The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-20
LOCAL BRIEFS.
-Watermelons make good vinegar.


Mr.. John Rowan of Sassafras Neck,
who has been i'll of typhoid fever for four
weeks past, is now recovering.
There is no reason why any one should
be without watch at the present prices OF
this useful article Giles, on North street,
now sells them at one cent each, wa 'rant9d
to 60 at that
The deaths among cattle in the Eighth
district, on the Pennsylvania line HERETOFORE
mentioned has been positively traced to pol
son in the refuse from Grubb's cannery, on
which they were fed. j.
-Crier John E. Brown, of the Circuit
Court for this county, was to have attended
County.Court, at Chestertown, TINS
tx, but was prevented from doing so by
slight indsposition.
The Bowen Bros, of the Newark
Ledqer, this week put in their office camp
hell news press They will no longer he
under the necessity of bringing their forms
to this town to print their paper.
The weather this week, was the kind that
induces people 70 keep their hands in their
pockets. If they are 40 fortunate as to
have both hands and pockets. The weather
during the fair seemed to be favorable to
some fellows getting their hands into other
fellows pockets.
The cash receipts of the Cecil Fair
over SO, OOO-exceeds that of any other
MARYLAND institution of the kind that we
IS r.
only took between $1,000 and $4,000 this
season, though it is usually much ahead of
Cecil, and the others are much below this
A very instructive catalogue, embrac-
ing sixteen thousand items of goods in one
hundred and fifteen different lines with
explanatory reading matter) will be sent
prepaid, by J.hn Wanamaker, Philadel-
phia, after November 1st, on request b.
postal. This is capital reference volume.
MFR. Joshua Green, of Andora, in this
county, left at the WING Office, last Mon
day, three ears of mammoth corn, speci-
mems of the crop raised by him this season.
The grain is very superior and the ears i'm
mense.. Mr.. Green will probably gather a
crop of from fifty TO seventy bushels per
acre.
Frank Runner, formerly of Rising Sun,
in this county, brother of the Rev. Henry
Runner, of St. Georges, Del, died at the res
idence of his uncle, in Wilmington, on
Monday last, of consumption the twenty
fourth year of his age. His funeral took
place on Thursday afternoon last, the re-
mains being inferred at Mt. Salem Gene
terry.
A Juvenile fair association held its first
annual exhibition, on the common south OF
town last week. The exhibition was not
quite as full as that of the Cecil Agricul-
tural Society as all the exhibits could have
been carried on wheel barrow, but it
gixes promise of growth, and in coming
years may possibly, rival that of their
sen or's
Sassafras Neck has been free from all
epidemics this season, and the general health
of the section has been better than for a
number of years past. Indeed there has
been such a marked absence of disease that
the physicians ESQ says one of the number)
have been almost without employment.
This is a good condition of things, though
hard on the doctors.
The manager of the exceedingly tame
wild Indian tribe, exhibited at our late
fair, it seems is absent minded. At the
close of the fair he hired dearbourn from an
Elkton man in which TO haul away the
savages traps, and up to late this week, had
forgotten to return it. The owner of the
vehicle is put to much Inconvenience and
loss N consequence, being prevented from
prosecuting his ordinary business which
requires vehicle of this kind.
Perch fishing il the Elk was good
during the latter part of last and up to
Monday of this week, bnt the cold snap
seems to have put an end to the sport. At
least this is the experience of couple of
row officials, who hearing of the presence
OF the perch, went down the river on Tues
day and well nigh froze to death while en-
deavoring to entice the fish to bite. Crabs
were also during the same period, very
plenty, and numbers of them were caught
upon the hooks of the fisherman.
The work of stone ballasting the P.
w. x Il. Railroad, is being pushed ahead,
men were at work this week, upon the sec
ton of the road including this station. As
the stone ballast is put in, the level of the
track is raised several inches. Broken
granite from McClelland & Bros quarries,
at Port Deposit, is used. The advantages
of the stone ballast is the absence of dust,
greater solidity, and much less decayng OF
th.,p loo T,,f Ia IL OBJ
of dust, the new ballast is great comfort
to the travelling public.
"A gentleman interested in the clover
seed crop in Sassafras Neck, informs us
that it is turning out much better than
usual, and will average over three bushels
to the acre, throughout the neck. In thi,
neigborhood there appears to be some diff
Guilty in getting threshers to take out the
seed. One farmer tells us, that he, expect
ing to secure machine at once, allowed
his seed clover to lie upon the field, ant
being disappointed in getting the thresher
has lost large portion of the crop, the SEED
drying and falling out when the clover wa
handled. The largest yield we have heard
of yet, was one farmer who secured thirty
nVe bushels lTOHi zen acres, anu the lowest
one who only got twenty bushels from
twenty-five or thirty acres.
The partridge and rabbit law is being
violated daily, by parties from some O
whom better things might be expected
There is no doubt but that the date for tn
open season to begin, set by the law is Ell
tirely too late in the fall. The birds are al
full grown and fit to shoot, and the rabbit
are fit for the table by October 18th, an,
this should he the date liked by the law A
it stands, those WHO do not regard TIL
law, shoot all the birds off before law abil
ing sportsmen get chance at them. Eve
the law-breaker will not shoot them befOr
they are grown, and this law itself lays tn
temptation before him, because he argues
that the birds are fully fit to kill after Oct
18th and why wait until November LIST, fu
mere form of law. We trust the mex
Legislature will make this change
On last Sabbath morning, a couple @
Elkton boys, who would have been better O
at home, at the imminent risk of life an
limb, amused themselves by walking bacl
yard and forward across the creek, on to
Gf the iron frame Of the railroad bridg,
north of town. The iron Orders upo
which they walked form the topmost pc
tion of the bridge, are only about four
five inches wide, and are eleyated aboye IL
L,I Vs. he Il E,.II -, "