The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-04-28
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Local Affairs.


REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
-Rhubarb pie has arrived.
The seed business is active.
Oranges are cheap and sour.
Magnolia trees are blossoming.
Robins egg is the new shade of blue.
War maps are already in the market.
Spring seems to have at last got fair
start.
The depot roof is receiving coat of
paint.
-" Blue glass bawbles for babies" are
about.
Fly paper merchants are beginning to
unpack.
The thermometer has made start
upwards.
Lots of pretty school marms in town
this week.
Mosquitoes and gallnipers are filing
their bills.
The trees are assuming a business like
appearance.
Our young folks are wrestling with the
croquet balls.
Our ice men have begun the daily de-
livery of ice.
Symptoms of Spring fever have appear
ed in our midst.
Now wrestle with your last oyster
stew for the season.
Asparagus in small quantities lat
high price, has appeared
Mrs. Litzenberg is putting in new and
larger sash in her show windows.
The average attendance of teachers at
the Institute has been about seventy.
Our e1-devil says that "the sweet
breath of Spring comes from tulips"
Advertising is to business, what steam
is to machinery--the grand propelling
power.
Fish wagons and wheelbarrows block
the way at the corner of Main and North
streets.
-Segars can no longer be bought in our
town on Sunday. All hands shut down last
Sabbath
-Messrs. McCrery & Boulder have cree
ted new awning in front of their place of
business.
Great preparations are being made for
the ball, next Thursday night, at Odd Eel
lows Hall.
The small boy begins to count the days
until he be can eat green apples and cry
for ginger.
Our milk dealers will reduce the price
of milk to six cents per quart on and after
May the first.
Plant early potatoes; they have bet
ter chance of escaping the bug than the
late varieties.
Mr.. John Kershaw, formerly of this
county, is Cashier of the Miners Bank of
Joplin Missouri
The average urchin now calculates
how many Sunday schools he can Join be-
fore picnic time.
If your lady love proves obdurate, go
right off and hang yourself around some
other lady's neck
-"Taylor," one of Mr.. Clemson's fox
hounds, died recently. He was rated as
the best of the pack.
-Lungren's Lewisville and Elkton stage
will make two trips day, on Saturdays,
after the first of May.
The tramp who sleeps in fence corner
has no fear of hotel fires, and six story
leaps to stone pavements.
"A member of the Elkton Brass Band,
an advocate Of blue glass, says that all
the tunes they play are 6leae.
Mr.. T. V. Rose is painting and putting
in good repair the property recently pur-
chased by him on Bow street.
David Scott, Esq, is erecting a hand
some plaza in front of his residence, on
East Main street. Mr.. Jacob Rambo is the
builder.
An exchange suggests that potatoe
planters tie brick to each potatoe they
plant to prevent the bugs from carrying
them off.
"A horse belonging to Capt. Cozens took
fright at the Depot, Oh Thursday, and ran
away. He was stopped before any damage
was done.
The busy housewife now goes in for
house cleaning and her luckless husband
realizes what the true inwardness of agony
amounts to.
Mr.. N. F. johnson is constructing
cistern for Mr.. Perry Litzenberg, at his
residence on Main street, to hold 1, 500 gal
Ions of water.
Mr.. S. Simons has purchased from a
gentleman in the Second district, young
horse that promises to be a fast goer. He
is in training.
All the young men who attend church on
the sidewalk in front of the editice, practice
time in common meet-her. They meet her
as she rolls out
"A visitor to Elkton one day this week
brought his grub for self and family and
horse feed along. They canped in the
Howard House yard
An Elkton man says, he has one of
the most obedient boys in the world. He
tells him to do as he peases, and he does
it without murmur
The old coach shops recently vacated
by Meisel Il Co., have been rented by Mr..
John d. McCauley, who will convert them
into wheelwright shops.
Washington II. Bennett, Esq, of Phil
adelphia, is in town this week, looking well
and hearty. Mr.. Bennett is engaged in the
street railroad business.
The North East Brass Band will visit
Carpenters Point fishing shore, on the
first of May. A grand time is expected
All are invited to be present.
"A memorial service over the death nj