The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-05-18
Local A Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

men; being at work on Spring beds
-Morrissey won 100000 from Ben
Wood at one all night sitting at poker.
Joseph Booth & Son are now selling
sweet potato plants at one dollar per thou
sand.
Edwin Booth is understood to have
taken solemn oath never to visit Wash
ington.
The Annual Convention of the Diocese
of Easton will be held in Ekton, on the
first Wednesday in June.
On last Saturday, A. P. Shockley, auc-
tioneer, sold, for Sheriff Boulder, two
horses, the property of J. W. Hargan, for
$50.
A strawberry festival will be held in
the X. of P. Hall, at Cherry Hill, on Fri
day and Saturday evenings, Gath and 25th
of May.
= W. Thompson Ramsey, of this county,
has sold his farm of 81 acres, at Bay View,
including his storehouse, to Isaac Rogers,
of the Fourth district, at $50 per acre.
The ladies of Zion Presbyterian Church
will hold strawberry festival at Zion,
May goth, during the afternoon and even
ing. Supper % cents. Public invited.
The celebrated fox hound, Mount"
which was we'll known to the sportsmen of
Elkton and vicinity, was sold last week to
a gentleman from Milford, Delaware, for
$50.
John Morrissy once told biographer,
81 did earn an honest living as an iron
moulder, and you may call me moulder."
That was much better than statesman,
religion none.''
j. R. Sewers, the general agent Of the
Richmond nurseries, will visit the First
district next week and call upon the fruit
growers to solicit their patronage for the
Richmond nurseries.
"A decidedly cool proceeding on the
part of May is visible in various parts of
the country. There have been frosts all
over the States, hail storm in New York
and Brooklyn, and snow in Iowa.
Why would our tonsorial artist, Mr..
Hezzie g. Caldwell, make versatile actor,
were he to adopt the "stage" as pro-
fession? Because he is man of many
parts and is familiar with many airs
The ladies of Wesley Chapel, of Elk
Neck, will hold a strawberry festival, at
the church, on Saturday, May 25th, after
noon and evening. Proceeds for the bene-
fit Of said church. The public are invited.
Our enterprising clothier Mr.. Philip
Goodman, has just received a large assort
ment of children's clothing, suitable for
children from three to ten years of age.
1t is of the latest New York style and will
be sold at moderate prices.
The recently elected Board of Town
Commissioners met at their Office on We'd
nesday evening last and organized by the
election of John Partridge as President;
P. H. Cleaver, Secretary; R. G. Reese,
Treasurer; A. P. Shockley, Bailiff; c. NJ.
Lewis, Lamp Lighter.
The Groome Guards have exchanged
the Miller rifles, with which they were
formerly armed, for United States Spring
field rifles, which are much better con-
structed and efficient weapon than the
other, they being poorly made and liable
to become useless from continuous firing.
George Bachman was committed to
Jail on Thursday last, charged with steal
ing pistol from the dwelling house of
John Sherman, and also with the larceny
of sundry articles of clothing from James
c. Ball. The parties are all residents of
Port Deposit, where the theft is said to
have been committed.
Rev. 0. B. Strayer, once resident of
Warwick, is canvassing the county, solicit
ing subscribers for church register, got
ten up upon new and improved plan, de-
signed for the preservation of the photo
graphs of the members of the churches,
and containing blank pages for church his
tory, records, ETC., etc.
WIN. Falls, Esq, the polite proprietor
of the Howard House, has red bird that
has lost its voice and found whippoor-
Wills; at least you might think so, if you
heard it initiate the mournful song of
that bird, which it often does so closely,
that the acutest ear would be unable to
distinguish one from the other.
Mr.. c. w. Maxwell, of Ekton, has
the champion hen of the county; she laid
two eggs recently which were attached to
each other by small neck about one third
of an inch long and much like piece of
pipe stem. One of these eggs was the size
of an ordinary hens egg, the other was
not quite so large; the she'll upon each of
them was not fully matured
-Colored walters are exclusively EN-
ployed at Saratoga, upwards of six hundred
of them doing the polite for the guests Of
the Grand Union and other hotels Our
affable knight of the razor, H. c. Caldwell
spent the season of 1876 at that place, in
the hotel of Mr. John Morrissey, which
facts may account for the exodus of so
many of our Elkton people of color during
the Summer months, to Cape May and
other fashionable resorts.
+ Our old friend, Nathan Griffith, of
the Brick Meeting House, who is an in
teligent and observant gentleman, called
at our office this week, and during con-
versation on the forwardness of the crops
he stated that he never knew wheat in head
so early, except in 1916, when it was headed
on the Goth of May. About the 1st of
June following, when it was in blossom
there was severe frost, which injured
much of it and killed the young corn.
Hon. S. s. Cox, who was advertised to
lecture in Elkton last Tuesday night, was
detained in Washington by the unexpected
emergency caused by the introduction in the
House of Representatives of the Potter
resolution. His failure was great disap-
pointment to the citizens of the town,
many of whom were anxious to hear the