The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-17

Out on the first base-the Louisiana
revolutionists.
Good on short stop President Grant
when rioters take the bat.
WIN. J. Smith runs the steam threshel
and huller for Mr.. Townsend Poole.
On Monday evening next q first clas:
Concert will be given in the Odd Fellows
Hall.
The Temperance Alliance men Of the
Seventh district publish their platform this
week.
Money sold at the old Elkton Building
Society, on Saturday night last, at 8 to g
per cent premium.
On Sunday last, there was an encamp-
ment of gipsies near Warwick with 81
wagons and SO head of horses.
Governor Groome is having his large
dwelling house, on Main street, painted by
Coroner Litzenberg, Of this town.
Hand organ grinders are growing arts
tocratic, ono was in Newark few days ago
with his music machine in hand-cart.
Trinity Church will be open for SER
vice as usual, on Sunday morning, at IL
o'clock, and in the evening at O'Clock.
-Barnum has offered fifty thousand dol
lars for the discovery of Charley Ross, on
the conditions that he be allowed to exhibit
him if found.
Those who have fondness for good
music should be sure to attend Mr. Miller's
Concert on Monday night. Some of the
hest concert talent of Philadelphia will
assist.
"A foot race came off on the Elkton
race course, on Monday last, for five dol
lars, between a gypsy and man hailing
from New York, the gypsy lost by only a
few feet.
-Sulkey Plow.-Mr. Hayes, of Ohio,
has on exhibition sulkey pillow, which he
proposes to give a public trial, near the
depot, this afternoon. Farmers should
attend.
-" Really" said a lady at Baldwins
mill few days ago, 81 must send for
some of them Elkton base ball fellows to
come and ,nhiteuash the ceiling OF my
Kitchen
"A match played on the LIST of October,
between the Comet Club, of Brick Meeting
House, and Oxford Seminary Club, resulted
in score Of 10 for the Comet Club and
for the Oxford.
Something new.-The school-room in
the Odd Fellows Hall is beautifully dec
grated with handsome pictures and flowers
of different kinds. The prettiest of which
is conceded to be the Lille.
The three monthly courts, Orphans
Court, County Commissioners and School
Board, were in session this week. Accounts
of proceedings will be found in another
column.
Newspaper readers who take no paper,
are always at liberty to read the exchanges
in a newspaper Office, but not to carry them
away without consent, particularly in the
Editors absence.
Large sweet potatoes.-Mr. A. Calkins
left two sweet potatoes on our table few
days ago, one of which weighed two lbs.
ten ounces, and the other one Id. fifteen
ounces. They grew on his farm near
Elkton.
-Cold.-A decided lowering in the tenn
perature took place the early part of this
week, and our stove men, the Messrs. Al
exander and S. S. Ramboehave had calls
from all quarters, and the black harvest is
now at its height.
Wilson Lynch, now in the employ Of
Mr.. ]. Bailey Russell, near Bay View, has
cut four cords of wood per day for him
during this season. Tho wood was not
corded up, but Mr.. R. says that he has
frequently known him to cut and "put
up" 81 cords per day. B.
AT the late Middletown Fair, premiums
for short horns were awarded to citizens of
this county as follows: For short horn cat
tie, to Benjamin G. Green; for Berkshire
and Yorkshire hogs, to D. 2. Evans. Tho
Casho Machine Company, Of Newark, Del
aware, received a premium for thresher and
cleaner.
On Tuesday next, 2eth inst, the law
ceases to protect cartridges and pheasants,
in this State, and a general war will be
waped upon these birds. We have been
told that the law has been violated all of
the present week by parties who have no
fear of being tucked up, or regard for
law if they can escape its penalties.
-Messrs. Windolph & Smith, Of the
farm of Chase Bro, s. Stone, Rochester,
Y, are stopping at Prices hotel. Their
specially seems to be grapes and pears, and
from the specimen of this delicious fruit
left at this office, We can we'll recommend
them. Our reporter also speaks highly of
some magnificent varieties Of roses, and he
is a good judge in matters of Horticulture.
B.
Tho following Letters Patent were is
sued to citizens of the State of Maryland,
during the week ending October 9Th, 1874:
Coal Stoves, H. Greentres, Baltimore, 1856
1856; Fire Extinguishers, c. T. Holloway,
Baltimore, 1928; Apparatus for the man
ufacture of Tar from pine wood, II. F.
Watson, Baltimore, 1926; Processes Of
cooking and preserving Green Corn, l..
McMurray, Baltimore, 1896. Reported
by Fitch & Fitch, Solicitors of Patents,
New York City, through Reuben Haines,
Attorney at Law, Corresponding Solicitor
in Cecil county, Elkton.
The Tournament at Port Deposit, on
Thursday, was fine affair, and the Elkton
boys carried away the chief prizes. Mr.
George Bacon gaining the first prize, fine
breech-loading doubls-barreled gun; Mr.
VIM. B. Writ the second prize, saddle
and briddls; and Mr.. Evans, Of the Sew
enth District, took the third prize, pail
of spurs. Mr.. Heckart came in for thu
fourth honor, as rider unconnected with
any prize. Miss Wharton, of Baltimore
was crowned Queen; Miss Heckart, frs