The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-03-09

REPORTED FOX The IESlL Nhiu'
Put camphor on your fuls.
The Chesapeake Record will probably
appear next week.
Strange, but our best umbrella keeps
"Lent" all the year round
When does a carpenter become felon:
When he makes counter fit.
-" Give us better roads. "-Er. Excuse
us, but we haven't any to spare.
And now the blue bird singeth, and
soon We little wren will join the chorus.
"A man that ought to be allowed to sit
down-a merchant of forty years standing.
The OILERS from Chesapeake are catch
ing a few herring in Back creek and the
Elk river.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Board will meet on Tues
day next.
Read Thos c. Crouch's new advertise
ment in to days Wig. Now's your chance
for bargains.
The former editor of the ChesoTihe
sold his paper in order to devote all his
time to writing
Young Stockton, who was recently
thrown from horse and badly hurt, is
now convalescent.
The artists, who have been frcscong
and identifying the hall, have nearly fin
shed their labors.
r.. G. Reese, the '.busy bee that lives
at the hire in the Hol7or, has replenished
his stock OF goods.
The Rev. ID. W. Hart will preach at
Crouch's Chapel, tomorrow Sabbath, at
q o'clock in the afternoon.
-Subscribers who have not received the
imerican 4gricultnria and microscope
may expect them next week.
The Groome Guards, under command
of Lieutenant Tuft, will have street pa
rade and target practice this afternoon.
Found, on North street, on Saturday of
last week, a new foot rule. The owner can
have the article by calling at this Office.
j. H. Evans, of Newark, Del, we are
sorry to say, was stricken by apopleNy last
Saturday, and now lies in a critical eondi
ton.
Mrs. Godfrey Harkenstein, living near
Iron Hill, who was badly injured, about
week ago, by the burglars is GONZALES
cent.
If correspondents will write on only
one side of the page, they will confer
favor on the printers of this office. Please
remember this.
The first hail storm of the season oc-
CURED last Sunday afternoon. Large guam
titles of hail fell in Elk Neck and the
vicinity of Cowantown.
Col. Spencer, of Kent county, and A.
J. Pennington, Esq, Of Baltimore, spent
last Sunday in town. They were the guests
of L. S. Senator Groome.
Josie Fowler, of New Haven, snuffs
candles and cores apples with a revolver.
The young men are exceedingly respectful
in their attent ions to her.
-Jouu Sd1pUeii, l4Si's VI 'HC L oui III
district, has a very prolific flock of Cots,
void sheep. The flock consists of ten
ewes which have seventeen lambs.
The refrain of the Democracy:
Oh, boys. carry me long,
Garry me till die,
Carry me up to the public CRIB,
But don't You carry me by
Rev. Arthur Milby, clergyman of the
NJ. E. Church, and we'll known in this COM
munity, is reported as being very i'll at his
residence at Milford. Del, with eiyspelas
of the head and face.
The quarterly meeting Of the African
Union First Colored Methodist Church
will be held at Cedar Hill, on tomorrow,
March 10Th. Love feast at "a. VI. Preach
ing at II A. NJ, 5 and u Pm
Singular, amt it, that when a man
gives his wife dime to buy box of hair
pins, or a gum ring for the baby, it looks
seven times as big as when he plants it
down for little bitters for the stomach 5
sake.
"A ClDClUudll iudu CulllN du It-
Gently dropped dead from aneurism of the
aorto, the result of exeItion and excite
ment, while in the act of chastisng his
son. Elkton boys should paste this note in
their hats.
Hon. Alexander Evans, our fellow
townsman, was nominated and unani-
mously elected corresponding member oil
the Maryland Academy of Sciences, at its
stated meeting held in Baltimore, on Mon.
day evening last.
Col. A. w. Evans, brother OF the Hon.
Alexander Evans of Elkton, is visiting his
relatives here. He has been in command
at Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, fol
some time past, and will probably spend
some months in Elkton.
Tickle the public, and make it grim
The more you tickle, the more you'll
WIN;
But teach the public-you'll never
grow rich
But live like beggar, and die in 4
ditch.
Mr.. J. B. Price, Jr. has rented the
restaurant, in the Hollow, formerly .occu
pied by Fl. H. Bennett, and is putting it il
thorough repair Thomas Green is doing
the carpenter work and p. Litzenberg the
papering and painting
"A gentleman from Brooklyn, Il. y,
was in town, this week, seeking informa
ton in reference to the heirs of large cs
tate in that place. The family of on,
townsman, John johnson, are supposed tt
be interested in the matter
Mrs. Mahaney, wife of Mr.. James 5
Mahaney, who resides near Baldwin Mills
died suddenly of paralysis, on "Wednesday
last. She was about sixty years of age
and in the enjoyment Of her usual healtl
until about an hour before her death.
Two of the young bloods of Elktol
tried the speed of their nags, last Monda,