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TOILET ARTICLES.
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yA7 HITE TEETH MEADE & BAKER'g
wv "SAPOhINE DENTIFRiCEn Is e0sfsa
as he best TOOTH POWDEh In use. 1t 1. Ens~
rsnieed to be free from all acids or hurtful tnSre.
dlents, and fs composed OF the Spurest and mose
efficient detergents, astriDgents, and
ties speedily removes fncfpient tartar AND seul5
and heals and hardens the gnrns. IL Is used ana
recommended by hundreds OF fweII-known TENS,
and by Eli of cur best dentists. lead the following
certificates: ,-E,
prescribed to my patients, the, "SAPoaIHE U1A.
T1rRIcR," prepared by hessrs Meade q hass,.
who have acquainted me with Ito composition:
and all who use It may DO SO with the assurance
that Il IL far preferable 70 most ~
kinI, and that 1t does not contain any 1ngredtent
that can by possibility tpjure the teeth in osensn
or appearance. JOHN Gx WhfI, Uentlst..
we Confidently recommend to all who need aa
efficient and harmless tooth powder. the elegant
preparation OF Meade & Baker known as "sAfo-
MN" .GEORaE w. JoNEs Dentist:
r. N. HUDSON, Dentist 3
w. LEIGH BUa1Oy, Dentist:
.# j. BALL MOORE, M. D.. Dcrsisss
JOHN ~MAHoEY, Dent1t =. xss4f
). EDWARU CHksE, Dentist;
ga GEORGE Is. BTEELs UenshG
Price, atty cents box. mn
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STATEMENT

LAST CASH DIVIDEND FIFTY PER CENT.
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W. ii. PECKHAM, President
Il. Y. GkHAGkE, Secretary;
L. McADAM, Actuary;
6. l.. FUDICkAR, Superintendent.
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SENTLEMgN'S LIST.

Manchester Manufacturing Company; James
River Manufacturing Company.
rstNEa j. NJ MOODY, p. NJ
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A. q. PULLIAM will sell at 4 O'Clock a ira
- nf Iand n, (yh oot orS old oounfp ''@A"14-
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/, 6rTuaI. RENEVoLENT TJFE sAsso.
r1AKE YOUR RISKS &
IN HOME INSTITUTIONS

r. B. SrARKE, General Agent. fe sam
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Usefulness Of Birds.

In many parts of the country, birds seem
to be decreasing from year to year. Many
farmers believe that birds are of no service,
but rather an injury to the crops. The
rising generation are delighted to find
some mark at which to exercise their shoot
ing talents, and so the birds are slaughtered
out of mere sport. 1t is a question whether
the country is not greatly the loser by their
wantonness. The number of insects hurt
full to vegetation which birds destroy dur
ing the year, is immense. They do inesti-
mable service in the orchards and gardens in
Kidding us of bugs and vermin, which if
left to breed and accumulate, would often
destroy whole crops. The amount of dam
age which birds do is very small. They
may, it is true, pick kernel here or there
from the grain crops but this ought not to
be begrudged to such interchangeable work.
ers, while cleaning the fields of innumera-
BILE enemies of vegetation.
While in England, going upon the farms,
we could not but note the difference between
the greater number of birds and kinds of
game there than are found upon farms in
New York. The hedges afford nice and
cozy places for breeding, and during the
breeding season they are not cut or trim
med, i'll order to protect the young birds.
The game laws Of England are strict, and
of course much Of this protection grows
out of the laws which are made to afford
game for the nobility-during the shooting
season. But hard as it may appear to ex-
clude those who till the soil from their share
in these sports, it is question whether the
latter do not reap an advantage in having
their crops better cleaned of insects by
birds. Many farmers there assured
that the birds themselves were benefit
rather than an injury, but they complained
that sometimes the huntsmen, during the
hunting season, commit depredations.
Exchange.
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When did Methuselah Die?

