The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-23

the fiji: zenith of August.
barnard Mitchell, an old resident o
Havre de Grace, died on Wedn esday morn
ing, aged 70 years.
Don't forget to attend to your town as
sessments at the meetings of the board AL
vertised in another column.
-Rurkley, the popular tonsorial arts
contemplates removing from his presen
quarters, in Odd Fellows Hall to the shol
on Main street, recently occupied by Hop
kins.
The Steamer Chester, with the Presby
terrain Sabbath School Excursion on board
will start from the town wharf and moi
from Elk Landing. 1t would be well t.
make Il note of this.
DIR. Robert Ward, f. II. c. V. s., OF
England, has been appointedby Gov. Han
ilton. State veterinarian for Maryla DIR.
Ward it is said brings to the position an ex-
tended experience and excellent credentials
Mr.. VIM. X. Stackhouse, of Elk Neck,
began cutting wheat on Wednesday last.
In Sassafrs Neck harvest began on Monday
and is now in full blast The crop every
where is maturing rapidly and by the last of
next week the sound of the reaper will be
heard on every hand.
-Messrs. Edwin II. Gallagher and John
II. Blackston, of Appleton, in the Fourth
district, have purchased of Warren Harper
Il Co.. of Wilmington, Del, Il new Buffalo
Pitts Steam Threshing rig, consisting of Il
/ six horse power portable engine, and Vi
brating Thresher with clover hullng at
tachment. Farmers will now be able to
have their grain taken out in the best con.
| dition and shortest time.
The skaters began work upon the new
roof of the National Bank building, ON
Wednesday morning last aud before this
reaches our readers their work will prob
ably be completed. The rapidity with which
the slate is put on is remarkable. y cover
ing of heavy felt is placed upon the sheath
ing, and upon this the slate is laid. The
design of the roof is pretty one and will
prove an ornament 10 the neighborhood.
Clarence Dunn, the man recently ar
rested in this county for horse stealing in
eunsylvania, escaped, together with two
other prisoners, from he West Chester Jail,
on Saturday night, and was captured again
on Monday. Dunn and Fraukforti, one OF
the prisoners who escaped with him, are old
offenders, the latter having just previous
to his arrest this time completed term in
the penitentiary for horse stealing.
The annual commencement exercises
of the Elkton Academy, will take place on
Wednesday evening, June 9th, at Odd
Fellows Hall, under the direction of the
principal, Thos. l.. Graham, Esq. These
exercises are usually of 4 very Interesting
character, and this year there will be no de
parture from this rule. We are requested
to say, all the relatives and friends of the
students are invited To lie present.
The Oxford Press says: j. ID. McHenry.
Esq. of Oxford, has exchanged his paper
mill property on Big Elk Creek, East Not
tingham, known as Laurel Valley Mills,
with w. S. p. Shields, of Philadelphia, for
farm of I'll acres, near Perkiomen June
tion Montgomery comfy, Pa. He has also
exchanged tract of woodland, in Nifflin
Montgomery county, close to the Philadel-
phia city line.
A spectacle rather unusual i'm this lati-
tnde was witnessed ner- on Sabbath last.
1t was that of farmer hauling a moving
machine through town, moving it from a
neighboring farm to his own, so as TO have
1t III readiness for operations on Monday
morning. The procession attracted much
attention. as it passed along our streets Just
at the hour when the people were on their
way home from the several places of wor-
ship.
-sev. j. +. Grammer, delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon before the graduates of
Delaware College in the Presbyterian
Church at Newark, on Sunday night. The
church was crowded, no other services
being held in the town. He took his text
from the First Episfle Of John, chapter .,
lith verse, and in the course of his sermon
he deprecated the love of money, pictured
evils to which youths are exposed, and
""'ip upon tHt anu Oh VIZ
tue.
In the Circuit Court on Monday,
Judge Stump on the bench. Albert Con-
stable, Esq, presented to the Court and
asked to have spread upon the records, the
proceedings of Il meeting of the members
of tie bar, held on the Sd of April last in
honor of the memory OF the late Henry L.
Physick, and in connection Herewith made
a feeling address upon the life and charac-
ter OF the deceased. The court directed the
proceedings of TIE meeting to be entered
upon the records Of the court
7 A colored lad, named Claren .e Berry,
was caught in trap, at ST. Georges, Del,
a few miles east of this town, last Saturday
night. Mr.. j. II. Stuart, of that place, had
been missing goods for some time past, and
feeling sure that they We're carried away by
Il thief, ser II trap gun. Some time during
the night the boy came along for another
lot of goods, and walked right into the trap.
AS soon AS he struck it the gun Went Oft
and he was the worst scared dark ever seen.
He was shot in the leg.
The attempt to ventlate the Methodist
Episcopal Church, on last Sunday evening"
by closing the windows and doors, didn't
prove Il success to any extent worth speak
ing Of We have always been of the opin-
ion that the proper plan to secure a free cir
culation of air in an assembly room is TO
open both doors and windows and we are
of the same opinion still, after swelterinu
for an hour or more on the occa. lion referred
to, under the other process. We trust the
expeiimenter in the science Of ventilation
is now n convert to the open win'ow theory
A very sensational story about 4 West
ern cattle grower, now Il millionaire who,
twenty years ago, was so poor as to be I'M
able To buy pair of Shoes and was in con-
he married in his bare feet, is now going the
rounds of rhe newspapers. a case nearly
parallel to this happened not far from this
town about the same time. A gentleman
who now counts his wealth by the hundreds
of thousands was so poor at the time of his
marriage that he had to borrow Il coat in
which to appear 1T the ceremony.
The Commencement exercises of Della
ware College at Newark began on Thurs
day, nth instant, with the prize contest in
defamation and reading and closed on last
Wednesday, the final-not exactly of a Ii
terary misunderstanding the Alumni Ban