The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-07
PeniESular and State Items.

| family were all from home, except a small
colored boy. who stated that he was playing
i'll the barn-yard by setting fire to. and pat
out, punches of straw, but finally the fire
got such Roadway that it reached the barr
before he could cXtinguish it. Loss about
$1,000. No insurance.
/ a tribe of the |. o. r. VI. has been os
| tablished at Chestertown.
The colored citizens of Kent are making
preparations for grand celebration Of the
Fifteenth Amendment. on the 10Th inst.
The Kent Railroad commenced on Mon
day last to run trains from kcnnedyville
connecting with the Delaware Railroad AT
Townsend.
The Centreyille Citizen says Captain
Hunter Davidson has been reelected Com
modore of the Oyster Navy of Maryland.
Charges Of dishonesty and neglect of duty
We're preferred against the Commodore al
the election. but in the face of these charges
Davidson has been continued. In few
more years, and the oyster beds OF our riv-
crS, under the prOtection Of this man, will
be entirely destroyed. 1t is no unusual
sight to see half dozen sails at time in
Chester River. dredging for oysters with
perfect IMMUNITY.
Wheat looks well in Caroline.
Denton is very prolific in dogs, if i'll moth,
ing else. One man has thirteen.
While the circus was in Easten. several
parties had their pockets picked. one gen
tleman losing $50. The Journol thinks the
light-tingcred gentry might have "gonc
through good many others, without
again making so large single haul.
The dwelling house of w. S. Stichbury,
at Taverners woods, about four miles from
Easton. was destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning. Esd inst, together with his fur
niture and all the clothing of himself and
family. Mr.. S. was i'll Easton when the fire
occurred Loss about $4,000, on which he
had an insurance of S1.250 on the house,
and $500 on the furniture.
Strawberries promise a heavy crop, this
season, in Caroline.
Herrings pass Us legal tenders in Greens
borough. Boutwell, they do.
The wife of Mr.. Shaticr has elopcd with
man named Joseph Baird, taking with
her the trinkets of her husband S first wife,
which latter proceeding distresses the hus-
band exceedingly.
Wheat looks tlourlshing in Talbot.
The Engineer Corps Of the Md. & Del.
Railroad Company were engaged, week be-
fore last, in surveying the route from
Easton to Chanccllor's Point. The route
surveyed runs within quarter of a mile of
the town Of Trappe.
The work of grading the section of the
railroad between Easton and the Choptanll
river was recommended on Monday last.
Business is on the increase in Cam
bridge.
The Cambridge Ne,os says:-Many of the
gardens in and around Cambridge are look
ing very beautiful. Our town is celebrated
for its beautiful ladies. flower gardens and
gentlemen of leisure. We think Cambridge
cannot surpass Elkton in any of the above
named productions particularly the latter.
The steamboats, are running regularly to
Cambridge now. Both night and day boats
are on the line.
\ large portion Of the peach buds, in
Somerset are dead.
The fruit crop is very promising in Dor
chester, this season.
The Republicans of the Eastern Shore
without regard to color, held general
mass meeting. at Boonsville, Caroline
county, on Saturday last.
The steamboat line between Snow Hill
and Baltimore has resumed em-weekly
trips: leaving Baltimore at five every Tues
day and Friday afternoon for Snow Hill
and landings on the route, and leaving
Snow Hill every Monday and Thursday
Seven prisoners are now in the Snow
Hill jail awaiting trial. The last was put
in for stealing chickens.
An effort is being made in Dover TO raise
Il fund to build town hall.
Casperson' mills, on the railroad. three
miles above Clayton, were burned on Thurs
day week. The fire was communicat ed by
some burning brush.
The Jail at Dover is full from the base.
mcnt to the roef.
Dover has 10 practicing lawyers, physi-
clans and dentists.
The Masons, Odd Fellows, and Knights
of Pythias, of New Castle, are going to
build hall in that town at cost of $50, 0C0.
Midelletewn is to have new depot. which
is to cost about $4,000.
y negro woman was run over by a train
on the Delaware road near ST. AIMS cross
ing, and had both legs taken off. She was
drunk at the time.
The Presbytery of Wilmington held its
session in Milford, week before last.
There is prospect of u fine crop of
peaches this year.
Efforts are being made to raise money to
build town hall in Dover.
Several serious and damaging fires have
occurred in Delaware lately.
bury :-s' Oh-r-eh Say How yer craps
When did you git back? You'll be dings-
wizzlea . You go there yourself. Where
have you beeno Sometimes rendered.
where have you been to at, amt We p
horse, attached to a lager beer wagon,
became frightened and jumped into the
canal, at lavre de Grace, taking the wagon
and lager with him. All was got out safely
except the lager. What pity it was lost
The Susquehaana is now in fine rafting
rafting order, and large numbers of RATS
are daily reaching tile-water
Bishop Lay visited the following named
churches, in Hartford county, and admins
tered the rite of confirmation to the num-
bers named Rock Spring, g. Emmanuel
Church, Bel Air, 70; Trinity Church,
Churehville, to 20 persons; and at St.
Johns Church, Havre de Grace, II.
A grey eagle was shot and captured by a
gentleman in Baltimore county the other
day The wings measure seven feet from
tip to tip.
SHARP AND CLEAR.-We rather admire
the self-deception which enables man to
excuse the baseness of Jefferson Davis,
and devote column of eensurc to a gentle
man who repeats remark dropped by him.
ought to be able to apologize for the Hon
orable Joseph Jones, who steals million,
and in the next breath to deliver hemily
on the cnormity of the theft of loaf of
bread by a furnished man. The editor of
the World is able to apologize for the bad
faith of Mr.. Davis, but is not able to for
give General Cameron for saying that he
told Mr.. Davis, at the breakfast table, that
in the time to come negro would occupy
his seat in the Senate. Having broken
bread with Mr.. Davis, says the World, the
conversation INDUCED in at the time should
be sacred. Having accepted bread as well
as an education, from the United States,
the first in unstinted quantities it may be
supposed by people who have been trained
to thankfulnesS for favors, that Mr.. Davis,
by leading a rebellion against the Govern
ment, is also guilty of slight violation OF
the laws of hospitality. Begging the
Worlds pardon, We conclude that its refined
appetite rejects the gnat, and Graves unlim.
tied rations of camel.-PAilndeNpiq Day,
Mage, 1870.