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SOLDIERS RECEPTION AND DINNER, A.

SOLDIERS RECEPTION AND DINNER, AT
ELxroN, on FRIDAY, July 2srH 1sG5-we publish this
week final notice Of the great deception and Dinner to
be given by the Ladies Of the county brave Cecil
Boys The day certainly will be great one in Elkton
for soldier Of tho county will be here with all his
friends both male and female Tho different civic
Orders Of the county expected to attend and the
services of Decks celebrated Brigade Band of Phad.l-
phia have been secured by tie Committee Large dele
cations Of soldiers and citizens will be in the line Of pro-
cession Jas s. Crawford Esq., is the Chief Marshal of
the day, with competent assistants The different dele
cations will be met at points the town, by recep
ton committee and the soldiers will march in distinct
bodies Soldiers will be in citizens Dress to be desig-
mated by their respective Corps badges upon the
lapel OF the coat The preparations for dinner of
more extensive character than before attempted on
n similar occasion in Elkton. Three hundred soldiers
will be dined at After all soldiers have been
served their friends In attendance will be invited until
the entire collation. is consumed. Committees OF
Ladies from the different Districts of the comfy will be
in attendance at the table, the ample extent of
which will be displayed tempting dishes prepared by
their own willing hands The day Of the reception will
clear the harvest and anticipate such dis
play has not been witnessed in Elkten for years
reminding Of the " Harvest Home" Of fragrant
memory once the grand finale Of the golden harvest
season. Appropriate address will be delivered by the
Hon. John A. j. Cresweli, Hon. Alex Evans Rev. Mr.
kurtz, Rev. Mr.. McIntre, and VIM J. Jones Jas Z
Mccullough, Esq. The Reception will take place at II
clock NJ, ut McCuoughs Grove the end Of the
town. 1t should be understood that the invitation
extends to all Cecil soldiers and salors whether
bers of Maryland regiments or companies not.
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PROPOSED CONVENTION OF REGISTERS OF
ELECTIoN.-The officers of Registration of
Hartford county held meeting on Saturday
at Bel Air, ut which the following resolution
was adopted
Resolced, That we recommend that State
Convention Of the Officers of Registration
be held in the city of Baltimore on the first
day of August, composed of delegates cho,
sen by and from the Officers of Registration
of each county, and each Legislative district
Of tie city of Baltimore, consisting of the
same number of delegates as each county
and Legislative district is entitled to in the
House Of Delegates of the General Assembly
whose duty It shall be to prescribe such rules
and regulations and suggest snch lsadiny
questions to be propounded by the Officers
of Registration as they may deem the oath,
the Constitution and laws of the State de-
mand of them in order faithfully, legally
and uniformly to discharge their duties as
such
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HOUSES" The wild hunt after"

HOUSES" The wild hunt after"
houses has already commenced in Elkton.
People who were unable last spring to get
houses to suit them are already looking
about to make sure of some place to put
their heads in next spring. The number of
families is constantly increasing, but there
is no corresponding increase in the habitable
abodes. There are now only three houses
in course of erection whereas there should
be fifteen or twenty. It is one of the strange
things of this town that the men who have
money will not invest it to the benefit and
when there are but few investments that will
! pay better. Rents are high; some houses
renting for almost as much annually as they
are actually worth. Scarcely any of them
pay less than ten per cent, clear of taxes
and insurance. Had this disposition only
been exhibited during the high prices of
building material, it would not be so strange
but 1t has been the same for years. The
men who have made their money here by
the patronage CT the working men do not in
turn, when it comes in their power, seem
disposed to erect houses for these men to
live Notwithstanding the investment twill
pay" They prefer rather to put their gains
where they will bring five or six per cent,
which at the end of the year will be paid to
them, without, perhaps, the trouble of going
after it. Will not some humane and enter
prisng gentlemen form building associa-
ton, and erect the number of houses neces-
sary to accommodate those who are not
themselves able to build? Material, it is
very probable, will come down this fall-in-
deed, it is already advertised at greatly re-
duced prices. If any set of gentlemen wish
their names honorably connected with the
future annals of the town, they cannot do
an act that will more surely conduce to that
end than the erection of fifteen or twenty
comfortable houses between now and next
spring.
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APPEALS NoTIcE. George NJ. Rus
sum, Esq, Assessor of Internal Revenue
for this (the First District, gives notice thai
the annual assessment lists are now complet
ed and open to inspection at the Offices O
the various Assistant Assessors, and that or
Monday, the a!st Of July, inst, appeals from
the decisions of the Assistant Assessors fol
the 9Th and 9th divisions Cecil county, viii
be heard. As we are publishing the lists o.
these divisions they can be inspected with
out q visit to Ekton or Chesapeake City.
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Ccfot Afairs.

