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,cgSAnD LrNs, Sailing every Thursday from
ahs FALL RIYER LINE,
For New York, Philadelphis, Baltimore, Wash
ington, aud all the principal points
rs West South ard Southwest fs

For New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, aud all the principal points
West, South ard South West
Via Taunton, Fall River and Newport.
Cabin, $500; Deck $500. Baggage checked
'nrTougn y and transferred in N Y free OF charge.
port Railway Depot Corner of South and Kneeiand
street,, daily, tSundays excepted follows at
NJ, arriving in Newport % minutes In advance Of
at $50 p M, connecting at Newperf with the
new and magnificent steamers PRovIpRNGF Can't
B: M. Simmons, BRISTOL, Capt. Benz. Brsyton-
boats the Sound, built expressly Tor speed safety
and comfort. This line connects with all the South
ern Boats and Railroad Lines from New York going
West and South, and convenient to the California
ssTo Shippers or Freight, this Line, witl,
its new and extensive depht accommodations inBos-
ton and large pier In New York, Exclusively for the
freight and passenger busness which cannot be- SUR
passd. Freight always taken at low rates ana fOr-
warded with dispatch.
New York Express Train leaves Boston az l.30 x
NJ; goods arrive in New York next morning about 9
A Al. Freight leaving New York reaches Boston ON
the following day at 945 A M. .iG9 :.
For tickets, berths and staterooms, apply at the
washington and State streets and at Old Colony and
Newport Railroad Depot, corner Of South and Knee
land streets, Boston. li Ate A
iaas SUNDAY NIGHT LINE. eIs'
Cars leave every Sunday Evening, at 6.3O r. NJ ,
The once, 4 DDS Old State House, win be open every
Sunday afternoon from to O'CLOCK and At the De-
pot, rom to 10 A M, and from 8 to $50 p M, for
sale of tickets and statercoms. n. q t-.l =
d Fss IS Ssrsa Rsas y
ct, at 500 n M. 80 f.te64 =. .js-.-r-.ies |
,GEo. SHIvERIcK, Passenger and Freight gent
Managing Director Narragansett steamship Co..
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STEAMERS,
- THE 9nITIsn = NeRTH

THE BRHTIsM Il NORTH
AMERICAN ROY AL MAIL STEAM
XHGZkXSHlPS. between NEW YORK and
m1kk141LIVERPoO oOL, calling at Cork Harbor.
SAILING EVERY WEDNESDAY.
CUBA, June % JAVA, r July IA
CHINA, June 80. SCOTIA, July u
Ch1eI CaDin faSsage,, eold
Second Cabin Passage. e.................... 80 se'
.si ~ Cabin Passage to Paris $145, gold. ts
The owners OF these ships will not be accountable
for Specie valuabes unless bills OF Lading having
the value expressed signed therefor For passage
apply to CHARLES G. FRANCKLYN,
A# ~ 103 State Street.
MY. '>-.' = t. . - = - /
PALMYRA, june II. ALEPPO. July /.
Z, mEUnA, , Sat. June 10. SAMARIA, July 8.
oibEhIA, june "a. TRIPOLI, ,saturdayJ uly10
Se. : Scu, golu.
S.esi aso asseee,. currency.
these steamers sail from Liverpool every Tuesday,
bringing ire1ght and passengers Gii ect to Boston.
Steerage passage nom Liverpool or Que enstown
s37 currency. ~ -s''1'-iD',0S !
For freight and cabin passage Apply to CHARLES
g. FRANCKLYN. 103 State ST., and for Steeraqe
passage to LAWRENCE & RYAN, 10 Broad ST. !
t nO20e0d 1y lt lf'ff4 ft1 % fIItlftll
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Every Intelligent and thinking person must know
their efficacy established by well tested experience in
the hands of regularly educated physician, whose
preparatory studies ut him for al the duties be must
fulhl yet the country is Hooded with poor
and cureals, pufpOsT sg to be the best in the WORLD
which are not olky seless, but always injurious.
his physician, It 1s laentable yet incontroveft.
BILE fact, that many syphilitic patients made mis-
erabis with ruined constitutions by maltreatmenf
Itis point generally conceded by the best sypogra-
dhers that Che study and management Of these come
dlants should engross the whole time Of those who
would be competent and successful in their treat
nent and cure. The inexperienced general practi.
TONER having neither opportunity nor tiIAe TO maxi
pursues one system OF treatment In nOst cases maxi
ing nm indiscriinAte use that sntqusted and dAn-
geFcus wsapons the Mercury. tfsnsF -Hs
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FOR SALE !!

