us Il south bound
7 W. & b. railroad train was approaching
the bridge at Perryville, well-iressed man
in an intoxicated condition stepped OFF the
car platform and was thrown down on the
ties and stone ballast, receiving several
bad cuts and bruises. The station agent, W.
c. Cooley, washed the mans wounds. but the
stranger was just drunk enough to be con
trary. and would not allow of his injuries
being dressed He was sent to Baltimore on
later train. He would not give his name.
Charles Ernest, the Main street barber
has on exhibition in his window "A miniature
reproduction of the house Of Capt. Washing
ton Foster in Elk Neck. The little house is
an exceptionally good piece of work, ano
is complete in every detail. 1t was made by
Elmer Pryor, of Elk Neck, who shows mucf
skill in woodworking The model is n inches
long, Is inches wide and Is inches high. II