The Cecil Whig., 1882-05-06
LOCAL. BRIEFS.

A SAFE. rule Is to retain your winter nn-
derclothing until the apple trees blossom.
When some ElSton carpenters erect a
building, they lay down the floor first an;l
build over it.
The local man of Tie Democrat will
please trot out that double wedding, or
give Il rest.
A large band of sypsies passed through
town, Oh Wednesday. on their annual pill
grimage north.
The Cecil Mutual Ere Insurance Go. of
this town is fortunately not among the los
ers by the Middletown fire.
The Board of County Commissioners,
Orphans Court, and School Commissioners
will meet Oh Tuesday next.
White potatoes, an imported article
from Scotland, are selling here 50 cents per
bushe below the price of our best natives.
The Directors of the Cecil county Aeri-
cultural Society will meet at their office in
this town, on Wednesday next, the llth
inst.
The hour of evening service ut Trinity
Church, until further notice, will be s
o'clock, instead of half past seven As hereto
fore.
-Rumor has it that Miss Annie Smith,
of this town, will succeed Miss Ida Giles,
{shortly to be married) as Assistant =. NJ.
mere
Mrs. Josiah Avery, of Paramount, Som
erset county, is visiting her son, Rev.
Walter Avery, pastor of the Elkton NJ. f.
Church.
Talk about trade booming. Four Ital-
ian peddlers in Il bunch took out license on
Monday to supply Cecil folks with pinch
back goods.
Rev. Albert w. Parry, d. V, will preach
at Mt. Hope Church, (Rev. Elm Kirk's on
tomorrow Sunday afternoon, May 9TH, at
. o'clock F. NJ. !,
The fire engine question is the leading
agirati on here since the great Middletown
fire. The general demand seems to be for
a steam fire apparatus.
Mrs. Elizabeth, daughter CT the Rev.
Wm. kershaw. died at the residence of her
father, near Elk Mills on Thursday night
last, after long Illness.
The finest echo in the nei Ihborhood
may be interviewed by taking station in
a boat Inoored about fifty yards below
Mrs-r-. Scot & Bros. wharf
Rev. NJ. Snowden and wife, of New
York, friends of Rev. Mr.. Skinner and Mr.
Lichtenstein, of Wilmington Del, register
ell at the Howard House, on Thursday.
Certain Elkton girls have adopted a
new and startling custom. They spend the
twilight Of the evenings sitting ON the top
rail of a fence in town discussing matters
When you want to buy home made
Bread, Rusk, and Biscuit, go to Mrs.
Thompson's, opposite the National Bank.
Warm bread in time for breakfast every
morning.
There will bepublic service, Providence
permitting, at Douden's N. +. Chapel, to-
morrow (sabbash) afternoon, at 80 p. NJ
Sermon by Rev. c. +. Sheppard. All are
invited.
Large numbers OF clubs, some of them
as mach rs halfto three quarters of a pound
in weight, are being caught by the boys in
the creek around town. The fish are taken
with dipnets.
"A cargo o! banes and bone-ash ESQ
tons), for d. Scott & Bro, reached the
wharf on Thursday. Although drawing
seven feet of water, the barge reache.! the
wharf at low water without difficulty.
Make your preparations for Il grand
smasil-up The comet IS approaching the
sun at the rate of hundreds of engine speed.
There's no such thing as getting out of the
way, we'll all have to stand and take it,
On Tuesday last while the weather was
so cold that fly couldn't wink his eve, an
up country gentleman drove into town with
tiy net and ear bobs upon his horse This
was what might be termed forcing the SEA,
son.
The engineer of the Saturday night train
south, on the Delaware railroad, struck
what he supposed to be a man. The trail,
was stopped and run back, when the dis
coverg was made that the victim was
large white dog.
-Gov Hamilton, on Wednesday, signeG
all the remaining bills passed by the late
Legislature The new dog tax law for thi,
county Is, therefore, now a law. SO far Il:
we have been able to learn, this is an in
tensely unpopular measure
The demand for licenses have exceeded
other plaSs nf
week Since Monday, Deputy Clerk Recke
fuS, has issued licenses to 10 female traders
l49 general traders, 9 pedars licenses fol
the Eastern Shore, and for Cecil county.
-Rev. VIM. Schouler will hold seryic,
III Reeds Hall, Chesapeake City, tn-mor
row Sunday afternoon at SO p NJ. A
service will also be held in Masonic Hall, on
Thursday night, May 11th at 9 o'clock
when the Right Rev. Bishop Lay will preach
The many friends of Mrs Glatz will h,
grafi!ied to know that she is now employed a
the University of Pennsylvania. Not as on.
of the faculty exactly, but in the capacit,
of purifier Of the linen of that body. Sh
now passes under the name of the widow
Black
IA special train. containing the mem
bers of The Baltimore Otatorio Society, e,
route for New York to take part in tn
great musical festival there, passed through
here yesterday morning. There was il
the ntighborhood OF five hundred persons o,
the train.
The private school of Miss Lena Ash
"l this town, held its annual May part
upon the Academy grounds, on Monday
jhe usual ceremony of Crowning Queen
was observed. Miss Lucy Litzenberg
daughter OF Coroner Litzenbrrg WAS hon
orcd with this distinction.
-The Elkton Cornet Band took mart i
the parade at New Castle, on Monday las,
and won high encomnms for its proficiency
in using Its Instruments. 1t is said 1ha
among all the organizations of the kin.
present, not one could excel the Elkto,
boys in producing sweet sounds.
-~MessrS. Cruikshank & Writ, attoI
nays, on Tuesday, sold at public sale
small strip of six acres of land. the propel
~ of Daniel W. Lilly, of the Fifth district
and located in that district. Win Hanna
of Baltimore, who owns the adjoinn
property, WAS the purchaser for the SUN
S20t
II number of our young men fond {
dancing enlisted the services of Il couple q
Italian musicians, on wednesday nigh
carrying a harp and violin, aud turning o
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