The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-07-16
WING OFFICE TELEPHONE, No. 20.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
Perusal by Busy Readers.


Several trains laden with troops passed
over the Maryland division of the p, w.
& B. Railroad Friday evening and Satur-
day morning. Among the number was
one train consisting of six ears containing
200 recruits from New York for Fort
Mcpherson, Ga.
Smyrna Town Council has elected F.
Fl. Hyns,n assistant engineer of the water
and electric light plants Mr.. Hy"son is q
son 1T Rev. f. II. Iynsnn of the Whining
ton NJ. T.. Conference and a graduate of the
electrical department. at Delaware College.
two weeks ago.
The Claymont Methodist Church has
been reprinted, "A new floor has been put
in and the pulpit has been altered, and the
building will he recarpetrd and the heat
ing apparatus improved. The church will
be reopened on July a. on which occas-
ion there will be all-day services, Presiding
Elder Watt and the Revs F. Burgette
Short and W. l.. S. Murray, d D., preach
ing morning, after Don and evening, re-
sprctiveIy.
Theodore Conner, of North Severn,
near Annapolis, has in his possession a
small Amer can fla which he found on
the Fourth of July morning tightly held
leo, ala. r II f,I Of
his farm on Greenbury Point, and when he
clught the crab found to his amazement it
had in it's grip small United States flag
which had probably fallen overheard from
some Fourth of July excursion on the
water So patriotic crab deserved inn
munity from capture and protection under
the flag.
Rev. John A. Daley, of Delaware City,
took charge of the St. Francis Xavier
Church, near Warwick, on Sunday last
and will hereafter co.duct the services in
that church, probably the oldest religious
ediIice in Maryland. Rev. Father Haugh,
of the Jesuit Order, has been recalled to
the headquarters Of the order in Baltimore,
and after being in possession of this organi-
cation since it was founded by Rev. Thomas
Mancill, in 1904, it now passes into the
jurisdiction OF the Rt. Rev. Bishop Mona
CHAN, and becomes part of the Whining
ton Diocese.
Peninsula camp meetings will be held
as follows: Sloan, the Rev. w. E. Matt
hews minister in charge, beginning July
90 and continuing 10 days; Woodlawn,
Rev. w. Il. Mowbray minister in charge,
beginning August 2 and continuing 10
days; Hebron, Rev. w. Il. Gwinn minister
in charge, beginning July 30 and continu-
ing 10 days; Concord, Rev. F. J. Cochran
minister in charge, beginning August
and continuing 10 days, and Wheatley g
Grove, Rev. J. L. Johnson minister in
charge, beginning August 5 and continu-
ing 10 days.
On going into his pasture field several
days ago George Gordon, of near Milling
ton, Kent county, found one of his horses
suffering with hydrophobia. The animal
was in great agony tearing the flesh from
her limbs. She was bitten several weeks
ago by mad dog belonging to Mr.. John
Conner. She was the old family horse and
was purchased several years ago from Mr..
Frank Greenwood, OF Chestertown. Mr.
Gordon has had two dogs and hog to 90
mad, they being all bitten the same day,
by the same dog. Mr.. Gordan had his
dogs promptly killed.
William Joseph Miller, son OF the
Rev. E. X. Miller, of st. James Church,
Newport formerly pastor of st. Mary's
Church, North East, has enlisted in Co. A,
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment and left
Charleston last week for Cuba Mr.. Mil
Ter is a graduate of Trinity College, class
of '92, and of Harvard University, class of
1913. He has been employed as a proctor
at Harvard. 1t is an interesting coincid-
ence that Mr.. Miller goes in the Second
Corps OF tn. Second Division of the Army,
the same corps and same division in which
his father fought in the Civil War. The
father, who was also in the Third Diyis-
ion, was injured in the Battle of Gettys-
burg.