The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-11-06
MARYLAND MATTERS.

The HARLEQUIN cabbage bug is damag-
ing crops in Talbot county.
Henry Gilbert, of Chestertown, has
three pumpkins that weigh 1921 pounds
Washington College foot ball team will
play the Centreville team on Thanksgiving
Day.
Farmers near Fairee are killing their
hogs because of the prevalence of hog
cholera.
George w. Riddle has bought the
Benjamin Jones farm, near Poconoke CITY,
for $1,000.
George H. Dyson, of near Millington,
has cow that is the mother of two sets Of
twin calves.
-Frederi TX City will take steps to erect
lookup and impose license OF 500 on
people selling goods by samples in that
city.
). *. Morningstar, near Union Bridge,
Carroll county, raised from one vine forty.
eight large pumpkins, weighing in all 62C
pounds.
Wye Mills poses as "woman's rights
town. 1t has woman postmistress, q
woman mail carrier and woman school
trustee.
Ralph C. Graves, a farmer near Han.
cock, was accidentally shot in the face
while hunting with some friends from
Washington, ID. c.
James Winder, colored, in the Guam.
tico district, Wicomco county, grew q
sweet potato this year which weighed eight
pounds and ahalf.
M. T. Haines, proprietor of Rock Hall
Dairy, near Union Bridge, raised two large
turnups, weighing respectively, three and
three and a.half pounds.
The shipments from the mines of the
Cumberland coal region show heavy in
crease for the year in comparison with the
corresponding period OF last year.
w. F. Benson, near Pocomoke City,
grew Keifer pear which measures sixteen
and one-fourth inches in circumference and
weighed two pound and ten ounces.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Williams
port are experimenting with the cultiva-
ton of sugar beets, with the view ulti-
mately to the establishment OF beet-sugar
refinery.
H. A. Roe's cannery at Denton finished
work on the tomato crop last week Owing
to the dry season and absence Of frost this
has been the longest season experienced for
several years.
The San Jose scale prevails in several
orchards near Frederick City, according to
State Entomologist johnson. The pest has
gained foothold in large orchard near
Frederick Junction, where about 1900 trees
are affected.
Harry Poole, Of Westminster, ex-
hibited a small limb, fifteen inches in
length, Of a Kefer pear tree that had four
teen full-grown pears on it, seven others
having fallen off. The tree is nine years
old, and has been in bearing for six years.
Deputy Sheriff Harley arrested Thomas
c. Geary, prominent Democrat of Hagers-
town, on oath OF Robert Farmer, colored,
who swore that Mr.. Geary came to his house
and offered him 50 if he would 20 out of
the city and not cast his vote. Mr.. Geary
was held in $1,000 bail.
While sinking copper shaft near
Euclid, Washington county, an immense
frog was found at depth of twelve feet
below the surface of the ground. How it
got there was a mystery, as it required
much hard labor to remove the rock and
ground to that depth. Where it was found
it was perfectly dry.
An exchange says that every paper in
the State should publish the fact that burnt
corn is sure cure for hog cholera. 1t was
discovered by burnt corn from a distillery
being fed to them. Before that number
had died each day, but as soon as the bal
ance began eating the corn the disease dis
appeared.