The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-01-05
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
Sean a diary this YEA


Good resolutions have been the fashion
this week.
The Susquehanna river is four hundred
miles long.
Snow fell at lively rate on Wednes-
day evening.
The almanac crop is ripe and lying
around loose.
Tenant farmers are looking around for
changes of localities.
Turn over your conduct, and then the
leaf will turn over itself.
Farmers now have leisure to sit on the
fences and shoot tree agents.
Rev. A. T. Scott will preach at North
East NJ. E. Church, Sabbath morning and
evening.
The boys with skates on their arms
were among the new sights in our town.
this week.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next.
Mr.. Anthony has got a new bed-in
which he can be seen every day going to
and from the depot.
Mr.. Keys intends to improve the prop
erty he recently purchased by erecting a
new frame house thereon.
Thomas George is building a house for
Messrs. Davis & Keys, on their place, near
Muddy Creek, in Elk Neck.
"A ducking firm on the Elk river have
introduced a new way of taking up their
decoys. They dive for them.
Correspondents of The Wing will please
recolect that the editor will take no notice
of anonymous communications.
Now is the time for you to recollect
all that you did not last year; and ask your
self if you have paid the printer.
Elder Geo. R. Kramer will preach at
the Household of Faith in this county. on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings next
According to Joseph Cook there is in
this age too much of Luxurious, soft,
hammock-swung, lavender Christianity"
Some of our citizens made arrange
ments to commence harvesting their ice
crop, on Friday; but the slight fall of snow
interrupted the work.
The meetings at the Free Methodist
Church in Elkton, under the pastoral care
of Rev. d. w. Hart, is still being contin-
ued with undated interest
Milton Y. Kidd, of this county, was
appointed Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates and VIM. G. Purnel of Elkton,
one of the Com mittee Clerks to the Senate.
Some of the sportsmen Of the Fourth
district had fox hunt on New Years day
Reynard was let loose at Fair HILL but
owing to the state of the weather he soon
made his escape.
Bishop Lay will preach in Trinity
Church, Elkton, on Saturday, 18th instant,
and will also visit North East and officiate
in the Episcopal Church in that place. on
Sunday the 18th.
Stephen Pluck, the overseer of the
Aims House, recently slaughtered II hogs,
which weighed upon an average go lbs.
each. There seems to be no scarcity of
pork for the paupers.
Judging from the number of applicants
in response to the advertisement in our
issue of last week, there's more persons de.
sirous to work upon small farms than can
be supplied with situations.
Mr.. Lungren, the proprietor of the
Elkton and Lewisville stage, met with a
strange and peculiar accident, on Christmas
morning, while on the route, near Cherry
Hill. For further particulars inquire of
Mr.. L.
The Cecil Farmers Club met at the
house of A. J. Kitchener, on the 21st ult
Eleven members and some visiting guests
were present, and many questions of inter-
est to those engaged in agriculture were
discussed.
The Third Quarterly Meeting of the
A. U. F. c. NJ. p. Church will be held, on
tomorrow. Love Feast at 6 A. NJ; Preach
ing at II o'clock. by Rev. 2. E. b. Hazzard
at 3 O'Clock, by Rev. A. Smith, and at ! by
Rev. c. H. Williams.
VIM. T. Warburton, Jr., as Attorney,
sold, at public sale, on Wednesday last,
the real estate of " K Stackhouse and
wife, consisting of farm on the Elk river,
containing 235 acres to James Roney, of
North East, for $685..
We are requested to say that if the
parties who are in the habit of trapping
cartridges and killing Them and offering
them for sale will bring them to Elkton
alive they will have no touble in finding
purchasers, at much betteiprices.
Madam Rumor, with her thousand
tongues, has much to say about a duel
that was to have taken place etween resi-
dent of Elkton and strangefrom neigh
boring city. 1t has been a Ing time since
fight of this kind took plae in Elkton
or vicinity.
Subscribers to The VIII. who have
sent us the money for the Amrican Agri-
cutturtst and microscope, may expect to
receive them short time subsquent to
the 18th instant. Those who win to sub.
scribe for the Agriculturist Shout lose no
me in doing so.
<Dr. r. H. Tuft was the recipnt of a
New Years gift, consisting of laye and
handsome buffalo robe and an elegat pair
Of seal skin driving gloves, the giftf his
blends in Cowantown and vicinity. The
.,sentation was made at the house olMr.
". Egnor.
people who are in the habiof
the depot on the arrival Of 9