The Cecil Whig., 1883-07-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.


paired, and now goes up daily.
Three per cent discount is allowed on
town taxes paid during the present month
The real and personal property of Ris
ing Sun is assessed at $50, 900.
The Mccullough iron works, at Row
lantisville, have shut down for short time
for repairs.
Great fears are felt for the potato crop.
The wet weather has caused rot, many
patches showing signs of it.
The wet weather has caused rot among
the cherries and the crop, which was a
large one, has suddenly gone up.
The late principal of Port Deposit pub
lie school, Professor Foulk, has be- elected
principal of Oxford, Pa, Academy.
st. Marks Church, colored, of Elk
Neck, will hold a camp meeting in Stack
house woods, commencing on Saturday, the
2sth instant.
The eighth annual meeting ofthe Farm
Company will he held at Calvert, OH Satur-
day the 2Sth inst.
The strikers on the new B. a. o. Rail-
road, near Wilmington, were given the ad-
vance ed for, $l25 to $1.5O per day,
and resumed work.
The annual meeting of the Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Cecil county, will
be held at the company's office, in this town
on Saturday, August 4th.
North East became no wrapped up in
Dushane Posts drum corps OH the 4th of
July, that they are now organizing one OF
their own. 1t will have twelve members.
A large squad of Italian laborers ar
rived at this station, on Saturday, and were
put to work on the line of the B. & o. Rail.
road Very few of them could speak Eng.
lish.
The locomotive of An express train
jumped the track at North East station on
Tuesday morning. No damage was done to
any person. The engine was little in.
jured.
The house of VIM. Jack, near Row
lanndsville was struck by lightning on the
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jackson was stunned, but not seriously in.
jured.
Any one having unemployed horses and
carts, or either one or the other, can find
plenty of work for them on the new B. s.
o. Railroad where they are now in great
demand.
-Messrs. Davis, Keys 4 Co, of this town.
sold large quantities of lumber to the cJn-
tractors On the new b. & o. Railroad, for
building shanties for their workmen and
other purposes. l.
The low places on our streets are being
filed with earth from Singerly's new mill
excavation. The cutters were looked to,
also, this week, and given q cleaning by a
force of a halfdozen men.
Rev. Mr.. Sheppard of the Elkton n. E.
Church, on Saturday. returned from q visit
to his sister at Arlington, New Jersey. She
is suffering from cancer and her physic ians
say that she can live but short time.
AS will be seen by the report of Col
Craighill, elsewhere published in this pape,
work will soon begin on the river. The re-
moval of the old wharf cribs at French
town will be among the first things done.
We are informed by our postal officials
that the new postal notes, which were te
have been issued on July 1st, will not be
ready for issue before the fl irst of Septem Der
They will be very conveient however, when
they do come. u
Two hundred poor children were sent
out from Philadelphia, last week, by the
Children's Week Association, " for a week
in the country. A number of them are
being entertained by citizens of the upper
part of this county and Chester county, Pa
The Baltimore Central Railroad Com
pany is repairing the recent damage by the
flood on Basin Run, in this county. A
force of men is engaged in building long
stone wall sixteen feet high and Eve feet
thick, on the line of the road near Liberty
Grove station.
An Elkton man has quite crop of 70
bacco, now in a very hourishing condition
planted around the sides of his vegetabl,
lots, IN spots that could not be utilized fol
son raises enough to keep himself ant
friends smoking throughout tho year.
The farmers in the neighborhood o
North East and Charlestown, pay more at
tention to tomato culture than those in
this neishborhood, planting large fields il
this crop. The yield in that vicinity thi
season will be largest ever grown. Th,
canneries in the neighborhood take all tina
are raised. and would take more.
Mrs. Burbage Brock, Of this town,
lady eighty-two years of age, is seriousl
i'll at her home, on Main street, very littl
hopes Of her recovery being entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. Brock are the oldest married
couple in town, he being eighty four. tive
years older than his wife, They have beef
married for more than sixty years.
We this week received the tenth an
nual catalogue of the Wilmington Confer
ence Academy at Dover, Del, Robert H
Skinner, A. NJ, principal Also, the 3Otl
annual catalogue of Roanoke College, a
Salem, Virginia, Julius d. Dreher, A. NJ
Phi. D.. president. Both of these institu
tions are iu fiourishing condition and abb
managed.
Improvements are already beginning t
spring up along the line Of the new Il. 4 @
Railroad. The first is the erection, at a
early day, Of an extensive iron forge b
Geo. p. Whitaker, Esq. This will be ocal
ed above Principle, his present furnance,
and the iron turned out will he shipped b
the new road to his iron mills at Wheelin
West Virginia.
A round-trip ticket to Cape May an
return can be bought to-day for 81 sc
Leaving this station at il. 81 A. NJ, you Ian
at the Cape Mt 4.40 P. IL. To-day and t.
morrow Sunday, the grand musical fest
val takes place. All this may be seen an
heard and home reached early enough 70
work on Monday, or the buyer can renal
over until the Goth, the return ticket beinI
good until that time.
We acknowledge the receipt of the az
dress Of James NJ. Garrett NJ. A. LII. l
principal of st. Johns College at Annapt
lis, delivered to the Alumni of the institl
tion on commencement day, June 80, 1883
and now published by request of he societ
of the alumni. Also the presidents con
msncement address, June 18th, 1881, neatl
bound in paper and printed in clear. larf
type. They are both able and instruct,
papers.