The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-07-18
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BreVltleS.
Chester Heights camp meeting began
on Wednesday last.
Rev Il. w. Beers, of the Elkton Pres
byterian church, who has been away on a
summer trip has returned and will fill his
pulpit tomorrow morning and evening.
-Messrs VIM. Knight and VIM. S. Pot
ter arrived home from their western tour on
Tuesday last They express themselves as
highly pleased with their trip.
An arbor meeting will commence at
the A. NJ E. church of this town tomorrow.
Meeting will be held all day. During the
week evening meetings only will be held.
John A. Rankin, Esq, one of Elkton s
oldest and most highly respected citizens
who has been seriously i'll for a week or ten
days, has almost recovered his usual health.
An excursion to Colchester will be
gwen by the Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ.
f. church of Cecilton, on Wednesday next,
the 22i inst. The steamer Che Iter has been
engaged and pleasant time is anticipated.
We are pleased to be able to announce
that the TT. Rev. Bishop Lay, while still
quite feeble has considerably improved in
health. and has left the Church Home in
Baltimore for Block Island, r. T., where I've
expects 10 remain for several weeks.
Mr. Robert Ricketts,, tenant on the
farm of Captain n. F. Manly, near this
town, performed qni.e a feat in reaping
recently. With one monthly hand to aid
him Mr.. Ricketts, in three days cut and
shocked twenty seven acres Of wheat. OF
course he used the lat, st improved mach
iucry, but even with tlis, it was Ia big
performances.
Large operations in wheat cutting are
now in order Among Others that we have
heard of recently is the following. Mr.. John
Melbourne, farmer residing Il few miles
from this town, with two helpers in three
days and-a-half cut and shocked sixty
seven acres of wheat, large heavy wheat at
that. This is something pretty hard to beat.
We did not learn what make of machine he
used.
AS everybody is fond of peaches, and
as the price of the fruit is regulated by the
supply, the extent of the crop is a matter of
interest, especially to persons not blessed
with an abundance of means. The Dover,
Delaware, papers put the number of baskets
to be shipped from the Peninsula this sea
son by the various railroads of that region
at 1850, 900. When to this is added the
immense quantities carried by water it will
be seen that if these prophets are true propt-
cts, the peach crop has not been entirely
destroyed after all.
Prof. Thomas l.. Graham, for the past
eight years principal of the academy at this
place, has been elected principal of the high
school at Wilmington, Del. Mr.. Graham,
is not only an excellent instructor of the
young but an affable and plea SAINT gentle
man and has made good record here by
bringing the academy from the depths to
which it had sunk when he took hold of Il
to tirst-class institution, of its grade The
Wilmington school authorities are fortunate
in securing his services. The trustees of the
Elkton academy will find it very difficult
to fill his place with capable an instruc.
tor as he has proven himself, even if they
succeed in doing it at all.
DIR. H. H. Mitchell, of this town, who
performed the operation of amputating the
limbs Of the little two year-old child who
was so badly cut by n reaping machine at
Cherry HILL last week, says that, artificial
feet can be so fitted to the limbs that, in all
probability, by the time the little fellow is
six or eight years old he will be able tc
move about with the aid of cane with
perfect ease. We have no doubt of this
for we are acquainted with a gentleman
resident in Philadelphia, who lost both of
his lower limbs in the war, one above the
knee the other below, and he now walks
with the help of stout cane, so well that
many persons think him only cripple
and no one who does not know him sup
poses he has more than one artificial limb.
The relative speed of English and Anne.
rican railway trains has been a subject OF
much heated discussion between travellers
representing John Bull and Uncle Sam. a
writer in the forthcoming (August) Har
per's, in paper on "English and American
Railways" discusses the question in some
detail, and sums up the controversy by de
claring "rhe truth of the matter is that WI
have trains in America which are as fast a.
the fastest trains in England and that they
have trains in England which are as slow
rs the slowest trains in America" though
the average speed is greater in England be
cause of better road-beds, avoidance o
grade crossings, better system of signals
and shorter stops. On the other baud. eve
carry our passengers, high and low, ia
more cheaply than they do in England.
The paper compares the other points of thu
rival systems closely and interestingly
and is rich in illustrations by S. c. McCut
cheon, Alfred Parsons, c. S. Reinhart, ant
others.
An Eikton baby had fall on Tuesda,
afternoon, from which it is most remarka
BILE that it came ont unhurt. A little color
ell nurse was trundling it down NJ ain stree
in its carriage, and at q point few fee
from the top of the flight of steps leadin,
to the basement Of Mitchells drug store
the nurses attention was attracted to some
thing in a store and left the carriage on tn
sidewalk and entered. The pavement in
clines at this point, so much so that as sool
as she let go of the carriage it set out on
trip down town on its own hook. 1t die
not go far, however, before a detection t,
the left led it towards the stair way ant
carriage baby and all pitched to the bottom
When taken up the baby was found to b
nninjured so far as could be judged by out
ward appearances, but one thing is certain
its lungs were not mi ured, for the way it lift
ed up its little voice was a caution. 1t Ger
tainly was fortunate escape. The distance
it fell was eight or nine feet and at the bot
tom there is a pavement and stone walls
Mothers should be careful to whom they
entrust their little ones.