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

PeruSal by Busy Readers.
Harry Lloyd has moved into the house
recently occupied by Prof. James Kealey.
Officials of the p, W. & B. Railroad made
an inspection of the Maryland division on
Friday.
The Pleasant Meadow corner ball club
defeated the Rising Sun public school club on
Friday, by the score of "a to II.
"A strange dog thought to have been mad,
bit number of dogs in the vicinity OF Liberty
Grove last week, also horse belonging to
Henry Irwin.
The boys of Company E., and their com
rades. of the First Regiment, AZ Augusta,
Georgia, are now indulging in base ball games
on good days and during the leisure hours.
Preliminary arrangements are now being
made for the sale of the Philadelphia Record,
and those interested in the disposition OF the
great property and especially the depositors
OF the bank, are eated at the prospect of re-
ceiving dollar for dollar in return for their
long needed cash. The comptroller is of the
opinion that from the assets now on hand,
exclusive Of the Record property, the deposit
tors will realize from 65 to 70 per cent. OF
their money. He hopes that the sale of tho
Record will yield enough cash to pay all the
depositors in full To do'this the Record
property must bring from 100000 to $780,
900 over the outstanding equities of the Re-
cord, which amount to about 81 100000.
Friends of Delaware College object to the
10 Inv n IA
bers of the General Assembly that the college
is supported wholly by the state and there
fore should be opened to both young men and
young women of the state 1t is claimed that
If the institution was compelled to live OIL the
support given it by the state 1t would soon be
thing of the past The college derives most
of It's revenues from the national government,
and the only thing which the state has to do
with this matter is that the Governor of each
state designates to which college in his state
the appropriations from the National Govern
ment shall be paid. Delaware College at
Newark and the State College for colored
students at Dover, receive the money, because
there are no other institutions OF the KIND IN
Delaware. The state has given money to I'M
erect the last building of importance which
was erected there but the state does not
maintain the institution 1t is not known
what the feeling Of the friends OF the college
is on the matter of co-education. They are
probably divided in opinion.
Postmaster VIM. ]. Smith, OF Elkton, has
been advised by Third Assistant Postmaster
General John A. Merritt, that changes have
been made in the color of stamps on stamped
envelopes, to conform with the colors OF
adhesive stamps and the requirements OF the
new postal union. The department is now
issuing one cent stamped envelopes, with the
embossed stamp green, two-cent envelopes
with the stamp red. and fve-cent envelopes
with the stamp dark blue. The stamp on the
four-cent envelope has been changed from a
velvet brown to red brown or copper red.
Entirely new dies are used in making all OF
these envelopes, the heads upon them being
those Of Franklin, Washington, Lincoln and
Grant, respectively. The stamps are trifle
smaller than before, but the general design is
similar tc the old ones There is also ma
teral alteration in the water mark in the
paper. The new water mark, which Is made
I'D of double lines. consists of the large letters
.sU. S. upon which are smaller ones up. o..
d." with the figures "99" underneath, the
space occupied being 13sx1S inches. The
color of six-cent adhesive stamps has been
changed from light maroon to magenta, and
the color of ten-cent stamps from green to
brown Some of the new stamps and stamped
envelopes have been received at the local
offices.