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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-29
DRY GOODS.
NIILLINERY, FANCY s. HAIR GOODS.

AVA -
would call the attention of the ladies to my
assortment of MILLINERY GOODS of every
descril ton, which is still complete, and will be
sold very cheap. Cambria and Lace Edglngs
ings. Also bave Just received direct from New
York a fine lot of HAIR GOODS, consisting of
Real Hair Switches, Coronet Plaits in Hair and
Thread, Finger Pufs, Curls, &C.; also Thread
and Jute Chignons, Hair Braids and Jute
Switches-sll Of which will be sold below the
regular prices for cash. Call and see them at
Mrs. G. L. SIMPSONS,
No l25 King street,
nov 5 Near Wash. depot
TASSIMERE SUITINGS AND OVER
" COATINGS.
Received this morning a very large addition
to our stock of the above, some of them st great
ly reduced prices.
GRAY and BROWN CHEVOITS, of which
we can furnish very handsome business suit
for S26-a great bargain. Call and see them at
nov q WILMER i STAY
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-29

J. NJ. STEWART
Has just opened lot of the various sizes of La
dies Merino Vests, high eek and long sleeves;
also Gents, of the small and some of the largest
sizes; also Gents Silk Vests, desirable article.
d-ff
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-29
SHAWLS.

A CARD.-I take pleasure in informing my
n friends and the public that have made an
arrangement with Mr.. VIM. R. Riley, No. ia
opposite Centre Market Washington city, where
hope to have the pleasure of showing you an
elegant assortment of FIRST-CLASS DRY
GOODS. Our stock is at all times very large
and complete, and feel confident in asking
your patronage that can make it to your in.
terest to deal with me. We sell at the lowest
cash prices. As my position will in some meas
ure depend upon the amount OF trade can I,
bring to the house, your kind notice of this will
be duly appreciated by
VIM. BAKER.
nov 9-tD25 Alexandra, VS..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-29

WIN. N BERKLEY,
w No. III King street,
Is receiving q large addition to his stock OF
FALL GOODS,
which have been bought on the most sdvsnts-
geous terms, and will BIO sold accordingly
Black, Blue and Brown Cloths
Plain and Fancy Cassimeres.
Sattinets and Fulled Cloths.
White and Colored Flannels.
Bed Blankets, very cheap-with many other
desirable goods. oct IL
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06
From The Aldine for April.
LIyERWORTS.

They are laughing in the meadow,
They are smiling in the dell;
Upon the woody hill-tops
The blue-eyed beauties dwell;
And unto those that love them
4 pleasant tale they tell.
From fallen leaves and withered
They mischievously peep,
And laugh at later flowers
Unwakened from their sleep,
While tenderly they guard them,
An loving vigil keep.
In modest maiden beauty
Some blush along the way,
While others tleck the meadows,
Or by the fountains stray,
In white or blue habiliments
To greet the April day.
They seem at frolic ever.
Now hiding from my sight,
And then together clustering
AS if in half alright,
Yet conscious of their holiday.
And happy in the light.
No other coming flowers
To me as dear as they,
OF those that bloom in April,
Or in the genial May;
| would that thus to comfort me
They evermore would stay.
For tales of vanished childhood
To me they sweetly sing,
And to the fading memory
They recollections bring
OF home and loving faces
A precious offering.
Unplucked l leave them growing
Full thick about my feet;
| cannot call them downward
From out their fair retreat;
No refuge has the city
For anything so sweet.
The story that they tell me
OF pleasure and content,
OF hope and trusting confidence
However faith is bent
This lesson 7 can bear away
To teach it they were sent.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

1T is not the best things-that is, the
things which we call best-that make men;
it is not the pleasant things; it is not the
calm experiences of life; it is life's rugged
experiences, its tenn pest, its trials. The
discipline of life is here good and there
evil, here trouble and there Joy, here rude
ness and there smoothness, one working
with the other, and the alterations of the
one and the other which necessitate adap-
tations, constitute that part of education
which makes man a man, in distinction
from an animal, which has no education.
The successful man invariably bears the
mark of the struggles which he has had to
undergo on his brow.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

A STARTLING ANswER.-A good story
is told of teacher who was talking to her
scholars regarding the order of the higher
beings. 1t was very profitable subject,
and one in which the children took an I'M
common interest. She told that the angels
came first in perfection, and when she ask
ed them who come next, and was readily
answered by one boy, Man, she felt en-
couraged to ask:
What comes next to man.
And here a little shaver, who was evil
IDENTIFY smarting under defeat in the pre-
ceding question, Immediately distancsd all
competition by promptly shouting:
His undershirt, 'am.'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06
THE LAND OF OPHIR.

