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A DESIRABLE FARM
IND COUNTRY SEAT,
AT, JDvRJVAV-E GATE

The subscriber will sell at Private Sale, the Farm
which she resides, containing about
~ ACRES OF LAND,
portion Of which is within the corporation limits of
Rising Sun, Md. and which is susceptible of division
into about twenty of the
Finest Located Building Lots
within said limits The improvements con sses,2SL,
si.t of FINE MANSION HOUSE nearly new, I.;aSH
which. with SINAI, addition, could he con- ..,,s{H4
verted into n BOARDING SCH00L,-an insti- sSs42skaA
tuition much needed at this place. Also good Tenant
House, large double floor Barn. lcr-housc &c.
The Phila. I,alt Central Railroad runs through the
property, and the Station for Rising Sun is not
two hundred yards from the house.
Situation and neighborhood unsurpassed for
health and fertility of soil. Apply to
SARAH b. STUBS,
RISING sun, CEcIL COUNTY, Mp
aug 49, lSI1-3m
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Mail Messenger Appointed.-Samuel C.
Lowman has been designated by the Post
master General as mail messenger, at Elk
ton, at $500 year, from September 1st,
1871; vice John r. Lowman.
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Arm BrOken.-Mrs. Brown, an aged
lady, wife of Mr.. John E. Brown, of this
town, while in the act of descending the
steps from the Court House yard to the
pavement, on Wednesday evening last,
stepped on some slippery substance and
fell, fracturing her right arm at the wrist.
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Mistake COrrected.-Rev. Thos. L..
Poulson has not declined the call received
from the First English Reformed Church,
of Baltimore. as stated in our columns last
waek
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ORPHANS, COURT.

TTNHE STATED MEETINGS of the Orphans Court Of
L Cecil county will be held on the second TUESDAY
in every month. Executors Administrators and Guar
daus, wanting their accounts stated will please bring
i'll the vouchers a few days before Court
REUBEN D. LAMAR,
Nov 80, 1se7-y Resster.
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A. r. c. M.-The above letters indicate
that we have few words to say in relation
to a remarkable colored man now living in
his own house in East Fourth near Walnut
in this city, by name Michael Sterling
He was born slave in Sassafras Neck,
Cecil county, Md, and after having been
transferred by sale from one master to an
other, finally succeeded about fifty years
ago, in purchasing for stipulated sum,
from his last owner, that freedom which
God, by right, intended every man to enjoy.
BY close application to business, which was
and is yet, that of Blacksmith, he
succeeded in about twenty three months
in saving enough to pay his late mas
ter and have his papers cancelled. He
is now within two months of being eighty
five years of age, and may still be heard
every day, when well, working away at the
anvil. In conversation with this remarka-
BILE man, day or two ago, he told me that
he had been member of the Methodist NJ.
Z. Church for sixty-seven years, having
been taken in by the late Rev. VIM. Tor
bert, in the year 1910 Cecil Cicuit, which
then took in all the territory from Whining
ton to the Susquehana and as far as Smyrna.
Wilmington (Del.) Republican.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.

ReligfOus.-Rev. H. r. WALwoRTm will
preach in the Cniversalist Church, Chesa-
peake City, tomorrow, at 1O4 o'clock AN,
and y in the evening.
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MARRIED.

