The Cecil Whig., 1881-01-29

; ;,4urr>i,y, on bow street. Thra pm at birds
| Nere uuduuhte.lly driven to til, II .ighhor-
| Ii ,od nt town by hunger, and had "'rn here
| tor several davs. There are NV" n three
cnveys of quail being fed on the 'n'tsklttS
of town and 10 prevent them ina>in.- i meal
off these birds they We're Shot.
| -One day this week, while our fellow
town<man, Mr.. Joseph Wells, was serving
his customers with candies i'll North East,
Il party of juvenile thieves carved i'll ebony,
made Il raid on his wagon. n few deter
mined words shouted at the sramperinG
rascals bruu.rht them to terms and restored
| the stolen couiectionS
-Di,tressng-A young lady at church,
rhe other evening, was rudely startled from
! pleasant dreams by an embarrassing occur
renee. She was sitting during prayer with
her forehead resting upon the back of the
pew in front of her, no doubt pleasantly
meditAting, when her hat became detached
! from her other head gear and went roaming
over the floor The rolling tile was cap
tured and a smile was Sm"le by Ill! around.
Harlan Brothers' mills were stopped for
Il day or two recently hy the breaking Of u
/ shaft. The damages have been required,
and they are now running rs usual. BY
! the introduction of the patent diving process
these mills are now being run all the year
$round. Up to within year or tw" they
were run only in the warm seaSon-the
| boards being dried in the sun. The bind
ers' boards male at these mills are OF first
quality, and find ready sale and command
the highest prices.
An Eikton gentleman. while walking in
! the country, the other day, saw among Il
number Of per>immon trees on all OF which
, there was fruit, Il very small one, not more
than three feet high. literally covered with
persimmnns. Il was so rare a sight that h"
conclried 10 dig it up and transplant it in
! his garden. When he went ont the next
day after it, armed with pick and shovel, he
found that his supposed tree WAS fraud,
tthat some boys while at play had tied the
2, fruit to a Young shoot. He came home
without his simmons.
On Thursday, George Gearsley was fined
Zone cent and costs by Justice Foard for
Main street, his former employer. Mr..
! GearSlry, who had been for some time past
Lcl-rking for Mr.. Liehtrman, WAS day or
: two ago discharged and paid off. He how
ever, according to the testimony OF Mr..
! Li-berinan, refused to 90, and notwithstand-
l.; 1nn -l,n
! iSes, would not 20. A. a last resort, Mr.. L..
complained to the Justice, with the above
result The case was appealed by Gearsley 5
n counsel, and will be heard at the next term
of court.
OF all places in the world to break into
Il printing Office is the last, yet that is just
| what happened the Republican office last
Monday night. y few tritling articles were
! S,oleu-aS if 4 printer ever owned anything
else-alnong which was II towel, (Standng
up i'll one corner) and an iron shooting
stick. Poor devils, how we SympathiZe
| with them when they discovered what i
water haul they had made. Had we been
in the Office we should have remained pas
sive, like the old man when his wife aroused
him and told him there We're robbers in the
house, said, "let them alone, if they find
anything, We'll get up and take 1t from
them-Hurre Republican.
a sporiive Elk:on gentleman, tired OF
sleighing and skating, and voting both
more labor than sport, conceived the idea of
making an ice boat of himself. To this end
he rugged himself out with sails, sparS,
ropes stays, &C., little donbting but that,
like Capt. Boynton, he could be his own
canoe, and give all the slow goers on skates
the 90 hy He failed, however, to realize
his dream His feet would get tangled in
the halyarl>, and Just when he ought to
take IN upright position he found himself
like Boynton, on his back, and to sail on ice
in that shape he couldn't. After Il great
deal of effort and expenditure of intellect,
he gave it un, threw his sails TO the dogs,
and struck out on his old bumpers, wiser
if not 4 better man.