The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-09-20

held on Tuesday next at their Office, base
ment Of the court house, in this town.
-Wn. NJ. Marine, of Baltimore, made
stirring Republican speech here on Thurs
day evening last, showing ur the Democ-
racy fuIiy.
d, Scott X Bro, of this town shipped
this week by rail and water over 800 tons of
their fertilizers and are also filing hun
dred ton order for the Grange.
The ladies of the E}kton aud Newark
Catholic churches, will Hold a fair and fes-
tiyal sometime during the month of Novem-
Der neNe. The exact time has not yet been
fixed.
To-day is the Jewish New Years, and
all business places of this people are closed.
Quite 4 number of Elltons Israe!ite citizens
took the morning trains in various direc-
lions to spend the day among friends in
other places.
Quite q number of summer and Teal
ducks We're killed On the marsh on Wednes-
day evening. one gunner had shot into
flock of Teal containing about seyenty-five
birds. He says he did not kill as many as
he should
There Will be services tomorrow (Sab-
bath) in the Presbyterian church as usual
by the pastor, Rev. L. w Beers. His morn
ing subject will be ''Waiting at the Pool"
In the evening he will deliver thr fifth in
his subject being "The Liquor Traffic.
--MeSSrs. Ward K Davis, on Main street
had very handsome window sign painted
on the glass of their show windows on
Thursday. The work was done by per-
alnbulating artist, a man with skill sutfi-
cirnt To ensure him steady work, if he
wanted it.
On Thursday afternoon Napoleon b.
White, Il well known carpenter of Port De
post i'll this county fell from roof upon
which he was working a distance of twenty
feet, breaking the bones of his right ankle,
biting his tongue severely and otherwise in
juring himself.
Horse thieves or sEarperS are plentiful
hereahouts just now, and liverymen and
landlords in almost every town on the Pen
insular have been victirnized. Last Tuesday
Il stranger bred a team from W. c. Martin,
of VII irgton and drove to Newark where
he stopped at the Washington house He
pretended to be in search of stolen horse
aud carriage, and succeeded in borrowing
five or ten dollars from the proprietor, with
which he 'lrcamped leaving the team be
hind Him, giving Mr.. Martin the privilege
of sending for it.
\ COW va uGa at more than her weight
in silver dollars, in fact nearly double her
weight in that coin, is on exhibition at the
Pennsylvania State Fair at Philadelphia.
She is known as "PriuceSs the Second"
owned by Mrs. 5. NJ. Lewis, near Balti-
more. and it is said the owner refused an
offer o. so, 0O0 for her and sold her first calf
AT $500 We are thinking of buying a
herd Of this class of cattle. The only draw
back we see about it is that it would put
the price of veal too high. One hundred
and sixty-siX dollars and sixty-Six and
two-thirds cents per pound is high for calf
meat, but this is as low as ten thousand
dollar calf 5 meat can be sold, and then the
butchers profit would be but the hide and
tallow. On second thought we have con-
cluded not to invest our hard-earned mill
lions in this way. When we're ready to
buy well 90 down the Peninsula where a
whole COW can he bought for four dollars
ana a half.
DR.. c. W Chance llor, at the meeting
of the Maryland Sanitary Board at Blue
Mountain House, Va, this week, read a
long article on what he terms the "Epidem-
ic of Typhoid Fever in Eikton.' He dis
cussed drainage, water supply, out-houses
aud pig-pcnS. but cannot aScrioe the phan-
tom epidemic 10 any Of these, because, he
says, they are in better condition than in
the average of towns, and winds up by
charging the alleged epidemic to the milk
from Il certain dairy farm, AMI TO no othe l.
cause. 1t appears to us that a biz fuss is
being made about nothing. There is, nor
was, 10 more epidemic in Elkton than in
the healthieSt place in America. Indeed,
there has been 10 great amount of sickness
and no deaths at all here this summer eX-
cept the coiorcd woman who came here
sick fr.1n Baltimore, ODE Chancellor in his
paper credits her to Philadelphia and
where the epidemic comes in wecaunot see.
Another thng-it is unfair 10 the dairymau,
iii that his business NAV suffer thereby.
We hope and pray that DR.. Chancellor will
''let un'' on this epidemic business and pub
lish 10 more column-long articles upon it.
1t is child's play in Itself, but for all that
it works injury to the town.
a little mishap by which party Of
four persons who were out on Il grabbing
expedition got Il duciing and Il scare, hap
pencd at the junction ot the two Elk creeks.
4 mile below town, last Saturday afternoon.
The party consisted of a prominent young
member of the Elkton bar and his wife, a
postal railway clerk Ga two hundred poand-
er and more) and Il colorc,l man, who went
along to manage the boat. They had anch-
ored out and were busy attending their
ing over, peering down into the water to
catch the first glimpse of the expected crab,
and the attendant was just about netting
one for the lady, of course throwing his
weight upon that side too, when the boat
reared up on the other side until it was on
its beam ends, or would have been if it had
any, plunginS the lady, postal man and
attendant head foremost into the water. 1t
then dipped or scooped itself full, and un-
der the weight of the legal gentleman it
sank TO the bottom, leaving him standing
i'll water up to his shoulders. He had the
bottom Of the boat beneath his feet, but the
others were not so well fixed, The postal
man, when be succeeded i'll rightiug him
self, found he was i'll mud and water COW
ering him to the chin, and the attendant
was in the same fix. They managed, how
ever, to support the lady far enough above
water to get air while making their way
back to the Sunken boat, and in Il moment
passing gunner in his skitt reached them
carried the other shipwrecked sailors to the
landing, where the lady was taken care OF
at the residence of DR.. Il. c. Mackall. The
attendant remained behind to gather NJ
the wreck, and the lawyer aud the postal
man took Il back route home in very moist
condition, indeed. Or their way up they
gathered lots of dust, and when they reach,
ed this end of the route their clothing had
entirely changed color and was a dusty
crab The tai man says 'the next time