The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-01-31
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Awful roads-so every body says.
The song of the bluebird is heard in the
land.
About this time look out for snake
stories.
Hoist your windows and let the sun
penetrate your dwellings.
No matter how poor man is he can
keep dog and smoke Il pipe.
-How's the peach prospect? Something
on that subject is now in order
Next to wife, the easiest thing for 4
poor man TO get, is to get in debt.
The Methodist congregation at North
East speak of building new church.
1T is said that new parsonage will be
built in the near future on Charlestown cir
cult.
The ladies' realized 500 from the sup
per given, last week, for the benefit OF the
Presbyterian church.
No amount of training will teach dog
to sit in front of 4 baker shop while his
master is in a saloon.
The proper way to check SANDER is to
despise it. Attempt to overtake and refute
it, and it will outrun you.
REV. j. b. Mann, of Wilmington Con-
ference, will probably be transferred to the
Central Pennsylvania Conference.
Straw berries are quoted in Philadel-
phia at $3.50 quart They are not given
as dessert at twenty-five cent dinners.
The Town Commissioners deserve the
thanks of the travelling community for the
improvement recently made upon North
street.
The noisy nickel makes more fuss than
\ ten dollar note in contribution box, but
it does not do so much good in the line of
charity.
The Teachers Association meets in Port
Deposit on Saturday, February 7th at 1.30
p. NJ. Prof. NJ A. Newell is expected to be
present.
The remains of Patrick Collins, who
died of cancer of the face, on Friday of
last week, were inferred in the Catholic
graveyard, on Sunday.
municipal government-tve commissioners,
the bailiff elective, &c. Let us have the
reform. 1t can't be worse than it is now.
We arc sorry to hear of the serious i'll
ness of j. w. Clayton, Esq, who for some
time past has been suffering from Bright's
disease, and is now lying dangerously i'll at
his residence, in Baltimore.
The Hive in the Hollow is still in a
tiourishing condition; notwithstanding the
fact that the King Bee occasionally visits
the Hole-in-the-Wa the workers keep
things running at the Hive.
Aunt Caroline McCabe was buried on
Sunday last in accordance with the rituals .
of the Societies of Daughters of Samaria
and American Union Circle, of each of /
which she was worthy member.
A mall and woman were in town, OIL
Monday night and Tuesday, engaged in the
umbrella business. Contrary to the uSages
and traditions of this species of tramp,
they rode in dearborn, which was drawn
by Il blind horse
Rev. l.. c. Matlack, ID. D., Presiding
VI w blSlTlct, Will start I
next week for Cincinnati, to attend the
annual meeting of the Book Committee,
which meets in that city on February 10Th
He will be absent about ten days.
The February term of the Circuit .
Court for Hartford county, commences at
Belair, on next Monday week, February,
9th, when the case of Welde rs. Scarborough,
removed from this county, and also the case
OF State rs. Scarborough, will be tried
i. d. Carter Esq, proprietor of the
Cecil paper mill, is placing new machine,
with an old and rather odd name (for it is
called devil, " as we have been informed) .
in his mill. 1t is designed to clean old
paper, preparatory to its being worked over.
Henry H. Gilpin, of Elkton, formerly
recording clerk under A. W. Mitchell. ESQ,
has been appointed private secretary to the
Hon. Hiram Mccullough, Speaker of the
House of Delegates, and entered upon the
discharge of his duties, at Annapolis, on
Thursday last.
There Will be an oyster supper in Jack .
sons Hall, near Principle Furnace, Tues
day evening, February srd given by the
ladies of st. Marks Episcopal Church, the
proceeds to be used in the purchase of a /
new organ for the church. Supper only 40 (
cents and served from to II p. NJ. !
Some of the Elkton huntsmen visited !
Pencader Hundred, on Thurs lay last. ex-
pecting to meet some of their friends from
Glasgow and have fox hunt They failed
to find the former, but succeeded in startinp :
a fox on their own account, which, after !
fine chase, was earthed, near the Summit
Bridge.
The first of the series of lectures by the |
Rev. John Lord, LII. D., on Queen Eliza
beth, or Woman as a Sovereign, will be de-
livered in the Hall, in this town, on next
Friday evening. The other lectures are as
follows: Peter the Great, or the Russian |
EMPIRE Frederick the Great, or the Prus- |
sian Empire; Napoleon Bonaparte, or til. |
French Empire.
R. {. Lewis, proprietor of the Glass
Front, has had the ceilings of that estab-
lishment handsomely frescoed and the wood
work revarnished, which gives the interior
VI 'ic '"ii'iie lullc as handsome an
pearance as the recent improvements have
given the exterior The frescoing was done
by Mr.. Charles Rowley, of Philad-lpbia
who was assisted by our local artist, Mr..
Perry Litzenberg
Two children, aged two and four wears
respectively, daughters of Mr.. George +.
Holmes, of Queen Anne's county, and
grandchildren of Rev. Samuel Logan. Of
Charlestown, while visiting 4 relative, near
bell Hill, recently, are supposed to have
contracted the diphtheria At all events
they were siezed with that disease soon
after their return home, and both died in
the early part of last week.
The truth of the assertion that q cat has |
nine lives was strikingly illustrated at the
depot, last Wednesday night, when a wan.
dering feline was run over by the Wasbipr-
ton express, which broke two of its legs
Seeing the pitiful plight of poor puss. n bu- /
name bysfander, with the intention of end /
Ing Its suffering fred six shots At il from
his revolver, and failing to kill the moor
animal, was obliged To despatch if with an /!