The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-07-05
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Look out for mad dogs

does man Use when he blasts his eyes:
relatives il Elkton, has in his possession Il
watch that he has carried for titty-one years.
The Medical Society of Cecil county
will meet in the Odd Fellows Hall, Elkton,
on Tuesday next Sth instant, at 10 O'Clock
\. NJ.
Our readers i'll North East and else
where will please remember the excursion
from that place to Colchester, on Saturday,
the 18th instant.
A correspondent from " Summer re-
sort " says the Spring chickens they serve
there seem to be built on the same principles
as their spring beds.
1t is rumored and generally believed
that the Sunday trains on the p, W. x 3.
Railroad will be discontinued, though the
agent ut Elkton has not been officially noti-
fed of the fact.
Patriotism as an active sentiment is not
impulSivc enough in Elkton in this good
yearof1SI9 to make formal Il demonstrations
The youngsters will monopolize the observ-
ance of the day.
The local mania at CharlcStown is shoot
ing glass balls. Some days two or more
matches take place. On the 18th, "big''
time is expected. Some nine hundred glass
balls are to be smashed.
Providence permitting, Rev. Samuel
Logan will preach in Boulden's grove, two
miles of
(Sabbath) morning, at 101s o'clock. Ser
vice again at same place at =. NJ.
On Sunday morning, Mr. Geo Ricketts,
found horse, with a saddle and bride on
1t, running at large, i'll the yard near his
mill, on the Big Elk, near Elkton. The
horse is still in his possession, he having
been unable TO find its owner
john Sheppard Short, native of Elk
Neck, and for 4 long time a resident of
Elkton and vicinity, died suddenly, on TUES
day morning, of Il disease of the windpipe.
= flalady similar to that which caused the
sleath of General Washington.
A CONCERT for the benefit of Linwood
Sunday school will be given at Temperance
nan, IN L w 'Sl'o@ii, oh evening
next. The celebrated Robinson family will
Ire the chief musical attraction. Friends of
Sunday schools are cordially invited.
George w. CruikShank the infant and
only son of our contemporary, George w.
Grukshank, Esq. editor of Tie cecil Demo-
'1"t. died, on Tuesday, after a protractcd
illness. IN his painful bereavement, Mr..
Crilikshank has our sincere sympathy.
The Elkton correspondent of the Rising
Sun Home Journol is in error in stating that
the Elkton Episcopal Church will give a
dancing excursion to Colchester. Neither
rhe ei,Grch nor any one connected with it so
far as We can learn intend doing anything
of that kind.
Two Elkton youths engaged i'll IL SWIM
spjng match, last Sunday. They started
Fresa the dyke, below the bridge, about 81
-aGlock and >%alT to Ce4tserl- = 2 6Itt, which
they reached in about three-fourthS of an
hour, the victor beating his opponent by
only Il few inches
-~Slr. Vim. j. Wilson, of Elk Neck. las
nearly completed a new barn on the site Of
the one destroyed by all inccndiary last
Spring. The new building makes Il fine ap-
pcafance from both tile Elk and North
East rivers. The carpenter work was dong
hy Mr.. Ahdraw Miller.
An Engishnan, who gives the name
of John Mitchell, Was arrested at Chesa-
peake City, on Tuesday last, charged with
stealing IS from the cook on the steam tug
4. e. G,uy. He had a hearing before jus
tice Chfis,ield, on Sunday, who committed
him TO Jail to await the action of the grand
jury.
As heretofore intimated the annual
excursion of the Elkton Presbyterian Church.
will take place on Wednesday, July 23rd,
on board the steamer Chester. Colchester
will be the objective point, and the price of
ffekcts - cents. 1t is unnecessary to say
that, a. usual, it will doubtless be iar.oI,.
patronizei.
MIR. Isaac Il. Ceilings, Il well-known
iarmer i'll Elk Neck, drove for the first time
"a kcCormick reaper in the harvest Of the
summer of 1912, thirty-scvcn wears ar,
Except four Summers, i'll which he was
engaged i'll other business. he has driven Il
reaper every harvest since. He is now in
sis si&ty-second year.
-~S1esSfs. johnson and Green have nearly
completed the new binding, next door 10
the Bee Hive, which Sir. u. &. Reese pllr-
poses to Use rs 4 meat and provision store,
aud nbirh he will occupy next week
Samuel J. Price will have charge of tie
new store and we bespcall for him a good
share Of the patronage OF the public.
-~-some of our sportsmcn hunted for
we"deock, on Tuesday last that being the
first day that the law permits them to shoot
these birds but they did not find many of
them and are OF the opiniuu that the birds
arc feeding in the marsh along The river
Ny. Harrison ii. Bcnnet killed the greatest
number. 80 fIr as reported, he having bag
Sed twelve gooi birds.
On last Monday evening, "a child about
three years of age, son of a womab in the
employ of James lambert who lives near
Sod Hill. accompanied its mother when she
went 10 milk tie cows and while amusing
itself playing with Il s,oUng colt, was kicked
III the breast, which hurt ii La.ily and rem
rAespd it scnSeleSS for some time The Guild
recc1eGd medical aid and is likely to recover
Some evii-di>l,uSfd person made an at
tempt TO burgiarize tl.e dwelling of .Jacol
Taylor, on Bells lane, on MOuday ,u,ruinc
last, but We're frightened away by Mr.. r.
wiio beard them and arose from his bed ana
thor entrance, These attempts at burglary
have bcen very freqneat If late They vii
probably stop when the pt,t,et patpr gets
ipa,l of shot or Il ball or two In his CARCASS
-~SeSeraI Mcmbcrs of the family of Rev
s. 4. Gas'iey. ~ West Nottingham, Ceci
county, Md, recently supnfe,l quite severely
after dinner, at which they i'astaok pf (;
sislI Of lettuce. Mr. Gayley WAS 30 mnci
affected thar he was unable to occupy his
pulpit the following Sabbath. They have
all recovered. 1t IS supposed . small guam
thy OF Paris green got upon the naiad Will.
gu adjacent lot of potatoes were being dustc,
so destroy the buSs.-OrtorF Press.
Howard Pyle. tho wandering artist
who has been writing Il SERIES Of article,
for H"Pers' M,goziae upon the Peninsula
Canaan, gets things badly mixed sometimes
Ills article i'll the July number is illustrated
with euts ~ the old Baptist Church on Iron
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