The great geographer, Herr Petermann,
in letter to the Ostsee Zeitung, expresses
himself satisfied by the latest report of the
German explorer, Herr Carl Mauch, that
our newly acquired diamond fields in East
Africa are identical with the Ophir of the
Bible, from which King Solomon is said to
have conveyed gold and ivory and precious
stones to Jerusalem for the construction of
the temple. The whereabouts of the an
cient Ophir has long been disputed point.
The Portuguese, on taking possession of
Sofala, invested that colony with the Bibli-
cal character.
Legends were affirmed to be currant
among the natives that the rich gold mines
and the buildings of which ruins were visi-
BILE owed their origin to the Queen of Sheba,
and Lopez even asserted the existence of
ancient documents, proving the removal,
in ancient times, of gold and precious
stones to Jerusalem. These assertions
cannot, however, in Herr Peterman's opin-
ion, stand beside the discoveries made in
our new colonies by Britton and Mauch,
Merenksy and Grutzner. Zimbabye is the
place.
Its neighborhood is rich in alluvial gold,
precious stones and diamonds. 1t possesses
ruins of extensive piles of buildings, the
structure of which shows them to be of
unquestionable and remote antiquity
Ornaments and instruments are still found
that could not possibly have been made by
the natives, but might we'll have been left
there by Phenicians. Three days journey
from Zimbazye similar ruins have been
found, and the surrounding country is rich
in all that favors agriculture.
The present inhabitants have been in pos
session only about forty years, and they
regard the ruins and relics with a certain
awe, due to tradition, which invests them
with sacred character. The geography
of the place tallies admirably with the in
dications given in the Bible. Phenician
vessels would naturally sail along the east
ern African coast for the Red Sea, and
proceeding by this route they would be
about three years coming and going, as
stated in the Bible.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06
For The Cecil VIII
Letter from Indian Territory.

TAHLEoUAH, Cherokee Nation,
Indian Territory.
DEAR WHIG:-Your familiar pages come
to me often through the kindness of a
friend. How welcome you are! how pleas
ant to gee the name of a friend, if it is but
in an advertisement; it is almost as good
as letter from them.
The latest news here in the Red Mans
country, is tile opening of the Male Semi
nary as an Orphan Asylum. On Monday,
the 4th of March, the audience room was
crowded. There were prayers, speeches,
and singing by the choir. The first speech
was made by our Chief, delivered in the
Cherokee language. It was very interest
ing to see him and hear him, and Judging
by the manner in which he spoke, it must
have been excellent. The next was by
Rev. J. b. Jones, the Indian Agent. Then
others occupied the floor, which added
much to its interest, and, no doubt, profit.
All the speeches were made in English,
except the Chiefs.
After all such exercises were over, the
chief taking the lead, the audience followed
into the dining room, where there were
long tables spread for dinner, and nice
dinner it was, too.
The orphans came in very poorly clad,
but are now being cared for very nicely
Most of them are very interesting, and very
few look like Indians.
Our President is a Methodist minister,
and good man; bis heart is in the work.
There are many things to contend with
The insstltAiion is not wealthy one. We
need a Sabbath school library, and pulpit
bible and hymn book.
hope some of my friends will see this,
take the hint, and do what they can for the
poor orphans. What pleasant surprise it
.,"a,ii be, some morning when the teams
come from town, to find in them box
containing the above articles.
KATE \. CALEB.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

Reader, if you have borrowed the pa
per you are reading, don't do it again.
Subscribe. 1t isn't safe to borrow papers,
We once knew a poor, but honest man,
who borrowed paper, innocently and
inadvertently, from hitherto wholesome
neighbor. Fatal act That terrible conta-
gion, the small pox, was conveyed insid-
extensive and interesting family, a doting
father, fond wife, several intelligent and
heroic sons, thirteen lovely daughters, two
popular mothers in-law, and three beauti-
full aunts-not one remains to tell the tale.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

