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

on Tuesday next
Our dealers have advanced the price of
their milk from to cents per quart.
This is said to be owing to the scarcity-of
water.
Mr.. Joseph P. Cantwell, of this town,
has been summoned to serve as Juror in
the United States Court, now ia session at
Baltimore.
There are said to be several farmers in
the vicinity of Elkton who have vicious
bulls in their possession. The best remedy
is to ring them.
Henry Price, dusky gentleman, of
Virginia, on wager ate three sweet potato
pies of the larger sort, on October 9th,
in one minute and thirty seconds.
More delightful Autumn weather we
do not remember to have witnessed. The
Indian Summer fingers long with u.s. which
is most welcome to the farmers who have
large corn crops to husk.
The ducking season is now fairly open
ed, and great many have been killed dur
ing the present week. Black heads are
retailing at so cents; red heads 81, and
canvass backs $1.25 per pair.
Haure Republican.
-Sportsmen tell US the dry weather is
much against successful hunting, the dogs
being unable to scent the birds, which lie
very close and are only flushed by accident
ally tramping the coveys up. This, how
ever, it is probable, the birds do not object
to.
The Groome Guards patroled the town
on Tuesday night, "carrying the news to
Hiram on unsteady legs, wearied by their
long march from Salt river, while the
tongues of the centurions were thick from
the chilly night air, as they shouted to
"the men on the wall"
Will be sold at public auction, in front
of the Court House, Elkton, on Tuesday
next, 10th instant, at 2 o'clock p NJ, two
very fine bay colts, coming three years old,
of good stock; one good falling-top buggy
and harness, one bay horse, four years old,
sound and gentle; one market wagon, nearly
new. Terms-ninety days. J. B. ASH.
-Oue West End reporter has furnished
US with very graphic account Of child's
tournament and party, held at West End,
on Saturday last, which our young friends
will have to excuse US from publishing,
our columns being too much crowded with
important election news that every one is
more anxious to study than tournaments.
~ Io,
near town, exhibited at this Office, one day
this week, an egg laid by Partridge
Cochin hen, which measures 6! by s inches,
and weighs one-fourth Of a pound-down
weight. This is not "deuble yolk
egg. Mr.. Collins has pair Of these full
bred fowls, and he represents them to be
great layers in the Winter.
Some of the boys INDUCED in small
torchlight procession on Wednesday night,
and on one of their transparencies the fol-
lowing bit of Democrat poetry was dis
played:
"PulI the rope toll the bell,
The Civil Rights Bills gone to hi"
Parents who love the prospect Of their
sons growing up to become rowdes, cannot
do better than allow them to indulge in
such midnight orgies. Such are the first
preparatory lessons for that great college
whose graduates make a criminal code,
and police officers and sheriffs necessity.
In the forthcoming report of the Chief
Engineer of the War Department., We
notice the following, which will be interest
ing to our people:
"The work of improving the Susque-
hanna at Havre de Grace has progressed
satisfactorily, and further appropriation
of $50, 900 is asked. For North East river
no further appropriation is needed. The
$50, 900 appropriated last June for the i'm
provement of the Elk River below Elkton,
will be used near the town, where the bar
is almost dry. $4,000 additional will be
needed"
Quarterly Meeting will be held at St.
Marks Colored NJ. P. Church, Elk Neck,
on Sunday, Nov. 9th; Love Feast at A.
NJ, and preaching at II A. NJ. by Rev. Mr..
Freeman, of Elkton; and also at P. NJ by
Rev. E. w. Scott, who will administer the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Rev. E.
W. Scott will preach on Sunday night at
St. Phillips Church, North East and on
Tuesday night Nov. 10th at Cedar HILL
Mr.. James H. Manley will deliver an ad-
dress on Sunday afternoon, at O'Clock, in
Providence Church, Elkton, to the Sabbath
School. E. w. SCOTT, Pastor.
George jackson and Henry Mahgle,
the latter of Celtic extraction, were arrest
ed at the Elkton Station by Sheriff Scott,
on Wednesday afternoon last, and brought
before Squire Howard, charged by the
ticket agent, Mr.. B. Wells, and the Sheriff,
with drinking whisky from bottle in the
station, and using obscene and threatening
language against the agent and officer.
The pair, when brought before the Justice,
appealed piteously for mercy, but were
locked up in Jail to give them an undis-
turbed opportunity to reflect upon the use
of bad language and worse whisky. They
had been employed as miners in some of
the ore pits on Iron Hill, and paid off and
discharged. They were probably rejoicing
in the general way over their party triumph,
and feeling that the rough element was in
the asceI dant polite lily, felt free to freely
express their satisfaction that their class
had triumphed over the moral and religious
sentiment of the land.
Real Estate SaIes.-W. J. Jones and L.
NJ. Haines, Trustees, sold the Jacob A.
Howard property, consisting of several lots
in this town, and a tract of land near the
Delaware line, containing 81 acres 3 roods
and 20 perches, on Wednesday last. The
tract near the Delaware line was sold to
Thomas Dougherty for 1915. This tract
was unimproved by buildings, except a
barrack. Five and three-quarter acres of
meadow land, southeast of and adjoining