The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-11
Local Affairs.

Next week we will again commence
publishing the Educational column.
Oxford, Pa, boasts market house,
which is to be opened to-day.
April weather, sunshine and showers.
We have had this week succession of
them.
Jesse A. Kirk has sold his tin and
hardware business, at Rising Sun, Md, to
Joel Evans.
There are twenty Oranges and two
Councils of Patrons of Husbandry in
Chester county.
Lyman, Mauldin & Co., have taken
the store at Rock Run, formerly occupied
by Mr.. H. Steel.
A general assortment and variety store
has been opened at b. F. Mays old stand,
by Baltimore merchant.
Thursday was of one those drizzling,
mucky and gloomy days which makes
every one feel uncomfortable.
-Shad caught at Red Bank by the gil
lers have been plentiful in town this week,
selling at rs cents a pair for the best.
Public Schools opened in Elkton on
Tuesday last, Mr. Hanna Principal; Miss
Thorpe and Miss JONES' Assistants.
About sixty of the young folks of
Ekton called at the NJ. E. Parsonage on
Wednesday evening, and had an enjoyable
time.
The regular monthly meetings of the
County Commissioners, Orphans Court
and School Commissioners will be held on
Tuesday next.
William Grace, an aged citizen, who
resided in Elk Neck, fell into Carrots
Cove, an inlet of the North East river
near Red Point, on Tuesday last, and was
drowned.
Mr.. T. V. Bonsal and John W. Cald-
WE'LL, formerly of Rising Sun, have opened
a commission house at No. IS w. Pratt
street, Baltimore, and expect calls from
Cecil county friends, on business or friend
ship.
The Rev. Pencil Coombe will preach
on Temperance in the Zion Presbyterian
Church on Ito morrow Sabbath, the 18th
inst, at 1O5 A. NJ. and in the Union NJ E.
Church on the same subject on the same
day at p. NJ.
The old firm of J. Fl. Rowland & Co.
Lumber Dealers at Port Deposit, advertise
a large stock and great variety of lumber
with special inducements. Builders will
doubtless be induced to visit their yards
before purchasing.
The cold rain storm of Thursday night,
placed an embargo on early gardening, and
rotted the seed that impatient gardeners
had committed to the earth. Too soon is
as barren of good results as too late. He
is the lucy man who strikes the happy
medium.
-Confirmed.-Among the last confirma-
tions by the Maryland legislature were
Richard c. Holiday, Secretary of State,
vice himself resigned; H. D. NJ. Howard,
of Elkton, Assistant Weigher of grain,
Baltimore city, vice Frank A. Bond, de-
clined.
Mr.. Timothy White, Deputy-Sheriff
of this county, has received an appoint
ment on the Baltimore police force, and
left town on Tuesday night to "swear in "
and enter on his duties on Wednesday
morning. Mr.. White is under obligation
to Senator Knight for his appointment
The pay of the Office is SIS month.
The carpenter work on the Presbyter-
ian Church is progressing steadily. Strip
ping the walls preparatory to plastering
has been pushed this week. The steeple
has been finished and painted, but the
scaffolding about the base has not been
removed, which prevents its beautiful pro-
portions from being viewed to the best
advantage.
"A Curiosity.-One day last week,
gentleman handed us a stem on which
were two burs, containing elecen perfect
chestnuts, which he plucked from small
tree during the Fall of '72, which, it will
be remembered, was remarkable for its
crop of chestnuts. The chestnuts have
been vanished and appear as natural as
when taken from the tree.
-Bones.-Bones is now the rage among
the farmers. The dry bones of the valley
have become quick and animated under
the sciepce of modern agriculture, and
"raw bone" is the bone par excellent
sought after by the man of large crops and
high pressure farming. Messrs. Briscoe
& Duyckinck, Of Rising Sun, have come
forward to swell the chorus, which re-
sounds to the virtue of "bone.'' See
their large advertisement in The Whig.
"A correspondent writes from Charles.
town, by way of rejoinder to the notice
of almost q riot, contained in our North
East items last week, that the numbers
engaged we're not sufficient to constitute
riot, unless some ladies, who were not
sufficiently near to hear what was said, be
counted in; that the old residenter"
was knocked down for using abusive cpl
thets, ETC., ETC., by friend of good morals
and an enemy to pugilism.
. -Messrs. West & Vannort, the enter
prising firm of young mechanics from Port
Deposit have the handsome law office of
Mr.. J. T. Mccullough we'll advanced to-
ward completion, which, when finished,
for job of the Glass; will reflect credit on
their skill as architects, while the rapid
manner in which the building has been
pushed, has elected praise on all sides, for
the dash and goaheadtiveness of the me-
chanics.
Death Of q Well.KnOwn Citizen.-IHe
Baltimore Sun says: Mr.. Hugh Bolton,
well-known and much esteemed citizen of
Baltimore, died at his residence, No. 15l
Dolphin street, about half-past ten o'clock
Thursday morning, of an affection of the
heart, disease of which he had long been
sufferer. Mr.. Bolton had attained the
seventy-ffth year of his age, having been
born in Cecil county, Maryland, on the I'd
of November, 1890. On attaining his
nv ho Dol