The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-11-11
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Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Pork and hominy now.
Advertise your Fall goods.
Put away your little speech.
Fall flowers are still in bloom.
Tree peddlars are on the tramp.
ANY color is fashionable-so it is red.
Base ball has gone into Winter quar-
The Centennial Exhibition closed yes
terday.
Election is over-now look out for
tramps.
Poor pavements are conducive OF i'm
morality.
The small boy loaded with barrels and
boxes is plentiful.
The liquor sellers have done thriving
business this week.
Sunday cunning is becoming too com,
mon in this section.
The Threats of our local orators can
now have good rest.
On the first of this month butterflies
we're still on the wing.
The Centennial grounds will continue
open until November 18th.
Turkeys in market indicate the ap-
proach of Thanksgiving Day.
The Orphans Court and County Com
missioners meet on Tuesday next.
-Elkton men land boys sat up all
night to hear the election returns.
Something besides politics in the pa
pers hereafter. This will be relief
Rev. G. W. Easton has accepted a call
as rector of the Episcopal church at Port
Deposit.
-Flocks of wild geese have been seeh
vending their way Southwark this week.
A sign of cold weather.
Our swine feeders are laying in their
corn for fattening their stock-laying it
into the swine we mean.
Mr.. Clarence C. Strickland, of this
town, won a very handsome set of harness
at the Cherry Hill fair last week.
"A few nights ago, dogs got among the
sheep of William Mackey, near Fair Hill,
killed nine and wounded six Others
"A Cecil county man fell from his buggy
and got scratched and bruised, and then
told how four tramps had attacked him.
Election day was wet, but it was all
outside with the majority of the unterri-
fed here. They were awful dry within.
"A heavy Democratic loss. Four hun
bred barrels of good Bourbon whisky were
burned on the 18th inst, at Smith Grove,
Kentucky.
-One-half of the men who made bets
on the election are sorry for it. 1t is a
poor way of making money, and very
unsatisfactory way of losing it.
"A regular procession of politicians
might be seen passing too and from the
Depot at almost any hour during the week,
intent upon learning the latest.
On Wednesday night party of Demo
Gratis paraded the Streets singing obscene
songs and groaning in front of the resi-
dences of Republicans. Disgraceful!
The General" of the Democracy
tried to buy "Sprouts on Tuesday. II
being too late in the season for greens, he
failed. Try little sauerkraut, neighbor.
Our streets are receiving a scraping.
How would it do to scrape up few bricks
and mend the pavements where they need
it. There are still some places wanting it
Forbes, the photographer, has taken
down his house, loaded it into a wagon,
and moved off to Middletown, Del. May
he be more fortunate there than with us.
The boys are having a grand time
burning boxes and barrels since the cleo
ton. Better take them home and make
kindling of them. Many of them are il
want of it.
-"Six drains make one drunk musec
a certain clerk the other night when ht
tried to open the store door with his watch
key. "Hang me if 1 remember the rest O
the table,
States will be neither Tilden, Hayes, O.
Cooper T. w. Ferry, of Michigan, will
hold that position from 10 A. NJ. to 10 NJ
March 5, 1877.
Tomorrow Sunday is the regular
quarterly meeting occasion at the M.
Church of this town. Love Feast will b.
held at 8 o'clock A. N. and regular servic
drought the day.
-" Handsome is as handsome does, " sal,
ahusband to his wife the other day. Eyes,
replied she, as she held out her hand, " 70
instance husband who is always ready t.
handsome money to his wife"
What is glory for your Tennyson o
your Bryant, when music dealer testifie
that he had sold, within brief period, 80,
600 copies of such insufferable trash as tn
song "Slap, Bang; Here we are Again."
Richard Nichols, formerly of Ceci
county, Md, died in York county, Pa, OF
the 9Th of October, in the 93d year of hi
age. He was soldier in the war of 1871
and a member of the Methodist church 70
fifty years.
Jos. p. Cantwell, formerly a residen
of this county, was set upon and badl
beaten by party of Democratic roughs a
Vienna, Va, on election day, while return
ing home from the polls A dispatch t
his brother in this place, yesterday, state
that he was badly though not seriousl
injured.
An attempt was made to enter and no
the store of Thos. Bremen, Esq, in thi
place, on Sunday night last, by boring tn
cellar window opening upon the alley on th
east of the building. The thieves, however
were scared off before they had effecte
their purpose.
The managers of the Sunday-schoo
held at Johnson's school house, in til
Neck, propose erecting school room {
chapel for their accommodation, TIL