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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13
HumOrs of the ScaifOld.

An Irshman had been convicted of Il
robbery at the Old Bailey sessions, for
which he was brought up, with others, to
receive Judgment of death. The prisoner,
on being called on by the officer of the
court in the usual way to declare what he
had to say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon him, advanced to the
front of the dock, with vacant stare, and
inquired,
"What was the question
'sYou have been convicted of robbery.
What have you to say why sentence ,f
death should not be passed upon you
according to law?"
"Faith," answered the prisoner, 81
have nothing to say, except do not think
| am safe in your hands
The court laughed; sentence was passed,
and the prisoner was about to retire, when
the officer of the court called him back and
demanded to know his age.
sis it my age We mane?"
" What is your age?'
81 believe | am pretty well as ould as
ever I'll be-
Again the whole court was ''convulscd
with laughter;'' but the wretched man,
whose mirth-moving powers were quito
involuntary, was doomed even at the seat
fold to set the people in roar In the
preSS-roOm his irons were removed, and his
arms confined with cords. This being
done, he seated himself, and in spite of the
calls of Jack ketch and of the Sheriffs to
accompany them in the procession to the
scatfold, he remained sullenly on the bench
where he had taken up his position.
Come" at last urged the hangman,
''the time is arrived
But the Irshman would not move.
''The officers are waiting for YOU said
the sheriff. "Can any thing be dol for
you before you quit this world?'
No answer was returned. Jack kctch
grew surly.
eff you won't go, must carry YOU he
said
Then You may said the prisoner, for
I'll not walk.
"Why not ?'' inquired sheriff.
"l'll not be instrumental to my own
DEATH answered the prisoner.
What do you mean?' asked the ord-
nary.
"What do | ?" rctorted the hapess
man; 81 name that III not walk to my
own deStruction.'
And in this determination he persisted,
and was carried to the scaflold. where he
was turned off, refusing to do any thing
which might be construed into "his being
a party to his own DEATH
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A Mud Volcano.

While returning by a new route to our
camp, dull, laundering sounds, which
General Washbun likened to frequent dis
charges of a distant mortar, broke upon
our ears We followed their direction.
and found them to proceed from mud
valcano, which occupied the slope of a
small hill, empowered in a grove of pines.
Dense volumes of steam shot into the air
with each report, through a crater thirty
feet i'll diameter. The reports, though
irregular occurred as often as every five
seconds. and could be distinctly heard half
a mile. Each alternate report shook the
ground distance of two hundred yards or
more, and the massive jets of vapor which
accompanied them burst forth like the
smoke of burning gunpowder. Il was i'm
possible to stand on the edge of that side
of the crater opposite the wind, and one of
our party, Mr.. Hedges, was rewarded for
his temerity in venturin@ too near the rim,
by being thrown by the force of the volume
of steam violently down the outside of the
crater. From hasty views, afforded by
occasional gusts of wind, we could see at a
depth of sixty feet the rcgurgitating con
tents !ScribRer, for Nay.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13

A CAUTION TO DRAWERS OF PRoMIssoRY
NoTEs.-A man drew Il note promising to
pay one hundred dollars. He used Il
printed form, but did not close the blank
devoted to dollars, and after it passed from
his hands and became negotiable paper
somebody inserted fifty after the one hun
dred, and before the printed word dollars,
making the note read one hundred and fifty
dollars. The note thus altered got into
the hands of an innocent party, who pre-
scented it to the drawer, but payment was
refused.
Suit was brought, and the Supreme
Court decided that the maker of the note
was liable for the full face of the note,
because, through negligence, he had not
drawn line between the word hundred y
and its printed word dollars" Any tes-
timony that the drawer might offer to
establish the fact that he gave note for
only one hundred dollars must go for moth
ing, as "therc was nothing on the face of
the note showing that it had been altered
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13
Unwritten HerOiSm of FaslliOn.Ridden
Women.

