The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-06-21

working capacity of the machine will be
given by Mr.. Duychinck at his farm MS
soon as his grass is fit to cut
Road Commissioner John Lockly, with
force of men are still at work taking as
he puts it, the props from under Red HllI,
east of town, and letting it down To the
level of other parts of the road This is
pretty large undertaking, rs the hill is
nearly Il quarter of mile long very heavy
grade, and is of stiff clay. OF course the
pikeing must be taken off before anything
can be taken off the hill, whether or not
the picking will be put down again, but we
are quite positive that passable road can
not be made of the clay alone. We have
no doubt however but that Mr.. Lorkly vii!
make good solid road I'll for travel at any
time of year.
An Injunction was Sued ont On Thurs
day by Captain II. =. Leslie, of this town,
restraining the board of Town Commits
sioners from cutting down Il certain all
anthus tree on the premises occupied by
plaintiff on Bow street \ number of these
trees were cut down in town recently,
but they were in cases where the owners &c
sired it. In this case Captain Leslie wishes
to retain the tree as sha le for his iront
porch, as it is all he has, and besides he is
one of those who believe the tree to be Il
preventative of malarial diseases. Whe-
ther the latter is a fact or NOT, certain it Is
that these trees We're orig inally planted for
this purpose the belefn their efficacy being
general at that time
The second alarm of fire this week was
on Thursday evening, caused by the heat
ing apparatus under the hot counter at
NIerritIs Granite Hall Saloon, on Main
street, taking fire. The apparatus is a sort
of lamp series of lamps made of tin in
which coal oil is burnt. The heat of the
flame melted the solder and the fire got to
the OIL creating such a blaze that for a time
it looked though the whole interior of
the saloon was on fire DR.. Cut Wells was
promptly on hand with his chemical eN-
tinguisher, but the fire was extinguished
before he arrived by Mr.. Marrett and sew
eral others who happened to be present
The fire created considerable alarm among
the neighbors, As this is compact, combus-
tible block and if fire ever got under way
the whole thing would be bound to go. This
is the second fire this week, if the third one
comes look out for smoke.
Every now and then Some piece of
strange news springs up, and goes the
rounds of the press, from one end of the
country to the other 1t will first be pah
lished by New York daily, from there
copied by the journals of lesser cities aud
from there be scissored first By weeklYS
near at home, then by lesser lights in the
interior until it will be seen months after
wards in the journals of the most obscure
parts. The sensation of this kind now on
its rounds, is "A Georgia Phenomenon" the
story of a modest country girl in interior
Georgia who is endowed with some miraca-
lous power by which she can overcome tile
strongest man with her little finger, raise
weights that scores of men could not move
and do other wonderful things. 1t first APP
peared in an Atlanta, Georgia paper aud
from there it has made the circuit of the
country appearing last week, in the farhcSt
down peninsula papers.
The first quarterly conference of the
Cecil county circuit, was held on the l4th,
at Reads \. NJ. Z. Church, North East.
The session was q very pleasant one
Twenty-Five answered 10 the roll call The
stewards report shows the circuit to he in
prosperous state. A motion was adopted
to hold Il circuit camp meeting at North
East, Ia commence on the 9th of july.
The conference after debate resolved to re-
vive the license of John Webster James
Hallens, John Macal and Alfred lIornmui.
After attending TO some other business per-
tanning to the circuit the conference nd
iourned to meet on The 1Irh of September
The meeting 1t C..lir Hill on tst SUNDAY
was an interesting one, Rev. +. W. Scott
preached a sermon at night ON the mission
of Jesus to our world, from Luke l9th chap
ter and 10Th verse, Ia Il full house. y bush
meeting will be held At Elk Neck on sun
dav next All are invited