CoMMENcEMENr OF THE CENTRAL HIGH
ScHooL-The first annual Commencement of the Elk
ton Central High School came off in the upper room
of the building on Thursday morning last At the
further end of the room a small platform erected
over which hung in festoons the emblem of our ma
tionality, neatly decorated. From this platform the
Compositions were read and the Oraticns delivered.
Rev. NJ. d. Kurtz and David Scott Esq, were asso-
cnted with Mr.. Ellis, the President of the School
Board. in determining to whom the prizes should be
awarded. The room was well filled with those di-
recy and indirectly interested. At about l0 O'clock
the Principe, Mr.. Zimmerman, announced that the
exercises would then commence, which were fol-
lows;
Prayer, by Rev. NJ. D. Kurtz. English Satisfactory
R. Thackary Latin English Salutatory-BenaInin
Mackall. oinpositon-Solders Dream of Youth,
Miss d. Register oratlon-No Excellence without
Labor, E. lamar. mpositior-Christian's Hope,
Charity, Miss F. fute. Eocution-The Raven Miss
m1watd a5 nd Dream Mia. Collins
Observation-Disclosures Miss NJ. Bratton. Ora
tion-Character of Napoleon Bonaparte, E. wells.-
position-Fashion Of the World Passeth Away Miss
| $. Tute. Oraton-The Scholars Responsibility, A.
Cantwell Composition Resurrection, Miss L. Scott
Observation-Disclosures Freitchie, Miss L. Mckinney
experimentation Musings on New Years Eve,
| Miss l.. Howard Valedictory-Miss L. McKinscy.
After the reading of the Valedictory by Miss Nc.
kinsey Mr. Ellis arose, stating that 1t was very diff
| A ult task to say to whom the medals should be
given, there being little difference as to mer-
it in the character and reading of four of the
Compositions and in the delivering of several of
| the Orations, but that the gentlemen acting as
judges had arrived at the conclusion that the prize
medals should be awarded to Miss Leora McKinsey
and Master Edward Wells We believe the decision
of these gentlemen was fully concurred in by ma
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Here then we have the bare necessaries of
life costing $Sl week, which is SAP year.
70 this we must add for servant hire, at
least Sl4 week, or $7S year, which runs
our calculation up to $500. We can't see
how man with wife, one child, and q
servant, could have got along the last year
on less than we have here put down; and
when it comes to supporting five or six chill
dren on that sum the mystery becomes in
comprehensive. What kind of provender
do they fill them with, and wLerewith do
they clothe them? For, it must be remem.
bered, that we have taken neither clothing
nor house rem. into our account. When $3.50
house rent is added to the figures we have
set down, we have $G70 And here we rest
the case for we have already surpassed the
limit of exemption, and of many of the in.
comes as returned also, and have not the
first dollars worth Of clothing. Yet men
whose incomes are on the Assessor books
800 and $500, and many even whose in
comes are below zero or the exemption
mark, look fat and sleek, and go about
dressed in fine clothes, as do also their wives
and children. How do they do it? We do
not wish to be understood as censuring them
for living as they do or anything of the sort,
all we want to find out is the secret of keep
ing family well-fed and we'll clothed on
from $500 to $500 a year. Will some of our
readers enlighteu us and the public? The
columns of The Wig are open. We ask
for information.
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Mutual Fire Insurance Company
OF CECIL COUNTY.