Patrick saw bull paving in field,
and thought what fun it would be to jump
over, catch him by the horns, and rub his
nose in the dirt. The idea was so funny
he lay down and laughed to think of it,
The more he thought Of it the funner it
seemed, and he determined to do it. Bull
quickly tossed him over the fence again;
somewhat bruised Pat leisurely picked
himself up, with the consolatory remark,
"Well it's mighty foin thing had my
laugh foorst."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

Some wags were walking around an
agricultural implement store, and they
CHANGED to see, in the rear, dressed hog
hanging by a hook to the wall cha
ha: cried they to the young man in at
tendance, "what sort of an agricultural
implement do you call that ~ "That,"
said he, "is patent combined root grub.
Der, corn-sheller, apple grinder, gate-lifter,
ieuble-action, back-action sod-plow; but
guess you won't want one, for it takes u
mighty smart man to manage EN-
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FOR SAT,F

The viii offer at Private Sale, FARM,
containing .o ACnEi api some perche-. in IL
.s""l condition. \ thrcr-.;L:y COTTAG +, -
nearly new. containing rooms, wis. Kitchen Il
aud iaHZa back. with neycr-iailinc " q, Of -
WI: in il. Also. good sized Frame Barn stoned
~t.hlr-IiIi with thrasiliug floor AM, side and
t,thr small ontbuil"s Also. Fruits of various kinds
Tbs property is situated on the road leading from
|. d Carriers Paper Mill to BAY View. mile from the
former > from Cherry Hill. and Il miles from Elkton,
Cecil county, Nd convenient churches schools and
mills.
For further particulars, apply to the subscriber,
the premises. JOHN JOHNSON.
IAN IS. lAI2-Smn
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

A certain paterfamilias residing near
Winstead, Conn.,, and who is IN the habit
Of enacting of his household a strict fulfil
ment of all devotional duties, recently
heard terrible racket among the young
sters in their dormitory. Going to the
staircase, he sternly demanded to know
what was the matter up their. The follow
ing was the explicit reply: "Harry won't
let me say my prayers, d-n him.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

"A country deacon went home enc even
ing and complained to his wife that he had
been abused down at the store shamefully.
One of the neighbors, he said called him q
liar. Her eyes flashed with Indignation
Why didn't you tell him to prove it ,"
she exclaimed. "That's the very thing
the trouble - replied the husband: al
told him to prove it-and he did prove it. -
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06
closely examined, even more beau tiful for

nations and colors than those at Loda
Mountain. In some localities the scene is
reminder of Dante's descriptions of the
Inferno. Sulphurous fumes and clouds of
threatening steam overhead, hot crust
that sinks under the feet below, and the
unearthly noises of the geysers on every
side, are enough to alright nervous ad-
venturer. But occasionally his path leads
up over the shoulder of some hill, when his
gaze is attracted high above the fiery val
ley and away through some mountain gorge
to such delightful, reassuring picture as
that Of Fairy Fall.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06

Anna Dickinson says she proposes
giving newspaper men, that talk about her,
"tt for tat" Sol Miller. a Kansas editor,
replied to this by saying: " All right, Anna
we'll trade: here's your tat"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-06
Profitable Employment

For two persons of either sex, in every town in
the United States by which they may realize from $500
to q 600 per year with hut little interference with
ordinary occupation. Ii the whole time is devoted.
much larger will be realized. Boys and girls can
make nearly much grown people. Some making
from (, 10 SIC per week For particulars. address
il. FARDELL IL CO. 40 Broadway. y. Y.
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GEO. Il. PASSMORE.

CHROME p. o., Chester 90. Pa.
Eesidencc-two miles north of Brick Meeting House,
Cecil county, Nd. mar i6 ls,2-iw
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12
Flogging OF o Criminal.

