The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-04-20
News In Brief


James R. Maxwell, no.el civil engi-
neer, who built one OF the railroads in
Peru and Others in the West IN this
country, died of paralysis, at his home
In Newark, Del, on Sunday, aged 81
years. His wife and daughter survive
him. His funeral was held on Wednesda,
with interment in Head of Christiana
Cemetery.
Mrs. Catharine Rothwell Po.k, sister
of Mrs. Joseph Biggs, of Middletown,
died in Memphis. Tenn, last Friday. Her
remains were inferred in Riverview
Cemetery, Wilmington, on Monday.
Sheriff Logue, OF New Castle county,
sold last week, at the Middetown Hotel,
the 1T acre farm of Arnotha Merritt,
near Townsend, to j. Frank Biggs. at
torney, for $4,000.
Fire last Thursday destroyed all the
outbuildings with their contents, includ-
ing implements, etc., on the jefferson
Scoot farm at Smyrna Landing
A lighter, As feet long, ~ feet beam
and l-2 feet deep, was launched in Bal
timore last week for use at the Vandiver
fishery on spesutia Island.
Mayor We3er reports annual receipts
of Havre de Grace $2265.27. Disburse
ments, S22,5!7.S4. The city's assets are
Sill, 1894 10, and it's liabilities, S94, 800. Net
indebtedness, S82,905.S7.
Postmaster j. w. Brown, of Newark,
reports his last quarter receipts as $500
in excess of those for the corresponding
quarter last year, and, If the ratio of in
crease continues, looks for the early es-
tabishing of letter carrier service in the
town.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson issued
a statement last week showing that out
of samples from seventeen of the States,
Maryland corn showed up best in seed
tests. There were 1853 samples tested,
and 81 per cent of those from Maryland
showed live kernels.
E. j. Watson, of the Chestertown sec
ton, has purchased from Mrs. H. l.. Wes-
Hill, of baltimore, the "Caulk's Field
farm of go acres, near COLCHESTER, for
$11 900, which he will occupy on May /.
Mansfield Wickes and Norris Thigh
man, both colored, are in Chestertown
JAIL charged with shooting Catharine
Tighman, in a row at Sharptown, near
Rock Hill, on the night of April 6. They
were caught in colchester as they were
about to board the steamboat for Balti-
more.
John Elburn, of Rock Hail. was drown
ed there last Thursday when he fell out
Of a boat when sci ed with vertigo, to
which he was subject.
+*Suffered day and night the torment
OF itching piles. Nothing helped me I'M
til used Doan's Ointment. The result
was lasting, Hon. John r. Garrett,
Mayor, Girard, Ala.
Marcus Ascher, the well known fur
dealer of Chestcrtown, was showing last
week the skin of an otter, nearly six feet
in length. caught by William Burris, of
Queen Anne's county. The otter had
killed six of his lambs, but he got $14
for the skin.
"*Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep DR.. Thomas Ec-
lectic Oil for such emergencies. Two
81 es 25 and soc at all stores.
Miss Sarah E. Gallup, daughter of the
late Eldrige Gallup, died at the home OF
her sister, Mrs, Jacob Galloway, in Hav-
re de Grace, nApril 9, aged GA years.
Lillian, the eight year old daughter of
Mrs G. C. Woodall, of Double Creek,
Queen Anne's county, was fatally burned
by her clothing catching fire when left
alone by her mother, in the kitchen at
her home, one day last week. The mo-
Their beat out the flames, but the child
died within a few hours.
*+A healthy man is a king in his own
right: an unhealthy man an unhappy
slave. For impure blood and sluggish
liver, use Burdock Blood Bitters. On
the market 35 years. $1.00 a bottle.
The Willard Tucker farm of 80 atres,
near Bel Air has been sold to Charles
McCarty, for $1,000.
Taylor johnson of Cream, Chester
county, was thrown from his wagon when
his horse ran away, one day recently, and
one of his legs and three of his ribs were
broken.