The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-02-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for Hasty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

Walter Tombstone of Port Deposit. has
been appointed a railway mail clerk
N n Mock. editor of the Belair Times,
has been appointed postmaster at Belair,
Hartford county.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray, of ElEtop, will read
paper at the Monday next meeting of the
Wilmington Preachers Association.
john s. Strayhorn, of Appleton, this
county, is a member of this years graduating
class at st. Johns College. Annapolis
The February meeting OF the Cecil
Farmers Club was postponed and will be
held on Wednesday, March l, at the home Of
James Fl. Maxwell.
While excavating a grave in the EIkton
Presbyterian grave yard on Monday Harry
McCrea found number of seventeen year
locusts at depth of four aud a half feet.
1t is rumored that syndicate will pur-
chase the property Of the Susquehanna
Water Power and Papsr Company at Como
wingo. on the Susquehanna river and Tide
Water canal.
e. Z. White. of Principle Furnace, had
one OF his feet badly injured while trying to
board the Congressional Limited express
He was taken to the City Hospital, Balti-
more. for treatment
Charles Bayard, of Elk Neck. stage driver
b>tween Elk Neck and North East, was the
only mail carrier in the county who braved
the storm each day last week and succeeded
in keeping the route open.
DIR. VIM. P. Eyeland and wife, who have
been abroad since last August. are visiting
friends in Port Deposit. DR.. Eveland is an
ex director of the Jacob Tome Institute and
will probably re-enter the Central Pennsyl-
vania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. OF which he Is a member.
Some idea of the immense quantities of
God furnished by the Delaware Railroad
Company to its section hands while clearing
the tracks Of snow can be gained from one
order which was filed at Mddletown. Pro-
prietor McIntire of the National Hotel on
one order furnished four barrels OF coffee
and / 800 sandwiches to the mon at work at
that point.
Probably for the first time in the history
of the Circuit Court for Hartford County has
it been necessary to adjourn the opening Of
the court twice in two successive weeks. ow-
ing to the inability of the jurymen and wit
nesses to get to the county seat. This has
happened to the February term of 1880.
Monday Of last week it was adjourned over
until last Monday, and then it was postponed
till next Monday.
james II. Brown, car inspector, in TIE
employ of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad was beheaded by his own
train Monday afternoon in the Western
Freight Yard at Wilmington. Brown was
riding on top Of the car, and the train gave a
sudden lurch, which pitched him headfore-
most between two cars. He fell on the
ground with his head across the rail- and the
wheels cut it off. He leaves wife and three
children.
A remarkable change in the methods Of
farm lifo in Maryland has been brought about
in recent years by the erection of cream
cries in a number Of the counties. Some Of
these are really extensive enterprises and
represent thousands of dollars of invested
capital. Most OF them had a hard time at
first hefore success came, owing to the reluct-
ance Of the farmers to abandon their old
methods and haul their milk to the cream
cries, but now the farmers have come to
look upon them az great convenience, and
MANY farmers have formed companies them
selves to carry on tho business. The cream
cries have proved an advantage ia the first
place by doing away with the old laborious
way of making butter. This was done prin-
cipally by the women on the farms, and fire.
uuently in unhealthy caves and spring
houses. Now the butter is made Mt the
creameries in large quantities by machinery,
and is said even by the advocates Of the old
customs themselves to be better in some re-
spects than the hand worked butter. Nearly
all the farmers in the counties now sell their
milk to the creameries, and while the price
received is often In favor Of the buyers, the
farmer considers that the difference lie amply
made up by the absence to him Of the labor
OF handling the milk, Swimming the cream
bv hand from small vessels and churning
small quantities of butter. The prejudice OF
the farmers against any and every innova-
ton is rapidly giving way before the advant-
ages OF the creameres, but the old-time
home-churning day has become a thing OF
the past.