The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

IOOIlI Dill lJIO.
Circus.
Dry and dusty.
Camp meetings.
Moonlight nights.
made.
DR.. J. II. lamar and wife are visiting
friends in Chicago.
Strawberry plants can now be set out
for the coming season.
The cool nights of the past week are
more like September than August.
Next to the "road to destruction" the
Elkton and North East road carries off the
palm.
In consequence of the Free Methodist
camp, Westamwel Sunday school will not
hold tomorrow.
A fishing party from Lincoln Univer-
sity visited Frenchtown, on Friday week,
and were very successful.
The exhibition of the Chester County
Agricultural Society (West Chester) will
be held September 23rd, oath, and 18th.
Hon. J. A. j. Creswell arrived safely at
Queenstown, on last Friday week, after a
pleasant passage of nine days on the steamer
Gala.
The peach is a native of Persia. The
man who brought it to this country might
have known enough to leave the stone be-
hind.
S. j. Price-yours truly-is moving
around lively among the peaches, cante-
loupes and watermelons near the Hive in
the Hollow.
The new Protestant Episcopal chapel
in Elk Neck is rapidly approaching COM
pletion and will probably be finished in
September.
Rev. VIM. Schouler will preach at ST.
Augustine's church, Bohemia Manor, on
Sunday afternoon next. Services at half
past three o'clock.
Martha Garrett, colored female, was
arrested, on Thursday, by Constable Foard
and held under bail for using obscene Ian
Rev. Orr Lawson, of Oxford Presbyte-
rian Church, will exchange pulpits next
Sunday with Rev. j. II. Johns, of Zion
Presbyterian Church.
There is vacant scholarship in the
Baltimore Female College, which will be
filled by an appointment from this county
by the Orphans Court.
The Rev. Father Donaghy, who has
been in charge of the Catholic Church here
since October, 1873, has been transferred to
st. Joseph's Church, Brandywine.
The peninsula last week sent about l..
100000 baskets of peaches to market, three
tifths going to New York and Boston, the
remainder to Baltimore or Philadelphia.
"A well-cooked breakfast will do more
towards preserving peace in the family than
Will seven notices on the wall, even though
they be framed in the most elaborate of gilt.
The record of the Stickney family dates
back siXty-fiye years-twenty-five in the
Old World and forty in the New-without
blemish or blot on their escutcheon of
fame.
On Monday next, Bailiff Shockey with
his workmen, will commence laying the
pavement on High street from North t.
Milburn streets. This is much needed i'm
provement.
"A young man sent twenty-five cents tc
New York firm for the purpose of learn
ing "how to get along without blotter il
writing" and received this reply: "Writ,
with lead pencil''
The Postmaster General calls attention
to the fact that cards with one cent STAMP,
stuck upon them are not postal cards, ant
they will not be allowed to pass through
the mails hereafter.
An "Overworked Merchant" ask.
How shall l centrive to get my mind of
business?" o, that's easy enough. Sto,
advertising, and you will have no business
to engross your mind.
Hon. Henry Vanderford, State Senator
OF Carroll county, and formerly editor o
The Cecil Democrat, visited Ekton thi
week, looking as well as he did when h
lived here twenty years ago
The remains of Mrs. Sarah Lilly, for
merly of New Leeds, recently of Whining
ton, We're inferred at Cherry Hill, on las
Wednesday. She died in Wilmington, o
consumption, and was about sixty-five year
OF age.
The Sunday school connected with tn
Union NJ. f. Church will hold u festival TO
the purpose of replenshing their library OF
Wednesday afternoon and evening" the 2:jtl
instant, if the day is fair; otherwise on tn
next fair day.
Mrs. Sarah Plssmore, widow of the lat
Judge Benjamin J. Passmore, of Cheste
county, Pa, died at her residence in Yves
Chester on Monday last. Her remains wer
Inferred III the Friends burying ground a
Il. NJ. House, on Thursday.
Colonel George r. Howard was stricken
with paralysis last Sunday morning, sine
which time he has lost the use of his RICH
side and has been speechless. The Colonel
Though eIghty-four years of age, has bee
quite hearty until recently.
Der, arrived at Annapolis, on Wednesday OF
the Tycoon, Captain Samuel j. Keys. Tn
clnb LETT Elkton on Monday and has been t
Oxford, Bay Ridge and will return home OF
Saturday. baltimore IeraM.
What has become of Captain Brown
"A young lady from Newark, while Grail
bling near Frenchtown recently, was caugh
by the foot by one of the crabs lying in til
bottom Of the boat, which frightened her s.
badly that she jumped overheard. But TIN
water being shallow. she sustained 10 in
jury.
james and Mary White, two tramps
who represent themselves rs husband and
wife, and who had been loafing around Por
Deposit for some days, were committed t.
Jail by Justice Beach, of that place, oil
Monday. If we have been correctly inform