The Cecil Whig., 1883-09-08

on Wednesday with freshman class o
fifteen.
"A ground hog has been captured by
Fair Hill man, and will be exhibited at ou
coming fair.
Rev. T. Snowden Thomas, will preacl
%. w in the NJ. E. Church, at North East
o-morrow the 9th inst, at 1890 A. M.
Capt. VIM. Fowler, of this town, shot
Jack or Wilson snipe on Tuesday. A yer!
uncommon thing at this season of tn
year.
"A young daughter of Mr.. II. II. Foard
was painfully scalded on Thursday morn
ing, by upsetting a vessel of boiling waite
upon herself. DIR. Mitchell attended her.
ALL the schools began on Monday. The
children seem with one accord to be please,
to return to their studies, but III sixty day,
or less, they will be signing for the holidays
Cecil county Jail has now as inmates
eight insane and three or four sane persons
The circuit court should make some dispo
sition of the former. One of them has beer
there ten or twelve years.
The Grand Army Encampment al
Havre de Grace, came off on Wednesday
and Thursday. A large number Of persons
from all sections were present. Quite q
number of Cecil vets. were on hand.
-Registration, which began in the sew.
eral districts of the county Oh Tuesday
moved slowly. Unregistered voters, il
there are any, took but little interest in ii
and the number entered was small.
A southbound freight train on the p,
w. & b. railroad collided with number
of empty box cars standing on the siding
at Perryville on Monday evening. Some
of the cars We're badly damaged, but no one
was hurt.
The new postal orders are being freely
used. They are not very attractive in ap-
pearance, neither are they printed on
durable paper, for the latter reason it is not
likely that they will be used as currency to
any great extent.
The new mills of the company, of which
Mr.. H. r. Carter. of this county, is presi
dent, situated in Hartford county. on the
Susquehanna river, will manufacture pulp
by new process, without the acid process,
with water alone.
Capt. Fowler, in the yacht Xantho,
sailed for Eastern bay on Thursday, for a
cargo of oysters and will return on Monday.
Messrs. Alex. Evans and Hodge Bennett
accompanied him and will return with the
ducking yacht, recently purchased by
Messrs. Bennett and Marrett, of this town.
Mr.. Henry Bell, merchant of this town,
is putting up ap extensive addition to his
store house and dwelling on High street.
He has torn down the old rear building, and
will erect upon its site a new three story
building, to correspond with the front re-
Gently erected. When completed it will be
the finest building in that part of town.
-Messrs. Scott & Bro, shipped this week,
in addition to their sales at the factory, two
cargoes of phosphates. One on the schooner
Ruth, to Baltimore for re-shipment to par
ties in Virginia and other sections south,
and one by the Boyd to customers on the
They also unloaded n large
cargo of coal. Their mills are now running
day and night, and withall they find it diff
ficult to keep up with the demand.
The premium list and regulations, for
the coming fair of the Maryland State Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical Association, to be
held at PimlicO, near Baltimore, on October
30th, 31st and November 1st and 2d has
been issued. The fair promises to be much
in advance of recent oues. There is no rea-
son why it should not be, as it was years
and attended by hosts of people from all
sections.
The annual exhibition of the Oxford
Agricultural Society, will be held on the
grounds of the association on the Goth, 9th
and 2sth insts. The trials of speed, as they
are nowadays styled, will occur on the
9th and 2Sth. The bicycle races will take
place on the same days. Thursdays race
caster counties. Pennsylvania, and Cecil
county, Maryland, the prizes being Sl2, IS
and $3 The races open to all amateurs takes
place on Friday, theprizes offered being $15,
$40 and S.. No entrance fee on either day.
The pleasure yacht Nantho whose
masts were blown out a short time ago, met
with another mishap on Saturday last.
She was lying at the wharf and the boom
of the scow G. A. Boyd struck her main
mast, as it passed by breaking it into two
pieces. A new stick was cut at Perch
creek and Capt. Purnell prepared and set it,
the work on Tuesday. The
is now herself off again, masts'
hull, captain and crew and ready for any
voyage that presents itself
Mr.. Joseph Deaver, who resides two
miles north of town. on the Cherry Hill
road, on the farm purchased by him from
Mr.. S. Allrich, has put up and is now OPP
Grating cannery. The object of the enter
prise was more especially to utilize the
large crop of tomatoes he has upon his
place, though we believe he will do consid-
cradle work outside of this. For an estab-
lishnent of its size the amount of goods
put up is wonderful, and putup in the
best possible manner, for Mr.. Deaver il
thoroughly acquainted with the business.
The upper gate t" the Fair Grounds. on
the Bell Hill road, stands open constantly.
and tramps utilize the buildings containing
hay and straw As lodging places. If some
fine morning it should transpire that flames
started by spark from lodger's pipe have
reduced the buildings to ashes, everyone
will know where to place the censure. Such
4 catastrophy as this, would perhaps neces-
state an indefinite postponepent of the
fair or, if not that bad, it wonld very much
cripple the show. A stitch in time some
times locks the stable before the horse is
stolen.
In the fall of 1881, Mr.. S. b. McCul-
Tough, of Rock Springs, in this county,
sowed 800 grains of the variety of wheat
known as "Golden Grains,' from which he
got 261l pounds. This he sowed last fall
on about one fifth of an acre and harvested
sos pounds or at the rate Of about sixty
bushels to the acre. The new wheat is said
to be of fine quality. Mr.. Mccullough lost
a considerable portion of the yield this sea-
son by storms, while harvesting. The fifth
acre would probably have turned one tenth
more had there been no storm.
"A number of boys were found in the
old engine house. On North street, the other
evening, amusing themselves by striking
matches, and using them as torches, to light
up this dark hole. The floor of the room
is strewn thickly with old paper and other
combustible material and it is a wonder thai