The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-06-29

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Has the "lngin been overhauled this
season?
Look - your rear premises this hot
weatbe..
The farmers of this county will finish
70 their wheat harvest this week.
Bishop Simpson will preach in the M.
F. Church, at Port Deposit, to morrow, at
10k An.
The grove meeting near Elkton will
commence on Wednesday, July 18th, and
continue over Sabbath.
Look out for a freshet of loneliness
in Ekton to-day. There is an examina-
ton of school teachers.
Everybody is at work Those who can
find nothing else to do are busy attending
to somebody elses business.
Has net that pile of stone laid on the
sidewalk on Main street, opposite the Ex-
change Hotel, about long enough?
Perhaps some folks in this latitude
might read to advantage the story of one
Ananias and Sapphira, couple who lived
long ago and died suddenly.
-Carhart & Co.'s store, at Zion, will be
closed on Thursday, July 4th, excepting at
noon for the changing and delivery of the
mail.
Rev. D. C. Ridgway will preach at
Crouch's Chapel, Sunday Ito morrow af-
ternoon, at 81 o'clock. Sabbath school at
.! o'clock.
We are indebted to the Hon. Charles
b. Roberts for copy of his speech on the
Life Saving Service" for which he has
our thanks.
The Cherry Hill NJ. E. Sabbath school
will hold their annual celebration, in Pier
sons grove, two miles north of Elkton, on
July 4th. All are invited to attend.
AT St. Phillips Chapel, North East,
on tomorrow (Sabbath,) there will be
preaching at II o'clock A. NJ, by Rev. r.
b. CLANCY, and at o'clock, by stranger.
We were shown, this week, the first
ripe tomato of the season grown in this
town. 1t was from the garden of resi-
utUI Vi IlULlc Elk, duO WclShCu SCfOh
ounces.
Rev. e. P. Mallory has been elected
pastor of Olivet Presbyterian Church, Will
mington, Delaware, and will, it is expected,
take charge of it the last Sabbath of this
month.
The amateur circus, on Thursday even
;pp last Woo p,uch haitian than uSua1. hut
the performer should systematic the bust
ness little more, and exhibit in tent, if
he wishes to make it a success.
The young gentlemen who vended
plants on the court house yard have disap-
peared, and the place looks dull. Are there
no old broken drills or sewing machines or
something else that can be put there9
There will be preaching in Providence
NJ. P. Church, Elkton, tomorrow (Sun-
day. at 1O4 o'clock A. NJ, by Rev. B. Free
man; at 81 O'Clock, by Rev. D. W. Hart;
at 8 o'clock, by Rev. G. H. Williams.
We were shown, one day this week,
some very large Early Rose potatoes, raised
by Mr.. Lewis Barber a short distance from
town. They were the finest we have seen,
and are remarkable for this season Of the
year.
Rev. Robert P. Dubois, who was pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church at New
London, Pennsylvania for forty years, will
preach in the Presbyterian Chunch at
Chesapeake City, at the usual hours, to-
morrow.
The A. U. NJ. P. Church will hold
Sabbath school pic MIC the 4th of July, in
DR.. Mitchell's grove, along the Plank road.
All are invited. J. w. Milburn, Superin-
tendent; j. H. Moore, Assistant Superin-
tendent.
The children and parents of the Free
Methodist Sabbath School of this town will
spend the 4th in the grove where the five
days meeting is to be held, which com
mences on the nth of July, full prepare.
tions for which are being made.
The neat porch, recently put in front
of the residence of Mr.. Leslie, on Bow
street, is being painted this week. The
iron supports we're cast at the Elkton foun-
dry, and are very credtable specimens of
Mr.. Charles Smiths workmanship.
One hundred head of cattle of all sizes
and sexes will be sold by Mr.. S. X. Miller.
at the FELTON, House, on Saturday, July 9th.
These sales always go through in spite of
low prices or bad weather. Cattle from
the Peninsula are at this time in best con-
dition, and soon fatten.
Correspondents will confer a favor
upon the compositors of this Office by send
ing their Communications as early in the
week as possible, as the "boys" wish to
rusticate on the Fourth. Correspondence
respectfully solicited from all parts of the
county. Send US items.
Captain Donaldson has the finest piano
in Port Deposit 1t is a " Weber," and
was purchased of Sanders & Stayman, of
Baltimore. L. A. c. Gerry, leader of the
NJ. E. Church, has a splendid Estey organ,
which he has had for several years. He
bought it of Sanders & Stayman.
-Bailiff Shockley desires us to say that
the Town Commissioners have authorized
him to make a discount of four per cent
on all taxes paid On or before the first day
of August. This seems to be a liberal
offer, considering that the taxes are already
two per cent less than they were last year
Rev. John Squier, whose duties as
superintendent of public schools of this
county require him to visit all parts of it,
informs us that the growth of wheat straw
this year has not been equaled during the
last twenty six years. The yield of grain
promises to be good.
Rev. J. J. Tyler, on tomorrow Sab,
BATH will address the Sunday school and
preach at the colored M. F. Church, North
East, at 10Y A. NJ; will preach and organ,
ize Sunday school at McKnneytown, at
2 O'Clock; and will also preach at the A