''The Hartford Times has contributor
who has made startling discovery in rela-
ton to Methuselah. The chronology used
by the civilized world is founded on the
dates furnished us in the Bible. We reckon
the date of the flood from the dates found
in the fifth chapter of Genesis:
Years.
We learn from this chapter that Adam
lived before his son Seth was born, 1870
Seth lived before his son Enos was born, 105
Enos lived before his son Mahalaleel
was born, 60
Mahalaleel lived before his son Jared
was born, 1G5
Jared lived before his son Enoch was
Enoch lived before Methuselah was
born, 85
Methuselah lived before his son Lam
ech was born, 1877
Lamech livedlbefore his son Noah was
born, 1872
Hence, Noah was born Ammo Mundi 1856
In Genesis, vii 6, we are informed that
Noah was 600 years old when the flood of
waters was upon the earth adding 600
years. his age, to 1856, gives the date of
the flood, 1856. We learn from Genesis, v:
81, that 'all the days of Methuselah were
969 years, and he died. By reference to
the foregoing table, it will be seen that
Methusaleh was born Ammo Mundi 6S7, to
which add his age, 500, and we have 1856,
the date of the flood, which proves to be
mathematical certainty that Methuselah
was drowned for his wickedness. "-Er.
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THE WEEPING WILLOW.

The church-yard has a noble tree,
The willow-the willow.
She bends her head so gracefully,
The fair and stately willow.
That acre which the Lord hath bless Il
How calmly sweet its jewellers rest,
With her light shadow on their breast,
The willow-the willow
She looketh down her love to sec.
The willow-the willow
She keeps her trust so tenderly,
The faithful weeping willow;
But life still creepeth over death,
With sunshine, and with singing brcatl
And In green beauty tiourisheth,
The willow-the willow
You know her by her dropping leaf,
The willow-the willow
In tender majesty of grief,
Low bends the stately willow.
But greenly fair as hope could be,
In faiths own sweet humility,
She droops her boughs caressingly,
The wiilow-the willow
In other scenes my childhood knew.
The willow-the willow:
Beside a meadow brook she grew.
The stately weeping willow.
There thick the glinting sunbeams lay,
And bending gracious to our play,
Her slender branches seemed to sway.
The willow-the willow
Oh. greener than the laurel grows
The willow-the willow;
And all most blessed lives repose
In Sba dow IF tba willow
\ giant sorrow green and strong,
Where all the lesser joys may throng,
And murmur in their sweetest song,
The willOw-the willow!
Harpers -Hagazine.
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California Oranges and Lemons.

The cultivation of the orange in Cali
fornia has been one of the most success
full of the intertropical products. The
orange, lemon, and citron were intro
duccd at the old missions of the far
south some fifty Years ago, but there
were not two hundred trees of all spe-
cies of the citrous family in the coun-
try in 1916. At the present time it is
eultivated-cXcept on the north coast
everywhere in the State where not
too cold from elevation or exposed to
an excess of summer fogs and winds
In 1866, the State as reported by the
Surveyor General to have in existence
a total of IL 800 orange trees, mostly
near Los Angeles City; but in the
spring of 1861 there were then in the
county 5000 mature orange trees $780,
600 young trees from two to four years
old. and 100000 new plants from 1861.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin says:
The citrous family also do we'll in
Santa Barbara, for in 1865 the assessor
returned 44O lemon and Ais orange
trees, and very excellent oranges were
produced in 1867 on some of the older
trees. The bergamot and Sicily lemon
with the Mexican sour orange have
been grown at the mission gardens
here for the last forty years, but mostly
as ornament, and are in flower all the
year = and for several seasons the finest
kind of lemon fruit have been produced
in some Of the gardens in the town of
No. l quality and of great size and to
much profit, and both trees stand the
climate as well as in Los Angeles. 1t
may be safely estimated there are now
in the county not less than two thou
sand orange and lemon trees and plants
of the different varieties, and from this
nursery the cultivation may be widely
extended.
These trees seem, so far, to do best
in the coast country between Santa
Barbara and San Diego but there is
no doubt they will give larger returns
near Nasolia and in the Tulare Deltas
and in the lower Colorado than they
w VII liiS 1oeIot, do tlllS ldlullN Vi pldulS,
particularly the orange, is excessively
fond of torrid climate and moist
lands, which eliminate more sugar in
the fruit. At any rate, so far, its cult
walton at Los Angeles has been very
profitable, and probably that vicinity
will give $4,000 worth of oranges, and
$1,000 worth of lemons in 1868, and
as the trees fruit from four to eight
years, it will become very valuable
interest hereafter, particularly when the
cost of these two are three-fourths re-
duccd in price, which would then be
many times more than they are sold for
on the coast of Mexico or in Tahiti,
where in certain ports they can often be
had for s. per thousand.
Some idea of the gains of an orange
OF lemon plantation in bearing in Cali
fornia may be formed by quoting the
wholesale prices of these fruits in San
Francisco in mid April, 1868, when the
best Los Angeles lemons We're selling
for $50 per thousand, and their best
oranges also for $50 per thousand.
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Second Advent Of King Cotton.

