The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-28
Our NeighborS.

Lewcs has finished new school house
with a hall in the second story capable of
seating 400 people.
The Dover physicians are complaining OF
the distressingly healthy condition of the
people in town and country.
| The Fall term of the Kent county, Md,
! Court commences next Monday. There
are only six cases awaiting trial
Queen Anne's station house, on the Md.
& Del railroad, at Hilsboro, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday of last week
The fifty year-old Republican boys of
! West Chester have made a big club, which
they intend to hurl at the Democratic tree
on the 18th of November.
At the "Chapel Grange" tournament
near Easton, on Wednesday of last week,
| W. T. Dukes took the first prize, and
crowned his wife Queen of Love and Beauty.
\ Princess Anne editor remarks in refer
ence to Il donation of some oysters that he
late them with a Democratic junction and
thankfulness;' the usufruct being left to
the shells thereof.
f.. o. Perkins, of Brandywine hundred,
Delaware, recently found watch while
blowing, which he had lost three years ago
while blowing in the same field. 1t was
not much the worse for want of wear.
A child of Mrs. John r. Anderson. near
Mill Green. Hartford county, Md, aged 90
months, was scalded to death few days
ago by upsetting upon itself vessel of
boiling milk which the mother had set
upon the table.
The horse Fancy" entered at the Mid
dletowu fair by VIM. G. Fountain, of
Dover, is the well known trotting mare of
Nathan Cook, Of Camden. 1t is said that
Cook was offered 81, 800 for her there, but
refused it.
John I. Wilson, horse and buggy were
taken from the shed at MaNwells hotel,
Middletown, one night last week, and were
found next morning tied to the fence on
the farm of S. c. Biggs, Esq, near the
canal, having evidently been driven al
night.
The barn of II. l.. Page, near Milford,
was burned on Thursday evening of last
week, with all its contents. including 200
bushels of corn, one thousand bundles OF
fodder threshing machine and other farm
implements. Loss estimated at $1,000;
insurance S400.
The farmers of Kent county say that the
crop Of white or Irish potatoes is a failure.
The vines, in some instances, failed to come
up, and in other cases, where they have
come up, there are no potatoes on them.
The drought of the early Summer is thought
to be the cause of the failure.
| The cranberry farms in the vicinity of
Salisbury will yield quite handsome returns
| this season. Mr.. VIM. s. Parsons has Sc
cured about thirty bushels from the small
| lot he has in cultivation, and MessrS Ora
ham & Co. will get near two hundred bush
els from their grounds. These cranberry
boys" are within the corporate limits of
Salisbury.
| The Oxford Guards contemplate having
a tournament, on the Fair Grounds. The
committee having the matter in charge are
! hopeful of securing several of the knights
who took part in the Centennial tourna-
! ment to tilt on this occasion. We learn
that one or two have arady consented 10
take part. This will be a novelty which
/ will doubtless attract a large assemblage.
The western train, which arrived at Cam
! den Station, over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, on Saturday afternoon, October
23rd, brought a mother with two babes,
! ticketed from indianapolis, Indiana, to CHS.
! field, Md. The womans name was Rich
| ardson. and when she left indianapolis, she
was alone. She didn't stop, nor the babies
! were not passed to her from some station.
/ Those babies were born on the lily. Mrs.
/ Richardson left Cincinnati on Conductor
! Frank UarriSs train. She occupied a seat
! in the ladies' car. and had travelled a part
of the night before from indianapolis, and
/ looked sleepy and tired. Mr.. Harris saw
/ she was troubled, and, on asking her the
cause, was requested to please send some
married lady TO speak to her. Mr. Harris
! did So and through the medium of this
/ third party was Informed of the probable
increase to the passengers under his charge.
! The car was cleared, and half an hour after
wards the passengers We're informed that
two bouncing boys had begun life at the
rate of thirty-tive miles an hour, and they
were very young boys too. Excitement
| prevailed, propositions to stand godfather
for the pair were freely rendered, and names
! in as great abundance as in the first book
| of the Chronicles were proposed and re-
! fused. At Athens, on the line of the road,
the train stopped long enough to allow of
certain necessary clothing to be purchased,
which the passengers paid for, and the
mother and children came through without
stopping. Mrs. Richardson is the mother
of four other children, and makes her
| home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
| She continued her journey to her Southern
! home without delay.