The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-06-01
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

depot.
The prettiest girl in Elkton attended
the festival at Odd Fellows Hall, on Tues
day evening.
The Elkton market is we'll supplied at
this time with cat fish. They are caught
on trot lines in the Elk river.
The cherry red will soon be ripe,
And soon the apple green will grippe;
While peppermint and paregoric
Will soothe the agony of collie.
Read the certificates of unusual cures
performed by Drs. Stearns and Wilson, in
the city of Wilmington. Our readers will
notice that they are all local certificates.
Rev. VIM. B. Cullis will preach in the
Presbyterian Church, at Chesapeake City,
on tomorrow, Sunday, June 9Th, at 104
o'clock in the morning, and o'clock in
the evening.
The late frosts have killed all the
foliage upon the buttonwood trees in this
section of the country, which indicates
that it is more tender than that Of most of
our forest trees.
There will be festival held at Bay
View, on the afternoons and evenings of
Friday and Saturday, the 18th and Sth of
June, to aid in the grand enterprise Of
erecting new NJ. P. Church.
The First Quarterly Conference of the
Zion Circuit, NJ. E. Church, will be held,
on Saturday and Sabbath, June 1st and I'd,
at Union Church. The Presiding Elder,
Rev. j. B. Quigg, will preach on Saturday
and Sabbath mornings, at 1Os o'clock.
The mania for shooting at glass balls,
which afflicted many of the young men of
Elkton about year ago, subsidized some
time since, and has been succeeded by the
base ball mania, which has recently as
sumed the epidemic form, and now RACES
in this town with much virulence.
1t is singular coincidence that John
Balderston, John Tosh, and John Barrett,
three aged and highly esteemed residents
of the northwestern part of the comfy,
should have died so near the same time.
Mr.. Barrett died on the 25th, Mr.. Bladder
ston on the 9th, and Mr.. Tosh on the Goth
ultimo.
Some of the long beaked wood cock,
not having the fear of the Elkton sports
men before their eyes, visited the town on
last Monday night, and unfortunately
struck the telegraph wires near the depot
H., &c bav
were found dead in that locality last Tues
day morning.
"A strawberry festival, for the benefit
of Montgomery Union Sabbath school, will
be held in H. D. Miller's woods, on the
afternoon and evening of Wednesday, June
9th, commencing at four o'clock, If the
Thursday, June 9th. The public are cor
daily invited to attend.
-"Harewood Park" on the p, W. &
3. railroad, promises to become very popu-
lar as a place of resort. On Thursday, au
excursion, numbering about one thousand
persons, under the auspices of the Asbury
NJ. E. Church, of Wilmington, passed
through Elkton, en- route for the new re-
sort on the Gunpowder.
The Wilmington papers compliment
highly the members of the "Mnerva So
ciety" of the Wesleyan Female College of
that city, and which celebrated its tenth
anniversary, one evening last week. Miss
Carrie Cruikshank, of Cecilton, represented
Cecil county, and as President of the So
ciety delivered a most admirable address,
entitled Vashti, the Pearl and the Star.
The barn of Mr. VIM. B. Smith, near
Cherry Hill, which was burned last week,
we understand, was insured in the Farmers
& Mechanics Insurance Company of this
county, and is the first loss ii, has met with.
Mr.. s. had an insurance of $500 upon the
building, which will cause an assessment
of 90 cents per 81, 200 upon the risks the
company have taken.
MIR. R. T. McVey brought to our office,
on Thursday last, few stalks of oats,
from his field on the farm of the late Thos.
McVey, which is of the variety called the
White Spangl e-head, and has attained the
height of three feet five inches. 1t was
sown on the last day of February, and has
not yet reached more than half the height
it will probably attain when fully matured.
The children's festival for the benefit
of the fuel fund, held at the Elkton library
on last Saturday afternoon and evening,
was very enjoyable affair. The mana
gers realized 1924. "A, which has been placed
in the Elkton National Bank, subject to
the order of the treasurer, Mrs. A. P. Nor
ris. The children take this opportunity
to thank their friends and the public for
their contributions.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Young Peoples Christian Association, of
which VIM. ]. Jones, Esq. is President,
has been postponed from tho 18th to the
21st instant. The Rev. DR.. ". J. Steven
son, of Wilmington, will be present and
deliver an address-subject, "The Man for
the Times" The popularity of this cer-
gymen as a speaker will doubtless attract
at this meeting an unusually large audi
ence.
j. B. Ash, auctioneer, sold for S. K
Miller, last Saturday at the FELTON, House.
Elkton, IS head of Maryland cattle. The
attendance was large, but prices ruled low.
There were eleven yoke of oxen in the
drove, which sold for prices verying from $50
to $S5. Dry cows sold from SIS to %;
fresh cows and springers from $50 to $40;
three and four year old steers and heifers
from $40 to $40; yearlings from S. to $40
Mr. Miller expects to have another sale at
the same place about the first of July.
Rev. T. Snowden Thomas is building
an addition to his house, near North East,
which is on the site of the old mansion in
which J. Baxter lived when he superin-
tended the North East forge during tie
time it was worked under the auspices OF
the Principle Company, in colonial times.
The workmen recently exhumed an iron
plate with the initials l. B., and the date