The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-01-18

Extra services are being held in the
Elkton NJ. +. Church.
Almost every body i'll town complains OF
being under the weather
Remember to keep your feet warm,
even if you have TO go in debt to the shoe
maker.
MIR Geo. Witworth, our North Street
Market man, lost valuable horse, one day
last week.
We call the attention of our Port read
ers to the new card Of DIR. y. b. Smith in
to-day's Wig.
keep your horses we'll bIanketed and
don't let them stand along the street more
than half the night.
Boys will be boys, and they won't work
worth cent when there is bevy of pretty
girls shedding near by.
A slip of the foot may be recovered,
but Of the tongue perhaps never. Then
be careful how you speak.
George J. Brown had a bobolink or
reed bird frozen to death in its cage, one
of the cold nights last week.
Much To the delight of small boys. 4
bear walked into town, on Thursday even
ing last, led by wandering Arab.
You often hear of man being in cd
vance of his age, but you never hear of a
woman being in the same prediGament
The melancholy days have come,
When taxes must be paid.
Or 10 the sum original
Percentage will be laid.
There will be preaching at Griffith
Chapel, Cedar Hill, on Friday evening,
24th inst, at o'clock, by the Rev E. W.
Scott, of Baltimore.
Chesapeake City merchants are now
receiving their goods from the cities by
way Of Elkton, navigation in the bay and
canal yet being closed.
William Coale, Esq, has sold his farm,
containing about 20 acres, located on the
Octoraro and overlooking the village of
Rowlaudsville, for &c, 600.
We suggest to ladies' who will wear
outside pockets ON their cloaks-if you
don't wish your purses stolen, have them
made to look like prayer books.
Six hundred men were employed dur.
ing the recent cold spell in cutting and
housing ice on the Susquehanna, between
Havre de Grace and Port Deposit
Judge Lewis returned home from Bal
timore, on Wednesday evening last, quite
i'll. The Judge has been in that city some
time attending the L. 5. Circuit Court as
juror.
The next meeting Of the Young PEG
pies Association will not take place until
February 2ist, on account of the extra
meetings being in progress in the Metho-
dist Church.
A travelling bird store was in town on
Thursday last. John Skeyter, the proprie-
tor, of Philadelphia, was selling male Ca
nary birds to different persons for 81 30
piece.
The misadveuture of week before last.
a. to our Port Deposit correspondence, is
repeated this week-too late for admission
May it be otherwise when we knock at
heavens door.
Mr.. James Cutlery, an aged gentle
man, fell headforsmost from the hay NOW
Of barn at Westamwell Mills, on Mon
day; but, fortunately, received no serious
injuries therefrom.
Mr.. Amos McNeal, who resides near
Cat swamp" has recently erected an
addition to his barn, and it is reported
that he intends to use a part of the new
building Is a dentistry.
A lecture will be given in the Cherry
Hill VI. Z. Church. on Wednesday evening,
29,h instant, by Rev. W. NJ. Gilbert, of
Philadelphia Conference. Subject: Eyes
and Ears Wide Open"
William II. Brown has sold the farm
of ll3 acres and mill, in West Nottingham.
late the property Of Thomas W. Brown.
deceased. to Hiram Clement of this county.
Mr.. Brown purchased the property at the
public sale on the 9Th, for a. 9GO.
Whom woman combs her back hair
into two ropes, holds one in her mouth
until she winds the other upon her tuck
comb, and then finds that she has lost her
las. hair pin, she feels that the sex needs
two mouths-one to hold the hair in and
the other to make remarks with.
The Hayes Quartette concert, at Odd
Fellows Hall, deserved a better audience
than the weather allowed it. The quar-
tette is good, the selections popular, and
the acting humorous. We doubt not. that
under favorable circumstances, a full house
would welcome their performance.
A number Of tramps passed through
town, this week, representing themselves
to be oystermen who had been engaged in
the lower part Of the bay, when the rivers
closed up, and they report terrible suffer
ing among their number in their eudeavor
to get home to some Of the northern cities.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shippers. wife of the
late Jesse ii. Shippers, who resides near
Union Meeting House, in this county, met
with painful accident, on Sunday even
ing last. While returning from church.
she siipped upon the ice and fell, disiocat-
ing her hip. She is suffering much, but is
slowly recovering.
Tho young merchant of West End was
badly sold. few days ago, by purchasing
bundle of rags from female customer.
He paid full value for the packet. and
after the departure of the fair one, lie cx-
plored the inmost recesses of said hupdI.
and his search was rewarded by the discov
cry Of number of brickbats snugly packed
in. He wasn't pleased bit, tits said.
Mr.. Harrison Clark, who has been in
our town As the agent for the Singer Sew
ing Machine Company, resigned that posi-
tion several weeks ago, and this week took
the travelling agency for the improved
Wheeler x Wilson sewing machine, ON
the Ezatern Shore ~ N.,,Ia,i ,nJ l..