The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-11
Local Affairs.

Local Affairs.
The Elkton Building Society meets to-
night.
Tho FELTON, Hotel has been reroofed
this week.
Rev. A. Manship will preach at Mount
Pleasant Church, tomorrow Sunday.
-Squashes and cucumbers have made
their appearance in the Elkton market.
The festival of Liberty Grove Sabbath
School realized $117 clear of all expenses.
Some of our town people left for Re-
hobeth this week, and others will do so
next week.
Leave of Absence. clerk Mr..
William II. Elder has been granted 30
days leave of absence from the 9th inst.
Rev. DR.. Thomas B. Miller, of Phila-
delphia, will preach in the Rock Presby-
terian Church, on tomorrow Sunday, at
104 o'clock A. NJ.
Joseph Wells will commence selling
the best surloin, standing rib and rump
cuts of young steer Philadelphia beef at
12 cents pound to-day.
The Journal Of the Farm, that excel
lent agricultural paper, published by Danl
Baugh of Philadelphia, has been sold to
the Practical Farmer.
MIR. 2. Grant, of Liberty Grove, treated
the Liberty Grove school the last day of
AL...l.o1 x,rn, Cor thu l, ;pdpacc m O nifaSted
by the school to his afflicted child.
Very little coal is coming down the
canal, and the trade promises to be very
inactive during the Whole of this month.
Harre Republican.
Postmaster General Creswell ar
rived in town on Thursday afternoon last
from Washington. Judging from the &C
companying baggage, he has come to stay
awhile.
"A prominent divine in our State Offer
ed the following prayer last Sunday: "that
the distinguished stranger [comet] now in
our midst might do no damage and leave
in peace and quiet"
Tall Oats.-A stalk of oats, measuring
five feet, from William Bsnjamin's farm,
near Bay View, was left at our office this
week. That is tall oats, but was there any
more like it?
Marks Lieberman, the we'll known
clotEier, has hoisted Centennial sign over
his store awning, the letters Of which are
composed of stars and stripes. Mr.. E.
Barroll was the designer and executor of
the work.
"A Business Directory of Havre de
Grace has been published. The Haure Re
publican ironically remarks: Cuisines
will, no doubt, from henceforth thrive, and
dull times be numbered among the things
that WERE"
The frescoers finished frescoing the
Presbyterian Church of this town on Sat-
urday last. The work is plain, but very
neat; the ground tint being blush pearl,
quite handsome and appropriate. The
cost of the work was $3.50.
Professor LIE Compt, the aeronaut, will
make an ascension in his mammoth balloon,
"Comet," on Wednesday afternoon next,
at o'clock, at Simon's, opposite the How
ard House. Should the weather be clear
the ascension will positively take place.
Several persons were looking for that
mythical individual of much business, Tom
Collins, this week, but he was unexpected
ly called away. He will be back here on
the first of April next. In the mean time
any communication addressed to P. o. box
No. will be forwarded to him.
w. johnson, a lad twelve years old,
who lives on Stockton street in this town,
was celebrating the 4th by firing toy can
non when the gun recoiled," striking the
young artilleryman on the leg, and infiict-
ing pretty severe wound, but not at all
dangerous.
-Messrs. Ferguson and Downs, Fish
Commissioners, intend visiting Elkton with
in few days for the purpose of stocking
the Elk and North East rivers with young
shad. We hope every facility will be Offer
ed the Commissioners by our citizens to
assist them in accomplishing this noble
work.
Wheat in the Manor district is report
ed as not yielding up to promise. The
straw bountiful, but the quantity of grain
is only medium. Farmers who expected
to have 20 bushels to the acre have to be
content with 10 bushels since threshing.
We hear similar reports of the crop round
about Elkton. We would like to hear from
other parts of the county.
Gov. Groome sold on Tuesday last, as
Trustee, a house and lot on Main street,
opposite his residence, the property of
Jacob A. Howard, for $500, DR.. ]. H.
lamar, purchaser. This is case in which
he was appointed Trustee before being
elected Governor, and owing to the indis-
position of Mr.. Mccullough, his law part
ner, he was compelled to attend in person.
S. Lowman, mail messenger had his
chicken house plundered Tuesday night,
and favorite 5 year old hen and brood
of half-grown chickens carried off. The
thief is believed to belong to the neighbor-
hood. The hen was an old family favor
lite, and although so old that she had no
teeth, she was an excellent L.other, and
among her many virtues, she was never
known to be guilty of scratching the gar
den.
The 4th was spent very quietly in
Elkton. The stores were semi-closed, and
quiet reigned through the town. The
Town Commissioners very wisely forbade
fire crackers to be put off in the street,
and the customary fusilade with this Chi
nese continuance to rejoice the heart of the
small boy was dispensed with. The Meth
odist Sunday School held a picnic in Mer-
RVS Grove. And all in all the 4th wore
very Sunday-like appearance in Elkton.
We learned few days age from gen.
tleman from Queen Anne's county, that
Judge Robinson is a great friend of Local
Option and that he will leave Annapolis
asId return to his homo on election day to
cast his vote in favor of the measure. We