The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-02-04
NEWS TN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
Perusal by Busy Readers.

-Revivals are still in progress at the Elk
ton NJ. E. Church.
Rev. W. W. White is conducting a very
successful meeting at Sassafras NJ. p Church.
The weave mill at Bank. this county.
which has been idle for over Il year, has re-
sumed operations.
The chesapeake HOTEL at Betterton,
Kent county, has been torn down to be re-
placed by modern hostelry.
The Elkton Office of the Prudential Life
Insurance Company has been removed to the
Tucker building on North street.
AT meeting of the trustees of the Cecil
County Poor and Insane held Saturday.
James Steele the superintendent of the In
sane Asylum at Cherry Hill, rendered his
resignation, to take effect on March %.
The textile works which started opera
tions in Havre de Grace over year ago are
now turning out more than 100 900 yards of
tablecloth per month, with 8 force of about
200 employees.
DR.. George A. Harter, the president OF
Delaware College, is considering plan
which it is believed will benefit the public
schools and also the college The idea is to
have different professors of the college lee
ture in the higher schools on matters of in
terest to the scholars and public.
District Attorney Vandegrit has received
no instructions from Attorney General Griggs
in reference to the case Of Senator r. X.
Kenney, who is charged with being concern
ed in the Dover Bank case The whole
matter of whether Senator Kenney will be
given another trial rests with Mr.. Griggs.
The "Fred Talbot White Hat of which
so much has been written and said since Mr..
j. Fred c. Talbot entered Congress mum.
Der of years ago, is growing popular among
prominent men at Washington. Elk United
States Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, re-
Gently wrote to Mr.. Talbot to have his halter
send him, by express one of the hats.
There are strange pace-names as well as
family names in certain parts of Maryland.
Worcester county boasts of village called
Wango. Kent county has Sandy Bottom.
Dorchester county claims Peters Neck
Caroline county has an Adamsville and Bull
frog is Cecil county hamlet. A family name
in the same county is Quicksell, and in the
line of names Concord, across the line in
Delaware, has respected citizen who signs
himself Theophlus league.
The Eastern Shore has put up something
entirely new. and as unique Us it is new, in
the line of church entertainments. At one
that was held this week an auction sale Of
young ladies took place. Whether they were
sold ''for keeps' or not isn't stated, but the
surprising thing is the comparatively low
price they brought, only so cents being paid
for the fairest damsel in the bunch. 1t is oh
vious that this was either due to the over
abundance of fair young damseIs or the de-
peted condition of the young mems purses.
The average Eastern Shore young man is too
gallant to bid as low as 80 cents for Il sweet
heart, unless forced to do so by the irony of
circumstances.
The Peninsula Horticultural Society is
doing a good work for Maryland Embarrassing
interests by setting the possibilities of the
State in that line before the people. 1t has
foe exhibit of fruit at the first annual show
of the Washington County Society, held last
week at Hagerstown, and is making arrange
ments to send an exhibit of fruits raised on
the Peninsula to the Paris Exposition next
wear 1t has not been so long ago when the
general impression prevailed that the glory
OF the Maryland Peninsula as a fruit-growng
section had become thing of the past, but
the horticulturists have awakened to their
interests once more and are doing much to
revive the reputation which their section so
loug enjoyed.
One of the oldest citizens of Kent county,
now in his eighties, has made the following
interesting estimates, taking the figures Of
French etatistioians Us Il basis: He has lived
80, $50 days, has slept l00S0 days, worked
10, $40 days, has spent $3.50 days in eating
walking, amusoments, etc He has eaten
2s $50 oaves of bread, or ~ tons, which.
Mt 3 cents pound, would be $3.50 So OF
meat he has eaten $3.50 pounds, or about
1917 tons, which, Mt cents Il pound, would
he equivalent to $3.50. He has eaten 7,72S
pounds Of vegetables, eggs, fish, etc, which.
Mt 2 cents pound, would be s15i Sc. AZ a
drnker this elderly citizen has been marked
success, having taken 11,7GO gallons Of liquid
namely, water, tea, coffee, beer, wine, etc,
costing s117G He reaches the final con-
clusion that man eighty-four years OF age
will consume, according to his conservative
estimate, $4,000 worth Of solids and fluids.