The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-13
Local Affairs.

The glacial period is still upon US.
We have had four weeks of continuous
sleighing.
The successful business team is that
which advertises most.
Comfortable quarters this cold weather
twenty five cent pieces.
The sleigh-be and harness business
has been brisk this Winter.
Skating is fine now on the Recovered
lawns and front yards Of town.
Hopkins provision store was robbed of
quantity of meat, on Tuesday night.
Does it follow that the butcher is in
love, because he offers his heart, while his
tongue is silent.
An Elkton woman says she is always
fearful of catching the ammonia" this
kind of weather.
An exchange reports births, marriages
and deaths under the head of "Hatched,
matched and despatched
The work of thawing out the frozen
street lamps keeps one man busy nowadays,
and he can't keep them all open, either.
The past week, the week of prayer,
has been observed by service each evening
in the Presbyterian and NJ. E. Churches.
Numbers of spotted wood peckers
visited town on Thursday, and spent some
time upon the trees on Court House Square.
Again we plead for the birds. Cast
ing your bread upon the snow is just as
good Christianity as casting it upon the
water.
The livery stable men complain that
the snow lasts too long. Their patrons
tire of the amusement; short snaps at inter-
walls pay better.
The Phila., Will. & Bait. railroad have
reduced the price of the excursion (round-
trip tickets to Philadelphia and return,
from $2.0O,to $3.50.
The skating now being fine, toothache
and cholera morbus appeared among the
boys just after school commenced, in the
nature of an epidemic.
The colored man, who claimed to have
been bull dozed at Charlestown last week,
with his Indian wife exhibited at Union
Hall, in this town. this week.
MIR. A. p. Shockley has moved into
the house built for him by the citizens of
Elkton. 1t is nearly finished, little paint
ing yet remaining to be done.
-Rrovidence permitting, Rev. VIM.
Fanhorn will preach at Crouch's Chapel,
tomorrow Sabbath afternoon, at half
past o'clock. The public is invited,
If any of our friends, who have sub
scribed for either of the publications
named in our club offer, fail to receive them
they will please inform US of such failure.
Mrs. F. A. Ellis fell upon the ice, near
the door of her residence, on Saturday
evening last, iniuring herself very con
siderably about the head. She has since
been confined to her bed.
Our Chesapeake Correspondent tells
of three robberies committed in that town,
this week. These were undoubtedly the
work of the same parties who robbed
Witworth's store, on Monday night.
Quite a number of partridges have
been found in the neighborhocd this week
frozen to death. One gentleman showed
US pair he had found; so they have not,
as their friends had hoped, safely wealth
cred the extreme cold and snow.
Frozen gas is the latest addition to
household comforts. Some of the street
lamps have got the chills, and shed only
ga dim religious light" In thawing out
beware of blow ups. Gas is not exactly
giant powder, but it's lifting power is not
to be despised.
On Tuesday night the grocery store Of
Mr.. Roger Witworth, at the corner of
Main and Bridge streets, was entered by
means of false keys, and the till broken
open and relieved of about twenty five
dollars, nothing else was taken, the plum
derers evidently were cash operators.
December last was the coolest month
of that name for no one knows how long.
enough it was) of the month was 25.5 de-
grees; the same month in 1875 it was 49,
degrees and in 1878 it was 36.9 degrees;
and the average for century was 33.5
degrees.
People who were on the streets much,
this week, experienced great diff Guilty in
retaining an upright position. If it is true
that "the wicked stand on slippery places, "
then there are yet few good people
among us, for all places are slippery; and
those who went down would form quite a
company.
T "A meeting of stock holders of the
road was held, on Monday, for the purpose
of selecting officers for the ensuing year
The following were elected: President,
Henry Wood; Directors, Samuel Dickey.
David Woelpper, Job II. Jackson, John NJ.
D ckey, Edwin Haines.
An eating match took place in one of
our saloons, on Saturday night last. The
competitors we're three young men; one OF
them wagering that be could put down
more oyster stews than the other two COM
bned. He, however, miscalculated his
capacity, for he gagged on the tenth dish,
while the other two got away with six
apiece.
"A special session of the grand lodge
of Maryland, of the Independent Order OF
Good Templars, is to be held at Temper
ance Temple, in the city of Baltimore, or
Tuesday, January 23rd, 1877, at 10 o'clock,
NJ. 1t is hoped that every Subordinate
Lodge will be represented as business OF
great Importance will be brought before
this Grand Lodge.
MIR. r. H. Bell, on High street, has
made great improvements in his store
house. He has renewed the wood work OF
the entire interior, and fitted it up in first
class style. He has restocked his store
with new and full assortment Of all kinds
of groceries Mr. Bell has now as hand