The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-06-15
FAMILIAR LAW.
CoNsTABLE's FEES.

| For serving State warrant and return
seventy-tive cents; for serving search war
rant, seventy-tive cents; for serving sum.
mons in civil suit and return, forty five
cents; for serving summons for witness anC
return, each witness, twenty cents; fol
serving scieri facias and return, forty cents
for leyying fieri facias and return, twenty
cents; for delivering a person committed
over to the Jailor, seventy-6ve cents, and
five cents per mile for every mile he may
have to travel, and the actual necessary
travelling expenses of each prisoner; for
summoning jury on inquest, each juror,
fifteen cents; for levying attachments for
contempt, seventy-five cents; for serving
writ Of replevin and return, forty five cents;
for serving warrant for distraint, twenty
five cents; for summoning and swearing
appraisers on distress for rent, and in re-
plevin,. each appraiser, twenty-five cents;
for serving an attachment in the hands of
each garnishee, fifty cents; for killing dog,
found killing sheep, to be paid by the
owner of the dog four dollars; for pound
age fees on any dstraint, replevin, attach
ment or tieri facias eight per cent. on the
first twenty-f dollars, and three per cent.
on the residue; but if the defendant shall
supersede the Judgment on which the exc
cution or attachment shall have issued,
within four days after the same shall have
been levied or served, the Constable shall
only be entitled to receive one half of said
'poundage fees; for arresting any person
charged with misdemeanor for entering
any enclosure and destroying property
therein, in the limits Of the city of Balti-
more or within four miles thereof, one dol
lar.
The County Commissioners in the sever
al counties, and the Mayor and City Coun-
Gil Of Baltimore shall levy on the assessable
property of their respective counties or the
said city, the amount Of fees that the Con-
stables of the several counties or the said
city are entitled to receive for executing
criminal business; provided that nothing
contained in this section shall exempt any
criminal from paying the cost of his arrest,
if he shall be Of sufficient ability to do SO.
GAME.
No person shall trap, shoot, or in any
manner, catch or kill any cartridges be-
tween the fifteenth day of January and the
first day Of October, nor any woodcock
between the first of February and the tenth
of June, nor any pheasants between the
first of February and the twelfth of August
in each year.
No person keeping tavern, restaurant
or eating house, nor any market man, shall
expose for sale or have in his possession in
this State any partridge, woodcock or
pheasant, between the times within which
the killing Of such birds is forbidden by the
preceding section.
Any person violating either of the pre-
ceding sections shall pay fine of five dol
lars, to be recovered before justice of the
peace of the county where the offence was
committed.
In future article the present duck law
will be referred to, also the article on attach
ment, as per request, as soon as possible.
JOHN E. WILSON.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lightning pro-
duces complete and instantaneous paralysis.
The suppression of movement in the VIC
tim in these circumstances is SO rapid that
thought they suffered from some illusion.
Who would not think he was dreaming if
he saw an unfortunate creature, full of life
and activity, petrified and motionless as
rock in less time than it required to wit
ness the phenomenon Jerome Garden
relates that eight reapers, who were eating
their dinner under an oak-tree, were all
struck by the same flash of lightning, the
explosion of which was heard far away
When some people passing by approached
to see what had happened, they found the
reapers to all appearance continuing their
repast; one still held his glass in his hand,
another was in the act of putting piece of
bread into his mouth, a third had his hand
in tho dish. Death had come upon them
suddenly while in these positions, when the
fell. Ariel had seized upon
them with so much violence that he had
upon the entire surface of their
bodies the mournful tint of his black wing.
One might have taken them for statues
sculptured out of black marble. The cat
was so rapid that the faces of the
victims had not time to take any express
sion of pain; life was suppressed so instan-
that the muscles remained un.
moved. The eyes and the mouth were
open as in life: and had not the color of
the skin been SO much changed the illu-
sion would have been complete. 1t has
been remarked also that the features of
persons struck by lightning, instead Of be-
ing contracted, usually assume a calm,
happy expression; and the conclusion has
been drawn that they enter without shock
or pain into the presence of the Infinite
Being. 1t has even been assumed that
death by lightning is the prelude to glory
and happiness. -Appletons' Journal.
INVALID MARRIAGEs.-The decision ofthe
Court of Appeals of Maryland in the case
Of Denison versus Denison would seem
almost conclusively to settle the question
Of the validity of a marriage not contracted
according to the forms of some religious
The facts of the case, as
presented to the court, were-that Henry
G. Denison and Georgiana B. Denison, on
The 18th of January, 1868, agreed to be
md regard each other as husband and wife;
that in pursuance of such agreement they
iohabited and lived together as man and
wife; that Georgiana was maintained and
supported by Henry up to the time of his
}a,th nc his wife. and that thew bOl h