The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-10-29
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Politics are at fever heat all over town.
Overcoats are making their appearance.
good girl to marry-Maid of money.
The Mutual Building Society meets to-
night.
An attachment difficult to return-The
Sherff's.
Who knows whether we have had Indian
summer or not.
Flies are complaining obout the GOODNESS
of the weather.
Value the friendship of him who stands
by you in the storm.
Mosquitoes are about disseminating bust
ness for this season.
The earth is now being covered with the
"sere and yellow Leaf
A warm stove is ''good thing to have
in the family just now.
Blondes are going out Of fashion. Bru-
nettes are now IL mode.
Items are scarce, nothing stirring; and
it seems rs if no one wished to stir.
Look at our advertising columns, and see
who are the business men of Elkton.
Large butterflies and bugs are now worn
in the hair, made of silver or gold, a Ia
Nilsson.
A question of dress-Is it better to be
tight in loose habits or loose in tight
habitss
When about to throw a piece of glass or
sharp fragment of iron into the street
think of the horses feet.
Now that the winter approaches closely
we may expect to encounter large numbers
of crate men in all directions.
Felt hats will be considerably worn by
the ladies this season in all the stylish
colors, and trimmed with velvet and scarfs.
We heard a young lady, the other even
ing, denounce matrimony, because, she
said there was something childish in it-a
fact.
The public are not aware that some of
our merchants have laid in their stock of
Fall goods, because they do not advertise
them.
The people of Elkton are now adopting
the same styles which We're adopted by
Adam and Eve after their transgression-
Fall styles.
Those figures On the slips on your paper
are not only to show a statement of your
account, but also an invition to those in
arrears to pay up.
We saw 4 horse in the street, the other
day, so poor that the owner had tied a
knot in his tail to prevent him from Slip
ping through his collar.
| We have heard of more ewes choppers
being about. In one instance the party
getting so close that mis-step put their
head through the window!
"Turkey Alarmed!'' is the caption of an
article in exchange. Inasmuch as Thanks
giving Day comes next month, we are not
surprised that Turkey is alarmed.
We recently heard young man remark
that he utterly failed in his attempts to
s:find young lady out" We would ad
wise him to call when she isn't at home.
Wild ducks are making their appearance
in Elk River, and our sportsmen are pre-
pairing for the campaign, getting their de-
coys and other paraphanalia ready for
action.
Boards are going out of fashion. Some
of our young men with nary hair ON
their face can congratulate themselves that
they needn't try to put Oh (h)airs any more
to be in fashion.
Young lalies now a-days always give
precedence to age; as, for instance, they
never 20 to the was-tub if their mother or
grand mother is present, for fear they
might consider it disrespectful.
Pheeby Sapp and Joe Hoop Cant-well as
sist Col. Hambleton at the ballot-box, yet
the young men threw some light on the
cause by each manfully carrying a torch
light at the Democrat meeting.
As people are now starting fires in stoves
and furnaces that have not been used dur
ing the summer, it is well to look carefully
at the pipes and exposures generally.
Many fires result from negligence of this
sort, and it is we'll to be on the safe side.
Some of those manageable young ladies
we mentioned last week say they are only
prepared to emigrate to the state of matri
mony as matter-of-money! 6 Brighter
days may come tomorrow, but we doubt
it. D..
A paying business-Get drunk, go home
and smash up part of your furniture, scare
your wife and children, arouse the COM
munity in which you live, imagine you see
a fox-hunt pass through the yard, and, to
cap the climax, be arrested. A case of
this kind occurred in town the other even
evening.
True" A drunkard is the annoyance Of
modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil
of wealth; the distraction of reason. He is
only the brewers agent; the tavern and
ale-house benefactor; the beggar's COM
panion; the constant trouble. He is his
J wife's woe; his own shame. He is a tub
of swiil, spirit Of sleep, picture Of a beast
and a monster Of 4 man. Specimens of
the above character exhibited daily on the
streets of Elkton.
A correspondent who yields ready pen
sends us the following for our "Squib"
column:
Nor HOOPS "SoNG OF THE SHIRT
Toll, toll, toll
AS the constant drop on a stone,
So this ceaseless endless work,
Wears away body and bone
Though the Poet sputter and write,
Though the Orator bully and bawl,
Fit were not for the Editors pen,
What were the use of it all
Toll, toll, toll
Christians, Mormons and Jews:
Is there man Oh this weary earth
But grows richer by reading the news?
Richer, richer, richer,
AS they read it by sunlight and taper?
And yet there isn't soul Of them all
But grudges to pay for his paper!
INCoG.
The POSTMASTER GENERALS REPORT.
The report of the Postoffice Department
for the fiscal year will show the encoura-