The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-08-20


The Fair has already begun to boom.
A race between rival sail boats is talked
Mr.. Daniel Eratton, is i'll at his resi-
dence in Elkton
Don't forget the creamery meeting next
Monday, in the Hall.
Albert Constable, Esq, is still confined
to his room by illness.
This is Nennor's week for cold wave
his frost has not yet arrived.
1t is now fashionable for young ladies
to carry canes, cn prom0aadc
Mrs. Jones relict of the late Ellis Jones,
is lying very i'll ut her residence, in Elkton.
1t is now in order to give the street
sprinkler another boom, the streets are all
dust.
Mrs. DeBowens, formerly of Elkton,
has been quite i'll at her residence in Kirk
wood, Missouri
--On Saturday last the thermometer stood
go in the shade: but Nennor's cold wave
has sent it down To S0o
A large party of ladies and gentlemen
on horseback passed through our streets,
last Wednesday evening.
Don t forget the Methodist excursion to
Colchester which leaves SCOTS wharf, next
Wednesday, August 24th.
There is reported to be a good deal of
sickness of a bilious character in the neigh
borhood of Rowlandsville.
Rev. T. Snowden Thomas, of North
East. will preach in the Elkton Presbyterian
church next Sunday morning.
Mrs. Sparrow now resides alone in the
handsome and spacious residence. recently
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Martin.
MIR. Dickie. agricultural editor of the
Bucks county IaielIigeacer, will address the
creamery meeting in the Hall, next Monday.
Rev. VIM. Reed will hold Il tent camp
meeting at North East, beginning to morrow
and continuing over the first Sunday in
September.
No service will he held at the Elkton
Free Methodist Church, tomorrow, in con-
sequence of their camp meeting in progress
near North East.
Don't forget the last excursion of the
season. by the Methodist Sunday School,
from Scott'S wharf next Wednesday MORN
ing for Colchester.
The new comet has been seen by the
nal-a1 i,, tha 8 L.
heavens. 1t is now in its perihelion and
shines its brightest.
Quarterly meeting service in the Elkton
NJ. f. Church, tomorrow, under charge of
Love Feast at 9 o'clock. b.
-Rev. Geo. p. Smith, formerly of this
town, has been quite i'll with bilious fever at
Princess Anne, where he is now stationed
He is now convalescent
WIN. Fulton, who works at Harlan's
Mill, fell off loaded wagon and broke his
arm last Tuesday. Dr. Carter attended him
and reduced the fracture
A party of fifteen colere,i men from
Petersburg, Va, arrived here, on Thursday.
to work for the mud machine, wheeling
mud from the deck scows
The creamery meeting will open next
Monday, at the Hall, with addresses, etc
In the afternoon the meeting will organize
the Creamery Company of Elkton."
Mr.. II. II. Gilpin has left at Mitchel's
drug store a bunch of tomatoes of :he
Perfection variety, which has twenty
seven large ripe ones on single plant
Clinton Mccullough, ESQ, is doing some
repairs to his residence in the shape of new
floors, stripping and replastering the first
floor and giving it a genera! overhauling.
The display of exhibits at the coming
Delaware State Fair will be without doubt
the best and largest ever witnessed on the
Peninsula. Prepare your exhibits aud en-
ter them by mail at once
A large party of ladies and gentlemen
from Cat Swamp and vicinity, passed
through Elkton in several large wagons,
last Wednesday, bound for Locust Point
on pic mic and fishing party.
II A. NJ, :; and $50 p. NJ Rev. j. w.
Beckett, of Philadelphia, and &. w. Brode
OF Baltimore, will preach. Come out and
hear the two able divines. J. H. CoLLErT,
DIR. ). {. Britton, of North East. had
his head cut by beer glass thrown by Il
man III a tavern near the Baltimore depot,
Philadelphia, Saturday evening. He was
admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital. u
Philip Bond, a little son of John Bond.
OF Port Deposit, aged eight years, was
blown from Tones wharf into the Susuue-
hanna River, by the wind on Saturday last.
He was rescued after considerable difficulty.
The tug Lizzie N.Nthan, of Baltimore
brought up barge loaded with fifty tons
OF bones for d. Scott 4 Bro, last Wednes
day. The schooner C. 4. Bod loaded with
grain from ID. Scott & Bro, sailed on Wed
nesday.
A two-span bridge is to be built over
% Far Creek This is a much-neeled i'm
provement, and one that the residents on
that road have long needed. In the Win
ter, with the ice, and in Spring with fresh
cts the ford is impossible.
Montgomery Union Sunday school will
hold their annual picnic in II. ID. Miller
woods, on Saturday, 9th instant, afternoon
and evening. Shonld the weather prove
untavorable, it will be held on the follow
ing Wednesday, 5lst instant.
TI,a
instruments next Monday, and ship them
to Philadelphia, where they will all he over
hauled, repaired and remodeled to the latest
approved fashion at the hands of an cxper-
fenced musical instrument maker.
A tramp, named Stokes, was arrested
by Constable Foard, on Monday, under the
tramp act" He applied to the officer,
asking to be sent to the House of Correction
he being sick and having no home-wisheG
to be sent where he would he cared for.
Mr.. Crouch, having purchased the large
band wagon from Newark parties, intends
to drive it four-in- hand to Delaware CITY
next Wednesday morning, to meet the
steamer C'gde, which makes a trip to Cape
May. He can carry twenty passengers.
The Elkton Cornet Band drove down tc
Port Herman in their new band wagon, las
tuesday evening, to attend large dancin.
pic mic given by the ladies in that neighbor
hood. They had a pleasant trip and re
turned the next morning at five o'clock
Mr.. Kaufman KatZ has removed hi
where he proposes to engage largely in tn
Clnt llnU business Me L. hnc