The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-07-08
Local AH1ira.

The weather has certainly reformed.
How ambitious the thermometers are.
What beautiful moonlight nights we
are having.
=" IIuckleberries, as they are COM
monty termed, were in the market this
week.
An itinerant organ grinder was the
attraction of the Juveniles, on Wednesday
evening.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next.
The postponed display of the Fourth
of July fire works took place last evening
on the depot lot.
"A camp meeting will be held in Moores
woods this Summer, the time not being
! fixed upon as yet.
The cool air of Thursday morning was
quite acceptable after the hot. close, muggy
| weather of the previous week
d. Scott & Bro. are improving their
wharf at the bridge by building large floors
to keep their coal from the dirt.
There will be dance at the grove ad-
joining Marley Mill, on Tuesday evening,
the 18th inst, commencing at ) o'clock.
The demand for fire crackers and flags,
on Tuesday, was so great that the stock
laid in by the dealers gave out early'in the
day.
We noticed "tandem - team on the
street, Wednesday evening. This style of
driving is becoming popular with the
"bloods.''
| The colored fires burned by Bob"
Frazer during the illumination Oh the even
ing of the 4th, were very pretty and were
much admired.
The illumination on Tuesday evening
was very general, and we would be pleased
to describe the separate displays, but can
not do so for want of space.
"A man who has ''been there" saws
that the best time to examine the wonder
full architecture of the hornets nest. is
after the hornets have moved out.
Rev. W. T. Tuli, formerly Pastor of
Elk Neck circuit has opened a grocery and
provision store at the corner of Seventh
and Monroe streets, i'll Wilmington.
| "A street vender of glass cutters was in
town this week. He was known as "the
man with the cork hat his "tile y being
made almost entirely Of that material
To-day is the one hundr edith anuiver-
sary of the reading of the Declaration of
| independence from the steps of Independ
ence Hall, in Philadelphia, by John Nixon.
"A gentleman remarked the other night
that he never really knew the character of
his fellow citizens until he had interviewed
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scription list.
1t is estimated by Isaac n. Mills, Su.
| perintendent of the Delaware Railroad,
that the shipment of peaches over that
| road this year will reach about one a half
million baskets.
4 The travel over the p, w. & B. rail-
road for the past two weeks has been
| immense, the trains in some instances run
ming i'll three and four sections with from
thirty-two to forty cars.
THE melon colicy days have come, the
hottest of the year." when man delights to
lie beneath the wide spreading trees in the
| forest glades, communing with nature and
| getting bugs in his ears.
The attention of the Town Commits
soners is called to the gutter near the
Exchange Hotel. 1t fills up with water
after every rain, becomes stagnaut, and
should be attended to Immediately.
The front of the "People's Store" is
being painted, Mr.. George Wells being the
"boss artist Mr. James Merritt is also
having the front of his residence painted
Perry Litzenberg, Esq, holds the brush.
Rev W. w. Heberton will preach, on
tomorrow (Sabbath) morning, an histori-
cal sermon of the Elkton Presbyterian
| Church, embracing the entire history of
Presbyterianism in Elkton. All are cor
daily invited to be present.
"A number of our citizens went to
Philadelphia on the evening of the "4th -
to see the fireworks in Paramount Park.
The display was, by far the finest ever
made, although the entire programme was
not carried out on account of the rain.
Our town was lively with a vengeance,
on the "Glorious Fourth" The "lads
and lasses y from the country round about
were particularly noticeable, and all seemed
to be enjoying themselves hugely. No
disturbances of any consequence were no.
ticed, and Deputy Sheriff Janney informs
MS an unusual amount of good order pre-
vailed.
We call the attention of farmers and
peach growers to the card of Mr. Il. F.
May, commission merchant, No. lis Light
street, in to-day's Wig. Mr.. Mays well
known integrity and business energy are
the safest guarantees of early returns to
shippers. He handles each year an i'm
mense quantity of fruit-knows his mar
ket well, and generally is the earliest in it.
Mr.. S. p. Wood, proprietor of the
| Elkton, Chesapeake Il Galena Stage Line,
wishes to inform the public, and particu-
larly commercial travellers, that they can
leave here in the morning Immediately after
the arrival Of the trains from Philadelphia
and Baltimore, spend an hour or two in
Chesapeake, and return in time for the two
O'Clock train south, thus saving the expense
of hiring teams.
AS JOS Bacon was returning home from
town on Thursday, and when turning the
corner of Main and Bridge streets, his
horse became frightened by an umbrella,
which was hoisted in the buggy, falling
out. The horse turned so suddenly that
the occupant was compelled to jump out,
and soon after the vehicle was overturned
and the horse thrown down, so that the
harness had to be cut before he could rise.
Previous to the accident he had two chill
dren in with him.
A District Conference of the NJ. E.
Church will be held at Newark, beginning
on the 18th instant and continuing two
days. Bishop Scott has been invited to
preside. and if he cannot accept, Presiding
Elder Quigg will conduct the business -
The session will be occupied with the ordi-
nary business, which includes an examina-
ton of the character of the local preachers
and exhorters, and literary exercises
There are several applicants for license to
preach. On the evening preceding the
opening of the Conference sunday school
jubilee will be held.
Robert Gwinn, Bailitf, and Constable
Caldwell, of Port Deposit, brought quite a
batch of prisoners to this Jail, on Wednes-
day afternoon last Their names are Chas
II. McFall, (colored) Jos. II. Mahafy and
Robert E. Fletcher, all tramps, who were
arrested near Perryville, for burglary
Many houses and stores have been broken
into in that neighborhood recently, and
these men are supposed to be the guilty
parties. The others are John G. f. Strouts
and Thos. II. McNamee, who were arrested