The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-01-27

Arrants near Port Herman last Saturday.
The Cecil Farmers Club met on Wcdnes.
day at the home of George Clifford. at Zion
"A peculiar epidemic has broken out
among the borses in the First and Sec ond
districts.
Of the vice-prcsident at the Bryan meeting
in Wilmington, last night
Mrs. NJ. Z. Tuite is now occupying her
new home on West Main street. recently
vacated by School Examiner George Biddle.
A shooting match was held on Tuesday
afternoon in Elk Neck by W. r. Rothwell
Another match will be held on Friday next
at Jesse Stops.
The storekeepers and merchants of North
East have decided to close their business
places at an early hour during the progress
Of the revival services.
Miss Letitia Mitchell, who died at her
home in Centrevile on Sunday. aged G5 years,
WAS n daughter OF the late Rev. r. II Il.
Mitchell, formerly rector of Trinity z. L.
Church. Elkton.
-Elocution classes Of the Cecil County
High School will give recital in the Assem-
bly, room of the school, on Tur siay evening
January 30, at O'Clock. Tickets are now
on sale at the Drug Stores. admission % cts.
Harry A. Miller, OF Wilmington, formerly
Of Elkton. has been awarded IN $751; con-
tract TO place an improved sprinkler system
in +. Burenthal u Compauy's morocco
manufacturing establishment in Wilmington.
David Murdoch. who was killed by the
ears lost Saturday morning at Lamokin sta
ton, was brother of Mrs. William J. Clark,
of North East. He was IS years If age. and
assistant yard master of the p W. & H. rail
road at Gray's Ferry.
On Monday, Edwin j. Brogan, who shot
and killed J. Marion Wiley, cousin Of County
Treasurer William T. Fryer, on the 18th Of
last July, was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment in the county Jail at Lancaster.
The shooting took place Just Oh the Cecil
county line.
The agents OF the STANDARD Oil Company
were stopped by the Town Commissioners Of
North East from storing oil in a frame build
Ing near the railroad station. The danger in
which nearby property would be placed in
the event Of fire caused the commissioners TO
take the step.
The scow elsie belonging to Havre dc
Grace parties, which was caught in the
ice below Spesutia Island, several weeks ago,
and which was believed would bo lost, has
been blown ashore. Her hull is reported all
right, and the only damage done was the
losing OF her mast and standing riggines.
The other day A. H. Taylor, of Hickory
Hill, shot with rifle at a hawk sitting on the
limb of tree $50 yards away. The bird was
noticed to drop its head aud for second or
two remained in the same position as though
nothing had struck it. Suddenly it dropped
to the ground, and upon examination it was
found that the ball had passed through its
body.
In the Court of Appeals on Friday, last
week, the case of James Moses vs.. Edward
NJ. Allen, Jr., was commenced. Allen is from
Hartford county. and owned II ground flint
mill and supplied flint for Moses pottery at
Trenton, N j. Allen claimed breach of
contract and the case was finally taken to the
Court of Appeals. Albert Constable, of
Elkton, and James j Archer, of Beair, were
counsel for Moses.
I think the bottom has fallen out of the
Klondike gold field of Cecil county and the
enterprise has been abandoned by its project
ors. No gold has yet appeared on the sur
face except that paid for the land and
options, which has been good thing for the
owners. l have not yet been called upon to
make pots in which to store the quarried gold
dust Henry Scoiield, Rock Springs, in in
terview in Oxford Press.
Superintendent Barnard OF the P, W. &
B. railroad has had posted the following
record OF the work Of ten through engine
men in the service of the company. between
January and 10, inclusive.