POWELL-STEWAR the 18th ms,
by the Rev. Andrew Barratt, ALBANUs
POWELL. and MARY ANN STEWART, both
of this county.
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eB Mr.. John c. Hindman is our regu-
larly authorized Agent and Collector to
procure subscriptions and advertising for
Tile Wing.
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Found Blind.-Andrew King, from Will
mington, aged II years, was in this neigh
borhood this week, trading in peaches, and
was discovered by DIR. Mitchell on Tuesday
morning last lying in his wagon along side
of the road, and his horse, which looked to
be about 25 years old, down in the gutter.
The sleeper was rescued by the Doctor,
but found to be entirely blind, caused by
paralysis, while asleep. The old man and
his old horse were taken care of till word
was sent to his friends in Wilmington, who
came and took them home. ....a
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Surgery.-Successfu operations are al
ways subjects of congratulation, both as
regards the suffering public and the medi-
cal profession. To the pain racked patient
still recoiling from the glittering catlin
and the keen scalpel as instruments of tor
ture, rather than of cure, they ever come,
as it were, freighted with hope and preg-
nant with dreams of deliverance.
Joshua NJ. Ash, a worthy citizen of our
town, and late member of Co. B. 9th
Maryland Infantry, was, at the battle of
Coal Harbor, in the Wilderness, on the I'd
day Of June, 1864, seriously wounded by a
minnie ball. The column had succeeded
in taking three lines of the enemy's breast
works, and in assaulting fourth line it
got under cross-fre, and was com PEELED
to retreat; and in this ropulse it was that
Mr.. Ash was wounded, the shot taking
effect just above the hip. 1t was thought
the ball came from New York regiment
in support; but when the ball itself came
to light, it proved to be "Reb" bullet,
weighing fraction over an ounce. The
most patient endeavors of the Sturgeon
in charge" failed in its detection. The
wound refused to heal, however, and short
ly after the injury he became affected with
paralysis of the left side.
Until the morning of the last operation,
he was constant sufferer,-the pain at
times amounting to agony. At the solicit
tation Of friends, he once before appealed
to the art of surgery for relief; but. unfor-
tunately, the endeavor was unsuccessful
After years of suffering, he again placed
himself in the surgeons hands: and last
Saturday morning, DR.. r. II. Tuft and DIR.
J. II. Frazer, commenced the operation for
finding and removing the ever painful bul.
let, and, we are glad to state, with the
happiest results. The ball removed W :,
the usual sized mimic, and had been Sc m
what flattened at the end by contac, wit,
bone when entering.
The patient is doing very well, a. I'd hone
soon, like Richard, to be himself again.
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Quarterly Meetlngs.-The second Quar-

Quarterly Meetings. second Quar-
terly Meeting of Zion Circuit, Methodist
Episcopal Church, for this Conference year,
will be held at st. Johns appointment on
Sabbath and Monday, the 3rd and 4th Of
September, proximo. -..- ~. .v j.
The second Quarterly Meeting for Elk
Neck Charge will be held on Saturday and
Sabbath, the Goth and 9th inst, at Harris
Chapel. Quarterly Conference Saturday,
o'clock Pm. Love Feast on Sabbath, at
9 A. NJ; preaching at 104 A. NJ, by the P.
E., Rev. J. D. Curtis. st .... ...
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finest French Calf Skin Boots, at MAsoN's.
Before spending your money, see where
you can get the most for it. If YOU can't
do it at the BEE HIVE, don't leave it there.
Still absent but not orgotten-LEvIs.-
His store is a constant reminder of the pro-
prietor. Nothing but first class goods can
be purchased there. If you want common,
they may be found elsewhere at about the
same figures first quality can be purchased
at LEWIS.
eB-If You want to be III good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous @ Wilmington
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
Pestilence is reported as making its way
through the Old World toward our coasts,
and as nothing is SO thorough preventive,
of diseases as sweet, clean beds, we advise
all who have feather beds to take them to
the Steaming Machine, now established on
Main street, and after going through
LEWIS hands and steaming operations they
will come out cleaner, lighter, sweeter and
better than new feathers.
RumOr has reached us that STEPHEN b.
FORD, Of Zion, Md, is disposed to sell his
entire property, consisting of a neat Cot
tage Dwelling, Store House, Stock of
Goods, &c, and retire from the business.
| If this be SO, we think such an opportunity
for an energetic business man seldom
occurs, as a large business has been done
there for several years, exclusively for cash
or produce.
Those who purchase the Bone Dust man.
ufactured by Thomas Waring, at Colora,
in this county, have the opportunity of
satisfying themselves that they get what
they pay for and not ground oyster shells,
plaster, or large admixture of cheap ami
NAL matter; but Pure Ground Bone, and
nothing else. A thorough inspection of
the mill and process of grinding, is invited.
Samples sent on application to above address
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DR.. Cox, Homeopathic Physician, will
visit Elkton, and stop at the Howard House
on Thursday next, the 31st inst, and semi
monthly thereafter. Those wishing to
place themselves under his treatment, can
consult him there. Chronic diseases q
specially.
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Tn Fruif JnrS

