The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-02
LOCAL JOTTINGS@ 70

Mrs. w. w. BENJAMIN, OF Oxford,
lost a iavoritc hen this week which was
almost II years old.
DR. Walter o. Selby insists that it
affecting Kent county.
The pulpit of the NJ. f. Church
was occupied on Sunday evening by
Presiding Elder Mowbray,
School Superintendent Wright, OF
Hartford county, is having trouble in
securing sufficient number OF compe-
tent teachers.
The Rev Mr.. McElmoyle was abb
sent from his pulpit on Sunday last,
in Baltimore City.
Ii you need an Overcoat, Suit or
Trousers YOU can get better deal out
OF Frazer than YOU can find in days
travel. #ti*
John T. Peek. OF the Fourth dis
trict, has bought the Thomas Slack
farm OF I53 acres in London Britain,
township, Pa, for 10000
The farm OF William and Joseph
been sold at private sale to Joseph
Richards oi the same township, for
$1,000.
Robert Smith, near Pleasant Hill,
had to kill valuable horse recently
because it broke its leg just above the
foot as he was driving home from the
blacksmith shop.
The tonsorial parlors OF Warren
Wilson are furnished with new and
very handsome hydraulic pedestal
chairs that make a man want to shave
some several times a day.
The Persons Grove School has
been awarded prize OF S. for a col
lection OF insects exhibited at the an
nual meeting OF the Peninsula Hort-
cultural Society, recently held at Dover,
Del
Joseph II. Perkins, OF Elkton, has
resigned as editor OF the Delaware
College Review, and H. \. Miller, Jr.,
OF Wilmington, son OF Harry a. Miller,
formerly OF Elkton, has been chosen to
succeed him.
Miss Reba Buckley, one of the as
sistant teachers at the North East
school, has been sick for three weeks
at her home in Port Deposit. Miss
Harriet Walmsley, OF Elkton, is sub
sttuting for her.
John Kienzle, OF Philadelphia, the
largest seed potato house i'll America,
is advertising in another column, and,
as seeding time draws near, planters
will do we'll to write him. Good seed
is half the battle in getting good crops.
benjamin I.aruc, the coorcd local
preacher, who was held for Court I'M
der 5000 for stealing wire from the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
has been released from Jail, having
given r. J Bladen, also colorcd, as his
bondSman.
The entire common stock of the
Lancaster County Railway & Light
Company, amounting to one million
dollars, has been purchased by Betron,
Slows and Griscalm, New York brok-
ers, who financed the McCall's Ferry
Power Company
MIR. Augustus A. Brown received a
letter from the English Government
last Saturday, granting him a pension
of shilling a day, or $3.50 per month
Me-. Brown is a veteran OF the English
army, who served in the Crimean War
and was present at the scige Of Sevas-
topol and was with the Light Brigade
in the famous charge at Balaklava
The pension to Mr. Brown is granted
under an order of Queen Victoria,
which provided that all the soldiers who
rendered services in that war should
receive special compensation. Mr.,
Brown is 70 years old, and for more
than 20 years has been jantor OF the
public buildings in Elkton, and sexton
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Delaware House OF Represcn-
tatives Tuesday, by vote Of 20 to 8,
passed the bill presented by Represen-
tative Holcomb, Democrat, of New
Castle, providing and describing that
all persons convicted thereafter OF as
sault upon women with intent to raviSh
them, shall, within thirty days after the
commission of the crime, suffer the
surgical operation prescribed by the
ancient. The operation shall be per-
formed by three competent physicians
appointed by the court. A number of
physicians were called in to participate
in the debate upon the bill, and while
there were spirited opposition to it on
the ground of the renewal OF a prece-
dure and punishment bordering on bar
barity, the bill passed by the large ma
jorty recorded. 1t will now come into
the Senate, where it will be more gen
orally discussed.