The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-09-15

-Chlncapins are ripe.
business is reviving.
Put on your flannels.
Fans are out Of season.
Kite time. Let her fly.
-Tailors are getting busy.
The potato rot is prevalent.
The moon will soon be ripe.
The vacation season is over.
IT'S almost house cleaning time.
Thunder shower on Wednesday.
Chestnut burs will soon be open.
Soon the leaves will take tumble. :"
The Autumn poet will soon be around.
The picnic business is on the decline.
Who was that predicted dry Septem-
Der?
Ice men to the rear, coal dealers to the
front.
Remember our prophecy of the first
frost.
This is the season when a woman who
cln-cans.
Glass Front.
Soon the seal skin will be brought from
its hiding place.
Wednesday was the anniversary of the
battle of North Point
The shooting season is here: begin by
shooting your straw hat.
The game law permits the shooting of
straw hats at this season.
MIR. Francis Green offers superior seed
wheat See his advertisement.
The red dust on our streets has been
transformed by the rains into mud.
The price of meats and provisions is
coming down. See Wells advertisement.
If we have spelling bees this Winter
the Eastern war nam s will come in handy.
Our ice dealers crop is exhausted.
They are now getting their supply from
Wilmington.
Two loads of oysters were at our
wharves this week. They sold at fifty
cents bushel.
The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Della
ware, was in town yesterday, the guest of
Ex-Gov. Groome.
Wonder what the income from the
it. Who knows?
1t is getting chilly. We don't hear so
much of "The Sweet By and By on the
street of evenings.
That is fine little body of water be-
tween the old engine house and the Hall.
Let..us call it Lake Hezzie.
Somebody has said pomological socie-
ties were organized for the production of
poems We don't believe it.
Did you ever take look at Hezzie's
picture gallery. 1t isn't costly collection,
but it is curious for all that.
The Journal, of Prince Frederick, Md,
favors the election of ex- Governor Groome,
of this county, to the United State Senate.
Our enterprising ice merchant, Mr..
Joseph H. McNeal, is now serving to the
citizens of Elkton, pure and unadulterated
Eastern Ice.
"A temperance meeting will be held at
Wesley Chape, Elk Neck, tomorrow
Sunday night, under the direction of
Mr.. St. Clair.
MIR. Joseph L. Wells, our enterprsing
East End provision dealer, slaughtered a
seven week old calf, the other day, that
weighed a72 pounds.
The residence Of ]. r. Parker, Esq,
at Port deposit, was burglarized on Friday
night of last week. They carried off Mr..
P.'s watch and purse.
The Rev. W. Kershaw will preach at
Crouch's Chapel to morrow Sunday after
noon, at % o'clock. Sabbath school at
81 O'Clock. All are invited.
Tuesday was the second day selected for
the NJ. E. Sunday Schools picnic. The
weather, however, was discouragingly
damp and it was again postponed.
j. NJ. Brown, formerly of the firm of
E. Brown & Bro, may hereafter be found
with T. Drennen, on Main street, where
he will be happy to see his friends.
"A large barn on the farm of Mrs. J. J.
Heckart, near Port Deposit, was burned on
Tuesday morning. Twenty-Five to thirty
tons of hay were consumed with it.
We acknowledge the receipt of tickets
for the Fall meeting OF Talbot County
Agricultural Society, to be held near Eas-
ton, on the Goth, 9th and 2Sth instant.
The spirit of improvement seems to be
contagious among our milliners. Mrs.
Scott is having her store fixed up in first
class style. Strickland is doing the work.
DIR. r. II. Miner, of Port Deposit, is
now examining surgeon for this county
All pensioners, requiring medical examina-
ton, must present the mselves at his office.
Mrs. Edmund Brown fell upon the
steps of the back porch of her residence
on Main street, one day last week, injuring
her spine so severely that she has been
unable to be about since.
-Groome, son of DR.. John J. and Jennie
G. Black, of New Castle, Delaware, died
on Thursday last, in the fourth year of his
age. His remains will be inferred on Mon
day next, at 4 o'clock P. NJ, from the par
ents' residence.
Bow street seems to be a particular
object of solicitude with our City Fathers.
If ever street was dosed with clay and
gravel, it has been. A neat little stone
gutter has also been constructed across it,
to carry the water off.
The cattle sale of Messrs. Miller and
Battin, at the Felton's House, on Thurs
day, was we'll attended and the prices Sc
cured were fair. Nearly 100 head of cat.
tie were disposed of. Another sale will take
place in about three weeks.
After all the fuss and splitter about
r. CLAW Crawford being Osman PaSha