The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-09-11
"REMINISCENCES.
MEN AND THINGS OF LONG AGO.

MEN AND THINGS OF LONG AGO
What is the population Of EiNtun now
When left therein the Fail of 1919, thinl
it could not have exceeded 800. There wa
one long street from east tn west, which wa
not very straight. suppose it is yet
On the north side OF it WAS the Fountain
Inn. Just west was Il hinge stable with
door on the east side, near the corner; thcr,
WAS none on the street. have been toll,
by Il gentleman lately there. that this is now
converted to other uses. Just opposite wa:
a frame house, two stories high. Here my
father, Capt. Sample, lived several years
On the north side OF the street, west of III,
stone structure, stood an ancient two-storN
brick house, called the Rudolph house, which
| frontcd on the street, with four large. room:
below and a hall: also the same above. Ii
| this building the Elkton Bank commenced
business about 1915. On the west side wa.
| the cellar door; from that door you cOult
see on the street west 10 where the roaG
made Il bend, some half mile distant lit
tie northward. There existed i'll my boy
hood days this legend, that on the retreat
of our forces in the Revolutionary war from
Virginia to New Jersey, followed closely by
the British, some of our bows We're in this
Rudolph house filling their clnteenS with
Wine The British pretty soon appeared nj
that tnrn of the road, where one Holdings.
worth lived, and our boys had to increase
their speed iii getting away. | remember
| that during the war of 1872 met Il detach-
ment of Towson's artillery, under command
of Major George +. Mitchell, on their way
to the frontier. / remember well the i'm
| posing appearance of Col.-then Major
| Mitchell He was, | think, over six feet in
height, and made Il very fine looking soldier
rs he sat on his horse i'll full dress uniform.
| remember well what an impression he
made upon my boy mind. l don't wonder
that Miss Hooper, after the war, surren-
dered to him, if she saw him under such
circumstances rs | did. Those We're eXcit-
ing times, and even now when think of all
that the British Government sought TO I'M
pose upon the Americans, my old blood,
even now at eighty years of age, impclS me
to think but little of England. She is sut-
ferlng now, and will suffer more. in attempt
ing to impose upon the weak. During the
excitement, caused by the war; we had stir
ring times. / remeinb cr that in the early
/ part ol the war there was Il company from
Lancaster, Pa. quartered in the dwelling
| house attached to Whann'S mill property
1t was a two story frame house, and stood
/ across Il fOur-acrc lot as yOu Went across the
lot TO the mill. | remenberit so distinctly,
because my good mother sent me so often to
carry garden vegetables to the soldiers there
( They We're there for sometime There was Il
large body of Pennsylvania troops quartercd
at henhett Square 4 post i'll that State On
Bulls Mountain, near the confluence of the
SuSquehanna and Elk rivers n watch was
kept over the British fleet for perhaps fifty
miles down tie bay. Their ships lay there,
and from thence they sent their hargeS up
the small streams to do their devilment.
They had the control Of the mouth of the
Chesapeake bay, and it was from their ships
that they sent their bargcS 10 destroy the
city of Washington, which ought to bring
the blush to every intelligent and Christian
EngliShmau'S cheek to-day. At the point
spoken Of" Bills Point, :" as it was called,
Il lookout was kept, and :. chain OF vedetteS
was established from that point 10 kennett
Square, where the body of PENNSYLVANIA
miles from Bulls Mountain or Turkey Point,
and as there were no telegraph lines then
known, word was sent every hour To this
body of troops in Pennsylvania. The We
detteS We're sent every hour, and the Vctiettr
stations being ten miles apart, each one had
it to make i'll an hour, if there was danger
apprehcnded. have often seen thoS, men
come to the Fountain Inn, i'll Eiiton, the
sweat in Il stream running from their horses.
ia IA r,..rf
Square. After the enemy'S signal defeat at
North Point and Fort Mclirnry, at Balt-
more, they withdrew in great disgust. |
am Il man, and an American ut that, and
when two nations 20 to war, and Eng land is
one Of them, my feelings will he against
her Those who live long enough TO see it,
will yet see England wiped ont from among
the best of nations | am hut a man. ! feel
rs Il man, and | would not he sorry ii Eng
land was bio;ted out i'll my lifetime. God
Is Just.
| was about to remark about the popula-
ZION of Elkton ,Whcn got off on these old
matters. IThere WAS but one principal
street i'll Elkton. There was what was called
Back street, but it had no beginning or end
ing. 1t ran east by west. Then there was
cross street from the west side of the court
house, which ran north by the jail, and then
out towards Gilpin'S, i'll the country. Then
there was 4 street from the bridge past the
old Market house and Tobias Rudolph'S out
into the country. There was Il short street
leading to the church Il little east of the new
Bank. What Il faculty memory is. | sit
here and in nv mind man ont Elktnn as if
was when | was a boy. | world like to
know what has become of all the bows and
girls used TO know | think that .J;cnh
Howard * tb.re Int ,vbera ara ,ba otb.rs >
| recollect Jim Pugh, Isaac Wilson, John
Miles, Samuel Groome George kenner, and
Dick Peacock / think that when I last
saw Isaac Wilson, he was inclined to be
religious. but what il resulted in do not
know remember that, when a hov going
to school, used 10 pass II part of the back
ward of the court housr. and cnull the spa
nillorv and the wlinninm most am of the
nuiuiou that after Mi thai is said nhnut the
barbaritv of the lash. il is he to commended
think can count the houses ON the north
side of Main street from the east to the court
house. i;e"inninu with William Alexau-
der. next was old John Anderson. who kent
a kind of shop for candy and the like. his
stood alone. Then next cam. Robert .Johu's
cabinet shon: then John Golfer store. Then
Purnell's tavern followed by DR.. Mitrhell's
shop: then next was Peter miles beer and
cake shop: then two houses Next. | think.
was the old Black Rock tavern, kept by a
Wilson: then came the new Bank, followed
by a LARGE LOT: next came Vim IInword,s.
then an allcy. closed with n uote. Then I'll.
residence of il.xan,lcr Sro,t7 and then nd
Joining was SCOTS store: tl,rI, an alley RIM
ming to Scott 4 Richardson's stare stable.
Then came Il dwelling and store housr that
was occrpird about the wear 1877 bv Rev. j
Sharpley as a dwelling and store house. fol-
lowed Lv the Eountoiu Inn. thnu :, st,,r.
pat. going into the stables; thrn ,hr nld
stone stable. then came the old nudolph
b,,,., ~, RI. ,,.ut .iln Of ,,.b;.I stj ,Ln