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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-11
Measuring the Baby.
BY EMMA ALICE BROWNE.

I'VE copy the following poem from 4
recent number of Hearth and Home writ
ten by Emma Alice Browne, an old acquaint-
ance of The Wig and its readers. You
may search the poets for days and will find
nothing more beautiful.
We measured the rioteus baby
Against the cottage wall
A lily grew at the threshold,
And the boy was just as tall.
A royal tiger-lily,
With spots of purple and gold
And heart like a .jcwclled chalice,
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without the bluebirds whistled
High up in the old roof-trees
And to and fro at the window
The red rose rocked her bees;
And the wee pink fists of the baby
Were never a moment still,
Snatching at shine and shadow
That danced Oh the lattice sill!
His eyes very wide as bluebells-
His mouth like flower unblown-
Two little bare feet, like funny white mice,
Peeped out from his snowy gown;
And VIC thought, with thrill of rapture
That yet had touch of pain,
When June rolls aronnd with her roses,
Wen measure the boy again.
All me! In a darkened chamber,
With the sunshine shut away,
Through tears that fell like bitter rain,
We measured the boy to-day;
And the little bare feet, that wore dimpled
And sweet as a budding rose,
Lay side by side together,
In the hush of long repese!
Up from the dainty pillow,
White as the risen dawn,
The fair little face lay smiling,
With the light of heaven thereon
And the dear little hands, like rose-leaves
Dropped from a rose, lay still,
Never to snatch at the sunshine
That crept to the shrouded sill
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below;
And out of the darkened chamber
We went with childless NOAH
To the height of sinless angels
Our little one had grown!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-11
Bridge Builders and Contractors.


PROPOSALS will be received fly the
County Commissioners of Cecil county, to
be directed to them, at their Office in Elk
ton, up to June 14th, next at 2 O'Clock Pm.
for building Bridge over North East
Creek, on the old post road, near the town
of North East, according to the following
PLAN:
The Masonry to be of the following dimen-
sions
The ABUTMENTS 10 feet long at base,
II feet at top 5 feet thick at base, 3 feet
thick at top; feet high above ordinary
water level, and their foundation to be
feet below water level, unless an approved
foundation is sooner found.
WING WALLS on west side 12 feet long,
and % feet apart at ends; OH east side
south Wing Wall 12 feet long. and running
in a straight line with bridge north Wing
Wall 90 feet long, and running with the
graded road to strike the other bridge ;
foundations at the Abutments 3 feet thick
and the same depth of Abutments, and p
feet deep at outer ends, and to be built to
the level of the Abutments and battered to
feet thick at that level.
GUARD WALLS same length as Wing
Walls, 2! feet high above the proper grad
ing of road way, and 90 inches thick, with
good fastenings built in the wall for a roof
to pitch outwards, and to be covered with
good boards plowed and grooved and painted
and sanded.
The Abutments and Wing Walls to be
built of large stone to be laid in good NOR
tar or cement; the walls above ground to
be well pointed with cement, to be filled in,
and the road graded to a grade of foot in
12 from the Abutments to the road if
required.
The Wood Work to be the covered
Canal Plan''- feet span, width from
out to out 16 feet, and 12 feet in the clear
from floor to tie.
For size of timber and further particu-
lars, call at commissioners office, where
draft of same can be seen. The bridge to
be finished on or before the LIST day of
October, next, under the control and direc-
ton of the County Commissioners.
And also proposals for Iron Bridge for
same fording will be received, Contractors
will be required to give bond with approved
security for the completion of the work in
a substantial and workmanlike manner.
BY order. VIM. 7. MILLER, CLERK
County Commissioners Of Cecil county.
At the same time Proposals will be
received by the County Commissioners of
Cecil county to raise the road connecting
the two bridges, feet high, 20 feet wide
and 1903 feet long, the material very con-
venient and free Of cost; proposal at so
much per cubic yard. By order.
VIM. Il. MILLER,
May %, 1S10-3w Clerk.
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SOCIAL HONOR EVERY person should

