The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-18
Local Affairs.

What street in Elkton is most fire.
quented by old maids ?-Boac street.
The uniforms for the Groome Guards
have arrived. They lock like they had
seen serrice.
Money sold at the Elkton Building
Society on Saturday night last, at from to
10 per cent.
"A correspondent sends us an article on
Woodcock," which we will find room
for on the first page next week.
Rev. ]. w. Weston, of Cherry Hill,
will preach in the Elkton NJ. E. Church,
on tomorrow Sunday morning, at the
usual hour.
On the first page an interesting article
on "Holly Tree Inns " is published, which
commends itself to philanthropists who
are studying the temperance question in
it's many phases.
-Elkton has a business directory, and
must necessarily be on the high road to
prosperity. No more hard times. Messrs.
Frederick & Uhler are the enterprising
gentlemen who got up the register and have
hung copy in every public place.
The Zion Sunday School of the NJ. E.
Church will hold their Picnic and Cele-
bration on Saturday 25th inst. In the
afternoon of the same day Festival will
be held in the same grove (Carhart's), for
the benefit of the Sunday School.
The first peaches of the season were
shipped by NJ. Frank Lowman, of FELTON,,
Del, on the 18th inst. The peaches were
very fine, of Hale's variety, grown by DIR.
John A. Moore, of FELTON,. The fruit was
the first product of a young orchard.
The farmers who have threshed wheat
report the yield only moderate, falling short
about fourth of expectation based on the
appearance of the growing crop. A few
days of unfavorable weather about the
time the grain was setting, materially dam
aged the crop.
MIR. Creswell, ex- Postmaster General,
has removed his law books to Washington,
where he proposes to establish law office
forthwith. He is man of business who
loses no time or stands on the order of 60
ing. The ablest and most interchangeable
Postmaster General that ever filled the
Office, he will doubtless prove as successful
lawyer as cabinet officer.
Carpet Bag.-A travelling agent on the
cars went into the smoking car and left his
travelling bag-a large one-at his seat.
After passing Elkton he returned to his
seat and found his carpet bag was gone.
He left the cars at Perryvile and took the
half: past nine train for Elkton, and starting
Mr.. T. White in search of the missing bag
he soon came up with it in possession of a
woman who had left the cars at Elkton
Depot. She said that she took it in mis-
take for one she lost, which she did not
show much anxiety to find, saying it had
nothing in it of any material value. The
carpet bag recovered had baggage in it of
considerable value.
The corn looks exceedingly we'll and
is growing rapidly. In the upper part of
the county the crop promises to be very
large. A good deal of timothy is yet to be
harvested. The hay and straw crops are
universally good, but wheat is not so well
filled as was expected. The oats crop is
good. The cherry crop, which is about
done, was abundant. The apple crop gives
promise of abundance, if the fruit does
not fall before maturity. There are some
comnlaints that the vounu annles and MARS
are dropping off.
Our Mechanics Valley letter gives cheer
full view of things generally in that vicin-
ity. If the live inhabitants of the place
would set about changing the public road
SO as to avoid that almost perpendicular
hill out of the valley, they would achieve
public benefit.