The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-19
Local Affairs.


nights will be of equal length.
H G.. Nesbitt & Co., of Port Deposit,
advertise Sportsmen's goods it great varl-
ETY..
Oxford is ambitious of military honors
and is arranging to organize military
company.
The total amount of peach shipments
from the Peninsula the present season
amounts to / 100 car loads.
Numerous sharks have recently visited
Baltimore harbor and have been seen
near Locust point and Canton.
Miss Jessie Squier has been appointed
assistant teacher for Liberty Grove school,
and entered on her duties on Monday last
Extra services have been in progress
in the Cherry Hill NJ. E. Church this week.
The meetings will continue for some time.
Some one says that the Groome Guards
have been uniformed with old rebel caval-
nv Jackets with tails sewed OH. How is
that, Guards?
THAT drug store our Rising Sun cores
pondent refers to must be a kind of Hor-
ticultural Hall, and pleasant place to
visit about this season of the year.
The Messrs. Witworth Bros. advertise
to sell lot of fine Carriages, at cost for
the cash. This is an excellent opportunity
to get good vehicle at low price.
Money sold on Saturday night last,
by the Elkton Building Society, at pre-
MUM of per cent. AL the purchasers
availed themselves of the new rule favor
ing Withdrawals.
On Sunday last, little daughter of
Mr.. VIM. Dunbar, residing on Bow street,
while playing with little boy, fell from a
porch about two feet high and broke her
arm. The child is recovering.
-Bayard Taylor has returned home to
Kenneth Square, Chester county. He has
been absent for two years as correspondent
for the New York Tribune. Part of the
time in Egypt and part in Iceland.
Mrs. Ash, wife of Jacob B. Ash, and
daughter of Col. Geo. R. Howard, died at
her residence, on Monday last, in this
town, after very long and painful illness.
Her disease was that distressing malady,
slow consumption.
We advertise the Annual Exhibition
of the Oxford Agricultural Society in to-
days issue. The list of novelties and at
fractions presented by the Society this
year is very great. and will doubtless draw
an immense crowd if the weather is at all
favorable.
We call the special attention of our
readers to the advertisement of the first
annual exhibition of the Peninsula Agri-
cultural and Pathological Association to be
held at Middletown, Del, on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, September 23rd,
Gath and 25th.
On Friday last, John Scarr, colored
lad of this town, was riding colt in the
field of Mr.. Nicholas F. Johnson, and in
attempting to catch another horse, the
side of which he had approached, he fell,
and was trampled upon by both animals,
dangerously, if not fatally injuring him.
He was brought to town, where he was
attended by two physicians.
-Religious.-The popular speaker, Rev.
DR.. ]. B. Crane, late of Illinois, is preach
ing at nights, this week and next, and on
Sunday next at 1Ok A. NJ. and y P. NJ, in
Christian Chapel, near Chestnut Hill
The DR.. will also preach in Chesapeake
City at 8 o'clock P. NJ, Sunday, in the
Protestant Methodist Church. after which
the rite of Christian Baptism will be at
tended to.
The following Letters Patent were
issued to citizens of the State of Maryland,
during the week ending September 8, 1874:
Pneumatic Actions for Organs, T. Winans,
Baltimore, 154359; Paper Boxes, T. j.
Waters. Baltimore, 154433. Reported by
Fitch & Fitch, Solicitors of Patents, No.
81 Park Row, New York City, through
Reuben Haines, Attorney at-Law, Cores
ponding Solicitor in Cecil county, Elkton.
The new Presbyterian Church of Elk
ton will be dedicated on Tuesday next, and
the New Castle Presbytery will commence
its session in the church on the same day.
Rev. Mr.. Heberton reports seventy minis
tiers heard from, up to Thursday morning.
who propose attending the Presbytery, and
others we're expected. The prospect is
fair for lively time here next week, with
the courts all open and the Presbytery in
session.
Rev. J. W. Edie, for six years Pastor of
the Penningtonville Presbyterian Church,
from 1862, died at his residence in Edens-
burg, Pa, on Thursday last. Mr.. Edie
was an able preacher and very earnest
worker for the moral and spiritual welfare
of the people amongst whom he labored.
His remains were brought to Pennington
vile and inferred in the cemetery at that
place on Saturday, from the residence of
VIM. McCanna. He was native of Cecil
county, Md.-Orford Press.
Morris Dunbar lost fine COW on last
Thursday night. Death caused by eating
too many potatoes. Another COW we hear
of which eat flour barrel full OF corn;
when her owner found her she was about
reaching for the last nubbin. He put her
in stable, where he kept her for twenty
four hours without any food or drink, and
gave her as much salt as she would eat,
and to his pleasant surprise, the COW came
out all right and apparently without suffer-
ing. The salt prevented the generation of
gas, till the digestive power Of the stomach
had mastered the immense feed of corn.
-Ex-Sheriff of this county, John Jan
ney, died at his residence, in North East,
on Wednesday last. The deceased was in
his 18th year and had been suffering from
severe spell of sickness for several weeks,
but was considered convalescent. He got
out of bed and by some means fell down
stairs, but whether the fall was the imme-
diate cause of his death, or whether the
DEATH stroke had reached him and caused
him to rise from his bed suddenly, his ply
scans we're in doubt. He expired in a