The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-22
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Local AHA1Ts.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
The dam at Baldwin's Mill was com
pleted, on Tuesday evening last.
The stores of Elkton will all be closed
on Tuesday next. it being Christmas day.
The revival services continue with un'
abated interest in the F. NJ. Church OF this
town.
"Wednesday will be discount day at the
National Bank of Elkton during the two
holiday weeks.
There will be prayer meeting in the
Elkton NJ. E. Church, at 6 o'clock, on
Christmas morning.
During this and the past week several
farmers in this vicinity have suffered by
frequent raids of poultry thieves.
The ladies that gave the supper for the
benefit of the Elkton Presbyterian Church,
last week, realized the handsome sum of
$145
William Brown, of Cherry Hill, has
rendered his resignation as librarian of the
Cherry Hill Sabbath School, to take effect
the first of May next.
The mail agents on the postal cars will
appear in their new regulation uniforms
about Christmas; and yet there are people
who don't believe in civil service reform.
All notes arriving at maturity, and
payable at the Bank on next Tuesday
which is Christmas, should be paid on the
day before, as Christmas is legal holiday.
The colored people of the two churches
in Elkton will meet early on Christmas
morning and march through the principal
streets and sing some of their best selected
pieces.
The young men in and around Cherry
Hill have formed themselves into club,
and have rented one of the rooms in the
Hall. 1t is called "The Young Men S
Pleasant Club"
Young men should not ask their sweet
hearts to kiss them on the street: it is
against the rules of propriety, and they
may get themselves into trouble, and per-
chance get black eye.
Five adults we're baptized, on Sunday
morning last, in the Elkton NJ. E. Church,
by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Ridgway, and over
fifty have joined the church; still the altar
is nightly crowded with penitents.
A company of four of our best shots
visited the Susquehanna flats, on Monday,
to shoot ducks. They returned the same
evening with six ducks being one duck
and a half piece. Try again, gentlemen.
j. Bernstein, Baltimore optician, was
arrested, on Wednesday,, and for want of
the mighty dollars to pay the fine was in
carcerated in the county Jail; the result of
peddling eye glasses and spectacles with
out license.
There will be Sabbath school exhibit
ton, at the NJ. E. Church, North East, on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 25th. Admission,
25 and Is cents. The public are invited to
attend. Proceeds for the benefit of the
Sunday school.
An entertainment, for the benefit Of
the Cherry Hill Sunday school, will take
place, on the night of December 9th, in
the church, which will be handsomely
decorated for the occasion. Admittance,
twenty five cents.
B. NJ. Crawford, Esq, DR.. G. NJ. Ellis
and Mr.. John E. Alexander, by resolu-
tion of the Board of County Commission
ers of Cecil county, represented this county
in the Tramp Convention, held in Balti-
more, this week.
Christmas trees are to be seen every
where. along the streets, in the shops, and
on Friday last we saw lot of them in
the most unlikely place of all-among the
coal in the tender attached to the engine of
the morning train.
The Boonsboro Odd Fszlou was printed
last week upon half sheet, owing to the
large increase in the number of subscri-
bers. We congratulate the Odd Fsllo'c upon
its good luck, and suggest that it get a
paper mill of its own.
One of our colored citizens began to
celebrate Christmas yesterday and imbibed
too freely of tangled-foot whisky, in con-
sequence of which he anchored on the pave
NAMED for some time.
Our friend Bob Frazer has an mex
haustible supply of all sorts of fancy toilet
articles; indeed some people characterize
his store as real vanity fair. If you wish
to make your sweetheart present, call at
FIazer's drug store, and he will furnish a
nice article cheap for the cash.
On Thursday of last week. mad dog
made its appearance at the farm of Robert
Jaquette, near Westamwell Mills, and bit
his watch dog. 1t then went to E. Collins
and also bit his dog and attempted to bite
one of his horses, but was shot by Mr.. G.
before doing any more damage.
The Maryland & Delaware railroad
was sold at Easton, Md, at auction, on
Thursday, by ex-Gov. James b. Groome,
lot FJf, Suu, anu puiCudseu ny w lilldIn 4.
Hart, of Boston, for the bondholders. The
Maryland division, with rolling stock,
brought $40, 200; the Delaware division,
$4,000.
There will be cornerstone laying,
near Logan's Corner, two and half miles
from North East, on Port Deposit road, on
Thursday, December 9th. The Revs. J. O.
Sypherd, J. Dare, l.. w. Laytield, J. A. B
Wilson (pastor) will be present and con
duct the services, which will continue all
day.
Quite large number of people gath
cred at the race course, on Monday after
noon, to see race that did not take place.
George Prices trotting horse was to have
trotted against time, but i" Far her Time ~
failed to put in an appearance, and the track
being heavy, the race was indefinitely post
poned.
Miss NJ. Pedreaux Kelley, the Young