The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-09
LETTER FROM MECHANICS VALLEY.

MECHANICS VALLEY, Jan. eth, 1915.
Mr.. EDIToR-Dear ISir:-It has been
some time since you have had any COM
munication from the Valley; SO | thought
would Just drop an idea or two on the con-
diion of things.
In the first place we would say that we
have quiet little neighborhood of a dozen
or more families in our immediate vicinity
| say quiet because we all try to attend to
our own business and let others attend to
theirs, which, if well followed up, will
keep us busy without loosng any time.
We have some that complain of being poor,
but we have not heard as yet of any in
suffering circumstances, which last fact we
ought to be really thankful for, especially
when we see SO many strangers and tramps
going through our country, ont of employ
ment.
You have already been posted on the
different kinds of business carried on here,
the most of which is still in operation
The wheelwright shop that has been vacant
for some time will, it is thought, be occupied
III eHO SPiihS. 10 gums " NC SpiHc
changes among some of the residents in
the Spring. Our blacksmith, Mr. ID. NJ.
Rittenhouse, has bought the blacksmith
stand at Zion, now occupied by Mr.. |.
Priest, and expects to take personal pos
session in March next. Mr.. McRay takes
the place here when Mr.. r. leaves, as onr
blacksmith, and we hear it said he can do
it up right. We still have daily mail,
which is a great convenience. We also
have a store, cooper shop and grist mill,
and when we get a church and school house
we may then think of making more rapid
advancement in religious and intellectual
knowledge. BY the way we forgot to tell
you that we have place little on one
side Of our town that the boys call club
house, where they meet to dance Or what
some would say, to have a shindig, without
any ladies to participate. We don't know
whether the ladies generally approve of
the young mems course of proc dure or
not, but this much we do know, and that
is, we heard lady say that it would have
been very much more commend .ble in tn N
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society instead. We don't feel inclined to
boast of having any thing better than other
neighbors near us, but we feel highly fav-
ored in not being cursed with some things
that some other places are; and one of those
things we are not cursed with is groggery,
which we have great reason to be thankful
for. Jersey lightning seems to be cutting
some ludicrous antics in different places of
late; if reports in the papers are true con-
corning the reception of King kalakaua by
the committee of the Board of Alderman, of
New York City, which is a disgrace to the
country, even though it happened in the
presence of semi barbarian.
If modern rumor be true, yonr own little
town is not exempt from the effects Of the
same article or maybe a worse one. Report
has it that person went into Il groggery
in your town and took three drinks of some
kind of home made lightning, and the re-
suit was far more telling in its effects than
Jersey lightning was with the New York
committee, for the shock was SO great
that it killed him dead that it took sew
eral doctors to resusctate him, and that it
was with great difficulty that they succeeded
at all. So conclude that Jersey is likely
to have a competitor that may bear of the
palm for the sobriquet Of Jersey lightning.
We have spun out longer letter than we
intended, for which please pardon, for it is
not often we write; SO we will close by