The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-05
Local Affairs.

The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
next Tuesday, the 9Th instant.
Money sold at the Mutual Building
Association on Monday night last, from
rs to 120 cents premium per share.
Decoration day appears to have fallen
into disuse in Elkton. No flowers were
strewn on the soldiers graves.on Saturday
last.
Change of Time.-The morning mail
train, on the p, w. & B. Railroad, from
Baltimore, leaves Elkton at 9:O3; formerly
it left at 9:46.
"A little company of young folks from
Elkton visited Gilpin's Rocks, on Thurs
day, aud enjoyed the romantic scenery of
that far-famed resort Of pc-nicers.
Art, who is the prince Of curiosity
gatherers, has family of white rats. We
have often seen white mice, but never white
rats, before. They have pink eyes like
their cousins, the white mice.
"A Strawberry Festival is to be held in
Charlestown on Friday and Saturday, the
18th and 18th inst, under the auspices of
the Methodist Church of that place.
Agents on cars please be careful to de-
liver packages of Wigs at proper time and
places. Our subscribers growl ''like sixty
when they miss their papers on Saturdays,
and don't get them till Monday following.
"A Spelling Bee will be held at Brick
Meeting House, Tuesday evening, June Sth,
for the benefit of Rose Bank Sabbath
School. Admission: Adults, 20 cents; chill
dren, 10 cents Handsome prizes are
offered. BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
The weather continues to be very dry
and wheat, oats and grass are suffering
terribly. Oats must necessarily be we'll
nigh total failure: and wheat and grass
cut down below half crops. Not pleasant
prospect for the farmers.
d. Scott, of the firm of D. Scott &
Bro, has purchased the match stick factory
of G. W. Cruikshank, and proposes, we
understand, to establish a manufacturing
business of some kind. The location is a
first rate one for many branches of manu-
featuring.
1t is said there is possibility of rails
ing a crop of potatoes by planting now.
The potatoes will come forward and get
pretty we'll advanced before the second
crop of bugs are ready for business. We
can't vouch for the truth of this theory,
but farmers ought to try it and note the
result.
Strawberries at twenty-five cents
quart were tolerably plenty in town this
week. Mrs. Hall, the Elkton caterer for
such delicacies, had the tempting berries on
sale in considerable quantities. They were
not the product of our county, however,
but of Norfolk and Anne Arundel county
and shipped to Elkton from Baltimore.
Geo. w. Marshall, of Oxford, has been
presented by one of his partridge cochin
hens with an egg which measured y and
8 inches in its circumference. On the egg
being broken it was found to contain in
addition to large quantity of egg ingrsdi-
ents, small perfectly formed hard-shelled
egg.
County Council p. of IA meeting
of Delegates from the various Oranges in
this county will be held in the Grange
Room, Odd Fellows Hall, Elkton, on Sat
urday, June 18th, at II o'clock A. NJ, for
the purpose of a Council for Cecil. The
State Master or Deputy is to be present to
institute it under the State Grange.
"A Cecil countian who visited Oxford
on Saturday, ignorant of the fact that
Local Option had been knocked in the
head, innocently brought bottle of the
"critter" along. 1t is said he was much
chagrined when he found it flowing so
freely here that he had gone to so much
trouble. Oxford Press.
At the Oxford public school house are
many beautiful flowers blooming in the
windows, under care of the teachers and
pupils. On Friday one of the petunia
plants in Miss E. P. McCullough's depart
ment contained fifty large and beautifully
variegated flowers. 1t was a grand sight
and filled the air with fragrance.-I6.
Rev. E. w. Scott will hold bush
meeting in Mr. Shippers woods, near North
East, tomorrow Sunday. Services will
be conducted by Rev. E. w. Scott, assisted
by Rev. C. H. Williams. An exhibition
will be held at Greffrey Colored NJ. 2.
Church, Cedar Hill, this Saturday night
Doors open at 6. o'clock; performance to
commence at 1.
The stone masonry of the foundations
of the new public school building on How
ard street, was completed this week and
the brick work commenced. Jackson &
Harrison did the stone work, and we have
not seen a nicer or more substantial piece
of stone work any where than this is.
The walls are twenty inches in thickness
and pointed up, which gives them neat
finish. We have not heard anything from
the belfry subscription lately. What has
become of it? Gone to the limbo of for
gotten things? We hope not.
The reading given by S. E. Megargee,
Esq, on Saturday night last, at Odd Eel
lows Hall, was very enjoyable, but SHINY
attended. Mr.. Megargee is a young man
of much promise as a reader, but he lacks
that long and arduous drill of the voice
which is required to make frst-class
reader. He was very happy in his selection
from Nicholas Nickle6y, and Buck Fan
shau's Funeral by Mark Twain. His rep
resentation of the parson in the latter
selection was, in the fashionable lady slang,
"perfectly splendid"
Our Fox Chase correspondent does not
seem to have very clearly defined ideas Of
the difference between honest work and a
game of chance. Working for prize at a
spelling bee, or anything else, certainly
bears no relation to hazarding money on
the cast of die or any other game of
chance. The former is as honest an effort
to obtain a premium as any other work
performed for wages, and there is wide