The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-07-15
Local Affairs.

The song of the thermometer-'Ninety
and Nine"
Eat fruit in preference to meat during
the hot weather.
-Elkton wants good servant girls and
cannot get them.
No reasonable being can doubt that it
is Summer at last.
When are we to have that nocturnal
guardian of the peace?
Don't fail to read carefully Messrs.
Wanamaker & Browns advertisement.
Hunt out the advertisement of Messrs.
Belah Il Elliott and peruse it carefully.
Ripe tomatoes are in market from the
gardens OF both Messrs. Booth and Bell.
John Moke liveryman at North East,
lost two fine horses by the heat this week.
Trips to the Tropics are advertised
by New York line of steamers. Cheerful.
An Elkton lady says she would as soon
fire a shooting cracker as light parlor
match.
The hundred year old eagle is hoarse
and his wings are dropping. The hot
weather did it.
If the heat grows much more intense,
thermometers will have to be made as long
as lightning rods.
If the present heated term continues
uninterruptedly there will be little or no ice
gathered next Winter.
The queston-what becomes of the
pinsa-is not of as much Importance as
that regarding the flags.
The Centennial Commissioners have
decided to close the Exhibition on Sunday,
the vote standing 30 to 0.
A man wanted to be admitted to the
Centennial the other day for half price,
because he only had one eye.
The barn of Thos. Grubb, in the Eighth
district, was struck by lightning on Tuesday
night, aud with it's contents consumed.
The Assessors, Messrs. Mackall, Kerr
and Chandlee, are now at work on this
district. They have an office in the Hail.
Who'll establish a first-clas laundry
in Elkton? 1t would be the best paying
business, in a small way, that could be
started.
We had the heaviest thunder storm of
the season on Tuesday night last, continu-
ing uninterruptedly from $50 to near l
o'clock.
One of the horses of Woods stage line
was overcome by the heat, on the road
between Chesapeake City and Galena, on
Tuesday last.
-"Art's" thermometer reached 95 on
Sunday last, the highest it has been for
fifteen years. 1t hangs i'll about the coolest
place in town.
Mr.. p. Il. Wright, on the White Hall
farm, cut 90 acres of wheat which averaged
22J bushels to the acre, weighing 62!
pounds to the bushel.
We suppose our itemizers throughout
the county have been overcome by the heat,
this week, as they have almost with one
accord failed to come to time.
The rain of Thursday afternoon gave
us breathing spell. The thermometer
fell from 90 to so in about fifteen min
utes. 1t was but a respite, however, and
soon got back to the old figures.
While an uptown lady was at tea, on
Tuesday evening, during the heavy storm,
the electric fluid played upon the blade of
her knife. She was startled some.
Another of the permanent iron spans
for the bridge over the Susquehanna, at
Perryvile, was shipped to that point by
the Phoenix Iron Co. this week. 1t is 301
feet in length
Since Saturday last, the mercury has
been running along among the nineties
nearly all the time. 81 has been the high
est in the shade, and away out beyond the
end of the tube in the sun.
David Campbell, of this town, who
was some time ago enlisted by his father
upon the school ship Juniata, at Balti-
more, is missing from that vessel Much
anxiety is felt as to his fate.
On Tuesday afternoon, a horse attached
to carriage was overcome by the heat on
High street, and fell breaking the shafts
OF the vehicle After Il time he recovered
sufficiently to be driven home.
The heavy rain of last week washed
so much earth, stone and rubbish into the
Tide Water canal from Deer Creek, up
some ten or fifteen miles, as to entirely
suspend navigation on the canal.
MIR. Sam'l J. Price. Auctioueer, on
Tuesday last, sold fer Samuel Snowden,
Esq Attorney, fine fruit farm of 1G1
acres, in Sassafras Neck, for $27 per acre.
Mr.. Bell, of Baltimore, purchaser.
The cellar of Mr. Samuel Arbuckle's
house, near Poplar Hill, in this county, was
broken into on Tuesday night last, and a
large quantity of wine therein stored drank
by the thieves. They left the empty bottles.
The barn of Mr.. John T. Slicer, at
College Green, in this county, was struck
by lightning on Tuesday night, and badly
shattered. On the same night, Judge
Prices barn in Hartford county was struck
and burned.
Put away your flags, lanterns, and
bunting until 1876, when, if they have
been well taken care of, they can be used
by your children's children to decorate the
homestead on the occasion of the centen-
NAL celebration.
-Peaches.-T peach shipments are
commencing over the Delaware railroad,
and few crates are sent north daily.
They are not matured fruit, of course but
fully developed Hales may be expected
very soon now.
The District Conference, of the Viii.
mington District M. E. Church, was in ses-
sion in Newark, Delaware, on Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week. The meetings
were very interesting, though much inter-
fered with by the warm weather.
One OF the amendments proposed by
the Committee on Appropriations to the
River and IIarbor bill is one striking out
the appropriation for the improvement OF
Elk river, SO we may scarce hope to see the
mud machine at work soon again.
-Cucumbers and mineral water fight
when they meet within the human frame
The fight is long and bitter, and during its
progress the human frame reclnes on the
bed and adopts the classic form of the cork
screw. Paste this in your hat and then
beware,
-Phew.-If there is a man who wants
to "singe his pate against the burning
zone he has no need for balloon il
these days. Let him stand five minutes
bareheaded in the sun, and We will warrant
that he will get singed to his complete
satisfaction.
We have no reason for thinking il
might be stolen property, except that i
looked a little suspicious that he had bn
one, although he protested that it was thu
last of a stock. We bought it of him ant