The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-05-05
"THEY STRAIN. AT A GNAP AND,


given a'rousihg shake, preparatory 10 shut
fling o4F the official coil. The cause ST that
/ convnsive shadder, however, was strangu.
lation on ghht. IN the course of their
years official life the giescutes has swallowed
II good many camels. The cutters of the
| streets have not been disturbed for year
| mt least. The leaves of last autumn fell
washed into them and were allowed to dam
, back the winter rains, till nature, in her
course of decay, consumed the fallen foliage.
This small camel slipped down the official
gnllet imperceptibly. The mud hauled on
| to the street by some former more industri-
Gus than wise board. mixed with the con-
slant additions from hundreds of horses that
are hitchcd about the court house square
during every spell of wet weather, is tramped
up into black secthin, mir, over shoe.top
| deep; this in the most public thoroughfare
of the town, extending from below the How
ard House to the Bank, on Main street, has
remained undisturbed for the past year.
This camel was swallowed, too, by our Phar
isee city fathers, without wincng. A cess
pool in the rear Of the county offices, which,
on warm night or sultry day, sends up its
stencil, spreading bilious poison through the
atmosphere of the most populous part of the
town, though apparently repnlsive enough
to shock the most inveterate trader in night
soil, like camel number two, was swallowed
by the board without causing wry face. A
pond, on Back street, which breeds fever in
the town and in tie hot season fills the
whole atmosphere in the neighborhood with
sickening odors, though very formidable
camel, apparently, was no obstruction to
the capacious gullet that appropriated the
cess. pool of the court house, the manure
muck on Main street, the chokings of the
cutters, the brokent navements, street. lamps
and lamp-posts, besides Il caravan of smaller
Arabian quadrnpeds. 1t were impossible to
tell how many camels this corporation NAL
strom would have been capable of swallow
ing, if it had not met with gnat in the
| shape OF peck or so of refuse lime which
one of the board, a contractor for building
The Wing Office, left in the street, in front
Of the aforesaid office, when he removed his
slack trough Had cart load of manure
been deposited in the same spot, doubtless
our town fathers, who seem to be the special
patron saints of filth, would have encouraged
its remaining there but when shovel full
Of clord of lime came in contact with those
vast heterogeneous accumuations so carefully
protected by the board, conmotion was
raised and gas began to be evolved from the
corporate body: and after sundry special
meetings Of the board to divine what could
he done with that checking gnat THE afore.
said shovel full of lime, which one Of the
board had left in the street. "A formal order
was Illuminated, directing the aforesaid Uhig
to remove that shovel full of lime out of the
dirty street, where it had been left by one of
their number. This was the last expiring act
of the board of go. After swallowing so
many camcs-to choke on gnat was its
misfortune. We commend them to the
shades of retirement They have left mon.
uments of filth and manure to commemorate
their administration. We hope another
board of camel swallowers will never he in.
llicted on the tom. The election of new
board will lie held OH Monday next.
ENTERTAINMENT. Many of our read
crs will be pleased to learn that another OPP.
portunity of hearing Prof n. X. Richard.
son is offered them,-he having consented
to give Select Readings and REGULATIONS in
the Elkton NJ. +. Church, on Thursday
evening next, 10th inst. for the benefit of
the Wcstamwel Sunday school. What we
have heretofore said Of the Professors tai.
euts, need not here be reiterated.
The Entertainment will be varied by the
singing of several choice selections by the
Elkton NJ. f. Choir: and it will doubtless
prove to be an entertainment such as is sell
dom offered to our citizens.
The price of admission is % cts. Doors
open at o clock
The following is the programme for the
evening:
! !: f h"s's; Rev. NJ. D. K fnSs
i. XXIIi Psalm. NIX Richardson
5. Battle Hymn of the Republic n. X. Richardson
8. May Musings ORIGINAL X. Richardson
:. " MISUNDERSTANDING. n. IL. Richardson
s. " Maud Muller Whittier. n K Richardson
| Q. Extract from Enoch Arden" n. X Richardson
10, Fitz James and R,olerick Dhu, n. X. Richardson
PART II.
). r , Defense ncfre Ayrppa n. X Richardson hSr