The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-11
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
POINTS FROM HERE AND THERE
Various Local Items of Interest Collected
in this Vicinity.

A pension has been re-issued to Charles
W. Wilson of Rising sun.
The residence of n. P Manly, on East
Main street is being reprinted.
VIM Edwards moved into the Caldwell
house on Delaware avenue last week.
The cuvert at the Fair Grounds entrance
on North street has been replaced 10y IL new
one.
William Devore has had a new fence
put around his residences, on West High
street.
The summer residence at Glen Mary
occupied by Reuben Hanes, ESQ, is being
reprinted.
1t is very probable that a local telephone
system will be built in oxford during the
coming summer.
The cholera is again among the hogs in
Elkton. Several fine hogs died in the east
end of the town, this week.
--Idlewid Farm, at Calvert, boasts of Il
curiosity in duck that laid two eggs Il day
for four days during April.
The p. W. & B. Railroad street crossings
in Elkton have been rebuilt and other i'm
provements made to the track.
Boone Lowe gillcd $50 shad in his net in
the North East river on Sunday. This is thu
best gilIing record of the season.
The Association OF Maryland Democratic
Editors will meet in Cambridge on Wednes
cay and Thursday, May 10 and 16.
A colored boy working on the farm Of
Dennis Mullen. near Elkton, was badly
bruised on Wednesday by pair of horses
attached to a rake running away.
The Elkton Branch of the Needicwork
Guild Of America, will hold its annual meet
ing in Council Hall, Tuesday, May 14th, at 3
.. m. The ladies of Elkton are requested to
be present.
d. l.. Sloan & Son erected a monument
at Bethel Cemetery, this week over the tomb
of Philip Grose. They will also place stone
over the tomb of Miss H. Louise Peterson al
Cherry Hill.
The pipe line conveying acid from the
railroad freight station to the works of Scott
Fertilizer Company was removed this week,
the new siding.
DIR. William c. Karsner. Il. 7. Coleman
and j. Polk Steele. of Cecil Lodge, A. F. and
A. NJ, No. 1875, of Chesapeake City paid II
fraternal visit to Union Lodge, No. As, of
Elkton. on Tuesday Evening.
Speaker James II. Preston, of the Mary
land House of Delegates. an alumnus of ST
Johns College, Annapolis. will deliver the
annual address before the PhilOkalian
Society of the college, on June II.
Mrs. Mary Torbert, widow of the late
Gen A. T. 4. Torbert, died at 1 O'Clock on
Thursday morning at her home in Milford
Del. of blood poisoning, the result of an
abscess OF the liver, aged So years. Funeral
to day saturday, at y. m.
Henry Ferguson. wood chopper living
near North East, and Turkish pedder were
lodged in Jail on Thursday. upon commit
ments issued by Magistrate Deford of North
East, the first charged with larceny, and the
latter with selling goods without license.
Mr.. William H. Elder, of Elkton, has in
MS possession well preserved copy of the
edition of Bibles published in Philadelphia
in 1896 by Jacob r. Berriman. The book
contains 400 pages and is peculiar in shape"
the pages being 16l sXl0l9 inches. The bind
ing is of leather. =
Among the more important changes to
be made in the Baltimore and Ohio through
schedule, which goes into effect Sunday. is
he. of tr1 trains pnpl
between Washington and New York. one
additional train each way will run in tn"
morning, and one each way in the evening.
Mr. Hugh Bay, prominent resident of
Hartford county, died suddenly on Tuesday
Of heart disease while riding on horseback on
his farm For several years Mr.. Bay had
been sufferer from heart trouble He was
65 years of age, and leaves IA widow and four
sons, three of whom are well-known farmers
Of Hartford county.
A large number of Odd Fellows from
Elkton and throughout Cecil county will
attend the dedication of the Odd Fellow :
Temple, on Broad and Cherry streets, Phila-
dephia on May u. $4,000 Odd Fellows ar"
expected to be in attendance, and 10000 i'll
the parade The temple is said to be the
finest used by any secret organization in the
world.
The county commissioners OF Hartford
county have appropriated $4,000 for the con
tinuance Of the public schools OF Hartford
until June %. The school board appeared
before the county board several weeks ago
and asked for $4,000 to keep the schools
open The school board met on Wednesday
and after discussing the propriety OF the
continuance of the school on such an ap-
preparation.
William Perkins, a well-known colored
man of Kent county, died in Baltimore, on
Saturday at the Colored Home for aged peo-
people, after a lingering illness. Perkins
took a leading part as a Republican politi-
clan and was in his day one of the leading
men of his people in Maryland. For many
years he kept an eating house in Chester
town and was respected by all the people
OF Kent county.
The battalion of cadets of st. Johns Col
lege, under the command of Lieut.. Ellwood
w. Evans, eighth United States cavalry, was
inspected this week by Major Ernest W. Car
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