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Wild Flowers.

Flowers of the wayside, field and wood,
Sweet messengers of comfort and delight,
Forever whispering of things bright and
How welcome are you once more to my
sight!
How gladly turn from the weary din
Of the great city-from it's noisome ways,
Full of deceit and misery and sin,
TO you, sweet friend Of childhood's ear
Hest days.
Ye please alike the tiny cottager,
Who scarce can toddle DER the grassy
plain
To pluck the golden king-cups spread
for her,
Or silver daisies for her sisters chain;
The invalid who, with weak steps and
Creeps forth in the first genial summer
Sees your fair hosts, so frail, marks how ye
And gathers hope of life from living
flowers.
The son Of labor ON his homeward way,
Forgetting all his weriness the while,
Who culls the fragrant "suckling," brier,
Or may,
WI ereOH some loving ones at nome may
smile;
The man of science-the profound divine
Who sees in you the trace of wondrous
skill
Who, as his Master did, would fain entwine
With pure sweet flowers great holy doc
trine still
But not alone to minister to men,
BY beauty, fragrance, or in healing
power,
Were We, o lovely ones! created when
The Almighty's word called into birth
each flower?
Not only to the bee and butterfly
Do we afford sweet exhaustless store,
But plenteeus food and shelter both supply
To countless hosts which DER your petals
pour.
Creatures of wondrous structure, frail and
fair,
OF various forms too small for human
eye,
For whom the. tiniest flow'ret's glittering
hair,
Forms shady groves wherein at peace
they lie.
Oh precious flowers! messengers of love,
So freely spread by mercy infinite
To bless this world, and to the world above,
BY gentle teachings graciously invite.
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PROPOSALS.
For Dead Letter EnyelOpes
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON ID. c. June IL 1870

SEALED PROPOSALS will be receivcd at this Depart.
ment until July ~ 1870 at IL o'clock NJ for furnishing
during a period of two years commencing the 10th
day of August 1870 Envelopes to be used for returning
dead letters to writer's
The Envelopes must be hand gumme,l and equal in
quality of paper and manufacture the sample selected
10y the Department. and have such printing upon them
AS the Postmaster General may direct. They must be
delivered in such quantities and at such times be
required at the Post Office Department, in Washington
d. C., in good order, packed in strong pascloard boxes
ready for use free of cost for packing and
at the rate Of about 10000 per month"; the annual sup
ply being estimated ut 2.00o,OOO more or lcss.)
Specimens of the Envelopes for which proposals are
invited and blank forms for proposals NAV be had on
application to the THIRD ASSISTANT GENERAL
No proposal will be considered unless offered by a
manufacturer of envelopes, and accompanied by IA su
cicnt and satisfactory guarantee: and the Postnts
in his Judgment the interests of the require
it.
Bonds with approved and sufficient sureties in the
of $4,000, will be required for the faithful per
forinancc Of the contract according to the provisions
the seventeenth section of the of Congress
the 26h of August, 1872 aud payment under said con
tract Will be made after proper adjustment of accounts
The Postmaster General reserves to himself the right
to annul the contract whenever the same any part
thereof is offered for sale for specuton and under nu
circumstances will transfer of the contract he allowed
sanctioned to any party who shall be- in the opinio
of the Postmaster General less able to fulfill cont
tons thereof than the original the
Is also reserved to the Postmaster General annu the
contract if in his Judgment there shall be a failure
perform faithfully any of its stipuations or in case of
wful attempt to impose upon the Department cnye.
lopcs inferior to sample.
Bids should he securely developed and sealed mark ed
Proposals for Dead Letter Envelopes. and addressed
to the Third Assistant Postmaster General Post Ofce
Department, Washington ID.
JN0 A. ]. CRESWELL,
June Is, 1S70-iw Postmaster General.
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How A WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET.-It
is an old quip upon women that they can
not keep secrets, but the fact is they are
the only part of humanity that can. A
wife keeps husbands secretincomparably
safer than he does hers. We calculate that
there is one drunken wife to about four
hundred and ninety-nine drunken hus-
bands. In gambling, RIGHTEOUSNESS, lying,
cheating, hypocrisy, covetousness, there is
pretty much the same proportion. Yet of
the fouf hundred and ninety-nine wives,
four hundred conceal, cover up, silently
endure the terrible secret, while the one
husband mourns over his wife's frailty in
the study Of the pastor and to the ear of
his friend, and probably complains of it to
q court of law. 1t is the same between
brother and sister. The secrets that u
woman talks about are of the kind that are
unimportant and most agreeable to hear
But of serious secrets she is reticent as the
grave. That is our observation, and in our
various relations we have had room for a
great deal of observation.
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NOTICE

