The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-02-05
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Ice plenty.
-Sleighing fine.

-Sleighing fine
Skating rough.
Buy your valentines.
Matrimonial market active-all Others
dull.
Daniel Bratton, Esq, is confined to the
house Ivy sickness.
North East is shortly to have an exhi-
bition of tableaux.
The candy factory of Mr.. Wells, of
Main street, has closed.
1t is rumored that the mosquito crop
has been injured by the cold.
Tickets for the lectures are on sale ut
Mitchell's and Frazers drug stores.
Presiding Elder Ma,lack will preach III
the North East NJ. L. Church, to- morrow.
The rumor that the ice crop was injured
by the warm snap of Monday is incorrect.
-Remember the poor; or, better still, do
something to cause them to remember you.
Large congregations have attended the
revival meetings at the NJ. L. Church, this
week.
-Snipkins says some men buck the tiger,
but as for him, he prefers TO buck-wheat
cakes.
The Wilmington Conference of the NJ.
E. Church will meet at LeweS, Del, on
NJ arch 18th.
"A through railroad under the manage
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio Company
is projected. +
A little son of Henry VinsinSer puH
ished himself right badly this week by fall
ing on the ice. !
Henry b. Writ, Esq, of the Elkton
Bar, is confined to the house by severe at
tack of pneumonia.
The thermometer again went below
zero, on Wednesday morning. AT daylight
it registered two degrees below.
Read the advertisement Of the large sale
of Thos. E. Kirby, in Carpenters Point
Neck, on Wednesday next, 9th inst.
Nearly all the pumps in town were
frozen up on Wednesday night. The result
was "A scarcity of milk the next day.
Coal is selling for Sc per ton in Elktou!
Not quite so bad as in some of the down
shore counties, where it sells for nine or ten.
An exchange says that y fire broke ont
in neighboring boarding house, but when
it reached the pantry went out for want of
fuel
The Cecil County Medical Society will
meet at the office of DIR. j. H. Jamar, in
this town, next Tuesday morning, at eleven
o'clock.
If the bridge at the far creek is to be
built, it should be done as early in the sea-
son rs possible. Spring is the time when it
is most needed.
-Rer. Andrew Gather will preach and
administer the communion in the NJ E.
church, in this town, to- morrow morning
at 1011% at o'clock.
Port Deposit fears an ice gorge. The
old boom piers, together with the railroad
bridge, make such an event more probable
than in former years.
Young Snipkins says that water froze
solid in a boiler in their kitchen, OH We'd
nesday night, Notwithstanding that the
boiler had been red hot. II
Work in the lower sheet mill of file
Mccullough Iron Company at North East
will he suspended for several weeks, owing
to the breaking of shaft.
The mercury dropped below zero again,
on Wednesday night Weare pleased to be
able to assure our readers that it suffered no
injury, but will soon get up again.
Poultry has been plenty in our market
this week, but prices have continued away
up on high. Twelve to fourteen cents per
pound is too much for undrawn chickens.
1t only takes a letter two days to 60
from Elkton to Charlestown, this county.
Considering the distance-nine miles-this
is not so bad for we might have no mail at
all.
On Monday night a crowd of roughs
made night hileous in the Hollow by their
loud cries, curses and firing of pistols
WHY'S this thus They should be squelst-
ed.
ST. Valentines day is coming. The shop
windows already show a large variety OIL
the class of billet dous sent through the
mails-by both males and females-at this
season.
On Saturday last, Mr.. H. II. DuycH
inck, of this county, sold to Charles A
Holton pair of fat steers, weighing 2, 14(
pounds. They are to be shipped to Phila
delphia.
During religious service at the Aim.
House, the other day, an inmate proposed
as the most appropriate hymn for the plac,
and occasion, Come We sinners poor and
needy"
Elder a. A Phelps, editor of the Biol
Banner, will preach in the Household q
Faith church, near Whitaker's Mill to
morrow, at 1o1s A. NJ, and P. NJ. All ar
invited.
AT the regular monthly meeting of tn
Mutual Building Society, on Monday night
$1,000 of the accrued earning of Series A
was sold to stockholders at Il discount {
one per cent.
Capt. John T. Skirven, a prominent cit
izen of Kent county, is dead. A few year
ago he married Mrs. Mary Kennard, widow
of John S. Kennard, we'll known in Elkton
who survives him.
The lecture on next Monday night, tn
first of the series, will be by DIR. Guard
Subject" The Possibilities of Life" Al
should 60 and hear this eminent speaker
Lecture at 7.30 o'clock.
An Elkton physician had hard tim
reaching patient, ten miles down the Nee
on Wednesday. The road was unbroke
and the snow drifts deep, but he did tinall
make his way through.
-Messrs. King and Wright, this weel
filled the ice house at the residence of Mr.:
DeBowens with fine clear ice, four to fiv
inches in thickness. 1t was taken from til
creek above the bridge.
Says cute observer: The man VIII
stops his paper to economic is like Il ma
who goes barefoot to save his shoes. An
the merchant who can't afford to advert.
shouldn't be patronized.
-Slrighng on the ice was INDUCED in ft
the first time here, on Saturday afternoon
A horse and sleigh containing fl We or 81
persons made several trips between IL
wharf and the ice bound vessels
Some one wants, letter boxes at b.t
ends of town. Some one must be gettin