The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-05-09
WIG OFFICE TELEPHONE, No 30.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
On. Tue. We'd. Thu. Fri. Sat.

Parker Brothers are painting the double
house in west Elkton owned by George
Turner.
railroad conductors and brakemen have put
on their summer uniforms.
The three-masted schooner George II.
Captain Lunt. arrived from Baer River ON
signed to the Potomac Pulp Company. at
Conowneo, Md.
Present indications point to large peach
crop in Delaware. and on the Maryland Pen
Ursula, probably one Of the largest for several
Yeas. and already growers are considering
the shipping question
The County Commissioners have awarded
the greater number of the road mendirg cor
tracts. A few roads are still open for pro-
posals. A regular meeting OF tho com mis-
sioners will be- held on Tuesday night.
Thomas Dowd, horseman, who was
stricken with paralysis in Elkton last week,
was taken to the German hospital in Phia
delphia on Thursday. His entire left side
is involved. but it is thought that he will re-
cover.
John NJ. Terrell, real estate agent. of
Elkton, on Monday sold the property in
Perkinsville, North East, owned by r. d.
Drummond, of Wilmington, to Mrs Sarah
Bddle, of North East, for 1850. The pro-
perty is house and lot.
The Stafford farm in Kent county, and
an island in the Susquehanna river, contain
twenty-six acres, were sold to Noble L.
Mitchell, on Saturday, for $4,000. The farm
ing land is of excellent quality and the build
ings are in good condition.
Governor Lowndes has appointed Col.
George W. F. Vernon as the first member
and chairman of the commission to compile
and muster rolls and succinct and accurate
history of the organization and service of the
Maryland U. S volunteers during the Civil
War.
The Vaudeville performance in Odd Eel
lows hall was greeted with good audience
on Friday night of last week With two ex.
ceptions the performers We're persons of
color, and who acquitted themselves credta-
bly,. The same company repeated the per,
formance last night.
The gentleman bearing the distinguished
name of John Adams who has been anguish
ing in Ekton Jail on the charge of stealing
an assortment of goblers and hens from VIM.
X Warden of Lancaster, Pa, was on Mon
day delivered to the authorizes of that State
on requesition from Governor Hastings
Samuel Davis n colored man of this town
who had been cook at the Aims House of this
county for several years, died at his home on
Milburn street on Sunday evening aged sixty
six years. He was sitting in chair at the time
of his death. He was buried in the A. U. NJ
P. Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, his
funeral being conducted by the Order Of
Colored Odd Fellows.
The United States Fish Commission is
taking on an average of 8 200, 900 shad spawn
per night in the Susquehanna river from the
gilers, for which they are paying twenty-five
cents per shad, and the OILERS are allowed to
retain the fish. Two shipments of live shad
fry have been made this season so far, both
: OF which were placed in the Susquehanna
River, above Port Deposit, Md.
Professor" W. Baldwin who saws he is
walking around the world, was in Elkton on
Sunday, accompanied by three trained dogs
The Professor started from New York. He
made Baltimore, Sunday night. Eighteen
months is his allotment for globe. trotting.
He ha ctn :,
loses his wager unless he has two thousand
dollars in his inside pocket, eighteen months
hence, when he saunters into the office of n
New York sporting paper.
The new railroad now in course of con-
struction across the Peninsula from Queens
town on the Chesapeake to Lewes at the
Delaware Breakwater will cross the Della
ware Chesapeake branch of the Delaware
division, will touch at Queen Anne and
Greenwood. and will cross the Delaware,
Maryland Virginia railroad near Robbins.
1t will also touch Denton and Milton. which
have al present no railroad communication
This will make an air line distance of about
GO miles and will establish line from Balti-
more to Queenstown, to Lewes, to Cape May
by steamer.
"A rather peculiar collision occurred on
Monday afternoon at the locks of the Della
ware and Chesapeake Canal, at Delaware
City. The tug Worrell was towing a three
masted lumber laden schooner towards the
lock. For some reason the gates did not
close in time and the tug was brought to a
stop against them. The schooner moved
along with the impetus it had acquired, and
its extending jibboom struck the pilot house
OF the tug and knocked it off. Captain Lang.
whe was at the wheel escaped unscathed.
One OF the tug men, in making leap for the
shore missed it, and fell into the canal. He
was nshed out unhurt.