The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-08
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Christmas.
Sixty hogs slaughtered in town up tt
Wednesday.
Will there never be any more pavemen
laid in Little Elk?
Col. George r. Howard lost a valuable
COW, on Thursday last.
Gold hair pins are sold at nine dollars
dozen. Cheap enough.
What has become of The Democrats
"second book of Jezebel?''
"A man with false set O. teeth does
not necessarily have falsetto voice.
Twenty-Five cent shinplasters are be
coming as scarce as bald-headed women.
S. b. Foard, Jr. aud George King went
to Seaford to shoot cartridges, on Tuesday
An Elkton lady kindly invited hel
tenants to dine with her on Thanksgiving
day.
Mr.. James McKinsey is fitting up the
store house in West Elkton, where he will
shortly commence business.
The parties at Cherry Hill that have
the recipe for making the blue oil are in
receipt of many orders for it.
The County Comm issioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
in regular session, on Tuesday next.
The A. NJ. f. Church, of Elkton, in,
tend having fair and festival, in Union
Hall, to commence on Christmas eve and
continue one week.
Don't forget the supper at the Hurn
building, for the benefit of the Presbyter-
ian Church, on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of next week.
There will be public service at Crouch S
Chapel, tomorrow Sunday evening, at
o'clock, to which all are invited. The class
will meet at q o'clock.
The protracted meeting still continues
at the M. E. Church, in this town, there
being no diminution of the interest hereto
fore manifested in regard to it.
1t is a custom now to buy two wed
ding rings instead of one. The bride and
bridegroom each wear one. This is doing
things up brown and no mistake.
Several persons can be accommodated
with boarding and lodgings, either tran
silently or permanently, at the old post office
building, on Main street, Elkton.
MIR. l. D. Davis has had many offers
by persons desiring to purchase his goat.
If you have goat or any thing else to
dispose of advertise in The Wig.
Jacob B. Ash, auctioneer, sold the
Welsh Point farm, on Tuesday last, for
VIM. ]. Jones, Trustee, for $500, to
Stewart L. Lyle, of Manayunk, Pa.
1t is said that 1913 hogs have been
slaughtered in town since Thanksgiving
day. Whatever else may be scarce there
appears to be no scarcity of pork in Elkton.
The District Conference of the NJ. E.
Church, which was held in Newport sew
eral days this week, adjourned on Thursday
to meet three months hence at North East,
in this county.
Robert Saunders, farmer at Vinegar
Hill, this county, gave chicken thief a
load of shot for his pains few nights ago.
The pains overbalanced the profits the thief
received from that roost.
The ice pond, in Towards meadow,
has been filled with water and is now ready
for the old gentleman that lives amid the
polar SHOWS and wears beard of icicles to
begin the manufacture of ice.
Mine host, Mr.. Jas. B. Price, in the
Hollow, on last Wednesday, slaughtered a
hog, nine months and three days old, that
weighed, dressed, 325 pounds. If any body
has hog that can beat this one trot it out.
"A number of houses on North street,
north of the railroad, have recently been
made neat and attractive looking dwellings
by coat of paint; and, in addition to this,
front porches, shutters and spoutins have
been added.
There is want of hight in some parts
of the town, these dark nights, caused by
some of the street lamps being out of re-
pair Our City Fathers would do well to
have them put in order, so that they will
be of some use in the future.
You can buy genuine imitation cam
ELS hair shawl now for thirty dollars, and
as much of the camel in the fringe as may
be desired. At such price no family can
afford to be without half a dozen. They
make splendid ironing cloths.
MIR. J. l.. Hanna's law office is not at
No. 225, but at No. % Lexington street.
Baltimore, where he will be pleased to see
all his old friends from Cecil county. We
were led into the error last week by copy
ing from one of our exchanges.
The following estimates are submitted
from the bureau of engineers, and included
in the estimates for the next fiscal year for
Maryland rivers and harbors: Baltimore
harbor, $3.50 Elk river, 500, 1000; Ches-
ter river at Kent Island narrows, $4,000;
Wicomico river, $500.
Friend Moss, of the Chesapike, was in
error in regard to the age of the little
daughter of VIM. e. Crow, of this town,
who plays so prettily upon the melodeon.
Instead of being nine or ten years of age,
she is only in her seventh year, and is the
most musical little bird in the town.
The ponds, on last Saturday, having
become frozen sufficiently thick to allow
the boys oglide over them with safety,
they accordingly hunted up their rusty
skates, with their-moldy accouterments-
straps, and INDUCED in the delectable pas
time of skating, which was the first of the
season.
MIR. Thomas Green, the contractor for
repairing the damage done to the Marley
mill dam by the late freshet finished the
job on Friday of last week. The work in
cluded the restoration of the dam breast,
the raising of the banks and the repairing
of the settling pond banks. The work is
represented to be done in an excellent man
ner