The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-07-06
JULY.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

VIM. silk, baker, lost horse on Thuca-
day from collie.
The "peach pluck" will soon be making
his way to the peninsula.
The Stanley Bros. of Elk Neck. will En-
gage in canning the coming season.
The heavy rain on saturday night last
flooded Il number of cellars in town.
A Government pension has been re- issued
to David II. Legat, of Havre De Grace.
A valuable horse owned by Sheriff
White died from pneumonia on Sunday.
The puplic schools of Hartford county
closed for the summer on Friday June %.
Parker Bros. our busy painters, are this
week engaged in painting the Howard House
Mrs. Harriet Bigger, of Chesapeake City
has been granted an original widows pen
sion.
The steamer "Trumpeter' will take the
NJ. f. sunday School to COLCHESTER, on the
18th OF this month.
Mrs. Warren Wilson has bought out the
millinery business of Miss Lucille McGlaugh-
lin. on Main street -
Parker Bros. the Elkton painters have
secured a large contract to paint dwelling
houses lust erected at MOorc's Station Pa.
Last week the p w. Il b. II. Il Compan,
burned Il large number of old ties which had
been taken from the track the passed season.
-Devaiing Brothers have rented the
Rudolph Building on Main street and will
open a grocery and provision store at an
early date.
A colored boy was seen killing half-grown
chickens and carrying them off. last Sunda'
morning on High street. Evidently IA good
subject for the law.
Mrs. Sarah Daughton, wife of Johnsey
Daughton, of Jarrettsville, Hartford county.
died on Monday, aged ~ years. She leaves
husband and six children.
The automatic penny in the slot"
weighing machine at the Elkton depot was
robbed several nights ago-the thieves break
ing open the cash drawer.
Assistant Station Agent Charles G. Wells
was painfully injured by giant cracker
exploding in his right hand on Tuesday
morning. His hand was badly burned and
lacerated.
C. NJ. Gaylord and John J. Davis, repre-
senting the Guarantee Savings, Loan and
Investment Company of Washington, hay
been in Elkton this week on business con
nected with the company.
Some dirty, mean, low contemplate.
dastardly hend has been poisoning dog,
around Perryville. If the whelp will make
himself known we will tell him this to hi,
face and give him what he deserves.-Perry-
ellie Record.
-Elkton seems to be an unfortunate place
for Catholic cergymen. Recently one priest
who was sent there died. Father Bradford
was i'll while he was there and has since died
Now Father Campbell is very i'll at that place.
-" Wilmington Morning NerS Of Nonddy.'
William Queck. of Elkton, bought tn
property of James H. Culinary, on Bohemi"
Avenue. Chesapeake City, from John Banks.
administrator on Saturday. Mr.. Queck will
remove to that town. He has been member
Of the bakery firm of John G. Queck Il Son.
Elkton, which business will be continued by
his father ond brother.
Mr.. George w. Cruikshank is secretary
Of the newly organized Civil Service Exam
liners for the U. S. Internal Revenue Service.
The first examination will be held in Balti
more, for the positions of clerk gauger.
storekeeper and storekeeper and gauger. 1t
will be for applicants from Maryland, Della
ware, the District of Columbia and the
Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The members of Elkton Council, Jr. r,
o. U. A NJ, are making every effort to have
their excursion to Cape May on Wednesday,
July "a, one of the greatest ever given out of
Elkton, and there is every indication that a
large number of tickets will be sold. This isl
an excellent trip-by rail to Wilmington
where the palace steamer Republic is taken.
The train leaves Elkton at 7. As II. IN.
A horse while being riven into Elkton
by Clarence Major on Wednesday became I'M
manageable and ran off down North street
The buggy was upset and Mr.. Major thrown
out and dragged some distance. being badly
bruised. The vehicle righted itself and the
horse continued to the Howard House
where the horse coIlided with the steps in
front of Ludwigs shaving saloon, and was
stopped.
C. Lorber and Baltimore City attorney
have been in Belair for the past several days
with petition to Governor Brown asking
for signatures for the release of Charles Lor-
Der, who is now in the Penitentiary serving
a long sentence for burning the barn of Jesse
Burbank, near Churchvlle, that county. The
petition has not been freely signed, although
the principal States witness at the trial says
now that all she said at that time was false.
This is the second or third attempt to get
Lorber pardoned.