The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-09-02
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ELKTON, SEPTEMBER ,, 1876.
Local Affairs.
PORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
New cider now.
Grapes abound.
Influenza frequent.
Read the supplement.
School houses are open.
Everybody has come home.
The egg plant crop is short
1t feels like Indian Summer.
September weather is upon us with all
it's glory.
Don't forget the primaries on Satur-
day.
An organ grinder and monkey enliv-
ened our streets this week.
Stove pipe hats and Ulster over coats
reappear in the vivid imagination.
Flying a kte-Fel from the roof
Fatally injured. in Wilmington.
-Blackbird shooting is the favorite
amusement of our sportsmen in the even
ings now.
Death has separated loving couple.
They were Paraquetts, and were pets of
Miss Ellis.
We are troubled with poachers from
Philadelphia, who go into the marsh and
shoot off our rail birds, before they are fat.
Now we have an or" in the month,
and oysters can be eaten with impunity-
or with salt and vinegar, whichever you
prefer.
kept him from breaking his neck
ol,o Ill, oil
walker to attach his rope to the Hoyard
House
There's an CIR" in September and in
August and in oyster, and in raw, and in
fry, and in broil, and in roast, and two RS
in day after tomorrow.
The iron work for the new railroad
bridge, across Big Elk Creek, was landed
at the spot, on Thursday. 1t will be put
up omorrow or to- morrow week.
-Watermelons are dangerously cheap,
and the average Elkton boy is forcbly out
of Bryant's line.
"The melon collie days have come"
Miss Matte Nicols, of Elkton, will
take charge of the Jefferson school for the
ensuing term, assisted by Miss c. Gay.
Miss Nicols is one of our veteran teachers.
) DOOtUIdck COtnpldlUS OF nara
times. He says boots, as a rule, are so
much worn that they require about twice
the length of time to polish them that a
good square boot does.
Counterfeit quarters and half dollars
have appeared; the best way to detect
them is to place them between the teeth;
on the slightest pressure the base metals
give forth cracking sound.
The New Leeds school, under the care
of Miss NJ. Biddle and Miss l.. McCauley,
will begin on Monday, the 4th inst
Scholars will, please enter the first day, so
the school can be properly organized.
DR. Mitchell has at last consented to
sell number of his Cotswold and South
down sheep. He has, for several seasons
past, been importuned to put them on the
market but has heretofore refused. Now
our farmers have an opportunity to place
good sheep on their sod. We will sec how
many will do it.
Our sewing machine man, ]. Wilkin-
son, intends to close his office in Elkton,
next week, and give his whole time to the
country trade. He will have no special
day to be in town. All letters of inquiry
in reference to the machine business will
be promptly attended to, as heretofore, and
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Thomas Warrick, of Battle Swamp
was about month ago relieved of his
watch. He charged the theft to Budd
Gamble, whom he followed to Wilmington.
Gamble vanished from sight, and wasn't
heard from until Monday evening last,
when he was arrested by police officer.
Gamble says tits all pretense; that War
rick loaned him the watch and he lost it.
In this patriotic year a man who owns
bull seye watch of the regular Revolu-
tionary stamp, such an one, for instance
licked away while the flame and smoke
encircled Bunker Hill, occupies position
almost as proud as that of one of General
Washington's nurses. But those who have
no such hallowed timepiece need not de-
spair. Watches of handsome workmanship
and warranted to keep better time are sold
by Alrich, under the Howard House.
The A. NJ. E. Church, of Chesapeake
City, will hold bush meeting in Spring
Grove, only a few yards from the town
limits commencing on Sept. 18th. Appoint
ments for Sabbath 10th are as follows
Prayer meeting at s and 8 A. NJ; the able
young Christopher Jones, teacher of col.
ored school, will preach at II A. NJ; the
Right Rev. Bishop J. NJ. Brown, D. D., of
this district, will preach at p. NJ; Rev.
]. F. Lane, of Cecilton, will preach at 40
p. NJ; Augustus Ross, of Baltimore, will
also preach. The choirs of Elkton and
Bohemia Manor are expected to be in at
tendance. REV. w. NJ. JOHNSON,
Pastor.
One of the plaques visited upon Egypt
we can thoroughly understand. 1t was
flies. The busy, curious thirsty fly may
be very nice in poetry, but in the bed room
at sunrise he is simply disgusting. Shoe
him, and he wont stay shooed, hit him and
he is not there, tramp him and you don't |
get him. He is an omnipresent torment,
pestlent little demon to be despised and
execrated, but not caught. Tempt him
with fly paper and he prefers your bare
cuticle; strike at him and you hurt your
self, while he buZzes off with hooking
laugh. A mosquito is gentleman in
comparison with a fly. The mosquito
drinks his fill and goes off like decent
fellow, bat the beastly fly insists upon
drowning himself in your tea or smother
ing himself in your butter. With hearty |
JUNCTION we agree with Josh Billings
"Darn fiji, l hate a fiji
An enthusiastic Democrat sends us the |
following. Of course it elects Tilden and
Hendricks:
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90 8 ) IA 4 1873 3 II 10 Ill
Total, 1914 |