The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-10-05
Local Affairs,
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
-iu recoir, Mile. September.
Who has kidnapped Kearney9
Glad to see you, Octy, old boy
Fine talk during court" S25 aud
= costs"
MIR. J. Frost approaches with sunny
smile on his face.
1T does not follow that a mau is love
sick because he has the heart burn.
The world without woman would he a
perfect blank like q sheet Of paper-not
even ruled
by yon heaven, now at our SORROWS
pale" we are leth to part with thee, Sep
TENDER. Thou hast been pleasant CON-
pany.
Rev James J. Tyler will preach at
Crouchs Chapel to morrow (Sabbath) after
noon, at 81 o'clock. The public are cor
daily invited.
While we write, a loquacious indivd-
ual, whom our Z" devil suggests may be
Dennis Kearney, is making things lively
on the street.
The swine of Chesapeake City have
been attacked by hog cholera or some other
fatal disease, which has proved fatal to
many of them.
Sheriff Boulder took Ned Larue to the
penitentiary on Friday morning. His wife
spent Wednesday night in his cell with him,
and he seemed to be in good spirits when
he left Elkton.
The Rev. DIR. Ph1bus, now stationed
at Newark, Del, is reported to have lost a
brother, who recently fell a victim to the
yellow fever at Memphis, whittier he went
from his home on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland as a volunteer nurse.
Hon. Alexander Evans has lost a cane
that he priced very much. lie left it lean
ing against the iron work of the bridge, at
the end of the csuseway, on Thursday
morning last, and will be pleased il any
person finding it will return it to him.
The time for which the Port Royal was
chartered expired on the Both of Septem-
Der, but she is still running as usual be-
tween Elkton and Baltimore, and will
probably continue as long as navigation is
practicable.
A swarm Of high minded bees took pos
session of the top of the spire on the Pres
byterian Church, in the early part Of the
week, but the location did not please them,
and after remaining short time. they
sought a more agreeable one.
Samuel Lloyd, who was employed in
Burgett's saw mill, in Chesapeake City,
had his leg accidentally caught in the ma
chinery, on Tuesday, and mangled in ter
ribe manner. 1t was feared for time that
the injured limb would have to be ampu,
tated.
The lecture of ID. p. Seaton, the col
ored preacher, in the Hall, on Thursday
night, on the subject From Jaffa to Jor.
dan" was not well attended, only about a.
persons being present. As in many other
cases. Jordan seems to have been a hard
road to "trabble."
the citizens of Elkton that he will execute
the town ordinances in reference to hog
pens, cesspools, etc, and that he will re.
move all such nuisances at the expense OF
the owners, if suffered longer to pollut,
the town with the offensive odors that arise
from them.
Miss Alice Harlan, daughter of Mr.
Geo. Harlan, of New Leedes, who has beer
under the tuition Of Miss Martha Bddl,
for the last two years, recently entered
Brooks Female College, in Baltimore
where she Immediately took high rank il
large class, which reflects great credi
upon Miss Biddle as a successful teacher.
We call attention to the efforts of til,
teachers Of Elkton and vicinity to form
Teachers Institute and hope they will
leave no honorable means untried for til,
accomplishment of such laudable und err
taking. BY all means, let this institute b,
organized, encouraged and sustained by al
the teachers aud patrons of the publ
schools.
MIR. Thos Drenuen purchased, on Tues
day last, fine Southdown buck from Robt
Steel, of the Fourth district, which he in
tends TO place on his farm on Bohemi:
Manor. This fine animal is eighteen month
old and is son of the celebrated imported
Southdown ram lord Walsiugham," o.
England, that took the first premium at tn,
Centennial exhibition, in 1876. w. Arthur
Mitchell, Esq, also recently purchased :
grandson of this buck from Mr.. Steel.
We have heretofore chronicled tn
second crop of apples in Charlestown, auo
the Philadelphia Times informs us that tn,
good people of Wicomico county are lux
uriating on their second crop of strawber
ries. We now have the pleasure of inform
ing our readers that the people of Elktor
had an opportunity of enjoying a secon,
crop of behring's that were caught SOM
where down the bay and were sold on on
streets in the early part ofthis week VII,
ever heard Of fresh herring in OCTOBER
A pointer dog. belonging to Reuben Z
lamar, Esq, of Elkton, showed symptom
of hydrophobia on Wednesday last, and OF
Thursday morning it commenced a regula
war upon all the dogs along West Mali
street between its masters residence an,
his office. The crv of mad dog was raise,
and terrible state of excitement prevaile,
for short time, when the rabid canine wa
dispatched by m cans of n load of shot
During his mad career along the street h
bit six or seven other dogs, all of whom
have since been killed. This dog had beef
suffering for some months from the mango
and probably was not afflicted with tn
hydroPhoba.
John Springer, and two others Of tn
better order Of t-amps, were stealing a rid
On the milk II from Wilmington to Bal
timore, on la, Tuesday night, and job
accidentally &C his left foot badly masLe
hats the ! or IL. =,