The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-09-08
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ELKTON, SEPTEMBER s, 1877.
Local Affairs.

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
In comes Autumn.
Straw hat harvest is at hand.
The hot days are not all past.
Grabs make the best perch bait.
The shooting season has opened.
Court meets next Monday week.
Grapes four to eight cents per pound.
Sweet potatoes are becoming plentiful.
This is the New Years Day of the
Jews.
1t isn't safe to bet on this kind of
weather.
Matters in shooting and boating cir
cles are lively.
War is now being waged upon the rail
and reed birds.
Taken on the whole, we are glad that
Summer is over.
There has been an inquiring for wooden
blankets this week.
Oysters opened on Saturday. School
opened on Monday.
Bow street has been covered with a
coat Of that red dust.
New telegraph poles are being put up
along the line of the railroad.
"A fine rain this week, and the ground
is now in condition for blowing.
The Orphans Court and County Com
missioners meet on Tuesday next.
The Methodist Sabbath school of this
town was to have pic nicked to-day.
The thermometer marked 94o last
week. On Monday it was down to 64o.
"A bed of red dust, without any top
dressing, makes very miserable roadway.
The public school opened on Monday,
one hundred and sixteen pupils on the
rolls.
Mr.. VIM. Kelley, of Vinegar Hill, is
erecting a fine new barn; Jas. p. Merritt is
the builder.
The remains of the Hon. Joseph B.
Pugh were inferred at West Chester, yes
terday afternoon.
The chilling easterly wind of yesterday
started an inquiry for the "stove man,"
and fires were in order.
Herman Stump, Jr., Democratic nomi-
nee for State Senator from Hartford county,
is reported as being seriously ill.
Gold is coming down. Will somebody
please steer it this way? 1t don't come
down worth a cent within our reach.
j. T. Rowland, Esq, of Mechanics
Valley, lost two valuable horses last week.
They were supposed to have beeh poisoned.
1t is rumored that change of Ghosts
will take place at the Howard House, next
March, Mr.. Falls having determined to re-
move.
"A special agent of the Post Office De-
partment was in town, this week, looking
after the selection of a new location for the
Post. Office.
Three Italians-two harpers and one
violinist-treated our people to delicious
music-vocal and Instrumentation Wed
nesday last.
Rev. G. P. Nice, Secretary of the Mary
land State Sabbath Association, preached
at the Methodist Church, in this town, last
Sunday evening.
The peach crop in Sassafras Neck is
failure. Growers who last year shipped on
an average two hundred baskets per day,
will not have two hundred baskets all told
this year.
Mrs. Matilda Price, wife of Benjamin
Is. Price, Esq, of Sassafras Neck, died on
Thursday night of last week, after a pro-
years of age.
p. K. Barnes and ]. H. Jackson caught
in the Beach Channel, last week, at two
hauls, with an eighty fathom seine, $500
pounds of fine rock fish, varying in size from
up to IS TBS.
Mr.. James Price has taken the stables
of Simon's Exchange Hotel, which he will
keep as sale and exchange stables, as he
has heretofore kept the stables of the
Farmers Hotel.
Take good look at Mars now, for he
will not be so near the earth again until
the Summer of the year PISS; and the
chances are ten to oIe you will not live
until that time.
On Saturday last, w. J. Jones, ESQ.,,
Trustee, sold at public sale, the "Caulk -
farm, containing one hundred and sixteen
acres, situated near Warwick, to Mrs. VIM
Price, for $500.
Fruit is cheaper and better than bread
at present. Therefore the poor should in
dulge in the former to their hearts content
and thereby snub the bakers and their
diminutive loaves.
-Elkton sportsmen talk of forming an
association, mainly with the purpose of
securing the passage of proper laws for
the protection of game, and then seeing
that they are enforced.
The month of August was scorcher,
indeed. The average maximum tempera-
ture was S24, and the minimum 81, which
was considerably higher than the average
for the previous four years.
Marriages are not so plentiful as usual.
The young ladies ought to get up strike
for their affairs. The strike for the fires
can come in afterward. when the question
of building them comes up.
"A number of colored folks danced to
the music of banjo and triangle played
by two of their number, on Monday night,
in front of the old Granite Hotel. They had
irregular ante .bellum brake down.
The race bank of Head of Elk Mills
gave way, on Sunday morning last, and the
contents were emptied into the meadows
below. Operations at the mill were sus,
pended for some time in consequence.
"A colored woman, a servant at the
Howard House, was caught in the act of
carrying off quantity of flour, on satur-
day night last She was relieved of her