The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-07
Local Affairs.

Church street is to have brick side
walk.
New Voume.-With this issue The
Wig commences its 35th volume.
Jesse Vickers, aged So, formerly of
Elk Neck, died at his residence in Phila-
delphia, on Friday last, 5Oth of July.
The colored people propose holding a
bush meeting tomorrow in Mr.. Shippers
Grove, near North East
The annual meeting of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of this county
will be held in Elkton to-day.
Rev. T. l.. Poulson preached in the NJ
E. Church at North East, on Sunday last,
to large congregation.
Rev. E. w. Scott will preach his fare
well sermon, on Thursday night, 18th inst,
at St. Marks Church, Elk Neck.
The new public school house is nearly
completed, and is a fine building, but should
have been ten or twelve feet longer.
On Tuesday evening last, during the
thunder storm, the colored department Of
the Aims House was struck by lightning.
No damage done that we have heard of.
The report that two valuable horses
had been stolen from the premises of w.
X. Stackhouse, in Elk Neck, some two
weeks since, was fortunately false report.
-Woodlawn Camp Meeting commenced
on Tuesday last. The campers had damp
experience at the commencement of their
meeting, and fair ending may be reason
ably expected.
p. c. Strickland is building a neat
frame dwelling house for Mrs. Elizabeth
Denny, on the lot fronting on Main street,
and near the new street running from Main
street to the depot, in West End.
considerable sickness is reported among
children in North East and neighborhood.
Two children of Joseph Bailey have recent
ly died, and last week child of Samuel
Lynch was carried off by cholera infantum.
-Fegee Tomatoes.-This variety of to-
mato which has been cultivated by Mr..
Booth this season, proves to be one of the
very best, containing much more solid
flesh of tender and delicate flavor than any
other that we have tried.
-Whitelock's Vegetator.-The result of
its application to the wheat crop the past
season justifies Mr.. Whitelock in claiming
this article is unsurpassed in quality, and
we refer with much pleasure to their adver
tisement in another column.
The recent heavy rains will be of in
calculable benefit to the country in making
heavy corn, buckwheat, potato and turnip
crops, and the streams and springs which
have been much reduced by the compare
lively dry weather for several previous sea-
sons, will be greatly replenished.
Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, of Philadel
phia, we'll known among our Sabbath
School workers as writer and leader of
the war of the Christian women against
the rum power, writes from Ocean Grove,
N. j., where she is spending a few days,
that she will be at the Mass Meeting on the
Wood Lawn camp ground, or send lady
in her place, who will ably represent the
cause from their standpoint.
The Juvenile Temperance and Anti
Tobacco Society will hold their third grand
annual Jubilee, in the Grove at the Chris
tian Chapel, of the late Elder S. OFT, on
the road leading from Chestnut Hill to
Glasgow, on Thursday, August 18th, on
which occasion there will be speaking by
tho ok ~ onl o
NJ. All are invited to come and bring their
dinners and spend the day, for good time
is anticipated.
Mr.. Donahue, contractor for that por-
ton of the Columbia and Port Deposit
railroad, lying between Washington bor-
ough and Turkey Hill, has received orders
to put on all the men he can work, so as to
finish up the ballasting as soon as possible.
Similar orders have been issued to the
other contractors, and it is supposed the
entire road will be ready for the iron in
two months from the present time.
Oxford Press.
The Sabbath School of Bethel NJ. P.
Church will hold their annual Celebration,
miles south of Bay View, on Saturday,
August 21st. A social dinner will be pro-
vided for the School and all the friends who
may attend. Addresses will be delivered
both afternoon and evening; also, speaking
and singing exercises by the children. The
friends of the School are cordially invited
to be present. The School will assemble
at O'Clock A. n.
-Teachers.-Ws publish in our advertis-
ing columns the list of teachers applying
for certificates who passed the examina-
tion. The whole number is SO, 20 of whom
are young girls-at least we infer they are
all young as the youthful prefix to their
names indicates that they are tsms soles.
The education of our youth in the Public
Schools is rapidly passing under the care,
almost exclusively, of young girls. Do
they make the best teachers or will the
salaries given teachers not induce the sterner
sex to engage in teaching common schools
to any extent?