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EofaI affairs.

Loss OF A POCKET BooK-ITs FoR-
TUNATE REcovERy.-Mr. John Price, who
resides in Delaware, but a short distance
from Warwick, Md, while on his way, with
his family, from Oxford, Pa, to his home,
on Monday last, was unfortunate enough to
loose his pocket-book, containing Still,
and which he did not miss until he reached
Elkton. Thinking it might have dropped
from his pocket while jumping from the car
rage, at Falls hotel, he made diligent
search, and inquiry of the ostler, but OBJ
tanned no tdings of it. He then recollectcd
jumping out of the carriage while ascending
hill few miles beyond Lombardvile, and
Immediately hired livery team and pro-
ceeded hither, feeling confident that he there
lost it. He reached the place before night,
and seeing n boy working in cornfeld,
whom he noticed while passing previously,
asked him if he had seen him pass by in the
morning, and also if he knew who next trav-
eled the road after him. The boy replied
that he had, and told him that an old gen.
tlcinah whom ne knew. ana VINO resided
about a mile and a half distant, was the first
to go along the road after he price had
passed, and that he had seen the old gentle,
man get off his horse and pick up something
in the road. For this information the boy
was amply rewarded; and Mr. Price pro-
ceeded to the residence of this gentleman,
described his money, and obtained it with
out any ceremony. fortunately for the
loser, it fell into the hands of an honest
man, who positively refused compensation ;
but Mr.. p. lai4 a five dollar grcenback on
his table, as slight remuneration. when he
left. 1t is needless to say that Mr.. Price re-
turned in much lighter spirits and evidently
a much heavier pocket.
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Come One!} 0. U. A. NJ : Come All !
Grand Celebration
On the 18th of July, 1865.

Oh the 4th OF July, 1860.
CHERRY HILL COUNCIL No. 10, Order
Of United American Mechanics, purpose
holding a celebration on the Fourth of July,
next, in VIM. G. Hasson's Woods, near
Cherry Hill.
The exercises will commence at 10 o'clock
A. M, with the reading of the Declaration of
Independence, by JNO. PERKINS, Jr., of
Elkton; when addresses will be delivered
by
Rev. Thos. B. Miller, of Philadelphia,
Hon. Philip S. White, i"
VIM. s. Oliver, Esq, of Baltimore,
Franklin Supplee, Esq, &"
Rev. Joseph Miller, of Cherry Hill,
James McCauley, Esq.
BAND OF MUSIC will enliven the
occasion.
Dinner will be provided on :he ground by
Jno. NJ. Terrell as also Horse Feed by A.
ii. Saxton.
EMBELLISHMENTS will be had on the
ground. An abundance Of seats will be pro-
vded for the Ladies; and we extend cor
dial invitation to all who love Mechanics
and Working Men to turn out, aud let MS
have good old 4th CT July celebration in
the woods.
Committee of arrangements.
CHAS. PEACOCK, JAMES SPENCE,
WIN. c. HASSON, j. NJ. TERRELL,
M. M. WHITCRAFT, JAMES DAVIS.
June II, 1865 -3w
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PROSPECTUS
PROSPECTUS
OF TIE
SHERIDAN OIL COMPANY,
OF CHERRY RUN.
Cupital Stock, SG50,0o.
Pr Taluc Of Each, s..
Subscription Price Two Dollars

