The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-08-06
NEWS in BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for Hasty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

Perusal by Busy Readers.
William Stevens of Elkton. has gone to
Wilmington, Del. where he has accepted
position working at his trade, carpenter.
j. Guest King, secretary, has issued
call for the editors of the Mary land Republi
can Association to meet at Frederick City on
August ..
C. C. oldham, of Port Deposit, killed
dog in front of the postoffice of that town
last Saturday, supposed to have been suffer-
ing with the rabies.
Henry l.. Scott, who for several years
lived in Elkton, and where he has many
friends, is en- route TO the Philippine Islands.
He is first sergeant of one Of the Tennessee
Regiment.
A number of colored people of Elkton
have been invited by Rev. J. H. Marley, son
of Clayton Manley, of Elkton, to be present
at the opening of a new church in Mont
gomery, Ala.
News of the death of Rev. Joseph S.
Cook reached Elkton this week. He was
former pastor of the Elkton Methodist Epis-
ccpal Church, and died in Bristol, Pa, on
Sunday evening
John Rodney Mason, colored, was ar
rested in Wilmington, on Wednesday, by the
authorities of that city, on the charge of
ASSAULT with intent to kill Taylor Mckinney,
OF Elkton. at base ball game in Ceciltor,
about the first of July. He was brought to
the Ektou Jail on Thursday.
A number of the members OF st. Paul's
Church, of Lancaster, Pa, who for several
years past have encamped on tho banks Of
the romantic Octoraro creek couple of
miles north of Rising Sun, to spend the heated
term and catch fish with hook and line, have
gone to the tented camp meeting groves.
The remains of Rev. James L. Bryan,
formerly pastor of the Rising Sun NJ. E.
Church, who died about two years ago, and
was buried in Rose Bank Cemetery. have
been removed to Brook View Cemetery, near
Rising Sun, where a handsome and costly
monument has been erected to his memory.
The intense heat of the past week has
been unusually hard on working horses.
James Downs, of near Mt. Pleasant; william
Davis, of Summit Bridge, and Carson Keil-
holtz. of Principle, have had horses to die.
Other farmers report horses overcome by the
heat.
Good progress is being made on the new
manual training building at Delaware Col
lege, which is to take the place of the frame
structure recently destroyed by fire. The
new building will be ready for occupancy in
September, when the college opens, and more
thorough training will be possible in that
branch.
--Lorewood is the name Of new picnic
resort which has been established on the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal about mid
way of the canal. Chief Justice Charles b.
Lore. of Wilmington, is the owner of the
property, which includes fine chestnut
grove. The steamboat company has built IL
wharf there and its steamers stop, both going
to and returning from Baltimore
Bishop Newman has announced tho trans
fer of Rev. Harvey W. Ewing Il former pastor
of the Tome Memorial Church, Port Deposit,
from the Wilmington to the Kentucky Con-
ference and has appointed him pastor Of
Union Methodist Episcopal Church, of Gov
ington. He will continue to serve as pastor
of Salem Church until September. The
trustees of Mt Salem Church have asked
Rev. Ralph T. Coursey, of Harrison Church.
to become pastor of the former church but
he has declined the call.
"A day boat will be put on the Ericsson
M brpI ,ybt hn N Inf bns la
City, which will run between Baltimore and
Philadelphia, leaving Baltimore every morn
ing, Sunday excepted, at 730 o'clock, arriv-
ing in Philadelphia in the evening. These
daylight trips have always been greatly pa
tronized, since they afford the passengers
ample opportunity to view all the delightful
scenery along the canal, bays and rivers.
Stops will be made at Wilmington, Del, and
every Thursday at Chester, Pa.
1t is not probable that any more lndict-
ments will be brought in the federal court in
the embezzlement cases growing out Of the
defalcation OF Teller VIM. N. Boggs, of the
Dover bank Unless new evidence turns up
District Attorney Vandegrift will not ask for
more indictments. There are said to have
Deen Otner PERSONS Implicated ny DoBbS, put
the government has been unable to secure
documentary evidence against them. The
district attorney, it is said has been unable
to find evidence to confirm the statement of
Rev. w. A. Walling in a recent sermon that
thirty or more persons were implicated.
A sad drowning occurred at Kirby's
Landing, Kent county, last Saturday after
noon. William Clough and young MIR.
Hollitt, who had gone to the river with
young Coughs mother and father to crab,
went in bathing and were drowned. Neither
OF the bathers could swim. 1t was at the
solicitation of Mrs. Clough that her son and
his friend consented to leave the water, but
before doing so they undertook what they
called last plunge. They dashed overheard
into the narrow and precipitous channel and
went down. Young Clough's father came
near losing his life in attempting to save the
unfortunate bathers. The bodies were recov-
cred during the afternoon, but Clough was
badly eaten about the face by crabs.
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