The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-09-03
NEWS In BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

The new shirt factory will be in full OPP
GRAFTON in about two weeks.
East End Market House, John s. Lee, pro-
pretor, was re-painted this week.
The new bridge over Mill creek near
Perryvie, has been opened for travel.
The dog poisoning fend has been ge :
ting his work in lately among the dogs of
Perryville, and eight have died.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry NJ Davis moved to
Philadelphia, on Monday where Mr. Davis
has a position in the Philadelphia Custom
House.
Last Friday John Whalen of the Fifth
district was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by John Murphy charging him with threat
ening his life.
During the storm Wednesday of last
week, lightning struck the house of Mrs.
Annie Gerrey, at Mt. Pleasant, ard did CON
siderable damage.
The public schools throughout the niue
districts Of Cecil county. were rc.opened on
Thursday and the attendance this year
promises to he very large
james W. Halves. formerly of Elkton,
but who now resides in Philadelphia, is dan
gerously III at his home in that city with
slight hopes of his recovery.
The handsome pleasure yacht 'Impati-
ent, belonging to the late William NJ. Sin
Gerly, was taken to Baltimore, on Wednes-
lpi- L,,T william, hn.
it will be offered for sale.
1t is estimated that j. Hanson Knorr,
proprietor of the Pleasant View vineyards at
Town Point will have 10000 baskets Of
grapes this year notwithstanding he has
lost nearly his entire crop of Concords,
from dry rot
Last Thursday morning Florence Harris
aged nine years, living with w. A.
McNIuen, of Aiken, had n miraculous
escape from drowning or being killed. She
fell down a well thirty-tlve feet deep which
contained over six feet Of water. and
without the aid of anyone. until within
five feet of the top, she climbed out She was
unhurt.
"A humber OF vegetable curiosities that
are attracting considerable attention are in
the possession of Lizzie Davidson OF Lombard
mong the lot is pampas grass II feet 10
in ches in height: a castor bean tree 10 feet 2
inches in height, some of the leaves measur-
ing SO inches; a Gamma feet II inches height;
a night blooming cactus feet in height and
a flg tree with 43 figs
Although this is not year of full fruit
crops. there promises to be an interesting ex-
hibit of the products of orchard and vine at
the meeting of the Peninsula Horticultural
Society, to be held in Smyrna next January
and in which n number Of Cecil countains
will be interested The Wilmington Abattoir
and Cold Storage Co.. has undertaken to
preserve, so far as cold storage can do it,
everything that the fruit growers send them
for this purpose. The fruit must be picked
rather green, placed III small, neat clean
packages, l0-pound grape baskets preferred,
with the kind OF fruit marked on the pack
age. This is important, from the fact that
different degrees OF cold are required for diff
ferent kinds OF fsuit. Every separate pear
or apple should be wrapped in paper If
these precautions are taken. it is believed
that enough fruit can be saved until the date
OF the meeting to make most instructive
exhibit. The advantage will be two-fold: it
will show the fruit growers the merits of the
different varieties Of fruits and will serve to
determine whether cold storage may not be
much more extensively practsed than at
present by the growers and dealers of the
Peninsula. The society undertakes to pay
all transportation charges, so that the fruit
grower is put to no expense, except to
gather the fruit and deliver it TO the express
or railroad company, The sender must pre-.
pay the charges, but he will be reimbursed
by the society upon presenting his receipt at
the annual meeting.