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Attempt to Commit Murder

Attempt to Commit Murder.-A small
colored boy, eight or nine years old, resid-
ing with Mr.. William Armstrong, in the
Fourth District, had his throat cut, on
Saturday last, by white German lad,
about IS or 10 years of age. The white
boy, named VIM. H. Miller, was bound
boy whom Mr.. Armstrong had got out Of
some institution, where children thrown on
the world without parental protection are
gathered in and cared for.
The two boys were usually very intimate,
but some tritling disturbance had occurred
between them. The white boy got the
colored child into the barn, where he pro-
ceeded to cut his throat with a razor he
had provided for the purpose, giving his
neck a frightful cash, but the edge of the
razor came in contact with button, which
doubtless prevented the contamination of
the bloody intent. The little fellow says
lie lay quiet, and his executioner doubtless
thinking him dead, left him, and cooly
proceeded with some work Mr.. Armstrong
had ordered him to do. Mr.. Armstrong
was away at the time, and only some
females of the household were at home
The little fellow being left alone, crawled
out and went to the house of his aunt, who
lives a short distance away. When Mr..
Armstrong returned home and ascertained
the state Of the case, he broughtthe would-b be
murderer to Elkton, where he was lodged
i'll Jail to await the action of the grand jury.
We have seldom, if ever, heard of
more cold-blooded attempt to murder than
the above instance.
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Christmas Present

Christmas Presents.-Mrs. SCOTT &
LITzENBURG, opposite the Court House,
Elkton, Nd, have just received new lot
of Millinery and Dress Trimmings; and
other goods in variety and styles suitable
for Christmas presents.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-12-17

On account of the crowded state of our
eoumns with local affairs, we were COM
PEELED last week, and also this week, to Law
over number of communications, which
shall receive attention as soon as possible
We express our thanks to correspondents.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Bargains in everything at the BEE HIVE,
and terms cash.

Books, Etc.-Nothing nicer for pres
ent than good book. Elegantly bound
pocket bibles, hymn and other books, cheap
at HINcHLIFFE's. Godey's Lady's Book,
25 cts No. A variety of Christmas goods.
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DIED..

Elkton, on Tuesday, Dec.
18th, REID, son of Noble T. and Margar
+. Blddle, aged l year and m ,nths.
leading, Pa, and San Francisco papers
please copy.l
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The "Singing Pilgrim."- concert
advertised to be given in the Odd Fellows
Hall, by Philip Phillips, the "Singing
Pilgrim" on Thursday evening last, re-
suited in disappointment. The audience
assembled, but the singer did not appear,
A telegram, however, announced that he
had been detained in New York. 1t was
afterwards ascertained that Mr.. Phil ps
was prevented from arriving at the depot
in time by the street railway being blocked
up, and the car detained in which he had
taken passage for the depo.. When he
arrived, the ferry boat had left the wharf
The concert has been postponed till Feb
ruary next.
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Sad OccurrenceS-DedMo Of a Chad.-A
child of Noble T. Biddle, Esq, States
Attorney for this county. Is month old,
was fatally injured, on Saturday last, by
swallowing small quantity of concentrated
lye. The hired girl was using the I've for
scrubbing or cleaning and left the Child
for short time alone in the room where
she was using the alkali. The child got
the cup and swallowed small quantity,
when its screams brought the inmates of
tue house to its relief. Mr.. Biddle fastened
to procure medical aid, but the lye, acting
Instantaneous as the most severe caustic,
produced inflammation and swelling in the
child's mouth and palate, SO that suffoca-
ton might have ensued in short time,
had not its wind pipe been opened below
the injured parts and a tube inserted,
through which the little sufferer breathed
till Tuesday, when death relieved it from
further pain. Had oil or grease of some
kind been applied Immediately, it might
possibly have checked the action of the
I've before it produced fatal injury. The
accident was very sad and painful occur
renee and a sudden and deep affiiction to
the parents.
A few days since, Mr.. Joseph P. Cant
well, of this town, received intelligence
that his son Harry, who, for six months
past, has been residing with his sister, Mrs.
Thad S. Smith, at New Harmony, Ind,
had severely cut his thumb with saw, and
that the patient was suffering terribly from
the loss of blood, the physicians being una
BILE to check the bleeding, permanently
On Friday last he received the still later
and sadder news that the Doctors had
given the little boy up, and that there was
little or no hope of his recovery.
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We would direct the special attention
OF those desiring to subscribe for first
class Family and Agricultural Newspaper,
to the prospectus of the Germantown Tele-
graph, published ia another column.
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Advertfsing.-Large type isn't necessary
in advertising. Blind folks don't read
newspapers.
You can't eat enough in one week to
last a whole year, and you can't advertise
on that plan either.
-1njudicious advertising is like fishing
where there are no fish. You need to let
your lines fall in the right place.
If you can arouse curiosity by an
advertisement, it is a great point gained
The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in
the world.
"A constant dropping will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on the
lublic, and they will soon melt under it
like rock salt. This is so.
Middletown (N.Y.) Euening Press.
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No House in Philadelphia New York presents greater
variety from which to select all articles Of Table Ware
The Prices will always be as Low
First-Class Goods can be furnished as
A careful inspection of the Goods, and
rigid examination Of Prices, is earn
estly invited.
All Solid Silver Ware will be sold as
low as TIFFANY & Co., and BALL,
BLACK Il Co., of New York; BAILY &
Co., of Philadelphia, or any other
House, having any reputation for hon.
esty and fair-dealing.
W EVERY ARTICLE WILL BE
GUARANTEED TO BE EXAcTLY
AS REPRESENTED.
Gail and examine these Goods before
purchasing.
THOs. Y. de NORMANDIE,
800 Market Street. Wilmington, Dol.
Nay q, 1sEo-Ix
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BOoks.-Scarcity of books in the Second
District schools, is complained of by one
of the teachers. By the size of the bills
for books, we think there should be no
scarcity for books and stationery in any
of the Public Schools. 1t was remark
able fact that during the Summer when
the schools were open as Private Schools
and stationery was purchased by parents
and guardians to supply the pulpils, that
not more than one fourth was used, that is
destroyed and other ways made way with
in the Public Schools. A correspondent in
to-day's Wing suggests a remedy for this
waste
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Buy your goods for cash, and GO to the
BEE HIVE to get them.