THE SHERIDAN OIL COMPANY, incorporated
under authority of an Act of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania. passed April 18th, 1854, with capital
of SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS, divided into one hundred and thirty thousand
shares, the par value of which is Five Dollars per
sflare. The Company reserves cash capital of Fif-
torn Thousand Dollars developing working
ti,n to purchase Engines and such other necessary
materials will enable the Managers to at once fuv
tracts Of territory selected and purchased for the
company.
No I. Is tract of land in fee-smplc, clear of all
inrrmbranre containing twenty acres. situate on
Cherry Run, near the posttown of Plumcr, in the
county of Fenango Pa. and surrounded by devel-
opea and partially developed lands, fitvoraby
known the Cherry Run Territory in one of the
irioHing to the Sheridan. All wells sunk to the
or nary depth this territory have proved
mi thus far consequently it can hardly he considered
y risk TO bore on any part of this Company's lands
No . Is 4 choice tract of forty-tve acres, situate
- the extension of the same Cherry Run flats above
above described, about threeand-one-haf miles from
the village of Plumer, and to which the same char
rteriscs fully apply, both in truthulness and force
,"r's escape steam and smoke from working en-
ynes. are to he seen far above and below this pro-
perry for miles on the flats or low grounds
Tho oils obtained in this particular district are of
fine character and well adapted to lighting purposes
they now in active demand at Sl2 per barrel at the
wells, for refining, the purchasers furnishing barrels
and carng the oil therefrom fast it can be pro-
duc'i
CV'The undersigned is authorized to dispose
at a limited number of shares of the above Com
rauy at Two DOLLARS share.
SAMUEL B. FOARD.
Elktol, Mar f. lS65-tf
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WORCESTERSHIRE following gentle

REGIsrERs.-The following gentle
men have been appointed by Governor Brad
ford Registers for the several districts of
the county. Some of them have refused to
serve, it is said, and others will have to be
appointed in their stead:
1st District-H. Morton, DR.. T. A. Rob-
erts and G. A. Ford.
"a Dlstrlct-T B. Hopper, E. P. Bowen
and Arson Griffith.
Sd District-Eli Cosgrove, J. P. Cantwel
and Jesse H. Shippers.
4th District-James McKane, Levi Hall
and W. c. Hasson.
9Th District-James johnson, l. z. Col
lings and johnson Shippers.
9th District-Dr. S. B. Stubs, Joseph R.
Thomas and Thomas Kennard.
9TH Decentralization Ramsay, Jacob B.
Thomas and A. Lyon.
9Th District-Joseph Kinnard, Thomas
Grubb and William Way.
9th Decentralization Griffith, Sutton Scar
borough and W. Cameron.
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in the Democrat winds up very appropriately
by calling the separating of those goats of
secession from the good sheep, dirty job
70 have to handle this slutiing off of the re-
bellion is about as dirty job as can we'll be
conceived, but nevertheless it has to be
done. AS for NEGRO equality" SO much in
fashion with traitor tongues, we never could
understand it. man is equal to what God
has made him, if his own corrupt nature has
not debased him below that standard but
negro who battles in the ranks Of and for
the preservation Of the great republic and
its GLORIOUS memories" is not merely equal,
but superior in the eyes of God and of the
world, to any traitor who joined hands with
the late shareholders rebellion.
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A NUIsANcE.-Weeds and grass are
permitted to flourish in very luxuriant
manner along the margins of our side walks.
They do not in the least add to the beauty
of the town; but after a rain the ladies in
passing to and fro get their dresses injured.
The Commissioners should have this nuisance
abated Immediately.
NUISANCE No. 2.-The dogs that the town
balh has been shooting to prevent them from going
mad, and biting somebody, piled in heaps at the
east end OF Main street. where the decayng bodies
ate such STENCIL as to rcpe all proncnaers who
sensitive oactory organ. So this delightful ''wak to
the creek, celebrated in prose and song much ntel
fered with by that "dog law This should not be- The
poor brutes much lamented, ought to have decent
burial We suggest that pottcrs field be provided for
those household gods.
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THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRA-
HAM LIScoLN.-This is volume comprising
500 pages, written by member of the Phil
adelphia bar. The work is advertised in
our columns, and the "American Publish
ing Agency" solicit disabled soldiers as can
vassers for the book. The work will no
doubt meet with ready and extensive sale
in the hands Of those who have spent their
best days in, and given their blood to, the
cause of the Republic.
DR.. j. G. Hollands life of the late Presi-
dent is also advertised by Norris Barnard,
Elk View, Chester county, soliciting canvas
scrs. The popularity Of DR.. Holland as an
author recommend this work to the public.
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TCommdnicated.1

