The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-11-26
WING OFFICE TELEPHONE, No. 20.
NEWS in BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for Hasty
PeruSal BY Busy Readers.

"A stable in the Upper Marlboro fair
ground was burned, and in the nam,s The
burning body OF a man was found.
w. |. Mccullough, of RtyviIle, B.lti-
more county, raised this year one hundred
barrels of corn on six acres of ground.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in circu-
lation in Hagerstown, hut being light in
weight, they are easily detected, although
excellently finished.
A white couple from Washington went
to Rockville, Montgomery county, and be-
ing unable to find white minister, we're
married by colored preacher.
The physicians of Carroll county met
at Westminster, last week, and organized
a medical society with DR.. Clotworthy
Burnie, of Taneytown, as president
Two Seventh Day Adventists are in
Centerville Jail for cutting corn on Sunday
They refused to be bailed out by their
friends lest they acknowledge their wrong
The November term of court for Talbot
county convened Monday. Owing to in
complete improvements to the court house,
the session was held in Music Hail. Easton.
The Western Maryland College foot
ball team has disbanded for the season, as
several of the players were not in good con-
dition. The team had won one game and
lost two.
The Peach Bolt IN Slate Company, of
Hartford county, is putting in a pneumatic
pump in their quarry to he operated by
electricity with a capacity of one hundred
gallons per minute.
Mrs. Joshua Stevenson, near Westmin-
ster, has chrysanthemum stalk that is
curiosity. 1t has one stalk with three
branches, the central one having white
flowers on it and the other two had yellow
flowers.
The expenses of the late election in
Baltimore county, aggregated S9,3lS 81.
This is less than elections cost under the
old law, Notwithstanding the fact that there
are now many more voting places in the
county.
DR. John S. Fulton, state registrar OF
vital statistics, is prodding clergymen and
undertakes, as we'll as physicians, for
their failure to report, as required by law,
the death and the cause of death of persons
at whose funerals they of1iciate.
The demand for the printing and pub
LEGATION of trespass notices in Carroll county
is unusual. Ordinary hunting, as rule,
is not objected to, so much as careless shoot
ing and wholesale hunting for market.
Sunday hunting is also Objectionable.
The proposed adoption of the curfew
law continues to exercise the people of
Hagerstown The people are divided and
are rapidly taking sides on the issue 1t is
understood the City Council stands four
against; to one in favor of the law, with
Mayor Schindel non-commttal.
Oliver A. johnson, progressive
grower OF Somerset county, has propagated
and grown new strawberry that will be
the early berry of the market. The first
plants were propagated from the seeds Of
the Crescent, fruited from the Hoffman
He has orders for nearly 200 900 plants.
Being undermined by the rains last
week, the high banks at the Bacon Hill cut
on the P, w. & B. Railroad, gave way on
Saturday night, when the section hands
were called out to check further damage
and protect the tracks from the landslide.
Bacon Hill cut is part of the recently
constructed new roadbed of the P, w &
B. Railroad.
Governor Lowndes has been requested
to appoint delegation of 500 MARYLAND
farmers to attend the National Farmers
Convention, which will meet at Fort
Worth, Texas, next month. He is anxious
to learn who may wish to attend and will
appoint any farmer in Mary land who is
willing to represent this state. At the last
convention only two OF the 800 PANIED
were present.