The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-09
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prempt service and ob'igi"g dtsposht"".
PltrOni2e him.
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-Watermelons, cantaloupes. pc ches and
other fruits are becoming plentiful.
The roads for a week past have been
too moist Tor pleasant driving
Buckley & McCullouah's excursion to
Colchester, Thursday, August 2l't.
There will he morning and evening
service in Trinity Church tomorrow at the
usual hours.
The wet weather has given the farmers
lots of trouble, and some loss in harve ting
oats.
-Carpenter work on the new building on
the fair grounds will commence next Mon
day.
Peach Bottom railroad is once more III
working order. Trains began running on
Saturday last.
An Elkton g-ntlem IN has one OF ehe
twenty-five cent notes of the scrip issued
by the Corporation of Elkton in 1868.
Mr.. Frank Hutton, formerly we think
of Elk mills, will confer favor by sending
his address to this office.
Church Side Seminary at Zion in this
county, will reopen September Sth next,
uLder care of Mrs. A. Z. Johns.
In the absence of the Rector, Rev. VIM
Schouler service at the church of the Good
,,i1 ht.p tpt Al
on the three ensuing Sundays.
Woodlawn camp meeting will begin on
Tuesday next, 18th inst. Bishop Taylor
the great missionary will preach on the
next day.
MIR. Ambrose Richardson of this town,
is confined to the house by severe strain
of the ankle, received on Friday of last
week.
Masters Enoch Purnell and Victor NJ.
Torbert, of this town, have gone to Baiti-
more to spend a couple of weeks with
friends there.
The next regular meeting of the Cecil
Medical Society will be held on Wednesday
next, 18th inst, in the room of the Agricul-
1ural Society in Odd Fellows Hall.
-Messrs Harlan & Bro. have this week
been engaged in repairing the second wash
out of their dam this, and are by this
time we'll towards completion. They had IA
strong force at work.
The two boarding tents at Wo"dlawn
camp this year will I've in charge of John
r. Rutter, and Mrs. Enoch Glllaher, re-
spectively, both of whom know how Lc get
up Il good table.
The attachment case of Hannum & Me
Hugh against John Wallace, will go up To
the Circuit Court on petition to uuash by
Wallace's counsel, on the ground, that he,
Wallace, is not a non resident.
Mr. James =. Evans, agent for The
Susquehanna Fertilizer Company, while in
Virginia recently, on business for the com,
pany, purchased a fine pair of horses for
them, and brought them on last week.
Justice of the Peace James A
Lewis Of this town, is agent tor the Peoples
Live Stock Insurance Company. He will
take risks on the life of any class of domestic
animals.
The yonng men of Newark, Del. will
give hop in Porter's woods on August
10Th, for the benefit OF William bradford, a
former resident of Elkton, who has lott his
eyesight.
The heaviest thunderstorm of the
season visited this vicinity last NJ nday
evening. The thunder was like the report
of park of artillery, and the lightning
was sharp and binding.
John S. Writ, Esq, on Tuesday last,
sold at public sale at the court house door
the farm known as the Flower farm, To-
Gated the Elk river, in the Second dis.
trict, to Frank Conrey for S., $50. 1t con,
tains l64 acres.
Rev. Mr.. Hume, of Long Island, who
so acceptably filled the pulpit of the Pres,
byterian church of this town, for IA time
after the resignation of Rev. w. w. Heber.
ton, is on brief visit to his tormor home
near the Pennsylvania line.
detective Jones of the F. w. & b. rail
road station at Wilmington, came to this
town on Tuesday last and arrested aud took
away with him Joe Martin, a colored man
who was found at work at Scott Il Bro. ;.
phosphate factory.
"A novel style of door bell may be seen
on newly erected dwelling ON Mercy.
Lane, in this place 1t consists of a small
tea bell, suspended from the door frame
with Il string hanging down, for convent
ence of visitors in ringing it,
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Cecil Ayr cultural Society, to be held on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day. October I, 8, 8 and TO- is being distrih
uted. The total premiums offered amount
to- $4,000. The usual rules governing for
mer fairs will govern this.
Much of our outside space is given W
this week to the publication of the Count,
Levy list for 1854 Tax payers however
will find it interesting reading, as it gives
"a clear and detailed statement of the pur
poses tn which the money collected has ant
will he put.
The photographer p J. Haughey, wht
has been located on the corner of Nam an,
Bow streets, having to give way for TIL
erection of the Democratic wigwam on tn,
lnt has sold out, and will opea gallery n
Colchester. He will probably have an Is
tablishment of the kind on the fair ground
This fall.
Specimens of ripe figs, one of then
weighing half Il pound, were lett at Mitch
ellis drug store recently 10y Mrs. Nichola
Milhurn, the most successful grower of thi
frnit in this section. Mrs. MiIburn had
large display of fine figs at the fair last fall
and will have another and perhaps ever
better this.
-Messrs. Brick-y & Mccullough vii
give their last grand excursion of the season
to Colchester, August q, on the spendi,
steamer Pilot Boy, from Port Deposit ant
Havre de Grace, leaving Port Deposit at 4
and Havre de Grace at 9 o'clock A. NJ , an,
returning, leave Colchester at Il p. NJ
reaching Havre de Grace AT 9 and Port a
lOP. Both brass and string bands will
he. on board. Tickets are put at the lo>
figure of 10 cents for grown persons and 4
for children.
The one great excursion of the Sraso
takes place on Saturday l6h of August
The train starts from Perryvil!e at 53
o'clock a. NJ, stops at Principle Charles
town, North East, Elkton, Iron Hill AM
Newark, then straight on to Atlantic City
giving from four to six hours on the Sc