The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-08

Oxford, Chester county, Pa, is about
to be able to boast ola kindergarten school.
Persons who witnessed the cyclone on
Monday afternoon, represent it As the most
appalling experience of their lives.
The hour of evening Serl zee at Trinity
church beginning with tomorrow Sunday
evening, will be Is o'clock, intead of half
past six.
Ball, at Oak Hall, has made. another
reduction in prices this week, marking his
entire stock down ten per cent. below for
mer prices. Now is the time for bargains.
Go and see him.
-Elkton was lucky to he passed by by
the visitor of Monday afternoon last. Had
even the ragged edge of that storm struck
the average Elllton house, nothing but the
cellar excavation would have been left.
There will be services in the Presbyterian
church tomorrow (Sabbath) as usual by
the pastor, Rev. Il. w. Beers. The subject
in the morning will be ANXIETY" and in
the evening "True Friendship" Nj are
welcome.
The last and best excursion from Port
Deposit and perryviile to Colchester under
the management of Messrs. Brickley "
Mccullough, will take place on Thursday,
August 2oth. Every effort will be put forth
to make this the very hest trip on record.
A great big chicken egg. laid by a hen
belonging to John Farra's poultry yard,
has been sent us. 1t measures in its two
circumferenccs seven and eight inches and
weighs quarter of pound. This is really
a large chicken egg, its equal seldom being
recorded ,-CItord Press.
The Brickley 4 Mccullough excursions
have earned reputation for comfort and
pleasure second to none, and they are more
largely patronized than any other. This,
the last one, will be made the best of all,
and tickets will be in demand and should
be secured early.
When Henry Brown, the colored driver
of one of the Marley mill mule teams, came
to look for his critters he could not find
them, last Monday. Henry was landed on
the side of the hill forty feet above By the
cyclone, and his mules were wrapped i'll tin
roofing in cedar grove just beyond, the
ccdars laying flat on the ground.
"A song sparrows nest containing four
eggs, was found on July Goth, by Henry
Terry and Walter Phillips, and was placed
on shelf in a cool room. On July 9th two
eggs Matched and the others were pipped.
This is one of the most remarkable occurren-
ceS that ever came to our notice. Tho young
gentlemen who found the eggs are from
Philadelphia, and visiting the family of Mr..
John Thackery, near this town.
The Brickley & Mccullough excursion
from Port Deposit and iIavre de Grace to
Colchester, on Tuesday, August 20tb, will
undoubtedly be the very best of the season.
Unusual preparations have been made, and
if it is within the line of possibilities for the
projectors to add any feature to the trip to
render it more enjoyable, they will without
doubt do so. This is the last of the season
of 1889, and to miss it will be to lose great
deal.
The harbor of Elkton presented the
most lively appearance on Wednesday last
for a long time past. At noon upon
that day there We're seven large schooncrs,
two one hundred and fifty ton barges, two
sloops carrying cargoes of watermelons.
One or two small sloops under process of
re-rigging; two or three of the same class
lying idle at the wharf, while the open
basin was dotted by number of small
yachts laying at anchor, and the putting Of
a steam tug added life to the scene. Alto
gether it was the busiest sight ever seer in
our waters. One waterman remarked that
when he came down to the wharf he almost
imagined he was in Baltimore.
All around the country evidences of
the terrific storm Of Monday can been seen.
Trees are leveled with the ground, fences
are overturned, corn is laid low and the
country generally presents y very iierrcSs-
ing aspect. Fortunately for Elkton, the
main centre of the storm went to the west
Of us, and We felt but the ragged edge on
the extreme outskirts. Had tie full force
of the cyclone struck the town there is no
telling where the many frame houses in it
would have been half an hour later. The
terrible destruction at iiarvey's, Marley,
Arbuckle's ami numerous other place
above town, are enough to render any one
fearful of passing through such an expel
fence.
The twelfth annual interstate picnic
exhibition (Grangers) under the auspices
of the Patrons of IIusbandry of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, West Virginia, New
Jersey and Delaware will open at Viii
liams' Grove, Cumberland county, Pa, on
Monday, August 81, 1885, and continue an
til Monday, September 18th. Excursion
rates at reduced fare will be arranged over
the principal roads i'll Pennsylvania and
adjoining states. Agricultural and scen-
titic addresses by prominent farmers and
statesmen will be delivered on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and
great sales of implements aad stock will
take place on Friday and Saturday. News
paper men in general are specially invited
to be present, and to them will be extended
all the courteses and conveniences of the
committee ncluQll;lrLeTS. manufacturers
of agricultural and domestic implements
and machinery, and breeders of good stock
will do well to make a note of this exhbi-
ton. Last year over one hundred thous-
and farmers, representing twenty
states, attended this gathering; and from
present indications the number will be
much greater this year. Over three hun
dred manufacturers of agricultural impl
ments and large number of rasers of fine
stock have already made application for
space for exhibition.
There are few Northern men in better
position to give impressions of the South
which the general public will welcome, than
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, who will rec
ord the results of a recent journey of o bser-
walton in the South in the September IEur-
Pcr'S. He is known not only as an essay
ISL, but as one of the editors and propri.
Of the Hartford C-ramt, Senator IIawley's
paper. Mr.. Warner feels sure that "Isoui..
lana, for instance, was never, in its whole
history, so consciously loyal to the United
States as it is to-day" For the past ten
years there has been growing in this couu-
try stronger feeling of nationality-a die