The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-12-23
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Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

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ments.
ALL old bachelors want something. A
lass, yes.
Last Thursday was the shortest day of
the year.
This is just the time to remember
the poor"
The sidewalks are used by the boys as
skating parks.
The next great hanging will he hanging
up the stockings.
They are happy now, coasting down
the hills on their sleds.
Pork and hominy is the popular dish
for every day wear now.
Juvenile noses now glue themselves
against toy shop windows.
-Kriss Kringle has extra full stockings
for children who shut the door.
This is the seed time of the ice men
and harvest of the coal dealers.
Now is the time for our ice pond owners
to make skating Kinks of them.
"A luxury for the present is nice
house; for the future is an ice house.
Men call it sleighing. In many cases,
no doubt, horses would call it Staying.
The store windows in their Christmas
array are attractive to old and young.
Tremendous raids are now being made
on youthful evergreens for Christmas trees.
Don't fail to read the letter of our
Washington correspondent this week; you
will enjoy it.
-1S77 will have five eclipses. \ total
eclipse of the moon, on February 81, will
be visible here.
Rev. Geo. r. Brstor will read for the
benefit of the poor, on Monday evening,
January LIST, 1877.
Prof. E. Collins proposes to form
class in penmanship, good opportunity
for some of our young men.
-"Change Cars " is what boot black
said to an Elkton man the other day, when
he had finished one of his brogans.
An Elkton boys says, he Amt going to
hang up his stocking, because kriss kringle
never gives him anything but dougnuts.
Don't fail to provide your boys with
sleds. IT'S pleasant to feel them rattling
around your heels as you walk the street.
The sidewalk in front of the Court
House flew up and struck a gentleman on
the back of the head yesterday afternoon.
There is man in Elkton who hasn't
worn vest for thirty years. Boys, you
needn't halloo "pull down your vest" at
him.
Bob Frazer will have "New Years
Gift" for every man, woman and child in
Cecil county next Saturday. Call at the
drug store.
Just imagine the "ohs" and "look
there's that will come from rosy lips, on
Christmas morning. Why can't we al
ways be children?
Children should not use their mouths
as pen wipers. A little boy in France did
it, and nearly died, being poisoned by the
salts of copper in the ink.
The Board of Control and Review will
close their labors with the year. Property
owners having appeals to lay before them
should lose no time in presenting them.
Horses are coming down. There was
a man in town, on "Wednesday, offering to
sell two.forty nag, for three dollars.
Buyers were scarce even at these figures.
AT Bethel NJ. f. Church, on Sunday
morning next previous to the sermon, the
Pastor Rev. Geo. R. Bristor will recite
"Paul's defence before Agrippa;' go early
and secure seats.
Trinity Church protestant EpiscopaD,
of this town, is being beautifully decorated
for Christmas. Services will be held on
day at 1Ot A. NJ; offerings devoted to char
liable objects.
AS the rain falls impartially on the
just and the unjust, so the pale moonbeams
that lend inspiration to the lovers vows,
creep through the cracks of the hen-roost
and show the midnight naturalist where
the best pullet is roosting.
To our old friend Layman, of the Bay
ard House, Chesapeake City, that prince of
hosts, who knows full well chow to keep
hotel" we tender thanks for kind remem-
brance and Christmas good cheer. May
his shadow never grow less.
-Elkton has the ''Club fever" Just at
this time, another, in addition to the
Happy Young Men, having been formed,
building formerly occupied by Messrs.
McCrery & Boulder, in the " Hollow"
Our street lamps are in miserable
condition. These frosty nights the sickly
glare shed forth by them only serves to
make the surroundings more weird and
ghostly- looking. Gas won't freeze; there S
water in the pipe. Better put them in
order or put them out.
No more acceptable present could be
made these Christmas times, than box or
package of fragrant Havana from the
choice stock of Geo. w. Taylor, in the
Hollow. He has an exceedingly attractive
stock, and all his goods are of first water.
Everything in his line may be found there.
DO you notice the little sparrows chirp-
ing around beneath your window. They
are hungry, these cold, snowy mornings.
Their chances for food, without your aid,
are very slight. Throw them the crumbs
from your table, and put in few extra
ones as Christmas gift. Do not forget
the little birds
Capt. Davidson, whose vessel, loaded
with oysters now lies off Locust Point,
is no longer troubled with shedding his
oysters ashore, but drives out to the vessel
with two-horse wagon. He hauls ashore
from twenty to twenty-five bushels at a
load, the ice never so much as cracking,
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