The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12
Local Affairs.

The Elkton Building Society meets
tonight.
The welcome rain has at length come
in abundance.
Trinity Church will be closed tomor-
row, except for Sunday school at A. N.
Divine Service in st. Augustine's,
Bohemia Manor, on Sunday. June 18th, at
4P.M.
Every passing breeze reminds us that
this is the month Of roses, the most fragrant
of the year.
The commencem ent exercises of Dele
ware College, Newark, will take place on
Wednesday next.
The weather continues uncommonly
cool for the middle of June, but hot weather
may be expected about the 21st.
Strawberries have been plenty in the
Elkton market this week, supplied mostly
by cultivators in the neighborhood.
S. Kennard Miller will dispose of fifty
head of cattle at public sale, at Lees farm,
on Thursday next. See advertisement.
Preparations are making by some of
our wealthy citizens to move to Rehoboth
beach to spend the Summer in their cot
tages.
DIR. Franklin said laziness kills more
people than hard work. The DR.. was mis-
taken or Elkton would be one immense
grave yard.
The attention of persons interested in
camp meeting matters are invited to the
advertisements published to-day of Wood
Lawn Camp.
Manipulating by contract begins to
tell already, especially on dark nights,
when the economy of the measure is pain
fully perceptible.
Farmers complain that cut worms are
more destructive to the young corn this
season than they ever have known-at
least in many years.
-Postmistress Mahan notifies the public
that the post-office opens at : A. NJ; first
mail closes at $40 A. NJ; second mail at
1925 A. NJ, and third mail at $40 p. NJ. !;
office closes at : p. NJ.
Mr.. Lewis has had an artist from Phil
adelphia this week, painting the front of
his store, and some of the handsomest wal
nut granting ever done in Elkton can be
seen at the Glass Front.
A child of J. w. Freeman, Jr., of this
town, died of scarlet fever this week.
That disease has been very prevalent among
the children this season, but, except in
few cases. of very mild type.
james P. Merrett has completed the
large frame carriage shop for the Witworth
Brothers, whose shops were recently de-
stroyed by fire, and they have taken posses
sion of the new shops, and resumed the
business of carriage building full handed.
Rev. Thos. L. Poulson, who recently
resigned the passionate of the Bethany In
dependent NJ. E. Church, Baltimore, pro-
poses in the future, to devote his entire
time and services to the advancement of
the Temperance cause.
Information wanted of the defendants
of Jacob and Ann McVey, the latter died
in 1886: also of the descendants of May
Anderson and George Dobson, and Ann
Anderson and Edward Wear. Important.
Address Box No. 1s1, Pottsville, Pa.
Quite sensation was caused on Tues
day morning last in front of Mr.. Alrichs
watch and jewelry store by a wreath of
smoke rising from the awning, which had
caught fire. No serious damage resulted
beyond burning hole in the canvas.
Mr.. John A. Wilson, of Elk Neck, sup
piled the Elkton vegetable market with
two-horse load of peas on Tuesday. Mr..
Wilson is engaged extensively in the vege-
table business, and raises large quantities of
peas, which are of a very superior quality.
Wasn't awarding the contract of light
ing the street lamps of Elkton to the high
est bidder the most admirable stroke of
policy? The genius that originated that
is worthy to have city like New York to
govern.
The Road Inspector of the 5th District
notifies the Supervisors when to expect
him. question the utility of this mode,
and think the Inspector should come upon
them like a thief in the night" to use a
biblical phrase. They should always be
ready for his visits.
The attention of the citizens of Port
Deposit and vicinity especially, is invited
to the card of DR.. Smith, Dentist of that
town, published in this issue of Tho Wing.
His guarantee filings for five years is a
feature worthy of consideration by persons
having defective teeth.
Lewis Kirk, of Rising Sun, has OBJ
tanned letters patent on an improved hay
press, which is highly spoken Of Mr..
Kirk and John L. Haines have formed a
partnership under the firm name of Kirk
& Haines, and commenced the manufacture
of hay presses
MIR. Peters, whose extensive nurseries
and greenhouses are near Wilmington,
had fine display of pot flowers on exhibit
ton and sale on the Court House yard
Tuesday last. Business was very dull,
however, only about half the lot having
been disposed of.
In few weeks the second generation
of potato bugs will appear, and active mea-
sures, with quick poison, will have to be
applied to save the potatoes, and every
farmer should have the means at hand and
be prepared to meet the formidable enemy.
See article on Paris Green in department of
FARM on fourth page.
The first District Conference of the
Wilmington NJ. e. Conference, will be hello
in North East, beginning on Thursday
night next, in charge of Rev. ]. B. Quigg
The conference will be composed of th,
travelling preachers Of the district, loca
preachers exhorters and Sunday Schoo
superintendent.
"A family in town is reported to hav
met with heavy windfall from Soutl
America. Elkton never was in a condition
to more fully appreciate breeze of tina