The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

- ElHtTedi IulIuueSS
-Sleighing is done for.
-Overcoats are at discount.
The weather speaks for itself.
january went out like lamb.
The roads are getting muddy.
A potato famine is threatened.
Now get your whitewash ready
Neuralgia is now quite fashionable.
Corn cob pipes are fashionable now.
sc lis somewhat warmer than it was. .
Beautiful moonlight nights this week.
Go to the concert on Tuesday evening.
Flour will extinguish burning kero-
sene.
The season for low -necked shoes is at
hand.
Remember the poor, for some day they
may be rich.
Our gardeners are getting their hot
houses ready.
MIR. J. Stockton has reopened Granite
Hall restaurant.
The Winter term at Elkton Academy
closes this week.
Mrs. Johnson will sing at Odd Fellows
Hall, on Tuesday evening.
An exchange asks: "Do they DOLL or
do we'll who fight du-els?'
To cure and prevent all sorts of pains,
place blue glass in your windows.
A new wrinkle among impecunious
smokers is a pipe made of potato.
To make Gala lilies bloom, fill the dish
under the pot with boiling water every day.
Now reduction in the price of eggs.
The fine weather has set the pullets to
laying.
The small boy now lays his skates
aside and begins to talk about taking a
swim.
Very serene overhead, but slushy un-
der foot Therefore, for comfort, walk on
the sky.
Court did not add much to the life Of
Elkton this week. Very few persons were
in attendance.
MIR. Josiah Reeder offers for sale, on
easy terms, a nice little farm. See his
advertisement.
The ground hog couldn't see his shad-
ow yesterday. So, if he is to be depended
upon, Winter is over.
The question of "Who's elected? ~
will soon be answered, and men OF both
parties will feel better for it.
One style of fixing the hair now-a -days
is called "the raven To do it properly
YOU must have Poe made dressing
The Railroad Company this week had
a force of men examining the bridges on
the road No Ashtabula disasters on this
line.
-Hinchliffe has g quantity of old silver
coin, some of them of very ancient date.
He is paying it out in change to his Gus
toners.
The way the small boys co4gregate on
street corners and talk politics and fight
about the "Presidential Question: is
wonderful to behold. <
-"Ned," Mrs Nelson's monkey, is
dead. Old age did it. Ned was native
of South America, and has been in this
country about seven years.
, The protracted meeting in the Metho-
dist Church at North East, has closed.
Over one hundred persons were received
into the church as its result.
Providence permitting, there will be
prayer and general class meeting, at
Crouch's Chapel, tomorrow Sunday
afternoon, at half-past clock. The public
is invited.
Theodore Gatchell, formerly of the
Fourth district of this county, is acting
Superintendent of Police of Washington,
under the new arrangement just Inaugural
ted by Congress.
The Blacksmith shop at Marley Mills,
which has heretofore been operated by the
company, has been rented by Mr.. Lloyd
Luton, who will carry on general black
smithing business.
About this time the average boy begins
to save up his pennies, SO that he can, on
the 14th invest them in one of those com
binations of fancy paper and paint, which
SO delight the juvenile eye, to send to his
sweetheart.
Courts no place for dogs, as was dem
onstrated on Thursday. An animal that
had wandered into the Court room, bit "A
member of the bar quite severely on the
calf of the leg. he having accidentally trod
den upon the dogs foot.
Women have printed, plowed, shoveled
in coal, governed Kingdoms, inspired great
social enterprises, and there is no good
reason why they should not preach; but
there is one thing a woman cannot do
decenty-she cannot sharpen lead pencil
Heaps upon heaps of ice. Mr.. Gal
laher provision dealer, on Main street,
has taken advantage of the facility for ice
gathering offered by the stacks of ready
cut ice left upon the meadows by the recent
freshet, to fill the large house in the real
of Simons' Exchange Hotel
Poultry now will be safe. Three ia
nous Falstaf1ian fox hunters, of Elkton.
recently (as reported by themselves, ran
nine foxes in one day, holeing them all in
one den, and stopping up the entrance.
They are going back after the brushes,
when the frost comes out of the ground.
About four months ago, some one left
bucket of wheat flour at Hinchlitie S news
depot Mr.. Hinchliffe, surprising it would
be called for by the owner, set it aside.
Up to this time it has not been claimed.
Unless claimed soon, it will be converted
into paste for the use of the bill posters.
-Protracted meetings have been held
during the evenings of the past two weeks
at Liberty Grove school house, by Messrs.
Gayley and Squier. They have been hav
ing crowded audiences, and good order has
been observed, and some interest mani