SOCIAL HONOR Every person should
cultivate nice sense Of honor. In a hun
bred different ways this most fitting adjunct
of the true lady OF gentleman is often tried.
For instance, one is guest of a family
where, perhaps, the domestic machinery
does not run smoothly. There is sorrow
in the house unsupported the outer world.
Sometimes it is dissipated son, whose
conduct is shame and grief to his parents !;
sometimes relative whose eccentricities
and peculiarities are cloud on the home.
Or worst of all, husband and wife may not
be in accord, and there may be often bitter
words spoken, and harsh recriminations.-
In any of these cases the guest is in honor
bound to be blind and deaf, so far as people
without are concerned. If gentle werd
within can do any good, it may well be
said, but to go forth and reveal the shadow
of an unhappy secret to any one, even your
nearest friend, is an an act of indelicacy
and meanness almost unparalleled. Once
within the sacred precincts of any home,
admitted to its privacy, sharing it's life, all
that you see and hear is a sacred trust. 1t
is as really contemplate to gossip of such
things as it would be to steal the silver or
borrow the books and forget to return
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A pleasant story comes from Washing
ton county. Two young men took two
young ladies out riding, and, stopping at a
hotel, went in to drink, leaving the ladies
out in the cold; whereupon enc lady got in
the others cutter, and the two Indignantly
drove home, as they should have done, leav-
ing their ungallant attendants to follow at
their leisure.
Be wise to-day It's madness to defer:
Next day the fatal precedent will plead !;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief Of time.
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An old gentleman, aged eighty -four,
having taken to the altar damsel of about
sixteed, the clergyman said to NJ" The
font is at the other end of the church. -
What do l want with the font?" said the
old gentleman. "Oh! beg your PARDON"
said the clerical wit; 81 thought you had
brought this child to be christened."
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE.
BY THE ORPHANS COURT OF CECIL COU

BY THE ORPHANS COURT OF CECIL COUNTY.
May 18TH 1870.
ORDRnEp That the sale made and reported hy William
Warng, Executor of Edmund Physck, deceased of the
Real Estate of said deceased he ratified and confirmed
unless to the contrary thereof he shown or
before the second day Of July, next provided copy Of
this Order he published once week for one month in
some newspaper, printed in Ekon, in said county,
before the thirteenth day Of June. next.
The Report states the amount of sale to he 100000.
Il. D.. LAMAR, Register.
True copy; test X. d. LAMAR,
may II, 1S70-lm Register.
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FERTILIZERS.
Mexican Guano,

Peruvian Guano,
Mexican Guano
Rhodes Super Phosphate,
Moro Phillips do,
Whanns Raw Bone do,
Baugh's do. do.
Tasker 4 Clark's pure Bone Dust
and other Fertilizers. For sale by
JOHN PARTRIDGE.
I 1864
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Never get another to do for you what
You can just as we'll do for yourself, Money
thus paid out is thrown away,
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VITV sI.VU I
Months 20 and % per cent. additional Four change:
allowed to yearly advertisers without additional charge
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YOUNG MEM

Who have injured themselves by certain practice in
dnlsed in when alone, habit frequently learned from
evil companions school. the effects of which are
nightly felt even when asleep and if cured renders
marriage impossible and destroys both mind and body
should apply Immediately.
What pity that young man, the hope of his country
the pride of his parents should he snchcd all pros
poets and enjoyment OF life by the consequences of dev
ing from the path of nature and INDUCING a certain
secret habit. Such persons must before contemplatn.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-11
MARRIAGE,

Reflect that sound mind and body the ncccs-
sary requisites to promote connubal happiness Indeed
without these, the journey through life becomes
mind becomes Swallowed with despair and filled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness another is
bligItetl with OWN.
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''' 49, nc -Nili ~ u piiN sPiiil.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS
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 part of whose life has been spent
III the hospitals of London. Paris, Philadelphia and else
where, has effected some of the most astonishing
that were ever known many troubled with ringing in
the head and ears when asleep great being
alarmed ut sudden sounds, hshfuness with frequent
bnshng, attended sometimes with arrangement of mind
were cured Immediately.
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Doctors DIPLOMA hangs in his office.
En6araamanf of tho Proaa

