The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-03-10

Spring is come. Let US have peas.
Thunder storms will soon be IL season
-Whitewash brushes are being looked
up.
Rents must come down. Way, way
down.
The frogs have begun their Spring
concert.
Hunting most INDUCED in now-houSe
hunting.
May be blue gassed, is the latest
malediction.
Very few of our citizens attended the
Inauguration.
-Tramps. tramps, tramps: all going to
the fishing shores.
-Wapamakers big business is the result
of liberal advertising.
1t is about time to revive the annual
steam boat agitation
The Circuit Court will meet on next
Monday week, the 18th.
Keep out of the woods. The trees
are eginning to shoot"
No flags upside down, or any other
way, in Elkton, on inauguration day.
The Railroad Company are renewing
the roofs of their warehouses at thiS station
Be careful how you negotiate vendue
notes. There are forgeries in the market.
The Orphans Court, County Commits
sinners, and School Board will meet on
Tuesday next.
Let every man make up his mind that
better times are at hand. 1t certainly
looks that way
Those who are posted on the game
laws assure us that it is perfectly legal to
60 house hunting now.
The price paid by Albert Constable
ESQ, fer the Herbert residence, was 50, 800
instead of 81, 800, AS stated last week.
If the adage, that "a hushel OF
March dust is worth n bushel of gold, is
true, we hope it wont rain for month at
least
There will be 4 total eclipse Of the
moon in 1899. This announcement is a little
early, but there is nothing like being III
time.
Samuel +. Haines, Of Rising Sum- was
one of the graduates of the Philadelphia
Dental College, at it's recent commence
ment.
The gas which is thrown off from coal
"a L,,, ~ he the
cause of the present prevalence of diph
liberia.
A dog. supposed to be rabid, created
stir on High street, on Thursday. AT
tempts were made to kill him, but failed,
and he is still at large.
Providence permitting there will be
public service at Crouch's Chapel, to NOR
row Sunday afternoon, at halfpast two
O'Clock All are invited.
"A petition to the Methodist Conference
now in session, is in circulation fol- sigma
lures. asking for the assignment of Rev.
Geo. r. Brstor to Elkton.
We have at last discovered the purpose
for which the side pockets on ladies cloakS
are intended. 1t is to catch upon door
knobs as they pass through.
A requisite for ladies' street costumes
is bunch of violets in the hair or dress
belt. Nature and art meet when these
fresh flowers overlook painted face.
George Maxwell master of machinery
on the Baltimore end Of the Phila. vii.
& Bait. railroad for over thirty years. died
in Baltimore, on Wednesday, aged Go years.
Who will be our next Pastor?> is now
the couundrum that bothers the minds OF
Elkton Methodists. For the present we
"give it up" We never were good at
guessing.
The inside of a banana may delight a
mans palate, while the skin which he
throws away may break another mans leg.
This proves the old idea that g in nature
nothing is lost"
The State Fish Commissioners will
shortly ship quantity of young trout tc
stock the streams of this county. They
will be distributed under the Supervision
of A. R. Magraw, Esq.
Mr.. Leiberman changed his mind this
week, and has opened the branch store
under the Howard House, next door tc
Alrichs. 1t is in charge of Mr.. Ascher
time, at his main store.
VIM Armstrong, of the Fourth Dis
trict, has just finished threshing his last
years crop of wheat. From 81 acres ht
threshed 1,1G1. bushels. From the SAINT
source he has sold straw to the amount o
$780, and has a quantity left.
-Messrs Jones and Haines as Trustees
on Tuesday last, sold at public sale, tel
Warwick. in the first district, part of thu
estate of the late David Stats. Mrs. II
Staat, purchaser. Price, $500
We were visited by terrific win,
storm from the south, on Thursday nigh
and yesterday morning. Considerable dam
age was done, especially along the river
where, in consequence of the high tide
much property was washed away.
county, sends us, this week, the first grass
hopper of the season. 1t was captured
on Saturday, near Gilpn's Rocks, and on
correspondent states was hopping aroun'
as though Summer had really come.
Mr.. John Stockton is fitting up tn
first floor of his dwelling as store room
where he will remove his stock of groceries
&c, in few days. Mr.. Newmyer, clothier
now in the " Hollow" will move to til
store now occupied by Mr. Stockton.
The Republican boys OF the town ha
a little jubilee III the shape of a bonfire a
the east end of town, on Monday night
party of roughs attempted to spoil thei
fun but they found that they could not b
bull dozed, and the aforesaid roughs wer