The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-10
Pcninsular and State Items.

is in the midst of the peach growing dis
trict.
The steamboat "Champion replaces
the massachusetts, on the route between
Denton and Baltimore. The champion
will run as day boat.
The recent Sunday-school Convention
held in Denton, was considered an inter-
csting and successful affair, by those par
ticipating, and they resolved to have anoth-
next year.
Philip Mehr, residing in Caroline county,
was run over and severely injured by cart
recently. His horse ran away, being fright
ened at a carcas of a carton, some fellow
had left i'll the public road.
The editor of the Denton journal has
been handed sweet potato, measuring 49,!
inches in circumference.
A Grand Temperance Celebration, under
the auspices of the Good Templars of Car
cline county, was held near Greensborough,
on the 31st ult.
Mr.. Casho, of Delaware, has established
a bending shop at Melville, Caroline county,
for the manufacture of cart and carriage
rims, shafts, sleigh runners, &c.
Rapid progress is being made in the con-
struction of a new market house at Easten.
The Star continues it's attacks on Col.
Hambletor, the probable Democratic NOM
nee for Congress.
The farmers are now securing their tod
der. The corn has turned out poorly,
except in a few favored districts not
injured by the drought.
The Md. & Del. r. r., which has had
more accidents than any other road on the
Peninsula, has had another by which one
car was thrown off the track and another
much damaged. No one was hurt.
IN E,idov 1norpinr Op1 inst tho dwa11
ing, kitchen and meat house on the farm
of William NJ. Lambdin, in Bay Hundred,
occupied by Ezekiel Cooper, were destroyed
by fire. Mr.. Cooper lost all his furniture,
about 800 worth of bacon, his seed wheat,
and all the wearing apparel of himself and
family
On Friday, end inst, the new Masonic
Hall, at St. Michaels, was dedicated
Quite number of Masonic Lodges, from
Baltimore, and the neighboring towns,
were in attendance. The crowd was large,
and it is reported to have been grand
affair. Everything passed off quietly.
The colored people in the vicinity of st.
Michaels, will celebrate the Fifteenth
Amendment in that town, on the 18th
instant
On the Goth ult., the barn belonging to
Uriah Mcguire, of Tabaccostick, Dorches-
ter county, containing about 200 bushels
of wheat, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
The present population Of the town of
Cambridge is reported to be / CAB. In 1860
the population of the town WIS 1,S62,
showing a decrease of PIG in ten years.
Cambridge will be "nowhar' in a few
years, at this rate.
The Cambridge Nens sums up the results
of the recent Camp Meetings in that yicin-
ity, thusly:-One hundred and fifty-seyen
persons received in the church upon proba-
ton; fifty cases of the bilious fever con-
tracted at these camps, to come off this
fall; over two hundred f1irtations, forty
engagements, which will result in twenty
five marriages between this and spring
All hail! to camp meetings, they are great
modern institutions!
A fellow in Dorchester affirms to the
editor of the Ne,cs, in regard to musqui-
toes, in his section of the county, that he
had driven every mosquito out of his room
the night before, closed the doors and
windows and went to sleep, but in few
hours they had taken out pane of glass
with their bills and came swarmng in by
the millions and he only saved himself by
beating hasty retreat to the cellar
1t is said that Salisbury contains 394
uWelllnBk, tlO dUOuU S,UOU
inhabitants.
There is again complaint Of damage
from dry weather in Wicomico.
They are about to designate the streets
of Salisbury by lettered finger boards.
The huckleberry crop in Somerset was
large this year, and put good deal of
money in the hands of the poorer class of
people.
Diptheria is still prevalent in some of
the lower Districts of Somerset.
Last Thursday night week, the canning
establishment of Davy & Miles, near Fair
mount, was, together with it's contents,
destroyed by fire. The building was own
ed by Robert H. Jones, of Potato Neck
No insurance on it or the stock.
A few evenings since, Thomas Parker,
residing in Worcester county, was riding
home in an open buggy, two persons, stand
ing by the roadside, shot at him, the balls
whizziug by his face, without doing any
injury.
The Middletown Transcript says:-Sev-
enteen car loads of peaches were despatched
from this station OH Tuesday, and the same
number on Wednesday, and Thursday
These were the highest shipments this sea-
son. Last year, eighteen cars per day
was the highest.
hS "ppiO Siop, III Gic loWSl pau VI hSl-
aware, is said to be the largest ever grown.
A boy named Burke fell off Il vessel, at
New Castle and was drowned, few days
since.
The excursion from Milford to New
York, by the Delaware and New York
Steamship line, last week was grand sue
cess.
A gentleman from Media, Pa, proposes
to erect steam grist mill at Middlctown.
The colored citizens of Laurel, Del,
will celebrate the 18th Amendment on
Thursday, 23rd of September.
A colored girl, named Elizabeth Davis,
aged about II years, living with Mr.. Isaac
S. Taylor, at Duck Creek, near Smyrna,
was burned to death by an explosion of a
coal oil can, on Saturday night week. She
was trying to make the fire burn better by
pouring oil upon it, when the can bursted,
the burning oil flying over her and setting
her clothing on fire.