In Season-Fruit Jars.-Hero, Pearl.
Gem and Stone. Dried Beef, Sugar Cur cd
Hams, Breakfast Bacon and Shoulder
Powder, Shot, Caps and Wads in large or
small quantities, at low .cas for cash
BEE HIVE.
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Cheap acknowledgements cents per
1b; good Molasses, at 30 cents per gallon, at
W1LsoN's, Brick Meeting House.
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Don't miss the Bargains, at the Ne Plus
ULTRA STORE of WILSON, B. M. House.
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$500, Cash, will pay for pair of. the
finest French Calf Skin Boots, at MAsoN's.
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Before spending your money, see where
you can get the most for it. If you can't
do it at the BEE HIVE, don't leave it there.
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SEMI-WEEKLY Sun, 81 \ YEAR,
OF tho Same size AMI general Character as
THE WEEKLY, but with greater variety OF
miscellaneous reading, and furnishing the news
10 its Subscribers with greater freshness. because
It Gomez twice i week instead OF once only.
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LIFE IN utah

Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and
Mysteries of Mormonism.
With full and authentic history Of POlysnmy, 10y
J. II. BEAD DIE, Editor of the Salt Lake Reporter.
Agents meeting with unprecedented success,
reports 1S6 subscribers in four days. another II in two
days. Send for Circulars and what the press
the work. NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO, Piilata., Pa.
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4 NtWEpupCf OF the PfcsCnt T1mCs.
Intended for People Now on Earth.
Including Farmers. Mechanics. Merchants, Pre-
essional Men, Workers, Thinkers and al Mar
ner of Honest Folks. and the Wives. Sons. and
Daughters Of all such.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-08

d
Scene in far Western State. A vii.
lage composed mostly of rude mining
huts called +" houses, " cottages" "tav-
erns, ETC., though really they were but
"shanties. An old man sick on his
bed ! A friend, Gov J. w. Nye, seeing
that his end was close at hand, showed
him many kind attentions, and endeav-
ored to ease his sutfeFings in every pos
sible way. One day, when it was quite
evident that the poor patient could last
only q few hours, the Governor said to
him; g9fr .frg,-
" Davis, it is undoubtedly best that
you skonld know the truth; you are a
very sick mAs, and will. in all proba-
bility, live but a short time. Are your
affairs in the condition that you would
Wish to have them2 l should be glad to
do anything for.you, you know" +,
" Yes, they're all right. 'a
well, would you ike me to write to
any Of your folks East2
" No, not now-after it is over"
"Wouldyou like me to call in a min
ister7"
: The sick man, by great Effort Of will
over weak and shattered body, drew
bimself up in bed, so as to be in 8 sit
ting posture, and sternly, most soberiy
and earnestly said: why, Governor,
what should / want a minister for2 I
Reper voted anything but the Democratic
ticket ia my life."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-08
AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
The Meeting of Father and Hi
Long Lost Daughter.

