The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-02
Local Affairs.


GET REGIsTERED!
The dredge boats have been at work in
the river this week.
The hour for Trinity Church Sunday
School is changed to p o'clock P. M.
Rev. Mr.. Sheppard, of Newark, will
preach at Hays School House tomorrow
Sunday afternoon at p o'clock.
The Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety of Hartford county will hold their
Second Grand Exhibition at Bel Air, on
the 18th, 18th, 14th and 18th of the present
month.
Judge Wicks tells the Bar that tax
payers have some rights which lawyers are
bound to respect, and that the sitting of
the Court cannot be prolonged at a cost of
5000 day to the county for the convent
ence solely of counsel.
A Large Egg Plant.-James B. Myers
has on exhibition an egg plant, grown upon
the Aims House property, this season, meas
uring Isl inches in length, 273 inches in
circumference, and weighing pounds and
2 ounces. Can any one beat it
Rev. E. W. Scott, President Of the
Southern District of the Colored NJ. P.
Church, will preach in Providence Church,
Elkton, on Sunday next, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ,
and at 7 o'clock p N. The public are
invited. Rev. JOHN SCOTT, Pastor.
The best railing tide of the season &C.
CURED on Thursday last and large bags of
rail were made by some of our sportsmen.
Mr.. A. w. Mitchell, in bag of upwards
of fifty, had three "King Rail-" a bird of
the rail family as large as pigeon.
"A religious awakening of unusual pow
er is manifested at St. Johns NJ. E. Church,
Zion Circuit. Thirty-four have professed
conversion and others are seeking the Lord.
The audiences that assemble there are
immense, and the order all that could be
desired.
Rev. ]. F. Lang, Pastor of the A. NJ.
E. Church of this town, will hold grand
rally in the old Public School Building in
this place, on tomorrow, Sunday, COM
mencing at II A. N. Rev. Mr.. Hamilton
of Annapolis, will preach at P. NJ, and
Rev. J. A. Handy of Baltimore is expected
to be present.
Our sewing machine man, who has
been on Main street for the past six months,
on last Wednesday went to the poor house;
and next week he intends to move back to
his old stand, at The Wing Office, where
you can get the best sewing machines,
needles of all kinds, or anything connected
with the business. Office days-Tuesdays
and Saturdays.
The York Fire Insurance Company,
through their agent, paid Mr.. George w.
Oldham 81, 500 insurance which they had
on his property recently destroyed by fire.
There is no caviling or technical advantages
sought to avoid paying risk held by the
Farmers Company of York, but they ascer-
tain the amount of the damage actually
sustained, and pay the policy holder his
loss to the full amount of his insurance.
We publish some notes on school mat
tiers, which have local significance, and
which discuss the policy of selecting from
the Commissioner ticket. The better plan
to popularize the public schools would be
to induce the parents to visit them often.
There is some difficulty to be experienced
in this, but persistent effort and personal
invitations on the part of the teachers
would accomplish great deal in that
direction.
Republican Apples.-Mr. Robt. E. Old
ham, residing near College Green, left sew
eral large and handsome apples at our office
this week, which have been named the Re-
publican apple. The specimens left meas
ured twelve inches in circumference, and
averaged each eleven ounces in weight.
The Republican apple is tart and of very
pleasant flavor, with fine tender flesh. We
have never seen finer apples both in appear
ance and quality than the specimens left on
our table.