The many thousShs cured at this establishment within
the last twenty years and the important surg
cal operations performed 10y Dr. Johnston witnessed by
the reporters of the SIN and many other papers notices
of which have appeared again and again the public
besides his standing gentleman of character and
responsibility, is sufficient guarantee the afflicted
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED. Iaug ol-1y
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THE MARYLAND
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,

Hamilton Easter, Allen A. Chapman George p Thomas
Hugh sisson Hiram Wood, George IT, Miller, William
Derives Charles Webb, Thomas Cassard.
These gentlemen all we'll and f,yornbly known as
among the best commercial in the State This is
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-11

Let false delicacy prevent, but apply Immediately
crS"ns Ruined in health by Unicarne Pretendcrs and
Iii DcniLLl PaiSuu lLercurA snnelilY relieved
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left hand side going from Baltimore street doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe number
RENO letters received unless postpaid and containing
stamp to he used on the reply Persons writing should
state and send portion ofadvertiseen describing
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THE ONLY MARYLAND COMPANY,

Its success has equ2led the expectations Of its most
sangune friends. Its rates and dividends compare with
the oldest and best companies in the country II il
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

GELsEMIuM.-This powerful nervous and
arterial sedative, which is generally believed
to have FASTENED the death of G. A. Brier,
is something comparatively new and but
little understood in medicine. 1t is the
bark of the root of the yellow or Carolina
jasmine, the active principle of which is
gelseminin, which exercises greater power
and force over the muscles and nerves than
any thing else Misunderstanding a person
powerless and insensible to pain, while con-
sciousness remains and the brain is unaffec-
ted. Medical authorities recommend doses
of from one quarter to two grains but enjoin
extreme caution in its use. Brier was
greatly debilitated when he took one and a
half grains, and it is believed that in many
cases that quantity of gelsiminin will cause
death. 1t is recommended in all cases OF
fever. congestion of the lungs and hemor-
rhage, and is the most eticacious remedy
known in violent cases oftyphoid and yellow
fever. Both euinine and brandy are anti
dotes. Ligh, doses produce pleasing IAN
0uor and prostration of muscular and ner-
vous power. An overdose causes complete
prostration, renders a person powerless to
move the eyelids or mouth, produces dizzi-
ness and dimness of vision, every thing ap-
pearing double and of a greenish tinge.-
White Pine NescS.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25
Arrivals 1t the st. Charles Hotel

LAUNDRY. - Mr.. John T. Griffin has
opened that much needed institution, a
laundry-on King street, Carson. Here Is
a chance to prove the sincerity Of your anti
Chinese professions. Mr.. Griffin performs
all branches of the laundry business in ex-
ira fine style and short order-sews on miss
ing buttons and don't swap off your fine
linen handkerchiefs for coarse cotton ones
and keeps your socks duly assorted. See
his advertisement
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

PRECAUTIoNARY.-A new fire cistern
ia being constructed at the intersection
of Carson and Musser stree.s-north
easteriy from the Theater. Inasmuch
as there are many wooden structures
thereaboutsnd the street is thickly built
this is a wise precaution, creditable to
the commissioners under whose order it
is being built.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

GIN AND MILK.-Whilst John l. CHM
of the White Pine News still Localities for
that paper, the old carrier thereof has started
milk ranch. A consolidation of the two
sides thus placed side and side would make
trouble in New York Presbyterian Synod
since Smythe's downfall.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25
Massachusetts N0r.EOrf,ftur Law
Examples Showing the Working Of this Law;

