The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Nd, August Is, 1884.
For the AEgiS and MteAigencer,
ELKTON.

The majority who have travelled over the p
w. and b. K. have noticed the trim little sta
tion-house, on the Chinese order of architecture
bearing the historical word in great gilt letters
"Elkton!" yet few of the thousands who daily
pass know of the beauty that lies hid in the shade
of the dark green foliage of the naples, just be-
You'd.
the ambitious Cortez or the dreaming Ponce de
Leon might well have been satisfied in the dis.
covery of such a hidden city. Thrift seems to be
an innate principle of the inhabitants. for her
honest face peers out at every pont-in fine
buildings nicely kept; beautiful lawns adorned
with shrubbery and shade; in the hurry to and fro
of those you meet in the steets which are long
vistas of shade that echo on each pleasant eve
with the laugh of youth and beauty, and well
is the reputation maintained OF the beauty, of
Maryland women. Elkton can compare favorably,
The streets Of Elkton are well paved, and kept
and county and the politician are kept posted
upon the news of the day by four weekles-the
Cecil Wig, OF Stalwart Republican views the
Democrat, a Cleveland advocate the Cecil County
NewS, claiming an independent position, but
really Democratic In principle, and the appeal, a
The population numbers about twenty-five
hundred. Miss N. J. Finley, an anthoress of some
note, is erecting one of the finest wooden struc-
tnres in the State. The desi2n is unique, and
difficult to initiate.
Elkton has but one reflection upon the spirit of
improvement, and that Is the skeleton of court
house--a dilapidated rough-cast structure, that
might have done credit to colonial days; but her
Jail causes blush of shame on the face of
every Hartford man when comparing IL with our
Bel Air prison. The latter is good reproduction
of the dark and damp dungeons of the Norman
castles.
The Cecil authorities intended the erection of
new Court House, but the recent floods damag-
ed the public roads and bridges to such an extent
that an extra levy of Is cents on the one hundred
dollars was necessary for immediate repairs so
the hope for this improvement is justly laid aside
till other times.
From the house of Mr.. John Wilson, a pro-
minent pension lawyer of Elkton, is one of the
the hills of Pennsylvania and Jersey stand "black
and rolling" whilst nearer modest Delaware lies
dreaming in the summer haze, and Maryland with
fertile plains, to south and west, like vast pic
ture in the halls of nature. fresh with beauty
from "colors native well, invites man to gather
the hypothesis that in some remote period this
fertile valley was once an inland sea, or arm of
the sea- with narrow outlet Mr.. Wilson's
present home being an elevated island in the CEN
tire, produced by volcanic action. All stone found
thereon is of igneous formation. After climbing
this eminence the earth seems to have sud-
denly sunk beneath you and the vision takes in
a view of fifty miles, with the Chesapeake and the
Delaware in the distance, with hundreds of farm
houses scattered among the fields, that in the
distance remind one of the squares of the
checker board.
The Agricultural Society has in course of con-
struction annex exhibition hall 40 by 200 feet,
costing $1,000 and will be as fine as any in the
United States.
The Philadelphia Record has an immense pop
lar paper mill working on full time. They have q
few hundred cords of pine lumber that they will
use as an experimental test of its utility in the
ply the New York Herald in material. These
works are immense and well worth visit of ex-
animation. The new machinery lately placed for
drying purposes, cost the enormous sum of $4,000.
There are seven churches in town-fye white
and two colored. The morals of the place
good and though so near Delaware, where liquor
1 s sold. but few drunken men may be seen, and
the Jail has few criminals, but is full with the in
sane of the county, the latter having but little
provision made for those of weak minds, when
they become dangerous. save the strong walls of
her prison. F. p. s.