Is hereby given by the President and Commissioners
of the village of Port Deposit that there is due for Tax
assessed to John T. Lyon for expense of paving that part
of the eastern side of Main street. in said village in
front of two-trs of Lot conveyed to Catherine Lyon
and John T. Lyon by Samuel r. Carson by Deed dated
the thirteenth day Of May, 1867 and recorded in Lcr
H. r. T.. No. l. folio 6S5 of the Land Record Books
street, and bounded south 10y Ncsts lot l6O feet
by property of Mrs Murphy SO feet and north by the
public road leading from Rock Run to Battle Swamp l70
frc-the sum Of S1245: and that unless the due
said land. aforesaid, shall he paid to the Ba OF
the village of Port Deposit within the spac" of thirty
days after the ninth day Of July next, the land ST
charged much thereof he necessary shall
be sold to the highest bidder for the payment of the
same
BY order of the President and Commissioners of the
village of Port Deposit.
SAMUEL NJ. c. NESEITT,
june II. lS10-5w Clerk
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a GooD-NIGHT KIss.-Always send your
child to bed happy. Whatever cares may
trouble your mind, give the dear child a
goodnight kiss as it goes to its pillow
The memory of this in the stormy years
which may be in store for the little ones.
will be the Bethlehem's star to the be-
wildered shepherd, and swelling up in the
heart, will rise the thought: "My father
IN | mother loved me"' Lips parched with
fever, will become dewy at this thrill Of
youthful memories. Kiss your little child
before itgoes to sleep.
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Uses OF OLD SHOES What becomes
of old shoes?' Under this caption we are
told in Cosmos that old shoes are cut in
small pieces, which are afterward kept for
a couple of days in chloride of sulphur
The effect of this is to render the leather
hard and brittle. When this is found to
have been effected, the material is with
drawn from the action of the cloride of sui
phur, washed with WATER dried, ground
to powder, and mixed with some substance
which causes it to adhere together for
instance, shellac, OF any other resinous
substances, or good glue, or thick solu-
ton of gum,) and is then pressed into
moulds and shaped into buttons, combs,
knife handles, etc.
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Notice to Creditors.

This is to give notice, that the subscriber, of Cecil
county, hath obtained from the Orphans Court of said
county letters T. stancntry the personal estate of
BERNARD g. kRAtSS,
late of said county, deceased All persons having claims
against the said deceased hereby warned to exhibit
the same with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
On or before the :iOth day of May. ISL:
they may otherwise by law, be excluded from all beneh
of said estate All persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make immediate payment to tho subscrl
Der. o wM WARING, his Attorney. Given under my
hand this 4th day of June, 1870.
DANIEL L. KRAUSS.
Executor of Bernard g. Krauss, decd
Test-REUBEN D. JANAR Register.
June 4, 1s70-6w
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"A good minister in country village
lately prayed fervently for those of his
congregation "who were too proud to kneel
and too lazy to stand
In pocket-picking, as in almost every
thing else, man never succeeds until he
gets his hand in.
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CHEWING GUM Chewing gum is made
of certain parts Of um-arabic, gum-traga-
canth, small quantity of resin and fat
The fat used is expressed from the bodies
Of hogs, cats, dogs, and other animals
found dead in the streets Of cities. Nice,
isn't it?
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WANTED AGENTS. sell the HOME SHUTTLE
w SEWING MACHINE. Price, SIS. 1t makes the
:" Lock Stitch, (alike on both sles) and is the only
licensed under-feel Shuttle Machine sold for less than
$50. Licensed 10y Wheeler Wilson, Grover & Baker
and Singer and Co. All other undrr-feed Shuttle
Machines sold for less than $50 nfrngemcnts and
the seller and liable to Prosecution. Address
JOHNSON, CLARK & co. Boston, Mass. Pittsburgh
Pa, Chicago, ILL.,, or ST. Louis. Mo. 1880
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NOTICE.

