The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-17

Kite time approaches.
Blue glass is all the rage.
Several fights in town on Saturday last.
Ladies begin to chat about Spring
fashions.
notwithstanding the hard times, the
valentine sales were large.
The uptown street lamps are in
sadly demoralized condition.
Several additions to the light infantry
of the town during the past week.
The farmers anticipate an early Spring
from the number of cow-slips they saw
during the recent icy weather.
MIR. Major, living on the Nottingham
road, has purchased the property OF Mr.
George Norris, in the same vicinity.
Last Sunday was quite Spring like, bnt
the sudden change on Monday evening has
made the air feel quite Wintery again.
A horse standing in front of the Post
Office was overcome by drowsiness, one
day last week, and fell down in the harness,
breaking it in several places.
The many friends of r. Mcfarland.
Esq, the efficient Cashier of the Elkton
National Bank, will hear with regret that
be has been confined to his bed this week,
by indisposition.
"Wednesday was lively day among
our clothing merchants. A new conner, IN
search of store house, was offering fabu.
lous prices for rent of place in which to
vend his garments.
AT the request of Comptroller Wool
ford, Col. John NJ. Miller, of this town, has
rendered his resignation as State Insurance
Commissioner, and Jesse X. Hines has
been appointed in his place.
Mr.. Chew did not open the Elkton
Academy on Monday last, having resigned
after arriving here. The Board has since
elected Mr.. A E. Warner, of Connecticut,
Principal, and it is now announced that the
school will certainly open on Monday next.
Daniel L. Baldwin, Esq, of Elk Mills,
and Miss Ray, niece of Hon. Jas. II. Ray,
of Newark, Del, were married in Phlla-
delphia, on Monday last. They went to
Washington, on Tuesday, and will go from
their to Richmond, Va. May they ever be
happy.
-Colora Lodge, Knights of Pythias. will
give public entertainment at their hall at
Colora, Nd, on Tuesday evening. February
ha Jali nv Ia
Whitehouse and Col. S. Mills, of Baltimore,
N. B. McVey, S. NJ. McCarcell, 5. J. Lee
dom and others.
The Annual Dinner of the Oxford
Library will take place on Thursday, the
22nd instant, and promises to be a fine
affair. In connection with the dinner there
will be exercises commemorative of the
day, together with other attractive features
throughout the entire day and evening.
Many pen-holders were chewed and
many brains were racked, on Monday and
Tuesday, for rhymes to make up valentines.
After all. they can hardly improve Oh the
old couplet:
"Ef yew luvs me as l luvs yew.
No nife kan cut our luv in tew.
The straw stacks of Mr.. Jos. Booth
had a narrow escape from burning, on
Monday evening last. A spark from the
locomotive of the five o'clock train set fire
to the dry grass in a field north of the
stacks. A high wind was blowing at the
time, and it required severe exertions on
the part of the farm hands to prevent the
fire from reaching the stacks.
The concert given by Prof. Fohrman, at
Chesapeake City, on Tuesday evening last,
was pecuniarily failure. The audience
was composed principally of the unapprecia
tive class of the town; and, although the
singing was first class in every respect, they
behaved in an outrageous manner throw
ing spit-balls, scattering the floor with pea
nut shells, and at the close of the enter
tainment part of them INDUCED in free
fight in the lower vestibule of the hall. In
extenuation of the bad attendance, it is as
serted that the citizens of the town have
heretofore been imposed upon by concerts,
and they supposed this one was of the same
class.