The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-31

Here's to the health Of Professor
= Howard Titus.
The public schools open throughout
the county ON Monday.
Republicans, get registered. The ad
vice is needless TO Democrats.
Don't forget the humane OBJ Ct of the
Chsster's excursion TO Colchester ON Tues
day.
A number of our citizens were lef on
"Wednesday last. They will be all right on
Tuesday next.
The school at the Universalist Church,
under the auspices of Miss Ida NJ. Staples,
will begin September End.
Our old friend and fellow citizen, DR..
Justus Dunott, was in Elkton this week,
looking well, as old age creeps on apace.
-Ellinger's Brass Band, of Wilmington.
Del, will accompany the excursion on the
Chester, to COLCHESTER, on Tuesday next.
Notice Reese's new Bee Hive adver-
tisement. There are no drones in that
hive. Things will be lively in the Hollow
this Fall.
Notice DIR. Brooks new advertisement
Oh tue DatiinOIe Tenaic tOicee. IL 10
one of the leading educational institutions
Of the State.
1T never rains but it pours in Elkton.
Two excursions to Colchester III one day.
There need be no jealousies. Both will be
well patrcnized.
The Fall term of the Elkton Academy
begins ON Monday. Under its present eff
cient management we hope to see its pa
tronage improve.
Rochester Beach will be a lively place
on Tuesday next. Two excursions from
Elkton, two from Baltimore, and a tourna-
ment are the attractions.
-One of our brick makers. this week,
disposed OF 10000 brick, for paving, to the
authorities of Newark, and like number
to those of Chesapeake City.
Mrs. Morris Heme school will open on
Monday. Miss Goodwin is expected to-
day, aud we bespeak for the school 4 liberal
share Of the public patronage.
In speaking of persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
The new board walk on the west side
of Mill lane has been completed this week.
1t was much needed, and will ne a great
convenience to those living near the mill
MIR. Hammond, of the firm of Ham.
mond X Jones, fine job and label printers,
Baltimore, looked in on US this week.
Their firm stands at the head Of their pro-
fession.
Miss Tobitha Jones. to whose intelli-
gence and conscientious patience as a
teacher of the infant classes, SD many Elk
ton parents owe a debt of obligation, will
reopen her school on Monday.
The New Leeds school, under the care
of Miss Martha Biddle and Miss II. ~
McCauIey, will begin on Monday next, Sep
tember end. Parents will see that their
children enter early in the term.
The Sunday school of Asbnry NJ. T.
Church will hold picnic, in the grove
near the church, on the road leading from
Battle Swamp to Perryville, on Wednes
day, September 4th. Public invited.
"A party, consisting of five fishermen
from Elkton, visited Georges bend, on
last Monday, and what is rather unusual,
caught l5S large moccasin. They went on
shore, kindled fire, and had n royal feast
-Quilp's culver is full of arrows pointed
at Annapolis, but the crowded condition of
our columns shuts out the greater portion
of his report of the Changers picnic on
"Wednesday. 1t will be in print next week
Many of the sojonrners of Rehoboth
Beach and other seaside resorts have re-
turned home. w. J. Jones, W. ). Evans.
G. a. Blake, G. w. Cruikshank and c. c.
Crothers, Esqs., may now be found busy at
work in their offices
Quarterly meeting will be held at Griffith
Chapel, Cedar Hill, on to morrow Sunday ,
Love Feast at 3 O'Clock; preaching by Rev.
II. B. CLANCY at IL o'clock A. "; by Rev
J. w. Liking, Of Baltimore at 3 o'clock
Rev. c. Ii. Williams, at o'clock p. NJ.
We are pleased to learn that our enter
prising banker, Hon. Jacob Tome, Of Port
Deposit, has become one OF the proplietors
OF the Wiilidmsport Gazette and Bulletin,
which is the leading Democratic paper Of
that place. We hope that he may impress
upon it his we'll known Republican pin
ciples.
The teachers of the lower and middle
districts will meet in the Public School
room at Elkton. on first Saturday in Sep
TENDER, for the purpose of organizing an
Association for mutual benefit and i'm
provement. All are earnestly desired to
be there and lend their countenauce and
aid TO this praiseworthy movement.
-Shakespere says uneasy lies the head
that wears CROWN but he didn't know
any thing about it, He should have tried
night with ten pounds of hair done up in
forty weight Of hair and crimping pins, in
anticipation Of croquet party. The next
day we guess he wouldn't have mentioned
crowns after that.
"A new clinker-b built cunning skif was
launched, on Tuesday, by w. II. Nelson.
for Jos. l.. Wells, our obliging East End
butcher. She is a very natty little craft
and no doubt Joe " will excel himself on
the marsh after the 10Th prox. Nelson is
gaining quite reputation boat builder
lie has another skiff on the "stocks"
1t is an old maxim THAT all signs fail
in dry weather." and although business in
Elkion is dull these sober August DAYS. vet
the bright new sign Just hoisled by Sam
Rambo, our euterprising hardware mer-
chant in Hurn's block, will not, we are
sure, fail to attract the attention of all his
customers, and the rest of mankind gener.
ally.
More peaches are going to market from
Chester river than was expected some
weeks since. One day last week, says the
henf Nens, the Ford carried about nineteen
hundred boxes, and the average for the
week has been from twelve To fourteen
hundred. Prices range from $3.50 to 81 80
per box, and some choice lots have brought
As high as IS.
The Elkton foundry, which was burned
few weeks ago, has been rebuilt by Mr.
Charles ii. Smith, the tenant in possession,
who obtained the contract from the insur.
ance company. The new building is a very
substantial and creditable edifice Mr.. )
has already resumed business in il, and
being young man OF much energy and
perseverance, and a good workman, should
be sustained and encouraged.
There were four Sunday school picnics
in the vicinity of Elkton on Thursday last
The Trinity Episcopal Church of Elkton
held theirs IN the beautiful grove near the
Westamwell Iron Works. The mission
Sunday school, at Crouch's Chapel, had a
pleasant time in Boulden's grove; while
the other mission school in Elk Neck,
and the Rio Elk schonl met in prnves unar