The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-07-01

We have often heard of citizens of ali
degrees going home late at night with =
" brick i'll the hat but il remained for an
Elkton man to iuaugurate, on Tuesday
night last, the system of Juggling home from
his ueighbors pile an arlnful of these useful
blocks We would have interviewed him
had he made his PAGES less rapid.
The finest field OF corn in this neighbur
hood is upon the White Hall Farm, near
Frenchtown, where Mr.. Elsey Wright, HE
tenant, has forty-four acres, standing three
feet in height, and of Il very vigorous
growth. Mr.. Wright has also fifty acres oi
wheat, which he thinks will yield an aver
age of Twenty-Five bushels to the acre.
David Lockard an old resident OF this
town, died ut his home on Bow street, on
Tuesday night, after an extended illness.
He was - years of age His funeral took
place yesterday afternoon, the remains
being deposited in the Methodist burial
ground. Service was held in the Free
Methodist Church, Of which Mrs. Lockard,
the widow, is IL member.
--One of the large silver poplartrees upon
the proprty of Miss Catharnc Johns, here
tofore ornamental to east Main street, as
well as useful to he deniZensof that section
in shading them from the noon days heat,
is dead. The exact hour at which it
breathed its last, cannot be fixed, but 1t
went off some where between the tenth and
thirtieth of the past month.
An ingenious dentist in Strasburg,
Germany; has performed Il most remarka-
BILE feat in tooth doctoring. Recently he
extracted Il molar, and finding it sound,
with the exception of the points of the root,
he sawed Them oil, filled the cavity with
gold, and replaced it, The report is that it
has established itself and is doing business
at the old stand in most satisfactory man
ner.
Much complaint is heard already from
parsons driving on the county roads, Of the
practice of steam threasher owners OF NOV
ing their machines along the roads during
the busy hours of the day. Horses are Of
ten frightened by the putting and blowing
of these machines in their laborious efforts
to move along. Early morning or evening
is the proper time to take them upon the
road.
-Thirty-nine reapers and mowers, and
seven reaping and binding machines were
sold and delivered to purchasers during the
late fair at oxford, Pa, and three others
were engaged y carriage making firm,
sold twenty -one carriages and five farm
wagons. In addition TO these, Il large
amount of other farm machinery was dis
posed of. This showing certainly is some
thing in favor Spring fairs.
We are all honest in Elkton. y lady's
purse, full of coin, lay upon the window sill
at the Post Office for half an hour, on Mon
day, and no one touched it. When the owner
returned and expressed her delight at find
ing her property safe, half a dozen bystand-
ers audibly regretted that they had not
it, any of them would have been pleased to
have carried it home for her. We don't say
to whose home.
The Fire department of this town this
week took its annual wash and grease up.
The two antidiluvian machines were hauled
to the creek and their parched wind pipes
moistened, and the four lonely sections of
hose owned by the corporation were treated
to an application of meats foot oil. And
now come on, with your Fourth of July
fire works, the old water singers are ready
for an active campaign.
-Botanists and lovers of flowers may see
n striking curiosity in the way of freak of
nature in the flower gardeu of Mrs. l.. Mar
shall Haines, OF this town. Upon rose
bush which has heretofore borne nothing but
red flowers is now growing upon connecting
stems in the same cluster Il large deep red
and pure white rose, both exactly alike in
all save color, but as widely different i'll this
respect as it is possible to be. These flowers
have attracted much attention.
a company of amateur Elkton sailors,
when starting out on a sail the other after
noon, made all ready and letting go their
stem line, took to the oars to make out into
open water. They pulled and pulled, and
observing that their craft made little or no
Roadway, were 10 dazed condition of mind
in consequence, from which they were
aroused by the skipper of neighborinS
craft suggesting the propriety of taking up
the anchor. Upon examination they dis
covered that they had neglected to attend
to this important matter, and been pulling
on dead strain without moving ahead an
inch.
quite a stir was created Oh Thursday
by an Elkton provision dealer charging
nei.hbor with unlawfully relieving him of
quantity of smoked herring, an article
heretofore unknown here, an object Of
the pilferer's art. n neighboring store
keeper AYERS that while looking from his
window early on the morning named he
saw the party charged enter the premises
| of the provision man and carry oil NUM-
| Der of the coveted fish, going to her home:
in moment or two she returned, and this
time, not content with handful, used her
apron as a means of transportation, filling
| it with them. This statement is pronounced
untrue by the party charged, she deci'le'lly
refusing to own up to the herring, and so
| the matter stands.
A new arrangement in the system OF
trains on the =. w. Il B.--going into Halti-
more-was inaugurated this week. With
all trains going into Charles st. station 81
I "Union Depot" an annex train now con
meets at Bay View to convey passengers tc
President stree: station, and with all trains
going north from Charles street an annex
will connect at Bay View bringing passel-
gers from President street, so that persons
so desiring may now land at President
street by any of the trains going south OIL
take any of the north bound trains from
that station. Heretofore much trouble anG
yexation have been caused to travellers by
\ reason Of the uncertainty as to which ant
from what station the various train:
departed, and it has frequently happened
that passengers going to President street
have discovered after arriving there tina
Charles street, two miles away, was the
point of departure for the train they desired
to take, and they We're compelled either tC
make great haste to reach that station or lay
over, sometimes all night. This troubl,
will be avoided in the future.
Trouble Among Harvest Hands.
On Thursday tue hands employed by DR.
Il. c. Mackall, at harvesting wheat, strucl