The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-21
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Local Affairs.

Sun burn is in fashion.
Green apples are plenty.
Many are the pic-nics now.
. Not sign of ice in the river.
Peach plucks are on the move.
The reign of rain is still on us.
Grabs have appeared in the river.
A fact well KNOWN 1t is warm"
The thermometer refuses to sit down.
The tidal wave Of heat has struck US.
Cat and dog concerts are in full blast.
The oats crop is turning out splendidly.
Wouldn't snow storm be pleasant
Paper collars are now easily thawed
out.
-"Dog days" sticky and oppressive
weather.
Lay in your coal, if you have the
money to lay out.
MIR. Nicholas F. johnson shipped few
peaches this week.
Chester Heights camp meeting begins
on Sunday, Goth inst.
Peaches are in market-prematures,-
suggestive of cramps.
When bitten by mad dog just ampu-
tate your Imagination.
-"Put money in thy purse" and a
cabbage leaf in thy hat.
"A hot, dry term for the remainder of
the Summer is predicted.
"A snapper weighing % pounds was
exhibited in town on Saturday.
We don't hear the rattle of the lawn
mower since the hot weather set in.
There are lots of tramps about, looking
for work that they don't want to find.
Quite large picnic party from this
town visited WEIGH Point, on Wednesday.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
the countJ- Will average Is bushels to the
acre.
You can't convince paid headed man
that flies are sent into the world for our
good.
When another fire occurs we will hear
more talk of giving Elkton supply of
water.
, "A pungy arrived at our wharves, on
Wednesday, from Swan creek, with load
of crabs.
yUh Ia No1y
cool, but it is the most uncomfortable of
garments.
The boys are popping the glass out of
the public school building with pebbles
from their sling shots.
The Church of st. Augustine, Bohemia
Manor, will be opened for worship on Sum-
day, July 22nd, at p. NJ.
The mail between this point and Lewis
vile, Pa, will be carried by Mr.. John
Lungren another four years.
The heaviest rain of the season oc-
cured on Thursday night. 1t came down
in torrents for about an hour.
"A little more clay on Main street and
We Shh hehNC ihoiC Iudu oil Iut uuSL VIC WduG
in dry weather-red dust at that
The employees of Marley Paper Mill
will hold dancing picnic, in Mackall's
woods, on Wednesday evening next.
Mr. Horace johnson, recently an en-
ploye of the Democrat office, is acting as
news agent on the P, w. & B. Railroad.
II. Ramsey Marshbanks, alias 'sDick,"
shot II e ones woodcock on the marsh,
in the rear of town, on Wednesday morning.
Rev. T. Snowden Thomas will preach
in the M. E. Church at North East, to-
morrow Sabbath morning at 10. 80 clock.
AN Elkton paper hanger put on 95
pieces of paper at 20 cents per piece, in
three days, last week, and still he is not
'appy.
Rev. D. c. Ridgway will preach at
Crouch's Chapel, tomorrow Sunday after
noon, at p O'Clock. The public is cordially
invited.
"A valuable horse, belonging to Daniel
Arbuckle, Esq, was so badly injured while
hosting hay one day last week, that he had
to be killed
Clinton Mccullough, an interesting
child of fourteen months of age, son of
Bailif' A. p. Shockley, died on Wednesday
evening last.
An exchange says: Peaches have put
in an appearance on the streets fruiters'
stands. You can tell them from the wal
nut by their color.
-Advices from Rehoboth and Ocean
City inform US of delightfully."- cool weather
during the past week, while we have been
sweltering from the heat.
While Mr.. Mcdonald was driving upon
the race course, on Saturday, the axle and
box became heated and stuck SO tightly
that the axle was twisted in two.
The mellow and voluminous tones of
the camp-meeting exhorter now fall upon
the ear of the appreciative listener and
sooth him to refreshing slumber.
Rev. Mr.. Heberton is off on his Sum-
mer vacation. He will spend the greater
part OF the time at Sea Grove. He will be
absent about three more Sundays.
Rev. Mr.. Squier, President of the
County School Board, filled the pulpit of
the Presbyterian Church of this town on
Sunday last, morning and evening.
Miss Martha Biddle, Principal of New
Leeds school, left home for Boston and
Lynn, Massachusetts, on Thursday morn
ing. She will be absent several weeks.
W. j. Jones, Esq, of this town, is
to read an Essay before the Peninsular
Sunday School Convention, which meets
at Rehoboth, on Monday and Tuesday next.
The appearance of things in front of
Odd Fellows Hall would be improved by
cutting away the dead maple tree which
stands there, SO suggestive of wither and
decay.