The second advent OF King Cotton
may bc looked for when the South shall
be pcoplcd with live men, when enter
prise shall overcome present confusion,
and when the civil State shall guaran-
tee to capital the protection it need
But this time his throne will be sur
rounded with different ornaments from
those of the slave day. He will not be
a tyrant, but peer of his meanest sub
ject His powers will be commensurate
with industry, population, and skill
The influence he will exert will be that
of any of Gods bounties. In all things,
however, he will have formidable
rival The "Ramic grass is destined
to play prominent part in Southern
production and commerce. 1t grows
luxuriantly, is cultivated with ease, and
is even more profitable than cotton
What is it We quote from a scienti-
fic source:
Firstly Ramie, or China Grass, is
botanically named Bochmivia Tenaes-
sima, of the order Urticacia, so that no
one need mistake it on inquiry.
Secondly. tits neitherunlikeju te nor
hemp, but with holder, crisper, yet
more pliable fibre.
Thirdly. To be got up in a proper
way it should be dried when the green
becomes white.
Fourthly. The value in the green
state is 935 to f45 per ton of 2,24O lbs.
white, $50 per ton; dressed, for mixing
with cotton and silk, $3.50 to $3.50 per
ton!
Filthy, Application. Any Ameri-
cans who have visited this side the last
year or two may have seen our ladies
wearing for morning and walking
dresses what might appear to be a
splendid French lavender silk Amer
rican ladies, however would not fail to
observe that, though beautiful to the
eye, it lacked the inherent value of silk
to the touch, though superior in every
way to cotton. Did any one of these
American visitors know that this silk
like material owed it's base to their own
soil, that it was chiefly made from
Ramie, or China Grass, and is no other
in Europe than the initiated and So
called Japanese silk 2"
Sufficient, then, has been written to
demonstrate that there is an enormous
source of commerce open to the United
States-that in production and process
the thing is veritable fact-that
growing wild on the plains of the
Southern States is fibre which, from
fruit to fruition, is of the magnificent
value of f35 to $3.50 per ton!
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NOTICE..
e. NOTICE TO
Collectors & Owners of Dogs.

Notice is hereby given to Collectors and Owners of
Dogs that all Dogs and Shuts in the several Districts
shall be assessed for the 1869 under Act Of
Assembly passed December Session 1867 Article sth of
tho Pnhlic "ca Laws for Cecil county relating Dogs
and Sluts. between the 10th day of February and the
3st day OF March next, in said year and the of
every Dog and Slut assessed between dates shall
be held accountable for the him her
whether he or she shall afterwards part with the Dog
slut not and the assessment Dogs and Sluts in
county, as taken Ivy the several Collectors shall be
tnrned by them to the Oicr of the County Commission
ers under probate before the 3ist day Of March,
next. By order. WM. T. MILLER Clerk
Fcb6 1s69-5w Commissioners Cecil county
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PUBLIC SALE.