One thing must be conceded to women,
namely, the grit to endure any amount of
Inconvenience, or even positive pain, for
the sake of dress. Now mcn-what fail
ings soever they may have, and time would
fail me to enumerate them-always, to my
knowledge, stop short of physical torture,
when they must choose between that and
1.-the fashion, Catch them at it. The
good fellows, loving their ease better than
wives, houses, or lands, shake their heads
with a most decided negative at tight boots,
tight hats, tight gloves; and welcome tlan-
mel under-garments and gum shoes, though
their proportions may be thereby increased.
This much | will say for them. But women,
| have seen them, pale about the mouth,
trying bravely to walk on those absurd
pegs Of heels run under the middle of their
feet, while every muscle and joint were
crying out in vain for mercy. | have seen
them shivering, with defiant blue noses in
the frosty air, while they tried, i'll our Jan
uary SHOWS, to keep their Threats warm
with a-necklace. I've seen their fingers
looking liked stuffed sausages, in gloves at
least two or three sizes too small; and
when it was impossible for them to bend
one finger joint. Eve seen them walk
miles with a heavy waterproof cloak hang
ing over their arms, because that silk velvet
suit must be worn, at all costs, and rain
would ruin it. And now, just as every
woman outside of a lunatic asylum ought
to rejoice in emancipation from long skirts
in the streets, fashion say they must be
worn. And for once, | am heartily glad,
when they are, to see a good quarter of Il
yald of mud embroidcring these expensive
silk and velvet trains; and, better yet,
| ct hai
stockings and under skirts. AS to catch
ing cold, the world can spare such fools
before they bring others into the world.
SO | don't wear mourning for them.
Now, do you suppose women like these
care about "female suffrage?' No, sir.
They prefer female suBtring. 1t is well to
break ground for the car Of progress, but
YOU can't hoist women like that into it
against their will You've got to begin
upon the little girls. Stop their candy
feeding, their hot pastry luncheons at
school recess, their "children's parties
from seven till eleven at night; their
unsuitable clothes at all times, if you want
women who will ever have sense enough to
know their rights from their wrongs, OF
breadth enough or philanthropy enough to
care, when their own lives are easy, whether
those of other women are hard or not.
That's tie arhole ofh! Give women healthy
bodies and an intelligent education, and
you'll have no need to be jogging their
elbows in the direction of their ''rights.'
They will walk up and tahe them, just as
inevitably and just as naturally, as Il man
takes his wife after the marriage ceremony;
and they won't care, any more than he
either, what bystanders think about it.
Fanny Fern, IN Netc York Ledger.
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GOLDILOCKS.
BY MRS. JOHN II. UHL.

Shall harm my Goldilocks
If | tell her she is fair?
Were it better | should tell her
Beauty is a cruel snare?
Tell her that the Prince of Evil
Weaves some nets of yellow hair?
If | speak such shallow riddles,
She will lift her bronze brown eyes
CLEAR as summer brooks in shadow
Questioning with a grave surprise ;
She will pierce my 'petty maxim
Through and through its thin DISCUS
She will summon to confutc me
Cloud of witnesses, | ween,
Pomp of fur, and wealth of plumagc,
Lily>S fairness, Roses sheen
All God beautiful will muster
AT their comrades challenge keen.
AT her prompting, they shall ask me
Why | taught her to discern
Beauty for its own sweet being,
If, SO late, to bid her learn
That behind the gracious Presence
Scowls truth SO harsh and stern.
Taking up the word, she'll daunt me
With her might of childish lore,
Saying: Mamma, you have bid me
Count our Fathers gifts all DER
Not, like that unfaithful servant
Sighting any of the store.
"Surely, one good gift is beauty
His worlds full of it, you know
BY its law the fruit is rounded
And the bounteous roses grow =;
One may prize ones 'goldilocks,'
Since our Father made them So"
Who shall chide this childish logic?
Who PROFOUND sounder creed?
Beauty has her special charter,
But, while claiming all her need,
Cancels not that plain old maxim
Beauty dwells in lovely deed
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WILTBERCER'S
FT,kVORING EyTR CTS

Are warranted equal to any made They prepared
from the f;stS and will he found much bcfer than many
of the Extracts that sold Ask your Grocer Drug
gest for Wiltbcrgcrs Extracts BARLOW'S INDIGO
Bill is without doubt, the best article in the market
for biueing clothes. 1t will color than four
TINES the weight Of indigo and much than
any other rash blue i'll the market. The Only genuine
is that put up At ALFRED WTBEEGEEs pRUG STORE No.
2i3 North Second Street. Philadelphia. The labels have
both Wiltbersers and Barows name on them, al 9th
'Hterftit For sale 10y most Grocer. and Drug
trial to be superior article Always on hand and for
sale at reasonable prices Pure Ground SPICES, Gen
uine MEDICINES. Chamois Skins. Spongcs Ta,Oca,
Pearl Sage and all articles in the dru" line
ALFRED WlLTBERGERS DRUG STORE,
No. 233 North Second Street, Philadelphia.
May IS lS10-ly.
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A SINGING SCHOOL INCIDENT-An anus
ing circumstance occurred one evening in
Il singing school. \ Mr.. Pain was the
teacher and Miss Patience one of the
pupils In the course of the evening the
teacher gave out the tune set to the words:
"Come, gentle patience, smile on pain. y
The pupils We're SO excited by laughter,
that it was found impossible to Sing the
line. Soon the teacher gave out another,
in which were these lines go, give me
tears for others woes, and patience for my
NJ at which the risibilities of the
school were SO affected that all singing was
deferred until another occasion.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13