TINE Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of the
Il Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cecil
county will be held at their office, in the
town of Elkton, on SATURDAY, the 9Th day Of
August, next, at IL O'Clock An.
Al that meeting there will be due from
each policy holder or member payment OF
six per cent. upon his or her Premium Obi
cation.
Californian policies that are not paid
upon before or or the day of the Annual
Meeting, will, by the terms of the charter,
be suspended in their oper alton, so that the
holders will have no insurance until payment
is made. And every receipt for payment on
policies thus suspended become, Under the
official construction of the Internal Revenue
Laws, a technical renewal Of the policy, and
as such is liable to a stamp of equal value
with the stamp on the policy itself.
N. ban Election for Nine Managers to
serve for the ensuing year will be held on
that day. F. A. ELLIS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
July Is, lS65-tm
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= LAND SALEs.-W. j. Jones, Esq,
sold at Trustees sale, on Tuesday last, in
Elkton, the farm, containing 100 acres, be-
longing to James Dougherty and John Boyd,
situated in the 9Th District, for $1,15O.-
James Dougherty, purchaser.
Daniel Bratton, Esq, Real Estate Agent,
has sold the farm of Seminar l. Rutter,
about two miles east of E!kton, containing
about 80 acres, to John Markey, for $50
per acre.
Also the farm belonging to Thos. Coates
containing II acres, on the old pike, te
Charles Jarvis, for $3.50.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL PIo-NIcs.-The I'm
ion Sunday School will hold their annual
picnic, on Thursday, August Sd, next, in
Miller's Grove, near the Union church. A
general invitation is extended to the public.
There will be picnic of the New Leeds
Sunday School, on Saturday. the 10Th inst,
in Booths woods, near the residence of
Benjamin Miller, Esq.
The Presbyterian Sunday School Of Elk
ton will hold their annual pic mic, on Thurs
day next, ip the grove of H. Mccullough,
ECq.
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BIG ELN MILLS.

TINE ELKTON FLOUR AND FEED
J. MILLS, having been thoroughly repaif-
ed, an, now prepared to do all Kinds of
work. Persons from distance can have
their grists ground the same day they arc
brought to the mil. Flour, Meal and Feed
always on hand at the low est make, prices.
Jn'y Is, I2S5-2m MILLER BARTON.
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PROSPECTUS
SHADY GROVE OIL COMPANY,
Par Talae Of each Share, Fire Dollars.
Subscription Price Five Dollars.
Capifdl 100000


Par Tdlae Of each Share, Ftue Dollars.
subscription Price Five Dollars.
THE SHADY GROVE OIL COMPANY" incor-
porated under authority Of an Act of the Lessls.
divided into One Hundred Thousand Shares, the par
value of which is t5.Fiye Dollars for each Share; a
Working Capital of $4,000 is reserved for boring wells
and otherwise developing the territory.
The Company has purchased in fee simple and
clear of in'umbrance, tract Of choice land in Oil
Creek Valley. and i'll that portion thereof known as
Oil Creek Flats, short distance above Ttusvie, Of
iS 1t is Nest taeorably located for extensive
boring or weil-sintng purposes, the creek passing
through portion of the plot furnishes abldance
OF wa.er: and the Franklin branch of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad, passing directly throuYl
Sas already constructed switch on the promises.
upon which the OIL when barreled can be placed free
from any material charge for carriage or other OK
rense than the railroad charges for transportation
market.
An Oil Spring, ant. other indications of the exist.
ence and abundant supply of oil. prevail upon the
a',sface and well satisfied is the previous owner
u the production of the desired article in abundance
barrels of oil perday produce and free of charge
until such result is staip" IL the Company to furnish
engine, and necessary tools and structures. In adj.
dition to the above assurance he has executed bond
for 10000 which IS already filed against him in Venan-
go County, IS guarantee Of the production of such
result The numerous wells, both above and below
are being sunk with energy, and some are already
yielding flow of oil at much less than the ordinary
depth of wells.
first class engine has ali eady been ordered, and
expected TO be delivered the premises in the month
of December; the lumber for constructing deric,
engne-house &C.. has been erdcred and the tools
and machinery necessary to commence sinking a
well will be complete by the time that the engine is
delivered; when the work will be prosecuted with
energy both by day and night to carry out the spirit
Of instructions and wishes of the Company.
The entire production will belong exclusively to
the Company, there being leases other incun,-
brances upon the premises, which, the perseverance
and determined energy with which the enterprise IL
to be carried into effect will Afford at an early date
the most satisfactory return for the capital invested
One we'll yielding twenty barrels per day, at pres
ent prices would in gross realize about $4,000 per
annum; and the expenses for such production would
be comparatively small Their" sites for fifty
wells on ule land without probable danger Of inter
fcring with the product of either.
LV' The undersigned is authorized 10 dispose
OF the limited number of the shares of the above
Company al Two DOLLARS per share.
SAMUEL b. FOARD.
Elkton. Mar !, 1S65--tf
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NOTICE.