Fires.-An alarm of fire was raised on
Wednesday morning last, between and
10 o'clock, and smoke was seen issuing
from Mr.. John Crawford, deputy postmas-
ter's house, on Main street, near Mr. Jos.
Wells & Sons meat and provision store.
The fire was found to be in one of the
chambers where feather bed and mattress
were burning. The burning beds where
thrown out of window, and what would,
in few minutes, have been destructive
fire, prevented. One of the children had
lighted match and put it in the bed.
Parents cannot be too careful of matches.
They should never be left within reach of
small children.
We learn that the dwelling of Robert
Thackery, in Elk Neck, together with nearly
all his furniture, was destroyed by fire,
on Wednesday night last The fire COM
mnnicated from a stove-pipe. No insurance
on the property. The amount of Mr.. It's
loss we have not been able to ascertain.
Another alarm of fire occurred in town,
on Thursday last, caused by one Of the
chimneys of the Howard House taking fire.
Buckets were pressed into the service and
water conveyed Immediately to the burning
chimney. No damage was done.
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sB- Mr.. John G. Hindman Is our regu-
,,rlv authorized Agent and Collector to
procure subscriptions and advertising for
The Wig.
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CLUBBING WITH THE WING.

Save money by paying in advance. We offer the fol-
lowing Inducements to subscribers tn THE WaI. We
will club the following Magazines with Tug WIG, one
copy each for year. invariably i'll advance;
GOdey's I.ady's Book and copy of
THE $500
MOOre's Rural New Yorker Ia weekly
illustrated Home Journa) and copy of WHIG 400
American stock Journal and one copy
pI lHE w 10
Or for copy of THE WING and either of the fol-
lowing publications, The HDrsenlan's Manual:
The Ddiryman'S Manual The Sheep and Goat
Breeter'S Manual; or, The Poultry Breeders
Manual ........:................ 200
The American Agriculturist and one
Hearth md Home "a beautifully ilustra-
ted weekly Home Jour,.a) and one copy of WIG 400
The su Inscription price EACH of Cooley Moores Rural
New Yorker and Hearth and Home, is 50. The Agri-
curist 81 So and Stock Journal $loo; and the Mall
usls rs cents each.
Every family in Cecil county ought to have one or
more of those valuable publications, and hy the above
arrangement propose to furnish them clubed with
The WHIG at less than their lowest club price to all
new subscribers to The WHIG. old ones who Will Ray
and their subscriptions for year III advance
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Il BLESSING TO LADIES'.
DupOncO's Golden Pills for Females
ARE PERFECTLY HARMLESS.
AND NEVER FAIL

