The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-03-30
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Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE. CECIL WING.

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
One more month and the oyster mar
will become on austere man.
Monday next is all fools day. If you
see the fool killer don't dodge him.
We welcome the Princeton letter from
one of our Elkton college fellows"
Don't forget Odd Fellows Hall and the
venerable Uncle Tom, on Monday night.
March, the old BUSTER" goes out
with buster" March is fraud, isn't
he, Sunset?
And now we may expect to hear the
annual "howl" from the peach growers OF
the peninsula.
The fishermen along the Elk river are
catching but few herring. They have been
selling at 50 per hundred on the shore.
The Westamwel Sunday school, I'M
der the superintendent of John Perkins,
Esq, will be re-opened to morrow, at p
o'clock P. NJ.
We had almost forgotten that it was
March, until the wind shifted on Sunday.
The old fellow is doing something to main
tain his reputation.
Mr.. John Lair, who recently was pro-
prietor of the Elkton foundry, has moved
to Wilmington. The business at the foun-
dry will be carried on by Charles Ii. Smith.
Found, on Wednesday morning, on the
road connecting the old and new Elk Neck
roads near N. F. Johnson's lady's brace
let The owner can hear further particu-
lars at THE Wig office.
WIN. T. Warburton, Esq, has removed
his law Office to the first floor of the Odd
Fellows Hall, and now occupies the room
formerly occupied by George A. Blake,
ESQ.,, who has his office with w. S. Evans.
Judge David Davis, U. S. Senator from
Illinois, and who may properly be called
the great man of the Senate, was in
town on Saturday last. He was visiting
the Rev. Mrs. Mitchell, who is a relative of
his.
The Chesapeake Record is said to be a
family paper, that is to say, DR.. Brewer
edits it, and his sons and daughter set the
type and do the printing. The DR.. pub
fishes creditable paper, and we wish him
success.
Hal Nichols is brave Jehu. He show
ed this, on Wednesday, just after the Heiser
in Of 7 T. g
meat depot. The axle clip came off, letting
the shafts down on his horse. Hal held
hon, and his pluck spoiled US another run
away item.
DR.. C. NJ. Ellis met with an accident
last Thursday afternoon. While engaged
in professional business in Elk Neck his
horse took fright at an OK team and ran off.
The carriage was overturned and badly
broken, and the doctor painfully, but not
seriously, injured.
Charles E. Lewis, for some years past
one of the bailiffs of the Circuit Court, died
on last Thursday morning, in the 45rd
year of his age. Mr.. Lewis had been in
ill health for some years past. The funeral
will take place to-day at 2 o'clock p. NJ.
from his late residence on North street.
Professor Maginn's stereoscopic exhi
bition in the Presbyterian chapel, on Mon
day night, was not very we'll attended, ow-
ing probably to the blustry state of the
weather. The views of noted places in
Europe were good, and the small audience
was highly pleased and edited with the
entertainment.
james T. Luton, who graduated at
this office, some years ago, and who has
been foreman of the leading daily news
paper of Scranton, Pa, for "a number of
years, has, in connection with another gen.
tleman, started small evening paper in
Pittston, Pa. We wish them success in
their new enterprise.
Isaac Thomas, negro from Pennsyl-
vania, stirred up general row, yesterday,
in the vicinity of the "kitchen " of that
nameless place, which is supposed to be
synonymous with every thing that is evil.
The late proprietor of the Kitchen, and
several others are supposed to have been
involved in the unpleasantness, which re-
suited in Squire Foard filming Thomas 81
and costs, making in all s. Sc for violating
a town ordinance.
The ancient structure in the Fourth
district, which was formerly known as
sold katy's." and where Catharine Dysart
once kept hotel, but which was after
wards called the Fox Chase and more re-
Gently Fair View, accidently took fire this
week, and had it not been for the exertions
of the near neighbors, one of whom mar
rowly escaped falling from the burning
roof, would have been consumed We be
lieve the building was but slightly injured.
On Friday of last week, our neighbors
in the village of North East, had lively
time for while, caused by Calvin Burk,
one of the citizens of that place, assaulting
William Carpenter and beating and kick
ing him. Not content with assaulting Mr..
Carpenter, he also; it is alleged, choked
his wife, Mrs. Rachel Carpenter. We have
not been informed of the particulars in the
case, but understand that it grew out of
another assault and battery case, for which
another party has been indicted.
Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evan
gelist, has recently appeared in Brooklyn
A correspondent of the Church and People
says of her addresses delivered in the
Plymouth Bethel: Congregation CON-
posed of many of the most cultured as well
as common people fill the Bethel, and
listen with rapt attention to her. Hel
language is we'll chosen, and her illustla
tions often graphic" Mrs. Smith was in
early life a slave in Cecil county, Maryland
was redeemed by her father, and taken tc
Pennsylvania, where she became an inmate
of Quaker family. For eight years she
has been an evangelist, visiting New Eng
land, the West, and the South as far as
Tennessee.
The Spring time is with US again, anc
the fragrant arbutus fills the air on the
fnrast covered slonea of Rcd Hill with tx