The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-06-30
=u1uI affairs.
U~Mr. George A. Ford, of the First Dis
trict declines serving as Judge of the Election.


CrrrISG HAY.-Many of our farmers are
cutting hay this week: the crop is short.
Next week there will be great deal of whea,
cut in some parts Of the county.
AWARD OF DAMAGEs.-The Jury cmpancl-
led to assess the damages to Mr.. Geo. David
son by the passage Of the branch Railroad to
Port Deposit over his lands at Mt. Ararat
awarded him $500.
THE PLANK EoAD.-At meeting of the
Managers of the Ekton: Andora and Lewis
will Plank Road Company held OH the 9th
inst, Nicholas Hiss Esq. was elected Prcsi-
dent, and a. McIntirc Esq; Scc'y and Tres.
Posi- OFFICE CHANGEs.-J ulus Bond has
been appointed Postmaster at Warwick, in
this county, in place of John B. Morton. re-
signed. David IL. Sutton has been appointed,
Postmaster at Fair Hill in place of Thomas
P. Sutton, decd.
0JThe County Commissioners as is seen
by their advertisement have appointed the
same collectors who were in Office last year.
They have been most efficient officers, and
their places cannot lie better filled in the
county.
Hot WEATHER. The thermometer reached
&c degrees here on Wednesday and 90 deg.
on Thursday. This is very warm. On the
9th of June last year it reached 90 degrees:
il was then wheat harvest in this county
and on that day an unusually large number
of harvest hands "gave out" Oh account Of
tic excessive heat.
SALE OF A FARM.-Mr. James McCaulcy
Land Agent, has sold the farm of j. ID. Fis-
Ter, Esq. on the Big Elk, II miles from Elk
ton, containing Gil! acres, for the sum Of
5000, being over $50 per acre; also the
growing grass and corn crops on said proper
ty for 5000. Purchaser, Mr.. L. B. Carhart
INJURED by A FALI.-William Mcdaniel,
a son of Samuel Mcdaniel, near Lords Fac
tory, fell from cherry tree on Thursday
last, fracturing his thigh and dislocating his
shoulder.
A few days ago colored boy named Ward
fell from cherry tree near Elkton and in
jured himself so that he died.
TEMPERANCE Mass MEErING.-From John
Lakeland, Esq, r. 5. of Division No. 49,,
Sons of Temperance, we have the following:
NoTIcE There Will he a Mass Meeting Of
the friends of Temperance held in lIopewell
NJ. E. Church, Zion Circuit, on the 4th day
of July. next. at O'Clock P NJ. The Com.
mittoc of arrangements will endeavor to pro-
cure eminent speakers for the occasion {.
The public are respectfully invited tc attend.
A New SMITH SHop.-Kidd & Co. have star
ted Smithiug in new shop near the Bird &C,
built for them by Mr.. Daniel Bratton.
The old Shop in the Hollow is to he
torn down and its place filled by new brick
Store house to be built by Aldridse & Grant,
thus the unsgh,ly old Slnithy and its more
unsghtly surroundings Of broken wheels and
dila Tidat,d vehicles will be gone and th.i:
place supplied by a zinc row of brick build
ings.
RAILROAD ACclpEST.-As Gideon Jacques,
deaf and dumb man from the Brick Meeting
House, was driving across the railroad at the
west end Of Elkton on thursday evening last
train Ct cals struck the rear Of his carriage
breaking it and hurting HIM by throwing
him on the ground. lie was able, how
to proceed OH his way home. The engine
whist.ed fnriously. but he could not hear.
Deaf men should make use of their eyes
when crossing railways.
DELAWARE CoLLEGE.-Thc Commence
mcnt exercises Of this Institution for the year
1855 will begin on Sunday evening, July LIST,
with n sermon before the fraternity Of the
Institution by Rev. Charles Il. Lewis, of
Wilmington, Del. On Tuesday evening,
July Bird, addresses will be delivered before
the Athcnman Literary Society by Rev.
Epher Whitaker, of New York and Rev. JOS
G. Williamson, of New Jersey. On Wednes
day morning, July 4th, the graduating ora
tons will be delivcrcd in the afternoon there
will be an address before the Alumni by Rev.
Thos. NJ. Cam, of Wilmington, Del, and in
the evening the Delta Phi Literary Society
will be addressed by Prof VIM. l.. Boswell.
COSTS OF TRIAL.-Thc part of the costs
Of the trial of the case Of John Stump against
the Phil, vii. & Bait. Railroad Company
for facilitating the escape ola slave, which is
chargeablc to Cecil county under the Act Of
1854, chapter 800, amounts to eight hundred
dollars and hirty-scren cents, (sS0037, y which
sum the Taxpayers of Cecil must pay.
The practice Of removing cases from coun-
ty to county OH trivial. pretenccs and often
for the personal convenience Of lawyers is
beginning to be rather too often resortcd to-,
seeing that it proves TO be such an cxre;i=ivo
business If it is enquired how the county
has to pay so much when the case was a civil
suit for damages, it will be rccollectcd the
expenses Of Juries are borne by the county.
The AIMS IIoUsE-Thc present Trustees
Of the Aims House are very efficient Board.
They have fixed up the house so as to make
it look like another building having divided
the basement into other rooms, plastered and
floored part of it, closed in the stairways, &C.,
and handsomely papcrcd the Trustees room
and the Oversecr's apartments. And Mtho
thew have had an unusually large number OF