To Immediately relieve and permanently
or difficult Inenstruation remove distractions &c.
One lady writes, she would be willing to pay IS box
for them rather than be without them.
Another lady writes, Duponcos Golden Pills relieved
me in two days." without any inconvenience, like
magic.
Beware Of Counterfeits.' The genuine Ia now put
up III large white boxes, containing double quantity
of Pills. and upon each box you will find the u s.
Revenue Stamp printed from my private die, upon which
you will find the words DuPoSco's GOLDEN PERIODICAL
PILLS, in (white) letters Mono genuine without that
stamp The small red aud yeitou boxes are no longer
used, because of their being counterfeited.
Price 81 per Box. Six Boxes, IS.
Sold at DIR. MIrcHELL's DRUG STORE. Elkton, Nd.
BY sending 81 through the Elkton Post Onics can
have the Pills sent (confdentay) by mail any part
of tho country, free Of postage.
Sold also by SMITH PAIsrln, Wilmington II. NJ.
BRlcKLEI Chester, and by s. D. HOWE, Proprietor,
Nov T., 1S70-1y New York
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BROOKS,
Delaware County Mince Meat

Can be relied the hest in the market Ask your
Grocer for it, #, Joseph Walls d Son
nih'"n' NOV 70, Ioio--lm AGENTS.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-12
THE NEW YORK COLLECT0RsHIp.

THE NEW YORK COLLECTORSHIP.
The great struggle between Senators Conkling
and Fenton over the Collectorship of the port
of New York was terminated in the executive
session of the Senate last night by the discom-
future of Fenton and the confirmation of the
Hon. Thomas Murphy as Collector in place of
Moses II. Grinnell by vote of 4S to 8, the nays
being Messrs. Fenton, Harris, and Upton. Mr..
Murphy, over whom this protracted battle has
been waged, is an Irishman by birth, and in the
very prime of life. He came to the United
States when quite young, and acquired hand
some competency in the fur business in
New York city, but the greater
portion of his wealth, it is
said, he came in possession of through success
full speculations in real estate. His reputation
for ability and integrity as business man has
always been without blemish. In politics he
was associated with the Whig party until its
dissolution, when he joined the Republicans.
He never held office, however, until 1866, when
he took his seat in the State Senate as a mem
Der from New York city, having been elected in
1865 by plurality vote over two Democratic
opponents in district so strongly Democratic
that that party could not resist the inclination
to split. During the administration of Andrew
johnson, Mr.. Murphy sided with
the President in his troubles with
Congress, acting with the conservative wing of
the Republicans and favoring the election of
Governor Hoffman in 1866. At later period
he withdrew from these Democratic associations,
and in the Presidential campaign of 1868 earnestly
supported General Grant. The enormous Demo
cratic majority at the recent judicial election in
New York was supposed to have resulted in
great measure, from the had management of
political affairs in New York city by Collector
Grinnell, and it was in consequence of
the demands made for his removal by
those who were desirous of manipulate
ing the patronage that he at last resigned
the important Office of Collector of Customs, to
accept that of Naval Officer. The nomination
of Mr.. Murphy TO the vacancy, it is supposed,
will conciliate all the various factions of the
Republican party of the State, except that
which follows in the lead of Senator Fenton,
and strengthen the hands of the administration.
At the next election there will be an elegant
opportunity for Mr.. Murphy and his friends to
show what they can do towards stemming the
tide of Democratic success.
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RE0ELKsS LEGISLATION

JUDGE AaSEw's opinion in the Schoeppe
case, published by us yesterday, is a severe
commentary upon the reckless manner in
which legislation was conducted at Harris
burg last winter. The partisaus of Miss
Steinnecke's murderer were so Jealous in his
behalf that they went to the State capital
with piece of special legislation, and found
ii only too easy task to get it through both
houses, But the Governor for once proved a
stumbling block, and his veto delayed the
eonsummation of the job until it was too
late by twenty four hours to be available.
Although DIR, Schoeppe finds the legislative
-;'ioffspfing Of feeling" of no use in his own
case, Judge Agnew points out how it will
reyolutionize the whole criminal practice of
the State, and deprive law-abiding people of
the security which they formerly enjoyed by
rendering a speedy and certain punishment
of NOTORIOUS criminals impossible. The
s7aw's delay" is already proverbial, and now
wa find it intensified in the interest Of that
class of rufians who do not pause at the
:; obt of human blood in the prosecution Of
their revenge or the qualification of theil
syarice. Judge Agnew states that the effects
OF this sentimental, law which was passed to
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rescue DIR. sChoeppe's neck from the halter
40 not seem TO have excited attention. This
has been the case only because the attention
of Che press and people was not called to
its mischievous tendencies until the publ
cation of Judge Agnew's opinion in the first
case arising under the law. The subject is
likely to receive the ventilation it merits
between this time and the meeting of the
next Legislature.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-12

