The Cecil Whig., 1869-08-21

fee of five dollarS-the usual charge to
defray expenses of the Tournament. a
band of music will he in attendance and
an address delivered appropriate to the
occasion. The place proposed for the tilt
is about three OF four miles from Iiillsboro'
on the road leading from that town to Wye
Mill.
The unterrificd' are having an inter
esting time in Talbot. The JOurnal and
star have been for some time engaged in a
controversy as to which is the best Demo-
crat, and in which they have called each
other ugly names. Now correspondent
and the Trustees of the Poor are "having
few words about the products of the
Aims House farm.
j. II. Goodwin, of ST. Miclaels, lost about
$1,000 by the burning of his store ROOM
Extensive search has been made, but no
goods nor clue to the robber and incendiary
have been found.
The NJ. f. camp-meeting i'll Grace's
woods b. c. Neck, commences on Thurs
day, August Goth. The probabilities are
The Masonic Lodge and Town Hall build
ing at St. Michaels, will be pushed forward
as rapidly as the circumstances will admit.
Perry Porter has left at the st. Micllacls
Comet Office, a cluster of twelve fine apples,
growing in immediate contiguity to each
other, all Oh one little bough. They are
of the variety known locally as the ''thin
skin"
The total expenses of the county for the
fiscal year ending June 30th, 1869, tinclud-
ing the surplus fund.- were $50, ,202 ST.
The amount of assessed property is s., ,02s,-
973. The Schools cost $11, 800; The Cir
cult Court, 1883, 75: roads, $5,5l3S1;
ferries and bridges, $500; paupers, pen
sioners &c. S., 345.G3. The four Collectors
of Taxes received salary of $3.50; the
three Judges of the Orphans Court, 1864:
the three County Commissioners S507, 20;
Clerk to County Commissioners. 5000; the
five Registers, 1854; Road Supervisors.
$S35; States attorney, $22G3, 32 Rate of
tax 70 cts Oh the hundred dollars.
HARTFORD.
Pic Mics are all the rage.
A tournament is to be held at Bel Air. on
the Goth inst. The knigts, of whom there
are about twenty, have had several meet
ings for rehearsal, and much proficiency
has been arrived at by many in taking the
ring. Those who desire to see a harlequin.
with pole decorated with a peioe OF red
flannel, try to poke said pole through a
suspended wooden ring, while riding full
speed, should be present.
An accident of very serious nature oc-
| Cufleu lU Tic ICSluellCe OF w llllam silver,
near Genville, one day last week Some
small children We're playing in tho yard
near where a cart body had been propped
on end, and willie running around and per-
haps on it or against 1t, it fell, catching
three of them under it and seriously injur-
ing them.
Abraham ShertZer, residing near Church.
vile, hauled from his farm to Baltimore
city, recently, with six mules a load of hay
weighing s, 80 pounds.
The ladies of Smiths, GIcthodist Epis-
copaD will hold a Fair and Festival, in the
grove adjoining the said church, commen-
cling on the 10Th ofSeptemDer.
At Havre de Grace, Aquila Bailey is
appointed Postmaster, vice Thomas J. Ives,
removed.
On last Sunday morning party of Balti-
more fisherman, made a large haul of rock
lisil-a slilrt distance down the bay, near
the mouth of Sassafras river. Il is stated
to have been grand sight, that there were
millions in the school, Some 1000 bunch
cs, Is to Is fish in each-tifty thousand in
| all were secured, the nets were borne down
with the great numbers enclosed and thous-
ands Of the larger fish escaped, They gen
orally lyaveraged from 10 to Is 5inchcs in length.
Just Us they had secured all their fish they
could take care of, they came across a
| l-uiiiuelpull Slool Will IL lew IONS Oh Ice
on board, when 1000 lunches of rock, were
soon exchanged for three or four tons of
ice, after which each party went on their
separate ways rejoicing in their good luck.
Probably twelve or fifteen hundred dollars
/ were realized cut Of the cxpediton.
| The SusYuehannn Building Association,
at the regular Monthly meeting last Mon
day night, sold $4,000 at an average prem
ium, of 2s5 per cent.
CuEsTEr.
The Anniversary of the Sunday Schools
connected with the Oxford Presbyterian
Church viii be held on Thursday the Goth
inst. 1t is expected tu lie held in R4ther-
ford's woods.
y black man engaged in picking black
berries on the premises of Samuel Pollock,
i'll East Nottingham township, some weeks
ago, was ordered off, but not complying at
once, and making some replies, was knock
ed down by James and Joseph Pollock and
left for dead on the ground. lie, however,
recoTorcd and made his way home, and af-
ter some time broasht .i.it against the
Pollock brothers before Justice Toy, or
Hopcwcll. The matter was adjusted by
the defendants paying the sum of 80.
The Friends meeting at Oxford Hall on
the evening of the 1lth inst, was largely
attened. Sermons were delivered by Rebcc-
ga Price. ST Maryland, and Anna Singler,
OF Londonsrove. Chester ldanty. The ai
dress of the latter was eloquent and bualt;<
full.
Hiram X. Cooper, of Upper Oxford, has
| left the Oxford Press office branch of one
of his Siberian crab apple trees which is
full of beautiful and perfect apples
cluster 81 inches long contains 23 apples.
On Thursday the 18th inst, while David
Ill. 4
| RakestFaw in Colerain township, the we'll
rope broke and a buakeet full If stGHes fell
about 12 feet and, though in the most Inn
minent danger of being crushed to death,
Mr.. b. received no injury except 4 slight
bruisc on one of his legs, by Il stone that
struck it. Ills escape was truly miracu-
lous.
The corn on a twenty acre field, belonging
| tG Samuel Whiteside, on the Octoraru, in
Lower Oxford township. will nav arera.ge
about twelve feet high, some Of the staiks
measuring fourteen feet and a majority of
the stalks have each two large ears.
Anthony Baker, of Edgmont, did nearly
all the harvesting this season OH his farm of
! tance-loading all the grain and hay. Mr..
| i,aE.,c IS 81 years of age, and notwithstand
ing he had parytctif etf4k2 about a year
ago, he is still active and robust.
LANCASTER.
During the raising Of the roof timbers
of the new Presbyterian Church at Union.
! Lancaster county, on Friday last, David
ii,,rn:te, Gf Colcrain township, fell a dis
tance Of about twenty fact an., sEs.aiRGl
severe injuries. He fell on his breast across
a timber and was badly bruised, besides
having his left arm broken below the
elbow. He was taken up as dead, but
under the treatment of DR.. Andrews and
other physicians, who were present at the
time, he is recovering. His fall was caus-
Cd by the movement of timber upon
which he was standing.
Early on Thursday morning the 18th an
unknown dead man was found lying in
gutter on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Musselman's warehouse, about six miles
east of Lancaster city. The skull of the
deceased was crushed, and marks of blood
were traced for some distance along the
railroad track. The deceased was of
medilim sixe, ha,i sanily-colored hair, and
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