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


On last Monday morning frost was Wis
ible and the air was keen and cold, TIVE
days afterwards the mercury was i'll thu
mineties. This Is world of changes.
Among the visitors to the Oxford Fai
last week was Cecil countian who Ia.
down with "brick in his hat" inside tn
race course and when he sobered up discov
cred he was minus about S54 from his poke
book. Moral: keep sober at 4 fair.-Orfor'
Press.
The one hundred and first annual com
mencement of Dickinson college, at Carlisle
Pa. will be Inaugural ted, Sunday, June ODD
(to-morrow) by sermon before the Societ.
of Religious Inquiry by Rev. Littleton +
| Morgan. The commencement exercises prop
er will take place on Thursday, June 10Th
Mr.. Thomas Drennen recently purchase,
from Mr.. j. Steele of the Seventh district
two very handsome registered short horl
| cows which are now in his pasture lot OF
Main street at the eastern town limit
These cattle were bought by Mr.. Steele a
u large sale VI SUCH SIOCh III NcutuShN
A disease somewhat resembling pleuo
pneumonia is raging to some extent among
the cattle in Upper Cecil. Cattle belonging
to Joseph Rowland, Of Zion, and Ros:
Conoly, of the Brick Meeting House, hav.
been affected, one belonging to the latter
had to be killed The disease appears to bt
contagious.
A State scholarship in The Baltimore
Female college is now vacant and will bt
filled by the Orphans Court tor Cecil count y
before the beginning of the fall term in Sep
TENDER next. Parents or guardians who
desire to make application should do so a,
an early day, addressing their applications
to the Judges of the Orphans Court fol-
Cecil county.
The Town Commissioners are making
war upon the fragrant Ailanthus tree and
propose to put them to death wherever
found. There is "a great difference of opinion
in regard to this tree, some persons charge
that the odor from it is unhealthy and ma
larial, while others claim it to be just the
reverse and say it cures rather than Great
ing diseases, and some like the odor while
others think it horrid. Strange Amt it. II
Our readers will find elsewhere in this
issue an account of the great ratification
meeting held in Baltimore on Wednesday
night. Among the speakers our tai
ented young townsman, Il. c. Thackery, ESQ
who delivered sound and telling speech.
We regret that we are unable to give all
the speeches in full, for they make good
political reading. The speech of General
Adam f. King, of Baltimore, was also a
grand effort.
Every body should have the life of
James G.. Blaine, the next President This
work by Colonel Conwell, of Augusta,
Maine, will be ready for delivery on July
LIST. 1t will be a handsome and substantial
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and Sl.75 in English gold cloth. Send in
your orders at once to John Torbert, office
of TIE WING, and the volume will he for
warled as soon after July LIST rs TIE mails
will take it.
Mr.. S. b. Foard, Of the Howard House,
this week received another letter from Mr.
John q. Noakes, who left this town re-
Gently for England. IL is dated at Brighton,
and gives an interesting account of that
celebrated English Watering place, and the
races there. Among other Americans at
that resort he names the Winan's family,
of Baltimore. From Eng land Mr.. Noakes
will go to Paris where his daughter is At.
tending school. He expects to get back TO
America and Elkton by Seutem Der.
A c"lore,l Blaine and Logan club was
formed here on Friday evening, the 18th
The meeting was held ut Union Hall. Jos.
l.. Wells was unanimously chosen Presi
dent. Jacob Hammond vice president, Geo
Gordon secretary, and Henry Chase, treas
treasurer The club will meet every We'd
nesday evening. A burgee with the cand;
dates names upon it was thrown to the
breeze from the hall illg staff. A pole will
be erected soon and II ~ hosted.
Mr.. \. W. Mitchell is meeting with
great success in taking subscriptions fer the
new Agricultural Socety's stock He la.
subscription book at the drug stare ON
Maine street, and has already some seventy
names upon it, subscribers 10 one or moie
shares. Every person he has so far so,ici
ted has subscribed. Among the Subscri-
oers there are great many ladies', they
seeming to take more interest in it than the
men. He expects to have II hundred shares
taken in a few days. If all who have books
do as well as he has done the five hundred
share will soon be sold
The managers of the Cecil County Az
ricultural Society at their meeting held on
Thursday, ordered liberal additions to the
list of premiums to be offered at the fair on
October 9TH, Sth, 9th and 10Th; and a plan
was finally adopted for the exhibition build
ing to be 200x40 feet, of one story, with sky
light or ventilator six or eight feet high az
nearly the whole length of the building.
Proposals for erecting same Immediately,
according to plan and specifications now
prepared, We're ordered to be invited to lie
handed i'll to the meeting to be held on the
Goth inst. See advertisement to builders in
another column.
Mrs. John $. Inskip. widow of the late
well known evangelist of that name, has
been visiting her neice, Mrs. William Is.
Smith, near this town during the pass week.
She addressed meetings at the Nj. Il. Church
Monday aud fruaS,l,,- &
has been in the evangelistic work for a nu.;n.
Der of years, in connection with her late
husband, and will continue in it so long IA
her health will permit. She is a fluent and
forcible speaker. Mrs. Inskip is a native
OF North East, in this county. Her maiden
name was Foster. and number OF her re,
latives still remain there. She goes from
here to Pittman's Grove (New Jersey }
camp meeting.
The Town Commissioners have very
wisely determined, so far as it lies in tEeil
power, to rid the town of every stencil and
disease-producing agent. Persons having
any such things upon their premises will bt
notified to remove them, and if they fail tC
do so within reasonable time, to have tn.
work done and collect the cost from them
by law. They have also determined to re
move the old board walk from Howard
street and put down 4 pavement in it's stead
We think this is needed, no; for the benefi,
OF the residents of the street particularly
Tor they could do well enough with the
board walk, but for the general public Wis
iting the cemetery and the hundreds O,
children attending the public school Thi.
matter of putting down This pavement in