The subscriber, having sold his farm Bohemia
Manor, Cecil county, Nd. one mile east of Bohemia
Bridge, will offer his Stock and farming Utensils at
Public Sale
Monday, February 22d, 1869,
At 10 o'clock AN, = pair young Mules, me- q
dunn size and well broken good Mares; LIN
Mare, years old, will make good driver: CV
Mare Colt, yeara old ; Driving II"rsc,--~--
rIErt large size years old: Mich Cows, in profit
N.Y. fine Heiier part Aderncy, coming in profit
lSsnlGA head Young Cattle, Bull. part Alderncy: 3
superior Chester White Brood Sows, coming in profit
Is head Chester White Pigs, weeks old head Shoats.
l superior Chester White Male Hog. Diamond State
Thrasher and Cleaner with treehorsc Endless Chain
Power attached: Farm Wagons, ons nearly new iron
axle; Peach Wagon, new with heavy springs light
Spring Wagons, . Buggics, Family Carriages, l OK
Cart. nearly new; Sleigh. WHEAT Drill, Cornsheer,
Grain Fan Peach Dryer Cider Mill Flows, IIarrows Gull
tyators Wagon Harness. Pow Gears, Double and Single
Carriage Harness. Forks Shovels, Spades, &c. Peach
Boxes, Hobed Sash tnew.) 65 bushels Of Goodrich Seed
Potatoes, good size; Tons prime Timothy Hay and
Tons prime Clover Hay; Meat by the pound. Also,
Household and Kitchen Furniture. &c.
TERMS All sums of and under S25 cash all
S25. a credit of pine months, the purchaser
giving Note, with approved security, bearing interest
from date payable at the National Bank of ElktOn.
I. n. PYLE
Feb. g. IS69-ts* s. BURNS, Auctioneer.
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CALlrOnNlA In AMlNEo.--CdlllOTuld
is about to add to her mineral wealth a
material item in the shape of tin. The
Temascal mine now gives occupation to
twenty-five hands, many of whom are
Englishmen, and they say the prospects
for rich and permanent yield surpass
anything they have seen in the far-famed
excavations of Cornwall The history
of the discovery of this mine is very
remarkable. Indeed, it seems as if TO
nance chung around such discoveries.
We give the legend and the sequel:
The fact of the existence of a vein of
tin ore at Temascal, San Bernardino
county, has been known for many years.
AS early as 1912, the people living at
the mission of San Gabriel became
aware of the existence of lode of sim
gular metal at place near the banks
of the Temascal river Two Indian
medicine men in the vicinity of the mis-
sion used certain reddish-brown metal
for the sick of their tribe. 1t looked
like cinnebar, and for long time the
place from which they obtained it was
concealed. At length, one of the men
fell sick, and when about to die he told
some of the white men at the mission
that he and his companion procured the
ore from the Pojaico, or medicine
Hill" Men went in search of the vein,
and found the hole from which the In
dams got the ore. They procured some
of it, and, taking it to blacksmith's
forge, obtained substance which they
thought was silver ore. There was
Immediately great excitement at the
mission about it; but further investiga-
tons showed the substance to be tin
The lode, with a large tract of land
around it, was taken up. #t
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cB If there is 'many slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip" will drinking out of the
saucer insure freedom from such mishap?
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RISING Sun.
F A R M E R S M IL | S
Porter's Bridge, Md.

We are prepared To supply customers and tFT5SN
the public with the best brand, Of I'anli yE-tE-l;
Flour Cheap they be purchased SsSnszA4
elsewhere both Wholesale and Retail
Having the hest Mill in the county. we are confident
of doing work in such Il will insure sItisac-
ton
Flour delivered at Railroad Depot. both at Rising sun
and Port Deposit. free of charge.
Thanking customers for their past patronage, We
hope for continuance of the
Highest Cash Price Paid for Prime Wheat
at all times MILL FEED constantly on hand.
Grist work promptly attended to.
BROWN & PLATT,
RISING SrS.
Jan % 1S69-3m Cecil county, Md.
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New MILLINERY Store
IN RISING. SIN.

MRS BELL BUCKLEY hereby gives notice 81
that she has Just received and opened ST.
! sortment of Millinery Goods, Dress 79ILN
Trimmings and Notions. consisting q ~
in part Nclvcts Satins, Ribbons Feathers. Flowers.
Frames Hats and Caps for ntts and Children, and
prepared To all work in her line of business with neat
and dispatch.
Also Cloak and Dress Making will lie carried
on bv MISS JENNIE JOHNSON she having been i'll tho
city sometime past and got all the latest styles for
Cloaks and Dresses
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IMPORTANT TO ALL.-The public are be.

IMPORTANT TO ALL.-The public are be-
coming more and more thoroughly convin-
ced of the superior washing qualities of the
WILMINGTON CITY SOAP. The articles of
which it is composed are so thoroughly
neutralized that you need have no fear of
rottipg your clothing The patent and
labor-saving soaps of the day are doing
more to rot and destroy clothes than all
the wear the clothes receive. If you will
use WILMINGTON CITY SOAP according to
directions on each pound, you will find it
to save as much time and labor as any soap
in the market, without any risk of injuring
the clothes. Pure and full weight
MOORE & BRO, Manufacturers, Sd and
Orange street, Wilmington Del
a. A subscriber for the Rochester DEM
ocrat, marveling at the continued disap-
pearance of his paper, stationed himself
where he could witness how it got beyond
his door, if the carrier left it, and was not
little edited to observe his cat demurely
seize it and cautiously carry it behind
refrigerator, where upon looking, he dis
covered seven or eight missing numbers,
folded IS when left by the boy.
Our devil thinks if some Of the subscri-
bers of The Whig would watch very likely
they would see their cat carry it of, or at
least, what becomes of their papers.
GRAMMATICAL JOKING" What il the
reason of a blow leaving blue mark after
it % asked an inquiring young man of
medical student. cts easily accounted
for was the reply; '.for you know that
bloo in the perfect makes bIe,o."
tB-"I can't reconcile differences" said
Septimus Hardup. "For instance, there
| is nothing more regular in its coming round
than dinner time-and nothing less certain
than dinner"
F"Mynheer, do you know what for
we call our boy Hans?" "Do not, really"
"Vell, tells you. Der reason, is because
that ish his name"
-tB Hair, removed by fevers and other
sickness, made to grow by washing the
scalp with strong decoction of sage leaves
once or twice day.
70 Curran was once asked by one of his
brother judges, "Do you see anything ridic-
ulous in this wiga' "Nothing but the
head was the reply.
What church do you attend, Mrs.
Partington?'' sob! any paradox church
wnere the Gospel is dispensed with !''
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Lost or Misla id.

