The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-20
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ELKTON, OCTOBER 70, 1877.
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Election day rapidly approaches.
Horse racing season is in full blast.
p All fair without and foul within-ches
nuts.
The back bone of the fruit season is
broken.
-Tramps are now known as turnpike
Sailors"
1T is very easy thing to catch cold
this weather.
Wells is selling beef by the quarter at
$7@$s per hundred.
The Fall display of millinery may now
be seen on Sunday at the churches.
-Revs. Heberton and Ridgway, of this
town, exchanged pulpits on Sunday last.
Mark Twain's ancestors may be inter-
viewed at the Hall next Thursday evening.
The ice man still goes his rounds, but
is not as we'll received as he was month
ago.
The first celery of the season in this
market was offered by Booth & Son, this
week.
Sewing machines thirty dollars, form
erly sixty dollars, sold by John Wilkinson,
Elkton, Md.
Soap is cheaper than dirt in the end.
Some Elkton people would do we'll to con-
slider this fact.
The man who beats his horse with a
n, 70 ha 10 livac in
this neighborhood.
Mr.. Joseph II. Pogue, of Rising Sun,
received premium for carriages exhibited
at the Belair Fair.
-Godey's Lady's Book for November is
out. 1t is a very attractive number. Every
lady should have it.
The atlas men, who did Cecil county
last season, are now firing up Talbot and
Dorchester counties.
Premature sportsmen chose who shoot
birds before the law allows it) say that
cartridges are scarce.
The mosquito was again attending to
business this week, and the evening insect
concerts were revived.
Mr.. Joseph Booth is having his resi-
dence near town thoroughly reprinted.
The Coroner is doing the work.
The youthful Elktonian now hunts the
wild chestnut Sometimes he catcheth a
bur, on the fly, which is painful.
Mr.. Rudolph Bennett, this week, i'm.
proved his property, on West Main street,
by the erection of a very tasty porch.
The ladies complain very much of the
crowds that assemble in the evenings on
both corners of North and Main streets.
1t is reported that an Elkton auction
eer says, that "two ones make lecen, and
that's the way our sportsmen count their
BIRDS"
We have advices from Mr.. Thos. 81.
Ricketts,, who some months ago started on
trip to South America. He is now on
his way home.
The County Commissioners visited and
inspected Plum creek bridge, on Tues
day, and made arrangements to have it re-
paired, and made safe.
-"Jack Sprat," the original, "who ate
no fat, and his wife who ate no lean," will
take part in the entertainment at Odd Eel
lows Hall, next Thursday evening.
There is said to be one man in Elkton
Eve think there are more) who is really and
truly honest. The joke of the matter is
that everyone thinks he is the individual.
-" Discretion is the better part of valor :"
is the motto of the Elkton jeweler, who
jumped from his buggy, on Main street
the other day, when his horse started to
run.
Nelson J. Lee, who was lately engaged
in the temperance cause here, has been
appointed superintendent of the Holly Tree
Inn about being opened in Wilmington,
Delaware.
Mrs. Partington says, that if nothing
prespires to contain her, she will be at Odd
Fellows Hall, next Thursday evening, as
she makes it a rule always to fillful her
engagements.
The Elkton Band turned out in their
new uniforms, for the first time, on We'd
nesday evening. The uniform is very tasty
and reflects much credit upon Mr.. Kerr, of
this place, the manufacturer.
An orchestran or immense hand organ,
transported upon vehicle arranged for
the purpose and drawn by horse, visited
our town on Saturday. Some very loud
music was ground out of the machine.
If there's any young man to be pitied
about this time, it is the one who bought a
new Winter overcoat on borrowed money
during the first cold spell about three weeks
ago, and has had it hung up in the closet
ever since.
An Elkton liveryman on Sunday last
not having no-top buggy on hand with
which to supply customer who desired
that class of vehicle, accommodatingly saw
cd the top off one of his top buggies, to
meet me want.
Mr.. Warner McKinsey, son of James
McKlnsey, Esq, of this town, who has
been ill of typhoid fever for several weeks
past in Philadelphia, was a day or two ago
removed to his fathers house, where he is
rapidly convalescing.
Rev. W. H. Vanhorn will preach at
Crouch's Chapel to, morrow Sunday after
noon at 3 O'Clock. The Sabbath School
will meet as usual-at p o'clock. A full
attendance of the school is requested
Everybody is invited.
Let not your linen hang upon the
clothes line after dark, nor allow your
chicken coop to remain unlocked at mid
night, for behold the evil man seeketh
wherefrom he may refurnish his wardrobe
and replenish his larder.
MIR. L. T. Bennett, at Elk Landing, is
at this time giving considerable attention
to the manufacture of decoys. "Bud ~
can make as close an imitation of real
duck as any man in America. Sportsmen