The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-08-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


LOCAL AFFAIRS.
james NJ. Gilmore, OF kimbleville,
will sell his horses, wagons, carriages and
butehsring implements, on Wednesday,
the Goth instant.
Woodlawn Camp Meeting commences
on Tuesday next. The number of tents on
tho ground gives assurance of very large
camp, far surprising all previous gatherings
of the kind at that place.
The Hartford Lodge of Knights Of
of Pythias of Havre de Grace, propose hav-
ing an excursion from that town to Ches-
tertown, on Saturday next, 23rd inst. The
Lodge have chartered the steamer Samuel
]. Pentz for the occasion. No spirituous
liquors will be allowed on board.
Tho annual basket pic mic and boating
party at W. T. Boulden's fishing shore,
came off on Wednesday last, but was very
seriously interfered with by the storm
which prevailed all day. About 200 per-
sons assembled on the ground, and spent
the day as pleasantly as circumstances
would permit in the shelter Of the large
shed but tho storm outside prevented all
attempts at boating, and in the evening
when the seekers for pleasure under diff
Guilty had to face the pelting shower they
voted the party failure.
We copy the following items from the
Oxford Press:-On the 31st ult., John Har-
very, Of York county, was instantly killed
near McCall's Ferry, on the Columbia and
Port Deposit railroad. The deceased was
holding the "jumper," which was driven
into the rock by two other mon. Whilst
thus employed large rock overhead be-
came detached and falling struck Harvey
and crushed his head. The unfortunate
man was 80 years of age, and leaves wife
and three children. Charley Long, a
lad Of Oxford, got badly raked a few days
ago. He was riding on stsel-teoth horse
rake out of his fathers hay field, when tho
wheel struck post and the horse started,
which threw Charley off in front Of the
teeth of the rake. After being dragged a
short distance he luckily slipped through
the teeth and was relieved from his ugly
position without more harm than a few
sharp scratches.
Premium for charlottesville will give
one SIS Parker breech- loading double-bar-
relied shot gun and S11 worth of shells,
caps, ETC., making q premium worth $S6
to any person who will send us eighty new
subscribers to The Cecil Wing with two
dollars each, between now and the 30th of
October.
Large Yield Of Wheat.-Mr. George W.
Barnes, of Carpenters Point, raised the
present season, $40 bushels Of choice red
wheat from field of 81 acres, making
"a 22-27 bushels per acre. This is the
kind of farming that pays. That portion
Of Cecil county bordering the Elk and
North East rivers, is proving, under pro-
per cultivation, to be admirably adapted to
wheat.
Barn Struck by Lightning.-The barn
of Parker Harding, about six miles north
west of Elkton, was struck by lightning,
on Tuesday evening last, and burned, with
all its contents, consisting of hay, grain
and farm implements. His wheat was
threshed and in bags on the barn floor, and
part of the grain only was saved. A
horse in the stable was severely stunned
and with difficulty rescued from the burn
ing building.
Hurt on the Train.-On Monday last,
passenger, on the Washington Express,
named L. Mathews, a resident of Balti-
more, and a gas-ftter by trade, had his
arm broken while passing Newark station.
He with some friends were returning from
Philadelphia, and Mathews was indulging
in a nap with his arm or elbow out of the
car window, which came in contact with
some object on the side of the track. The
train stopped at Elkton to let the injured
man and his friends off. DR.. Mitchell
placed him under chloroform and found the
arm broken above the elbow, and the elbow
joint injured.
Child Lost.-A little daughter of Mrs.
Woodrow, living on North street, above
the Railroad, was sent by her mother to one
of tho store, on Saturday morning last; and
by some means the child got bewildered,
lost her way completely, and strayed away
on the road leading to Cherry Hill. The
distracted mother searched all day for the
child, in vain. About nightfall the child
was found by a Mr.. Drummond in the
vicinity Of Cherry Hill and restored to the
arms Of her overjeyed mother. The money
she had started with to the store to mako
her purchases, she still grasped tightly in
her hand whom she WAS returned to her
home.
Teachers Passed.-Names of teachers
examined and passed, July 30 and 80, at
Elkton and Port Deposit:
Mate L. Roberts, Maggie j. MeCauley,
Alice Paxton, Tillie Fitzpatrick, Davis
Richardson, Emma Wilson, L. A. Forman,
Fannis Scott, Brinton P. Nichols, Elihu B.
Hall, Franklin White, Sena White, Jennie
e. Vandsver, William H. Brokaw, Lande
d. HcAtes, Delilah Brown, Laura Veach,
Lizzie P. Griffith, Anna N. Way, Mary R.
l 'ynch, Evalena E. Way, Hannah Harlan,
l.. uisa j. Bricklsy, Hattie F. Lort, Mary
E. Chapman, Hettis Howard, Mary Alice
Brown, Ella Calhoun, Annie Cradock,
Taun;S f. Craip Emma r Camnhell