The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-08-19
Port Deposit Items.
WOODLAWN CAMP MEETING.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week.
many persons were. kept busy packing up
sundry articles necessary for a ten DAYS
service at the Woodlawn Camp. The road
was alive with wagons and carriages filled
with goods and persons going out to the
grove to furnish and arrange the tents for
the service, which commenced Tuesday, at
40 p. NJ. Rev. John ID. Kemp, the min
lister in charge, at the appointed hour com
menced the service, preaching from list
Corinthians iii, 8, an interesting sermon.
The meeting commences with fine corps
of ministers present for labor. On Thurs
day morning, we had on the ground, Revs.
John d. Kemp, l.. G. Matlack, d. d., 7.
E. Martindale, J. d. Rigg, Robt. Todd,
Geo. X. Kramer, j. A. B. Wilson, Il. l..
Tompkinson, l.. Layfield, C. F. Sheppard.
The camp is not as large as last year, and
we miss many faces who were here i'll for
mer years, and yet very large number of
the old tent holders are here this year. One
is not here, who was here every year before,
and who was an efficient member of the
Board of Managers; l mean Joseph r.
Thomas, a man good and true, loved by
nearly all who knew him, he sleeps at
Hopewell graveyard, but his disembodied
spirit has returned to the God who gave it.
His widow is on the ground and although
her head is whitened by the frost of many
Winters" she has a cheerful Christian smile
for her many friends. The ministers and
laymen all admire the improvements made
this year. Some little petty thieving has
taken place at night, a number of little
articles having been stolen. | learn the
managers have determined to continue the
reputation for good order on the ground,
and have procured the services of Constable
Caldwell to remain on the ground till the
close of camp. The rOwdies will take due
notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Rev. Theodore Stephens, of Philadelphia
Conference. will preach Sabbath morning,
and Rev. Mr.. Caldwell, of Dover, in the
afternoon. Both of them are very eminent
diviues.
Mr. James Clifford, residing near the
| Brick Meeting House, has been missing
corn from his field for sometime, and learn
| ing that a mysterious wagon was seen
in the road in close proximity to his resi-
| dence on certain nights, offered some friends
! immunity from all liabilities of the law, il
| they would goa cunning i'll his field at
| night. AS two were returning home, last
week, they heard parties pulling ears off in
| the field, when they hurried home, got theiI
guns and returned to the spot to find they
were still at work. One fired his gun i'll
the direction of the noise, when there was
a sudden hurried movement in the field.
The gentlemen followed hard after them,
aud as two of the thieves were getting over
the fence one gave them the contents of
the other barrel. Mr.. Clifford learned, a
day or two afterwards. that forty shot were
taken out of a person by physician in a
neighboring town.
HEAVY CONTRACT
Messrs Armstrong Il Co. have a heavy
contract, supplying the city of Baltimore
with large iron plates to cover the sewers
of the city. Each plate weighs from . 500
to 3 600 pounds. The total amount to bt
delivered will be $50 tons. This enterpris
ing firm, in the near future, intend enlarg