The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.
The fair begins next Wednesday

yersary next week.
lacks "booby owl" proved to be
"mouser and nothing more.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
on Tuesday next.
Mr. John Lungren will run his stag,
between Elkton and Lewisville twice eacl
day during he fair.
Don't fail to come and hear Col Web
ster, at the Hall, on Friday evening next
He is 4 fine speaker.
The Groome Guards will be in Balti
more on the 10Th, to take part in the mill
tary part of the celebration.
The marble-playing nuisance has beel
resumed again on our streets by the small
boys, both white and colored.
-Chinquepins nearly rs large as chest
nuts We're for sale in town this week. They
were grown in Sassafras Neck.
-Haywood's MINISTRIES were not well at
tended at the Hall, last week, not over
hundred persons being present.
-Tearfully our Democratic friends will
wash off the name of Shaw from the sig,
over the entrance tn the club room.
Two Elktcn youths observed last Sabbath
by fsot racing on the fair ground track
They had better been al Sabbath school
-Elkton was visited by Il refreshing rair
on Monday night. The streams have beer
revived and the millers are now happy
Wild geese are beginning to travel
South, several fiocks having already beer
observed. This looks like an early Winter
Of the Oxford soft soap yarn, the young
lady says, Its no such 4 thing" and tina,
she can "soft soap" the originator of the
story.
Farming must pay \ fashonably
observed on a load of straw driving through
town, on Thursday.
Rev Lewis II. Jackson, of Caroline
county, formerly of this town, paid visi
this week to Union Lodge, No. As, a. f. 4
A. NJ, of this town.
Mr.. Dick Maxwell is thechampion shell
loader of Elkton. He has kept our sports
men in ammunition this season. This con.
sumed many thousand shells.
A large quantity of Wrightsvile lime
has been unloaded at our wharves this week
1t is transported in canal barges and used
upon land in this neghborhood
The Elkton boys came off victorious in
their contest with the Newark College Club
on the grounds of the former, on Saturday
afternoon last, by a score of 90 to II.
Rev DR.. A. a. Willis, well known in
this county as popular lecturer, resigned,
on Tuesday, the pastorate of the West Arch
Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
Tuesday was the final day of regstra-
ton of voters. In this district, forty new
names were added to the list, eleven trans
dead
Unless there be extraordinary caution
taken, some one will in all probability be
killed by the cars at one of the crossings
near the depot during the progress of the
fair next week.
The Elkton Band was engaged by the
Lewisville Democratic Club to accompany
them to the big meeting at Oxford, OH We'd
nes,iay. They had pleasant time, even
thou Oh the grt,ad meeting was small
About the last of the rail shooting was
-. a.,
The largest bag was eighty birds. 1t is
generally thought that the birds are now SC
closely killed off that no more big punches
will be gathered this season.
Herbert, a four-year old son of Mr..
Dunbar Morgan, of this town, died. on
Thursday night, of membranous Group
Mr.. Charles Shippers, residing near West
amwell school house, also lost a child by
the same disease, on Wednesday night
We had the pleasure of meeting Mr..
Alexander Bechofer, of the Wilmington
Daily Necs, in our town, ON Wednesday.
Mr.. b. is an extremely pleasant gentleman.
He will be on hand during the fair looking
after the interests of the paper he repre-.
sents.
Cards are out for grand hop at Odd
Fellows Hall, on the evening of the 18th
instant Three hundred invitations will be
issued. Richie will furnish the music.
An unusually pleasant time is anticipated
The management is in good hands and
gives this promise.
I'm old T So
owned by G. Washington Holt, while har,
ves.ing last Summer, the reaper passed ove1
number of partridge nests. The eggs were
counted and found to number 1O6. The
crows seemed to follow the reaper and hence
the scarcity of the birds later in the season.
We are pleased to note the good fortune
of Mr.. James Sterling, one of our Elkton
milk suppliers. From the estate of al
uncle he will receive quite a sum of money
aggregating in the whole some $1,000. H,
has already had a check for nearly a thou
sand dollars and is looking for the reman
der. We congratulate him.
While our town was in darkness for
few moments, on Saturday night. from ;
slight arrangement at the gas works, /:
large hog entered n store on Main street
and found his way back to the countin.
room. Where he came from is wonder
and he wouldn't tell-as our streets ar
generally free from such folks.
"A very singular occurrence is reported
by a friend residing in the Neck. He tell
us that this Summer he came across til,
nest of partridge or quail, upon whicl
was sitting small hen belonging to him
When he drove her off he found in the mes
half a dozen partridge and two hen eggs
Evidently the hen had driven away the oil
bird and taken possession of the nest
An Elk Neck farmer tells hard stor
of one of Elkton's sportsmen. He says tn
sport took ground shot at a covey of par
dred yards of his house, and massacre
seven-eighths of them. This is the reaso
why SO many farmers advertise agains
gunners.
School was out, and the Principal ,
our Academy had nothing to do on Wed
neSday afternoon, so he concluded to joi
the Elkton Band and go to the Oxford NEE
ing, and blow the bass drum. SO 4
did blor tie big drum, and, it's said, he mad
the sheepskin stretch and gave the big drur
stick the headache.
The Elkton night school is in prospc
GUS condition. The use of profanc and WI
gar language, chewing and smoking an