The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-26

Calvert, is being :e-roofed, reprinted, SC.
Rev. J. H. Johns. of Zion Presbyterian
Church, and wife are visiting Washington
d. &.
on Wednesday, a rock fish weighing sixt!
pounds was caught.
The salary of Presiding Elder, Rev
Charles Hill, has been increased from ST. 70(
to 81, 800 by the Stewards of this district.
A good thing to slip up and fall dowI
on. The seeds Of the silver maple tree.
which thickly strew the pavements just
| now.
Senator Groome, of this town, registered
at Barnum's hotel, Baltimore, on Wednes
day, Senator German was also there at the
same time
The pulp works at present in operation
| at Providence Mills, use about eight cords
| of poplar wood per day. The new mills in
this town when completed will cut up from
sixteen to eighteen cords.
john T. Davis, farmer in Elk Neck,
brought to town this week, curiosity in
the way of a hen egg. 1t was shaped pre-.
cisely like a gourd, having the handle just
as they have. 1t attracted considerable at
tention.
There are now three cauneries in and
near Rowlandsville, in this county, viz:
Logan 4 Christie, in that village; Knight
& Barrett, at Gillespie's Lane, and Graham
& Caldwell, at Liberty Grove.
AT the session of the A. L. NJ. =. Con-
ference at Wilmington. on Wednesday,
Elkton station contributed S23 on the next
general conference, and Rev. James Manly
was transferred to the Southern district.
Several Elkton boys bet their pockets
empty at Point Breeze Park races recently
and are now mourning their want of luck.
One young gent lost all his funds save one
penny, and that in his rage he threw away.
Sunday, June 10th, is the day set apart
in the NJ. f. Churches of the land as Chill
dren's Day, and will be generally observed
throughout the country. At the church in
this town it has always been a gala day
among the children, and it will be none the
less no this season.
The centennial commemoratiOn of the
of Maryland, occurring next week, a his
torical discourse in reference to the Episco-
pal Church, in Elkton and vicinity will be
delivered at Trinity Church, by the Rector
tomorrow Sunday morning.
We, this week, were the recipient of a
fine rock fish, that tipped the beam at tif-
teen pounds, from Mr.. Perry X. Barnes, of
Carpenters Point fishery. We trust that
the shadow of this prince of fishermen may
never grow less and that his nets may
always enclose multitudes of fishes.
Among the appointments made by the
A NJ. f. Conference, recently in session at
Hagerstown, Md, were the following: Cam
bridge station, John H. Collett; Cecil sta
ton, Thos. H. Cole; Havre de Grace, John
p. Cox; Port Deposit circuit, w. A. John
son and Elkton circuit, Henry Hutton.
colored lad, w. A. White, for whom
Sheriff Dunbar went to Port Deposit to take
charge of on Saturday last, he having been
arrested there for larceny, escaped before
the Sheriff's arrival and is now at large.
This boy is an old offender having been
tried in court here for burglary few terms
ago.
Mr.. Francis Green, of Cowantown, this
week, settled up all his business affairs here
and at the conclusion was in the pleasant
position of owing no man in this town one
cent. Mr.. Green has not yet fixed upon
what he will do. He will, in all probability,
compete for contract on the new b. & o.
railroad.
There is a great rivalry at this time
among amateur gardeners in Elkton, just
now, pea culture being the matter in hand,
the Deputy clerk of Commissioners, Ros-
sell, is said to be ahead so far, leading
the High Sheriff by a large majority. He
offered to wager that he would send lin
green peas for dinner within ten days. II
John Tosh, a prominent young citizen
of Colora; in the Sixth district, died on
Monday morning last, of pneumonia, after
An illness of one week. duration. Deceased
was one of the most enterprising farmers
81 the neighborhood, and gentleman
highly esteemed by the entire community.
He leaves widow and two young children !
One schooner loaded with poplar wood
for Providence mills reached our wharves
this week. Another is below, and a third
run aground about hundred yards below
Frenchtown wharf, and portion of her
cargo is being landed upon the wharf to
tighten her, and when she is gotten off it
will be reloaded, and be brought to the
wharf here.
The Cecil County Agricultural Society
offers the same premiums for mammoth
pumpkins this as it did last year. Parties
who desire to contest for these premiums,
five in number, can obtain seeds of the
mammoth yellow Chilli pumpkin, which
weighs from POO to 80 pounds, by sending
one three-cent stamp to A. w. Mitchell,
Elkton, Md. L
While Mr.. Henry Bell was engaged in
relaying drain tile, on Bow street, on Mon
day, he found that root of a large silver
maple tree, growing near by, had entered
the underground pipe and grown along
through il, a distance of sixty feet, coming
out At the end where the tile emptied into
the street drain, and there reentering
the ground. The root was about the thick
ness of broom stick.
Col. Charles +. Markell, of Frederick
City, will deliver the Grafton, on Wednes-
day afternoon next, Decoration Day, at
Cherry Hill. The graves here will be dec
Grated in the morning. Gen. Horn, once
Colonel of the Sixth Maryland Regiment,
Col. j. G. Hill, who also held that com
mand, James Whitehouse, ESD, OF Balti-
more, and several other gentlemen Of prom,
inence, are expected to be present. Z
Tom Collins is the name of the Oldest
| boat upon our waters. She, or he it is in
this instance, is batteau, about sixteen
feet long, of not the most beautiful model
but strongly put together. This craft was
built by the late Thomas McCrery more than
thirty years ago, and has been since that
time owned by number of different per-
F., SONS and is now owned by Mr.. VIM. Ander-
son. The old craft is 4 curiosity at this day
The band of Sabbath breakers with
their dogs-the latter far the most humane
of the two-made the air resound with
| cries and yells on Sunday last, while en-
gagged in a rabbit hunt, in the swamp, a
half mile south of town, known as " Black
Bird Swamp" This illegal sport seems to
be becoming quite common in this vicinity