Plan Ordinary Life-For ex ample A marty IN
surfing at the age # 35; Premiums all Cash; one
Annual Premium will continue Policy in rec 2
years and days. Two Annual Premiums will
continue policy in force years and l. DAYS
Three Annual Premiums Will continue i'll force 6
years and % Jays.
Plan Ordinary Life: Policies on which note has
been given for 40 per cent # the Premium Two
Annual Premiums will continue p, licy in force 3
years and 70 days. three Annual Premiums will
continueP hey in force years and 33S DAYS Five
Annual Premiums will Continue Policy in force 9
years and Is days.
Exanple-Plemium All Cash; Plan, Ten Paw
ment Life. One Annual Premium will continue
Policy IN force as Term Policy, 3 years ami 3I2
days
Example-Premium TOPPER cent. Note; Plan, Ten
Payment Life. One Annual Premium will continue
Policy in force as Term rolicy years and 100 .ia,s
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GRAND LoDGE F. l. A. NJ NOTICE.
The notice of Free Masons is directed to
an advertisement from the Grand Sec
Rotary of the Grand Lodge of Masons,
Virginia city, which appears in onr col
umns to-day. Those interested in the
laying of the corner stone Of the Capitol
will see that the grand ceremony is duly
contemplated. This looks like business.
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CoRNgR STONE CELEBRATIoN. We
heartily concur in a friends suggestion
that our citizens should make prepare
from abroad who will be here TO take
part in the laying of the coroer stone of
the Capitol. Enough funds should be
raised to defray the expenses of ball
and supper, music &C. A meeting Of
citizens could fix upon the necessary
measures, and ifany of our leading resi-
dents will start the project we viii cheer
fully second their movements.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

STATE WARRANTS WANTED. The highest price
paid for State Warrants, by the undersigned, at
Wells, Fargo Co.'S office. ii. L. RICE
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Dr.. TJADER's health has SO much improved thai
he will prescribe for patients at his residence i'm
mediateIy west of the Mint. ape I'm
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TBE ALARM OF FIaE which called out

HE ALARM OF FIRE which called out
our engine companies on midnight of
Monday was occasioned by the burning
of pile of rubbish on the vacant prem
:ses intervening between the Plaza and
Meder's saw mill.
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COMPARE -An advertisement appes, .
in our columns to-day to which We invite
the attention of our readers. Life in
surance is no longer an experiment bat
il now one of the leading benevolent
institutions and financial operations of
the day, and is pstronlzed by the ables,
fnanciers and economists, the sbrewdest
business men, and the best citizens Of
the United States. The accumulated
assets Of the companies are largely in
excess of the deposits in the Savings
banks Of the country, and the amount
paid for death claims last year, 10 the
United States was over fifteen millions
Who can say how much misery and
crime was spared US by this wise provis-
ion of those who have gone before? 1t
10 claimed, and We believe justly, that
all the companies nov doing business
are responsible for the amount of insur
ance issued, but there appear to be diff
ferent modes of conducting the compan
les, some of which operate much more
infavor ofthe policy holders than others,
aud We have reason to believe, that too
many insure without giving the matter
the consideration that the importance of
the step would seem to demand. The
agents ofthe Mutual Life, seem to court
comparison. and from the knowledge we
have Of the business, we should certain
" ssy 70 any one who proposes to invest,
or to change their company, before you
do SO post yourselves, and compare the
advantsges of the different companies,
a. proved BY examples.
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Endowment Policies.

E1ample-Premiums All Cash: Are "a. Plan
Ordinary Endowment, payable at the age Of so
one Annual Premium will continue Policy in f,rce
as Term Policy. nearly years, or years and
325 days.
Example-Premiums All Cash: Age, 81; Plan.
len Year Endnwme t. pay able at the age Of Is
One Annual Premium will continue po,icy in r rre
as Term Policy years
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Notes on Endowment Policies.

Example-PremIum 40 per cent. Note; Age 81 4;
Plan, ordinary Endowment, payable at the age Of
so. One Annual Premium will coDrinue r. lsy II,
force AS a Term Policy years and 1U4 days
Exam; lie Premium A. per cent. Note; Age SIS
Plan, Ten Year Undo sment payable at the age Of
10. One Annual Premium will contuu P,icy in
foEce as Term Policy years and % DAYS.
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DENEIsT7x,

nR. GLYNN OF Placerville, -
IL California, nsy lie found at his ofiicee43Yyf
over Gibsons ''Sazerac" Saloon, where he will b.
pleased to wait uPon all who may desire his ser.
vices in any line Of Dentistry.
All Work Neatly Done and war.
raAtsa 70 Give 1aslsGAesto...
Advice Free. Chloeoform adlairissered u Do.
sired
Crrson, ee~traber II. leeo.
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Dividends Declared Annually, on
the Contribution Plan, and
Applied after the Second
Payment.
A Loan Of 40 per cent. when desired

