The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-06-15
County Affairs.

cases-the State against John w. McCul-
Tough.
I,appears that Mr.. Nee, who is ium-
Der Inspector at Port.Daposit, had been en-
ployed to measure certain RATS or arks OF
lumber at or near Chesapeake city, for
the purpose of ascertaintng their quantity,
that they might pay the proper toll for
passing through the canal.
There is a lumber inspector-Mr. VIM
P. Chopper at Chesapeake city. The Jaw
authorizing his appointment, provides
that any other person measuring lumber
in that village and receiving pay for so
doing. shall pay for each offence $50
the half TO go to the iniormer, and at the
instance of Mr.. Cropper these suits wee
instituted against Mr. McC.
Mr.. Grason was counsel for Chopper
or the State, as the case may be, and
Messrs lamar and Miller for Mccullough.
The defence. if we understood it rightly
from hearing few words Of one or two
OF the arguments, was that the measuring
was not done in Chesapeake city that
no pay had been eceived by Mr.. McCul-
lough--that the law only contemplated
the measuring with view to the sale Of
the cumberland that IN any state of the
case the canal company had guaranteed
10 i, by its charter, the right to measure
for the pu rpoSe Of determining toll.
The lumber belonged to the following
persons, and the cases were decided as
follows Bigler s Co., 13 cases, against
the State; L. Jamaison 2 cases, asst State;
Al. Fitch, 90 cases, agst States Green &
others cases, agst State; Miller & Nelson
- cases, against Mccullough: g. Stock
ham 81 cases against McC. All the cases
against McC., have been appealed.
For CALIroEN1A.-Messrs. Mark and
John Evans Of this county, started for
California on Monday last.
" Mr.. John J. =. Poole of Chesapeake
City has sold out to Mr.. VIM. Lindsay his
lease on the hotel in Chesapeake city,
furniture &C., and IS soon to start for Cal
iiornia.
There are large number of our citi-
zens talking of going TO California, some
by the iAhmus and some around the Horn;
and some OF them in our opinion will 60
-"in a horn"
ADVERTISING Our circulation has
lately increased beyond anything we
hoped for, and names are still coming
IN daily. Our paper is valuable medi-
UNI for advertising, and every one who
wishes 10 fell farms, fabrics, merchandise,
the products of the work shop-any
thing, would do Well 10 advertise in 1t.
The way 10 make your business known
is to advertise, and advertising always
THE WuEAT.-The storms Of Saturday
AMI Sunday night last, threw down
much OF the heavy wheat in some parts
OF the county, and it will thus be pre-
vented from filling well. In Sassafras
Neck we are informed the fly has dore
much harm-but without farther acct
dent the wheat crop Of the county will
be large.
SURGICAL OPERATION Richard Hill, a
free negro from the neishborhood of Port
Deposit, now IN the county Aims House,
had his leg amputated below the knee,
on the 9th INST. Doct r. C. Carter, the
attending physician was assisted by Docts.
Mitchell and Emory Of this town, DR..
Evans OF Havre-de- Grace and Mr.. R.
HolIlngsworth and MIR. Jos. Veazey
Wallace, students OF medicine. Hill is
now doing well and in far way to re-
cover.
LIGHTNING There was little "nare
up' between the wild lightning oflhe
skies, and the tame breed of Morse's on
saturday last, in the neighborhood of
Woodlawn, in this county. Several of
the poles Of the telegraph line near that
place were shattered 10 pieces, during
the storm on the evening of that day.
KEEP Cool. A good habit to keep
cool at any time. particularly this warm
weather; and there is no better way Of
dong SO than by stepping IN to see
Mrs. White, opposite Gebhart's, who
keeps excellent ice cream-no better to
be found anywhere.