TN East Windham, Field containing 20 acre3 II
good land, and wood lot containing 80 acres Of
thick growth. Also carriage shop, cider mill and
press. For further particulars inquire at 337
Congress st.
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s''ssA Great Blessing"

From Rev. L. r. WARD, Avon, Lorraine Co., o.
Messrs. STRONG s. ARMSTRONG, Druggists, Cleve-
land,O. aMf& pAFAskaE6s(
Gentlemen; It gives me great pleasure to state
that my wife has derived great benefit from the use
Der ofyears greatly troubled with Dyspepsia accom-
panied with violent paroxysms of constipation, which
so pr0stfafed her that she was all the while, Tor
months unable to do anything. She took at your in
stance, Goes Dyspepsia Cure, and has derived
GREAT BENEFIT FROM ~, and ID now COM
great blessing. Truly yours.
Jan %, 1868. !, +. WARD
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& ghere are many men o. the age Of thirty who are
troubled with too frequent evacuatons from the bed
den, often accompanied by slight smarting or burn
rer the patient cannot account for On examining
the urinary deposits Q fopy sediment vii loften be
found, and sometimes small particles Of semen al
bumen win appear, orthe color wi be of thin milk
ish hue, again changing to dark and turbid appear
snce. There are many men who die Of this difficulty,
ignorant of the cause, which ID the =
SECOND STAGE OF SEMINAL wEAKuEgs.
can warrant . perfect cure in such cases, and Q
full and healthy restoration Of the urinary organs.
Persons who cannot personally consult the DE-,
can do 90 by writing, in plain manner, descrip-
ton of theif diseases and the appropriate remedies
will be forwarded fminediately. 4
1An correspondence strictly confidential and efil
be returned, II desired. aHe ii0t5sf sEsL -
Address; Oh. j. b. HUGHEH. Il
Nasza.kA,rssxg IA No. 1aPreble Street, Z
NEXT door TO the Prsble House, Portland, Ne.
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look ba Here !

A FINE Summer Residence for sale, with
"A l3 spacious rooms and ample halls delig htiully
village Of South Paris, Me. rB + s.
For further particulars enquire OF A. HERSEY,
the said residence or by addressing the owner,
,Taa .8H 7. HERSEY, Amherst, Mass
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nesirahIe Raal Esfata far soIa

- The three storied Brick House No 43 Dan
#:::l forth ST, adjoining that valuable property
MssH known as the ''Morse House," The house has
Twelve rooms. fine lot 60 feet 'front.' and 1s7 ieet
in depth. sifH@ff.asf sl'sast llsfH
Apply to WM. H. JERRIs, Real Estate Agent
june 4-d3w = lst =
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W7soOpisag Cough, Ii
uThe testimony Of all who have used it forthis ter
rible disease during the last ten years s that 1t in
variably relieves and curesit.
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REAL ESTATE.
House and Land for Sale.

HOUSE and Land ss Daniorth st viii be sold at 3
Enquire OF =. r FTETCHER e Co i
June 16-d3m
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Ayers Sarsaparilla,


The reputation this ex-
cellent medicine enjoys.
Is derived from its cures.
many of which are truly
marvellous. Inyeterate
cases of Scrofulous dis
ease, where the system
seemed saturated with
corruption, have been
purified and cured bysit.
Scrofulous affections and
disorders, which were ag-
gravated by the scrofl-
lous contamination until
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Property for Sale at Cumberland
@ Center,
CONSISTING of a dwelling House and Store
" united; about acre of land CONTAINING Il ne
garden spot, with about fifty apple trees moIe than
half in bearing condition, and currant and gooseber
ry bushes.
The place is one and third miles from the p. h.
*. Depot, within few minutes walk of the Cong
Church District School House, and the Greey 1nsI-
tute, where all the children of the town over 12 yrs
Of age entitled to tuition free OF charge.
For further Information impure on the premises Of
je11eod&w2w MI. HUMPHREY
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:, . 5,,.,a,I. ! " q

The Basam will be found invaluable, and may al
ways be relied upon in the most extreme cases. 4.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05
The Defective Stone.

