The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-12
Local Affairs.

try.
Grabs are tolerably plenty in the river
now, and grabbing is favorite amusement
for our towns folk.
The Fair of the Oxford Agricultural
Society, will take place, on September
Both and October LIST.
MIR. Evans killed eighty rail birds on
Thursday last, which is the largest number
been killed on one tide during the present
season.
Oxford is promised balloon excite
ment by Prof. Wise, of Philadelphia, from
the Agricultural Fair grounds, on the LIST
of October.
An old and valuable horse belonging to
Mr.. Joseph Booth, who lives near this town,
died on Wednesday night last, in the 3lst
year of his age.
The pavement on Bow street above
High has been relaid and widened this
week, which is a good job that needed do
ing for some time.
Lloyd Luton, blacksmith at Marley
Paper Mills, cut one of his hands very
severely on Tuesday morning last, with
the butteris, while pairing horses hoof.
A new trunk or underdrain of white
oak plank has been put in the street at MIR.
J. Wells meat store, which looks like
good Job and one that would last for some
years.
Mr.. Samuel Lowman was robbed on
Wednesday last, while attending the show
at Elkton. The man who carried the
candy around got his money. Look out
for him.
The Bell Hill farm has been sold by
the Mccullough Iron Co., to Mr.. W. w.
DeGoey and wife, fer $4,000. The tract
contains "a acres, and was formerly the
property of H. Mccullough, Esq.
The ice cream stand on the Tournament
ground for Tuesday next, has been awarded
to George Booth, he being the lowest bid
der. The confectionery stand has been
given out to Mrs. Morris Cummings.
On Friday evening last week, Mr.. H.
II. Duyckinck, of Brick Meeting House,
was knocked down and severely stunned,
at Oxford, by running against an iron
hitching rail, in his haste to secure his
team which was frightened by locomotive.
On Saturday last, two small boys, sons
of Mrs. Moore, a widow lady, residing in
Elk Neck, were playing and wrestling to-
gether, when one of the boys was thrown
and his left arm broken by the fall, between
the wrist and elbow. DR.. Frazer "set "
the broken limb.
There will be a Protracted Meeting
held by Rev. ]. B. Crane, at the Christian
Chapel, on the Ash road, near Chestnut
Hill, commencing on Tuesday evening, the
18th inst. Come all and hear the gospel
preached as on the day of Pentecost.
S. OFT.
On the Rail-The Governor launched
a new cunning skiff on the marsh with
breech- loading Scott gun, on Friday morn
ing, but Providence interposed in favor of
the birds, with low tide, and the little
innocents will have a respite till the next
high tide.
The Town Baliff has been asserting
the majesty of the law recently with an
emphasis astounding to the average Elk
tonian, and several have found an abiding
place for longer or shorter periods of time,
within the substantial environs of Elk Jail,
for violating town ordinances.
True merit is always deserving of
word of commentator, and this applies to
A. A. Grier, the photographer, whose pic
lures are real artistic. He proposes to
take the gallant knight and his ladye love
in costume, who win the prize and wear
the crown at the tournament.
Joseph W. Grant, of Westamwell roll
ing mill, exhibited tomato at our Office
on Tuesday, which weighed one pound and
quarter The stem had two tomatoes on
it. The other he did not weigh. This
mammoth tomato was of the yellow variety,
sound, plump and in perfect condition.
The Presbyterian Church will be dedi-
Gated to the service of God at II o'clock
A. NJ. on Tuesday, Sept. 22d. Eminent
divines from Philadelphia and Wilmington
are expected to participate in the services.
The meeting of the New Castle Presbytery
will open with sermon at o'clock P. N.
of the same day. All are cordially invited.
The Tournament committee request
US to say that every arrangement has been
completed to insure the comfort of visitors
who desire to witness the exhibition of
skill in Workmanship. Programmes will
be distributed on the ground, where the
ceremony of browning the queen will also
take place in the presence of the specta-
tors.
After very favorable season for max
ing abundant crops for the farmer we have,
in the latter part of August and the early
days of September, been visited by drought,
which is serving to shorten the late corn
and check the complete filling out of the
ears in the NEST advanced fields of corn.
The weather is uncomfortably warm for
the month of September.
Cemetery is now on the tapis,
which is the latest thing "up' in Elkton,
movement to form an association to pur-
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Howard property, on the south side of
Elkton, which will DO sold by Jones &
Haines, as Trustees, on Wednesday next,
and convert it into cemetery. The move
ment is proper one, and we hope it will
succeed.
Stamp your Checks.-The fashion has
become too prevalent of giving checks
without stamps, every offense throwing
each party liable to fine of fifty dollars
and costs through whose hands those un-
stamped checks pass. The Commissioner
OF Internal revenue has detectives on the
lookout for violators of the stamp law, and
persons run great risks for two cents, who
send out unstamped checks.
The Democrat has been belaboring poor
Beecher so industriously about the crime
of adultery, forpication etc for the mast