The Cecil Whig., 1886-01-23
Miss Mullie Purnell is now residing in
" az hjnut op with relatives

the week with undated interest.
Mr.. Zachariah Taylor Hinson has bee
the master hog slayer of Elkton this viii
ter full ninety of these animals havin
been butchered by him.
Mr.. \. p Shockley about March 1stw
u remove to Philadelphia, at which place h
NJ will be employed as an auctoner at the trl
" !" of Ny. Thomas X Son on 4th street.
To those young men W no desire to lear
the art of love-making we would say so
t the hall on neXt Wednesday and Thursda
n evenings aud see how it is done in "Haz,
kirke."
Owing to the numerous 'closing out &
B.. cost" sales now in progress in Elkton pul
chasers are receiving harvest of bargains
but the legitimate one price merchant
have to suffer in consequence.
The thanks of the Pythian Journalists
Club are heartily extended to VIM. T. Giles
Il. G. Lewis, Il. q. Reese and w. w. Burk
ley, Esqs., for favors conferred on Wednes
day evening of last week.
An interesting meeting of the Elktol
Academy Lyceum will be held in the acad
emy building on Monday evening, Feb
lst. The question for debate will be: Re
solved, That Fictitious Literature Shoul,
be Condemned
All the ice men were busy last week
Messrs. Booth and Ninsinger have stored
their ice houses with excellent five and 81,
inch material, and the private ice houses o
Wm Falls and Dr. Mitchell were also tillet
with ice of an excellent quality.
The heart of the snail boy in Elktor
has been unusually happy this week. Skat
ing and coasting both at the same tim,
have been the occupation of the days and il
many cases the lessons have been sadly
neglected. Although this may not ado
wisdom to their brain, it does institute
health into the body.
Love is always difficult thing to un
derstand, but its origin and all its motives
are fully explained in the play OF Haze
| kirke," which the Elkton Amateur Ora
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings
next. 1t is SO full of good, wholesome, quiet
humor, too, that all the audience, both
young and old, can appreciate it.
In these dark, wintry days of snow
and ice and ram and slush, when blankets
and shawls are Indispensable articles fol
comfort, Mr.. Il. G. Lewis, of the Glass
Front, did not forget to lay in a good sup
ply of rubber goods, too, SO that his Gus
toners may rubberize themselves from the
crown of their head to the s)le of their feet
and thereby preserve their health.
The station agent at this place has for
several nights lately observed bags of coal
departing as if upon the wings of the wind
from the coal yards at the depot after nigl I
fall. 1t is generally supposed that the
wind in this case means a muscular black
man, and the merchants who own the coal
which is being so unceremoniously stolen,
have decided to employ detective, whose
business it will be to capture the sable
| brethren whose hunger for fuel overcomes
their honesty.
Visitors to ElktoA last week from the
| country reported the roads in a worse con-
| dition from the snow drifts than they have
been for several winters. On Monday OF
| last week the stage coaches from Chesa-
| peake City and Lewisyille were not able TO
run and the mail was carried on horseback
! As soon as possible the roads We're leveled
off and travelin again became possibility.
| The ears of the Chesapeake stage-driver
were frozen during one of his trips to this
/ place last week.
A curious sight was observed in the
/ store of one Of our prominent merchants
this week Ranged along the counter in the
act of making several purchases were the
| four generations of a well-known Cecil
county family, being the great-grandfather,
! the grandfather the father, and the son. 1t
| is seldom indeed that a circumstance of this
kind occurs. When the fact was pointed
out to the parties they enjoyed it very
much, and many delightful stories We're
told by the older men of the county;s by
gone days.
A woman never forgets her lovers
Ever and anon she recalls them in sweet
sad dream, and she counts them as nun
| counts her beads in her devotions. But a
man forgets. He don't care much A wo-
man at sixty is always serious and sensible,
and if left widow she lives true to her
memories and comforts herself with her
children and grandchildren. Buta widower
of three score years is the biggest fool upon
earth. There ought to be IA reformatory
! nrlspn for hpyS nplar Siy nd ,ioy
ers over sixty. An old widower will put
Grape on his hat and dye on his beard and
start out on a matrim onial skirmish in two
or three months after the funeral.
The repot of the fish commissioners
for 1885 shows considerable increase in
the number of fish Matched and distributed.
| Three new houses have been built on the
Eastern Shore during the year. One of
them is situated at Craw fords Point on
Tuckahoe creek, in Caroline county, and is
known as the Choptank hatchery. An
other, known as the Nanticoke hatchery, is
located at Twoford Mills, near Sharptow n
on the Nanticoke river, and the Wicomico
river. The first of these supplies young
fish or fry to the waters of the upper Eas
tern Shore; the second supplies the Nanti.
coke river and the waters of Dorchester
county, and the third all this waters of the
lower Eastern Shore.
Many roads in the county last week
were impassabe on account of the heavy
drifts of snow, and the supervisors wert
exceedingly anxious about their liability
for damages unless they removed the OBJ
struction. In many instances this wouit
cost far above the amount of their contracts
The law compels them to keep the roads a
all times In such condition as to afford free
safe ard easy passage over the same. Th,
time-honored custom has been, when al
emergency like the one of last week arose
for the supervisors to secure the aid of hi:
neighbors and open the roads to publi
travel. This same custom was observe,
throughout the county last week and man,
roads that might have remained blocke,
for weeks now i'll fine condition. AL
taxpayers will agree that it would be ba,
precedent for the county to pay for thi
extra work which would require an outlay
of many thousand dollars.
The streets of Elkton on Tuesday las
We're almost impossible to navigate on ac
count of the slush, ice, and water, but il
Philadelphia where every facility for keep
ing pavemerts clean abundant the sam
condition reigned, as per the following from
the venerable Ledyer: But few days can b
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