Is hereby given by the President and Commissioner.
of the village of Port Deposit that there is due for Tax
assessed to Andrew b. Cross for expense of paving that
part of the side of Main in the said village
in front of Lots No. 3d. 6 and Co. the of Two Hun
bred and One Dollars and Sixty Cents and also for tn,
regular corporation tax upon same lots and Quarry
the norrrn part of said village for the year 1869 tn,
further Of Sl7l0, max ing in all the of S2l90O
and that unless the due said lands aforesaid
shall be paid to the Baili of the said village of Port
Deposit within the space of thirty days after the
day of July next the land charged much thereo
may lie necessary will he sold TO the highest bidder
for the payment of the same.
By order Of til" President and Commissioners of the
village of Port Deposit
SAMUEL VI. c. NESBITT,
.Inne II. lSIO-.w Secretary
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Meetings Of County Commissioners.

vTyIIE regular meetings Of the County Commissioners
l will be held the second TUESDAY of every
month
Persons having claims against the County, will please
file tho same in the Commissioners Office, with legal
voucher; as no account will lie allowed not properly
clargeable To the same
Collectors and others having to be stated
settled will apply the Clerk during the of the
Board BY Order
WIN. T. MILLER. Clerk
Commissioners of Cecil County.
De 4 lS67-y
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WANTED AGENTS-To sell the OCTAGON
w SEWING MACHINE. 1t is licensed makes the
Elastic Lock Stitch and is warranted for years.
Price SIS. All other machines with an understood sold
for SIS or less are infringements Address OCTAGON
SEWING MACHINE CO., st. Louis, No., Chicago ILL.,,
Pittsburgh, Pa Boston, Mass. 1920.
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BOOK AGENTS WuNTED s, the
Autobiography & Personal ReC0llGctiOnS Of
JONI B, COUGH.

The whole enlivened with affecting incidents full Of
interest and pathos. Fifty Thousand sold the last five
months. People will bny this, notwithstanding the
hard times. 1t is pleasure to sell it, is doing
much good. The work is spendilly bound and illus
tratei. Address. 1,5l1
II. c. JOHNSON, No. 6S2 ARCH Street Philadelphia Pa.
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JOSHUA HORNER,
NOTICES. &C.

S7O entirely new and hogors
cuars free. Address RAND CO., Bddcor,i Me. l52C
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John e. WILSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW

Offers his Professional Services to the public Prompt
attention given TO all Law and Chancery business Con
veyancing in all its forms strictly attended to.
NJ. Collections made in all parts of the State.
0FfICE-0dd Fellows Hail. next Post Office ElktOn.
sent Ii. 1867
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DIR. JOHNSTON,

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons London Ora
duate of one of the most eminent Colleges in the United
States and the greater of whose life has been spent
in the hospitals of London Paris Philadelphia and else
where, has effected of the most astonishing
that Were ever known many troubled with ringing in
the head and when asleep, great being
alarmed at snten Sounds bashulness, with frequent
blushns attended sometimes with arrangement of mind
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correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing from Bagdad, gives some interest
ing account Of the city of the Caliphs:
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Let false dclicacy prevent, but apply Immediately
Persons Ruined in health by Unearned Prctcnders and
that DendNu Poison MercNrN. speedily relieved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-19