Don't put in that stone," said one ma
son to another, as they were working to-
gether on the rear wall of church,
Cant you see its poor quality, all flaky.
and will scale away to pieces ?" -" 1t
isn't very good grain, see; but it fits in
here, and | don't want to wait for another
Besides, you can't see it from the ground,
and nobody will take the trouble to climb
up here to look at IT, You'd better
send for another block. That isn't fit for
the wall; it won't stand the weather; and
if it should 60 to pieces, it will damage the
whole building. I'll guess it won't
damage me nor you either, SO here goes"
And lie lifted the block of loose-grained,
tiaky freestone into its bed, though the outer
thickncsses cracked and the shell sloughed
off. He dashed over it 4 trowelflll of NOR
tar. and went on with the next tier. No
body could see the defective stone, for it
was covered by projecting buttress, and
only the two stone-masons were present
when it was laid. But though unseen, it
was not safe, and time brought about its
own result. Every sunbeam loosened its
texture little, every storm helped to crum-
Die off minute fragment, and little by lit
tie, after many years the stone crumbled
away. That was bad enough, but that was
not all. 1t CHANGED that one of the great
beams of the roof rested few tiers above,
directly over the defective block, and as the
stone decayed, the beam sank little
Presently crack opened in the ceiling, dis
figuring the fresco-painting, and the crack
grew to leak, letting in the rain. And
when at last the worthless block fell out,
the beam dropped down, the roof sunk in,
and the church was no longer fit for use,
until after the loss of much time. and the
expense of much money, a new roof was
built, and 4 new block inserted in the wall
1t was only small defect, but it did much
damage in the end.-There is structure
which everybody is building, young and
old. each one for himself. 1t is called char
acter, and i'll it every act of life is stone.
If day by day we are careful to build our
lives with pure, noble, upright deeds, at
the end will stand a fair temple, honored
by God and man. But, as one leak will
sink a ship, and one flaw break chain, so
one mean, dishonorable, untruthful act or
word will forever leave its impress and work
its influence on our characters. Then, let
the several deeds unite to form perfect
day, and one by one the days grow into no.
BILE years, as they slowly pass, will raise at
last beautiful edfice, enduring forever to
OH praise
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The Golden House of Nero.

On that part of the ruins of Imperial
Rome lying between the Palatine and the
Esquiline Ilills-a space which was more
than mile in breadth-Nero erected his
Golden House, rs he called the new
palace i'll which he fixed his abode. The
vastness of extent and the varied magniti-
cence of this imperial residence and its Or
namental grounds almost surpass belief;
and if the details that have come down to
us respecting it were not too well authenti-
Gated to admit of doubt, they might be re-
garded as fabulous. Within its Enclosure
were comprised spacious fields, groves, Or
chartls, and vineyards: artificial lakes, hills
and dense woods, after the manner of Il
solitude or wilderness. The palace itself
consisted of magnificent buildings raised
on the shores of the lake. The various
wings were united by galleries each mile
in length. The house OF immediate dwell
ing of the emperor was decorated in style
of excessive gorgeousncSs. 1t was rooted
entirely with golden tiles, and with the
same precious metal the marble sheathing
of the walls was also profusely dccked, be
inc at the same time embelliShcd with or
naments of mother-o -pearl-in those days
valued more highly than gold-and with
a prefllsion of precious stones. The cell
ings and woodwork were inlaid with ivory
and gold, and the roof of the grand BAN
queting-hall was constructed to resemble
the armament. 1t was contrived to have a
rotatory motion, SO as to initiate the mo-
ton of the heavenly bodies. The vaulted
ceiling of ivory opened and let in on the
guests a profusion of flowers, and golden
pipes sprayed over them the most delicate
perfumes.
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Sam BOWles' Mule.

" My mule-did you ever ride mule?-
fits one for this. AS far as a mules brains
60 he is pretty sensible-and so obstinate,
But it takes long time to beat new idea
into his head and, when it dawns upon him
the effect is SO overpowering that he just
stops in amazed bewilderment, and won't
move on again until he is relieved of the
foreign consciousness and gets back to his
own original possession. The whole pro-
cess is startingly human; it inspires you
with faith in the idea of transmigration of
souls. | know so many who must have
been mules once, or will be-else there is
no virtue in the fitness of things! But my
mule belonged to the best of the race: he
was prudent, he never went in any doubt
full places until somebody else had gone be-
fore and proved the way; he was very
patient, he would always stop for me to get
off or to get on; he was very tough my
spurs never seemed to annoy him one
atom, and my riding him didn't wear the
skin off his back, not bit But after we
grew acquainted, and he came to appreciate
the more delicate shades of my character,
we got on charmingly together for the first
half of the day In the afternoon, when he
grew lazy and tired, and 1 nervous, we
often. had serious discussions, sometimes
with sticks; but he generally got the hest
of the argument
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Spectacles.

