The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-04
Pcninsular and State Items.

was largely attended, and addressed by
able speakers, among whom was Rev. B.
F. Price, Pastor of the Elkton M. E.
Church. The entire day was pleasantly
SPENT and WILL doubtless, long be remeln-
bered by those who participated.
Trains are now running on the Kent
County Railroad from Kennedyville to
Massey's.
At the corporation election for Commits
1856 colored votes were cast, electing the
Republican ticket by % majority. One
colcred man-Reed a barber in that town,
voted the "White Mans" ticket.
The Town Commissioners of Centreville
have imposed upon them, by law, the
agreeable duty of making monthly visit
of inspection to all the premises in the
town during the summer season.
Daily trains will soon commence running
on the completed portion of the Q. A. Il
X. Railroad.
On Thursday of last week the colored
people celebrated their accession to their
long denied rights by large meeting at
Centreville, which was addressed by Gen.
r. Clay Crawford, of Chestertown, Gen.
Adam E. King, John H. Butler (celered)
and Hon. Hugh L. Bond.
1t was determined by the Quarterly Con-
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mony, Caroline county, on the 21st ult.,
that camp meeting should be held for
Denton circuit, at Concord, to commence
Friday, August 18th.
A movement is ON foot to organize in
Caroline, joint stock fruit growing asso-
citation.
Some of the grumbling' farmers of
that county have commenced to murmur
about the wheat crop.
The fruit prospect of Talbot is very flat
tering; and the wheat crop will be large.
The new Masonic Hall, at St. Michaels,
will be dedicated on the 4th of July next.
c. H. Gibson, Esq, has been appointed
Auditor in Chancery, by the Judges Of
Talbot County Circuit Court, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of A. P.
Jump, Esq.
Mr.. Peregrine Groome, an old and re-
spected citizen of Eastsn, died in that
town on Wednesday, 25th ult.
The cultivation of Indian corn seems to
be on the increase in Dorchester county
The wheat fields throughout the county
promise bountiful harvest.
The whosping cough is raging in Cam
bridge.
The Episcopal Convocation was held in
Cambridge on the 25th ult.
A large meeting was held in the Town
Hall, in Cambridge, week before last, to
petition Congress to appropriate fifty thou
sond dollars for the improvement of Cam
bridge Harbor.
Strawberries are selling at 10 cents per
quart in Salisbury.
They are now enjoying trout instead of
shad, in Wicomico.
Wheat looks flourishing in that county.
A man living near Salisbury has named
favorite variety of strawberry the "Ku-
Klux." He deserves to have the disgrace
full fact heralded into the northern mar
kets.
James E. Cathell having resigned the
position, Salisbury is without Bailiff
The annual sheep penning at Chinco-
league Island takes place June 18th, Sth and
9th, and many Wicomico people will go
over to see the sport.
The Deals Island, Somerset county,
camp meeting, will commence on Friday,
August 9Th.
The crops, in Somerset, promise large
yield.
The report from the peach crop in vari
GUS portions Of Worcester county is favor
able.
The Eastern Shore Railroad has altered
It's timetable. The train leaves Crisfeld
every merning at 6.45, and arrives at Prin-
cess Anne at 8, Salisbury 10, and Delmar
10 So.
Young Coffin, aged 12 years, son of Isaac
Coffin, on Synepuxent Beach, opposite Ber-
lin, was killed on Saturday, 21st ult., by
the accidental discharge Of his gun.
A. J. Merrill, formerly of the Newtown
Record, has started a new paper at Berlin,
called the Berlin Times.
Berlin market is supplied with an album
dance of fish.
Last Saturday week, at New Castle, six
men were whipped for larcency.
The camp meeting of the Camden Union
Camp Ground, at Camden, will commence
on the Sd of August, and continue until the
18TH
The Peninsular Record, published at
Seaford, prints the following item: Mrs.
Catharine Ellegood, of this town, is the
fortunate owner of "Tame Duck" com
mon species, which laid nest full of eggs
precisely the shape and form of gourds
with handle from 2 to inches long, with
the exact curve and form of common
gourd. Beat this, Peninsula, for "strauge
freaks in nature"
A camp meeting for Lincoln Circuit will
be held in the grove at Lincoln, three miles
below Milford, ON the junction and Break
water Railroad, commencing on Friday,
August 5th. Revs. N. w. Bennum and
Jas. Conner are the Pastors in charge.
About eight hundred bushels of trout
were taken at one haul, few days since,
near Benefits Pier, below Milford.
The Good Templars of Smyrna intend,
in few weeks, to produce, in dramatic
form, T. S. Authur's great temperance
play 'Ten Nights in Bar-roeom.
The wheat crop throughout the neigh
borhOod of Smyrna never looked more
promising than now.
The Committee appointed at the late
session of the Wilmington Conference, to
arrange for holding convention of the
Methodists of the Peninsula, met at FELTON,
and arranged to call such convention to
meet at Smyrna Nov. 18th.
The annual meeting of the Medical
Society of the State of Delaware will be
held at Dover OH the 18th of June.
The Georgetown paper says that Dull "
is NO name for the business relations of
that place. There is no work, no money,
and very little to eat.
The Seaford paper says that on Saturday
place, gave birth to three children, all girls;
the mother and children are doing WE'LL
Mrs. Hastings has given birth to II chill
dren in all, and is quite young woman.
There have been several heavy fires, re-
Hannah Murphey, daughter Of Timothy
Murphey, Of Havre de Grace, was burned
to death, by the explosion Of a coal oil can,
in Baltimore, recently.
A son of Samuel Cooling, of Havre de
The fishing season, on the Susquehanna,
&c about oyor