The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

LOCAL BRlEFS.
There were six pic-nics and fishing
parties at Locust Point, last week.
The School Commissioners intend to-
build school house on Bulls mountain, in
Elk Neck.
The County Commissioners, Orphans
Court and School Commissioners will meet
on Tuesday next.
Local Option is booming at Zion. At
least three-sourths of the voters in this COM
munity are in favor Of voting no license.
r. B. Frazer has nearly completed 4
neat and substantial stable on the premises
of his mother, opposite the Presbyterian
Church.
The Temperance Society and Band of
Hope will hold their ninth annual jubilee
at the Christian Chapel, near Chestnut Hill,
on Thursday, Goth instant.
Thomas Jordan (coored) while in
dulging in the sport of angling with hook
and line, one day this week, caught a
swordish, which measured about foot in
length.
Good secondhand Howe Machines, $40:
Singer, So; new ones, $50 and upward, ac-
cording to style and finish. All kinds re-
paired. John Wilkinson, sewing machine
man, Elkton..
The excursion to Atlantic City was so
popular and successful that another one will
be given. 1t will start on Monday, the 23rd
instant, and return the next day. Full par
ticulars next week.
Peaches are by no means plenty in thej
orchards near Elkton. Mr. Samuel II. NIiV
Ter, on the Marley road, has the best crop of
which we know. They sell for forty cents
a basket in the orchard.
Mr.. r. &. Logan, who resides near
North East, left curiously formed bunch
of fine apples at this office, the other day,
but we regret to say they were unripe and
consequently not fit to eat.
Theodore X. Stubs, Esq, nephew of
the late DIR. Slater b. Stubs, of Rising
Sun, who for some time past has been
practicing law in Oxford, Pa, we under
stand, will be a candidate to represent the
Southern district of Chester county in the
Legislature.
We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Morris < Son, which
may be seen in another column. Having
used one of their heaters during the last
Winter with entire satisfa ction, it gives us
pleasure to recommend them to our friends
and the public.
The first temperance meeting of the
present campaign was held in the Elkton
NJ. E. Church, on Thursday evening Rev.
Vaughan Smith and G. A. Blake, Esq, adj
dressed the meeting, which, considering the
shortness of the notice that was given, was
well attended.
While the excursion to Atlantic CITY
was passing through Jersey last Saturday,
vote was taken on the train for the next
President, which resulted in Garfield re-
ceiving lsl and Hancock 125 votes. Neal
Dow received one vote. About a hundred
refused to vote.
Samuel F. Scarr, a well known and
industrious colored man, died at his resi-
dence, in Elkton, on Thursday last, from
the effect of sickness superinduced by the
heat, few weeks ago, while working in
the harvest field. His funeral will be held
at Providence Church, tomorrow, at p. NJ.
A new town which has recently spruno
up in Dakota, along the line of the Winona
and ST. Peter Railroad, has been named
Elkton, in honor of the native place of
II. Rudolph Mccullough, who is general
freight and ticket agent of that road. The
town is i'll the midst of as fine a farmino
country as there is in the world.
-Elkton Grange, No. 145, p. of H., have
chartered the palace steamboat Kevpor.
and Will give an excursion from Claws
Landing to Colchester and Annapolis. on
thursday, the 10Th instant This will
prooaoiy lie the last excursion of the season
from this place down the Bay and nc
doubt will be very enjoyable affair.
we Gail the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of j. O. A. Holloway
'he originator and pioneer manufacturer OF
Excelsior AMI Ammoniated Phosphate
MI Holloway has been engaged in the
manufacture of those fertilizers in Ralti-
more since 1858. They have been largely
used III this county and have given univer
sal satisfaction.
Last Thursday evening, while Harry
NarShbank, accompanied by lad about II
years OF age, son of NJ. l.. Realev. wer,
loading ice at the ice house near the ,lenot
'he morse ran off and passing down tn,
street ran up on the bank near PARTRIDGE
'''oie ana upset the wagon. Young Real,
WIS thrown against the fence, but escape,
with slight injury.
AT meeting of the Directors of til
agricultural Society, held on Tuesday last
IL was decided to secure the ground for IL
iair from Mr.. a. G. Tuite a committe
was appointed to visit other fair ground
with view of obtaining information on tn
subject of the erection of the necessar
buildings, nc The directors will meet i
Elkfon on Tuesday next, 10th instant.
Reuben Lake, near Back Creek mil
showed us last Tuesday, what to all appear
ance was Il full grown and matured peacl
Int which he assured us grew on a queen
apple tree in his orchard Many years az
Mr. Lake grated the tree from a small twi.
OF which this '"s"s natu"e plucked, an
what is most singular about the matter
that there is no peach trees within sever:
hundred yards of the tree upon which
grew.
-" Harris, the colored orator. who wa
to have spoken in this town last Saturda,
bnt didn't, held forth to motley crowd i
the City Hall, at Wilmington, one night i
she early part of the week, and came ne;
being mobbed by his colored brethren VIII
appeared to recognize him as Il first elias
humbug. He was escorted to the depot
trio of policeman, and shaking the du
oil his feet, departed in the next train, full
convinced that b. was not competent to r