The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-28
Peninsular and State Items.

The store house of F. II. Harper, at Still
Pond was broken into on Sunday night,
10th inst, and goods to the amount of sew
eral hundred dollars stolen. The robbers
were two colored men, who were arrested in
Baltimore on the following Thursday,
brought to CheStertOwn and committed to
Jail.
The Easton Journal says: Mr.. Caldwell,
contractor, has large force at work grad
ing the road at Windmill Branch, one and
a-half miles south of Easton. There is
heavy grading at that place, and it will
take some days to throw the embankment
up, though the two sides will he connected
by bridge. With his usual energy, Mr..
all possible despatch, and we expect soon
to see the trains running to tide water, and
announce the entire completion of the
Maryland and Delaware Railroad.
The Good Templars of Talbot will hold
their Quarterly Association at Royal Oak,
June Sth.
The crops are all reported to be looking
fourishing in Talbot.
The Cambridge papers boast that Cam
brigde is the most beautiful town in the
State.
The schools in Dorchester county are
still kept alive.
Cambridge is, undoubtedly, the most
dressy place in Eastern Maryland says a
paper published in that town. We are
sorry to hear it. Better have reputation
for enterprise and energy.
1t is supposed that Stack, the murderer
of Rhodes, is still secreted in Dorchester
county.
passed ever the upper portion of Dorches-
do Oft ,ln E,iSa nv
week. doing considerable damage. Wheat
suffered badly.
The Cambridge jail does not now contain
4 single prisoner. The last court made a
clean sweep.
The Republicans in Cambridge, as well
as throughout the county, are perfecting
their party organization.
Business is reported briskiug up, in that
town.
The strawberry crop will be heavy in Wi
cemice this season.
A horse died in that county, not long
since, aged thirty-nine years.
Delmar the terminus of the Del. r. R.,
is gradually rising to the dignity Of a vii
lage.
The schools in WIcomico county, for
want of funds to pay teachers, have been
closed until next Autumn.
VIM. II. Gibson, of AnnamessiX, was
badly mashed at house moving, not long
since.
In Bishopville, Worcester county, the
other day, Joshua Collins and his wife and
several children were poisoned, by taking
arsenic in their coffee at breakfast. A
physician was summoned, and by his skill
full treatment, they are still living and
doing well. No one was suspected of the
deed n In accounts
A stergeon was taken in the Pocomoke
river near Snow Hill, short time since,
measuring nine feet in length.
The steamer Maggie has been put on the
line between Snow Hill and Baltimore.
The musquitoe crop is fine in some parts
of Worcester county. We have heard that
near Saow Hill the cattle are driven from
the fields by these pests.
The Atlantic Hotel, at Lewes, Del, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday morning, 18th
inst. The loss is not heavy.
The Sussex journal says that the buds
are falling off the peach trees and the farm
ers in the neighborhood are satisfied that
there will not be Il half crop.
Z. On the cd day of May, some stalks of
wheat plueked from one of the farms of
John p. Cochran, near Middletown, meas
ured thirty-four inches.
1tCN. ~. H. DdNlS ilHOunCcS tlldl d Sull-
day School Convention or Teachers 1nsti-
tute, for Harrington Circuit, will be held
in Salem NJ. E. Church, Wednesday, June
list, exercises to commence at l. P. NJ. \
number of addresses are to be delivered.
A white robin has nest at Seaford. 1t
has visited the town for the last four years
and is quite favorite with the citizens.
The barn of Mrs. T. Appleby, near the
Bear Station, in New Castle Hundred was
struck by lightning on Friday night, the
9th inst. and burned to the ground. A colt
persisted in the flames. Luckily the horses
and cattle had been turned out to pasture.
John Murphy and Jamss Murphy were
convicted at New Castle of an assault and
battery upon Jefferson B. Feard, near
Smyrna, last February and sentenced each
to pay fine of $500 and costs, and be I'M
prisoned fifteen months.