The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
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ELKTON, JUNE 3, 1876.

ELKTON, JUNE 3, 1876.
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
Now soup by P. Green.
Frost two mornings this week.
Chickens and CLANS are plenty.
Prepare for the Fourth Of July.
The roads are uncomfortably dusty
Mature now wears her full Spring suit.
The catbird sings sweetly in the early
morn.
Decoration day was not celebrated in
Elkton.
Most people can't afford to eat early
strawberries.
Destroy caterpillars' nests wherever
you see them.
Quail perch upon the trees on Court
House square.
Measles are quite prevalent in this
neighborhood.
Don't stand under tall trees during a
thunder storm.
Apple tree branches are thickly dotted
with small fruit.
Purple Wisteria blossoms adorn many
of our front yards.
-Woodcock are seen fitting around
these moonlight nights.
The Elkton band practices playing on
the march, by moonlight.
The Eastern Shore has more peaches
than Delaware this season.
An itinerant hat maker was repairing
Elkton "stove pipes" this week.
We can stand great deal Of this sort
of Summer. Keep it up, old Prob.
Matrimonial engagements are some
times broken off during the onion season.
Two fishing parties, on Tuesday last,
caught 325 fish in couple hours fishing.
A walk or ride in the country these
beautiful moonlight evenings is charming
An Elkton man wrote us a note yester-
day. We had to send for him to come and
read it for us.
Mr.. Marks Lieberman has opened a
Branch Clothing Store, at the Post office,
in North East.
Thirteen subscribers to Tile Wig, in
one batch, yesterday. That's right, friends,
send them along.
Delightful weather for sailing, this
week, and the pastime was largely INDUCED
in by our citizens.
AT the concert, at the Bethel Church
(cold), on Tuesday evening last, the music
was very enjoyable.
MIR. Robert Marshbank is having a
snowy sign painted upon the west wall of
his furniture warerooms.
On Monday, catbird entered the
rooms of an up town dentist and perched
upon his operating chair.
The weather, SO far, has been unfavor-
able for the mosquito crop. Some few
heve put in an appearance.
The Exchange hotels. Simon, pro-
prietor-is being thoroughly reprinted by
Messrs. Wells & Litzenberg.
The strawberry festival, given by the
ladies of the Chesapeake City Presbyterian
Church, was great success.
If your tongue is coated, or if you
have a bad breath, take dose of DR..
Bulls Pills. Price % cents.
If you want cheap and good shirts for
your boys, read the card of the Baltimore
shirt factory, in another column.
A fish market has been established on
Court House square, by James Manley.
Fish, crabs, Holsters, &C., are on sale.
There's some money in these parts yet.
We saw an Elkton merchant with roll of
greenbacks containing $1,000 in his hand,
the other day.
The new photograph gallery, on the
corner of Main and Bow streets, is COM
pleted. Now you can get a permanent
shadow of yourself.
Elegant and Refined Occupation
Standing in front of church doors on Sun
day evenings, smoking cigars and COM
menting upon passers-by.
Some of our peach growers say they
have been offered as much as fifty cents
basket for their crop by New York dealers.
If they have they had better sell.
Persons who are undecided as to
whether it is right to open the Centennial
Exhibition on Sunday may settle the mat
ter by reading Exodus Xxx: 8, 9, 10, Ii.
An Elkton gentleman takes a horse
from the shafts of a carriage by unloosng
the harness from the body of the animal,
leaving the harness attached to the shafts.
An Elkton man caught number of
large bullfrogs, on Wednesday last, with
hook and line. He says he just dangled the
bare hook before the varmint's face and he
would grab it.
"A strawberry festival will be held on
Mr.. Collins lawn, one mile above town,
Thursday afternoon and evening, June Sth.
Proceeds for the Persons Grove Sabbath
School. Public invited.
-Provoking-to discover, upon your ar.
rival at the depot, after foot race of half
a mile, that the train you heard blow was
an extra, and that you are then ten min
utes ahead Of train time.
An Elkton lady saw a ghost, one even
ing this week. She screamed, but was So
badly frightened she couldn't run. 1t
proved to be gentleman i'll a white hat
and new snit of linen duck.
The ladies of Chestnut Grove Sunday
School will hold strawberry and ice cream
festival at Woodlawn camp ground, We'd
nesday, June It'll, 1876. Supper, % cents.
Creamy congratulations to all.
Two trains collided at the approach to
the bridge at Havre de Grace, on Thursday.
One train was passing off, the other coming
on the bridge. Both engines were thrown
from the track, but little damage was done
either, however.
An examination of teachers was held
by the school authorities at the Elkton
Public School building, on Tuesday last
AS the Secretary of the Board took icing
Immediately upon adjournment, we failed
to get a report of the proceedings.
"A peach twig, from the orchard of
Stephen J. Etherington, Esq, Of Sassa-
fras Neck, which contained twenty finely
developed peaches, was shown US, one day
this week. 1t is claimed to be but fair
specimen of the orchard from which it was
taken.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Tome
Memorial NJ. f. Church, Port Deposit,
will hold a Strawberry Festival, in Odd