Francisco newspapers the charge of Fitzhugh
Lee that General Thomas offered his services
to the Southern Confederacy. He says that
General Thomas met that charge directly be-
fore his death. ss--
A medical journal says that the yolk of a
hard Boiled egg, rubbed with enough pure
glycerine to make salve of the right consist
ence, b an ointment of superior efficacy for
sore nipples, chapped lips, and similar irrita-
BILE conditions of the skin.
Ny Keong Chez, one of the first Cinnamon
to settle in California, has just deceased, and
at his funeral "a long line of carriages, to-
gether with music and a roast pig, &C., fol-
lowed the remains through the principal
streets to the cemetery"
One of the most novel modes Of clearing
client is that lately adopted by young attor-
ney of indianapolis. He took his client into
his office from the custody of the constable,
to have some conversation with him, and then
let him out at back window.
The volcano of Ceboruco, Mexico, contin-
ucS al lull SIuptiOu. ISu hot stoiiSS GA
thrown up from the crater to an immense
height, and at night the sight is grand. The
air is filled with ashes for a distance Of forty
five miles. The inhabitants in the neighbor-
hood are terror stricken, and have abandoned
their home.
Dayton. Ohio, has been benignantly pat
ronized by Susan B. Anthony, who, while
there few weeks ago, said that it was very
handsome little city, and could be made the
most delightful place to live in in the world,
with an intelligent woman for mayor. III
A marriage is to take place between Mrs.
Ives, daughter of Mr.. Motley, American Min
lister at London, and the Hon.. Henry Cowper,
second son of the late Viscountess Palmerston,
her first husband having been Earl Cowper,
grandfather of the present peer.
Mosquitoes may be effectually kept at bay,
so the Entomolgist says, by rubbing the least
quantity of kerosene oil on the face and hands.
Some people may share the prejudices Of the
mosquitoes against the oil, and prefer the oil
to the remedy, but if not the fact is worth re-
membering.
Senator Morrill, recently made happy
tort upon the saturnine Senator from Delaware,
Mr.. Salisbury, which is thus reported in the
Globe: -.=~4
M. salisbury. If my honorable friend
will allow me to make a remark, know
that "hope springs eternal in the human
breast" but, from my observation in this body
for a number of years, all hope has left me of
any good to be derived from its action.
M Morrill, of Maine. If my friend was
more ''human" he would be more hopeful.
Laughter. zn fias .V3
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W.ASHINGTO NEWS.

The committee on banks and banking have
agreed to bill for ~redeeming the present
nickel currency in legal tenders when pre-
scented in sums of twenty-five dollars or up
wards; also to bill designed to prevent ma
tional banks from evading the tax on circula-
ton. The bill provides that the bank itself
must collect and surrender its circulation
within sixty days of such notice to the Treas
ury, under severe penalties for -compli-
ance.
Horace X. Munroe of Maine, a clerk in the
Treasury Department, died Monday afternoon
after lingering illness.
Gen. Fitzpatrick, Minister to Chill, has,it is
understood, rendered his resignation to the
President, to take effect immediately, and is
expected home in the next South America
steamer, due the latter part Of this week.
The Reconstruction Committee have agreed
to bill for the admission of Georgia similar
to those under which Texas and Virginia
were admitted. This is not satisfactory to
the Democrats, as the bill thus framed allows
the Legislature to continue two years longer.
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domestic Nems.