James Dougherty and In the Circuit
wife Court for Cecil
vs.. tcpunty. In chan
John Boyd and wife. Gerry.
ORDERED, This nineteenth day Of July,
" eighteen hundred and sixty-fv We, that
the sale made and reported by William
Jones, Trustee for the sale of the Real
Estate in the proceedings in the above cause
mentioned, be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the twcnty-second day Of Septen-
Der, next; provided, copy Of this order be
inserted in some newspaper printed in Cecil
county, once a week for one month before
the twenty-second day of August, next.
The Report states the amount of sales to
be ST, 10000. CHAS. Ii. HAINES,
True copy; test. Clerk.
CHAS II. HAINES,
July %, lS65-lm Clerk.
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The Cecil Whigs.
ELKT0N, JULY ~, 1865.
About Incomes.

A glance at the Income list, which we are
publishing in The Wing, will satisfy the
most skeptical that one-half of the people
in a community have no idea how the other
half live. The names Of a majority of the
citizens over the county do not appear in
the published list at all, for the reason that
their incomes do not come up to $500, the
sum exempted by law; while a large major
ity Of those persons whose namac are pub.
lished, have less than slO0 income Yet
they al! live, AMI the most of them manage
also, to support family. We can see how
man may live in the country on farm, on
as small an income Us five or six hundred
dollars but how, during the past year, a
man with family has lived in town or
village, and made both ends meet, surpasses
our comprehension. That many do it is Il
fixed fact; for do not their returns to the
Assessor show it? That preachers, doctors,
lawyers, clerks, business men, ETC., live in
towns and villages in Cecil county-some of
them in Elkton-and support families on
incomes of from 500 to 800 is established
beyond doubt-for is it not so set down in
the Assessors books?
But how do they do it? That is the oues
ton to be answered Let us see if we can
cypher it out And to be reasonable in our
calculation we will take preacher, law
yer, merchant Or doctor, with q wife and
child, and figure out what must have been
their necessary expenses for last year, in
Elkton. Let us then see what such family
would consume in one week
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FIRST ARRrvAL.-On Tuesday last

FIRST ARR1vAL.-On Tuesday last
ten or twelve boats loaded with coal arrived
at Havre de Grace from the coal regions,
via the Susquehanna Tide Water Canal
This is the first arrival Of the season. The
canal was badly damaged last winter, and
the spring and part of the summer have
been occupied in repairing it. In conse,
quence the coal wharves at Havre de Grace
are entirely clear. 1. is expected, however,
that the run will shortly commence, when
the usual supply will be laid in for the fall
trade,
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NOTICE TO VOTERS.

'HNHE Board of Registration for the First
Il Election District Of Cecil county will
meet in
CECILTON,
for the purpose of registering the names of the
qualified votes of said District, on
Tuesday and Wednesday,
the Eighth and Ninth days Of august, neat,
and Oh TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY of each
succeeding week, until the third Wednesday in
September, inclusive.
All persons claiming the right of suffrage in
said District are hereby notified to appear before
the Board on one OF the days above named
Persons OF toegn birth will be required to
exhibit their Naturalization papers.
EVAN LEWIS,
THOS. p. JONES,
JOSIAH HALL,
Registers of the First Election District Of
Cecil county, Nd.
July ~. lS65-9w
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PROSPECTUS
OF THE
SHERIDAN OIL COMPANY,
OF CHERRY RUN.
Capital Stock, $3.50, 90,
Pr Talue Of Each, SIS.

Par JIalue of Each, SIS.
Subscription Price TWO Dollars.
THE SHERIDAN OIL COMPANY. incorporated
Aunder authority of al Act of the Legislature of
Pennsy wanna, passed April 18th, 1854 with capital
Of SIN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS. divided into one hundred and thirty thousand
shares, the par value of which is Five Dollars per
share. The Company reserves cash capital Of FIT
teen Thousand Dollars rs developing working
fund, 10 purchase Engines and such other necessary
materials will enable the Managers to ut once fully
tract VI territory selected and purchased for the
Cofsrany.
Ne. /, Is tract Of land in feesimple clear Of all
REMEMBRANCE. containing twenty acres, situate on
Cherry Run. near the pOsttown of Plumer, in the
county of Nenango, Pa- and surrounded by devel-
oped and partially developed lands, so favorably
known the Cherry Run Territory :; in one of the
most desirable localities of such property the area
belonging to the Sheridan. All wells sunk to the
ordinary depth on this territory have proved success
risk to bore on any part of this Companys lands.
No. Z, Is choice tract of forty five acres, situate
C. ~" :;tension of the same Cherry Run fats above
above described about three-and-one-half miles from
the village of Plumer, and to which the char
acteriscs i,diy apply, both in truhfness and Forces
derics, escape steam and smoke from working en-
gines are to be seen far above and below this pro-
perty for miles oAthe flats or low grounds
The oils obtained in this particular district of
fine character and well adapted to lighting purposes
wells, for refining the purchasers furnishing barrels
and carting the oil therefrom fast it can be pro-
duccd.
~ The undersigned is authorized to dispose
OF limited number of shares of the above Com
pany at Two DOLLARS share.
SAMUEL B. FOARD.
Elkton, Mar t. fS65-tf
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JACKSON'S LIME.

