The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-03
PeninSular and State Items.

The annual tax levy in Queen Anne
comfy, for this year, is 7Si1 cents on the
800, being p cents more than last year.
The next quarterly association of Good
Templars of Queen Anne's County will he
held on September Sth, at Stcvensville,
Island.
The oyster trade, in that county has COM
menced to get brisk again. The indications
for the Fall trade are very good.
The wheat is said to have turned out
badly in Queen Anne's.
Sudlersville is reported to be the busiest
town in that county, just now.
The Constables are taking the dog CELL
sus in Centreville.
ton, on Wednesday was not largely attend
ed, but all the schools in the county were
represented.
During 4 thunder storm one night
recently, little son of Mr.. H. Myers, of
Denton, became frightened and jumped
out of the window, but received no serious
injuries.
The Easton journal says there is gen.
tleman i'll Talbot who has raised more than
one hundred thousand bushels of wheat in
one year, and that he cultivated his own
land.
G. Wright, of Easton, had valuable
livery horse stolen from him few nights
ago. We notice that this business is
being carried on quite extensively, at pres
ent, and warn our livery men against hir-
ing their teams to entire strangers.
The erection of the market house and
town hall, in Easton, has commenced.
During the recent thunder storms the
house of William Role, near St. Mchaels,
was struck by lightning and the chimney
l., ynI A,,1 oil
the house, shivering the plaster, striking a
bedstead wherein woman and child were
sleeping, but without injuring them in the
least, and making its exit through win
dow.
The census taker of the Cambridge Dis
trict has completed his work and the pop
ulation Of Cambridge is, black and white,
1,643.
At the recent colored Camp, held at
Gypsy Hill, near Cambridge, immense
crowds were in attendance, and the very
best of order prevailed all the time.
The schools will not begin until October,
says the Neus and the Commissioners
have determined to close them the last of
May, notwithstanding heavier tax has
been levied for school purposes for the next
year.
The wife of Ephraim Birmingham, resid-
while labOring under temporary abera-
ton of mind, few days ago.
The lifeless body of a male mulatto
infant was discovered i'll Quantico, on
Thursday morning last, concealed in the
furnace of an unused canning establish
lishmcnt, belonging to Messrs. Crawford e.
Bounds, of that town, where it was evident
it had been placed but 4 short time previous
by its lnhuman mother.
The Church of the colored people at
Princes Anne was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday, Gath inst, supposed to have
been the work of an incendary.
The foreman of the Snow Hill Shield is
sick, and that paper appears later than
usual.
The hog pox is making ravages in Snow
Hill District. One farmer has lost over
800 worth of hogs, within two weeks, by
this disease.
Tho season at Collins Beach closes on
Thursday next. 1t is said to have been Il
success this year.
The move on the part of some New
Workers, to build the Railroad ACROSS from
Seaford to Georgetown seems to be meeting
with some encouragement. The Delaoarca1s
says: ga meeting of the Commissioners
of the Seaford and Georgetown Railroad
Company will be held in Seaford to-day
for the purpose of opening books of sub
scription to the capital stock of said road. -
The Odd Fellows are preparing to build
a handsome hall in New Castle.
Hoftecker & Brothers canning establish
meut is the busiest place in Smyrna. They
have about 100 persons employed in put
ting up from $500 to 4, 900 cans of peaches
per day.
Thos. Maston, colorcd, probably the old
est man in Kent county, Del, died near
FELTON,, Oh the 18th ult. lie was 10G years
old.
J. N. Chambers, of Dover, has grown a
peach which he calls the 'Mountain Rose. -
1t is very early, and eXccls Troths Early
Red in size and productivencss.
The Mutual Friend surmises the popula-
ton of Milford to be about 3,0OO-less than
it was some years ago.
A German of Milford has started for
Europe to fight for 80 Fadcrland.'
F. w. Reeds peach canning establish
ment in Seaford runs % hands, prtting up
upwards Of H. 900 cans per week