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

SlOu W lOlCueSleI, ucNI w euneSudy IL Will
be pleasant trip and the first of the sea
son. Take the chance while it is going. You
may not have another The best of manage
ment has been provided for.
Much disorder is said to exist among a
crowd of young colored men, who gather
nightly on East High street. Residents OF
that neighborhood say that the noise made
by them sometimes is unbearable. Profane
language is also said to be freely INDUCED
in. Where are the officers?
A strawberry festival was held at Max
wells Hall, Main street, on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, with very limited sue
cess. We understand that the profits, if
any, are to be devoted to the establishment
of free library, but as the profits of the
enterprise were so small, we fear the library
idea will be abandoned.
During three evenings this week, "a dance
or ball has been in progress among co oretl
people of this town, at Union Hall, at Can
town, attended with mach disorder The
residents of the neighborhood complain
loudly of disturbed sleep, and threaten to
appeal to the law for the suppression of
these meetings The town officers should
look after the matter.
The Big Elk NJ. L. Sunday School will
hold their annual straw berry and ice cream
festival, in the chapel yard, on Wednesday
evening, June Is. Should the weather
prove unfavorable on the day appointed
the festival will be held on Thursday
| evening. We cordially extend an invita-
| ton all
The Pennsylvania Rail Road Company
have issed Il handsome guide book of eX-
| cursions for the summer of 1888. This
company never does anything by halves,
and this book is 4 gem of its class. The
cuts of the various resorts are very fine.
Hundreds of excursion routes are laid down
and from them any one may be snited.
An Elktonian who has mourned the de-
mise of his favorite cat for several months
past, this week placed upon h is grave a
tribute in the shape of marble slab on
which is inscribed "Bill died Oct 9th,
1882, aged IL years, an honest cat" The
slab which is of polished marble was pre-
pared and cut by Mr.. ID. Sloan of this town.
The schooners Rio Grande, s. ii. Ira
vers, John Wethres and Helen, and a large
soop, with poplar wood from the Kappa
hammock, for Providence Mills, arrived here
and discharged their cargoes this week.
Two large barges of coal also unloaded at
the same time. The weekly receipt of wood
for Providence Mills, at present, averages
about six hundred cords.
1t is Il luxury to have Il well-litting
pleasant suit of clothes, during the warm
months, for nothing will worry and sweat
a man more at such times, as an awkward
fitting garment. In Balls new stock may
be found garments that will make any man
feel happy, and the price is so low that he
will hardly miss the little money it takes
to buy them. At any rate this is our ex-
perience.
MIR. Robert Pennock, contractor for the
stone work of Mr.. Singerlys new pulp
mills, began work this week, and has now
got a large portion of the foundation walls
up. He has ten or twelve men at work
Mr.. Pennock is said to be one of the most
skillful handlers of the hammer and trowel
i'll this State, or, in fact, in any State, and
Mr.. Singerly was very fortunate to secure
his services.
During the greater part of the past
week we have been favored-if favor it
can be termed-with genuine summer
weather. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the
mercury reached $50 and on Thursday it
was AS high as 80. The shower of Thurs
day evening cooled things off for time
but yesterday it again touched 900. This
is just such weather as we need, and its
beneficial effects upon growing crops is
plainly apparent.
-Adjutant General j. w. Watkins, of
the Maryland State Militia, visited this
town and inspected the Groome Guards,
on Thursday evening Only twenty eight
members of the company We're present, the
evening being Il sultry one, and many Oh
.jecting to being encased in the heavy wooden
uniforms at such 4 time. The adiutant
general complimented the men upon their
appearance, in I short speech, and promised
to supply them with new uniforms ut an
early day.
The erection Of Singerley's new wharf
cuts off portion of the basin, dug out for
the purpose of allowing steamboats, to turn
around, so that now the Chester or any
other boat as long cannot come up to the
wharf. This makes it very unhandy for
~ he al tfi,ntN of ,s,at
ting to and from the landing is considera-
bic. We trust that the digger will arrive
soon, and cut the basin ont more on the
marsh end.
Mr.. \. w. Mitchell, the custodian of
all the curiosities brought to this town, has
on exhibition clock Kaleidoscope or
Chinese imitation of fireworks. 1t looks
like a dial clock. Upon its face are u mum
Der of highly colored and fancifully cut
circles of pasteboard, revolving very rapidly
so that when it is set going Git is run by
clock work) it presents all sorts of beauti-
ful designs, very much after the fashion of
4 Kaleidoscope. The machinery is at this
time little ont of order 1t will be re
paired in few days, when it may be seen
in motion.
The south bound train that leaves this
station at sos A. NJ, is the Newark and
Perryvile accommodation. Starting from
Newark, where it connects with the Della
ware City road, it takes passengers from
the Delaware Division, and goes no further
than Perryville. BY taking this traiA at
this station, and at Perryville taking the
express which arrives there at S.j1, paSsen-
gers can reach Baltimore one hour and fifty
minutes earlier than by the regular morn
ing express, that leaves this station at 9.5l;
or, in other Words the express which leaves
Perryville at Sol, reaches Union Station at
9.45, while the 9.51 express from here does
not get there until ll.35.
A fine young horse of Sheriff Dunhar's
was terribly cut, by becoming entangled in
the barbed wire fence around field on the
| farm of Joshua jackson, Esq, where he
| was paSturing, on Sunday evening or Mon
| day morning. To look ut the wounds one
would not suppose that such terrible gashes
could be made by the little barbs on the
wire hut it is deceptive, and fences made of
it, unless provided with top rail of wood,
are nothing more than traps Mr. Dunbar
saw the colt on Sunday afternoon, and he
was then all right. 1t is, therefore, proIa-
ble that the accident happened at night
| We have noticed a number of fences in
this vicinity made entirely of this wire
| without rail of any kind, whereas they are