Mr.. EDIToR 1T was said at the time the
Elkton Gas Company increased the price of
gas from FIVE to seven dollars per thousand,
that as soon as the articles required in its
manufacture should become reduced in price,
they would return to the old rates. The
price OF coal and other articles used in max.
ing gas having been reduced nearly one half,
we think it about time for the Company to
redeem their promise. If the Companies in
the cities can supply gas at three dollars per
thousand and make money by the operation,
we see no good reason why this Company
cannot supply gas at FIVE dollars or less per
NJ, and pay fair dividend 70 its stockhoFd-
ers. CONSUMER.
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DISTRESSING Wilmer
Hyland, son of Mr.. Washington Hyland,
of this county, young man about twenty
years of age, left his home in March last,
with other young men Of the neigborhood,
and engaged as hand on one of the
Ericsson Line of steamboats, running between
Baltimore and New York. On Saturday
night last, as the boat was passing through
the Kingston lock, on the Delaware and
Raritan Canal, Wilmer went upon the lock
wall to take line from the boat while
passing down the stone steps of the wall his
foot slipped, and falling into the water be-
tween the stone wall of the lock and the side
of the boat, no assistance could be afford
in time to save him. He was an expert
swimmer, but as his body bore some evil
dence of external injuries it is presumed he
was so disabled in the fall as to deprive him
of the proper use of his limbs.
His body was afterwards recovered, put in
ice and brought to Elkton by the early
freight train on Monday morning, by one of
his young companions, Mr.. John Penning
ton, son of Mr.. Azarias Pennington, of Elk
Neck, and from thence removed to his
fathers residence that afternoon. The
funeral took place on Tuesday last
The affecting intelligence did not reach
his father and family until l O'Clock P. NJ,
on Monday, and then only through young
man who being in Elkton that morning hear.
ing that the body was at the depot here,
called at his fathers house and informed
him of his loss. There appears to have been
most shameless neglect somewhere, as Mr..
Pennington says he dispatched a telegram to
his father, by way of North East, at O'Clock
on Sunday morning, advising him that he
would be at Elkton with the body early on
Monday morning but no such intelligence
ever reached his father. 1t is seldom we
have had occasion to chronicle so distressing
an account.
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A. J. WEIDENER,
: 5 Sou t h Sec ondS stree,

between Market and Chestnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA.
Manufacturer Of Coal OIL Lamps, and
u holesaic Dealer in Glass Tumblcrs, Patent
Jars md Glassware generally.
DEALERS will find it to their advantage to examine
-Four stock and compare prices before purchasing
their goods for the spring sales.
Nc would call the attention of the public particu
larlv to our
NEW STLYE OF PATENT JAR
For PRESERVING FRUIT WITHOUT SUGAR.
". can refer to hundreds of respectable persons
who put up peaches and other fruit in Jars last
season without the OF Syrup aud found upon
ming that the Fruit retained its natural flavor and
IL fact lust the when put into the Jars.
ID. WEIDENER,
No. IS South Second Street,
April 15 1sG5--3m PHILAr:LpnIA.
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PROSPECTUS
SHADY GROVE OIL COMPANY,
subscription Price Five Dollars
Capital S50O,O 900.

