The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-12-04

Striped stockings are pronounced pols-
onous.
-Buckvheat cakes and sausage are the
60 now.
Striped kid gloves are becoming fash
ionable.
The Susuuehanna river was frozen over
on Tuesday night.
We will thank you for any items OF
local interest you may send US.
One of the questions now agitating
fashionable society is: "Can girls skate
with their pull backs on?"
The attention of the members of the
Elkton Building Society is called to COM
muncation printed elsewhere.
Debating societies out West are dis
cussing the following question: "Can
man who plays an accordion and keeps a
barking dog be Christian9'
The Town Commissioners are having
board walk laid on the west side of Dolly
Warden street to Howard, and along the
north side of Howard to the Public School
house.
The popular man in the popular place
is Chapman, at the Metropolitan. John
has our best wishes for future success, and
in our opinion we think the change he has
made good one.
The members of Elkton Grange, No.
AS, Patrons of Husbandry, are requested
A. -. ;,t bo oil Cot
day afternoon next, the 18th inst, for the
election of officers for the ensuing term.
-"Old Mr. Morris Dunbar dog
whom almost everybody knew, is no more.
He was about fifteen years old. They
buried him deep before the ground froze.
Professor Herman, sleight- of hand
performer, was at the Hall this week, with
what his auditors pronounced poor show,
giving away brass jewelry. Tire Ia hum
bug.
The Sunday School Institute Of the
Northern Division of the New Castle Pres
bytery will meet in the Presbyterian Church
in Elkton next week, commencing on Mon
day evening.
Deans wooden factory, at Newark,
Del, is said to make from 5000 to 5000
yards of cloth every week. They employ
over one hundred hands. The mill runs
night and day, and the business has never
been better since war times.
Our enterprising officers have an op-
portunity to make good fee by the liberal
reward offered by the Railroad Company
for the detection and conviction of the per-
son who threw the stone into passing
train recently. See advertisement.
"A caution comes from the Postal De-
partment with tho issue of the now postal
cards. elf anything except the address is
written on the face Of the card, it is there
by rendered unavailable, and will be thrown
among mail matter marked held for post
age"
Some seventy-five or one hundred feet
of the embankment of the Susquehanna
Canal, near Rock Run, was swept out on
Friday night of last week, by the flood in
Deer Creek, caused by the heavy rain of
that day. Deer Greek feeds the level in
which this break occurred.
The next session of the Wilmington
Conference will be held on the 18th of
March next, in the city of Wilmington.
Bishop Scott will preside. The Missionary
apportionment to the same Conference, as
fixed at the late session of the Missionary
Committee, is $4,000.
fha p,I nf tbo
American Woman Suffrage Association,
held in New York last week, over which
Bishop Haven, of the NJ. E. Church, pre-
sided, John A. Calhoun, Esq, Of this
county, was elected a member of the Exec
utive Committee, for the State of Mary
land.
Mr.. VIM. Cooch is building very fine
dwelling house at Newark, Del. The frame
of the building is put up in the balloon
style. Between the Notwithstanding and
plaster is all lined with felt, and the general
appearance of the house, when finished,
will be not only credit to the builder, but
also to the town. twill cost about S. 900.
$. F. Charshee, of Principle Furnace,
writes to the Bel Air -Agis that he raised
the past season, on Mr.. Shaws farm, 10
pumpkins on one vine, the total weight of
pumpkins being 242 pounds. He also NEIL
tions that there was raised this year on
Mr.. s. r. Carson's farm, near Port Deposit
twenty five bushels of Clawson wheat from
one bushel of seed.
Look Out for Them.-There are we'll
executed fac SMILES of the National five
dollar greenback in circulation. They are
got up partly as an advertisement but the
largest part is to cheat. Upon close in
spection it will be found that the party is
suing them promises to take one Of them
in payment of hundred dollar bill of
goods. A young clerk in one of our shops
was deceived by two of them in the past
few days. The parties issuing them should
be given quarters in some penitentiary.
The Hartford county grand jury ad-
journed on Wednesday of last week, after
session of fifteen days, during which they
examined III witnesses and found 100 bills
Of indictment. OF these Sc we're for SELL
ing liquor without license. Nearly every
hotel and restaurant keeper in the county
is included in these indictments, and as
many as II indictments have been found
against one person for the offense specified.
Some plead guilty, and have been fined by
the Judge, some of them as high as $500
An exchange says: For the benefit of
those who are in the habit of placing
stamps on any part of the envelope, we
would state that the Postofice Department
at Washington, has ordered that all letters
which have not stamps at the proper place,
the upper right hand corner, to be sent to
the Dead Letter Office. 1t is just as easy
to place the stamp where it ought to be for
the convenience of the mailing clerk, as it
is to stick it on the back or some other
corner of the envelope.
Mr.. Roger Witworth has very decided
ly i'm proved his property ON the corner of