D0LICIES ARE NOT FORFEITED IN THE
L Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, by
f.ilufe to pay the Premium when due, but are
con inued in force by the Non Forfeiture Law of
the State Of Massachusetts,, of April, 1861.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

Tue GREAT ORIENTAL CIRCUs will
show here tonight. We have the tes-
timony of all our contemporaries in Cali
fornia and this State as to the excellence
of this celebrated company. Fish, one
of the equestrian performers, is said to
be the best rider that ever came this
way. The clown. Parker, has the re-
pu,ation of being really funny. The
Lowrsy Sisters are extraordinary riders
aod balancers. And the company COM
Frises gvmnas.s and tumblers, and, to
use an original and expressive phrase,
"a brilliant constellation OF arenic
stars "a great aggregation of art
lists" Give the horse opera chance.
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Mile LINDA

who has achieved . wide cor
lcbrity by her daring flights
over bars. gates, and othe-
obstacles, while riding her
spirited steed without sad
die or bride. Young. ele-
CANT, and perfectly versed
in her profession, she rides
. more daring act than any
lady in the ARENA.
The following named Art.
lists comprise . portion OF
this company:
M'sle mELET, Aqe
ANN g.. ia, JAAN
Herr kinelI, WillleS
H..l.E:ry. nS.e ~:
srsiiIisry ioecs.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-25

DECORATION DAY.-By q concurrent
resolution which passed Congress the
Both dag of May in each year is set apart
for appropriate ceremonies at the graves
of the Union dead. The day will be
appropriately observed here by the mem
hers of Stanton Post, G. A. r., and the
commander Capt. J. A. Burlinssme,
has made arrangements for the firing of
a salute on the morning of Monday next,
the 30th inst. We could wish that
further fitting ceremonies might be had :,
such as an address &c. and that all our
loyal citizens might participate. Ii
wonld be in keeping with the occasion
that such general participation should
take place.
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loWray Sisters !!
SHAPPEE and
WHITNE

Whose graceful groupings.
classic posturlngs, Athlettc
sports and perilous 9rial
acts, display strength. skill
and daring, and excite the
irrcpressible enthusiasm ot
the charmed spectators.
The d.shine and brilliant
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-05
BY A. C. McGILLIYRAY,
Ehucffoneer.

HERIFF'S SALE.
~ Bv virtue OF sundry executions against the
property to me directed and delivered, will be
sold THIS DAv, the 5th day Of December inst,
at II O'Clock A. NJ, at the northeast corner Of the
All the RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST of the
defendants In the cases below stated, In the prom
erty as hereinafter described.
J. N. CRoswELL vs.. A. HOOD AND J. u. HOOD.
AL that PLANTATION OR TRACT OF LAND
situate in st. Stephens Parish, called the "Duf-
ford Place." containing one thousand acres, more
or less; butting anu bounding south by Cooper
Lands, north and east by Laurel Hill Plantation,
and west by James HOODS Lands.
ALSO,
On account and risk OF the former purchaser,
who has failed Co comply with the terms OF sale
SIMON J. MAGwOoD Vs. W. s. PERRY JOHN
EDaERTON.
All that TRACT OF LAND, containing forty
acres. more or less, with the Buildings thereon.
stuate.in Saint Andrews Parrish aud bounded
north on Lands OF Wu J. Bull and estate
Parker east on Lands OF estate Parker. south on
and formerly n portion OF the plantation OF S. ].
Magwood, known as 'SaVage Plantaiion.n
ALSO,
On account and risk 0f former purchaser, who
has failed to comply with terms OF sale
E. II. sHIPMAS, ADMINISTRATIVE, GRAvELEy &
PRISGLE ET AL. VS.. 8. WARREN P LINER.
All that TRACT OF LAND with improvements
thereon, situate In Salut Stephens Parish, and
known as Rode Plantation containing hvc hun
ilrcd and forty-flve acres, and adjoining the Tract
known as the &urrell Plantation.
Terms cash. r. N. MAcKEY,
dec5 $. c. q.