The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-28

SquibS.-BeT9arS abound.
1t pays-To advertise.
Snapper pie is in season.
Farmers are in good spirits.
Spring chickens are scarce.
Changeablc-The weather.
Corn is up and looking well.
The wheat is heading out nicely.
The fishing season is about over.
The country is beautiful all around us.
Good for higl-The ladies spring hats.
The music of Nature is heard in the air.
Wanted-A little soap and water for our
street lamps.
Numerous in town on Monday evening
last-Drunken men.
Why is it that some OF onr young men
cannot organize good Glec Club
Have been "takcn down" during the
week-A great many stoves.
Ought to be prevented-Fast driving in
the streets.
Base Ball seems TO be ''played out, in
Elkton, this season.
Mr.. A. W. Mitchells schHe blackbird is
turning buff.
The good houSekcepers are already be-
ginning to remark: ''Shoo, fly don't bod
der mer'
Fashionable spring bonnets are worn low
on the forehead They come :" high "
Abundant in Elkton-Pretty girls and
loafers. We ask pardon of the former for
putting them in the same sentence.
Summer has surely come: for the man
who never wears Il coat during that season,
has laid her aside
Outside whitewashing and cleaning up
seems to be the order of the day, just now,
in Elkton.
Strawberries have made their appear
ance in the Elkton market In short
time they will be abundant.
A boy was fined $50 the other day for
hitting another boy in the eye with stone.
Boys, you had better stop throwing stones.
The prospects for good fruit and grain
crops, in this community, thus far. are
very tlattcring.
Trite but not trle-Fat people are begin
ming to suffer from the heat. This is a
mistake, fat people do not suffer from the
heat.
Saturday night is particularly appro-
priated to promenading the streets i'll our
town.
Mr.. James A. Cantwell, late foreman of
the Democrat. left Elkton on Tuesday night
last for the South, where he purposes pur-
suing his profession. 'JimAl - is good
fellow, and we wish him success.
Ought to have been arrested-The row.
dies who drove into town on Sunday night
last-all drunk: and raced up and down
our streets, using profane language and
arousing peaceful citizens from their slum-
bers. We would like to know their names
There is not SO much fighting and swear
ing on Saturday nights, i'll town, as form
erly: and we warn all those who have been
in the habit of coming to town-as well as
those who live in town-and getting - ben
zineized' and raising disturbances, that
they had better shut down on it, - as the
Sheriff and his Deputy have lately got into
the habit of keeping them over night.
Badly sold-Those young gentlemen,
who in their moonlight peregrinations one
evening last week. touched something lying
on the pavement, which .iingled nightly
like gold ring A halt was instantly
made, matches lighted, and soon the party
were down on ''all-feurs' searching for
the supposed treasure. Nor was their
search in vain; for after long time of
crawling and paving, their efforts were re-
warded by the discovery of a ten-penny
nail Young men felt badly and as they
sheepishly went away, the burst of laugh
ter that greeted them from window near
by, which came from a fair one who had
been watching their maneuvering, added
completely to their discontinue.
Some of our boys, one evening last week,
feeling inclined to "see fellow run
told a young man, a stranger in town, that
they purposed having cock fight on the
following morning, and that farmer living
near town owned fine one, but would not
part with it, whereupon the stranger pro-
posed stealingit, which wasagreed to. Some
of the boys, armed with pistols, repaired to
the barn and awaited the coming of the
remainder of the crowd and the stranger.
Presently they came up, and to their sur
prise, they were confronted by man, who
said: " Whatdo you scoundrels want in my
barn-yard % Almost instantly the stran
ger saw the pistols flash before him-heard
the meanings and groanings of his com
rades, as they fell one by one by his side,
and the repeated threats of the supposed
farmer. 1t is useless to say that tall. wet
wheat, grass fences, etc, were no objects
i'll his way, on his return to town.