Lost or Mislaid.
THREE PROMISSORY NOTES viz:-One drawn by
JAS j. Webb. dated Kenrydrie January LIST, 1866? at 3
months to the order of holland Co. for 5l4925 payable
Mt Kent National Bank, Chrstertown. Md. One drawn
by John j. Dodd, to the order of holland Co.. dated
Chestertown. Nd Dec 3ls 1865. at 90 days for 500,
payable at the Kent NatioIl Bank. Chestertown Md
and one Drawn by H. +. Nails. the order of j. r. Trim
bic, dated Baltimore Nd Dec. 2sth, 1868, for Sai2.l6
Tho public hereby forewarned not to negotiate
said Notes. holland & co.
Feb H. 1s69-2w ES~Kent News copy.
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~ UANOs-Peruvian and Mexican Guano of standard
" quality, always on hand and for sale by
JOHN PARTRIDGE, Elkton.
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wrThe Congressional mouth pieces of
State rights are chasing phantom they
can never catch. To indulge vision may
have proved pleasant pastime for political
senility, but to draw rusty swords in the
vain hope of breaking down the bulwarks
of Freedom is evidence of dotage beyond
respect. Why fight the fiat of the people !?
Why oppose the elevation of the human
race by the waddings of Slavery's gunss
Enfranchisement is not of party it is of
humanity. 1t does not mean privilege, it
is simply an investment with rights 1t is
not measured by color or condition; it is
Heavens own investiture for purposes of
mans INDEPENDENCE and elevation.
Phild. Press.
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PORT DEPOSIT,
planning MILL

We respectfully announce to the public that having
improved Mill. and added thereto many modern
inventions calculated facilitate business and he of
great advantage to the public are therefore, better
than prepared to execute orders with promptness.
We have constantly ON hand an extensive stock Of
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this little exercise is concluded, and the ser
mon is not, he can draw from another pocket
case comb, and put those fine touches TO
his hair which the early church bell had in
terfered with. Ii is res0me on him then for
few minutes, unless soue impertinent sun
beam gilds the ministers 5 sacerdotal nose, ind
gives him an excuse for going up in the gal
lery to lower a curtain. in that dexterous
manner which only professional can COM
pass.
By this time, - seventeenthly' having been
concluded by the minister, the sexton hurries
to .he church door, doubling up with a dex-
terOus twist any aisle chairs which have done
duty pro tenn, and tucking them in their ap-
propriate corner. and then takes his position
in the porch, the most important parsonage
present save the minister himself 10 the
question, d" Is it heclergyman Of this church
who has just preached?" addressed him by
some stranger, and As there to be an after
noon or an evening service - and - Can you
tell me where is the clergvman's residence -
and q" Will You hand this note 10 the clergy
man ~ etc, etc, he returns prompt and
proud answer. And even when Miss Bein-
da Jones steps to his elbow, and requests that
ing the church between the services. and in
fact during the week. in order that she may
escape the iuaicti0n Of her usual Sunday
headache and when she expiates touching
ly ON the blessing and healthlulness ana
cheapness ol fresh air, and his Christian duty
to apportion a sufficient quantity to sustain
life, and that meek and quiet spirit that i
enioined; even then, be bows respectfully, nor
mentions that, We're ventilation thus insured
by open windows, and the life of the audience
prolonged. it might make him little more
trouble in busting the cushions. which he
could by no means lermit-the polite sexton
does not mention this, nor that be .' hates
tdgety females, hut be bows politely, locks
up the bad air in the church all the same.
and goes home to his roast beef and his ba-
bies.