The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-04-23
NEWS TN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for Hasty
PeruSal by Busy Rea erS.

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Additional section hands have been put
on the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad.
The new green penny postage stamps
were put on sale at tho Elkton postofllce on
Monday.
The pupils OF the Elkton High school
have begun rehearsals for the coming enter
tainment
The Havre de Grace Shoe Manufacturing
Company during the month of March shipped
over $4,000 worth OF shoes to England.
A force OF men is now engaged erecting
fences at the approaches to the Conowingo
bridge and macadamizing tho roadway.
The young men of Newark are ready to
organize Il military company and sixty-three
will enlist if the State Legislature grants the
order.
Landscape gardeners and florists are lay
ing out the flower yards at tho Elkton rail
road station for the delectation of the travel
ing public.
-Bailir Biddle is engaged in trimming and
cutting down trees in several sections Of the
town, and making things heater for the
springtme.
John A. Dunn. OF near Oakwood, has pur-
chased Il house and two acres of land situated
in the midst of the mineral lands of the
Eighth district.
The recent cold weather greatly retarded
the catching of fish at Havre de Grace and
Lapidum. Shad are quoted at $40 hun
W. II. Reeder, of Zion, can Justly boast
Of the good services rendered by two setting
geese. They were both set on % of their
own eggs and each Matched 81 goslns.
Charles G. Wells, of Elkton, has taken
the agency for the Mackenzie Electro-Pneu-
matte Burglar and Fire Alarm. The system
will be put in the store of W. Don Price, on
Main street.
The Maryland Game Association will
issue II pamphlet containing the new game
laws, about which there is much doubt, as
the law recently passed applies fully to only
few counties.
Many OF those who have examined the
peach and pear blossoms in Hartford county
are of the opinion that there are enough I'M
injured, if there are no other frosts, to make
good crop of fruit.
DR.. J. W. Cooper. of Elkton has pur-
chased the bay stallion "Prde Of England
Jr.," and the bay mare "Madge Russell
owned by his brother the late DR.. T. H.
Cooper, of Chestertown.
About 200 men from Philadelphia arrived
at Bacon Hill on Monday for the purpose Of
fastening the work on the p, w. & B. Rail
road curve near that place and to have the
tracks in readiness for the heavy travel that
Is expected to pass over the line.
Postmaster william ]. Smith having re-
ceived his commission took charge Of the
Elkton postoffice on Monday, succeeding
Frank r. Scott. Postmaster Scott has re-
tanned the former clerks in the office Deputy
Calvin Strickland. and Miss Maggie Strick-
land.
Simon Levinson has bought out the
interest OF Simon Levinstein in the Baltimore
Bargain House, Main Street, and is now sole
proprietor of that active and popular clothing
emporium In another column of this issue
of the CECIL WING appears his spring an
nouncement
DIR. William Lee, secretary OF the State
Lunacy Commission, who upon the occasion
of his visits of inspection to the county insti-
tuition at Cherry Hill. made many acquaint-
ances here, died at his home at Stevenson,
Baltimore county, on Saturday, of Brght's
disease. aged fifty four years.
The Philadelphia Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad Company will try new pro-
cess for painting freight cars. Instead of the
paint being applied by a brush it will be put
ON the cars by air pressure, forced into
spray 1t is expected this method will do
away with number OF painters.
Dan Terrell at Wells drug store has
red bird that is indeed a rara avis. The bird
possesses the qualities of thrush parrot.
canary, and knocking bird, and renders the
notes Of the latter two with ease and clever
imitation. and in sound approaches tho
efforts of the genuine talking polly who
always wants a cracker.