The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-12-03
NEWS in BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PerusaI by Busy Readers.

The fourth lecture OF the Unversit,
Extension Course was given in the Cour
House, Monday night, by DR.. F. W. Sykes.
The pulp mill. Elkton, shut down early
last Saturday afternoon owing to the break
ing shaft. The mill was started agar
Monday morning.
Vernon Billmire died in Baltimore, or
the 10Th inst. from blood poisoning. The
deceased was frequent visitor in Elkton, al
the home of r. D. Rowland
Oscar Sewell, a twenty-ye .r-old coloret
youth, formerly of Elkton, died in Whining
ton, on Monday from poisoning by bakec
beans, which he ate at a restaurant on Sun
day night.
On account Of i'll health Charles b. Per
kins, postal clerk on the washington-NeW
York route, has been transferred to Il
Claibourne- OCEAN City route. He will NOV,
his family from Elkton this week.
Three runners-the chestnut stallion
"Pear Song" chestnut gelding, owl
Fonso," and chestnut gelding, "Crayon,
will be sold ut eleven o'clock to-day. Satur.
day at the Howard House yard. EIkton. IA
sheriH's sale.
john Heath who is engaged in laying
the new side track between the Blue Ball and
Red Mill crossing. found Spanish coin dated
1855. Although the coin was buried two feel
below the surface it was in an excellent stat,
of preservation.
"A slight IRE from a defective chimu, y
occurred Mt the resistance Of Charles JohI-
son, of College Green, on Friday afternoon OF
last week. Mr.. Johns N noticed the fire in
time, and extinguished it before much
damage was done.
Most of the water was blown out of the
Elk River, on Sunday, by the high winds that
prevailed. Banks OF mud were exposed at
the bridge, and the few boats at the wharf
had TO be proppoi. Above the bridge the
water was only tgo feet deep in the channel.
Harry Boyd, OF Stanton. foreman Of
track division No. 10. was the lucky foreman
of the Maryland division of the P, w. & b.
railroad and received the foreman's prize OF
$50 in gold for the best section oftraCk The
decision was made after the recent annual
inspection of the tracks.
On Tuesday Samuel Watson, who was re-
turning to Havre de Grace from a bush
whackinE trip, attempted to remove his gun
from the boat, when it was accidentally dis
charged The load tore away the flesh Of
his right arm from the wrist to the elbow.
Dr. r. II. Smith dressed the wound.
Edward Saunders also met with a narrow cs-
on M. rI,iln IunL n dina ~ ba Inn
ing Of his Sun, about one-half of the gun
barrel being carried away.
The rate al which cunning accidents are
occurring in Maryland this season promises
to eclipse the records Of all previous years.
The Peninsula papers alone report % so far
and this may not be Il complete record after
ALL cunning accident seems to be the
easiest thing in the world to happen, hut the
hardest thing to avoid In 9 cases out of 10
1t is due to carelessncss and in the 10th to
Ignorance. Many people who meet with
these accidents are experts themselves, but
become the victims OF others who are mex
perienced According to tho records from,
the Peninsula the woods must be full of the
inexperienced.
On May 18th last Henry Blackiston, a
colored man in the employ of George W. b.
Rhoades, near Middletown, Del, got into a
fight with Charles Green, Il fellow workman
stabbed him, and inflicted a wound from
which Green died at the Delaware Hospital
last month. The case against Blackston
came up at Wilmington Friday morning, last
week, and the jury, after having been out
eighteen hours, returned a verdict Of man
slaughter. Chief Justice Lore in annoupc-
ing the verdict said it met with the approval
of the court, but remarked that perhaps the
verdict had exercised mercy. The court felt
that it should impose the full penalty and
sentenced Backiston to pay fine of 800,
be imprisoned for five years and pay the costs
of prosecution. Blackison made a state
ment after the sentence saying that he did
not intend to kill Green. who had made the
first attack in their quarrels, aud thanked
the jury for their decision.
Tho so-called new horse disease" now
Icing Investigated, is by no means new in
Kent county DR.. G.. Allen Jarman, u
graduate of the American Veterinary College
Of New York, who for ten years has practisad
in Kent county, says that he has met with
these casos for years. He had rarely failed
to clearly trace the cause Of the trouble to
the horses having eaten moldy oats and
molly ont straw or heated corn II find, a."
said the Doctor, Sin a special report on the
"Disensc- OF the Horse, issued by the Gov
ernmcnt IA 1916, that the disease was written
ab0u. fully thirty years ago by Dr. Isaiah