The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-05-13

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The "great unknown the man who
don't advertise.
Read up in geography before visiting
the Centennial.
J Frazer Bob ''hung his flag to the
breeze on Wednesday.
A number of communications are
crowded out this week.
Centennial handkerchiefs of 1716 are
used on the noses of 1876.
- An Elkton man wears red, white anG
blue Centennial umbrella.
Buck Beer from the 18th to the 18th,
at Simons, Main street.
On Monday next, all lovers of Buck
Beer will call at Simon's.
=" Bob" Frazer's flag is struggling hard
to remind us Of the Centennial
Go to Simon's, on Monday morning
and try glass of his Buck Beer.
If you want egg plants on the Fourth
of July, plant your hens at once.
1T is said that domestic cotton goods
were never so cheap as at present.
An Elkton man, whose clothes shine
from age, thinks himself polished gentle
man.
If there is anything in blossoms, our
fruit crop this year will be something i'm
menSe.
The prettiest sight at the Big Show
the young lady who sells the Guide =" in
Machinery Hall.
The early birds looked cold on Thurs
day morning. You might mention this
item to the chilled wren.
An Elkton boy killed twenty-five rats
in one afternoon this week. 1t wasn't a
good afternoon for rats either.
-Messrs. Warburton & Janney will sell
a lot of fine cattle at Nowland's Corner,
on the s0sh inst. See their card.
The thermometer stood straight up
and down last Saturday and Sunday; but
the mercury rose to Summer heat.
Tuesdays rain was very welcome to
the farmers, and it didn't interfere with the
opening of the great exhibition either.
Local interest in the Centennial is
flag ging. 4 number of our citizens hung
out the stars and stripes on Wednesday.
Sankey's hymns have been translated
into Chinese. We would like to hear full
chorus of Cinnamon sing Ninety and
Nine"
of all the poets beneath the skies, the
"Spring time" poet we most despise. The
above is not original with US, but it is our
sentiment exactly.
DO you want to know where to get the
best and cheapest paint in the world9 If
you do, read Messrs. Bellah & Elliott's
card in another column.
We will be pleased to have our friends,
from all parts of the country, call and see
us when they are in town, and give us the
news from their respective sections.
An abridged copy of the Bible. pub
lIshed in Wilmington, Del, in 1907, has
been sent to the Centennial Exhibition by
the "devil " of the Democrat office.
The farmers who expected high price
for butter during the Centennial will be
disappointed, as it is lower now than it has
been for some time and is likely to remain
SO.
Poor Solomon! Our heart goes out
after Solomon, when we think that he had
seven hundred wives to advise him what to
do when he had the toothache. No wonder
he Vas wise.
The Summer that came in such hot
haste on Sunday last, as hastily departed,
and now we have the cool, gray morning of
Spring, with little rain and little dew,
and sometimes more rain than we know
what to do with.
Making sugar of beets is a we'll estab-
lshed industry in this country. Snipkins
says that if he could make sugar Of all the
dead beats in Elkton, he would have money
enough to keep horse and buggy and go
to the Centennial.
MIR. w. B. Heatzig has leased the old
bank building, Main street, opposite the
residence of Ex- Governor Groome, and is
opening ont a stock of first class furniture.
Give him a call.
To any of our friends desiring reliable
nursery stock for the fruit or flower gar
den, we recommend them to order of Ed
ward J. Evans & Co., York, Pa. They
make speciality of roses.
The change of time, by the Railroad
Company, makes lively times at the depot
We now have three trains at the station in
the morning within less than ten minutes.
Occasionally they are all there at one time
two passenger and one freight train.
The original Declaration of Independ-
ence passed through here on Saturday last,
on it's way from Washington to Philadel.
phia. 1t was placed in the National Mu-
scum in Independence Hall, where it will
remain until the close Of the Exhibition.
Our reporter says, that the checklist
person he knows is a we'll do Elkton
man who stood for half an hour in store
co. ~
to cease all the while leaning against case
of umbrellas that could be bought for a
dollar apiece.
An exchange that has no correspond
ent in Philadelphia, says it is hard to pick
up seven exchanges, one after another, and
not be moved to pity as we read the same
identical Philadelphia letter in every one
of them from our Centennial correspond
ent."
-Ou rcounty was well represented at the
Centennial opening on Wednesday. Bevies
of Cecils fair daughters were to be met at
almost every turn. Like the majority of
the ladies present, independent of the
beaux, they were seeing the show upon
their own hook.
When you go to the Centennial, look
to it that you do not step out the rear
doors of the Main Building. If you do,
you will find you are without the enclosure,
and it will cost you just half dollar to
get in again. Several Elkton gentlemen
were caught in this fix on Wednesday.
William ]. Jones, Esq, will deliver an
address before the Irving Literary Society
of West Nottingham Academy, on Wednes-
day evening, May Gath, 1876. Subject
"The utility of an academic and collegiate
education in practical life" The friends
of the Academy are invited to attend.
Keep the silver moving. Although
our bank has paid out large amount of
silver recently, scarcely any has been re-
turned by depositors. Don't hoard the
silver. Keep it moving. 1t is not worth
any more than paper money, and you gain
nothing by tying it up in old stockings for
robbers to find.
One of the most attractive features of
the Centennial Exposition will be the
number of well-dressed gentlemen on the
grounds. We do not hesitate to say that
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