The Cecil Whig., 1870-12-24
NORTH EAST ITEMS.

our Public .Scho0J House.-We have long
since thought Of calling the attention of the
authorities to the miserable locality and
condition of the School House in North
East. 1t is just literally not fit to be used
for such purpose. 1t is located at one
extreme end of the town, near a low,
marshy place that borders on 4 stream OF
water, and has, no where near, a pleasant
or proper play ground for the children
The house itself is in wretched dilapidation,
with loose weather boards, and leaky root
while the loft is a popular resort for the
thousands of filthy bats that throng the
air of this region in the summer season,
filling the place with an almost insufferabe
stencil. Our school houses, of all other
buildings, ought to be eligibly and centrally
located. and made commodious, comfort
able airy, and attractive, in order that
they should become what we design them
to be,-centres of educational influence and
power, not merely in acquiring knowledge
of facts, but in moulding and refining the
sensibilites and tastes of the pupils, that
they may hate and shun the vain, the vul-
gar, the vicious, which every where attract
and invite their patronage. When educa-
ton fails to refine and moralize, it is only
curse to the recipient, and a blight to the
community, by transferring its potential
qualifications to the unretined and lawleSs.
Please give us new school house in North
East at some central point, and "the chill
dren shall call you blessed
Christmas DaY.-It is announced that
there will be services in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. on tomorrow, christmas
day. at ) o clock, A. NJ, and an appropriate
sermon preached, by the Pastor at 10@
clock A. NJ. The Protestant Episcopal
Church will also suitably observe the occa-
sion, by the usual ceremonies of that
denomination.
Tile Meeting at Bou1den s.-The revival
continues at Mrs Boulden's, with unabated
interest. There have been about twenty
five conversions during the meeting which
has been in progress six weeks. Mr.. Chas.
S. Grant, of North East, has labored with
| this people most faithfully from the first,
and deserves the credit of being the instru-
ment in securing the glorious result
achieved Rev Thos. l.. Poulson organ
lied Methodist Episcopal Society at this
place, last Monday evening, receiving the
names of twenty persons thereunto. Mr..
Grant was made leader of the Society,
with Mr.. Ebenezer Aufree as assistant
We might add that the foundation is
already laid for the new church of the
Society, and an energy exhibited in the
matter that gives promise of an early COM
pletion of the editice.
Our Unipersal Holiday.-Christmas is
universally observed as an occasion of
merry making, and the giving of presents.
Due preparations are made in this place to
amply honor the season in those respects.
The stores and shops are filled with nick
nacks and gewgaws, as well as with many
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meet the inflated demands of the times
\ number of Christmas trees are to be
planted in private houses, and to be ladened
with the % fruit of the season." We also
understand that the Protestant Episcopal
Church propose to have a tree in their
house of worship for the Sunday School
children.
4 Good Day's Wok.-There were about
ten tons of turkeys, beside large quantities
of other fowl, eggs, &C., shipped by rail
road, from this place, last Wednesday,
chiefly for Philadelphia. There was a
corresponding increase in the ordinary
exprcssage and freight, There must also
have been at least fifty passenger tickets
sold at this station on that day, for differ
ent points.
Hymeneal-Quite recherche wedding
transpired in our town, about 4 clock,
last wednesday afternoon, at the residence
of Mr.. Richard l.. Thomas 1t was the
marriage of his eldest daughter, Martha
r., and Mr.. Philip A. Ricards, of Bay
View, in this county. The company was
mainly composed of the relatives of the
bride and groom. The house was closed.
and brilliantly lighted up artificially. The
tables were covered with all the good things
the market could afford. The happy
couple, after congratulations, left in the
half-past four o clock train of cars, going
north.
Property Sals.-NIr. Jethro Mccullough,
of the Iron Mills has bought the fine farm
at the lower end of the town, on the Neck
road, of Mr.. d. Mcdaniel The former
gentleman had previously owned part of the
place.
Winter at Last.-We are at last having
weather cold enough for fire, fur and over
garments. The boys are, while we write,
running and sliding over the ice on the
head of the river If the weather continues
as it is till Monday, our ice-houses can be
filled before the new year arrives.
4 Fianh Noremcnt- Complete Surprise
Tile Inraders IN possession of the Field
The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in this place, invaded the Parson-
age, on Thursday evening last and took
complete possession of the establishment.
They absolutely cover d the tables and
floor with groceries, fruit, bread, cakes,
pies, flour, buckwheat, poultry. hams,
sausage, pork, beef, lard, butter fish. veg
etables and grcenbacks, and wood in the
yard We reckon you never saw preacher
and his family more pleased than were the
recipients of these favors. They were all
on a "broad grin = during the entrance OF
the grand procession, and seemed to feel
as if they would like Christmas to come
more than once year.
The Concert and ErhiJition.-The Sun
| day School Concert and Exhibition is to
come off in the Methodist Episcopal Church
on Monday evening next, the Goth instant
| The whole is under the efficient manage
ment Of the Superintendent, Mr.. James S.
Crawford, and promises to be a grand affair
The object and merit of the entertainment
ought to crowd the church on this occasion