The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-05-23

THINGS ABOUT TowN.-The gas COM
pany are putting down pipe in main street ;
ground having been broke for that purpose
on Wednesday last.
| The Preachers AsSociation.-The preacher $
association of the Methodist Episcopal
Church was in session on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday Of the present week. Matters up.
pertaining to the spread Of the gospel were
discussed during the day, and preaching in
the evening. Rev. T. c. Murphy, of Phil
adelphia, preached on Tuesday evening,
| from Acts 10, 80; and Rev. Mr.. McClary,
on Wednesday evening, from Romans S l.
4 Confidence Man.-On Sunday last there
appeared in our town man with his wife
and child, and put up at one of the princi-
pal hotels. His child was taken sick, and
the parent fearing the little innocent was
| about to depart this life-and withal being
of religious turn of mind sent for divine
and requested that the holy ordinance Of
| baptism be administered to the child. The
stranger represented himself as worthy
member of the fraternity of thread and
shears,-in short, that he was no less per.
sonage than fashionable tailor of the Lon,
don school, and furthermore that he was
- strapped - in fact hadn't "a red" A
Metropolitan tailor in our little town of Elk
ton, with wife and sick child far from home
friendless and alone, and of pious turn of
mind too! Here was a case meet for the
exercise of the broadest philanthrophy. And
the object calling for such prompt ard active
benevolence; was of English nationality
too and England, we all know, is great
friend Of the South, hence 1t was natural that
all friends Of the benign government OF
jeff Davis should take double interest in
the destitute stranger His restitution, his
ia"vsnt ,,iety. and his nationality combining
to arouse that % fellow feeling which some
times makes us wondrous kind the poet
says. A subscription was Immediately
started, a handsome purse was raised, and
then it was proposed to procure some en-
ploynent for the ''frst class London tailor"
and the good work having been inaugurated
several wardrobes were discovered to be
very much out of fashion, and in need of
repenishing- in very short time a
shop for the man of shears was extempor
lied and large numbers of garments or.
dered ; in fact, so great was the amount of
work that threatened to pour in upon the ar
list, that serious doubts arose in his mind as
to his ability to fill the orders in proper sea-
SON. This fact being made known to his new
friends, the man of needles and thread sug
gested the necessity of procuring additional
help, in order that his newly acquired
friends and customers might appear on the
street dressed a-ia-mode. The health of the
child having, Providentially, improved, the
mother proceeded to Philadelphia by the
Monday mornings train, leaving 'Snip" to
perfect his new business arrangements. On
Monday afternoon Snip" took walk
That walk must surely be long one, as the
"confdence man" has not been seen in
these parts since. This is to be regretted
as the promenade this season will not be
enlivened by the London style of dress, the
odious Yankee mode still holding supre-
macy, much to the disgust Of eletc southern
eyes.