With most persons, there is an epoch in
life when the eyes become slightly flattened.
1t arises, probably from diminished activ-
ity of the secreting vessels. The conse-
quence is that the globe is not kept quite
as completely dstended with fluids as in
youth and middle age. There is thus an
elongated axis of vision. A book is held
further off to be read. Finally, becoming
in, the difficulty is met by putting on con-
vex glasses. This is the waning vision of
age. If, however, when that advancing
imperfection is first realized, the individual
persists i'll the attempt to keep the book in
the old focus of visiOn-even if he reads
under perplexing disadvantages, never re-
Taxing, but perseveringly proceeding just
as he did when his eyes were in the meridi-
perfection, the slack vessels will at last
come up to his assistance, and the original
focal distance will be re-established.
This statement will unquestionably be
combated, energetically, by those who use
glasses. But it will be waste of forensic
powder, because the fact is established be-
yond cavil. We do not pretend it will be
successful in every instance; but generally,
if glasses are once resorted to- then the OPP
portunity of doing without them is forever
lost.
Very aged men may be noticed reading
E,,n int. md lodi 1,,,cp 1,n
resisted glasses at the age of life referred
to who enjoy all the comfort of distinct
vision, and they will, until, like the dca-
cons chaise, every stick in the vehicle falls
to pieces at the same time.
Therefore, begin with firm resolution
never to use glasses of any kind, for read
ing or writing. The ancients knew moth
ing about such contrivances; if they had
there would have been poor eyes in album
dance, and oculists to meet the emergency.
Cicero never complained of imperfect vision
at the age of sixty-three. He even wrote
his last letter by torchlight, ON the eve of
being put to death by the waiting soldiers.
Humboldt died at ninety-two, having never
been embarrassed with those modern con.
trivances, lunetts. John Quincy Adams,
illustrious for scholarship, at ripe old age
saw without them. Indeed. it would be a
laborious enterprise to collect catalogue
of names in the chronicle of literary fame
of men and women, who were Independent
of glasses.-Dr. H. J. c. .SmiM.
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A Very Singular villa Novel Infirmary.

Yesterday we heard of and read part of
the most singular will Oh record. The ma
ker of the will is represented to be a shrewd
successful business man, who has accumu-
lated quite large fortune. He exhibits no
other signs of insanity than may be derived
from the extreme eccentricity of his WILL
although it is probable the courts will. in
due course, be called upon to determine
the question whether the testator was of
sound and disposing mind.
The will disinherits all the natural heirs
of the maker of it, and devises the entire
property in trust for the establishment of
an intirmary for cats. \ most elaborate
architectural plan for the necessary build
ings is attached to and made part of the
will. 1t provides areas for that sweet am
atory converse SO dear to the feline heart
and rat holes of the most ravishing nature
to be kept well stocked. The most inge-
NOUS contrivanccs are provided for secur-
ing to the rat a chance to escape so that
the cats may not loose the pleasures of the
chase by finding their prey come too easily
High walls are to be built with gently slop-
ing roofs, for moonlight promenade and
other nocturnal amusements of the CATS
The trustees are directed to select the
grounds for this novel infirmary in the most
populous part of some American city, and
the devises are to be protected by compe-
tent force of nurses from the ravages OF
men and dogs. No person of the male sex
no female who has children or is under
thirty years old. There are hundreds of
minute directions which we have no time
to note.
One would suppose that in the foregoing
provisions the testator had exhausted all
the eccentricities of one man, however
unique his nature; but the last provision
of the will seems more outrageously bizarre
than any that go before. Says the devisor:
II have all my life been taught to believe
that everything in and about man was in
tended to be useful, and that it was man S
duty, as lord of animals, to protect all the
lesser species, even as God protects and
watches over him. For these two combined
reasons-trst, that my body, even after
death, may continue to be made useful: and
secondly, that it may be made instrumental,
as far as possible, i'll furnishing a substitute
for the protection of the bodies of my dear
friends the cats-l do hereby devise and
bequeath the intestines of my BODY to be
made up into fiddlestrings, the proceeds to
be devoted to the purchase of an accordion,
which shall be played in the auditorium of
the Cat 1nfirmary by one of the regular
nurses to be selected for that purpose ex-
clusively-the playing TO be kept up for
ever and ever, without cessation day or
night, in order that the cats may have the
privilege of always hearing and enjoying
that instrument which is the nearest ap-
proach to their natural voice.
If any journal can give us information of
4 more singular will than this we should
like to hear of it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05
May.
BY d. II. j.

