The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-07-14
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to endure"
Beautiful moonlight nights now.

pleasant country homes 60 Of voluntarily
to endure"
beautiful moonlight nights now.
A Washington bicyclist passed through
town, on Thursday morning, bound north.
Matches can be struck cheap now
Prices are coming down, in consequence of
the tax being off.
Delaware College was represented
upon the Elk river, in the shape of a camp.
ing party during the week.
Don't overlook the Changers excursion
next Thursday. Crabs are in full! blast at
Colchester now, and the balloon is going up
daily.
A handsome stand of colors is being
made on order Of the children of the late
Chaplain Joseph T. Brown, who will pre-
sent them to Joseph T. Brown Post, G. A.
r., of Cherry Hill.
The excursion of the Cherry Hill Red
Men has been postponed until some time in
the early part of next month. The post
ponement is necessary because the steamer
they want cannot be chartered before that
ti:ne, being engaged for every day in this
month.
The free scholarships for this county in
the Baltimore Female College have not yet
been filled. Any young lady desiring
complete course of education may secure it
by making application to the orphans court
for this county. Here is an opportunity for
! so 4
A large fine beef steak, one of the choir-
est cuts, was lying upon the block at Wells
& Booths store the other day, when a hnn-
cry setter dog came along, and, without
ceremony appropriated it. a man who saw
him trotting along with it in his mouth,
succeeded in making him drop it and re-
covered the meat and carried it home to feed
his own dogs upon.
Rev. A. A. Hoyt, of the Household
of Faith" Church, is expected to return
from his trip to New England, and preach
to his church, near Perryville, Sabbath,
July 22d. a fter which the arrangements
for the camp meeting will he completed,
which is to commence July 81, and close
Aug 9th. Probably services will be held
on the grounds, Sabbath, July Goth.
The new postal money order system,
under which, orders or postal drafts tor small
sums of money, at low rates are TO be sold
by post masters, was to have taken effect
July LIST, but nothing has been heard of it
yet. The post master at this place has re-
ceived no notification about the matter, nor
received the necessary blanks. Probably,
after = few thousand f.thoms more of red
tape are unwound, the system will be put
in operation.
MIR. Fred :. Lewis, formerly with B-rle-
ley, of this town, but recently engaged
in business in Chesapeake city, has opened
a shaving and hair dressing room at Cherry
Hill, in this county. Fred is good bar
Der and clever fellow, and we have no
doubt but that he will succeed in his ven
ture ut the Hill. His new shop will he a
great convenience to the residents of Cherry
Hill, as many of them have heretofore been
compelled to come t., this town for a shave
The large paper balloon sent up here by
Harry c. Hurn, from the residence of Mrs.
Oliver, on Main street, ON the evening of
the Fourth, alighted on the public road near
where it crosses the Christiana Creek,
short distance east of CowantoWn. 1t was
found by Thomas Major, on Thursday, the
9Th instant, it having probably come down
some time during the night OF the Fourth.
The distance from where it, was sent up to
where it was found is about five miles, This
is not as long journey as that taken by
Philadelphia balloon of about the same
size, it having travelled ali the way from
that city to Baltimore, and was found there
safe and sound.
A Washington, d. C., dispatch says:
y tall red haired farmer from Maryland,
was called up to the liar in Judge Smells
court ON Monday morning and charged
with loud and hnst-rnus conduct on the
street He made an urgent appeal to lie lei
off, but as his strongest point was that his
provocation for cnrsing was that his jug of
whisky tumhled out of his carpet sack when
he was on his way to the depot to take a
train for home, and broke, and a. he was
also broke and local option prevailed at his
home he would have to so dry and he
was mad and swore. He was sent down for
seven days" Wonder who he was
The new b. & DIS going ahead N earn
est. The contractors for three divisions of
the new road, in this county, Messrs Burns
& Noakes have begun work. They engaged
several carpenters here on Tuesday, To
work upon the buildings necessary along
the line nf their contract, among them
Messrs. Geo. Alexander and Alfred Smith
Smith shops and other buildings are being
erected at Spring Hill, three miles north
of this town, near the residence of Daniel
Harvey, Esq, and ground was broken for
this work this week. boarding houses,
stables, &C., will I've built there and the
work pushed ahead as fast as possible
A strange accident happened to "a horse
belonging to Sheriff Dunbar, recently. On
Friday morning of last week. when the at
tenlant entered the stable, he found the
horse bodily in his feed box or manager The
| box is situated at the head of the stall, and
is narrow and high, and how or from what
cause the animal got into it was at first
mystery, but it was afterwards discovered
| that = colt confined in the same stable had
broken his fastenngs and had so frightened
the horse by biting and kicking him that
he had jumped and landed in II bunch in
the feed box. He was extracted after
deal of labor and found to be badly cut and
bruised. This is the second or third horse
| belonging to the Sheriff that has been in
jured recently.
Isaiah Brown, Esq, of the Philadelphia
Bar, made an argument before the County
Commissioners last Tuesday, in the ease OF
Harriott vs.. the County Commissioners for
; damages for injuries sustained 10y IA horse
in breaking through Il bridge on one of the
county's roads. Damages claimed are So.
Mr.. Brown is a finished speaker and his
argument was listened to attentively by a
large audience gathered in the court ROOM
Mr.. Brown and family are spending part of
the summer at the residence of Mr. Har-
riott, on Elk River, and was induced to per-
form friendly act by explaining the case
before the Board of Commissioners Mr..
Brown is a nephew of the la:e David Panl
Brown, the great Philadelphia lawyer.
The track upon the fair ground, which
+ has heretofore been kept in applepie order,
has been neglected this season and is now
in desperate condition. 1t is overgrown
with weeds, and looks from the grand
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