The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-04-24
County lettings.
POINT OBSERVATION, MD, !
April 10, 1869. !

POINT OBsERv ALTON, MD,
April 10, 1862
EDITOR OF CECIL WHIe:-Many are the
days past since you INDUCED in our Jottlngs.
Believing that our natures are about the
same now as in former days, we are tempted
to again trouble you with a few of our re-
cent observations in your county, most OF
which argue well for the citizens thereof.
Among the most noticeable and
pleasing things that we found, was the
great improvement of your many FARMS
The richly-covered fields of wheat and
grass, together with the neat, clean, whole
some appearance of the houses and barns
thereon, bespeak for owners and occupants
an improving mind and industrious hand.
Instead of the scallawag COW and OK that
had to depend entirely upon the course of
the wind. in Spring time, we now find
ell-developed, healthy, and sleek animal,
that is credit to its owner and an orna-
ment to its race. In lieu of the almost
Shetland pony, we find large, muscular
| steed we'll calculated for farm, road, or
| market.
All this we find to the credit of the wor-
| thy farmer. May they soon awake to the
fact that true. genuine farming is, in its
way. as much of a science as Chemistry or
| Botany.
| While it is pleasant to gaze upon the
| above-named improvements, it is equally
painful to see and know, by sad experience,
the awful condition of your highways
They are not improved an iota. High at
each side, and hollow in the middle, is the
rule and the law. When and from what
source shall we look for improvement in
the highway department?
Another niche in the temple of fame is
the improved appearance of many of your
Public School-houses. They compare well
with those of other States, that claim to
be in advance of all the world. OF what
caliber the several pedagogues are that
occupy said old and new houses, we do not
exactly know, but hope it is of such cast
as will properly develop the young mind,
and thereby pave the broad way to future
usefulness. While upon school-houses and
their occupants, permit us to say that we
had an audience with your School Commits
sioners, ON Tuesday of last week, in the
basement of your Court House. To our
not very sharp eye nor understanding mind,
the sovereigns of your county were wise
in their selections to form this executive
body.
1t was also pleasing to find most of the
towns, in the upper part of your county,
radidly improving. The animus in this
branch is railroad Your own dear Elkton
is an exception to this rule. Atyour county
seat you have all the material for improve
ment, except one-enterprise. You are well
stocked with notion shops, stores and hotels
your workshops and manufactures where
are they?
North East is somewhat improved in, at
least, one particular. Instead of five or
six groggeries, they have two well-kept
hotels. The proprietors are well fitted for
the business and each commands a fair
share of the trade. The ready wit of the
venerable DR.. Anderson, together with the
jolly, obliging disposition of Benona, makes
to us. The Dr's harps are not upon the
willow, nor are his feet fettered or tongue
tied. While speaking Of Doctors, we no.
tice two in North East. This number does
not include the witty Anderson. We are
told that both of these NJ. DIS are rated
No. 1. physicians. IT'S to be hoped this is
true to the very letter. For the accommo-
dation of these professors, there are two
drug stores, and for the accommodation of
the people, there is one undertaken, always
on hand. All i'll all, North East is quite a
place.
Bay View, one of the most delightful
spots in the county, is much improved, and
still improving. The landlord is full of
genial intelligence, and knows how to i'm
part it, to the delight of his patrons. Mr.
Cooper has made his mark of improvement
at Rock Mills. We heard Ohio was alive.
We do not know this to be the fact, yet we
believe it to be so. This is caused by want
of occular proof.
The town Of Zion has come to period
and its people to colon.
Brick Meeting House-where is it g? If a
cord or two more by which it is held, We're
cut, it would disappear in some one of those
little whirlwinds, as does the dust of the
earth. The great benefactors of her people
have passed from earth, and with them
went the life of Brick Meeting House.
The patriotic and loyal Captain G., who,
once upon time, taught the sons of liberty
to scale graveyard walls in lieu of forts and
breastworks, and who would occasionally
sally forth, with all the energy of his mind
and patriotism of his soul, and harrangue
the people upon the subject of loyalty, till
not unfrequently there would be nothing
left of audience, subject, or orator.
Rising Sun truly represents the great day
illumination at his rising. Its people, too
are everything common to such a town.
My time and space fail me to say more,
except that the whisky in your county will
admit Of both scales Of comparison: good
better best; bad, worse worst. AUTHRAx
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