The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-18
Peninsular and State Items.

county.
The store of VIM. T. McClymcnts, OF
Centreville, was robbed last week of 800
worth of shoes.
Centreville station of the NJ. E Church,
has determined to hold camp meeting at
Wye this summer, though the exact time
has not yet been fixed.
The lowlands, in Caroline, are flooded,
and great damage has been done to crops
by the heavy rains.
The Post Master General has designated
Denton Post Office as money order office.
The wheat crop, in Talbot, has been
somewhat injured by the recent heavy
rains; but the corn crop is reported to be
looking well and growing very fast.
Talbot circuit will hold a camp meeting
at McNeills woods, this summer. The
exact time has not yet transpired. St.
Michaels circuit will also hold a camp
meeting in Broad Creek Neck, early in
August.
The chicken cholora is raging in the
neighborhood of st. Michaels. Some of
the farmers have lost every chicken they
had.
The new Masonic Hall, at St. Michaels.
will he dedicated on or about the Goth of
July next, instead of the 4th, as heretofore
published.
The young men in the vicinity of Easton
are in the habit of getting "bezineized :"
when they visit that town; and OCCASION
ally some of them are locked up until they
get sober.
Easton has ten soda-water fountains, and
begins to feel metropolitan.
The peaches are falling off so as to alarm
growers, in that county.
Talbot county roads are reported to be
in horrible condition.
The wheat in that county shows signs of
rust.
Bishop Lay, of Easton, will administer
the rite of confirmation at St. Michaels on
the Goth inst.
Soft crabs are in abundance in St.
Michaels.
Tho town of Trappe is improving rap
idly.
T. w. Anderson & Co., are to erect
peach canning establishment on Cambridge
creek.
The people of Nienna want bridge over
the Nanticoke.
A light boat has been anchored in eight
fathom water. The watermen express
great satisfaction thereat.
The Salisbury Adcertiser says there is
gentleman in Salisbury who owns goose
that will set for two days, without any in
clination to move, and will swallow red
hot Goals without any seeming inconven-
fence to itself This may be true, but we
think it looks rather "goosey.''
All the crops in Wicomico Except pota-
toes and clover are thought to be some
what njured by the late storm.
Spring chickens are selling in Salisbury
for % cents piece.
Green Run Beach, in Worcester county,
is to be fitted up as a seaside resort.
Strawberries are in abundance in that
county.
1t is feared that the corn CROP in several
localities i'll Worcester, is seriously hurt by
the recent heavy rains, especially in the
lowlands.
The "Old Folks Cencert,' at Middle
town, was complete success,
The Peach Growers Association will
meet at Dover ON Tuesday, 21st., which
will probably be the last meeting of the
Association this season.
The Kent County Railroad is progressing
rapidly.
Elijah Hitch, of Sussex county. has two
peach trees that bear two perfect crops of
peaches each and every year. The fruit is
Of the very best quality and the yield large.
So says the Sussex Journal
A man named Barker, in GEORGETOWN,
has calf with six feet-both of its hind
feet are double and turned the wrong way.
1t is three weeks old and in good health,
but cannot stand up.
At the Democratic nomination election
in New Castle on Saturday week. some of
the men got drunk and there were six fights
during the day.
The pier at Lewes was damaged to the
amount Of $500 by the late storm, and it's
completion will be delayed at least a
month.
The Smyrna Times says:-Peaches are
falling from the trees and rotting rapidly
in many orchards, and among certain va
rieties. The Hale's Early are rotting so
rapidly that there will be none left to ripen
i'll many orchards, it is feared. The wet
weather is assigned as the cause
Several persons are claiming a thousand
acres of land near Delaware City, which
was sold for taxes in III, for ninety-nine
years, then to revert to the heirs of the Or
iginal owners. A suit is in prospect for
the property.
The Havre de Grace Republican SAYS
As we promised, at the opening of naviga-
ton in the spring, the trade on this canal
Tide Water) has been very brisk From
thirty to forty boats leave here daily, in
the tows for the New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore markets. The stock of
lumber at the up river mills is very heavy,
and as the freights and tolls on the Tide
Water and Pennsylvania canals are very
low, the great body of it comes this route
to market. The continued strike in the
Schuylkill coal regions has tendency to
make the coal trade on the Susquehanna
more lively.
The Havre de Grace Building Associa-
ton No. 1, at its last monthly meeting, on
Monday night week, sold $500 for 10 per
cent premium.
A large and enthusiastic Republican
meeting was held at Anderson Institute,
Havre de Grace, on Thursday night, 9th
inst. VIM. NJ. Marine, Esq, of Baltimore,
and others addressed the meeting. Res
olutions endorsing the principles Of the
Republican party, and pledging it's candi-
dates undivided support were passed.
The Republican Convention which met
at Dover, on Thursday of last week, nomi-
mated Thomas B. Ceursey for Governor,
and Joshua T. Head for Congress. They
are both GOOD men,