The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-29
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ELKTON. MAY %, 1875.
Local Affairs.

Local Affairs.
A great improvement.-The Coroner
is painting the Crier.
The destructive fire in Elk Neck last
week was caused by coal-pt.
The Mutual Building Association will
meet on Monday night, 3lst instant.
The grateful rain came on Thursday
last, gladdening the hearts of the farmers.
Another barber shop has been opened
in town at McNeight's place, next door to
the coffee house.
The pleasure of boating on the Elk is
an imaginary one. Its effects are frequent
ly more real.
That scamp, NJ. House, who makes
speciality of obtaining divorces, sends us
his card for publication.
The hauling seine fishermen at the
Mountain fisheries cut out yesterday. The
catch had dwindled down very small
Mrs. Drennen has established nice
fruit, confectioner and bread and cake
store at Bradbury's old stand, in the Hol-
low.
The church of 81. augustine, Bohemia
Manor, will be opened for worship and
preaching on Sunday, the 30th instant, at
4 o'clock p. NJ.
1t is proposed to hold Strawberry
Festival in Cecilton on the 9th and 10th of
June for the benefit of an Episcopal Chapel
which it is proposed to build at that place.
The excursion to Rehoboth on Tues
day was rather small as to the number par
ticipating, but in point of real pleasure the
greatest success of any thing of the kind
yet had.
Among the Acknowledgements of ami
mails sent to the Philadelphia Geological
Gardens is that Of Vir. opossum aud
young, from Mr.. John Budd, of Cecilton,
in this county.
The periodic whippng-post exhibition
took place at New Castle, Del, on Satur-
day, when six men were logged for incen-
diary and theft, and stood the customary
time in the pillory.
The merchants of Elkton have agreed
to close their stores at 10 o'clock on Satur-
day nights, and at O clock on other nights
of the week. This agreement will take
effect on and after June 1st. The Court
House bell will give notice of the hour.
The first Quarterly Meeting for Elkton
charge will take place to morrow and Mon
day morning. Love Feast at o'clock;
preaching by the Pastor at 1Ot A. NJ, and
preaching by Rev. J. 3. Quigg, Presiding
Elder, at P. NJ. Quarterly Conference
Monday morning.
The first strawberries of the season
made their appearance in the Wilmington
market on Tuesday last. They sold at 35
cents per quart, and were soon gone at
that price. They came from Norfolk
Green cucumbers from the South sold at
12915 cents apiece.
James H. Morgan, the present incum-
bent, was reappointed lamp-lighter by the
Town Commissioners of Elkton, at the
meeting of the Board on Monday night
last. His bid for the contract of lighting
the lamps and furnishing coal oil, matches
and chimneys for the oil lamps was $160.
Our plant raisers did large business
on Wednesday last. One party sold Il 900
plants, something like 80, 900 of them being
sweet potatoes. Another party sold Il, 900.
The premises of the plant raisers present
ed lively appearance, and the applicants
were served in the order in which they
arrived.
Tonight, S. Edwin Megargee, Esq,
of Philadelphia, will give an entertainment
consisting partly of readings from Dickens
and other authors, in the Odd Fellows
Hall. The proceeds to contribute to the
purchase of bell for the Catholic Church
in this town. Admission, 50 cents; chill
dren, % cents.
Sold for Taxes.-Geo. G. Morgan and
B. B. Price, Collectors for the First Dis
trict, sold the farm of John J. Henry, sit
uated in Sassafras Neck, and containing
107 acres, at the Court House, on Tuesday
last, for taxes which had been accumulat-
ing unpaid for three years. Mrs. Mary A.
Watts, whose husband is tenant on the
farm, purchased the property for 5000.
-Elkton has singular infatuation for
blowing brass horns. We never knew but
one other proftless thing it stuck to so
persistently, which was loafing. In the |
Summer evenings the bull-frogs regale the
dwellers in the marsh and the horn blowers |
the denizens of the town with precisely |
eaua piaoa Of nYcic apd with ho Emil |
extracted their efforts never fail to make |
what doctors most thrive by.
There will be Quarterly Meeting held
at Greffrey Colored M. P. Church, Cedar
Hill, on Sunday, May 3Oth. Love Feast at
9o'clock; preaching at 1Oa A. NJ, and at
q p. NJ. The Lords Supper will be ad-
minstered after the afternoon sermon
There will be an Exhibition given at the
same place, on the 9Th of June, for the
benefit of the Church.
REV. E. w. SCOTT, Pastor.
The Peninsula Press Association pro-
pose an excursion on the 18th Of June, by
sea, to New York, leaving Lewes, Del, by
steamer, at 6 o'clock P. N. From New
60 on Thursday, and amuse themselves by
viewing the Centennial buildings and Fair
mount Park. This programme has been
proposed, but not definitely settled upon,
and probably will be changed.
"A spelling bee was held at jefferson
school last week. Proceeds for the benefit
of the school. T. Braden Gillespie acted as
pedagogue; John Lakeland, ]. R. Thomas
and George Gillespie as referees, and David
Clifford and Martin Thompson as captains.
There were fourteen spoilers on each side
Miss Ida Thompson keeping possession of
the floor when all other contestants had
been retired, was declared champion and
awarded the prize, a copy of "The Earnest
Minister
The rolling mills of the Mccullough
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