The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-01-19
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
There were three weddings in Chesa
peake City, on Thursday last.
Look for the special sale at McCrery
& Boulden's, in another column.
The visitation of Bishop Lay is put of
till Sunday night, the 18th of February
next.
Rowland Ellis, brother of F. A. Ellis,
Esq, of Elkton, died at Freehold, N. j.,
last Monday.
Alex. Sewers has rented the shop for
mery occupied by John W. Draper and in
tends to use it as barber shop.
-"Vidi'' did not send US his proper
name, in consequence of which his com
munication does not appear in our col
umns.
j. c. Davis is negotiating with the
agent of the Moore property, on the corner
of Main and Bow streets, with view of
erecting new barber shop thereon.
Bobby Braynard, the negro who had
the stolen horse of Mr.. Eliason in his pos
session, it now appears, had him hid for a
time in an old cellar near his house.
One of the Elkton duckers caught a
"duck" that he was not looking for on
Monday last. He fell out of boat into
Elk river and got thorough duckiug.
Mr. c. W. Morris, who is on visit to
his brother at Easton, Md, has sent home
a large swan, weighing eighteen pounds,
which he shot in the Chesapeake bay.
ID. L. Stanton was painfully hurt, last
Saturday night, by being pushed off the
pavement near the Howard House. Young
men should not obstruct the sidewalks.
VIM. ]. Jones, Esq, as Trustee, sold
the Fairview hotel and farm, containing
seventy five acres, on Tuesday last, to Mrs.
Lydia Smith, of Cowantown, for So, $50.
-Messrs. John S. Rossell & Co. slaugh-
tered, on Monday last, a yearling lamb,
which weighed, when dressed, 105 pounds.
He was raised by Mr. James Barber, of Elk
Neck.
Our townsman, Thomas Bremen, Esq
wdo has been suffering for some days past
from a severe attack of inham nation of
the bowels, we are GLAD to be able to say is
now convalescent.
There will be col exhibition
at Moore's Chapel, on v ay, the 23rd
instant. The exerc lsist of dia-
logues, Rotations, mission, 81
cents: children, Is cent.
Sheriff Boulder will soon become the
"terror of evil doers." He has already
caught and Gagged three horse thieves, and
so injured this branch of business that we
hope it will soon be discontinued.
w. S. Evans, trustee, sold, on Wed
nesday last, the /" Mount Pleasant" farm,
containing PIT acres, also hotel and store,
in the Eighth district, to J. Alfred Mackey,
of the Fourth district, for 81, 1863.
-Rossell & Co. slaughtered a fine, large,
granted steer, from the farm of Mr.. Jas.
Barber, in Elk Neck, on Thursday after
noon. Lovers of good beef should avail
themselves of this opportunity to fill their
larders.
The sportsmen of Elkton and vicinity
are requested to meet at the Clerks Office,
on next Wednesday night, 23d inst, for
the purpose of forming a club, and petit
tioning the Legislature for the passage of
law for the protection of game in Cecil
county.
The first Building Society, of this
town, that was organized in February,
1868, has about come to successful termi
nation; all persons favorable to the forma.
ton of another one, upon the same princi-
Piles, are requested to meet at the office of
F. A. Ellis, o-night the 10Th. inst, at /!
o'clock.
The Baltimore Weekly Sun of last week
is highly interesting and valuable mum,
Der, and contains, beside many other mat
tiers of interest, the first six chapters OF
So NATURAL an original story written
in competition for the prizes that were
offered by the enterprising publishers OF
The Sun.
MIR. W. E. X. Frazer has been ap
pointed freight agent at Elkton, and will
enter upon the discharge of his duties on
February 1st. Mr.. F. will have his office
in the warehouse. After the list proximo
the employees of the Railroad Company, a,
Elkton, will carry the mail to and from the
depot to the postoffice.
Samuel Pennock, young man living
at Andora, while warning to the funeral Of
Jos. Taylor, on last Tuesday morning, re
ceived serious and painful injury in Cow
antown. The horse upon which he wa.
riding stumbled and fell, which threw Mr.
Pennock upon the ground underneath il
and broke his thigh bone.
On Friday of last week, while stranger
was fox hunting, in the vicinity of Mr.
George Shivery's farm, in the upper par
of Elk Neck, his hounds, being tired o
hunting for foxes, made an attack on Mr.
SIS flock of sheep and were about to xii
them all, when they were fortunately dis
covered by him and driven away.
Cat fish are unusually plenty in tn,
North East river, this Winter. The fisher
men in that river caught thirty barrels o
these fish during Christmas week and hav
had much success since that time. The,
find a market for them in Philadelphia
where they sell them for six and eight cent
per pound, when skinned and ready TO
use.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Frida
evenings, the 23rd, Gath and 25th inst, th
ladies of Westminster Presbyterian Churc
will hold supper, at the new parsonage
now building, in Georgetown, Kent county
for the benefit of the same. Feeling CRATE
fpl for past fayors, the public is again re