subscription Price Five Dollars.
THE SHADY GROVE OIL COMPANY incor-
Por1.d under authority of all Act of the Lc9isi-
nire of pennsylvania, with Capital Stock of 5000
divided into One Hundred Thousand Shares. the par
value of which is S5-Fve Dollars for each Share: q
Working Capital of $1,000 is reserved for boring wells
and otherwise developing the territory.
inc company has purchased, in fee simple and
clear of incunibrancc, tract of choice land in Oil
Creek Valley. and in that portion thereof known us
h Creek Flats. short distance above Titusyille of
oil operations. The entire area is fiat and adapted to
boring or well.su<n%. purposes, the creek passing
% water and the franklin branch Of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad passing directly trous h
has already ronstructeda switch on the premises,
upon which the oil, when barrcled can be- placed free
from any material charge for carriage or other ex-
pcnse than the railroad charges for porta.on
market.
An Oil Spring, and other indications of the exist
cnce and abundant supply Of oil, prevail upon the
surface and so well satisfied is the previous owner
of the production of the desired article in abundance
THAT he agrees to bore well wells until twenty
barrels of oil per day produced and free Of charge
until such result is attained the Company furnish
cnSlh" and necessary tools and structures. In adj
dltion to the above assurance he has executed bond
for dooo which is already filed against him in Venan-
E" County, as guarantee Of the production of such
result. The numerous wells, both above and below,
are being sunk with energy. and some already
yielding flow of oil at much less than the ordinary
depth of wells.
4 tilst-cass engine has already been ordered, and
expected to he delivered on the premises in the month
Ut December: the lumber for constructing derc,
"nSinc-housc &C., has been ordercd and the tools
and machinery necessary to commence sinking a
well will he complete by the time that the engine is
dclivcrcd when the work will be prosecuted with
energy, both by day and night carry cut the spirit
Of instructions and wishes Of The Company.
The entire production will belong exclusively to
the Company, there being no leases other incim-
branccs upon the premises, which, the perseverance
and determined energy with which the enterprise is
I" 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
be comparatively small There sites for fifty
wells on the land without probable danger of inter
fCrins with the product Of either.
20 The undersigned is authorized to dispose
Of the limited number of the shares of the above
Company ut Two DOLLARS per share.
SAMUEL b. FOARD.
Elkton. Mar T. lS65-tf
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LAND SALEs.-George Vickers, ESQ.,,
as agent for the heirs of the late Elizabeth
4. Polk, says the Kent News, sold at public
sale on Tuesday last, part of the "Howell's
Point estate, in Still Pond, containing 314
acres, to Mr. Thomas Vandyke, of Cecil
county, at $5s per acre.
Thomas Fl. Bond, Esq, of St. Mary $
county, says the 81. Mary's Gazette, has sold
his fine estate upon the Patuxent river to H.
Vanderford, Esq, of Elkton. This estate
contains three hundred and twenty.six acres,
and was sold for ,0oo-including all the
stock, agricultural implements and crops
upon the premises.
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besides receiving and passing accounts for the
Levy the County Commissioners this week transact
ed the folowing business Report of Commissioners
appointed TO locate private road for Geo p TAYLOR
fled Petition for and Remonstrance against a pro-
posed public road from sidwelrs Mill filed, and
Messrs Barclay Reynolds, Samuel Haines and James
NJ. Evans, appointed Examiners. Petition of j. A. j.
Creswe for alteration in the public road from Ekton
to Pivot Bridge filed and J. T. Mccullough, H. H.
Mitchell and Richard F. Bddle appointed Examiners
Order passed authorizing Geo W Boulder, to build
small bridge on the road leading into Back Creek
Neck, and present his account therefor to Commits
sioners James Davis and John McCleary, appointed
to repair the Plank Road, having declined to act
David C. Parker was appointed to make said repairs
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In the Court of Appeals, on Wednes-
day last, the following appeal case from this
county was disposed of:
No. Ill. Office docket-James Hooper,
jr., Us. VIM. Logan ct al Justice Goldsbo.
rough delivered the opinion of the Court
Decree reversed and cause remanded. ].
I. Mccullough for plaintiff; j. A. j. Ores.
well for defendant.
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WANTED

PY Young Man, about Is yenrs of age,
- with about years. experience in the
business. a situation in some good Store as
Chief Clerk or Salesman. Thinks he can
give satisfaction. Salary not so much an
object as a situation. Address, stating
salary, &c. HENRY G. RILEY,
June 3, 1865 Sw Midllctovn, Del.
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THE Jail PUMP.-This institution of

the town was the subject of paragraph a
short time ago the airing which it then
received did not benefit it in the least. The
water is bitter and filled with rotten wood
The arrangement for conveying away the
waste-water is a miserable affair. The Com
missioners should employ the services of
doctor Miller, and see if his skill can not be
brought to bear on its internal parts to its
advantage, as well as to the comfort of those
who still adhere to the old fogy doctrine that
pure cold water is good drink.
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FoR FARMERs-We advertise ths week for the P. G
Companies Agents Bait. the soluble Pacific Guano. This
gano of the phosphate kind, and one Of the most
rapid and permanent improvers of the soil Those who
purchase ground bones and patent manures are con
stany Liable to be cheated by dishonest Dealers but
those purchasing the Pacific guano, have the analysis
by the celebrated agricultural chemist Dr.. Liebig of
every cargo that they know exactly the quality
Of the article they are purchasing
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FOURTH OF July CELEBRATIONS
The Anniversary of the signing Of the De-
claration of Independence will be duly cele,
brated this year, near Cherry Hill, by the
American Mechanics. The affair is got up
by Cherry Hill Council, and will be partici-
pated in by the other Councils in the county.
The celebration promises to be quite inter
esting. Full particulars will be found in the
advertisement;
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RELEAsED.-Sixty Rebel prisoners at
Fort Warren, under the rank of Captain,
took the oath of allegiance on Saturday last,
and were released from confinement A
number of Marylanders were in this batch,
among them Thomas E. Chopper, of this
county.
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WANTED

