The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-01-11
Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR rnE CECIL WIG.

mad up their accounts.
Mis-. Aun D.nuy. OF Smyrna, DoiA
ware. celebrated hcG i0ist m.ih-day oa
New Years day
The County Commissioners. Orphans
Court and School commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next. lltn instant.
Rev Harrison Clark will preach at
Crouch's Chapel. on tomorrow Sabbath
cordially invited.
The second course of ornamental pen
manshin and bookkeeping. 10y Prot T.. C.
Collins, viii begin in the Elktca Academy.
on Monday evening next.
Attend the auction sale Of general
merchandise. by James Mckinney. At Little
Elk. on next "Wednesday and Saturday
evenings. 18TH ard iS'h inst.
The mills If the Elk Mills Company,
ou the Great Elk, werr Obliged I" quit
work during part Of the late spell ri cold
wea,hc, on accoun; Of the ice.
During the trial of Waters, a country
man. while passing along the street WAS
heard to say, that hr believed II was ! ease
of wilfui aud prcafdicafsd murder.
There will he preaching d. ' At the
house Of Nj. b. b. Sweet, miles north
west Of North East, by Rev. ". Vi. Parry,
ON "Wednesday evening next, 10Th instant.
john L. Brown, E,q Of Eik;on, has
an umbrella that formerly belonged To his
father-iu-law. which has been in use atty
years. and is in good state Of preserva-
tion.
Stephen Bayard coioted was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Jinuey, and committed
to jail on Friday last, charged wiki steal
ing horse from Geo. ". KILLER om the
2ni instant.
There will b. two days meeting held
1t Havre de Grace, on the ISL. and 18Th
inst, in Auders"n's Institute. Four ser
mons will be delivered on sunday. The
Elk,on Choir will he present.
i. II. Morgan. who is a sIca; aimiIer
of iine hogs, and knows now TO raise and
fatten them. slaughtered one on Monday
last that weighed jl3 pounds, it being the
lar.es. hog slaughtered in EIk;on CT S,oiu-
i,y this season.
J. Il. Ash, luciinneer for w !. .lonrs
Attorney for the heirs of Jethro J. McCul-
Tough, on the .ih inst, near tie village Of
North East. sold farm containing 3i4
acres to George Mccullough, SON OF the
deceased. for s79os.
Charles Reckefus, a bright little boy,
son of W. X. Reckefus. Esq aged about
l. months, while playing with another
child, on Sunday morning, accidentally fell
and struck one OF his hands against a hot
stove, which burned ii severely.
The exhibition of the Cherry Hill sun.
day School. Wednesday evening last,
was well attended. and the exercises H.
iiccted much credit on the school and its
managers. The programme viii Toe re-
peatcd this saturday evening, and we
can assure all who attend pleasant even
Ing's entertainment.
Billy Allen, who has been with J. {.
Davis as u jou;neymau barber for some
time, has rented shop at ChSrry Hill,
where he will commence business for him
self on Tuesday next, when the people OF
that place aud vicinity can boas; of hayin.
As good barber as any tina: eve. handled
razor aud scissors.
There is no simple or better Temed :
for fEos; bites than the following: Extract
TIE frost 10y the application Of ic, water til
the frozen part is vIiable, avoiding all art;
,.cial heat; then apply saiye made nj
equal parts Of hogs lard and guupowdes,
rubbed together until il forms paste. and
very soon the frozen parts will be we'll
On Thursday morning last. as Mrs
Henry Warner, residing al Wcs,ainwc.I
Mills was going on; uf her bacl, door mao
the yard. she slipped on the ice and fell 10
the ground. striking the back of her head
so badly that she had to be carried into the
house. She is now fast recovering. Mr
Warner fortunately was neat her when she
fell.
The members of Elktou Grange, Pa
irons Of Husbaudry, met at their room. in
Odd Fellows Hall. on Saturday last. and
after the transaction of the usual routine
business, partook of a sump;uouS entertain,
Inent to which many of their friends had
been invited, few of which, however. a..
teuded owing 10 the intense GOODNESS of til,
weather.
The Colored Teachers Union Of Cecil
and adi AGENT counties met in Port Deposit.
on the ith instant, in the Colofcd VI T.
Church. The meeting was opened 0y sing.
ing and prayer by j. II. Manley, PIesideu;
Of The Association. The various commit.
tees made their reports and the meetiu.,
was success IN every way. The Associa.
ton " III meet in Elkton, on June ls,
MIR. Thomas Il. Boulder. an old resi-.
dent of Back Creek Neck. died near Glas
cow, on New Years eve. lie was an aged
man. and one of the last surviving specta
tors of the burning Of Frcnchtown by the
British in the war of lsl2-i. His father
was captain of 4 company at the same time
AT Welsh Point. aud heard the English bull.
lets whistling through the pines there
Last Saturday night, as Justice Foard
was returning home from his office. lie
found tramp nearly frozen to death on
tue street, near the Episcopal Church. aud
thinking II womld cost the county less to
keep him all night in Jail than to hold an
inquest upon his dead body. very kindly
committed him to jail till the next nom
ing, when he went on his way rejoicing.
The rain Of Wednesday night and
Thursday morning thawed the ice and
raised the water in the creek to such an
extent that the ice was carried away prob
ably into the bay. as none Of 1t is vissbl,
near the town. But little damage was
done, except that couple of small row
boats were carried down the river. Thu,,
persons who have ice huu>es had filled
them. and few regretted the disappearance