"WHAT ARE COMMUNISTS ?"-Its chief
principle is the pulling down of every
barrier between rich and poor, high and
low, educated and uncducatcd: all parti-
tions of rank and grade give way to gem
eral determination. Thus, for instance, a
man must have no larger habitation but
just ample enough for the accommodation
of himself and family; the wood chopper
must have the same wages as the states
man, or he who makes his living by the
excrtions of his intellectual faculties
Whatsoever n merchant earns more than
his support requires he has to give up to
the treasury of the Commune, whose motto
"is liberty and equality legdlitee.)
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13

SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this Depart.
m"nt unit! FRIDAY the 18th day of May, 1871. al l.
o'clock NJ, for furnishing in such quantities and at such
times may he required the following described Post
Office vsl"c., for period of years commencing
on the LIST day Of July, 1871, TO wit:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-05-13
PHILADELPHIA,
THOMAS DEPIY.
HENRY HARPER,
Piles or HenOrrhOids,

PILES OF ALL KINDS perfectly and permanently
CURED without PAIN danger cd'tScs INSTRUMENTS by
VIM A. McCANDLIsS, NJ. D.,
No. POOL ARCH STREET, Philadelphia
Who can refer you to over Zoo cases currl in Piacl-
phi alone. We desire II those afflicted there is
positively deception in the these DISEASES it
matters not how long how SsucrtiV You have been
afflicted, ynu. W. also Fisuli. FiSsure
Pruapsus Structures and liberation of the lower bowel
Come you that suffering will not itceire lO,l.-
We have patients from almost every Stdtd in tn Union
and from Europe. Have treated these diseases for 20
years without failure. [aTril -. lS1l-1y
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NEW 1DTER TLSEMENIS.

AGENTS, For fast sniIinsporH % -nlscrip
Male Il Female. TO AGENTS. Information free
A,lrrs, Atn, ric.ln DO K Co. g William ST. X y. 5.
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FERTILIZERS.

Peruvian Guano,
Mexican Guano,
Rhodes Super Phosphate
Moro Phillips do,
Whanu's Raw Bone DO,
Baugh's do. do,
Ta.ker & CIark's pure Bone Dust,
and other Fertilizers. For sale by
JOHN PARTRIDGE.
Sept |, 1865
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Wells CarbOIic Tablets.

NTANTED-AGENrS rs. $40 per day. to sell
w the celebrated HOME SHUTTLE SEW ING MA
CHINE. Has the UNpER-FEEp makes the nck-titc
lalike both Sides and is fully licensed. The best and
cheapest family Sewing hachil" in the market. Address
JOHNSON, CLARK u co. Boston, Mass; Pittsburgh
Pa Chicago. ILL.,. ST Louis, Mo. ~
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PROPOSALS FOR
POST OFFICE ENVELOPES.

Posi- OFFIC- DEPARTMENT.
WARRINGTON, ID, L.. April Is. ISL
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
1000, 900 Stake in New Haven.

A queer story is told, which, if true
will result in vexatious lawsuits and
financial loss to several New Haven
property owners. 1t is said that some
where in the neighborhood of III all
the land bounded by Chapel and Court
streets, and Church and Orange, was
leased by gentleman named Ball, to
certain parties for period of one
hundred years. Since that time the
land has been built upon, nearly every
foot of it being now covered, and the
property has been sold and resold,
warranty deeds having been given in
every case. About ten years ago,
DR.. Ball, of Brooklyn, wrote to the
heirs of the said-to-be lessor, many of
whom are living in North Guilford,
informing them that the lease would
soon expire, and that steps should be
taken In order to secure their rights.
The doctor dying soon afterward, the
claim was not pushed for time, but
now, it is said, some of the heirs of
the ancient Ball are theoretically stir
ring to collect the evidence and facts
with a view of claiming the property
If this proves to be true, and the case
passes into tie hands of the lawyers,
it will cause shaking of dry bones,
for the property is probably worth 81
100000, including the Exchange |
Building, the block of handsome dwell
ings overlooking the Green, the Ton
tine House, Gov. English's iron build
ing, the New Haven National Bank
edifce, and other valuable structures.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
Robbed by his Son.

