The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-05-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.

fine lot of Spring pigs for sale.
Mr.. John f. Alexander lost a valuable
horse, yesterday, from lock-jaw.
Don't forget the town election on Mon
day next. Polls open at , o'clock.
The Oxford fair will commence on We'd
nesday, the 9th of June, and continue three
days.
Lime for whitewashing and building,
in large or small quantities, for sale by
Davis, Keys < Co.
MIR. Reckefus, the Deputy Clerk of the
Circuit Court for this county, has been busy
all week issuing licenses.
Church tomorrow, morning and evening.
Sabbath school as usual
The new crockery and china store, in
connection with Witworth's North Street
Market, opened yesterday.
The friends of prohibition in Cecil con-
template holding a county temperance CON
vention at Elkton early in June.
Rev. a. W. Parry will preach in the
morning and evening. All are invited.
--EX-Sheritf Boulder, who has been suf
fering from n carbuncle ON the back of his
neck for week past, is now convaleScent
-Forepaugh's great circus passed through
Elkton on its way to Baltimore in II special
train of eleven cars, early on Tuesday morn
ing. =.
-Jno. NJ. Terrell, at the corner High and
Bow streets, will have on sale this morning
fine steer beef, fed by Mr.. Arbuckle. Best
cuts, 16 cents.
MIR. Joseph l.. Wells announces to his
customers and the public that he is selling
the best cuts of beef at the old price, 1917
cents per pound.
Rev. Albert W. Parry will preach at
Crouch's Chapel, tomorrow afternoon, ut
81 o'clock. Sabbath school at 81, o'clock.
Everybody invited.
Yesterday morning the heavens were
festooned by light fieecy cloud that SPAN
ned the sky from the southwestern to the
northeastern horizon and presented very
singular appearance.
Mr.. Clempson, of the FELTON, House,
has been training his young bay horse
g Reckless upon the track at Fair Hill,
this week, preparatory to entering him at
the Oxford fair next June.
Mr. Jacob Rambo, of this town, has
contracted with d. NJ. Mcfarland, Esq, of
West Chester, for the erection of new
dwelling house, to take the place of the one
recently burned on his farm.
Many crabs have been caught in the Elk
River as far up rs Locust Point. Their
early appearance is attributed TO the mild
Winter, it not being customary for them to
visit this latitude before July
Rev. G. Patchen Smith, formerly of the
Democrat office, but recently appointed
junior preacher on the Sudlersville Circuit,
Queen Anne's county, paid a brief visit to
his friends in Elkton this week.
-Messrs. Carhart & Co, Zion, have OPEN
cd one of the finest selections of Medium
Dress Goods they ever offered. Low prices
and superior goods their motto. Look out
for their new advertisement next week
The members of Creswell Post, q. A. t.,
are being nicely uniformed in blue coats
and pantaloons from John Wanamaker's
establishment, Philadelphia, under the aus
pices of his agent, VIM. C. Grow, of Elkton.
"A wandering Italian, who sadly mis-
took his vocation, made our streets resound
with the noise OF what he called Il bag
pipe, on Thursday last. 1t made noise
like a nest of humble bees, which he mis-
took for music.
The annual meeting of the Cecil county
Medical Society will be held in the Odd
Fellows Hall, Elkton, on Tuesday next,
May 18th. The election of officers and other
matters of Importance Will claim the atten-
ton of the members.
-Messrs. VIM. b. Smith. n p. Manlev.
Wescott Lowell, $. II. Miller and Rev. Jas
Mclntire We're elected, on Saturday last
delegates from the Ekton Grange to confer
with the committee Of the Cecil Farmers
Club, with view of having the next an
nual exhibition of the Club at Elkton.
Mr. Falls, mine host of the Howard
House, is the happy owner of a mammoth
rock fish, recently caught at the 'sGridiron''
fishery, on the North East River, by VIM.
wilson. This magnificent specimen of
the tinny tribe weighs 56 pounds, and will
be served up to his guests, Tuesday next.
Mr.. George Cleaver, of Chesapeake CITY.
uled at his residence, in that place, on
Friday, the 23rd instant, after an illness of
several months, aged about fifty wears
leaving widow and three children. His
funeral, which was largely attended, took
place on Sunday afternoon Interment A,
Bethel cemetery.
benjamin Garrett, = Coiored man, IN
the employ of George S. Price, incautiously
attempted to ride one of that gentleman
livery horses through the town, last Sun
day morning, with nothing to guide it but :
halter. The result was that the bors,
frightened at a dog and threw his ride
against curb stone and bruised him pretty
much ali over
Several volumes of the old records n
the Orphans Court, which have been in .
very dIlapidated condition for some time
have recently been rebound by order of tn
court Tbe work was done by the firm {
Newson Curry, of Baltimore, membe
OF which visited Elkton and made the nee
essary arrangements for the work som
time since. On Friday OF last week, T.. T
lamar, Esq, the Deputy Register, took tn
books to Baltimore and returned with then
the same day.
David T. Strickland, formerly of thi
place, but for some time past in the emplo
OF the Harlan x Hollingsworth Company
OF Wilmington, expects to start to .Japal
on the 10th of May. He will be absent
year, engaged in putting up lot of Pull
man palace cars recently shipped to tina
country by the aforesaid company. Nj
Strickland is master mechanic and
nephew of p. G. Strickland, ESD, DOS
master of this town.
-Ex-Sheriff Boulder recently received
letter from Thomas j. Downes, alias Henri
Clark, the young man who was convicte
ut the March term of court, 1879 and SCI
fenced to one year in the penitentary ft
the larceny of an oyercoat from Harriso
Clark. who also boarded ut that time wit
Mrs. Taylor, of this town. requesting hi
TO forward his Oyercoat and some 9th,
clothing to him at WoonSocket Il. |. II