The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07


We will be under obligations to any of
our readers ia Sassafras Neck ar clsew here if
they will furnish us with any information in
their possession about the early history Of
the First district, or correct any mistakes or
inaccuracies in the history of st. stephen 5
parish, which We publish to day nn the first
page of this paper.
Hon. Hiram Mccullough had narrow
escape from what might have been i sell
Gus accident on last Tuesday eveing whI!c
returning from Elk Landing, where hc had
been To meet his sister upon her return
from COLCHESTER. The horse attached to
the carriage he was in, no. being properly
hitched, attempted 10 run away, but fortu-
nately was stopped after running short
distance, and no harm was done.
Townsend Poole, Esq, the gentlemanly
proprietor of the Frenchtown farm, com
plains of the depreciation OF many worth
less ours that infest his place and destroy
his poultry. lie says he is obliged to carry
a club to defend himself from their attacks
when he wishes to superinsend the work of
the hands employed by him and that he has
lost poultry to the amoaHt of a hundred
dollars year for several years past. lie
thinks most of the vicious ours that appear
to be nearly starved belong in Eikton.
The ladies of the Elkton PRESBYTERIAN
Church announce musical and literary
entertainment for its benefit, in the parlors
of DIR. Jno. II. lamar, on Friday evening.
the 18th inst. Select recitations by Miss
Helen Gillingham, of Philadelphia. varied
with vocal and instrumental music by Mrs
X. +. Tull, Miss NJ. Jones, Mr.. &. \. Heb
erton, of Philadelphia, Mr.. ToIbert, and
Others to be hereafter announced, will form
the evenings programme. In view of the
object named, the laGies hope to see crowd
ed parlors. Tickets, 80 cents.
The tramps that delight TO travel along
the line OF the p, w. * b. railroad are
the worst specimens of the ugly species to
which they belong. Some weeks ago, one
of them was arrested for ilourishing pistol
and threatening TO shoot the son of I.
Jones, who resides near the railroad short
distance west of Elkton. lie was arrested
and is yet in jail. This week we have to
chronicle the fact that two of the gentry
have been shooting at the employees of the
railroad company, near Perryville. Can
no means be devised to abate the tramp
nuisance?
1t may not be generally known, but
nevertheless it is fact. that citizen of
Elkton has revived the practice of the early
settlers and has a considerable quantity of
tobacco growing along one of the lanes in
the eastern part of the town. The time
was when the cultivation of the weed was
SO profitable that the streets, lanes ard
highways of the towns and villages were
planted with tobacco, and the legislature of
the colony was obliged to pass an act COM
pelling each planter to plant and cultivate
a certain number of acres of corn in order
to prevent starvation.
"A horse belonging to Hugh Scarbor-
ough, Esq, which was hiiched in the
Howard House yard, last Thursday, broke
the hitching strap and quietly walked oil
towards home, but was soon discovered
and brought back. Mr.. Scarborough then
provided a large rope and marched the
delinquent beast into the yard and tied him
fast TO a strong post, aud went his way.
Soon afterwards the horse thought he
would repeat the experiment of breaking
loose. This time lie failed, and then
he reared up and fell down and continued
to do so for a considerable rumber of times
but finally became convinced of the i'm
practicability Of getting loose again and
subsidized, rs also did the large crowd that
witnessed the performance.
Benjamin Hopkins, of Baltimore. un-
der whose auspices the excursion from Bal
timore to Port Deposit was gotten up, a
few weeks ago, an account of which was
published in the Baltimore Sun. on the
23rd ult., is about to bring suit against that
paper for damages to the amount of 81, 900.
MIR. ii. alleges that two other excursions
he had in contemplation were broken up
by the inaccurate report in The Sun. This
is the excursion, the participants in
which acted so outrageously aud r;otously
in Port Deposit as to lead the authorities
of that town TO prohibit the landing of any
others of like character. Upon that oc-
casion they not only quarreled with the
proprietoEs of all the public houses they
entered, but invaded private houses and
destroyed tbs flowers in the yards of some
of the citizens, and being afraid To further
modest the white folks, like all Others of
the same class, they maltreated and abused
the unoiiendiug negroes.
To what uses will our postofIice not he
put: We send bullion, specie, bank notes
seeds, vegetables, plants, merchandise by
mail but who would ever have dreamed
that live stock would 1e so transported
On Wednesday there passed through the
New York postoffice, directed to Sir John
Lubbock, several thousand ants. They were
comfortably shipped in match boxes, ami al
though there is no special mention in the
postal regulations of ants or other cattle,
they were forwarded 10y Postmaster James
of that city. RustIcus sitting al our elbow,
says that he never expects to ship any Of
his duHts through the Elkton postoiiice,
but that 4 number of his friends would
gladly avail themselves of the mail box,
bag and bundle, or any other masculine
form of conveyance to nd themselves Of a
few mothers-iu-law. But we reject the
suggestion as a sickly reflection upon
much abused and malgned class. For
every undese.ring mother in, law, there
are doz.l unworthy sons-in- law--probably
more.
APPOINTMENT or A ROUTE AGENT
We are pleased To learn that Daniel Van
nemau, ESD, of Port Deposit, has been
appointed route agent between that place
and Philadelphia, III the place of Dr.
Wakeman, lately deceased. Mr. Van
neman being a conscientious and obiiging
gentleman, his appointment, we doubt not.
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