The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-02-27

, Icuk to blast. The surface is dry and solid,
and the heart of oak or pine are close at
hand. And a capacious harbor, ready for
the reception of the road PEARL.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK STATE.
BINGHAMToN, n. Y, Feb. Is, 1875.
DEAR WHICH, will send you some items
from this section if desirable. Leaving
Maryland with mild weather and arriving
here to find the thermometer ranging from
16 to 90 degrees below zero, was depres-
sion did not anticipate; and to all Mary
landers contemplating coming to York
State, it would be we'll to first study New
York dialect, for what sad intermingling
of language. l, Marylander, with my
"right smart" and other Southern phrases,
and they with their "you be :" and GO be"
Not long since we were invited to take a
lunch of pudding and milk, which to our
disgust, turned out to be only mush and
milk. We suppose the word pudding is
substituted to give it a sweeter smell; but
not relishing the dish, like Josh Billings
with billed crow, we did not call for more.
What Marylander would call " skillet"
the Yorker would style "spider,' and
many others just as singular.
In the country we observed one of those
good old ..customs that /" social laws" have
not oblterated, that is, on Winter night
farmer will get out his bob sleds and place
| laI nd fhap
miscuously with the old, young and gay,
and away they 60 to meeting, donation. or
whatever may be the order of the night.
Here will be the farmer owning hundreds
of acres and next to him may be man
with hardly dollar in the world, but be-
tween them the sweetest of friendship, and
not that aristocratic feeling that predomi-
mates in some circles when one has plenty
of the I" filthy Idcre."
Broome county is one of the border coun-
ties adjoining Susquehanna county, Pa. 1t
is divided by the Susquehanna river when
it makes it's turn from Great Bend and
comes back into York State, running al
most northern direction, forming a very
hilly and dairy farming is mostly carried
on. A few days age we had the pleasure
of looking through an old gentleman's GEL
lar where he had $500 TBS. of butter, wait
ing for a RISE as it is now selling for 80
cents pound. The price st this time of
year is generally 40 to so cents; but our
farmer friends should learn that butter at
80 cents a pound is a luxury that working
men could not indulge In.
Binghamton is the county town, situated
on the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers.
| The original intention was to have little
village on the point of the two rivers; but
the progressive idea Of to-day has far ex-
banded beyond the contracted idea Of yore,
and the city is on both sides of the streams,
but accessible by numerous free bridges,
some of them very ornamental. The city
is very tastefully laid out. Along the river
banks are the manufactures, consisting of
planning mills, hoilar and machine works,
tannery, comb works, &c. The center
streets are devoted to the mercantile bust
ness, and the private residences are in the
eastern and western portion Of the city.
Along many of the streets are shade trees,
which in Summer, present very pictur-
esque view; and we observe that it is not
the custom here, as in many cities, OF
crowding dwellings close together. All
the private residences are built back off
the streets, with lawns in front-some of
tbo,,, roru ut;f,lly
Among the recent improvements are the
City Railway and Water Works; the latter
unlike any other / have ever seen, being
close to the Susquehanna river, from which
the water is pumped and filtered through
charcoal and received into large wells which
have tendency to make it COOL SO that in
the hottest days of Summer the water is
not unpleasant in any part Of the city.
The city also contains some dozen churches,
some of them very fine. The Baptists have
recently finished one at a cost Of $s7, 900,
which is fair sample of some af the
rest. And if the morals of Binghamton are
iii keeping with its places of worship we
never predict for it the fate of Sodom.-
Among the public institutions are the sus-
Guehapna Valley Home, an institution for
orphan children, and one well worth public
consideration. Another, the New York
State Inebrate Asylum, a gigantic granite
structure, pleasantly situated on a hill two
miles east of the city; an ipst.sution on
which the:e ma. been uselessly spent much
money, as it is considered by Binghamton-
ians to be failure 1t is a resort for the
very stealthiest. Never having the pleas
ure of going taro.gh the establishment
am ignorant of the manner of treatment,
but do not think medical science has reached
that perfection to cure without great irm-
ness, on the part Of the patient, the appe
tits for strong drink. In this city are rum
holes on almost every corner, and if ono
little spot of weakness remains on those
they pronounce cured, what temptation
assails them the moment they leave its
doors. Had the State expended as much
money devisng some plan to abolish rum
from the State, no doubt they would have
received more recomnenGe for their labor.
But doctcriIG :nepriatcs is a SLOW way of
niak,hg' Temperance reform, it is pulling
at the wrong end of the string, touching
he effect and not the cause.
Yours, MARYLAND.
The report of the Insurance Commits
sioners of MASSACHUSETTS, shows that there
ara in chat State 81 Mutual Fire Insurance
Companies, witt. cash assets of 81 900, 500;
IL Mutual Marine and Fire Marine Com
panies, with a guarantee fund of So 0JG,
600 and gross assets to the amount of
$4,S6S, 277; ard 81 Joint Stock Insurance
Companies. with cash capital of "a. s61.
600. l12 American companies outside OF
Massachusetts do business in that State,
and the grand total of insurance capital
represented in Massachusetts, is So, "a; ga.