The brown thrush welcomes back with song
The white browed, bud-crowned May,
And chirps the sparrow all day long
Upon the apple-spray.
For me they tune their Threats in vain,
Their warbling only brings me pain.
Last May, through rushes sweetly sang,
Their notes | scarcely heard.
For through these groves 4 carol rang
More sweet than song of bird.
What boots it that again they sing,
Since to my heart their comes no Spring
The May-tlower opes its petals sweet
In many woodland nook,
And vioets and wind-tlowers greet
My footsteps by the brook;
But one who loved their bloom so well
| seek in vain in wood and dell.
May after May will come and go,
And annual thruShes sing.
While violets and wind flowers blow,
And hours Of gladness bring;
But all their charms are lost and vain
Since one they bring not i'll their train.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

TAXING THE PooL.-Good conduct at
Sunday-School seems to be differently re-
warded in different localities. In certain
Episcopal Church in San Francisco for in
instance, each scholar that is in his place
before opening school receives a ticket for
Punctuality. Our correspondent having,
as was his habit, come early to school one
Sunday, observed class of six or seven
boys, aged from seven to twelve years, all
of respectable parentage, throwing dice for
who should win the whole lot of Punctual-
ity tickets. He stood aghast at such de-
pravity, in such a place, on such day
especially when one urchin roared out:
Skies. I've won; gire US the pool!''
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and we pledge ourselves to bust the heads
NV sch.
Resolred, That we bust the heads only NV
disturbin carpet-baggers.
Rcsolred, That all Northern Republicans
comm here is carpet-baggers, and all North
em Dimokrats is not
"This,' said Josef. "makes the matter
plain to the dullest comprehension. Let
IN pass
| objected, but Bigler, stubborn as
pair of mules, insisted, and ez by this time
the church wuz half full NV niggers, wichs
he insisted shood vote ez they wuz not only
native-born kentuckians, but many NV EN-
he'd the best blood NV Kentucky runnin in
their veins, it was passed over our heads
and the meetin adjourned, Bigler and Pol
lock, followed by their adherents, goin off
in high glee. That cuss seems to take
delite in spilin everything that the rest
NV us undertake to do. Theirs many short
corners in Dimocrisy that must be turned
skillfully, and it's awkward to hev man
like him Dustin thro 'em like bull in
china shop. But he can't live alluz.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, PM,
Which means Postmaster.)
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

During the past winter not flake of
snow fell in Portland, Oregon. Only three
or four nights did ice form, and then only
of the thickness of window glass. Sowing
and planting were going ON all winter.
The Illinois State Penitentiary contains
more than twelve hundred convicts, the
largest number confined in any one prison
in the world.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

THE FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
Co., of York, Pa, ranks among the best
mutual Companies. The rates are moder-
ate, and all losses promptly paid. Persons
desiring Insurance in this Company, by
leaving their applications at The Wig
office will receive their Policies without
further trouble.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05
A RIDDLE.

Formerly California papers came, in
heavy parcels, thrice month by the way of
Panama. Now they arrive daily, and only
ten days old at that. "Thus the steam
locomotive achieves new victories over time
and space, and YIELDS the States together as
one
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

give would call the public attention
to the justly celebrated 20 Wilmington City
Soap" manufactured by Moore & Bro
1t works like magic! and no good house
keeper who has once used it, will be with
out it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

sf5 At the cor. of Sd & Orange sts., in
the City of Wilmington Del, there is an
establishment from which issues weekly
thousands of pounds of an article which to
every housewife is like "good news from a
far country" That establishment belongs
to Moore & Bro;-that article is Wilmiag-
ton City Soap
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

tB If you want to be in good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous " Wilmington
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05

H The " Wilmington City Soap" chal-,
lenges the world to beat it. 1t is pure
harmless, beautiful and effective article,
warrented to do all claimed for it. The
whole country is beginning to appreciate
its superiority. Moore & Bro, manufac-
tuners.