The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-29

this week is taken up with Il statement of
the county expenses, which it will be seen
reach in round numbers 500, 900 In com
mcnting on this subject, in former issue of
our paper, we remarked that the taxes were
moving steadily toward this sum. We were
not aware that they had virtually reached
that amount already. The single item of
roads and bridges amounts to SIS, $50. Let
the taxpayers ponder these figures, and
then look upon the roads, with cutters down
the middle, the channels along which the
greater part Of this immense sum found its
way into the creeks and rivers, leaving be-
hind the dry and rocky beds to be used in
place Of roads, where wagons of all kinds
are shaken and battered to pieces in one.
third the time they would last on good roads
Enormous as this annual waste may seem to
be on the roads, We question whether it
reaches one tenth of what it costs the peo
pie of the county in the wear and tear of
teams and wagons by our stony thorough
fares. Several months in the winter the
roads are in such a condition that teams are
strained and pulled to death in dragging
what would, on even moderately good roads,
be but half load. The more this subject
is contemplated, the greater magnitude it
assumes, and the more urgent is the neces-
sity of a thorough reformation in our road
system.
We invite those who have given the sub
ject of road -making sufficient attention to
be able to suggest an advantageous system
for putting in repair and keeping the public
roads in good order, to give their views on
this important matter to the public through
our columns. Grumbling will not make
good roads, or we would have had them all
in perfect repair long since. Some particu-
lar system must be laid down, and supervi-
sors compelled to work up to it. We stand
as much in need of good road system, with
intelligent supervisors, educated in a knowl-
edge of their business, as we do of a school
system with its corps Of thoroughly drilled
teachers.
TEACHERS WHO PASSED AT THE LATE Ex-
ANIMATION AND HAVE OBTAINED CERTIFICATES ::
lst Grade.-Martha Biddle. Robert NJ.
Hayes, f. S. Quigley, Voney Cloud, NJ. L.
Haines, H. G. Shippers.
I'd Grndc.-George Benjamin, Annie L.
Brown, Laura A. Bradley, E. W. Crothers,
S. II. Clendenin, John W. Lavender, Mag
gle Davenport, Lydia Field, John Galbraith,
Emma Gregg, Mary B Hopkins, Helen
Hasson, Amanda Hudson, Rebecca Jan
ney, N l. Janney, Mary A Brown, W II
Brokaw, Clara W Bosee, Sallie A Campbell,
NJ E Clendenin, Benz II Carter. Ida Came
ron. Henry England, Susie B Ford, Belle
Ga,braith, Flora Galbraith, Rachel Harlan,
Z Hopkins, Libbie NJ Hayes, Lille Howard,
John Janney, Rachel c .anney, Jennie
Kennedy, l. NJ Kirk, Annie Kennedy, Lottie
? Lewis, Louisa NJ. Mackey, II NJ Mullen.
Kate Minner, Phebe A Moore, Lizzie NJ
Cauley, NJ A McOrkle, Mary + Quein, Lucy
Scott, Mary R Nowland, Rebecca Sherer,
Anabel Smith, Ella Wakeman, Heath V
Watts, Warner, Joseph Turner, Il C
Toulson. Elite Kirk, Jennie !. Langdon,
Martha L Mackey, Lizzie l. Mackey. Idle
Marshbank, John F Marshall, Merritt Nc
Nance. Anna r Moore, Robert Money,
Laura McCauley, Emma Pole, Lima Roberts,
Leora NJ Mckinsey, Lizzie w Sherer, X
Stephenson Mary i Wingate, Mary V Will
son. III Whitcraft, Samuel J Tamany Mary
A Tamany, Richard Lewis, Lima B Janney.
Certificates of Second Grade embrace Or
biography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,
Geography and English Grammar; and of
the First Grade, in addition to the above,
Bookkeeping, Algebra and Natural Phlos-
ophy.