The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-09-06

The first of September found Giles oys-
ter depot on North street we'll supplied
with most excellent salt water bivalves
| and the lovers of this denizen If the hriny
deep revelcd in a better, fattrr and !reeher
article than they often get i'll mid winter.
He received them direct from the lower
! Chesapeake beds, and they are just us tneaS
an oyster can be. Giles has also added to
his stock full line of Seasonahle and fresh
vegetables, fruits, melons, &c, and will fit
ont the larder i'll everything in this line.
! Don't forget the place, North street next
! door to the post office.
Mrs. Hannah Beackley, of Philadelphia,
is visiting the family of Mr.. VIM. +. Giles,
in this town. Mrs. Beatley is a sister of
| MesSrS benjamin and Joseph Wells, well
known citizens of Elkton. This is her
only visit to this town in eighteen years.
Her husband was for many years keeper of
the state house, independence Hall, Phila-
, delphia and also acted as hcliman, striking
the alarm for fires. The writer of this has
many n time, twenty-five or thirty years
ago stood in the tower and watche,, the old
gentleman as he sounded the alarm. There
were no fire alarm boxes or tele graph lines
| then, and the fire companies were directed
to the scene OF the fire, the bel! giving the
direction. One stroke meant north, two
south, three east and four west. One fol-
lowed after an interval by three strokes
meant northeast from tue state house, &c.
Mrs Beatiey is widow, her husband hav-
ing died some fourteen years ago.
Albert McCarlle, of Dunmore town
ship, Lancaster coanty, Pennsylvania, is
something OF Il chicken t..ncier, and has all
through the summer missed eggs aud
chickens, without being able to trace them.
Some days ago hen was missing, of which
nothing could be learned until several of
his children discovered her setting i'll Il
broody condition in a stump at some dis
lance from the house. They ran 10 tell
their mother, who, on going out and re-
moving the hen, found Il black snake and a
nest full of eggs beneath her. She ran to
the house, picked up a fishing gig and
managed to kill the snake with it. The
eggs in the hollow stump had all been
Suthtl ny Jlf Sll3kt, NllItI TAU E"htti u +
its quarters in the nest, both the eggs and
snake being covered by the setting hen
The snake was over five feet in length and
unusually thick in proportion, a very large
one in fact-Ne,r Fra.
-Mrssrs. Booth K Son have grown this |
season, about an acre of ''Stowe's Ever
green Sugar Corn" one OF ths choicest va
r'eties OF table corn, which they propose 70 |
Cffer for sale for seel. We We're shown a |
specimen of il the other day, Just in coudi-
ton of rircness for the table, ami it beats
anything we ever saw or heard OF in this
line. Grown on ordinary land, the ear is
considerably larger than other sweet corn,
but the gr"und planted by Messr>. Booth
IVES uncOmmouiy rich, and the corn is
in size, aAd developed to periec-
ton. The cohS measure about / inches in
length, and with the grain on them from SiN
TO seven inches in circumference. The
grains are very large, fun and plump, and
as sweet sugar. One gentleman re-
marked upon seeing it, that cone ca" would
make a meal for person. and another
make toler;.ble cal for horse" Farm
Frs and o herE who grow table corn tor the
market, would do well to secure seed of this
variety from the Messrs. Booth.
Quite an excitement was created on
EAST Main street on Friday of last week by
+, vicious steer running muck through that
street. Mr.. David s. Moore WAC lives a
ew miles from town, on that day drove Il
arge black steer into town for the purpose
If delivering him to MeSsrs. Wells x Booth
who proposed to make beef of him. TO
his the steer objected, aud when he got
Whit of the slaughter house he became far
Gus and made 4 break at those about him.
)ne of the party went up 4 tree like sqtlr-
eel, others jumped the fences and others
an into the store, slamming the door after
hem. The steer made a break ont Main
street and at Il respectful distance, three OF
our Of them followed h;m. 1t the Far
Jreek they found him, aiiary't'y d"ciie
ma they rhcE.iit to secure Him. GA the
irst attempt lie rushed 1T tl4ein, and John
Earle, a crlurtd man, WAS compelled to
Jump into Tie creek from the hr;.l..,. TO get
lway from him. They then gave it up and
ct him 90 hithrT lie wished. The first of
his week they heard ci' Linn "@:Iin. He
lad stopped 1T the farm of Mr.. Nln. Ford,
wo miles from Gil ,Sgow, Delaware Mr.
Booth will take a force of men over there
next week and shoot ana dress him there,
t being thought easier to haul him home
in pieces than drive him hcme alive.