The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-20
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.


Easter eggs are ripe; pick EN- to-day
Robert Hopkins is going into the cart
ing business.
= To morrow will be Easter Sunday
Look out for snow.
Doctors, sections and "sich," patiently
await the opening of the green apple season.
Notice the call for the 9TH annual meet
ing, in Baltimore, of the State Temperan ce
Alliance.
One swallow doesn't make a summer,
but one robin makes a spring. Watch
him, and see if he don't.
Fold away last seasons ulster, it hath
served thee long and well; shabby garments
we'll it covered, making thee perfect swell.
Why is it that a person, after reading
the medical advertisements in newspaper,
Involuntary glances at the column of
deaths?
The Junior editor of the Chesapeake
Record was in town last Monday, so we
have been told. We had not the pleasure
of seeing him.
The new dwelling house of Samuel
Keys, on Main street, is fast approaching
completion, and will add much to the beauty
of East Main street.
The Rev. Francis Harvey, brother of
our fellow citizen, Daniel Harvey, was in
town, on Monday last. He is at present
stationed in Oxford, Pa.
The Sabbath school of Crouch's Chapel
will be reopened on Sunday afternoon at
q o'clock. T. c. Crouch, Esq, Superin-
tendent. The class meets at 81 o'clock.
Mr. John P. Evans, of the Sixth dis
trict, has eve that recently gave birth to
four lambs. They are about a month old
and both mother and lambs are in fine con-
dition.
The fishermen on the Elk river are
doing better business this week than
formerly. Herring are rather scarce yet
and still very high, selling for $50 per
hundred.
The old Bank building, on Main street,
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ton, was offered at public sale on Tuesday
last, and, after being bid to $1,000, was
withdrawn.
We understand that our former fellow
citizen, Stephen B. Ford, so well and favor
ably known in Cecil county, contemplates
resumng business at the Pivot Bridge,
probably at an early date.
-Hawkers and peddlers are said to be
more numerous in Philadelphia than at any
former period of it's history. They not only
peddle milk, which is customary every
where, but to complete the dish, they sell
mush to eat with it.
Thomas Waring, of the firm of Thomas
Waring Il Bro, was in town last Tuesday.
He was on his way to the lower part of the
county, with view Of introducing his valu-
able fertilizers, which only need to be tried
in order to be appreciated.
The Chinese version of Mary and her
lamb:
Was gal name Moll had lamb,
Eleas all somee white snow,
Eyly place Moll gal walkee,
Ba ba hoppee long too.
The early strawberry, at dollar a
quart puts on aristocratic airs and looks
with scorn and contempt upon hungry hui
mainly. By July he will get down from
his lofty eminence and hide himself be-
tween the strata of fifteen cent salsratus
short cake, and howl for customer.
Dur no
matte entertainment to be given at the Odd
Fellows Hall, on Monday evening, as the
performance will be one we'll worthy of
their patronage. Mr.. O'Byrne and his com
pany are actors of recognized ability, and
the entertainment will be one of merit.
"A paragraph is going the rounds of the
press, explaining on scientific grounds why
a girl cannot throw stone. If some sci
enlist would kindly point out what is the
safest position the bystander can occupy
whether behind or before-when she at
tempts it, he would be, to some extent, a
public benefactor.
When you send boy for physician
to visit strange neghborhood, tell him to
leave directions so your place may be found.
One of our physicians was put to much
trouble few days since to find the resi-
dence of family in the upper part of New
Castle county, where he was asked to go,
in order to consult with the attending ply
stefan in a bad case of diptheria.
The Town Commissioners have erected
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of Bow and Main streets The bailtf in
forms us that they were erected for the
purpose of keeping persons from hitching
horses to Mr.. Partlidge's fence and tramp
ing the ditch full of dirt, which caused the
water to overflow the street. Mr.. Par
fridge pays part of the expense.
The Cherry Hill Dramatic Association
intend playing 'Teu Nights in Bar
ROOM in the Knights of Pythas Hall, on
Thursday evening, the 25th inst There
is much talent in this company, and the
members should be encouraged in their
efforts at self improvement, by the patron
age of the public, for whose entertainment
the performance will take place.
Some sacrilegious thief stole some
books and box containing thirty or more
medals from the Catholic Church. in this
town, about two weeks ago. The books
and medals were the property of the $50
dality of the Blessed Yirgin,' which, we
believe, is the name of a society connected
with the church. They were near the altar
and the thief who stole them must have
been one of the most utterly vicious and
depraved of his kind, thus to have laid
hands upon things Of no use to any one but
the owners. The church, as we believe is
customary with all Catholic churches, was
left open during the day, and the theft is
supposed to have been the work of some
wandering tramp.