The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-14
peninSular and State Items.

tuted at the village OF Still Pond. Ken
county, Nd, on Tuesday evening, May Sd
A Building and Loan Association ha
lately been organized at Millington.
The wheat crop of Kent looks very prom
ising. and the prospect for good crop o
peaches is also favorable.
The same shewmen who raised a dis
turbance in Elkton, raised a similar riot a
Chestertown. by beating several inoffensiv
colsred men, one of whom is still in be-
from the effects of his injuries.
The farmers of Kent are taking prelimi
nary steps towards organizing Il Count,
Farmers Club, at Chestertown.
Three persons We're sentenced to the pen
itentiary at the late term Of the Ken
county court.
Miss Sallie Sculley. a young lady resid
ing a few miles from Centreville, met will
an accident on Wednesday afternoon, At
inst, which cost her one of her eyes.
seems she was digging in the garden will
a hoe, when she came in contact with al
oyster shell. which had been unobserved
and striking it with the hoe it flew up, th
edge of it being buried in the ball of thu
eye, completely splitting it in two.
Jas. B. Barwick, who keeps little gro
ecry at Colgan's Cross Roads. near Centre
vile, was lodged in Jail by Deputy Sheriff
Sparks on Sunday, 1st inst, upon the
charge of firing into the house Of VIM. E
Hollyday at the Cross Roads. Barwicl
claims that the shooting was the result OF
an accident.
Richard Tolson, of Queen Anne's, dice
suddenly, recently, from ever-exertion il
putting a colt in stable.
Fishing this season, in Caroline, ha
been failure,
G. Van Nalkenburg has sold the farm o
Joseph Hart, near Easton, to Mr.. Harris
of Chesapeake City. at 81, 800. Mr.. IIarri.
intends starting a nursery.
Tile Weekly Menir published at Sain
Michaels. by killam & HARRISON, made
its appearance on Saturday last. 1t is ;
nice looking paper, a little larger than The
Comet, which it succeeds. We wish it sue
cess.
Shad are growing scarce in the Choptanl
river The fishing season has been very
good one.
Money is SO scarce in Talbot county that
executions - won't bring it. All hope.
are now centred in the coming wheat crop
If that fails, the people think it will bt
"heavy weather with them.
The crops look well in Dorchester.
On Sunday night, LIST inst, the barn ant
stable of a colored man named Nathan
Young, residing near Cambridge was Ell
tirely consumed by fire, together with al
his farming utensils, lot of wheat, pota-
toes, &C., and one colt one year old. The
fire is supposed to be the work of an incen
diary.
A certain DR.. (?) Nixon, travelling or
the Eastern Shore, selling an article which
he calls {. Extenuator," and giving mounte
bank exhibitions, told druggist in Cam.
bridge, that he (Nixen) would not trust q
Black Republican under any circumstance
Yet he does not refuse to receive the money
of Black Republicans for his nostrums.
Republicans, remember him, if he should
happen to visit Elkton.
Ayoung man living with w. Bradley near
Crotcher's Ferry, and also colored man
a few nights previous, was attacked whilst
riding along the road. short time since, by
some one who crept stealthily from the
woods. This is the neighborhood in which
Stack murdered Rhodes.
The fisheries oh the Wicomico river have
been doing thriving business this season.
Since the last term of Wicomico county
court the morals of that county have deci-
dedly improved. 1t is rrnored that the
county is to have Jail, which will doubt
less have the effect to still further improve
its morals.
The prospect for large yields of grain and
fruit this year, in that county, was never
more tlattering than at present.
There will he a large crop of the earlier
verieties of peaches in Somerset. The
late varieties are seriously injured.
The stores in Princess Anne new close at
sunset.
Elijah Heath, an elderly gentleman, re-
siding i'll Somerset, had one of his legs so
seriously injured by being thrown from a
cart that amputation was necessary.
The wheat crop is short, in Somerset but
looks well.
The times are so dull in Princess Anne
that the shad have ceased to run up the
river.
The True Marylander says:-We notice
a strange tendency i'll our peach trees to
produce two, three, and even four and
sometimes five peaches from single bios
som. We have about half a dozen trees i'll
a clump which are full, and yet not one
blossom in ten produces single peach
and all over our orchard the same tendency
- to twin manifests itself. Is this a gen
eral tendency of the season, or is it peculiar
to our own orchard?
Wheat and oats are looking well in Wor-
cester county. and the prospect of an abun-
dance of all kinds of fruit is good.
The editor of the Snow Hill Messenger
was shown curiosity the other day in the
shape of young chicken with four legs
and three wings. The supertluous legs
were perfect, and came out just below the
neck, on either side of the body. The adj
ditional wing grew out between the tw o
others, and was perfectly formed.
A recent number of the Sussex Journal
81 f,1I e {1,nn
of Goldsberough, the murlerer:-It has
been a matter Of some interest with people
generally to know the particulars of Colds
borough's escape. We give the facts as
reported from his own lips. During the
interval between the time of his arrest and
trial he had the liberty of the Jail yard, and
during that time made all his preparations
He discovered the lower entry, and at such
times as he could get worked on his CELL
The walls were left in such condition as
to he easily broken, and on the night of his
escape he had little to do except cut
through the outer wall. He got into the
road at two o clock A. NJ, and crossed the
field to Towards house at daylight. He
was sick and lame, and was compelled to
remain at Towards house some time be-
fore he was i'll condition to travel. lie was
taken in carriage to Harrington. and his
route to Wye Mills was as reported at the
time. He had the misfortune to get drunk
at Denton, or his escape would have been
easier. He finally got to Baltimore 'en a
sail boat, and some weeks after shipped to
South America. This is the last we shall
for some time hear of the cold-blooded
murderer, Robert II. Goldsborough.
The negro, Nathan Anderson, who at
tempted to commit rape on Miss Emma
Flick, near Dover, was tried and convicted
at Dover, week before last, and sentenced
to pay a fine of $500 and the cost of prose Gu
ton, stand in the pillory one hour, be
whipped with thirty lashes and imprisoned
ten years. Edward Darnell, negro, was
tried and found guilty of murder in the
first degree, for the killing of Thos Hogan.
peddler. VIM. Lopez, another negro, in
dicted for the same murder, was acquitted.
Miss Lidie Hays, of Odessa whilst play
ing a game of Croquet about two weeks
since, complained of feeling dizzy. and sat
down. She swooned shortly afterwards,
and died in an hours time.
A camp meeting will be held this sum-
mer near ThistlewOod's mill Kent county,
Del, beginning July 23d.
Jacob Trimble's barn, at Seeds Station,