The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-07-02
NEWS In BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Rea erS.

= lie ADJOURNED June term OF lne circuit
Court will re.convene on Wednesday next
W II. silk has purchased the grocery
store on East High Street, Elkton and took
charge yesterday
The recently elected officers of National
Lodge. No 81, |. O. o. f., of Eikton, were
installed last evening.
The banks, public offices, barber shops
and other public places in Elkton will close
on Monhay, the Fourth of July.
The Charlestown aud Principle base ball
club played a game of bail on Saturday
afternoon, Charlestown winning by the score
of PAL.
A Wilmington party is cutting willow
from the grove owned by William H Elder,
of Elkton, for shipment to the Dupont Pow
der Works at Wilmington.
-Armsted Wood, the colored man arrested
on suspicion as being the assailant of Mrs.
Mary Pounds will be released; Mrs. Pounds
being unable to identify him.
The horses of the racing stable Of DR.. J.
P. Mccoy. who has IA stock farm ut Kirk
wood. were shipped on Wednesday to Buff
falo, N. Y, where they will take part in big
race meet
Patrons OF the Elkton postof1ice who
rent boxes realized yesterday that the Govern
ment is in need OF more revenue. The price of
boxes for the quarter commencing July has
been advanced from 90 cents to Is cents.
Several changes in the interior of the
Elkton station are now in progress. The
agents office and the telegraph office will be
combined, furnishing more commodious quar-
tiers to these officials.
The Woodlawn Young Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will hold a lawn fete on
the lawn Of Mr.. II. H. Keilholtz near Hope
well, this Saturday evening, July 2. They
will be glad to see everybody.
Officers will be elected at the annual
meeting of the stockholders Of the Elkton
and Middletown Railroad Company of Cecil
county which will be- held at the National
Bank of Elkton on Tuesday, July S.
Miss Emma Lewis, OF Elkton, who has
been confined to her room for several months
from a very serious sprain, the result of n
bicycle accident at Chesapeake City. is now
able to walk about, with the assistance Of IA
cane.
The following were elected officers of
Childs Council, No, SO. on Thursday evening.
Jr. P. c., j. w. Woodrow: c., J. w. Mahon-y;
V. c., VIM. Glen; Con-, Edward Miller; w.
Thos Willing; o. s.. G. H. Moody; |. S., W.
II. Woebly.
The Orphans Court on Tuesday allowed
$275 in the case of Joseph E. Clayton against
nr II Of tha wi
of Sarah j. Clayton. The claim was for
S1.440 for labor, and testimony was taken at n
special session of the court on Wednesday of
last.
The storm on Tuesday afternoon. which
was very heavy in this section OF the county,
was also suite disastrous In the upper
section. The lightning was very vivid and
the thunder heavy. A bolt struck the resi-
dence OF Mrs. Emma Mendenhall at Blue
Ball. Mrs. Mendenhall was stunned by the
sh ock.
The Elkton High School team will play
the Newark Club on the grounds Of the latter
today, Saturday. A return game will beplay-
ed at Elkton, on the Fourth OF July, at 10 a.
m. The Elkton boys expect to have their
uniforms. The battery for the High School
will be the Smith brothers. good game is
expected.
Doubtless many Cecil Countians will
spend the Fourth of July in Havre de Grace
where an unusually elaborate celebration
will be carried out. In the morning at 8
o'clock boat race will take place-at 10 80 u
flag raising at the City Hall. q o'clock trades
display. 3 p. M. grand patriotic meeting and
addresses by several men Of national promi-
nence;-4 30-base ball Havre de Grace vs.
Woodbury., $50 bicycle parade and in the
evening display of fireworks.
On Monday, j. S, Paxton, of Rock
Springs this county, went to West Chester,
Pa, and retained counsel for the recovery
of $4,000 damages against j. s. Niblock,
Magistrate William Gallagher and Constable
Joseph X. Ingram, OF Oxford, and Jonas
Bowman, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Paxsons
grievance Is false arrest, he having been
taken into custody some time ago on the
charge of the larceny OF goods said to belong
to his wife. The case was never tried but
was on the list at the late term OF Quarter
Sessions.
The Susquehanna Steamboat Company's
new propeller Susquehanna, which is to run
between Pert Deposit Havre de Grace and
Baltimore, arrived Wednesday morning on
the first trip from Port Deposit to Baltimore.
The company had expected the steamer to
arrive at Port Deposit on Tuesday afternoon,
and several hundred persons had been invited
to complimentary trip to Beiterton and
return that evening. but owing to some diff
Guilty with her machinery the steamer was
unable to get up to her wharf in time. The
establishment OF this water route gives much
satisfaction to the people, as since 1885, when
the Lancaster was taken off this route, there
has been no steamboat line to Baltimore.