The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-10-23

Racing at Iron Hill closes today and on
Monday the track Mt Sngerly opens.
Samuel Reed is having a two story aldi-
ton built on his residence ON Matntt street
The Government has granted Il special
pension to Mrs. Hannah d. Wilson. OF EIkton.
In n fight at Iron Hill colored man was
sho, but not seriously injured. His assailaut
escaped.
-Prohibitionists held a public meeting on
Tuesday afternoon in Cherry Hill, and in the
evening at North East
William McNamee has repainted and
otherwise improved the inter o. of Ills cigar
store under the Howard House.
The October meeting of the Cecil Farmers
Club has been postponed a week, and will
now be held on Oct 81 at the home of A. l..
Duyckinck.
The p. W. & B. railroad will carry you
from Elkton to Baltimore and return. tomor-
row for so cents, and give round trip to
Washington for 81 So Note the adv
John Lee, the new proprietor of the East
End Market House. is making a number Of
changes in the interior arrangement of his
store, and which are great improvements.
Arunnins horse driven by George Hannah
created ron-iGerabI" excitement on Tuesday
afternoon by running away on Main street
and dHshing at full speed through town.
A Democratic meeting was held at Blue
Ball on saturday night The Deibert Band
al ,I..,,..
Mo--rs. John 5. Writ. Holster Hess and Philip
Bond.
A J. Cahail. a retired merchant Of Chc,-
t"rtown. died on sunday, aged seventy years
He was one Of the oldest and most success
full merchants of the town. hut because of
failing health retired from business about
year ago.
As Mr. william D. summers. Of Whit"
He'll, was driving to Elkton Tuesday evening
his horse frightened and ran away on the
causeway and plunged of the roadway ran
into the river short distance east Of the iron
bridge on Bridge street.
Robert A. Cochran, of near lIildIctown.
whose barn was destroyed 10y fire last Satur-
day rvening, has been extremely unfortunate.
Recently his granary collapsed, and Il few
weeks previous six OF his cows were poisoned
and one Of his colts was struck by a train
and killed.
The p, W. x Il. Railroad Company will
sell tickets from EIkton to Washington and
return tomorrow, Sunday, for II so. They
will be good upon special train leaving Elk
Ia IN -
ave Washington on regular trains at 3.l5.
40 and 10 o'clock p. m.
Town Constable Timmons, of Middle
town, lodged William Benson, coored. Of
Middlrtown, in New Castle Jail on Monday
Benson was committed in default of 5000
bail ON the charge of bigamy. he having
married woman in odessa six years ago
and another about three years later at Mt
Pleasant.
--Saut"llss circus gave afternoon and
evening performances in Elkton on Welne--
day to good crowds The performance was
a good one and the entertainment clean an
attractive in every way. On Thursday the,
showed at Port Deposit. yesterday at Rising
Sun. and today will close the season at OK.
ford, from there returning to their winter
quarters N Syracuse, y. Y.
1t is reported that subscriptions are being
literally made to the capital stock of the
proposed Port Deposit and Havre de Grac,
Steamboat Company. 1t is proposed to incor
porate the company with "A capital stock OF
about 100000, and operate IA boat between
Port Deposit, Havre de- Grace. Betterton and
Baltimore. 1t is intended that the boat shall.
make daily trips and carry both passengers
and freight,
The work of oing the roadbel OF tine
P nu~yIvauia railroad to keep down the dust
h been finished from Washington to Per,
mans, on the Philadelphia division. A
specially constructed car is used for the pLr-
Pose, and from six to ten miles of double
t .ark may be spriIkled daily. The use OF oil
to keep down the dust which fast trains stir
up has been found to work satisfactorily and
t. W pc out the discOmforts caused travellers.
Professor W. &. Johnson. state cntomolu-
gist, in field meeting held several days ago
in the pear orchard of Captain Il. 5. Emory
near Chestertown made some experiments
in the use of hydrocyanic gas in combating
the san Jose scale. This is the first expert
ment of the kind ever made east OF the Rocky
Mountains. The tents used had been double
oiled and prepared under Prof. Johusous
personal supervision, and were absolutely
proof against any loss of gas. The scale has
been operating III Captain Emory's orchard
iOl the past three years, and his large acreage
of pears and other fruit trees have been saved
only by the most persistent experiments with
whale oil soap. Nearly six hundred dollars
worth of this soap has been used this season
on one block of trees. This remedy has not
been entirely satisfactory, largely from the
fact that by the use of any spray consider
able part of the scale escaped without being
touched. AS the offspring of one female
scale reaches in a single season the enormous
number of three billions, it is apparent tina
t e spraying with whale oil soap has only
afforded Il substantial check, without entirely
removing the trouble. The searching nature
of hydrocyanc gas does not allow the escape
OF single insect. Then, too, in point of
economy both in time and money, it pos
ses es decided advantages. DR.. J. J. Black.
one Of the largest fruit growers OF Delaware.
and several entomologists of national reputa-