The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-03-17

The annual municipal election OF Elk
ton, will held in about one month.
Contracts have been closed at Milford,
for 5000 birds, to be killed for New York
mlliners. From 10 to 80 cents each are
to he paid for the birds.
The Quarterly Conference of st. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Whining
ton, has adopted resolutions favorng a
change in discipline, so that the congrega-
ton can elect trustees.
The Board OF Bishops OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church have Issued stir
ring appeal to it's members to spend the
week beginning March 25th and ending
April 1st, in abstinence and prayer.
Wilmington BARRIERS are agitating
movement to have a law passed by the
Legislature requiring all BARRIERS to be reg
istered or licensed before engaging in bust
ness, and also providing for an apprentice
ship.
The thirty-second annual meeting OF
the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference will convene in Epworth Church,
Wilmington, on Wednesday next, and will
be presided over by Bishop Edward G.
Andrews of New York.
An entertainment will be given in the
Friends Normal Institute at Rising Sun,
on Monday evening, March 26th by Miss
Anna B. Gray humorous and dramatic
reader. Miss Gray is graduate Of Martyr
College of Oratory of Washington.
The work of constructing s new wharf
at Fredericktown, this county, along the
Sassafras River, for the Colchester Steam
boat Company, will soon be commenced.
During the past week J. Robert Wilson
has been getting the lumber etc, together
so that the work can be pushed ahead as
fast as possible. The company expects to
do big business in that section this year.
Big peach and pear crops are very prom
isng this coming season, which means y
big freight business for the steamboats,.
The Rev. j. j. Huston, pastor Of the
United Presbyterian Church, Wilmington,
Del, has returned from a trip to Belle
Centre, Ohio, where he went at the request
OF Robert Young, a saloon-keeper, who had
been shot and was dying While stationed
as Belle Centre, Mr.. Huston had made a
crusade on saloons, and Young had fought
him hardest. When he was dying he de-
sired to ask the pardon of the minister,
and Mr.. Huston made trip OF 1900 miles
to grant the mans request.
The steamer "Susquehanna, Of the
Port Deposit and Havre de Grace Steam
boat Company began her regular trips
between Port Deposit, Havre de Grace
and Baltimore, on Monday. The schedule
was to have started a week earlier, but
owing to the ice gorge in the river it was
found necessary to postpone is q week.
The steamer will make three trips week
for the present, and, when the rush OF
traffic begins will make regular daily trips,
as heretofore. A petition is being prepared
to be presented to the Postmaster General
asking that new mail service be given
Betterton, Still Pond and Chestertown,
and that the early mails from Baltimore
be taken to Betterton from Havre de Grace
by steamer Of the Port Deposit and Havre
de Grace Steamboat Company. This ar
rangement would place the early mails at
Betterton about $50 q. M, and at Ches-
tertown about two hours earlier than at
present by railroad The mail from Bet
terton to Chestertown, via Still Pond, going
by star route.