The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-07-16
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Harvest hands have been scarce this
season.
Cherry Hill Sabbath school will picnic
at PearSon's Glove to-day.
! MIR and Mrs. 5. NJ Curtis, Of Newark,
i contemplate visit to Europe AT an early
/ day.
The surveying party of the new b. 4 o.
! railroad is now between North East and the
I river.
Two children OF Mr. Seminar, of the
: Fourth district died, last week, Of diph-
liberia.
This is n good time to lay in your Win
ter coal. as it sells lower than later in the
season.
4 Prayer meeting evenings at the Presby-
& terian and Z. f. Churches will hereafter be
Fridays.
The preparations for the repairs to the
Methodist Church of this town are progress
ing favorably.
The fishing in the Elk is good now.
Perch are abundant and white cat fish are
multitudinous.
Ceilings and Jefferies, of this town,
claim to have sold forty-siN harvesting ma
chimes this season.
On Wednesday the thermometer marked
9So. The humid atmosphere rendered the
heat more oppressive.
On Wednesday the lightning struck
house in Railway. New Jersey, cutting oil
4 piece of a mans ear.
The mud digger has reached the lower
point of SCOTS wharf, and a good view of
her operations may now be had.
The knights of Pythias excursion from
Z Port Deposit to Colchester, last week. num-
1 bered about three hundred persons.
8 -Elkton wasn't SO dull this week after
: all. The average number of visitors ut the
! Howard House was twenty-one per day.
James johnson, Queen Anne's county
man, fell into the Christiana Creek, at Viii
mngton, on Monday, and was drowned.
The catalogues of the next fair of the
Cecil County Agricultural Society are being
4 distributed by the officers of the Associa
Z ton. II
q VIM. H. Elder, Esq, of this town, with
his family, this week, took up quarters in
their cottage at Rehoboth Beach for the
Summer.
Nellie c. Clayton, daughter of Mr..
Julius p Clayton, of Baltimore, is, we re-
greet to hear reported, quite ill with the
diphtheria.
Three hundred colored people went on
the excursion from Chesapeake City to
Annapolis, on Saturday last. The chester
took them.
Our streets in dry weather are exceed
ingly dusty We need sprinkler. A good
one could be made of the old fire engine.
Let us have it. l.
Mr.. Thos. l.. Graham, Principal of the
Elkton Academy, attended the session of
the Maryland Teachers Association. at
Frederick last week +
Mr.. j. W. Draper, sexton of the NJ. +.
Church of this town, left home this week
for visit OF several weeks among his rela-
tiyes on the lower Peninsula
Tile funeral of George L. Wilson. All
old and prominent citizen of Newark took
place from his laie residence, near the depot.
on Wednesday afternoon last.
The large number OF attractive young
ladies in town on Monday, was in conse-
quence OF the examination of public school
teachers, which took place that day
-Georse A. Blake, Esq, was appointed
chairman of the floral committee, on Tues
day, by the Directors of the Agricultural
Association, vice p. H. Cleaver Esq, re-
signed
Mrs. Isabella Evans, sister of Hon Jas
NJ. Evans, of Rising Sun, who died last
week, in her sixty-third year, was q life
long invalid, though always cheerful and
contented.
"A mare and colt belonging TO Mr.. ArrE
son, on the Merry farm, near town, broke
out of the field, and strayed to the railroad
where they were killed by the ears on
Thursday morning
The Methodist Sabbath school of Port
Deposit excursioned to Hardwood Park, on
Wednesday. The Rock Run PRESBYTERIAN
Church will excursion 10 the GEOLOGICAL
Gardens On August 1st h
Mrs. Beers, wife OF George Beers, an
old resident of this county and the mother
OF large family of grown children, died,
ut her home in the Fourth district on Mon
day night of disease of the liver
Mr.. r. c. Hopkins has been elected
President j. NJ McClenahan, Vice Presi
dent; A. II. Reynolds, Treasurer; and E.
b. Frazer, Secretary, of the Granite Loan
and Building Association of Port Deposit. |,
1t is rumored, but whether true or not
we will not pretend to say, that the ice
gorge formed just above McCall's Ferry last
Winter, did not entirely disappear until
last week, the last remnant of ice dsap
pearing on Thursday
Rev. J. L. Houston, a we'll known su-
perannuated minister, fell down stairs at
his residence in Wilmington. on Tuesday
and dislocated his left shoulder DIR. Mauli
attended to the injury, but M Houston
suffers greatly from the severe shock. i
DIR. y. Il. Smith, of Port Deposit. was
robbed of $40 at Colchester, OF Thursday of
last week. lie accompanied the knights
OF fythias excursion and left his money in
'he pocket OF his clothes in the bath house,
while bathing Bathers, take notice. D
"A case OF what might very properly be
termed prompt collection " occurred here
this week. \ bill was contracted by n marty
on tine 9th instant, and on the lltb two
days later, attachment was laid on his nro
perry 1or the same. This is rapid. surely. 1
-hoiler skates are becoming popular
mere. Some of our lads and lassies have
become quite proficient IN their use. and
silde over the sidewalks (where the pave
ment Is smoothly very gracefully and rand.
". Bicycles and roller skates are now
ahead.
There will be festival and supper at
Asoury VI. f. Church Charlestown Cir
cunt July eth commencing at , T.. NJ. and
continuing through the evening. If the
weather should prove unfavorahlt. it will
be held the following dav All are invited
10 attend
-oar printers We're very kindly reme,n-
oereu, during the sweltering heat Of Thurs
DAY, by generous donation of 4 lot of the
choicest ice cream and finest of cake, from
The popular saloon OF Booth & Son, and the
hearty thanks of the "boys' are hereby
rendered for the same.
"A yery Drettv WALL ar t,o.loy,r,I ,on Ia