The kennebec Reporter says Hermon Lodge,
No so, F. & A. NJ, of Gardiner, is one Of the
oldest lodges in the State the first meeting
having been held August IA, 1920. Its his
tory has, by. order of the Lodge, been COM
piled from the records by Bro. E. A. Chad
wick, assisted by Bro. j. l.. Stoddard, and
the work has just been issued from the Re
porter office. The history contains much that
is of great interest to the members of the fra
ternity in this locality. OF the twenty -four
original members, but three are now living.
During the fifty years of its existence, four
hundred and fifty persons have become mem
bers. One hundred and fifty eight names are
now on the books as members.
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GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty families of Josephite Mormons have
left Salt Lake for homes in the States.
The use of galvanized iron for cornices,
window caps, door caps, and fine ornamental
work is fast becoming general.
aChristadelphians" is the title Of the latest
new sect The members live at Jefferson,
Ind.
Illinois boasts of a canine population of three
hundred thousand live dogs. Every advan-
tage is offered to the hydrophobia.
Many woman who has forced herself into
the matrimonial market wishes, when too late,
that she had not been SO badly sold
John G. Whittier was given a reception by
the Union League, of New York, on Thurs
day evening last.
About 200, 900 tons of tallow are yearly
made in Russia, half of which is used in that
country. t
An exceedingly paternal man, living on Den
mis- Lake, Florida, aged eighty seven, is the
father of sixty children, the youngest of whom
Is nine mOntns OH.
Horse racing is dying out in Virginia, and
the Richmond papers mourn the degeneracy
of the times.
Betwe 1850 and 1866 the rise in the price
of food in Ireland has been from thirty to fifty
per cent.
The American officers who have taken SER
vice under the Viceroy of Egypt are twenty
in number, mostly exrebels.
There are thousand persons in New York
who are worth, at the lowest calculation,
$500 600.
Baron Steuben, who was a distinguished
volunteer officer in the Revolutionary war, is
to have monument erected to his memory in
Washington.
Nineteen whales of the grampus species APP
peared recently in t he harbor at Fernandina,
Florida. After grand hunt they were all
captured.
The Utica Herald gives list of l45 new
cheese factories to go into operation this spring
in the State of New York, and understands
this is far from being a complete list
The death of Theodore Clay, son of Hon.
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, is announced. He
has been for fifteen years an inmate Of the Lex.
ington Lunatic Asylum.
In, speaking Of raising corn on "clay lands
in Georgia, correspondent of the Southern
Cultivator estimates the average crop, inclu-
lding good and bad years, at ten bushels an
acre. u 't i-I
Hon. Foster Blodgett, chairman of the
Georgia Republican State Committee, has
called State convention, to meet in Atlanta,
to organize Young Mems State Central Club
A Providence ''help" boiled the sand glass
with the family eggs, last week, until she got
discouraged about the sand ever running out,
and the juveniles have been playing ball with
the eggs ever since.
North Carolina has another pair of "Siam-
} iese Twins" These are colored boys, Joined
! together after the manner of Eng and Chang
r They were born in Columbus county, are in
good health, and are intelligent. They are
: about Is years old
- Colonel A. L. Hough denies in the Sas
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that the cultivation of the view is universal in
town and country-from broad and extensive
vineyards down to the trellis work surround
ing their cottages.
Early in the evening we arrived at Cologne,
one of the most important cities in Prussia,
the name of which, says Coleridge, is really
fragrant with associations, eau de cologne
Being the principal article of commerce in a
city of l20, 900 inhabitants. G.
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Unusual activity is manifested on the
Kennebec river this season in maritime
affairs, extending even to the wharves IN
this city. A line of propellers running to
New Y ork regularly would give. mate rial
aid to business and develop a large pat
ronage for itself. With lumber and other
products for outgoing freight and mer-
cbaudise m return, profitable traffic
would soon start between this city and
New York.
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONTENTION.

The citizens of Maine who rejoice in the progress
of Human FreedGM and 1E4nai Rights, achieved b
the Nation underthe direction Of the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN PARTY during the past decade; who
heartily second the administration OF President
Grant in its measures to secure national prosperity
by the restoration of confidence abroad ana tran
guilty at home: who endorse its wise policy Tor the
reduction of the national debt and applaud IT'S sncs
cessfnl enIeavors to establish economy and honesty
in the administration of the Government; WHO ap'
prove the record of the party in Name "n all
questions of public policy, including its consistent.
and straightforward efforts for the suppression oil
tho exils Of stsmperance. requested to send dei
epates to State Convention. to be held in
Granite Hall, Augusta, Wednesday, June 18th. 1870
at eleven O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of nominal
ing a candidate for Governor and to transact such
other business as may properly come before the
Convention. 4-raa st.5 1880
The basis or representation will be as follows:
Each CITY, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate and one additional delegate Tor every
Is votes cast for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernpr IN 1868 fraction Of 10 votes will be entitled
to an additional delegate.
delegates are required to be actual residents OF
the Municipality they claim to represent in the Con-
veAtion. = ~
THE State Committee will be in session in the Re
ception Room of the hall at O'Clock on the morning
of the for the reception fhe credentials
of Delegates and to hear and determine all cases OF
contested elections, subject to ratification by the
(,onyention ..tss-ss
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The indications from all quarters are
that something practical and handsome
win be done by Congress to revive ship
building and commerce. The bill present
ed by Mr.. Lynch seems TO meet with most
favor, and will probably be adopted with
perhaps some slight changes and modifi-
cations. The best of feeling upon the
subjectprevails. the only difference Of opin-
ion being as to what measures are best
adapted to promote the object in view.
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The season for planting is so favorable
that the farmers are at least two weeks
ahead of their usual time with their work
Reports reaching us from all parts of the
State speak of the early appearance of
the season and the advanced condition of
planting and sowing. Should this favora-
bic state of things continue the amount of
seed put into the ground this Spring will
be very large.