The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-02-14

Mr.. Frank Denny, of this town, left c
Wednesday night for Harrisburg, Penn
to enter upon the work Of weighing IL
mails on the postal route between that cit
and Hagerstown, Maryland.
The average Elkton boy will tug an
sweat on pair of roller skates all the afte
noon, but If his services are wanted for SON
useful piece of work, he's unwell and tn
DR.. does not allow him to exert himself.
Prof. T. L. Graham, principa! of tn
ElktOn Academy, attended the supper {
the Alumni of Princeton College, at til
residence of DR.. S. w. johnson, corner o
Franklin and Cathedral streets, Baltimore
on Tuesday last.
This is wonderful climate and no mi.
take. On Monday night last we had reg
ular June thunder storm, the weather be
ing warm, and on Tuesday night the mer
curry went down to within one degree o
zero, the coolest snap of the season.
Episcopal Church, of this town, will hol,
its annual missionary anniversary on Wed
nesday evening. March 4tb, and that of tn
Sabbath School Of the Presbyterian Churcl
will be held on Monday evening, Marcel
10th.
The flood Of Tuesday last washed dowr
three of the poles of the telephone line neal
Marley mill and the lightning burnt out
the zine in the instrument at the mill. The
call at the B. & o. telegraph office in this
town was also damaged by the electric
fluid.
We mentioned last week that Benjamin
Adams who lives few miles west of town
had his feet so badly frozen that in al
probability amputation of some part Of il
would be necessary. This proved to be the
case, and DIR. j. H. lamar has since taken
off his great toe.
Some Of the participants in the debate
at Persons Grove Lyceuln last Tuesday
count of personal remarks made by one OF
the speakers. 1t was thought at one time
that a fight perhaps duel would take place
after the debate was over, but better coun-
sci prevailed.
Mr.. James B. Merritt, Of this town.
has concluded to sell his fine horse "O'Lee >
"O'Lee" is by "Eolus," a celebrated stall
lion. son of imported 'Ieamington.' His
dam was half sister to Colonel Russell, -
formerly Hop horse that had record
of 2,2o. "O'Lee" is very handsome: and
animal.
The county commissioners were in ses-
sion on Tuesday and Wednesday, engaged
mainly in the correction Of the assessment
for 1885. Permission was granted the B. &
o. Telegraph Co., to construct their tele-
graph line on the Frenchtown and Perry
Vile road, from Stump's gate to the new
railroad.
"A colored woman of this town, who
her husband of holding little
card parties during her absence from home,
came home at time she was not expected
the other day, and found one of these fam
iangos in progress. She grabbed the cards,
deminoes &C., and threw them in the fire,
smashed pair of pint TASKS, and kicked
up revolution generally. That card party
adjourned suddenly.
The pavemsnts about town need relay
ing terribly in some places, they being so
much out of repair as to render them dan
ysrous. Thers is one very bad place on
High above Bow street. There are
Icores of places whore they are so uneven
IS to form large pools Of water whenever
ain falls, into which the pedestrian at
night plunges being ignorant Of existence,
but we refer to worse places, actual breaks.
In mentioning party at the residence
IF Mr.. Benjamin Bowen, in our issue Of
asst week We spoke of him as ex-register,
when we should have said ex-clerk to the
county com missioners. Another error &C.
cured in = notice Of the game ofprogressive
,uchre, where the letter CO. was substi-
,uted for &C." making the word ace figur
~ age A misplaced letter sometimes chan
Ees the meaning of the word entirely.
Taylor Howard, Of this town, recently
purchased Of q travelling dealer an i--.---
nent called "melodienette," and now
yrinds out all the music he wants by simply
turning . crank. With his new instru-
nent and performing upon the bellows of
tho organ at the Presbyterian Church,
Taylor is getting to be quite amusical man,
aud is .lmost ready for the little of pro-
lessor.
The skating rink i, = living fact. Odd
Fellows Hall was opened on Monday after
noon as a roller skating rink, under the
of Mr.. E. c. Collins. 1t has
proven very popular, and is generously
patronizsd. For twenty cents you can
* ate until your limbs ache, or until you
fall down and break your crown. A good
many got tum bles and saw stars, but no
crowns have so far been broken.
Washington is fast growing, in the es-
TEEN of tourists, to be one of the most beau-
tiful capitals of the world, and the drift OF
literary and fashionable people towards it,
as winter resort, is giving 1t new social
importance aside from its political interest.
In line with the new development is tho
growth of domestic architecture that gives
it much Of it's external character. An in
terestins paper, giving ga Glimpse Of Some
Washington Homes" in their exterior and
interior architecture, has been prepared for
Harper's Magazine by Mr.. E. w. Lightner,
aud will appear in the March issue. Among
the homes illustrated will be those of Ssna-
tor Pendleton, Justice Stanley Matthews,
w. L Payne, and other nota bles
cheerful disposition and humorous waysh as
been christened "Billy the Joker" Sunday
walked out Of the residence of Sheriff Smith
where he has been whiting for two months
past, upon the pressing invitation of Judges
Wickes and Stump, of the circuit court.
Billy became great favorited uringhis stay
here, not only among his fellow boarders
but with the authorities eff the house. He
made himself very useful to Doctor Jams ar
a. a nurse to the sick, and the Doctor now
says he don't know how he can get along
without him. On Sunday after his liberia
ton Billy rode out into the country with
DIR. lamar, and assisted him in the ampu'
tatlon of mans foot which had been
frozen, and afterwards departed for hi:
former home at Chesapeake City.
One of the handsomest and mostunique
aud original ideas in chromo-lithography il
the Columbia Valentine, just issued by the
Pope Manufacturing Co., Of Boston, Mass
The design, which is in twelve colors ant
mounted nnnn 4 nanel is genuine Worl