The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-28

But for the fear of meeting with change
On dread election day, which would
Shorten cur fiscal returns-puzzles nv will,
And makes me rather bear the ills have,
Than fly to ether which are greater far.
These Republicans make towards Of us all.
Toun Point, Nay 11A, 1870.
A "NEw VANITY."-Rev. Charles B.
Smythe has recently been playing the part
of Sam Weller the younger, and the New
York Presbytery that of the Rev. Mr.. Stig-
gins, whe rebuked Sam by observing that
"all taps were vanities," and added that a
little pineapple rum, warm, with sugar,
was the vanity least Objectionable to his
moral and physical sense. Mr.. Smythe was
arraigned before the Presbytery for having
on certain Sunday six weeks ago, gone
with two reporters into a liquor saloen and
restaurant, ordered drinks, oysters, etc.,
all round, with gin and milk for himself,
and when turning to leave, requested the
bar-keeper to chang it up The trainers
of the indictment consider gin and milk
the climacteric of the offence, but in draw
ing up the instrument they betrayed IA
miliarity with bar-room slang in accusing
that unhappy individual of taking GIVE
fingers" of this particular vanity. Mr..
Smythe's defence was that the saloon was
perfectly respectable place, that he lived
too far from his church to 90 to dinner,
and that the peculiar tipple was medicinal,
the harmful qualities of the liquor being
carried off by the milk. The Presbytery
accepted the defence and dismissed the
whole matter with a mild reprsof of the
inventor of a new beverage.
GEN. EARLY ON WEEPING MEN.-The
Hudson, N. Y. Gazette, under the heading
ga Renaissance of the rebellion gives a
dialogue which occurred between surgeon
and General Early, near Staunton, during
the Valley campaign of 1864:
Surgeen-General, when l see woman
weep nay sympathies are at once enlisted,
but my grief is in measure modulated by
the knowledge that she can weep at any
time, but, sir, when l see man shed tears
"a man upon whom call the gods have
set a seal to give assurance of man." it
arouses every pathematic sensibility of my
emotional nature to an immediate commu-
Mon with his grief, as 1 reflect what must
be the volcanic turbulence of his bosom to
inundate his vissage with such lava of
tears
Gen. Early" Well, Doctor when I see
such man as you have described, with all
the front of Jove, and all that sort of thing,
cry, always put him down for a d-n
| lOOls IeOdIo 0l utCl lVllOWtu.
-Foote, travelling in the west of Eng
land, dined one day at an inn. When the
cloth was removed the landlord asked him
how he liked his fare. 81 have dined as
well as any man in England" said Foote.
Except his honor, the Mayor" cried the
landlord. 81 do not except anybody,
whatever" said he. "But you must"
brawled the host. 81 WON'T "You
must At length the strife ended in the
landlord taking Foote before the Mayor,
who observed that it had been customary
in that town, for great number of years,
to except his honor the Mayor, and accord
ingly fined him shilling for not conform
ing with this ancient custom. Upon this
decision Feote paid the shilling, at the
same time observing that he thought "the
landlord was the greatest fool in England,
except his honor the Mayor
The wife of the Austrian Archduke
Charles Ferdinand, who was overtaken at
Hamburg on her flight to this country, is
and is sister of the Belgian Queen, and
mother, by her first husband, of the Princess
Louis, of Bavaria, one Of the most wealthy
princesses of Europe. No other metive
was ascribed to her transatlantic fitting
than an irrepresible desire to become
acquainted with Americans. Her first hus-
band, the late Duke of Medena, was a
great miser and brute. Whether she is ill
treated by her present husband is net known;
but probably she is as princesses who are
happy in their domestic life are not apt to
desert their families in order to see the
verdi
"A German paper says the simplest post
office in the world is to be found ON the
southern extremity of America For some
years past small barrel has been fastened
by an iron chain to the outermost rock of
the mountains overhanging the Straits of
Magellan opposite Terra del Fuego. 1t is
opened by every ship passing through the
Straits, either to place letters in or take
them from it. This post office, therefore,
takes care Of itself; it is confided to the
protection of seafarers, and there is no
example Of any breach of trust having &C.
CURED. Each ship undertakes the v0lun-
tary transmissons Of the contents of the
barrel if their destination is within limits
of its voyage.
An approximate estimate by the Oil City
Times shows the total production of petro-
leum on Oil creek and its tributaries during
April to have been 1926, 900 barrels, Or &c.
900 barrels less than during March. A
| uuLhDCl vi hCdFy WClC HiduC uul-
ing April, which, it was thought, would
swell the production beyond the figures of
the preceding month"; but the large number
of wells which gave out more than offset
the increase. During the last part of the
month the sales were considerably in
advance of the production, and in some
places there is said to be Nc supply left on
hand.
q III, IL.
elder Murray the famous London publisher
to the present John Murray his son, as he
entered his apartments "did you meet two
lame gentlemen on the stairs ." eyes,
father, did, was the response. "They
were arm in arm, and did not separate, so
l went between them, and they lifted their
arms to let me pass under" Remember
then, my boy" said the neted bookseller,
"that those two gentlemen were Walter
Scott and Lord Byron
Prof Silliman, of Yale College, is
famed far and wide for the maveleus ses-
quibedality-as he would call it-ef his
language. The following sentence formed
the introduction to lecture ON OXYGEN
'The oleaginous and luminiferous effects
Of exygenated muriatic acid are so fuga-
cieus and segregated that we are totally
unable to recognize the contents by any
practical or theoretical view of their syn
quinous coruscations and sinuosities which
they so often exhibit
LINCOLN ALL OvER.-Here is dispatch
said to have been sent from President Lin
coin to Gen. Hooker" If the head of
Lees army is at Martinsburg and the tail
of it on the Plank Road between Fred
ericksburg and Charlottesville, the ami
NAL must be pretty slim somewhere
Couldn't you break him?'
One of the banners carried in the pro-
cession of the rejoicing colored men in
Charleston, S. c., bore the inscription, adj
dressed to the Democrats: "We have played
together, you say, but were we ever whip
ped together %