THIS celebrated Lime is now constantly on
u hand ut their Kilns in Mill Creek Hundred,
Delaware. Flesh every Twelve hours. Price,
II THE KILN, by the load, 40 cents per bushel.
JNO. G. JACKSON g. CO.
Address. Wilmington P. o.
July 20, 1S65-3ws
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The Registration Of Voters.

olICE Is hereby given that the Regis
L tiers for the 9th Election District of
Cecil county will, In pursuance of the act of
me General Assembly of MARYLAND. pas,ed
harch 24th, 1865, meet at the followino
places In said District, on tho days here;n
a,ler named, at 9 O'Clock A. ". and set till 8
oc'oek ?. NJ, for the purpose of registering
tne names OF all white male citizens, aged
cent in or temporarily absent
T NG Eas., ah and 9th of august
f ~ n i5th and 18th of O
Up. IranctR,o, I'D and 23rd of "
Harris S. HOUSE, 10th and SOth Of "
Ray ,aeW, on and 6th Of September
North East, l2th and l3th of
g 18Th and 10th of
Sections s, and 8 Of the Reristr,,;or
Law provide
sec Be it enacted, That the said Officers of r.els
taton sha ascertain and register the names Of every
white male person rssd In and temnor,rv absent
from their wards or election districts and after recording
the surname and christian name, shall sdminist.r a,
snch person the oath Of allegiance as Nv b
tn section Of article LIST Of the and tbs
further oath that he will make true answers IN .nci
questohS w. tlsy may PROFOUND to him touching his
right to registration and voting and enter In the nsna
csumn me e whether such person has or has not been
oth 9TH the time he has resided In the CITY Of Raiti
more or the county in which ho so Registered Stb II
the Hnte OF us nnal certificate NJ
NATURALIZATION and the court county and State wh.ne,
issued 7th, If disqualified tho cause or reason Of an.
qnalincation whether honresdenee homage al;enag.
lnlamy unatic or non compos ments disoyalty under
me Attn section Of article of the constittion or
bribery "a described in the 5h section of said lat
Sh, the name of qualified voters emitting from, ali
columns the names of disqualified persons ami n.orting
in lieu thereof the MINES Of or more wtnesso, bT
whom the disqualification proven, IL the disuuali
fyg cause arises from the provisions Of the 4th or 5t
sections Of said 1st article. " " "
sec Be enacted, That the officers of reptstraon
snail not allow the name Of foreign born citizen or
resident to be entered in said column or repstrr nj
quai'ted voters unless his papers be pro
duced and exhibited t. them and by them endorsed with
the date OF their exhibition, and entering In the 9Th
the facts required In the Sd soc on of this act
sec he II enacted That 1t shall be the duty Of said
omces OF registration to enter in the said register Of
quaiihed voters, the Of svory person who sbai
apply to them to be registered and who shall satisfy
the that he qualified to under the Of
me LIST article Of the constitution and the laws of the
state or who shall prove to their satisfaction that h.,
VIII be OF age and qualified VOTE on or befre the
day Of the next ensuing election.
JOHNSON SHIPPERS.
ISAAC q. COLLINGS,
JAMES JOHNSON,
Registers Of the 9TH Election District Of
Cecil county, Nd.
July Is, l865-6w
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Something New and Important.

SEND age, description and twenty five
~ cents for the photograph of your future
husband or wife. A. b. NICHOLSON,
Box 22O7 Philadelphia, Pa.
July IS, ls65-lm'
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O. U. A. M.-SPEcIAL MEEr1Na.-The
members Of Good Intent Council No. II, are requested
to meet in their in the Court House, on Monday
evening" the 9th nst at o'clock full Council is
desired. By Order