| Long LOST DauHnter.
From the New York World, 18th ult.
The Belden will case was continued
yesterday before Surrogate Hutchings.
Mr.. Henry s. Belden, brother Of the de-
ceased, and father Of the deponent, Mrs.
Leichardt, testified that about seven
years ago he wrote to his brother (the
deceased) TO come to Pennsylvania to
see witness. Witness received another
letter from deceased about six weeks
after that, and he also received letter
from deceased about one year previous
to his death.
Mr.. Boyd said that the object was to
show that the witness was on intimate
and friendly relations with deceased for
a long time previous to his death, and
that Notwithstanding the witness was not
mentioned in the will, owing to the in
fiuence of Mrs. Leichardt, the propo-
nent, over the deceased.
A question why the witness had aban-
doned his family being objected to, Mr..
Britton said he proposed to show that at
that time witness abandoned his fam
lily, leaving his wife and daughters, the
latter being very young, and went to live
with another woman. He thought in
justice to his client (Mrs. Leichardt) that
M ReISan stated tSat he Ief, ri. w;e,
two dangbters anS twn % snns NJ n,9 Yaass m.rs
since and wben Ms Te;chsrd, s ~ 'o~I 'onI,
SIGHT wears oid and IA nanar Soan "a' .Sn, I.,y
since. et 49, tbe sama ne t;me he nanan 0uon on.n. ,ne
tained anv unfriendlv fael;ng toword T 5;s
cb;Idren This Sas ;bo I an5 ~ M NJ pni s,1
den's test;monv and ' tbo a oasa "a & wa. "a "a
;onrned 10 Dacemher her '"' "'e ""' "u
GenersI ISams who an o.o,;o,,, Al
oas;ons has hssn ~ p.9I ,uuS M
bv M. Ts;cbardt at,andsJ SSn ",;.Llpn. pu"Leu leu
to.dav On ;nnu;rv ~ ss 10 ,vhn nIu' USa ,,ea nea
absent II wss atlegsa r., l. Wy sue eo;S mas
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war win villa Rannts.

in this country, where ferocious quad
rupeds are almost unknown, il is difficult
indeed to realize the remarkable statis-
tics contained in very singular report
which has been recently issued by the
Gazette of India upon the number of
deaths from the attacks of wild beasts
il that country. This extraordinary
record shows that in The war between
men and wild beasts the men have, to
great extent, not only the worst Of the
contest, but the beasts follow up their
victory until o man-eating tiger creates
such terror in q district that whole vii
lagos are depopulated, public roads and
thoroughiares are rendered literally un-
approachable BY human beings even IN
daylight, aRd thousands Of acres of once
cultivated land are entirely deserted and
consigned to the growth Of vegetation,
to offer in their turn safe ooVerts 10 these
noxious animals" The government Of
course has not been idle. Various
peens have been devised to mitigate the
pest, bot Sili comparatively little sue
cess. a. a. the akurtE We sTe sooHt 70 quote
viii prove. The aggregate niisi...sAr OF
deaths by the onslaught Of Wild beasts
throughout the provinces Of Madras,
Bombay, Bengal, the Northwestern prov-
inpes, Punjab, 0udh. Central provinces,
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ExtravaEanse Zee in Dresr.

The fact that the Queen of Belgium
has recently been summoned in court
Of law by Brussels modiste for $1,000
francs ($l3, ,400), the alleged value OF
certain articles of dress supplied to Her
Majesty, which sum the latter refuses to
pay, on the ground OF its being an ex-
orbitant demand, moves the Philadelphia
Ledger to say
The changes in the fashions, which
one hears talked Of so necessarily, and
for which thousands of people are com
PEELED to pay extravagant sums, there
being no appeal from the absurd tyranny,
are originated in these modistes not hK
any means as Improvements on previdu's
fashions, nor because they are more be-
ceming, but because they provide an ex-
cuse for spending money and wasting
time on the part of those who have no
worthier occupation than to study the
fashion" Thus, no sooner has one
style come into vogue, than it is my Ste
riousiy ghigpered that certain things are
worn little longer, or uborteF, or fuller,
or higher, or lower, or lighter color, or
of darker or they are worn square in
stead of round, or round instead of
square, or braided, Or founced, or with
tucks, or plain, or gored, or with a train,
or without one, or with high heels, or no
heels, or feathers instead Of flowers, or
with enormous paniers, on which any
one could 'slt Ehil.s .hs Searer is walk.
ing along the street-il short there is
no end TO the Rbslrdlties which are
daily perpetrated under the name
OF fashion," yet this tyranny APP
pears to be more firmly established than
any kingdom or republic. No one
seems to ilTs ilaT;cs the courage to resist it,
ID this side of the Atlantic at least; on !
the other, AoEeyer, the Crown Rlfneess
Of Prussia, the eldest daughter of Queen
Victoria, following the excellent exam
pie Of her mother, who has lsser yield |
ed to the demands of fashion, has inau-
gurated league of ladies, whose pur-
pose is ito cultivate plainness and mod
esty Of dress, with good taste, beftting
materials, but no extravaganza nor mere
tricious display" The idea was also
taken up by band of ladies at the late
Social Science meeting in England, who
agreed that the true way to rescue So
ciety from the outrageous Inventions
ohN thO AhihOuo expenditure WulGu
characterize the dress Of the day, is to
revolutionize fhe ideas and styles Of the
boudoir and the salons, and introduce
modesty and economy among them
selves, and they seriously invite all
good and honorable women to join them
in this crusade againss fasbinnahle
dress-makers. 1t is to be fervently
hoped that all good and honorable" wo-
men will respond to the call and set an
example which the vain and frivolous
will feel themselves constrained to fol-
low.
1t is high time that the tyranny of
fashion, as ugly as it is contemplate,
should cease, and that American wives,
sisters and daughters should refuse to
live any longer under the perpetual
changing orders of impudent women
who teach them to lay themselves out to
advertise and allure, rather than to
please and adorn.
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Ysung somnahuli.t.
From the New Haven Register. !

