The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-12-30
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

A happy New Year.
Date your next letter 1877.
The ice is hard on shoe leather.
Court meets again next Wednesday.
If you want to kill time now sleigh it.
This is the time of all others to pay
the printer.
Church fairs are comfortably few
this Winter.
The latest Sunday school designations
are pumpkin pie festivals.
"A North East horse beat everything
on Elkton streets, this week.
The window blinds are raised now, to
show the pretty Christmas tree.
1T is feared that if the ice lays upon
injured.
Those French calf and kip boots made
by Jas. w. Halves, for $3.50, are first class.
Try them.
Remember the poor, and then give
them something. Go to the Hall, on Mon
day night.
Watch night service will be held in the
NJ. E. Church, tomorrow night, beginning
at o'clock.
One of our dignified Elkton NJ. D. S
went down on the ice, on Tuesday last,
and saw y.
al, &c I,,
treated his customers to free milk, on
Christmas day.
is it worth while to overturn the Con-
stitution for the sake of putting Governor
Tilden into the White House,
"A series of extra services or revival
meetings will commence, at Harris meeting
house, Elk Neck, on New Years eve.
-" Do you want my hat to look as if it
had been run over by an omnibus" she
remarked, as the sleigh passed lonely
point in the road
Tickets for the readings and musical
entertainment, on Monday night, may be
had at all the stores and at Hinchliffe's
newspaper depot.
George W. Clifford, Esq, has sold his
farm of sixty acres, near Brick Meeting
House, to John Arrison, Esq, of Bohemia
Manor; price, $4,000.
The fair held in the basement of the
Catholic Church, in this town, for more
than week past, will be continued tonight
and during next week.
Read the announcement, in another
column, of the committee having in charge
the entertainment for the benefit of the
poor next Monday night.
-" A green Christmas, a fat graveyard, :"
If this be true, We certainly may hope for
an exceedingly healthy season to follow
this snow clad Christmas.
Robert Smith was committed to Jail,
on Sunday last, by Squire Christ field
charged with the larceny of clothing from
Hungal Dalson, of Middle Neck
The Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal
timore Railroad Company have declared a
semi-annual dividend of four per cent, pay
able on and after January ?, 1877
-Upsets are numerous during the sleigh
ing season. One of our hardware mer-
chants and our popular telegraph operator
were among the number this week.
The Susquehanna is now passable at
almost any point in the neighborhood of
Port Deposit and Havre de Grace-via the
ice bridge-for teams of any character.
-Conowingo Bridge stock will pay no
dividend this year, the directors, at re
cent meeting, having decided to expend
the entire earnings in repairs upon the
bridge.
The frequent falls of snow during the
week have kept the sleighing in good repair.
All the world, and the rest of mankind has
been on runners during the past two weeks.
1t makes things lively.
-Sleighing is still magnificent, and SO is
the price of turnout. But the spoony
young lover must have the turnout, and
the memorable must have the drive, and
that's the reason why some pockets are
very light at present
Uncle Steve Pluck says that his boys
and girls had sumptuous treat of roast
turkey, on Christmas at the Aims House.
Having plenty of poultices this year the
turkeys were fat, of course.
Providence permitting there will be a
general class and prayer meeting at Crouch S
Chapel, to morrow (Sa bath afternoon, at
p O'Clock. Public services in the evening
y o'clock, conducted by Sheriff Cooling.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court for this
county issued, during the past year, 125
marriage licenses. According to the rec
ords in the same office, neither a birth mol
death took place in the county during the
year.
The Great London Sensation, this
week, exhibited at Odd Fellows Hail. and
has been quite successful each night, ex
cept the first, having full houses. They
remain over to night, and go from here tc
Washington.
Saturday evening before Christmas wa:
mai hCu ny oil UNUSUAL VI III uuhCu
ness and fighting, on our streets. All ouI
officers were conveniently absent, so tina
the contendng forces had it all their owr
way.
Bishop L. Scott, d. D., will preach Al
Ebenezer M. f. Church, Zion circuit, OF
next Sunday morning, 31st instant, anC
probably in the evening, also. Services al
1O9 A. NJ, and : p. NJ Public invited
Collection.
The Zion NJ. Z. Parsonage was take1
possession Of on the 2Sth instant. by tn,
members of the church and friends of the
Pastor, Rev. T. l.. Tomkinson, and afteI
an enjoyable visit, they left numerou.
tokens of their friendship and love behint
them.
( Mr.. Jos. Wells, this week, purchased
of VIM. F. Baldwin, Esq, a pair Of youn.
steers, not unusually large in frame, but il
splendid condition, and weighing the pair
$500 pounds, dressing about l, 100 pound
each. They are on sale to day, at his store