A short time since Capt. Kennedy,
of New York, learned that the store
of james Tyler, $50 Chatham street,
had been repeatedly robbed. He
communicated his suspicious to Mr..
Tyler, but the latter refused to be-
lieve, and said he was capable of watch
ing his own property. The Captain
determined to capture the thieves, and
one night he stationed Detectives Van
Buskirk and Fitz Maurice on the roof
Of 40 Pearl street to watch the pre-
misses of Mr.. Tyler as well as those of
John Moore, jeweler, of 1872 Chatham
street.
AT precisely ten o'clock the detec-
tives saw James Tyler, IL years of
age. son of the proprietor, and Viii
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
The Mobile Horror.

The steamer Fountain brought ovel
eleven dead bodies on the morning
of the Doth, from the. wreck. Thi.
makes total of thirty-ive bodies re
covered so far. 1t is feared that many
more are still under the wreck. The
excursionists were mainly composed of
the working class with their families.
A submarine diver has thoroughly
explored the sunken wreck of the
Ocean Wave, but failed to discover
any of. the bodies. He reports the
boat terribly shattered by the explo-
sion. The casualties are ffty-fve-
killed, 90; wounded, 26. Many be-
lieved to be ON the Oceen Wave at the
time, were still missing at last ac-
counts. Three more of the wounded
died on Tuesday afternoon.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
Polar Expedition.

A special dispatch from st. John,
Newfoundland, announces the return
there from Greenland of the United
States ship Congress, she having made
the voyage of $500 miles to Disco
latitude seventy degrees, in less than
thirteen running days. The Congress
left St. John August 3D., and anchored
at Disco on the 10th. On the trip
she passed hundreds of immense ice
bergs, but encountered no packed ice.
! The season is very open, not unlike
May in New York. In the advance
trip daybreak was perpetual. The
sun sank below the horizon but for O
short time, and the twilight was sufi
Gent to read by all night. The dis
plays of aurora borealis were extreme
ly grand, the meteoric lights assumin,
magnificent arches, columns, scrolls
and spiral stairways. The Polaris
with Capt. Halls party, was found a
Disco, in good spirits, hopeful of thei
enterprise. A regular summer wa
found in Greenland, the flowers bloom
ing, brooklots flowing, birds singing
babies rollicking on the grass. In go
ing to big glacier the perspiratiol
rolled off like rain drops. The mos
cheerful reception to the party was ac
corded by the Danish authorities.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
Rll6iln SlOf.

A Grand Rapids dispatch of the
3Oth says:
Pierce, who shot Doty at Kalama-
zoo last fall, having served six months
in State Prison, returned to this city
yesterday. Getting into trouble with
his father-iflaw, Mr. Moore, Pierce
threatened to shoot him and was ar.
rested, but escaped. He was after
wards re-arrcstcd last night by officer
Saunders, and resisted, throwing stones
at the policeman, when the latter shot
him, iniicting serious injuries. Pierce
is now under medical care.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
Relative Rank of Cities.

The cities of New York, Philadel
phia and Brooklyn retain the sam,
relative rank as to population tina
they did in 1860. There has beer
considerable shifting of places, how
ever, among those that now constitut,
the remainder of the twenty foremos
cities of the Union:
During the last decade st. Louis
has assembled the scale from the eight
to the fourth. :
Chicago, in similar proportion,
changes from the ninth to the fifth.
Baltimore, which in 1860 was the
fourth, retrogrades to the sixth.
Boston pursucs the same direction,
from the fifth to the seventh.
Cincinnati retires step from the
seventh to the eighth.
New Orleans falls back from the
sixth to the ninth.
San Francisco, taking noble for
ward leap, vaults from the fifteenth
to the tenth.
Buffalo lags behind from the tenth
to the eleventh.
Washington makes stride from
the fourteenth to the twelfth.
Newark, New Jerseys thriving
metropolis, drops, nevertheless, from
the eleventh to the thirteenth.
Louisville, twelfth in rank in 1860.
is now assigned to the fourteenth.
Cleveland, four steps forward,
mounts from the nineteenth to the
fifteenth.
Pittsburg alone retains the same re-
lative rank now as then, the sixteenth.
Jersey City rises from the TWEEN
tieth to the Importance of the seven
| teenth
Detroit recedes from the seventeenth
to the eighteenth.
Milwaukee from the eighteenth tc
the nineteenth.
Albany, which was, ten years ago
the thirteenth, now takes the old plac,
of Jersey City as the twentieth.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
News Eter,pS.

