The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-25
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Political matters monopolize the news
papers.
Everybody is saying Cob. Heigho!'
even the Greenbackers
DIR r. c. Carter is lying dangerously il
at his home at Cherry Hill.
The signs are bad for Democracy. The
geese fly South, the Crows fly North.
"A large flock of wild geese, moving
southwark, passed over town, on Thursday
Look out for colder weather soon.
The cunning season does not commence
until November LIST. Let persons who per-
sist in violating the law take warning
-C.mmi.sionar Bidde visited New Leeds
public school, last week, and was much
pleased with the condition of the school.
About six hundred persons visited the
Jail, on last Saturday, all Of whom were
strangers in town attending the Republican
meeting.
Levi X Bowen, Of The Democrat office,
lost his pocket book, containing ST or IS,
while attending tho law parade, at Balti-
more, on Monday.
lie Thackery, Esq, will address the
Republican club, in Odd Fellows Hall,
Port Deposit, on Wednesday night, Octo-
Der Goth, at $50 P. NJ.
The Clerk Of the Court, Mr.. Mitchell,
will 70 to Perryville, on next Friday, the last
day Of the month, to issue the duckinS Ii
censes to the gunners.
Mrs. Charles Booth, an old gentleman
nearly eighty years Of age, living near New
Leeds, and who has never had the services
Of physician, is now i'll and confined to
his room.
"A band Of nomads, usually styled gyp-
sizes, passed through town, on Thursday.
Like the wild geese, they, too, were seeking
warmer chimes, moro congenial to their pc
euliar style of living
The case of Mrs. Cameron IS. the p. w.
& B. Railroad Company, was, this week,
removed from Chestertown court, Kent
county, back to Cecil, and will doubtless be
tried at the December term of our court.
Abel T. Lincoln, prominent farmer
near Pennington, was attacked on Sunday
last with a violent disease of the stomach
and his life is despaired of. He was at
tended on Monday by Drs. Hopkins, Dare
and Sides.
Mr.. James A. Davis will be at Cherry
Hill, Tonight with r. C. Thackery and j.
e. Wilson, Esqs., who will address the
independent voters there. A band of music
has been engaged and large attendance
may be expected.
Mr.. J. S. Settle, Of New Leeds, boasts Of
military services rendered his country by
himself and ancestors during three genera
lions, and justly takes pride in his uniform,
tattered with bullets, and his discharge.
He received $500 for back pay from the gov
eminent, last week.
One Of tho phenomena Of the season is
asecond crop ofraspberries and straw berries.
This crop has for the past two weeks been
offered in city markets, from Delaware and
Maryland. One grower has shipped at one
time IS many as 120 pints of raspberries
from his bushes second crop this season.
Tho extraordinary large stock Of cloth
ing, most select in patterns, both for boys
and mems wear, and prices that are within
reach Of all purses, offers the biggest kind
Of inducements to buyers to 20 to tho Orisi-
nal New York Clothing House, ISL West
Baltimore street, Baltimore Spend your
msnsy there.
Nelson J. Lee, the sx-temperance evan
geiist and fraud generally, is now running
beer rancho at Erie, Pa. Colonel Hay and
some other temperance men Of note visited
him, recently, and endeavored to persuade
him to discontinue that business, bat he
inpolitely answered by offering them beer.
Our readers doubtless remembers this indi-
vidual and his man9uver, hereabouts
John Hancock, the unfortunate soldier,
from the West, who was noticed in The
Wing, last week, as being on his way to
Milton, Delaware, left Elkton for that place,
on Monday last. He wished us to thank
the coed people Of the western part of the
town fer kindness shown him while stop
ping there, and spoke in the highest terms
Of Mrs. Roger Witworth, who had supplied
him and his children literally with coffee.