A CORRESPONDENT of the Cologne Gazette, who
says he has resided in Bohemia for hye-and-twenty
years. during which time he has thoroughly ex-
plored every part OF the country, remarks that the
German population is giving way before the Czechs
with astonishing Tapidty. In Prague you hear less
German and more Czech spoken every year and in
the districts OF Reichenberg, Leitmertz, and Saatz
and the Saxon and Silesian frontiers where for
merly the population was exclusively German, a
considerable portion of II is Czech SIN villages
where i'm 1850 not a single Czech word was spoken
YOU will hear the Czech language far oftener than
the Germap." The correspondent attributes these
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In the quarrel of the politicians of New
York over the Collectorship, which was tenn
porarily settled yesterday by the confirmation
of Murphy, each party claims that the welfare
of the Republican organization depends upon
its control of the enormous patronage con-
nected with the great Wall street den of cor
ruption. After the Republican candidates on
the New York State ticket were defeated at
the last election by nearly one hundred thou
sand majority, the cry was set up that this
defeat was caused by something that Mr..
Grinnell had done or failed to do as Collector
of New York. 1t is not improbable that
these complaints were not without influence
in inducing the change recently made by the
President, and the country might have
INDUCED the hope that Republicanism would
revive on the soil of the Empire State if one
of her Senators, Mr.. Fenton, had not said in
the Senate yesterday that the confirmation of
the new appointee, Murphy, would still fur
ther weaken the Republican party in New
York If this threat means anything, we sup
pose we may look for Democratic majority
of about two hundred thousand at the next
election, and expect hereafter that nobody
will vote the Republican ticket In the Empire
State except those who have received a liberal
share of the loaves and fishes.
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results chiefly TO the increasing emigration OF the
Germans from Bohemia either to America or to
Vienna, ard the German provinces Of Austria. or
late, too many Germans in the country have adopted
the Czech language and customs. The same thing
may be observed in the Southern Tyrol, where the
Italian element is gradually predominatng, and the
Germans either emgrate or become Italianized.
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TO SUMMER TOURISTS.
T EHIGH COAL a. NAV. CO.'S
RAILROADS.
PLEASURE TRAVELLERS


PLEASURE TRAVELLERS
For the Valleys OF WYOMING and LEHIGH. for the
CATAWISSA RAILROAD, and for the SWITCH
BACK RAILROAD, celebrated for its magnificent
views, should take the
945 A. M. EXPRESS TRAIN from the NORTH
Pennsylvania RAILROAD DEPOT
Corner Of BERKs and AMERICAN Sta, PhiIada,
Or by taking the $50 P. M. train from the same
depot, can go to Mauch Chunk, remain there over
night pass over the swTTCH-BACK in the morn
ing, and continue their journey that afternoon.
Those wishing TO visit MAUCH CHUNK and the
sW1TCH-BACK, can take the e45 A. NJ train, and
return to Philadelphia the same evening.
Large and well-kept Hotels at Mauch Chunk
Wilamsport, Wilkesbarre, and Scranton.
Passengers to Willamsport by the 945 train reach
there in nearly two hours shorter time than by any
other route. 80
Be sure to call for your tickets over the LEHIGH
AND SUSQU EHANNA RAILROAD, and see that
you get them over that road.
Tickets for sale at No S1t Chestnut street, No los
South Fifth street, and at North Pennsylvania Rail
road Depot
T.. H. HYNDMAN,
= -r. r. Master OF Transportation.
.BAHlES A. DINEAEY.
Ts tmrp General Ticket Agent.
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THERE is not the slightest doubt that the fires
of Sunday morning were the work of incen-
diaries connected with one or the other of the
two companies chiefly implicated in the riots
which have brought the whole volunteer Fire
Department into discredit. 1t will not be
enough to suspend or disband either of these
companies, or even to abolish the volunteer
system, if the ruffians who perpetrated
the outrage of Sunday are allowed to
go unpunished. In some cases crime is
committed in secret and under circumstances
that render the detection of the criminals al
most impossible, but in the present instance
the leaders of the incendiaries and rioters must
be well known to large number of persons,
and there ought to be no difficulty in bring
ing them to trial, and having
them convicted and sentenced to
the penitentiary. There are many
very worthy men connected with the Phila-
delphia and Good Will Companies who owe it
to themselves, as much as to the public, to
aid in the detection of the scoundrels who
have brought discredit upon their organiza-
tions and upon the whole Fire Department of
Philadelphia. Until the real criminals are de-
tected and brought to justice, all the men,
bers of the two companies named will rest
under the suspicion of being implicated in
starting the fires and instigating the riots of
Sunday; and as the scoundrels who really
committed the offenses are undoubtedly well
known, those of their associates who have
hitherto borne good regulations will be con-
sidered as at least willing to bear the disgrace
of being their accessories, if they do not take
some active steps towards procuring prompt
and thorough legal investigation.