FROM tne new haven Register. ~
A few days ago gentleman and his
wife, one Of our most respected citizens
after tea concluded to make call upon
eighbor in another street, some two
blocks distant. Before leaving the
house the wife put her little girl aged
about three years, to bed. The mother
left a servant to watch over the little
sleeper, and departed. The rain was
falling quite fast, and the wind blew
cold and searching. After the parents
had been gone ten or fifteen minutes,
the servant went to the basement on
some errand, leaving the child sleeping
sweetly, On her return to the bedroom
she found the bed vacant, and the little
sleeper gone. She looked everywhere,
but no trace Of the child could be found.
She searched the house from garret TO
cellar, with no better success The girl
became frightened, and started TO alarm
the neighbors, and as she passed to the
front door found II ajar. Knowing that
it was securely closed few minutes be-
fore, the thought came into her mind
that the child must be out in the street,
and she directed her steps in that direc.
ton. By the dim light Of the street
lamp she saw the little child, which she
soon reached, and wrapping her in
shawl, took her back to the house.
The child was in its bare feet,
with no clothing on but a night
dress. The servant removed its wet
garments and again placed it in bed,
all the time the child was then
awake, and that she had awakened from
her sleep and not finding any one in the |
room had started out to find her mother. |
The servant, after putting the child in
bed and watching till it was again asleep, |
slipped down stairs to get some fannels
in which to wrap its little feet. She was
not gone over a minute or two, and on
returning to the room found the child
gone second time. She at once went
70 the front door, which she again found
open, and stepping back TO get an um
'rella to protect herself from the rain.
heard voices on the front step. The
child had got almost a block away from
lone, and was trudging along in the
leavy rain, barefooted and in her night
lress, when the parents, who were re-
urning home, discovered something
vhite ahead of them, and wondered what
could be. Their surprise, upon com
ng up 10 the child, can, be better imaQ-
ned than described. The mother was
lmost overcome. The child, delicate
ne, was taken home and a physician
allied, and everything done to care for
ne little sleep-walker. ilaaIf ID.
I
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-08

His Imperial Loftiness, the. Grand
Dake Alexis, has been made she victim
Of one OF the most reprehensible prac-
tees ofwhioh the evef-apiac American
people are guilty. He attended the
opera in New York, and during the
show he was constantly under the fire Of
at least 500 opera-glasses. Such a pro-
longed and concentrated stare has not
been leveled at any body in this country
for a twelVe-month, and nothing short
Of royal hood ennld have submitted TO
the outrage. No American person with
the true instincts OF a lady or gantlsman
will stare through al opera-glass at any
one of the stage, whether the object Of
interest be prince or clown, and the
roysi Russian certainly does not deserve
to be made ihe subject Of our bad man
ners.