The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-28

"A monument is to be erected to the
memory of Ensign Worth Bagley, the first
officer in the American navy to fall it, the
war with Spain. The Post, of Roleigh N
c., which originated the idea, is receiving
subscriptions, none of which from any one
person is to exceed 81.
The law to stop the killing OF birds is
already showing its good effects about Tow
son. There are more birds there this sea
son than have ever been seen before and it
has been noticed that the robins are quite
tame. If the law is rigidly enforced, az it
the good that this humane measure is do
ing.
Some miscreants broke into the public
school building in Havre de Grace the
other night and stole the large American
flag which was presented to the school not
long since by the Junior Order United
American Mechanics. Another flag was
procured and Immediately raised over the
building at the early session the next
morning.
United Stat Senator George l.. Wei
lington, of Maryland, will deliver the an
nual address at the Delta Phi Literary So
ciety's anniversary exercises at Delaware
College, Newark, on the evening OF June
10. Henry Lytteton Constable, of Elk
ton, will deliver the society Grafton and
Hugh Martin Morris the farewell address
commencement week at Delaware Col
lege opens Sunday, June -. The Rev.
Edward Henry Eckel, a graduate of the
college, class of 'S6, will deliver the bacca-
laureate sermon. Professor John b. Moore,
ofColumbia University, New York, recently
appointed first assistant Secretary of State,
has consented to deliver an address at the
exercises on the morning OF the commence
ment day. Tuesday night the Athenean
Literary Society will hold its sixty-sixth
anniversary, followed by the Delta Phi
Society Wednesday night.
A young Middletown business man has
bit of Paper that although, month ago
he considered only worth keeping as a cur
iosity, he is now holding on to with the
expectation of realizing upon it in more
substantial manner. The paper is nothing
more or less than a Cuban bond, issued
during the early part of the famous ten
years war. It's face value is $500 and it is
in iirst-class condition g have not con-
suited counsel yet as to whether the bond
will have to be redeemed when the United
States get through with Spain, and has put
the Cuban republic on its feet" he said
''but incline tothe opinion that it will be,
and that will get the five hundred, or a
good part Of it at least"
Maryland received generous recogni-
ton in the army appointments which Pres
ident Mckinley sent to the Senate Friday,
last week. Western Maryland was COM
plimented by the appointment of General
II. kyd Douglas to be an assistant adju-
tant general, with the rank of Major. The
Eastern Shore was recognized handsomely
by the appointment OF Colonel II. Clay
Mullikin, to be commissary of subsistence
with the rank Of Major, while for Balti-
more Mr.. Noble H. Creager was appointed
an assistant quartermaster with the rank
OF Major, These appointments were made
at the joint requests of Senator Wellington
and Senator elect McComas.
Elizabeth McGuirk, of High Bridge,
n. y, had running horses at Elk ton dur
ing the races here. Some time ago she
started a jockey with one of the horses
from Elkton to Philadelphia, and that
seems to have been the last thing heard of
both rider and horse. Mrs. MEG uirk re-
Gently wrote to Chief of Police Dolan, of
Wilmington, describing the horse and ask
ing him to be on the lookout for it. He
found horse in a stable in Wilmington
answering the description given, and asked
Mrs. McGuirk to come on and look at it.
She did so, but the horse was not the one
she lost. She told the chief that the
jockey who was driving it from Elkton to
Philadelphia, and who disappeared had
told her he would pass through Stanton.
Chief Dolan advised her to go to Stanton.
She did SO, and found the horse in the
Stanton Hotel stables, where the jockey
had left it,