The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-06-18
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ELKTON, JUNE Is, leSt.
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Listen for the sound of the reaper.
Wheat as Il general thing is down HAT.
The rains washed out tue Oxford fair
last week.
Fourth of july is coming. Fire crack
ers are here.
The June term of court commences
next Monday.
-Granite Hall Ten Pin Alley is being re-
fitted and put in good order.
A festival will he held at Bethesda NJ.
=. Church, near Rock Springs, this after
noon.
About twelve car loads of straw berries
per day HOW pass over the Delaware Rail-
road.
A strawb berry festival will he held at
EbeneZer NJ. T. Church, this afternoon and
evening.
Rev. Wm. Schouler will hold service at
Reeds Hall, Chesapeake City, tomorrow,
at T.. NJ
-Elkton men when summoned to testify
underground transaction"
A new parsonage for the Elk Neck Cir
emit is to be erected during the Summer or
Fall, located adjacent to Harris.
Grass cutting will begin quite generally
next week. Wheat harvest will in all prob
ability. include the Fourth of July.
Tomorrow will he chillreu'S day in the
Charlestown NJ. +. Church. Services at =
and ~ Z. NJ. Grand time expected
-Thomas i. Mcdowell, of the Fourth
district, of this county, was among the
graduates at Delaware College, this week.
Mr.. George I. King, of this town, has
been appointed to The police force of Balti-
more city, and has entered upon his duties.
"A new dippeg handle for the mad ma
chine WAS received from Baltimore on Thurs
day and the work of patting it i'll is nearly
completed.
The ladies OF Tome Memorial NJ. +.
Church of Port Deposit We're very Success
full in their strawberry festival venture
financially and otherwise.
A few loads Of gravel on Water street
would not be out of place. The mud on
that street is of n most disagreehle nature
and almost over shoe top deep. y
MIR. Amos Martindale, on the farm of
|. f. Nanarsdale, Esq, near Zion, has in
bearing TWO acres of Strawberries. He is
shipping large quantities daily. Y
Mr. VIM. Armstrong, near Fair Hill,
has field of sixteen acres of corn that now
stands at an average height of sixteen
inches. 1t was planted on April 18th.
An Elkton gentleman recently shipped
to a friend in Chicago a box of red herring
-narked &c Suspuehanna Snipe." We haven't
heard how the recipient liked the birds u
A daily mail will he established between
the Cecil Paper Mill and Rising Sun OH and
after July LIST, leaving the Mill at 80 and
returning leave Rising Sun at $50 A. NJ
Miss Bessie Miller, daughter of Samuel
II. Miller, of this town, was one of the
graduates at the Western Maryland Female
College, at Westminster, on Thursday last.
Mr.. John Harlan, manager of the paper
has resigned his position. We have not
been able to learn who his successor will
be-
The rumor is current upon the street
that one of our leading grocery and provi-
sion dealers is about to sell out his entire
stock. fixtures, and good will to Sixth dis
trct parties.
Captain Davidson is having a soop,
capable of carrying about one hundred and
fifty bushels of oysters, reftted and put in
good order for the Fall trade Captain Jack
always brings good bivalves.
Rev. James Mccoy will preach at
Crouch's Chapel tomorrow (Sabbath) after
noon, at so o'clock. Everybody is invited.
The Sabbath school will meet at2rs o'clock.
y full attendance is desired.
-Childrens day was observed ut Harris.
on Elk Neck circuit, last Sabbath, with ap-
propriate music and addresses. The con-
gregation was large and the occasion WAS
both interesting and pleasant.
If Wanamaker wants 4 first class bal
loon, he should hitch on to an Elkton Gem
etery company lot. They 60 up faster and
higher than any gas inflated machine in
creation. They are now nearly out of sight
"A public sale OF fertilizers, damaged
and otherwise, WAS held at the burned mills
Of the Waring Fertilizer Company, at Co
lora, on Thursday. Y considerable guam
tty of the various goods was sold an salts
factory prices. y
A considerable quantity of lumber be-
longing to Davis, Keys s. Co. washed down
stream from their wharf by the treshet of
last week, has this week been gathered UP.
1t was strewn along the river shores for a
number of miles.
"A hotel keeper at Rising Sun was ar
raigned on Monday, charged with violating
the local option law, but no violation could
be proved upon him and he was discharged
The DRINKS, whose actions caused the case.
We're fined $50 each II
We understand that Miss Emma Heat.
zig, daughter of W. Il. Heatzis, ESD, is
about to embark in the confectionery and
ice cream business at the stand lately occu-
pied by Mrs j. Il. Price, on Main street. Cd.
posite the Exchange Hotel
On saturday, Justice Lewis made pul.
lie his decision in the Lang boys ear stoninc
case. Jack, the younger one. was dis.
charged with 4 reprimand, and William
the older one, was consigned to the shades
of the State House of Correction for piuet Y
days.
The well-knewn historian, Col j Thos
Scharf, of Baltimore, was in town on Tines.
day. He is contemplating history of the
nine counties of the Eastern Suore of Mary
land, to be issued from the press of J. r
Lippincott & Co, publishers, of Philsdel
phia. ,.
The bridge at the foot of Bridge street
is i'll very unsafe condition, Il perfect trap
into which some one will fall as sure n,
preaching if it is allowed to remain as it is
If the Commissioners really intend replac
ing it with draw bridge. it should he don,
at once. II
AT meetingof the alumni OF ST. John.
College held at Annapolis on Thursda,
night, resolution was adopted appointing
+. NJ. w. Johnson, of Cecil county of tn,
class OF "a, to prepare sketch of the lifi
of the late Henry Il. Writ, after which tn,
association adjourned.
Moses McCabe and Sarah Young, color
ed, of this town, We're married, on Thurs
l,,- 81,