The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-08
Local Affairs.

The Elkton Building Society meets to-
night, at Il o'clock.
Teachers Association at North East
will meet Saturday, May 10Th.
Simon, since going out of the liquor
business, has established cigar and to-
bacco store at his former stand.
The County Commissioners Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next, 18th instant.
sc Proper treatment of an orchard" by
Lloyd Balderston, of this county, has been
received and will be published next week.
Miss Clara Gay has been appointed as
sistant teacher at Jefferson school, Miss
Martha Biddle principal, and has entered
on her duties.
One of the employees of the railroad,
named Anderson, fell from the top of a
freight car, at Rising Sun, on Monday, and
received severe injuries.
MIR. Mallon has opened first-class as
sortment of dry goods, at the old stand of
E. Brown, and makes his bow to-day to
the public through The Whfg.
The first thunder shower made its APP
pearance last Thursday, and the warm rain
quickened vegetation, which the prevailing
cold had so long kept under the sod
We are indebted to Rev. Mr.. Ph@bus,
minister in charge of the M. e. Church of
this town, for copy of the minutes of
the Wilmington Conference of the present
year.
There will be Spelling Bee at New
Leeds Church, on next Tuesday evening,
commencing at s o'clock. Admission, 20
cents; children, 10 cents. A suitable prize
will be given to the best speller
Quite mix of matter occurred on the
first page of The Wing last week, in which
the mouth of the Mississippi got terribly
mixed up with the Holy Land; but a sharp
reader would soon discover what was the
matter.
The Directors of Conowingo Bridge
Company have determined to erect a new
span of bridge on CROUCH Island" be-
tween the small bridge and the east span
of the main river bridge, in order to make
the crossing secure in time of very high
river.
The old Board of Directors of the
Rising Sun Banking Company were re-
elected on Monday last, as follows: James
Wood, President; Joseph Smith, Jos. c.
Taylor, G. Blackburn, W. A. Long, DR.. E.
Heston, Isaac Bradley, John D. Nelson,
Directors.
e. S. Duckett and J. L. Duckett have
formed a partnership with e. H. Duckett
in the manufacture of roofing, sheathing,
building, tarred and carpet papers, at the
Providence Paper MILL near Fair Hill.
The carpet paper is used extensively for
putting under carpets.
"A Queen Bee will buzz in the Rock
Church, on Thursday evening, May GOTH
Buzzing speeches, mellifluous music and
charming prizes, all for 25 cents; children,
half price. Rev. J. II. Johns on the tripod
once more as pedagogue, "teaching the
young idea how to Shoot "To the Bee,
or not to the Bee ?"-That's the question.
Burglary and Robbery. The jewelry
store of Robert L. Baldwin, at Oxford, was
robbed on Friday night of last week by
two boys, named Charles Deveny and w.
the P. & B. Central Railroad, and his COM
rade was citizen of Baltimore. The rob-
bers were arrested in Baltimore, on Mon
day, attempting to pawn the goods.
Nv AJ,po Ma;o>l xrbo A.
business of carriage manufacturing in Mr..
j. Rambo's shop, in the rear of the old
store house occupied by Brown & Bro.
some months since, has formed copartner-
ship with Messrs Shnn and Dopson, and
the new firm have taken the old establish
ment at the corner of Main and Bow
streets, where they propose pushing the
business of coach making.
Ten thousand shad were sold at Havre
de Grace, on Saturday last, at S. hun
shad on Monday night. Mr. George. W.
Barnes, at Carpenters Point, caught 800
one day last week. Herrings have been
comparatively scarce, which is an advan-
tage to the shad market in keeping up the
price. Mr.. Barnes also caught 100 barrels
of white perch at one haul.
The quarterly meeting of st. Marks
Colored NJ. P. Church, Elk Neck, will be
held on tomorrow Sunday. Services
three times. Rev. Mr. Sparks will preach
on Sunday night in Providence Church,
Elkton, at y o'clock. There will be an
exhibition held in Providence Church on
Monday and Tuesday nights next, which
will be given by the Sabbath school of said
church. The public are invited. 1t is for
the benefit of the church. Come and help
us. REV. E. W. SCOTT, Pastor.
Several of our subscribers have written
to us that they have been receiving an
agricultural publication, called the Practi-
cal Farmer, from Philadelphia, or some
where else, and that tho publishers have
sent them bills for the ensuing years sub
scription, SLIGO. They ask us how it is.
We sent them in 1874 the Journal of the
Farm as premium with The Wig, but
we made no agreement to send them the
Practical Farmer for 1876, and they will
have to settle with the publisher. We
know nothing about the matter.
Robert c. Thackery, Esq, of Elkton,
has been selected by the members to de-
liver the address before the Mount Vernon
Literary Society of Washington College,
at their annual celebration, on the evening
of July 18th, 1875. Mr.. Thackery is an
a!umnus of this College and former men,
Der of the Mount Vernon Society. He has
since graduated at the College of New
Jersey, at Princeton. He is now practicing
law at Elkton, and is spoken of by the |
press OF that town as very talented young
man.-Kent Neus.
Prof. Wilmer is son of Edwin Will |
mer, Esq, formerly of this county, and
generally known throughout the county.
The Methodia Protestant of Baltimore has
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