The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-14


''That's old Bob Lee
fit under him four yearr'
Scribner for July.
For The Cecil Wing.
QniIp's Diary, that He Kept as Bohemian.
He Goes TO Harrisville and Rising sun.
We rose early, and, in company with a
literary gentleman whose acquaintance we
made the day before, we started for the
Sun, passing through Harrisville, where
Reynolds & Taylor keep country store.
They are both affable and obliging gentle
men. Samuel Werntz blacksmiths here and
Slater B. Tosh makes carriages. These
young men are all industrious and obliging
and merit and receive good share of the
patronage Of the public.
Close by Harrisville is the farm of Joseph
Lincoln, one of the handsomest and most
productive places in the neighborhood.
After leaving Harrisville we pretty soon
came TO the Sun and visited the old grave
yards. which we mentioned in our last, and
then started for Oxford, an account of
which We gave you some weeks ago. TAX
ing the road leading towards the Brick
Meeting House we came to the neat ware
house of A. L. Duyckinck, where lie sells
bone, phosphate and lumber, and the agri-
cultural implement factory of Mr.. Hunt,
where he makes the grain drill and Guilt
vator, and towards the northwest, up the
valley of Stone Run, we were struck with
the charming appearance of the farms of
Edwin llaincs and Jonathan Reynolds, and
further on up the railroad we passed the
pretty place Of Marshall Hunt and the pic
turesque bridge across a deep cut in the
railroad. Close by we saw the store house
where Lafayette stopped all night during
the revolutionary war. The northeast cor
ner of the house has been removed or has
fallen out. 1t is not used now, Mr.. Fl. hav-
ing built new and more commodious one
close by. Pity this old historic mansion
should be allowed to go to ruin.
Near the old Lafayette mansion we saw
the old and venerable mansion of Hampton
Langdon, who has been very successful in
the hydraulic ram business, and hard by in
secluded spot stands the dress making
establishment of Mrs. Helen Terry Our
literary friend said she had many custom
ers and did good business. Close by and
quite near the railroad we saw an immense
pile of stones, probably ten or twelve feet
high, and we wished Aleck was with us to
tell us what it meant. Our literary friend
said "perhaps it was 'cairt placed
there to mark the spot where Lafayette
stumped his toe.' We should not wonder
if he was right, for this is a very stony
country. This "cairn" is near the State
line and "barrens - which we spoke of in
a former letter.
The next afternoon when returning from
Hopewell with our literary friend we got
lost, and instead of getting to the Sun,
where we started to go, we came out at
Mount Hope Church. At last when we
made inquiry where we had been when we
got to the Sun, they informed us that that
was one of the places we had been at We
don't know much about it ourself; we know
we started from Hopewell to go to the Sun,
and we know we came through the barrens
and were not very far from the Brick Meet
ing House, and that we turned our horses
head toward the northwest when we reached
the little church, and then after awhile we
came to the barrens again, and then we
tackled toward the southeast and came out
on the telegraph road east of the Sun. We
did not see any thing that resembled a
mount or even 4 good sized hill near the
Mount Hope Church; but perhaps the
founders of the church had the faculty of
hope highly developed, or perhaps they
were surrounded by unfortuitous circum-
stances and required mountains Of hope to
enable them to build the church; at all
events that is the name it is known by, and
it seems to be in quiet and retired neigh
borhood and every thing looked hopeful
round and about.
Not so with the barrens and the "chicken
cOOps" that we came to soon after. 1t is
not very hopeful there. The chicken coops
are a lot of cabins built when the railroad
was in course of construction years ago.
Our literary friend said that the "barrens"
were very productive of rare flowers, and
that few weeks before he had gathered
seventy-two different varieties in bloom at
that time, and that owing to the flowers or
something else the barrens had strong at
fractions for those who lived there, and
that the attractions were so great that if a
coop or cottage, no matter how rude or
rough, was once inhabited it was never
deserted or vacated.
The Rising Sun is a neat and pretty lit
tie village. 1t was originally called Sam
mer Hill, and that it is probable that the
name of the village suggested the name of
the sign Of the hotel gave name to the vii
lage. We stopped at the bank presided
over by Judge Evans He sat at the desk
with the same judicial cast of countenance
ton, and as he was busy we did not disturb
him. The Rising Sun Banking Company
is sound and safe institution, the stock
holders being men of means and integrity.
James M. Evans, President; Ii. II. Haines,
Cashier; Edwin Haines, Sr., Job Haines,
Timothy Haines, J. A. Kirk, DR.. l.. r.
Kirk, Joseph Pennell DR.. Turner, T. B.
Gillespie, Luke Brown, Reuben Haines,