The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-08-13
SUuibS.-Read Supplement.

Confidence is the companion of success.
The nights are becoming cool and pleas
ant.
Rare prizes-Young ladies with kitchen
education.
BARRIERS are continually scraping ac-
quaintances.
Peaches are selling in Our market at five
cents per quart.
The original Elkton Building Society
meets tonight.
The latest name for matrimony is com
hitting twoicide."
Wanted-A bridge over the gutter to
enter the Sheriff's yard.
The " cold shoulder" is the most desira-
BILE reception this weather.
Sweet (?)-The music that comes from
those accordeons, ON Main street.
The water" melon-cholic days have
have come THE hottest of the year.
A young man S affections are not always
wrong, but they are generally Miss placed.
Why are not the holes in the sidewalks
mended? Pedestrians limbs are in danger.
A rascally bachelor calls the friendship
of two women "always plot against n
third
A miraculous feat of strength-For very
small peaches to bring such very large
prices.
Miss Emma V. Layman. of Elkton, has
been appointed teacher of the Westamwell
school.
Pic-nics, of different kinds and colors,
in different parts of the county, are very
numerous.
The visible effects of the camp meeting
are seen running about the streets ON canes
and crutches.
The ''can-can" is now having successful
run in this county. Everybody is canning
fruit who can.
The philomel of Elkton disturbs our UNI
musical citizens with her midnight warb-
lings to the mune.''
The Friendship Grove Sunday School
will hold an exhibition in Carpenters Point
Neck, on Wednesday 18th of August.
The present fashion of wearing two long
braids hanging down the back is very APP
propriate and becoming for young girls.
Rusticus, in commenting on tile present
style of female couture, says: 1t must be
a very poor soil that requires so much top
dressing"
Mr.. Larzalerc, who was awarded the
contract Of digging the cellar for the Sher-
;,,1
Thursday morning.
The thunder and lightning, rs well as
rain, cools and purifies the air. besides the
latter cleans the streets and makes every
thing fresh and green.
Soft soap, in some shape, pleases ALL and
generally speaking, the more lie you put in
it the better. 1t has desired effect on
some people about Elkton.
Going past a certain residence we fire.
quently hear good christian lady singing,
81 love to tell the Story which makes
us think how naughty she is.
If any one time is better to advertise
than another, now is the time, when the
papers are read by every man, woman and
child, on account of the war news.
E. Wesley Janney has been appointed
Deputy Marshal, in place of Dr. r. II.
Tuft, resigned, to take the census of the
list and I'd Districts of this county.
We heard of an old woman, when speak
ing of the European war, remarked that
she always did say that there would be
al =.
thought her husband was q Democrat.
Mr.. Samuel J. Tammany was appointed
Principal of the Elkton Public School, on
Tuesday last, and MIS-. Parker and Miss
Anna r. Moore, Assistants. These are
the same teachers who had the school last
year.
Some of our young Jarristers are giving
the Agasss theory of fish diet as a brain
food, a practical test; and may be found
"down the river" every afternoon coaxing
the shy inhabitants of the deep to take a
worm.
The Big Elk M. E. Sabbath school will
hold pic mic in Jesse Taylor's woods, on
Thursday, August 18th. Refreshments to
be sold for the benefit of the school. The
public are invited to attend.
We complain of the heat here, where we
are at liberty to battle in ice water, if we
so desire; but Just think of poor Louis
Napoleon, Jr., who recently "received a
baptism of fire." No wonder the French
soldiers wept
The best way for the Town Commission
ers to circulate those notices, strictly pro-
hibiting the running at large Of hogs and
geese, is to paste them on the backs of
those animals, which so numerously abound
in North street.
4 large sturgeon was caught by the
Messrs. Bennett, in Elk River, on Monday
last, near the Club House, measuring eight
feet six inches. This is the largest stur-
gcon ever caught so far up the river 1t
was very poor.
Some of our young men took an innocent
colored man, on Saturday night last, "to
get some honey!'' 1t il unnecessary to
say that the poor fellow had to "git up
and git before he could cut the tree
uOWH. Diu DoyS.
The bids for supplying stone and sand,
for the new Jail, will be opened by the
Commissioners on Tuesday next. Bidders
must be present. ready to give bond, when
the proposals are opened, Or they will re-
ceive no attention.
Thomas Wort, pile driver of Whining
ton, Del, has just completed the driving
of piles for Il bridge 400 feet in length, over
Scotchmans Creek, in this county. The
bridge will cost $1,000 ana will be ready
for travel next week.
A grand Temperance Mass Meeting, I'M
der the management of Minnehaha Lodge,
|. O. G. IT,, will be held at Nottingham
station, on the P. & b. G. r. r., two miles
north of Rising Sun, on Thursday, 18th of
August. Sec advertisement elsewhere.
The condition of the gutter at the East
end of High street, near certain pump in
that LEGALITY, is fearful. The etiluvia arts
ing therefrom is such rs will create disease
and is almost unbearablc to the passer-by.