The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-11
Local Affairs.

The grape crop will be large.
The apple crop will be failure.
Glass half dollars are the latest.
-Watermelons are very abundant.
Potatoes are selling at 40 cents per
bushel.
The county is full of city frends-and
tramps.
-Woodawn Camp commences next
Tuesday.
Peaches small and bad, pears small
and good.
These are the times to freely use dis
infectants.
Weeds promise a good crop on some of
our streets.
Main street is being supplied with
draining facilities.
There is more public interest in peaches
than in politics now.
-Braudywine Summit Camp Meeting,
commences on Monday next.
Go see ALT Burnett, at Odd Fellows
Hall, next Wednesday evening.
The hog cholera is said to be raging
in the neighborhood of Charlestown.
business is dull, but we notice that
those who advertise get what there is going
The tramps are fond of milk it seems,
as they visit the pasture fields and milk the
kline.
Notice of the meeting of the officers of
registration will be found in another COL
umn.
The mud in our streets after rain,
very much resembles pumpkin pie struck
with pile driver.
Read the annual statement of the
Farmers and Merchanics Mutual Insurance
company in this issue.
-Messrs. slicer & Mahoney have re-
Gently erected fine barn, 39x4G feet, on
their farm, near Bay View.
No fires just now, but that water sup
ply could be utilized for sprinkling the red
dust on Main street. Where is it,
-Messrs. Mackey & Bro, are erecting a
fine grist mill, 3Ox5O feet, on the site of
Providence Mills, recently burned.
DIR. J. H. lamar, in the east end, is
having his residence reprinted and papered.
Mr.. Litzenberg is doing the work.
Rev. Mr. Kershaw filled the pulpit of
the NJ. E. Church, last Sunday morning.
In the evening Rev. Mr.. Tanhorn officiated.
Talk about the city of Cologne and its
stenches, 60 test the odor of decayin @
sturgeon cast into the creek by our fisher
men.
The hay fever is considered to be the
ailment most conductive to piety, because
it is constantly brlb ging man to his
sneeze.
"A drunken man attempted to break up
temperance meeting at Louisville, on
Wednesday evening. 1t is needless to say
he failed.
Rev. DR.. Vallandigham, of Newark,
Del, will preach at the Presbyterian
Church of this town tomorrow Sunday
morning.
Rev Mr.. Ridgway, of the NJ. E. Church
of this town, has returned from his trip
down Delaware, and will preach as usual
tomorrow.
One day last week a youth, son of Mr.
Bertram, at Plum Point, while crossing a
field, stumbled and fell, fracturing the
bone of his arm.
The painter who would learn how to
put great deal of color into face, should
see the average two year old baby eating
huckleberry pie.
"A striker" from Turkey Town and
a member of the Groome Guards had
set-to on Saturday night. 1t is said Tur
key gobbled him up.
Why is nothing done with the road
between this place and North East. Daily
we hear complaints of its terrible con-
dition, and this for months past
The annual picnic of Westamwell
Sunday School, John Perkins, Esq, super
intendant, will take place, in McCuloughs
grove, next Thursday, 10th instant.
-" Nothing succeeds like success. -
The man who attempted to slide down the
Court House steps on banana skin was
successful beyond his expectations.
Merchants, doctors, lawyers and farm
ers having nothing to do, amuse themselves
by testing their capacity at jumping in the
rear of the new buildings on Main street.
The finest, and best, and cheapest
watermelons in town are to be found at
Witworth's, on North street. We know
whereof we speak, for we have tried them.
VIM. Taylor, workman, was killed
by the falling of a timber from the railroad
bridge across the susquehana, on Monday
last. He was a resident of Havre de Grace.
The ladies' fair, at North East, last
week, for the benefit of the North East
Cornet Band, was quite successful. We
understand that they realized over $500
profits.
don't make any extravagant and impossible
to be fulfilled announcements on their
posters, but guarantee to perform all they
advertise.
"A temperance sermon will be preached
by the Rev. Mr.. Ridgway, at the NJ. E.
Church of this town, tomorrow night. In
the morning he will preach upon Chris
titan Unity"
How would the tramps and Migrants,
who infest the country now, look at work
upon our sadly neglected roads. Why not
utilize this waste of bone and muscle as
veil as feed it.
- :,
Walter S., better known as Boney,"
hgh enlisted in the Cecil Company, and
ow in camp. "Boney" is much missed,
aving been for many years an instu
in our town.
Ion Tuesday last, son of James