The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-10-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.

snails from their wells with the water
North street is dangerous ground fo
chickens. They sometime lose their heads
The Elkton Academy is being treate,
to u new dress of paint, without and within
Residents of east Main street complain
of bowling dogs in the still hours of night
The Town Bailitf has provided an extr;
police force Of four men for duty during til,
fair
Rail birds are said to be numerous il
Miler's swamp, three miles from our river
marshes.
Mr.. Michael Hartnett, who las beer
ill with bilious fever for some time, is con
valeseing.
Rev. Vim. Schouler will hold service al
Baldwin's Chapel, Elk Mills, tomorrow, al
j O'Clock p. NJ
Mr.. John Keaveny, of Port Deposit
has leased stone quarries near Lapidum
Hartford county.
A cargo Of Eastern bay oysters, very
fine, was this week brought to this market
by Capt. Fowler.
1t is said that the Column ba and Port
Deposit railroad is to be extended to Perry
vile at an early day.
An Elk Neck prophet predicts the same
class of weather in October as we have had
during the past month.
-Messrs. Thos. II. Ricketts, and William
Salmon both sold their fast horses in Will
lnington, on Thursday.
More complaint is made of that insight
ficant varmnt, the mosquito, at his time
than we ever heard before. h
Geo. Young, Esq, and family, of Den
Yer, Col, are visiting his mother, Mrs lie.
becca Young, of this town.
The stock of our ice dealers has run
low, and they are now receiving their sup
ply from the Susquehanna.
Frank, the old and valuable carriage
horse of Joshua Clay ton, .Jr., Of the Manor,
departed this life on Sunday.
-Elkton streets showed an unusual num-
of drunken men for Il temperance town, on
Tuesday and Wednesday last
John Wilkinson kindly furnishes a
Shelf piano for the Tournament Hop. This
is dot for the obligiug John.
A new flight of rail birds came to our
marshes this week. They are as is usual
with new arrivals thin in flesh.
Mr.. Joseph l.. Wells new dwelling, on
Howard street, is progressing rapidly: the
frame work is now being raised.
Cornelius Denver, Esq, is lying at the
point Of death, at his residence, two miles
above town. His atfliction is cancer of the
stomach.
A porpoise so large that some persons
who saw it thought it was whale, appear
ed in Elk river this week. He did not get
very far up.
A fine collection of flowers and plants
is made at Mrs. Litzenbergs store, together
with the handsome goods, make an attrac-
tive display.
john Campbell, Esq, one of our oldest
and best known citizens is lying danger
ously i'll. He is not expected to live the
week through
Mrs II. ID. " Howard, of this town,
took first premium at the Middletown fair,
last week, for table cover and door mat of
home manufacture
carpenters and other mechanics are too
few to supply the demand here at this time.
An unusual amount of building and re-
pairing is in progress
The thermometer, on Monday last, at
Erazef's drug store registered go inside the
room and 100 on the porch where the re-
tiected suns rays reached it,
Riddle, the North East butcher, was in
town again on Wednesday, selling best cuts
at l2E cents, roasts at ten cents, and other
pieces us low as eight cents per pound.
A full attendance of Post 10, G. A. r..
is requested on Monday evening next, Oct.
Bird, as business of great Importance is on
hand. j. NJ. ASH. Adiutan.
Jas. T. Mccullough, Esq, sold at
Trustees sale, on Monday, the 10Th inst
the Hughes house and lot, in Sassafras
Neck, TO Mrs. Mary Hannah Tins, for
500.
Albert Constable, Esq, has been mucI,
missed at this term of court He i s,i,,
confined to his room, at Lafayette Hotel.
Philadelphia, where he went for medical
treatment
-IHE us RACE AT THE CECIL CoJ-xTy
FAIR is GUARANTEED TO SHOW THE FAST.
EST TIME EVER MADE IN A RACE OK ,
HALF-MlLE TRACK IN THE STATES OF DEL
AWARE AND MARYLAND.
-Elkton bars have variety of kinds of
cider. One kind sells for three cents ner
glass; another at five cents: and Il third at
ten cents. The latter is known as stone
fence " and makes drunk come quick.
Our dairymen have advanced the nrice
of milk, as they aver, on account of the
drought ami consequent short crop of pas
ture etfectins the quantity of milk. We
haven heard of any pumps going dry.
Mr.. Eugene Jamison, brother of Mr.
Charles JamiSon, of this town. who was
severely injured Ill L railroad accident, on
Long Island, 4 short time ago, is rapidlv
commissioning, at hospital in New York.
Mr.. George Booths new dwelling. OF,
the eastern suburbs of town, is so far com.
pieted as to allow of the painters to begin
work on Thursday. Mr.. Litzenberg has the
contract, Mr.. Thomas Green did the car
penter work.
MIR. a. p. Shockley is champion among
our rail bird shooters. During this season
he has bagged 500 of these birds on fen
tides. The highest number on any one tide
was 2O5 and the lowest ~ Mr.. s. has also
killed several hundred reed birds.
While Mr.. Samuel Smith, residing at
frenchtown, was handling his gun, tine
other day, the piece was by some means ac-
cidentally discharged, and the holder mar
rowly escaped serious injury. Gums are
dangerous without lock, stock or barrel
Tile mourning goods with which the
VI. E. Church is draped is the same used at
the time of the death of President Lincoln.
Mr.. I. c. Crouch had preserved it in good
condition. The ferns used are from Will
ilams College, where President Garfield
graduated
Mr.. Absalom Hyland, of Elk Neck, who
Is now attending court as a witness, has
Just been cured of a carbuncle upon the
back OF MS neck of a very malignant nature.
1T was three mon tbs in healing, leaving the
sufferer partially paralyZed in both arms.
At one time he was not expected to recover.
Mr.. Lewis Barber, in Elk Neck, has a