The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-12-19

would totally diScrcdit in this locality, oven
so high authority as the author ofl!ypcriJn.
-
OLD NEWSPAPERS OF THIS CoUETY.-Wc
are indebted to James Whitaker, Jr., Esq,
for some forty numbers of The Eihfoh Press,
published during the years lS2l-o-G and I.
The Press was commenced in 1928, and WAS
the first paper printed in the county. We
havr several times, during the--past year, adj
vcrtsed for copies of old newspapers printed
in Cecil county, signitying our intention to
lave them bound and preserved for the his
torical information they contain. In response
to this request we have received numb! ~ of
copies of The Elhton Courier, Elhton Press
and Port Deposit Rock. We again beg to
request any of our readers who have copies Of
Cecil papers, published prior TO August,
1911 (when The Cecil Wing WAS startcd) for
which they have no particular use, to either
sell them to us or give them to us, for the
purpose indicated. We find it hard to collect
any ofshese papers even now, and soon the
few that remain will be destroyed, and lost TO
the county-for we hold them to be of much
interest, because Of the local history they
contain Who will assist us in collecting
those still in existence? The following we
believe to be a list Of the papers published in
the county:
AT ELKToN- The EM!on Press; The Cecil
Repubhcan; The CccI GuccHc; The Eik'on
Courier; The Cecil Wig The cecil Democrat;
The Cecil County .Adrocate; The Union Rctorm-
cr; The Picifct Guard.
AT PORT DEposIT-TAe Central Courani ];
The Cecil Wing; The Fort Deposit Rock.
None OF the Port Dcpositpapers, We believe,
were published more than Il year. OF The
Rock, which was published in 1910, by George
Kcatinge, ESD, we have some thirty numbers
OF the Port Deposit Cecil Wing, which was
published in 1881, by I.yndc Elliott, we have
obtained but one copy; and Of The Central
Courlnt, which was published in 1886, by l..
A. liner, We have not been able to procure
a single copy.
or the Elkton papers, the two last named,
rs most OF our readers will very well rcmcm-
Der, were Campaign papers, published for a
few weeks preceding the election one in 1853,
the other in 1856. The Ccci! County Advo-
cate 1--WE believe we are right in the name, }
was started as a Temperance paper, by Thos.
NJ. Coleman; Of it we have not been able to
obtain q single copy. The Cecil Republican
was published by Richard p Bailey, in 1884 :;
of it VIC have one copy; of The Elkton
Courier, which was published by G. T. Cloud,
and edited while by J. II. lamar then by
L. A. Ellis then by Geo. r. lIoward-wc
have obtained some 80 or 40 numbers; and
about as many of The Cecil Gazette, while in
the hands Of Henry Bosce. OF all these
papers we are anxious to obtain copies; and
the old housekccperS among our subscribers,
WILL we hope, look about the old barrels and
hooks in their garreis and closets, and let us
have any they find let us have them, no mat
ter how much torn and disigurcd they may
be found.
Beside the papers named, the printer boys
in The Wing office (John Marlborough Foard,
one of them, now Publisher and Editor OF
The Golden Era, at San Francisco one Of the
handsomcst papers anywhere printed,) issued
a little sheet called Tie Eikion Mechanic; OF
this We have copy; similar winm once
struck the boys in The Democrat office, and
they also issued little shcct-1he Public Eye
of which we have a copy. These little
papers are quite en,iositics IN their way.