The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-09

lie life.
SQuibS.-Poanted.
Dog-fghts are no rarity.
Black berries are now red.
A aoo0ded land Ouk-ington.
Come down-ililk. See adv.
Lovers are ardent this weather.
Went up-Those sky rockets Monday
night.
The question of the day" Going to
Campo"
The El1ton Building Society will meet
tonight.
The shady side of the streets is now
fashionable.
Whisky.
Beets are plenty, but "dead beats are
innumerable.
Dewberries, due ripe, are selling at 10
cents per quart.
Two valuable "purps lost. $40 reward
offered. See adv.
The parting of young ladies is much
adieu about nothing.
Short stop-That made by the 1Hce when
she stuck in the mud.
"Elkton Academy" long-lost name,
has been again revived.
Well, Realey! Alice couldn't go with
Hoffman, without Ford.
"And so FOURTH" came, but little fuss
was made Of it in Elkton.
White is becoming to blondes, yellow to
brunettes. We have both in Elkton.
Had GO good time Those young men
! ho +ba Goorfro>c
Next Wednesday, 18th inst, is Com
mencement Day at Washington College.
Preliminary steps are being taken to
organize another Building Society in Elk
! ton.
All those who wentdown with the steamer
Alice, on the Fourth, were brought safely
to land.
A novel sight-To see a young man
! break 4 cane on u dead horse, trying to
make him "Git up and walk"
The man who became so excited over the
"nigger," on the Fourth, as to use profane
language said he was only dis-cussin the
subject.
The round trip tickets from Elkton to
the National Camp Meeting, at Darlington,
are $1.00, instead of $1.20, as previously
published.
The cry of dull times is again heard, as
is always the case in harvest, when our
farmers are busy gathering their crops. 1t
will be brisker by and by.
We noticed certain typo in town COM
ing in on a load of hay, on the evening of
the 4th. Had he been harvesting, and was
overcome with heat? Or
The fine sunshine and showers of the
last few weeks have wonderfully improved
the growing crop of corn. 1t looks thrifty
and is very promising in appearance.
Wilmer Brown, young man residing at
Cherry Hill, while in this town, on Satur-
day evening last, was thrown from his
horse, and was painfully but not seriously
injured. ~
I The firm of J. H. Rowland e Co., Lum-
Der and Coal dealers, at Port Deposit, has
been dissolved, and the business will here
after be conducted by W. W. Davis and
w. T. Way.
The Town Commissioners have given
notice that the Town Ordinances will be
strictly enforced on and after the 4th inst,
consequently the attention of the Bailiff
is needed at the east end of High street.
AS a number of our readers are interested
| in the sale of straw, we are requested to
state that no more straw can be sold at
Marley Paper Mills, at any price, except it
be wheat straw, well kept, clean and per-
fectly free Of chat.
No place like home" There was
man on the excursion that went from Elk
Landing on Monday, 30 years of age, and
who has resided within a few miles of Elk
ton all his life, who had never seen Il steam
boat before that day.
We learn that Mr.. David Ford, Jr, re-
siding near Glasgow, while driving the
reaper, on Tuesday week, was overcome
with heat and fell in an insensible condi-
ton. Assistance was Immediately rem
dered and the patient i'll a short time res
| tored to consciousness.
We heard of trio of young men, in
town, who, wishing to &" see the Fourth"
"went to see man," but the man couldn't
see it, and they went away with heavy
hearts and dry lips. Well not undertake
although the English language is copous
its most efficient and vigorous adjectives
are entirely unequal to the expression of
certain degrees of emotion.
The steamer Alice arrived at the Landing
on Saturday night, and on Sunday was Wis
tied by hundreds of people-white and
black. 1t was not because a steamboat
was SO much a curiosity to the majority of
them-no, but partly OH account of the
walk, the day, and the fact that it was
chartered for the excursion. But fifty years
hence, at the present rate of progress, if
our stream is allowed to fill up constantly
for lack of enterprise, steamboat will be-
come as great a curiosity to some Elkto-
mans as Il Gothamite in Heaven
cold Maria" an insane old negress, who
has been an inmate of the Elkton Jail fer
many years-having been put in for scme
| ...so 81 20,
and who was allowed to go i'll and out when
she pleased, started on blackberrying ex-
petition, on Sunday morning last. AS she
has not yet returned, we presume she has
failed to come up with the desired object.
When last seen, she was several miles north
of Elkton, heading toward McClellands
Vile, and was still ''goin' blackberryin'.''
Should Maria not return, Elkton will lose
one of her " notables."
A. F. A. Miriam Lodge, No. As, A..
F. A. NJ, at Newark, Del, was consecra-
ted last Wednesday evening. The cere-
monies took place in the Oratory of the
College, which was filled to suffocation with
ladies and gentlemen, assembled to witness
the beautiful and impressive ceremonies.
An excellent choir was in attendance and
opened the proceedings with singing, after
which a prayer was offered by the Grand
Chaplain.
Rev. Dr. McCabe, of Middletown, de-
iivered an able and eloquent Grafton on
, Free Masonry.
After the address was finished the install
latien of officers, by the Grand Lodge, took
5 PLACE, They were: w. NJ, Rev: John
r Prof Edward d. Porter.
The two lodges then returned to their
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