The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-05-04
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

Town Commissioners occurs. Who's your
bailiff? .
Don't forget the sale of cattle by Thos.
Thackery, this afternoon, at the FELTON,
House.
Notice Mrs. Lucy Litzenberg's new
card. 1t will be found especially interest,
ing to ladies.
H. H. Bennett is refitting his ten pin
alley, and will refurnish it and have it in
operation soon.
Remember Rev. A. A. Wiletts lee
ture next Thursday evening at Pencader
Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, Del.
-" Nature smiles" says an exchange.
We are sorry for it. We thought the dame
took nothing stronger than cold water.
Mrs. Alexander Evans who has re-
Gently been very i'll with pneumonia, is
now, we are happy to inform our readers,
convalescent.
A concert and lecture will be given in
the Masonic Hall, Chesapeake City, on
Wednesday evening, May Sth, for the bene-
fit of the NJ. E. Sabbath school.
Notice Elliott Browns new advertise
ment. He has reopened his old stand in
Port Deposit. Farmers can supply every
want there in the agricultural machinery
line. .-~
Our thanks are due to l. F. Vanarsdale
for a welcome present of delicious aspara-
gus. Mr.. V. is extensively engaged in the
cultivation of this esculent, some of which
he disposes of in Elkton.
Persons in want of good Vegetable
plants of any kind will do well to visit
Henry Bells garden in Elkton. His plants
are of the most improved varieties and
never fail to give satisfaction.
The directors of the Wood Lawn Camp
Meeting Association met on Thursday and
fixed Tuesday, August 18th, as the day for
the meeting, this Summer. The Rev. D. c.
Ridgway was also selected as the manager
of it.
We were inadvertently led into an error,
last week, in stating that Mr.. Hess, who
found the lost child of MIR. VIM. Taylor,
was the tenant of Mr.. John L. Smith, he
being the ouner of the farm formerly be-
longing to that gentleman.
The Young Peoples Association is
furnishing literary entertainment for the
town. At its meeting, on the 10th instant,
Col. VIM. II. Purnell, President of Della
ware College, will be the essayist. Sub
ject: Words as Witnesses.
-Messrs. Nicolsson & Edwards, the
great National Photographers. have arrived
in town, and pitched their tent at Marsh
banks corner, where they will remain until
May the 10th. They are taking all kinds
of pictures at greatly reduced prices.
"A woman, out shopping, always tries
to act, when leaving dry goods store, as
if she had purchased hundred dollars
worth, when she has invested in two hours
of poor clerks time which has cost her a
yard or two of calico at nine cents yard.
Some of the colored residents of Water
street engaged in free fight, last Thurs
day, Bailiff Shockly arrested them and
took them before Squire Foard, on Friday
morning, who fined one of the colored dam
sells for violating the town ordinance,
against fighting.
Mr.. w. p. Howard recently caught a
diamond back terrapin weighing eight
pounds, in Elk river, near Randalia. This
to have been caught there-they live in the
salt water of the bay. How this one got so
far up Elk river is a mystery.
"A young black and tan terrier dog,
strayed or was picked up in the street,
Thursday evening. When taken, had
blue ribbon around his neck and answered
to the name of "Mac," a suitable reward
will be given, if returned to Mr.. Heberton's,
on Mill street.
The colored boy Lewis (alias Booty
was taken to the aims house, on Monday
last, suffering from consumption, superin
duced from exposure and the use of too
much bad whisky. He died on Tuesday
last, and was buried the next day in the
pauper's cemetery, near the aims house.
You must 60 South to purchase late
varieties of fruit trees, as the Winter
varieties of the North mature earlier in
the latitude of Maryland. DR.. Sewers,
agent of Franklin Davis & Co., the cele-
brated Richmond nurserymen, is now can
wasting this county. See their card in an
other column.
We call the attention of our readers to
the large and varied collection of beautiful
ver-plated ware of VIM. J. Alrch, which
he has for sale at his shop, under the
Howard House. His stock comprises
large collection of ice pitchers, tea sets,
butter dishes, casters, cake baskets, ETC.,
all of which will be sold on reasonable
terms. Persons wishing anything in this
line cannot do better than favor him with
their patronage.
Mine host, Mr.. Samuel Hamilton, pro-
prietor of the Farmers Hotel at the Brick
Meeting House, visited our office on We'd
nesday last. As.an evidence of the brisk
pess of the fish trade, he mentioned that
he has not been in bed for two weeks, on
account of the large number of traders
wishing accommodations at his house at
all hours of the night, as many as fifty
teams being there at one time. He has
fully mastered the problem-how to keep
an hotel.
The canal boat j. E. Weitzel, from
Wrightsville, with $500 bushels of lime,
consigned to number of prominent farm
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town, with 5000 bushels, consigned to
McIntire and Creswell; and the sloop Mary
Caroline, with 1900 bushels of shell lime
from Chesapeake City, consigned to Thos.
Dougherty, were all discharging their car
goes on Wednesday last, which caused the
wharves in the vicinity of the bridge to
present an unusually lively appearance.
Mr.. John Fox, temperance evangel-
list, from Wilmington, who has recently