The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-13
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

REPORTED FOR THE CECn, WING.
It's never to late to marry, if your
children don't object.
Don't forget S. Kennard Miler's cat.
tie sale, at the FELTON, House, on the Goth
of April.
The old Ekton Building Society will
hold its tenth annual meeting to night, at
John Perk ms store.
Capt Bill Reaiey has a lot of splendid
Maine potatoes, Just arrived from PASSPORT.
For planting they can't be beat.
In our g sun - items of last week the
name of Mr.. A. Ruppel, of Port Deposit,
was enormously spelled Rupee.
If there is any genuine ethereal mild
ness in this vicinity, it is requested to come
at once and make lengthy visit, or else
of smiles at least.
The house fly crawls out of his crack
in the wall, and with wings still stiff and
feeble begins to practice flying at a mark.
In another week he will be himself again.
and able to hit mans nose ninty- seven
times out of every hundred.
"A Boston paper says-Those Delaware
fellows repeat the story this year which
they tell every year about the total destruc-
tion of the peach crop, and expect people
to believe it. But people won't: they have
found out that destroying the peach crop
don hurt it.
Elder l. n. Wilfong, of Philadelphia,
will preach at Jackson Hail. near Turkey
town, on Sunday next, April 18th, on the
following subjects: The kingship and
Kingdom of Christ" What is man? ~
THE Immortality of the Soul" Every
body cordially invited.
The Westamwell rolling mills stopped
work, on Monday night. A rumor has
been current on the streets that these works
have been sold by the Mccullough Iron
Company, and Mr.. George P. Whitaker
is reported as the purchaser. We publish
the report for what it is worth only.
Mr. Charles H. Smith has succeeded
Mr. John Lair at the Elkton foundry. MIR.
Smith is one of our young and industrious
business men, and now that he is starting
business on his own account, we ask for
him the patronage of our readers. He is a
practical mechanic and up in his trade.
Read his advertisement.
-Elkton, instead Of Port Deposit, was
enormously named in oar last issue as
about to be entertained by a concert and
tableaux, on the 22nd and 23rd of April.
The ladies of the latter place contemplate
the entertainment in behalf of the Presby-
terrain Church of that town. AS usual, it
will be an attractive affair.
The letter giving description of Mount
Nesuvius, printed in this issue, was written
by Reuben Haines, Esq, who visited the
volcano in July, 1915. He has already writ
ten several letters concerning his travels
in Europe, which were published in The
IVAig nearly three years ago. 1t is his in
tention to publish letters describing places
of interest he has visited.
The aged eolored woman, Dinah Lee,
who died on March 30th, near Bay View,
was 9S years of age instead of 107, as
stated in different newspapers. She be-
longed to long lived family. Her father,
Moses Mayhem, attained the remarkable
lived as long, and her mother, Rachel
Mayhem died in her Doth year.
1t was clear case of absence o:
mind, that installing Lieberman's for the
BARRIERS, next door. You wish to see
me for something particularly said the
obliging proprietor. ooh, alb, beg pardon
my mistake said he as he hurriedly with
drew. Clever fellow, as he is, we will not
give him credit for tea and coffee diet if
he plays somnambulist again in open day.
We call the special attention of our
readers to the new advertisement of James
and VIM Mercy, who have commenced
business in the Hollow, opposite the Bee
Hive. Both of them are deservedly pop
ular gentlemen, with hosts of friends, in
this town and vicinity. Their stock is fresh,
their store is neat and attractive, and we
bespeak for them share Of the public
patronage.
John A. Calhoun's recent epistle on
school books helps the hotel business in Elk
ton, if it does no other good. At the meeting
of the Board of School Commissioners, on
Tuesday, four well-dressed representatives
of four leading book publishing houses,
each of them with copy of The Wing in
his pocket, arrived in the morning train
Mr. 0. ]. Smith, of Butler Il Co., Philadel-
phia; Mr. r. C. Maginn, of Van Antwerp,
Bride & Co., Cincinnati; Mr.. VIM. H. Soper,
of Appleton & Co., New York, and A. G
Soper, of Iveson & Co., New York, paid
Elkton visit in the school book interest.
The schooner Federal Ill., of Port
Deposit, commanded by Capt. G. H. White,
and owned by Davis Il Pugh, arrived at Elk
ton, on Thursday evening, ladened with
lumber from Norfolk, for Davis & Keys,
lumber merchants, of Elkton. The Fed
.ral Hill was built in Baltimore, about
eight years ago. She is a fine craft, and
one of the fastest sailors on the bay. The
Federal HI is of about one hundred and
fifty tons burden and is the largest vessel
chat has ever been at Elkton. Capt. White
is old sailor, and has spent, most of his
life on the bay, and now wears the belt,
formerly worn by Captain VIM. 3. Realey,
who some years ago brought the Onuard
of one hundred tons burden, to our wharf.
lie stood in front of the Commission
ers' office, gazing wistfully at the fish upon
the court house steeple. There was about
p!n the mellow flavor of decay, and his
coat had "ss3E better days, although just
how it INDUCED that optical pleasure is not
apparent, except from the fact that the
two remaining buttons on it had "eyes' -
Paradoxicai as it may seem, his pantaloons.
though filed with ''r6ats," yielded him no
income, and his ample waistcoat covered
nothing for in. rest ment. Alas! Democracy
was his only capital AS prosperous men
brushed past him and crowded the rooms
where patronage was dispensed, his melan,
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