NiELllGENT MEN to canvass for the
Il Life of A. LINCOLN, by DR.J. G.. Hon.
LAND, of Mass. one Of the most popular and
able writer's Of the age.
No comment is necessary. as the authors
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In obtaining the work they secure a complete
and reliable biography Of man whom the
people have learned to love above any Chief
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The work contains five hundred pages in
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Agents are selling from ten to fifty per
day, to whom the very best terms are given.
Address for Terms and Circular.
NORRIS BARNARD
Elk View,
June II, 1915. Chester county, Pa.
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MR.. j. j. McCULLoUaH, of the firm
of the Mccullough Iron Co., and who has
been residing at North East, for several
years, has purchased house of Henry L.
Tatnall, in West street, between 9th and 10th
streets, Wilmington, Del, for S1S,5oo and
purposes moving to hat city the coming fall.
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REPAIRING CoNoWINGo

REPAIRING CoNowINGo BRIpGE,-
The contractors to rebuild Couowingo Bridge
have commenced operations and intend to
push the work forward as fast as possible.
The tide water Canal is repaired as far as
the Penna. line, and water will be in it in
the course Of few days.
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must be pad for IN ADVANCE at the rate of cent per
worh Tor prose and two cents for poetry, in order to
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(toFFEE MILLS.--A lot Of Coffee Mills at old
" prices, by PRYOR l. BRO
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Obituary.

Fell as'erp''n Christ. on Wednesday, the 10Th of
April lnst, AGNES JANE. daughter of William X and
Elzaorth Lockwood. of Heath Range, near Warwick;
in the 18th year Of her age "'
me death OF this interesting AMI intelligent girl so
long martyr to severe and eXcruciatiny suffering
whe brou Et anguish to the hearts Of her Affection
atc parents aud fiends to herself happy reIess.
mercy IN disguise Her disease assuming the peculiar
form which battles SIX and mocks at human devices.
gradually wasted her life away m At length the child
ni II aIpeared in her shvud like woman Of 80 ye,Is
Ana now ihtt she is gone, and all that is left Of her
ra mortality is AZ rest in st. AIMS graveyard which
KIND friends love to adorn with flowers memory reyerts
WIN redoub!ed interest to characteristics peculiarly
striking ana lovely; t. traits which gave faithful de-
lneatlon Of underwriting fidelity to God; of trusting
gnilelrss love u her family AMI kindred She dearly
priced every indication Of affection from others but
there was "ne whose love she valued with feeling of
intensity and that was her 'mothers love" the love
tlnt followed her from infancy AMI kept watch by her
uNng conch through months Of anxious painful DAYS
and nights. '
Her last illness was marked by suffering so acute ms to-
cause even tho strongest heart to overflow it'll sorrow
Now the Invisible land has removed her-bright spirits
nave borne her to her real home and the sorrownp ma
rents have one child less but Paradise an angel more
May they and all her friends determine to live rs faith
in' members of Gods church, meet her again in
i'll heaven.
""'Tis sweet, as year by year, we lose
Friends out of sight. in faith To muse
How grows in Paradise GU. Store"
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Uie0.

CROCCH.-In Baltimore, on the 9th inst;
OF diptheria, WILLIE H., son of VIM. j.
and Isabella b. Crouch, aged two years;
three months and fifteen days.
IlSON.-By drowning, on the 9th instant,
ROBERT C., son Of John W. and Sarah j:
Tyson, aged II years.
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