The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-09

Open air services will be held on tn
court house yard, tomorrow Sunday at
ternoon, at E o'clock.
Children s day will be observed in New
Leeds NJ. p. Church, on Sabbath, 10th inst
Service to begin at 10 "a. NJ.
For a MONDAY lunch there is nothin,
nicer than the tempting clam soup made b.
Clayton Manly, Odd Fellows Hall. Thi
is fact.
The contemplated festival for the bene
this week, was abandoned, for what reason
We did not learn.
A strawberry festival will be held n
Union NJ. L. Church, this county, on Thurs
day evening, 14th inst, if fair; if stormy, i
will be held on Friday evening.
Miss Mary Williams, formerly an ell
cient principal of the Elkton Academy
now teaching at Oxford, n. c., is vistin.
the Misses Terrell, in Lis town
-Eph. Cornish, colored, one of the parties
arrested at Port Deposit, for violation of tn.
liquor law, was brought here and lodged in
iiail, this week, where he now remains
The Old soap factory, long known a.
Philadelphia, has been christened Can town
in consequence of the great number OF
empty fruit cans deposited in the neighbor-
hood.
The music from an ACCORDION played by
mistaken for Il brass band, by the boys on
the street, and crowds of them ran to see
the band Il comm"
Mr.. George w. Wells, of this town, has
been quite i'll for sometime past, SO much so
rs to arouse serious apnrehensions in the
minds of his friends. He is now, we are
happy to state, much better.
The ladies OF Hopewell NJ. +. Church
will hold strawberry festival, on the
grounds Of the church, on Wednesday
afternoon and evening, 18th inst. If the
day should be stormy, it will be held the
next fair day.
VIM. Torbert, Esq, of this town, while
on 4 visit to Germantown some time ago,
recognized two houses and stone wall
with iron pickets on top of it, all of which
stood there, when he live | w it'll his parents
in that town in 1913
The DeIsowen property corner of Main
and Bridge streets, was sold by auc-
tioneer Shockley for VIM. S. Evans, trustee
on Thursday last, to DR.. c. NJ. Ellis, for
81 $50. 1t is understood that DR.. Ellis will
occupy this residence as soon as necessary
repairs can be made NJ
MFR. w. Giles, fish dealer, on North
street, this week introduced us to a sp-ci-
men of turtle soup of his production. To
say it was splendid is putting it weakly, it
is indeed. What Giles don't know about
fish, oysters, clans, terrapins, turtles, etc,
amt worth knowing.
The work of putting Il new mansard
roof upon the National Bank building was
begun this week, and the frame is now
nearly all up. The roof will be of metal and
slate. The new roof is being put on over
the old one. The latter will not he removed
until the new one is completed.
Mr.. VIM. Ward, of Sassafras Neck
brought to this town, on Monday, speci
men of new potatoes raised by him. They
were of fair size for the table, and are GER
tainly much earlier than any in this neigh
hood He says that his tomato crop is in
advance of any in this section, the vines
now having fruit upon them as large as a
walnut.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, at Annapolis,
on Monday, the statement of the presi-
dent showed that the expenses of the canal
were 81, 1926 more than the receipts in
is to continue, the State had better burn up
the bonds held by her, and then fill up the
canal or else rent it out for fish pond
-Rumor has the following arrangement
for officers of the new Middetown bank:
For President, DIR. Crawford or William
Green; Vice President, Vim. IL. Cochran.
The position of cashier seems to be attract
ing the most attention. VIM. w. Wilson,
bank, and J. l.. Crouch, of Citizens Bank,
of that town, and q. w. Ingram, are men
toned.
Arrangements have been perfected for
two excursions from Port Deposit and
Havre de Grace 10 Colchester Beach, this
season, ON the steamer Pilot Boy. The first
will take place on July 10, and the second
on August ~. These excursions will he
Brickley and James n. Mccullough, two
gentlemen thoroughly familiar with such
things, and they will undoubtedly be first
class in every particular. 4
Last Saturday, Mr.. VIM. p. Howard, of
Randalia, in the Second district, lost, by
drowning. his mammoth hog, Jumbo, that
WAS thought tn have been the biggest hog
ever raised in the county. Jumbo weighed
at least | 200 pounds and was only in fair
condition. Mr.. Howard had intended to
exhibit him at the fair, this fall and
was confident that when ia good condition
he would have easily tipped the beam at
LII
-Elwood f., Mr. $. b. Foard's trotting
horse, broke away from his attendant, on
Tuesday evening, and ran up North street
TO the railroad and down the track towards
the station. At this moment the LIS train
was nearing the station and was very close
upon the horse, when some persons ut the
station succeeded in turning him off, across
the platform. 1t was 4 narrow escape for
moment longer he would have been dead
horse.
Mr.. John S. Rossell left at our office,
ON Monday afternoon, a sample of his green
peas, and as these are the first reported,
we think Mr.. II. is entitled to the palm of
being gardener who understands how to
grow early vegeta bles Had it not been for
the drought, Mr.. Rossell is confident that
he could have had them ready for his table
at least week earlier. 1t will be remem-
bered that i'll our issue of two weeks ago
we reported friendly wager made between
TINS gentleman and Sheriff Dunbar about
early peas, the former predicting he would
furnish them fit for the table in ten days,
and on the day named above the time was
just up.
by reference to our time table of the
p. W., & B. Rail Road, at the head of oul
local column, it will be seen that several
changes have been made in the running OF
trains, one or more have been put on and
about the same number taken off. The
north bound train heretofore arriving a,
sos A. NJ. now reaches this stations at I. y
o'clock. The train heretofore arriving