The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-11-15
LOCAL BRIEFS.
April weather.

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The season must be turning somersaults
for fun.
Every kind of game that can be eaten
is now in season.
1t is predicted that the coming Winter
will not be 50 cold as damp and nasty.
Bishop Andrews will preside at the
coming Methodist Conference at Dover.
People are lucky who avoid catching
colds in this tickle and variable weather
Disasters at sea and on the rail have
been uncomfortably frequent the past week.
ALI kinds of good are advancing in
price, and by Spring wages will doubtless
follow.
Another lot of fan peddlers visited Elk
ton, this week, which is the third lot since
harvest.
"A flock of swans visited Frenchtown,
last week. 1t is not often that they are seen
so far north.
lege is a candidate for the position of SUI
perintendent of the United States Census
for Delaware.
The Fall term of New Leeds public
school, taught by Misses Biddlc and McCau-
ley, will begin on Monday next. Scholars
will enter the first day.
Mr. Clarence Cameron and Miss Rosa
McElwee were married at the Catholic
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by the Rev. Father Donaghey.
Statistics show that there is only one
newspaper to every $3.50 inha bitants i'll the
United States. That means that 1863 fell
lows borrow other peoples newspapers.
j. & p. Coates, manufacturers of SUI
perior cotton thread for use on sewing ma
chimes, recently sent a lot of their goods to
T. Drennen for gratuitous distribution.
Wilmer Hardness left two of the largest
and finest ears of yellow corn at this office,
last week, that We have seen this season.
Lowell, near New Leeds.
David Potts, residing near Lewisville,
Pa, had two of his fingers badly injured by
the discharge of gun, while loading it, on
off near the middle joint.
The farm of Mrs. f. NJ. Neepar, of Ok
ford, Pa, containing 100 acres, in Elk town.
ship, has been sold at private sale to Charles
r. and George w. Biles, of Cecil county,
for 50, 00O.-O!tord Press.
AT meeting of the Oxford Medical So
ciety, held in that place, last week, appro-
pirate resolutions commemorative of the
virtues of the late DR.. James Turner, of
Brick Meeting House, We're passed.
Mr.. r. c. Lewis, the proprietor of the
Glass Front, is having that institution
painted and grained, which adds much to
of North East, is engaged at this work.
We have been informed that Mr.. Geo.
and enter upon the discharge of the duties
of his office, ON Saturday, December 9th,
and that he will appoint Sheriff Boulder
Deputy.
AC taSCS VI w Cl'tC 10. 'pNdl uOlOuSll anu
the State rs. Scarborough, which have been
removed to Hartford county, have been set
for trial on Wednesday, 10Th inst. About
seventy-fve witnesses have been summoned
in these cases.
x mule belonging, g George Shivery, of
Elk Neck, strayed upon the railroad Lack,
near the Elk Neck crossing, on Wednesday
of last week, and was struck by the l.3O
died shortly afterwards.
Henry B. Writ, Esq, administrator of
John Lynch, sold the personal property of
the deceased, in the First district, on Tues
good prices, while hogs and other property
sold very cheap. S. j. Price auctioneer.
James A. Coulson elect, of both political
parties from Colora, Rising Sun and Harris
willie, gave him screnade, last Friday even
ing, taking the band with them.
Rising SIM Home Journu
The farmers of Bohemia Manor are an
noyed by thieves who steal their sheep.
Thomas Nicholl, who lives on the Drennen
farm, has lost four, this Fall, and John
Lavender lost one, week before last, which
the thieves killed and skinned in his field.
Rev. {. p. Mallory, pastor Of Oivet
Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, gave us
call, on Thursday last, when returning
from a visit to Chesapeake City, where he
had been assisting in a revival. He expects
to visit st. Georges, for the same purpose,
this week.
The p, W. & b. Railroad Company
have refurnished the Elkton depot with
handsome suit of new furniture and intend
to repaint the depot building in Il short
time. Workmen are also repairing the
trestle work, near the warehouse, used for
dumping coal cars.
Lewis Wellmann, of Wrightsville, Pa,
while unloading lime from canal boat, at
the wharf, on Friday morning, got his hand
fast in the machinery of the donkey engine
used for hosting the lime from the hold of
the boat and suffered the loss of Il portion
of tho index finger of his left hand.
Samuel II. Able, of Cherry Hill, raised,
this season, 56i chickens from fifteen hens.
Mr.. Able is one of the largest poultry rails
ers in this county. He informs us that
when he first purchased his farm lis profits
from poultry We're sufficient to pay his
taxes and for the fertilizers he used
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Elkton
NJ. +. Church will give supper in the Hall,
on next Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
the 10Th and Goth instants, for the benefit of
the church. The object for which this sup
per is given is a laudable one and it should
be we'll patronized. Tickets, 81 cents.
: Seine Elkten sportsmen went to Welsh
Point, last Saturday, fox hunting. when
some of their dogs, being attracted by
rabbit hunt on the south side of Back
creek, plunged in and swan over to Bohe-
mia Manor, leaving theip masters to find
their way home without the pleasure of
hunt.
The duckers are getting ready for bust
ness along the Elk river. We were recently
shown a lot of seventy five decoys belonging
to a gentleman from Philadelphia, who ex-
poets to gun at Locust Point, that were
painted by VIM. j. Smith, of this town,
which excel any that we have seen in a long
time.
The custom of using currant jelly with
game dates from old times when ice was