The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-02
Peninsular and State Items.

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Lodge of Maryland, 1. o. G. r., delivered
an excellent address upon the subject Of
Temperance, in the NJ. f. Church of this
town on Thursday evening last. Mr.. p.
preceded his address by reading the tenn
perance poem, "The Vagabond." Miss
Reedy, of North East, yonng lady pos
sessing remarkably fine voice, sang two
beautiful songs; and Miss Thomas, of the
| same place, presided at the ml0deon.
The following camp meetings will be held
| in Queen Anne's county this year, viz
Centreville Station, M. E. Church, at Wye,
or Golden Run, to commence on Friday,
August 9TH. Queen Anne's Circuit NJ. E.
| Church South, near Busick's Church, to
| commence same day as Wye camp. Sud
lersville and Church Hill Circuits, M. E.
| Church, at Coppage's Woods, on Friday,
| August 18th.
clan of Centreville, died on Thursday even
ing, 90 ult., of typhoid fever.
The post Office at Centreville has been
converted into a money order Office.
The peaches are still reported falling Of
| very fast in this county.
The chicken cholora is playing sad havoc
with the fowls in Queen Anne's county.
VIM. Elliot, near Church Hill, recently
lost two colts by tightening.
C. J. B. Mitchell, of Queenstown, has a
| fine flock of Cotswold sheep from which he
has recently taken tleeces some locks Of
which measured II inches. Several Of our
exchanges have had the wool drawn over
their eyes by this story, but The Wing
isn't among the party. No Cotswold sheep
in America has a fibre of wool on it II
inches long.
Two weeks ago, a dwelling house on the
| - Dill s,, line
county, was struck by lightning and slightly
damaged. A little colored child was Stun
ned, and is left with one arm paralyzed.-
The barn of Samuel H. Flaharty was also
recently struck by lightning, but the dam
age was slight.
| A Union Camp Meeting, under the aus
pieces of Talbot, Trappe and Hillsborough
Circuits and Easton Station, of the NJ. E..
| Church, will be held at McNeafs woods,
July 28th.
The colored people of Talbot intend to
celebrate the passage of the 18th Amend
ment to the Constitution about the 18th of
August.
Thos. j. Reynolds, of Potato Neck, who
was so badly hurt recently, by a moving
machine, is rapidly recovering, and the
physicians now feel confident that both legs
can be saved.
|
discovered too many mosquitoes in his bed
room for quiet mig ht' rest. So he wet
some rags in sulphur and set them on fire.
His room was very tight One of the I'M
dertakers of that town has had his eye on
that man ever since.
The officers OF Salisbury arrest and line
young men for fast driving in the streets of
that town. We have heard of the like
being done in ElktOn, but it was long,
long time ago.
Chicken thieves abound in the neighbor-
hood of Salisbury.
At a meeting of the Peninsula Fruit
Growers Association, held at Dover, on
Tuesday of last week, it was estimated
that 5000 baskets of peaches will be ship
ped by the Railroad from Salisbury, and
139, 600 from the entire Peninsula, during
the season.
A gentleman in Somerset has cut twelve
tons of hay from four acres.
| Cherries are plentiful in Princess Anne.
Rev. Abraham Poulson has been ap-
pointed on the Princess Anne NJ. E. Cir
cult as colleague of Rev. Joseph Cook.
The Somerset Herald says:-Jobn Walk
about, alias Hance Palmer, who formerly
lived in Potato Neck district, this county,
was convicted of murder in the first degree
on Saturday the 18th ult., at Drummond-
town, Accomac county, Virginia, for killing
a white man named latham, in 1866. This
is the second murder that Palmer is known
to have committed. On the 10Th of Janu-
airy 1865 he deliberately shot Charles Rob
erts colored, with a gun loaded with buck
shot, killing the unsuspecting man instan-
taneously, in the presence of three or four
Potato Neck. Had he been acquitted of
the murder of latham, the authorities of
this county would have brought him to
trial for the murder of Roberts. We I'M
derstand that Palmer is to be executed on
Friday the 9Th day of August next.
The Worcester Railroad will be COM
menced in fewdays under the superinten-
dance of DR.. II. r. Pitts.
There will be boat race on Chinco-
league Island on July 9th, for a beach
poney. The starting point will be oppo-
site Chinceteague Island wharf, sailing a
distance of about A miles.
VIM. Bradley, of New Castle county, has
a Durham Cow, four years old, from which
was made in one week, sixteen pounds of
butter. This COW was brought in from the
West and sold to Mr.. Bradley for $780,
She cannot now be purchaaed for twice
that amount.
The army worm, in countless numbers,
| is committing lGS rdVaSeS upon the "Heslt
and timothy fields around Middletown. In
some instances the timothy has been nearly
destroyed.
Edward Darnell, who was convicted at
the last term of the Kent county court OF
the murder of Thomas Hogan, a pedler,
was hung at Dover on Friday, Gath ult.
They are about putting 5000 worth Of
repairs on the NJ. E. Church at Dover.
Major Brown lectured on " Religious Re-
formation in Mexico" in Havre dc Grace,
last week.
Wheat is much injured throughout Har-
ford county.
A twelve-year old son of Gilbert Michael,
of Hartford county, had one of his legs ter
ribly mutilated by a moving machine, re-
Gently.