The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-09
Local Affairs.

The Elkten Building Society meets to-
night.
Better run in old clothes than run in
debt.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next.
Mr.. James Haws' chicken-coop had a
visitor on Saturday night last, who cleaned
out the feathered occupants.
A protracted meeting in the NJ. E.
Church, at Rising Sun, will commence on
Sunday morrow under the charge of
Rev. J. ID. Kemp.
Three drunken fellows had free fight
on the street in front Of Odd Fellows Hall,
on Tuesday afternoon. None of them ap
peared to have received any injury worth
notice.
The annual meeting of the Stockhold-
ers of the Columbia and Port Deposit Rail-
road will be held on Monday next Also,
of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central
Railroad.
Thursday was as thoroughly gloomy
day as any hypercondric could wish, cul-
minating in a pelting rain storm in the
afternoon and evening, which renewed the
ice sheet on Friday morning
Mrs. Taylor has rented the dwelling
hous, from the 25th of March next, in
which Mr.. Thomas Drennen and family
reside. She proposes to accommodate per-
manent and transient boarders.
The Ekton Beading Room, we are
happy to report, is meeting with degree
of success which is encouraging to those
persons who have SO nobly exerted them
selves in getting it in operation.
IT. Drennen gives notice in noisy ad-
vertisement this week that he means to
"sweep and dust " out the stock of Winter
Goods on hand at the "Grand Central
without delay or higgling about prices.
The revival meetings continue in the
NJ. E. Church of this town, with much
interest and are nightly attended by large
congregations. Being the week of prayer,
sevices have been conducted in all of the
churches nightly.
Governor Groome and family have re-
moved from Elkton to Annapolis, to reside
permanently in the "ancient city of the
Severn -" during the Winter. The Gov
ernor has been heretofore dividing his time
between Elkton and the capital
Mr.. Skinner, assisted by competent
teachers, will open a Night School for
young men and boys, on Monday evening
at y o'clock Until a better place can be
secured the school will be conducted in the
brick store opposite the Episcopal Church.
There were issued by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court in 1874, one hundred and
sixty marriage licenses. No deaths or
births were recorded during the year, and
the law requiring the registering of births
and deaths has become dead letter entirely.
The Oxford Press learns that the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company has ordered
1000 tons of iron rails for the Columbia &
Port Deposit Railroad. This is sufficient to
lay ten miles of track, and it is expected
that track laying will be commenced before
long.
Prof. F.. c. Collins will open a writing
school next week in the second story of NJ.
Lieberman's clothing store. Prof. Collins
is a beautiful pensman, and his terms are
very reasonable and within reach of all
who wish to acquire the art of fine chirog-
raphy.
Last Monday was field day among
the blacksmiths. The crystal floor laid
over the earth by the sleet storm found all
the equine race smooth footed, and the i'm
portance of riding over the ice kings pave
ment rough shod, seemed to strike every
body as the proper thing to do.
The fair of the Catholic Church of this
town which had been in progress several
days has closed, netting $125. Very little
preparation had been made for the fair,
one having been held in Chesapeake City
previously, and the remnants unsold from
the first constituted pretty nearly all that
was for sale at the Elkton fair.
-CudIloS II. UTdudul, sou VI y. y. VIA
ham, aged 10 years, was drowned in North
East river between Charlestown and Car
penter's Point, while skating, on the first of
January. We did not learn whether the
deceased broke through the ice or got into
an air hole. His parents reside near Charles
town.
Good authority on the subject, esti-
mates the money saved by economy in pri-
vats expenditures during the last year at
not less than $500, 900, 900. This reduction
of expenses has of course diminished to
that extent the volume of trade, but it has
also enabled the people generally to recover
many of their direct losses and puts them
in an easier situation for the future.
On Monday night, the dwelling house
of Thomas Janney, near Bay View, in this
county, was totally destroyed by fire. We
understood that the entire contents of the
house, the family alone escaping, were also
consumed. Cause, defective fiue. Insur-
ance only 500. But short time since
Mr.. Janney had expended upwards of a
thousand dollars in repairing his dwelling.
"A horse belonging to Mr.. W. G. Car
ter, on Wednesday, backed a cart loaded
with ice, into DR.. Mitchell's mill race, and
followed the cart tail foremost. His driver
was in the act of driving through the gate
at the east end Of Main street which opens
to the ice pond. After considerable effort
by the men engaged in cutting and hauling
ice, the animal was rescued, though half
drowned and nearly frozen.
Mr.. D. l.. Stanton has provided a read
ing and smoking room in the rear of his
tobacco store, where his customers can in
dulge in the soothing delights of fra
graut havana, quiet game of eucre and
read the papers. He has recently placed
native American at the side of his door,
in full paint and feathers, with handful of
cigars, which Lo kindly proffers with out
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