The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-03-26

Shad Oh hlS Stsill OH NOrtn street, TINS
| week.
| Delegate Keys has introduced bill
to amend the laws relative to admins
| traitors.
| The valuable driving mare, Vixen"
owned by ID. NJ. Pitt, of Lombard, died
on Sunday night.
SENATOR Mccullough hats offered II
bill to amend teStumentary law in regard
| to administration.
j. +. Cuthers store at Cavent has
been rented by Harry Kidd, who will
open likely by May list.
Trains were running on the Column
bia and Port Deposit road us far as
l'equea early in the week.
Miss Katie Joslin. of Elkton. has
| secured a position with the Hello Match
Company ut Newark, Del.
-George NJ. Evans removed on Thurs
day from Stockton Street. to the Singerly
Cottage on Cathedral Street.
The bill for public wharf on Sas-
SafrlS river, i'll Cecil County, has passed
both Houses of the Legislature.
Norris Irwin, of Lombard. had good
luck with his hogs. nine of which he re
Gently killed. averaging 100 pounds apiece
Il b. Riley. the we'll known VIII
mington merchant. appears in II new aid
vertisement in this issue of the Wing"
The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Societies of Zion were enter
tanned by Mrs. Abram Morris last Fri
day.
Warwick, Cecilton and Earleville
now get two mails daily from Middle
town. arriving at 7.15 H. M. and 400
p. m.
The Maryland Delaware boundary
will not be resurveyed. The Senate killed
the House bill providing for running the
bounGelr" anew.
The Senate bill amending the charter
of the Conowineo Bridge Company pass
ed the House on Wednesday, and now
goes to the Governor.
The Senate bill to amend the Hair
ford County fish law has passed that
body, as also the Senate bill to amend
tii' Nt'ii NouHiS ltl't INV.
Attendants upon the Lenten services
at Trinity Church, on Tuesday evening,
enjoyed a fine sermon by tt. Rev. Leigh
ton Coleman, of Delaware.
The oyster season just closed for the
dlpdger>S is reported as the least profit
able in many years. The tongerS will
quit the last week in April
People using the Conowingo-- Row
landvillc road are forced to drive and
haul over the hills owing to the ice bar
1icade since the recent flood.
The bill authorizing the erection of
the p, b. 4 w. II. II. new bridge over
the Susquchanna between Pcrryvilc and
Havre de Grace is now IL law.
Mr.. and AIrS. Howard G. Wilson, of
Lower Oxford, celebrated their silver
wedding ON Saturday. About seventy
relatives and friends were present.
Chicken thieves paid "a visit to the
roostS at G.. w. Maxwcll's. ON East High
Street, on Saturday night last, and got
away with nine fat fowls. The thieves
are said to be known.
Rev. Madison c. Peters. tire eminent
Baptist divine, of Philadelphia will lee
turc on Where The Money Goes" in
Oxford Presbyterian Church. on Monday
evening" ut 100 O'Clock
-Neighboling farmers are contracting
with Manager NJ. +. MagIsw. of Baker
X Athur'S Elkton canncry, for tomatoes,
at 81. and corn ut SIS per ton. Seed corn
furnished free to growers.
Mrs. Litzenbcrgs trimmer arrived
this week from the best show rooms III
the city. after spending weeks copying
French hats. She will fit out our ladies
ut American prices in French styles.
--Delcgatr Goodwin has introduced Il
bill cmhodying a Constitutional Amend
mcnt providing that iurics shall be Judges
of facts only. and not of law also. rs at
present. in the tria.$ of criminal cases.
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, on which
il COMMUNICATED the SaviorS entry into
Jerusalem for the Passover when the
multitude strewed palm branches in his
way mlh shouted IIoSannpS as he passed.
A setter dog was the prize won by
George Burroughs, formerly of Cecil
County, after shooting off II tie match
with three competitors ut ten targets in
Wilmington. on Saturday.
A popular entertainment is billed for
this evening in Carriers Hall. AT Bald
win l'ank). \ program of fun will he
provided with plays dancing. and other
amusemonts. Admission 10 and 10 cts
Philip NJ. Groves cried the sales of
John Fluffy, .Ir., and Harry l.. Wilson,
in Elk Neck, on Saturday, which We're
we'll attended. Good prices prevailed.
save for cattle. which sold rather low.
-IIindmnn leads, others follow. at the
sale of horses at Rising Sun, on Mon
day. the DIST inst, by Cook and Jackson.
Twenty head of horses averaged S165.40
selling from $50 to &244 apiece. Attend
ance large.
The John 5. Writ" I'll fine new
schooner, built of white oak and locust
with ii capacity of seventy-tve tons,
now on the ways at Stanley Bros, farm,
on Elk River, will be launched in May,
with regulation ceremonies including u
champagne christening.