The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-24
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Rev. w. W. lleberton has returned
home. and will preach to morrow at the
usual hours.
The Friends Normal Institute, oil
Rising sun, will open its Fall session, on
September 2ud.
john +. Evans has sold his farm near
Port Deposit, Nd, ll2 acres, to George
w. Wells, Of Washington, for 81, 500 cash.
The Big Elk Sabbath school will hold
their annual picnic in Jesse Taylor grove,
on Thursday, August 29th. The public
are invited.
A barge, laden with 100 tons of mari,
while being towed up the Susquehanna
river, to Port Deposit, sank during the
storm on the 9th.
When you go to Colchester, don't mis-
take the photographers tent for 4 bath
house and ask the proprietor for 4 bathing
suit, as one of the excussionists did on
Wednesday last.
A number of Elkton gentlemen con.
template chartering the Chester for an ex-
cursion to Colchester, the first week in
September, of which further notice will be
given next week.
Cupid is low spirited. Business, the
little fellow says, is very dull in Elkton.
and if matters don't mend soon he'll have
to pawn his bow and arrows. OF get mort
gage on his wings.
Read the vertisement of the steam
boat company and pToprietors Of Tolches-
ter Beach, in another column, and when
you go to the beach try some of the delica.
cies that abound in that part of the bay.
ANY one desiring to purchase a good
horse and harness, can be accommodated
by addressing Box No. 1873. The horse
will work anywhere and would be part leu
larry suitable for farmer or trader.
The Sabbath school of Crouch $
Chapel will hold their annual picnic, in
Geo. w. Boulden's grove, nearly opposite
the chapel, on Thursday next, at 10 o'clock
A. N. Refreshments for sale ON the ground
Why is it, that when the photographer
tells the man to assume pleasant expires
sion, the sitter Immediately puts on the
same agonized expression he wears when
his dentist is paving around his mouth for
an invalid tooth ?
-Messrs. Kellogg Il Co., of Philadel-
phia, are getting up a business directory Of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland. 1t will contain
$500 pages, and will be published about
the first of October.
To OUR WooDLAwY CORRESPONDENT
We regret that the late hour and restrict
ed space prevents the appearance of two
interesting letters. Please accept thanks.
for past and put us under further oblga-
ton for future favors.
The old family mansion at Green
Hill, near North East, to which the Rev
I. Snowden Thomas has added large adj
dition and mansard roof, is nearly finished
and is one of the finest looking buildings
in that part of the county.
The repairs to the bridge, at Chesa-
peake City, have been completed, excep;
the new iron draw, which will be placed in
position as soon as it arrives. A temper
airy bridge has been constructed, and tTav
elers can safely cross the creek.
H. II. McMullen, L. 5. Marshal of the
District of Delaware, arrested John Eve
land, at Chesapeake City, on last Tuesday,
he having been indicted in the L. 5. Court
at Philadelphia, some months ago, for pass
ing counterfeit coin in that city.
The personal property of Frederick;
Rosine, which was sold at public sale on
Thursday last, brought low prices. Horses
ranging in prices from So to sllO Good
cows from SIS to S34. Farming imple-
ments brought but little better prices.
"A valuable red setter dog, which an
swers to the name of Don, strayed away
from the house of 4. p. Shock ley on the
morning of the 22nd inst. He had on a
collar marked Clayton House, Whining
ton, Del" A suitable reward will be PAID
for his return.
lie was we'll stricken in years, and the
frosts of many winters had somewhat
whitened his locks, and be opened his
mouth and spake in this manner: "Why
smokest thou here ~ He had forgotten
that he was on the steamboat and not in
the railroad depot.
Mr.. Frank Shockley is the agent for
Cecil for the sale of Pools Storm Glass
and Thermometer. It is the most accurate
instrument of the kind in use, and should
be in every house hold. lie will canvass
the county at an early date, and hopes to
introduce this useful instrument generally
MIR. Jos. T. Williams has sold his
Town Point farm, now occupied by Mr.
VIM. ii. Purdy, to William +. Wheeler.
Esq of Philadelphia. We have been un.
able to learn the price, but it is supposed
to be about $4,000. Mr.. Wheeler, we
understand, proposes to en- gage in trucking.
Samuel II. Miller, Esq, has our thanks
for half dozen of the finest peaches We
have seen this season. They were of the
variety known rs Troth's Favorite, aud
reminded us of the large crop and delicious
fruit of 1870, when peaches were so plenty
that those who raised them realized. com
paratively speaking. nothing for their trou.
bic.
The new barge Fannie WoodaU, which
is to be fitted up rs a screw propeller and
USED for carrying freight exclusively, was
launched at Wilmington, Del, on Saturday.
She was built at the order of Captain
Woodall, of Georgetown, Kent county,
and is to be finished by September, and is
destined to ply between the head Of Sassa.
fras and Baltimore.
In the darkness and CONSEQUENT con.
fusion incident to the landing of the pas
sengers from the chester, on Wednesday
evening last, buggy collided with the
carriage Of James Mclntire, of Delaware,
and injured it so badly that he was Obliged
to procure another vehicle from DR.
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