The Cecil Whig., 1877-12-15
Our NcighbOrs.

The oyster trade is getting better as the
weather grows colder.
Mr.. Scribner of Milford. will soon lay the
keel for l000-ton vessel.
| Burglars are doing extensive business
throughout the peninsula, with impunity.
The largest vessel ever built at Milton is
about to be erected there by David Atkins.
Sea Nutter, colored woman, living at
| Nanticoke, Somerset county, is known to be
| 1l3 years old.
\ new NJ. +. Church is to be erected at
| Milton, and the contract for the erection
| has been awarded to II. J. Belts, of Will
| mington.
\ sixty ton vessel was launched at
Smyrna Landing on Tuesday, by Jacobs X
| Scott. She is intended for the oyster trade
and is owned by Baltimore parties.
The Junction & Breakwater r. r. con
templates building branch from the main
line, starting about half a mile below Mil
| ford, and extending to the shipyard
The Breakwater Light says that probably
| the lowest tides in the recollection of the
| oldest inhabtant occurred there on Friday.
! No reason is assigned for the phenomena.
| The street lamps are not lighted down at
st. Michaels and the Comet seriously sug-
gests that lanterns be hung against the
| lamp posts to keep people from running in
to them on dark nights.
| Tramps around here carry maps. A
| young man in Newark, was stopped on the
street by one who hauled out map of
Maryland and Delaware and wanted to
know what kind of places Elkton, Stanton
and Middletown are.
| Some work is being done at the shipyard
at Milford. j. w. Abbott & Co. are build
| ing schooner 81 feet long for J. w. Hall
| Frederick }. Ii. Harper. schooner 10
feet long for Capt. J. Bonsall, Lebanon,
The latter is to be LAUGHED in two weeks.
At Kits Hammock, on the Bay shore
near Dover, during the late storm, the
| hotel proprietor had to take the horses and
cattle into the hotel to save them. The
bath houses and everything moveable was
swept away. The water ran in the doors
of the house.
The Breakwater and Frankford Railroad
| Company is back in its payment of interest
to the State nearly fl2.00O only S4O0
having been paid upon its last January and
July installmeuts. The Junction and Break
water road has paid up interest in full to
July 1st 1877. SO says the Milford Ners.
Messrs. Morton and Fox, reformed men,
the former of Philadelphia and the latter Of
Wilmington we've expected to conduct a
II eeting in the NJ. E. Church, at Lewes, on
Thursday evening last. They are holding
temperance meetings at various places
| throughou the State.
Mr.. Thomas f. Brown, of Kent Island,
has a calf now three weeks old, which came
into existence without eyes. Its eye-lids
are said to be- perfect, and open and close
regularly over the hollow and sightless
sockets where the eyes should be. This is
the only defect about the animal, otherwise
it is healthy and thriving.
Samuel s. Hoff, of Lincoln. has been en-
gagged by p. & L. Collins, of Philadel phia,
to 90 to Brazil assistant engineer in the
location and construction of the new rail
road for which the Messrs. Collins have the
contract. The road is one hundred and
eighty miles long and connects the naviga-
bic portions of the Madeira river.
The Delawarean has the following: On
Wednesday tast wagon load of household
goods passed through our town. They were
the effects of a family from Canada en- route
for Salisbury, Md. They drove all the way
having been eight days on the road. This
fine climate of ours is bringing into our
midst fine body of agriculturists.
-keehIer 4 Mellar's Fancy Cakes, at RossELL 4
| Co. in the - Hollow
Fine Furs. Fur Gaps, Fur Gloves. full stock.
GLASS FRONT.
-Try the La RelmpaGo cent Havana Filler Segms :
sold only by GEO. W. TAYLOR. Sign Red Posts
Toy Books Games, Building AMI Alphabet Blocks,
Backgammon AMI Checker Boards. Work Boxes, Writing
Desks, Albums, Hymn Books, EihIrs Pocket Books
rrnknyrs. Stercosc0prs and Views. at ilINCAlIFHEs
--Nou will money by purchasing yoar Hats
aud Hounct- Al Mas NEIsnSs whose prices more
reasonable. than auyw here else i'll the county. Her