The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-12-16
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ELKTON, DECEMBER l6, 1876.
Local Affairs

REPcRTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
Santa Claus is coming.
The frog is sadly out of tune.
The Republicans still hold the fort.
-Terrapns have gone into winter quar-
tiers.
The grand jury adjourned on Wednes-
day.
-Muskrats seek their marshy habita-
tons.
Turnpike sailors. Latest name for
tramps.
Thursday next is the shortest day of
the year.
Snakes no longer glide across your
startled path.
Don't fail to attend the concert on
Wednesday evening.
The best way to help the poor is to
employ them to work.
taken in out of the storm.
Good horses are selling lower than
they have for some years past.
The concert on Wednesday evening
will be an unusually fine affair.
Christmas presents are beginning to
loom up before the children's minds.
Thick gloves and heavy overcoats are
regarded with warm feelings nowadays.
A medical journal says an orange suck
ed before breakfast will cure the appetite
for whisky.
The season has now arrived for icy
pavements and fractured limbs. Be care
full where you step.
Spurious half and quarter dollar coins
are in circulation. People should be on
the lookout for them.
-Theo. X. Stubbs, Esq, was to lecture
at Fairview, near Kansas, in this county,
on last evening. Subject, "Down Grade. y
The fair to be held in the basement of
the Catholic Church, of this town, will
begin on Thursday evening next, and con-
tinue over Christmas.
An exchange says: "Patsey Lambert
is suffering from very severe attack of
Observation-Disclosures in his right hand. y
We sympathize deeply with him.
Our enterprsing dry goods man, NJ. L.
Lchtenstein this week, appears in new
advertisement. Mr.. L. is live man, and
does business on the lightning principle Of
quick sales and small profits. Read his
advertisement.
The new depot commenced by the P,
W. & B. Railroad Company, at Newark,
Del, is to be one of the largest and finest
on the line of the road. 1t is to be of
brick, with ornamental facings of Susque.
hanna granite.
Lemon juice is said to be useful as a
remedy for diptheria. 1t is used by twist
ing u small plug of cotton wool around a
small wire, dipping it in the juice, and
pressing it against the diseased surface
four or five times daily.
Capt. John Davidson, who has been
supplying our town with very fine oysters
was overta1en near Locust Point by the
freeze, on Saturday night He had large
load Of oysters on board, and has had
them hauled overland to town.
Quarterly meeting will be held at the
Colored NJ. P. Church, Cedar Hill, on Sun
day 18th instant. Preaching at II o'clock
A. NJ. by the Pastor, Rev. c. II. Williams:
at 3 O'Clock p. NJ by Rev. p. E. B. Haz-
zard and at I! P. NJ. by the Pastor.
The cold was so intense and the wind
so high on the railroad on Saturday last,
that the hands on the train which has
vert over Big Elk, refused to work in the
afternoon, and the Company promptly sent
them to their homes in Wilmington.
We are pleased to announce that Mr..
Frank G. Ellis, who for some months past
has been lying dangerously ill, has so far
recovered as to be able to be out. He ar
rived in town yesterday-from Philadel-
pha where he has been under the ply
sicians' care-on visit to his father S
family.
-Seal-skin sacques last Winter reigned
supreme. A lady, without one of those
useful and elegant garments, was not in
full dress, no matter how she was other
wise arrayed. The same is true to-day.
In Paris London and New York, seal-skin
is voted the thing, and whatever may be
the result in politics, in fashion votes carry
the day.
Is Call and see the new arrival of novel,