The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-05-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.

40 cents per hundred.
The strawberry crop has been badly in
jured by the dry weather.
Oxford fair will begin on the 9th of
June and continue three days.
Rev. w. w. Heberton will preach at
Persons Grove tomorrow afternoon at )
o'clock
The p, w. \ b. Il. L. will give an eN-
cursion to Rehoboth beach on Thursday,
May 9th.
On Wednesday last, Joshua Jackson
raised a new frame barn, 30x40 feet, on his
farm near Glasgow.
-Whit-Monday was observed in Elkton
by a holiday in the public schools and ser
vice in Trinity Church.
Rev. a. w. Parry will preach in the
Rolling Mill Bank Church, North East, to-
morrow, morning and evening.
A festival for the benefit of Hopewel
NJ. E. Sabbath school will be held Oh Wood
Lawn camp ground, on the afternoon and
evenings of June 18th and 9TH.
-Creswel Post, No. 10, q. y. r., received
present of a handsome bunting, fro:n John
Wanamaker, this week. Mr. Wanamaker
is making suits for the Post, about sixty in
all.
The fifteenth annual commencement of
the Maryland State Normal School will be
held in the school building in Baltimore, on
Tuesday evening, May 9th, commencing
at o'clock
BY resolution unanimously adopted
ut the last meeting of the trustees of the
Elkton Academy, after the present aca-
demic year no children under twelve years
of age will be admitted.
We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Joseph w. Reynolds,
of Port Deposit, who offers 4 large assert
ment OF agricultural implements and ma
chinery for sale at moderate prices.
Notwithstanding the late cold weather
and frost, there seems to be Il sufficient num-
Of peaches on the trees in this county to
produce a fine CROP if they survive the June
fall, and escape the ravages of the curculio.
We learn from the Oxford Press that
Meeting House, this county, has been
changed to "Calvert." The magnates who
run the post office department thought the
old name too long.
Mr. Samuel McIntire, of Delaware, on
Wednesday last, received pair of full
blooded Berkshire pigs from Beachwood
farm, Indiana, now owned by the Messrs.
Churchman 4 Jackson. These pigs sell for
$50 a pair at the farm.
-Ex-Deputy Sheriff John f. Cooling,
was in town on Wednesday. He recently
returned home from Louisville, kentucky,
where he has resided for some months past,
suffering from an attack of heart disease.
He is now conyaleScent.
On Wednesday last, William johnson
was committed to Jail by Justice Beach, of
Port Deposit, charged with violating the
law against drunkenness passed at the last
session of the Legislature, which nflicts
. fine of one dollar and costs.
The new Building Society at Port De
post, has obtained sufficient numbe OF,
shares to warrant its organization. A
meeting will be held for this purpose this
evening. The legal existence of the society
will commence on the first of June.
We have received the wedding cards
Of Mr.. Frank X. Bacon, formerly of Elkton,
who, as announced in The Wing last Satur-
day, was recently married to Miss Mary
+. Rains, of st. Louis. Missouri We
tender the happy couple our sincere con-
CALCULATIONS.
The ladies of Port Deposit and vicinity
VIII hold festival, i'll Temperance Hall,
for the benefit Of the Association, on next
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Am
pie preparations have been made, and an
abundance of ice-cream and all the delica-
cies of the season will be provided for the
occasion.
Mr.. JOS L. Wells causht-or came
mighty near catching-a Woodcock in his
hat, on Dolly Warden street, on Thursday
evening. The birds were flying around
wildly, looking for water, which has been
scarce in this neighborhood for three months
past. After the tenth of June they will
not be so plenty.
On Friday morning of last week, the
dead body of an unknown man was found
ON the track not far from Perryvile He
had evidently been killed by the train
From evidence found OH his person his name
Is believed to have been Edward NJ. Wolf
He is supposed to have been passenger on
north bound elnigrant train.
Last Monday, a gentleman from the
Barrens, carrying q parcel neatly done
up in brown paper was passing along North
street, when pint flask of whisky suddenly
dropped from the bundle to the pavement
and broke to pieces whereupon the bar
renite exclaimed, with wo, BECOME EXPIRES
sion OF countenance There all that meGi
cine is gone that I bought for that sick
horscr'
Last Monday afternoon, when the walk
Ing mania was at its height, George W.
Alexander Of this town, started to walk to
Newark on wager of So, that he could
cover the distance in one hour. Tie money
was put up and off he started, via of Bell
Hill and Cat Swamp, accompanied by two
gentlemen of the town in buggy, to see
80 . 'Ae 'hiiS litlTly. lie distance
Is SAID to be six miles, and he made il in II
minutes, and returned safe and sound on
the O'Clock train
Mr. John Ward, residing Oh the Mott
ingham road. few miles from Elkton, was
visited, last Monday, by a man representing
himself to be an agent for the sale of tb.
Great English Blood and Bone Phosphate
manufactured at Philadelphia. He offered
10 seHd Mr.. Ward a barrel of the stuff. if he
would take ALI agency for the sale of if
After vanly trying to get Mr.. Ward to
sign an order for several tons of The mix
ture, he departed. He is evidently a swim
dler and should he treated us such
The dry weather seems to he WORKING
IN favor af opr sportsmen, as it is driving
the Woodcock from the high grounds in the
upper part of the county to our marshes.
On Wednesday last whole colony of these
birds passed. oyer town on their way to the
soft grounds of the marsh. A number of
them alighted in town, and on the front
porch OF one uptown house as many rs
seVen at one time. They we're all nearly
iulsgrown birds, and the mouths Of pur
spoftsiaen waterel, but the jaw does not
permit shooting until the tenth Of june, SC
they must be patient.
The remains Capt. Thaddeus S. Smith
Nha Died IN st. Francis, Ill, in April, 1878,