The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12

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that has been given to him. The Ninth cay
airy is composed of colored men.
The Cecil County Medical Society met
on Thursday afternoon last The proceed
ings were interesting to medical men.
The news from the Chicago Convention
this week was transmitted as received here
| by telegraph to Chesapeake City by tele-
phone, aud displayed there on bulletin
board.
| The County Commissioners ON Wednes-
| day last determined to send the insane man,
James Hines, now in Jail, to the Maryland
Hospital For the Insane at the expense of
the county.
A cock quail called loudly for his mate
in the Elkton cemetery all day Sunday last
| beginning at day break, and crasing only
when darkness came on him. Some reck
less gunner had no doubt shot his mate on
the day previous.
If any of our readers have any of the
script or paper money issued by the corpor-
alton of Elkton, during the early years of
the war of the Rebellion, or that of an ear
lier period, they will find a purchaser for it
by applying at this office.
TO keep flies from tormenting horses,
rub the neck, legs and TANKS with so!u-
,ion made by sleeping pound of walnut
leaves in quart of water, and after stand
ing awhile boil the same for IA few minutes,
when strain off and put in :. bottle for Use,
Daniel Bratton, Esq, of the Elkton
Bar, States Attorney for Cecil county, de-
livered the address before the Mount Yer
non Literary Society of Washington Col
lege at Chestertown. Md, at the beginning
of the Commencement exercises on Tuesday
evening last His subject was The Problem
of Life
Harvesting has besn going on upon TIE
Fair grounds this week, and fine crop of
hay was cut, cured and stored in the bar
rack. Mr.. Frank Pennington did the work.
The Agricultural Society gets from the
grounds nearly enough, indeed this season
it is thought they have fully enough, hay
to supply all demands during lh- coming
fair.
| One day last week Annie Furca"re,
daughter of George Foreacre, who resides
in Upper Elk Neck, and Il daughter of Mr..
Curtain, a neighbor, attempted 10 climb 4
cherry tree by means of Il Ladder. When
| they reached the top the ladder turned ard
the girls fell, Miss Foreacre first and nor
companion on top of her. Miss Curtain
was saved from injury by falling on the
| other, but Miss Foreacre received severe
bruises about the head and the bone of her
| arm was broken. The moral of this is !:
! Girls should not climb trees.
The mud machine has reached point
| in the creek just above the upper en-! of the
dyke, and will soon be up to the lower end
| of Singerly's new wharf. They are emitting
| . channel 20 feet wide. Between Singrrly' :
wharves the creek is $50 feet, SO that he will
have to excavate the remaining 20 feet. Be
tween SCOTS wharf, and the northern cdg
| of the channel it is IL feet, SO that ii they
wish TO bring the deep water to their wharf
! they will have to bear the expense Of taking
| out that much. On the other side of the
creek the same circumstances exist. No
contracts have yet been made between Mr..
Parsons, the owner of the dred ger, and any
private parties.
"A uuail's nest containing twenty-five
eggs vas found on Monday ,st on the h"r
der of the railroad bed, on the i. w. X Il.
near Crow Run, a couple OF miles north t"
this town, by the workmen while engaged
in moving the weeds and grass. They did
not disturb the nest and, if lucky, the parent
bird will lead away from it !. fine brood.
There is something strange about this par
fridge business: every year during the early
summer there are scores of coveys of young
birds all around the nei9hborhood, but
when shooting time in the fall comes not u
1.-THE of them can be found. There are butt
two ways to account for this-eithrr they
migrate, or are shot Oft by woodcock gun
ners in summer and early fall. The latter
is the most probable explanation.
-Ekton is at this time suffering from i
surfeit of bad odors. emanating from va
rious sources, which are the subject of much
complaint from Il large body of our citizens
Almost every week we receive for publica-
ton, one more articles complaining of
some particular source of bad smells, and
daily we hear the evil complained Of This
state of things should not continue, while
the remedy is so convenient, and ineXpen-
sive. A gentleman on North street who
has n pen, which at one time gave some
trouble by the foul odors arising from it,
has corrected the evil entirely by the simp-
lest method possible. BY cleaning the pen
daily. and covering the floor, and the pile
of manure with a coating of street dust, he
completely de-oderiZes it, thus getting rid
of all trouble. Ii each house holder would
adopt the same course with outhoIses and
pigpens, there would be no more cause of
complaint.
"A painful accident happened to :: man
by the name of George Frck on Section II
on the Is. & o. Railroad Company's Phila-
delpha Section on Tuesday last. He was
| at work near the steam shovel when it came
| in contact with one of the dump cars, throw
ing it off the track, catching and iamming
him between it and another car standing
near. The greatest pressure came upon his
| left shoulder and arm, the former being
crushed 1t was very painful accident
and the Young man suffered severely. He
was brought to this town and his injuries
were dressed by DIR. Fl. II. Mitchell. Prick
is a resident of New York. Section l. is
operated by Messrs. Shield and Darwin.
| MIR. and Mrs Jacob Weed, of Philatel-
phia, are visiting Mrs. John w. CantwelI
of this town. Mrs. Weed is Il daughter Of
Mr.. Chas. Smith, former resident of Elk
| ton, now engineer ut the House of Correc-
ton, Philadelphia, and sranddaush liter OF
Mrs. Cantwell.
"A young sheppard dog belonging to Nj.
T. Bond Brown, of this place, got himself
into bad fix ON Tuesday last He went to
playing with a fishing line hanging OH the
porch, and got the hook fast in his nose, the
barb entering the nostril and penetrating
upwards into the hard substance of the
snout Scared out of his wits he ran down
the cellar stairs, bat the rod caught across
the door way, and he fell and hung SIS
pended at the end of the line. 1t was a
disagreeable position and no mistake, and
evidently the dog was of this opinion for
the way in which he did howl is a caution.
| Mr.. Brown heard him and released him
from this fix by cutting the line, but the
hook was still in his suout, and far more
deeply imbedded now than ever. How to
get it out was question. Nippers were