The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31
Local Affairs.

Our mills are suffering from the drouth
w. Drew advertises Fish Market for
Elkton.
The Mutual Building Association will
meet tonight.
Read T. w. Rittenhouse's Mammoth
Store advertisement.
Wheat that was sown in proper season
is looking very well.
Mr.. W. w. Henderson is having a new
veranda built to his residence.
Frank Atkinson, who clerks for c. W..
Maxwell, had his knee knocked out of
place few days ago.
The Presbyterian church of this town
has adopted the free pew system, but not
without some little opposition.
What has become of the reporter OF
Tho Wing from the West End, since his
return home from his trip North. +.
Mr.. Henry Bell is having room fitted
up over his store on High street, which is
to be the headquarters for the Elkton band.
The hour for evening service in Trinity
Church, on Sundays, is 5 o'clock P. NJ,
instead of 8 p. NJ, as heretofore.
Fl. A. SKINNER, Rector.
Corn husking is being pushed ahead
by some of our farmers, who take advan-
tage of the fine weather to get their crops
housed.
The young men of this town have got
the running fever, and every evening they
can be seen practicing on the course near
the far creek.
The Fish Commissioners of Pennsyl-
vania received case containing 15O, 900
ova or spawn of Oregon salmon, intended
to be placed in the Susquehanna.
Mr.. Alfred Wetherill is about COM
pleting granary and corn cribs on his farm
near town, which will safely house large
part of his extensive corn crop.
Some boys from Baldwin's Mill, on
Monday night last, set fire to the corn field
of Mr.. VIM. Kershaw. The fire was dis
covered in time to prevent much damage.
Fish are unusually plenty this Fall in
the Elk river and large quantities of fine
pike, yellow perch, suntish and other varie-
ties are sold in the streets by the hawkers.
Mr.. Adam Mesel has rented the first
story of Mr.. Jacob Rambo's shop, in the
rear of the old brick store house, on Main
street, and has fitted it up for carriage
shop.
Mr.. Daniel Harvey near Marley Mill,
had his eye badly cut on Tuesday last, by
board falling from a scaffold on which
the carpenters were at work on his new
house.
We are sorry to learn that Mr. f.
between New York and Washington, has
been relieved to make room for some more
favored individual.
Richard Kendle, with the Peerless
Thresher and Cleaner, (two-horse power
threshed and cleaned, on the farm of Geo.
Ricketts,, fifty bushels of oats in thirty
seven minutes.
On Friday, 10th inst, an accident &C.
Cured in the Line Pit chrome mine, in the
9th District of this county, and Lancaster
county, Pa, by the falling of a scaffold,
which fractured the leg of Andrew Weaver.
Mr.. John B. Dunbar, proprietor of
Granite Hall Bowling saloon, will let loose
large fox to-day Saturday, at II o'clock.
AS renard will be given full half-hour's
start, rare sport and good chase is antici-
pated by those fond of such pastimes.
Mr.. Wash II. Bennett left at this office
saltwater founder, weighing p pounds,
caught in Elk river with gill net by Capt.
George LOTHIAN, of Elk Neck. This is the
largest fish of the kind that has ever been
caught in Elk river.
The attendance at the Teachers Insti-
tute at West Chester is unusually large,
over 200 teachers having registered their
names on Monday. There is every pros
pect of the Institute being success.
Oxford Press.
Large Corn.-Mr. James White left at
our office, last Saturday, several ears Of
yellow corn, raised on the farm of Mr.. G.
w. Boulder, by Dennis Maloney, which
measured 10 inches in length, the largest
ear measuring 8! inches in circumference.
Mr.. and Mrs. de Bowens arrived in
Elkton on Friday night, 23rd inst, from
Europe, where they have been making a
Summer trip. They experienced heavy
weather on their return trip, the vessel
being in the midst of storm nearly the
entire voyage.
The Davis brothers, who reside on Mr.
Tuites farm, have bought the right of the
sulky plow, exhibited here couple of
weeks since by Mr.. Hayes, of Ohio, for
Cecil and Kent counties, which territory
they propose to canvass for the sale of the
machine. The farmers who examined the
sulky, were generally very favorably i'm
pressed with it as a useful invention.
George A. Blake, Esq, and Mr.. John
Frazer, were thrown from their carriage,
on Monday last, in crossing North East
creek, on the road between North East
and Zion. The horse becoming frightened,
by spring, upset the carriage, Mr.. Frazer
falling under Mr.. Blake. Mr.. Frazer re-
ceived severe wound in the head, and
the demolition of a pair of bran new -
cassimeres. The carriage also sustained
sundry injuries.
The following Letters Patent were
issued to citizens of the State of Maryland
during the week ending October Goth, 1874:
Wire Fences, E. D. Withers, Parkton-
No. 155603; Valves, VIM. Painter, Balti-
more-Nos. 1861, 1556Gs, 1860; Pumps
for emptying Cess Pools, &C., w. Painter,
Baltmore-No. 1860; Slate Roofs, H.
E. Elliott, St. Dennis-No. 1876; meth
DDS of making Solder Wire, L. McMurray,
Baltimore, No. 1874. Reported by Fitch
& Fitch, Solicitors of Patents, New York
City, through Reuben Haines, Attorney at