The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-02-13
Local Affairs.


Hot lemonade is an excellent remedy
for cold.
The wheat f.lds present very unpro
missing appearance.
Breathe through your nostris-nevel
through your mouth.
In Somerset county. one Collector ha.
23l properties advertised for sale for taxes
The night school at the Hall has beer
given up for want Of proper interest t.
sustain it.
"A sarcastic wit hearing man of ones
tionab!e reputation ray in pub ir, remarked
that the prayer was better than the prayer
Ezra Thompson. near Strickersville
Pa. will sell his live stock, farming nipple
menis, &c, on Wednesday, 3id of March
next.
Taking time by the f"relock.-The re-
tailers are cut with petitions to the Grand
Jury. praying the extension of their license
for another year.
Jacob Tome has resigned the Presi
Washington, and has been succeeded by
John A. J. Creswell.
In the published list of teachers which
appeared in The Wig Of January, the 23rd
ultimo, the name of J. 7. Hayes, class 2,
was published in place of ]. T. Hynes,
class /.
-Jno Wilkinson has moved his sewing
machine office from the Whig Building To
the old Banking House. on Main street
The room formerly occupied by him is now
for rent.
tuesday night was the coolest of the
season. The thermometer at Mitchell :
drug store was down to zero. AT other
places in town it registered one and two
degrees below.
Central Institute, North East, will
meet on February Goth. Members please
attend ii possible. The app"intees FOR
last meeting being absent. will be con-
tinued. NJ. A. TAYLOR, Sec.
The recent freshet damaged c"nsiiers,
bly, the railroad culvert, over Big Elk, near
town. large force of hands were en-
pnyed for several days after in repairing
the damage.
Our Pleasant Grove correspondent re-
ports tisht at Grubb's Corner. on the eve
of IA serenade. The boys came by the way
of Pilot town. a place no better than it
should be, though the new landlord halls
from the land of Pennsylvania.
An entertainment of Tableaux and
Music. under the auspices of the Irving
Literary Society, will be given at the West
Nottingham Academy, on the evening of
the 19:h. Performance will commence al
y o'clock P. N. Admission % cents.
-Baldwin's factory dam was in very
great danger of being swept away by the
break up last week. The ice started aud
rose i'll an immense sheet over the dam,
lodging on the breast where it stuck fast
and was left when the floods subsidized.
There was no session of the Orphans
Court this week, owing in part to the ex-
treme cold weather and to indisposition of
two of the judges. There will, however,
be an extra session of the Court on Tues
day and Wednesday next.
The fourth quarterly meeting for Elk
ton charge of the NJ. E. Church WAS held
on last night; the Love Feast will take
place to morrow Sunday morning, at 8
o'clock, and the Presiding Elder. Rev. j.
B. Quigg, will preach at the usual hour in
the evening.
On Monday evening last, Michael Hart
nett's carriage was overturned in one of
the deep side bitches, near the Jail; the
horse and carriage both were lying in the
gutter when found, with Mr.. Hartnett be-
meath the vehicle, and but for timely assist.
ance, the result would have been serious.
The votaries of bacchus appear to have
had high old time at Port Deposit on Sat
urday night Casper Mohrlein's saloon
seems to have been the central point. One
man was stabbed in the melee by another
named St. Clair, but fortunately for the
tax payers of Cecil county. not fatally
"A Newark. Del. correspondent of the
Wilmington Commercial, says: "There is
quite howl going up in opposition to the
petition for the Dog Registering law. There
are no "Reminiscences out; if there were, a
large number who cannot see the point and
are opposed to the Legislature passing such
alaw would sign it. and most Of them would
be young Democrats"
The Hacre Republican says: "Our
wharves and yards are bare of coal. Our
dealers being entirely sold out. Should
the present cold weather continue for any
length of time, We will require two or three
hundred tons more for home consumption,
before the opening of navigation, which
will have to be brought by rail-
Wise beer.-We learn that y. B. Meyer
proprietor of the old Fountain Hotel, lately
the Exchange. proposes establishing a brew
cry for the manufacture of the above-named
beverage. Doubtless many man will be
made both wise and rich by a few glasses
of the new beer. This branch of the bust
ness will be a huckleberry above the Grand
Jury.
Charles McAteer, of this town. died on
sunday evening last quite suddenly. The
deceased had a hotrling establishment on
North street, and followed the business of
botrling ale. mineral water. etc lie sup
piled number of saloons and hotels with
these liquors, and had run a wagon for sew.
eral years, engaged in the business In
dul2ing too freely in beverages of the kind
it is feared helped to hasten his death.
Reuben Haines, whose illness we men
toned in last weeks Wig. was taken to
Khkhride's hospital in Philadelphia. on
Tuesday last. accompanied by Dr. Ellis, E
Johnson and p. C. Shockley. His con-
dition has considerably improved it is
thought by his attendants; and the physi-
clan at the hospital was of the opinion that
he would be completely restored in few
weeks.
Lent began this wear on the tenth of