st. Louis claims to be remarkably
healthy this summer.
Work is to be commenced soon on
the Walnut Hills Tunnel at Cincinnati.
A railroad bridge is to be construct
ed over the Missouri River at Atchi-
son.
Several alleged Ku Klux have re-
Gently been tried and acquitted in Ar
kansas.
Two negro women got into fight
at st. Louis on Monday last, and one
stabbed and killed the other.
A gale at Swampscott, Mass, Sun
day night week, unroofed the Lincoln
House, and demolished nearly all the
bathing houses on the beach.
A man named VIM. Hartgrove, EN-.
ployed on ferry boat at Atchison,
Kansas, was struck by lightning and
killed during storm Sunday week.
The body of man with a bullet
hole through his heart was found near
Atlanta, Illinois, on Saturday week,
supposed to have been murdered.
Alf. Williams, a negro, shot and
wounded j. Mullen, white, at Mound
City, Illinois, Sunday night week.
Mufen will probably die. Williams
has been arrested.
Mrs. Lizzie Smith, formerly Mrs.
Sccly, of Albany, New York, promi-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Our "Introductory."

The Pioneer Of week before last
came out flying light with the "Intro-
ductory" of the ARGUS and the asa
lutatory" of the Howell Independent,
and makes an effort to accuse us of
taking our introductory" from that
of the Independent. BY comparison
it will be seen that there is but very
little difference between them, but as
We before said, we never saw the first
number Of the Independent, and, there
fore, could not have copied it from that
paper. The article was written by us,
Notwithstanding the Pioneer mans be-
lief to the contrary. And if the
Pioneer has the amount of 800 to
risk on the matter, it can find a
stalker at the ARGUS office.
In the same issue he says, 1--WE
have this week received copy of the
Independent, etc" This he knew to
be bare falsehood when he wrote it,
Tor got some one to write it for him),
for he had been showing the Mdepend-
eat to different parties in this city
nearly t'eo weeks before its appearance
in the Pioneer. Where the shoe pinch
es is here: lie has prejudice against
us which he cannot conceal, for reasons
best known to himself, and has played
the part of "snake in the grass" ever
since we landed here with our office.
And although he intends to publish
the paper, he is unwilling that we
should receive credit for anything, but
would wish to be selfish enough to
shoulder the greater part himself.
Why was it that the Pioneer did
not contain the whole of our Intro
ductory,' instead of the part which
bore likeness to that of the hide
pendent9 Undoubtedly because he
thought it would not be to his advan-
tage.
Then, as soon as that down east
''school marm," calling himself an
editor,) had printed his first side, he
armed himself with pocket full, and
cautiously distributed them among his
friends, growing like bantum chicken,
then sneaking off like any other whip
ped dog, knowing he ought to be
ashamed of himself.
He further says that he has not
seen SORE of our article "in any other
paper yet." Better keep your eyes
open, and perhaps you may find it at
some future day, but we would advise /;
you not to search any other paper, 6
with the expectation of ever finding I,
IN article eminating from the Pioneer, i.
rs al editors arc not so foolish. But,
hen, YOU are not to be blamed for
your lack of brains you probably >
rave all that the Almighty intended !,
you should possess. /;
Now look over your exchanges, and 7
perhaps you can find this in them, but 4,
not in the "lNulen Leef" 4,
p. S. We have not been guilty of r
showing the above to our readers pre- {
'ioas to publication. /;
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05

liam Shaw, barber, of Greenport,
crawling up the ladder of an unfnish-
ed building at Chatham and Pearl
streets, and enter through the roof Of
l3o Chatham street. Mr.. Tyler and
some friends were inside watching,
and on the appearance of the burglars
fired three shots at them. They at
tempted to escape by the roof, but
were captured.