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

The Elkton Building Society meets to-
night.
The fair for the Catholic Church at
Chesapeake City, will begin on Wednesday
next, December 10th.
DO not keep tribes of dogs and cats
around the premises, which eat more IN
month than they are worth all their life
time.
Rev. T. E. Martindale, of the Union
NJ. E. Church, Wilmington, and the Rev.
Charles Hill, of Port Deposit, will ex-
change pulpits next Sunday.
The white pavements on Friday morn
ing showed the snow-king had passed over
the night before, spying out the land he
proposes soon to occupy.
We stepped into McCrery & Boulden's
the other day and found such crowd and
clerks and proprietors so busy that we had
to leave our order to be filled in its turn.
Information wanted of the descendants
of Jethro, John, Silva, Jane, Joel, or Reese
Evans, formerly owning Consent Resur-
Feyeu. AuuIeSS, boA lCl, Otto'iHS, 1 a'
All who want Sewing Machines for
Christmas, send in your orders next week,
giving us chance to have any style that
may be wanted. J. Wilkinson, Agent,
Elkten.
The Court House yard to be improved.
The Town Commissioners having at last
determined to lay a diagonal brick walk
across the Court house yard, commenced
operations last Thursday.
--Alrch's is the place to get fine Christ
mas presents. Silver and gold ornaments
and plated ware elegantly wrought, in
great variety. Clocks and watches, the
best time keepers in the world, made a
speciality.
Ambrose c. Richardson advertses a
large amount of valuable farm stock and
machinery, to be sold at auction on the
Both of the present month, at his place in
Sassafras Neck. An excellent opportunity
is offered by this sale for persons wanting
farm tools.
The following Letters Patent was is
sued during the week ending December /,
1874: Addressing Machine, J. NJ. Burkert
Baltimore, 1865 Reported by Fitch
& Fitch, Solicitors Of Patents, New York
city, through Reuben Haines Counselor
at-Law, Corresponding Solicitor in Elkton.
On Friday, the 4th instant, little boy,
son of Mr.. Jacob Swayne, who resides near
the Brick Meeting House, had the fingers
of one of his hands caught in the cogs Of
fodder cutter, which he was amusing him.
self by turning, and so severely crushed
and mangled, that the PHYSICIANS, Drs.
Hopkins and Dare, thought it advisable to
amputate them.
"A correspondent informs US that TWEEN
ty six new buildings have been put up in
Chesapeake City, this year, some of them
large fine structures, the new Catholic
Church ranking conspicuous among the
latter The brick of which this church is
built were made at one of the Elkton
yards, and their quality is highly spoken
Of Sixty or seventy thousand bricks for
paving were also furnished from the Elkton
all the bricks used in Chesapeake City were
manufactured in Philadelphia, at greater
cost than the home product, and no better
if good an article.
The iron bridge, which crosses the
Big Elk at the causeway, has been over
hauled and repaired again. This time a
new floor was needed. Less than a year
ago it had to be shored up and supports
placed under it to prevent the structure
from tumbling down into the creek The
bridge is not quite four years old and has
already been repaired twice, at considera-
BILE expense, notwithstanding the Board of
Commissioners and their Clerk also were
all practical mechanics, who contracted for
and accepted the job, pretty conclusive
evidence that practical, competent men are
liable to be imposed upon by slippery con-
tractors.
The Rev. Andrew Jackson Carney the
independent missionary, familiarly known
as the founder of sect, called the Chris
tian Brotherhood, paid El<t1n visit last
Monday, and gave the town the benefit of
three sermons from the Court House yard.
Carney is street preacher, and like all that
class of speakers, is endowed with ready
wit and plentiful supply of sarcasm. He
limned some of the church members as
Sunday Christians who carried a long face
to church on the Sabbath; but were Mon,
day devils, on Tuesday they lied, on Wed
nesday ground the face of the poor, passed
Thursday in backbiting, Friday in cheat
ing the laborer out of his wages, and Sat
urday in studying what to say and do al
church the next day. Fault finding com
prised large part of the Rev. Carney!
stock in trade, for which there is doubles:
great room, but whether he is as potent
to rebuild as to tear down, is questionable
On Tuesday morning his TALL lean figure
with face bearing a striking resemblance
10 President Lincoln's, carrying cane
umbrella and travelling bag, started fol
Newark, DEL, on foot, refusing to ride il
the cars. He depends on small collection,
for support, and makes the ground his pnl
pit and the sky his church dome, is opposed
to salaried preachers, because people are
not disposed to pay ministers for pointing
out their faults too freely.
Baldwin's Mill School.
December It'll, 1874.