The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-25
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Reed birds on toast will soon be il
season.
The moon has filled its engagement ad
mrably this week.
The Public Schools will open on Mon
day, September 3rd.
Much pic mic has made youthful Elk
ton happy this week.
Clouds prevented sight of the eclipse
on Thursday evening.
Weather still very warm. We may
we'll say "sultry" August.
The Iron Works at Rowlandsville are
again running on full time.
Everybody is gazing upon the brilliant
"Nenus" these fine evenings.
Rev. Mr.. Hebecton arrived home this
week, much improved in health.
More than the usual quantity Of buck.
wheat is being sown this season.
1t is rumored that Elkton society is
much disgfuntled just at this time.
The reddest dust you ever saw or read
about is that on Main street, when it is dry.
The Episcopalian Sabbath School will
hold their annual picnic on Wednesday
next.
Peach parings have usurped the place
of banana skins as traps for unwary pedes-
trians.
MIR. E. NJ. w. johnson has been APP
pointed Principal of the Public School of
this town.
r. C. Thackery and Geo. w. Blake,
Esqs., returned this week from their Sum
mer jaunts.
"A grand quarterly meeting among the
colored folks takes place in Wilmington
tomorrow.
The Elkton Temperance Association
talk of having Grand Harvest Home and
Pic Mic soon.
Remember what good time you had
at the last Grange picnic and go again
next Thursday.
The personal property of the late Mrs.
Sarah Moore will be sold on Thursday next
by John Perkins, executor.
Rev. d. c. Ridgway will preach at
Crouch's Chapel, tomorrow Sunday after
noon, at half-past 2 o'clock.
1t is generally agreed among sportsmen
that they will not shoot rail birds until
after the fifth of September.
Clothing was never selling so cheap as
now, and both Goodman and Lieberman
have their Fall stocks ready.
The town crop of weeds is being har-
vested. They grow principally in the gut
tiers on the sides of the street.
MIR. W. J. Grant, of Charlestown, has
been awarded the contract for painting the
new school house in that town.
-" Art" Mitchell catches flies in guam
tity. Recently in two traps he captured
nearly quart of the nuisance.
The Sabbath School of the Elkton
Presbyterian Church held its annual Pic
Mic, in Persons Grove, yesterday.
The Fall term of the Friends Normal
Institute, at Rising Sun, will! begin on
Monday, the 3rd of September next.
The repairs to Lieberman's clothing
store, in the Hollow, are completed. 1t
has been christened "Marble Hail.
The Sabbath School of the Octoraro
NJ. E. Church will hold festival on the
afternoon of Saturday, September LIST.
Baltimore patriots gobbled all the
money provided for paying the militia,
and left the Groome Guards out in the cold.
MIR. VIM. LETTERS, of the Landing, while
oiling steam thrasher one day this week,
injured his eye by striking it with the spout
of the oil can.
"A heavy hail storm passed over the
Fourth district of this county, on Tuesday
last. The corn was injured considerably
in some places.
"A match game was played between the
North East and Charlestown base ball
clubs, last week. The former were the
vctors by core of 35 to 5.
The Pleasant Hill Sabbath School will
hold their annual picnic, on Wednesday,
August Goth. The public is invited. Re-
freshments on the grounds.
Mr.. J. l.. Hanna, former Principal OF
the Elkton Public School, will start fol
Texas next week. He intends making that
State his residence hereafter.
MIR. Geo. King, of this town, has re-
ceived the contract for supplying the bricks
for large building in Newark, Delaware.
10000 bricks will be required.
The sky is full of splendor just now.
There is Mars, blazing like a firebrand,
and near him, old Saturn. In the west
going down soon after the sun, are Jupiter
and Venus.
Oxford has failed in its efforts to organ
ize rebuilding company. The amount
of stock $50, 0OO) required to be subscribed
in the town was not forthcoming. Come
to Elkton and try.
Many more persons would have visited
Woodlawn camp meeting from this neigh
borhood were the roads in passably gooC
order. But in the present condition drive
over them is simply torture.
On Wednesday Meyer Simons, son OF
MIR. S. Simon, proprietor of the Exchange
Hotel, boy five or six years of age, fel
from tree in the rear of the premises
bruising himself quite badly.
MIR. Nelson J. Lee, the temperance
evangelist, addressed an immense temper
ance mass meeting, at Lambertvile, New
Jersey, on Wednesday last. Mr.. Lee re
turned to Elkton on Thursday.
The Presbyterian Woods Meeting, Al
Aberdeen, Hartford county, Nd, which
began on Thursday, the 23rd, will continue
through Sabbath, the Goth inst. Dlstin
guished ministers will be present.
The Annual Picnic of the Sabbath
School connected with CrOuch'S Chape