THE Toronto Telegraph gives descrip-
tion of the fogging in the prison-yard of
recently-convicted prisoner. The young
man was pinioned to post in one part
of the yard, and the flogger, dark, sim
ister-leoking man, took his position, and
at the orders given by the Sheriff as l, 2,
3, 4, etc., brought the lash down upon
the bare back of the prisoner, each stroke
being followed by quick jerk, and it
was piled with considerable vigor. AT
the fifth lash the blood commenced to
swell up, the skin to blister, and the sui
ferer to writhe. At the twelfth stroke
the sheriff paused, apparently regarding
the punishment as severe, but resumed In
a moment and the remainder OF the
strokes were delivered with less force and
precision. Their effect, however, was
sufficiently painful, as was testified by
the writings and contortions of the suf-
ferer, and a tear or two which welled
up despite his desperate attempts to re-
strain them. The means which seemed
to be starting to his lips as each success
sive lash flayed his back into dark red
hue, were stifled to the end with dogged
courage, and there seems to be spirit OF
iron Obstinacy in the lad, which, II not
properly directed in the future, will prob
ably lead him to a punishment more
ignoble and fatal.
The lash was welded by the fogger
with rare skill, for though the strokes
were powerful enough under the circum-
stances, they were given with an intensity
of will which was to a considerable ex-
tent only seeming. Several OF them
were little better than ticklers, while the
last one fell harmless, in consequence OF
falling short of the object, and portion
of the lash coming off. A stinging and
blushing back was, however, developed,
and when the sufferer was relieved from
his thongs, he walked restlessly about the
corridors for a few minutes, writhing un-
der the pain. By order of the surgeon he
then returned to his cell, having manifest
ed studied and dogged silence during
the reproceedings
His whole demeanor betokened deter
mination to exhibit as little feeling as
possible, and certainly his powers OF en-
| durance under punishment are considera-
| bile for one SO Young. Had few more
lashes been the sentence, however, he
would probably have been forced TO gave
vent to the means which he repressed
with so much effort. Some OF the prls.
oners who witnessed the t1ogging blanched
when the whip commenced to excorlate,
and a couple of females who happened to
be visiting at the Jail were moved to tears
and had to retire before the punishment
was concluded. The efficacy of such
mode of punishment has not yet beer
fully tested; but, from observations made
Yesterday, it is probable that its deterrin@
effect on the sufferers fellow-prisoners Il
considerable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12
Biographical Sketch of Professor
Morse.

Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of
the electromagnetic telegraph, died at
his residence in New York on last eve
ming. About one week since he was
seized with paralysis, and the severity OF
attack, with his advanced age, left little
hope of recovery. He sank gradually
until last evening, when he quietly passed
away.
The deceased was the son of the Rev.
Jsdsdiah Morse, the author OF Aorse's
biographies, which many persons now
approaching middle age will remember
having studied in their school days. He
was born at Charlestown, Mass, on the
27th of April, 1891. He received a
thorough education, graduating at Yale
College in 1870 On the following year,
having obtained his fathers consent to
become a painter, he went to London to
study painting under Benjamin West.
Young Morse devoted himself to the art
with great zeal, and with such success
that his "Dying Hercules was exhited
at the Royal Academy in 1918, and secured
warm eulogiums. To aid him in the
painting, he had constructed plaster
model of the subject, which was also ex
hibited and which won the Adelphl
medal He returned to America soon
after, and meeting with poor success al
Boston, he went to New Hampshire, ant
subsequently to Charleston, s. G., where
he practiced the profession OF portrai
painting.
In 1922 he took up his residence in New
York, and was soon after employed by
the city to paint portrait of Lafayette
then on visit to this country. 1t was IL
1924 that he, with several other artists
formed society, which proved to be tn
foundation of the National Academy. o
Design. Prof. Morse was the hrs
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12

Many torture the little ones by wound
ing their pride. They tell their faults to
others to shame them out of them. An
outraged feeling possesses the child, and
he thinks he will never again attempt to
do right Says the mother, "Oh, Aunt
Sue, you don't know what bud boy he
is; some day he will be taken to an asy-
lum as q lunatic, he gets in such raging
passion" The mother sighed, the child
looked abased lie said not word, but
by-and-by, when Aunt Sue, whom he
loved, was alone, he crept up to her and
put his arms about her neck, and wept,
and said:
ooh, Aunt Sue, she don't know how
tIy to help it. The other day / prayed
to God to help me keep my temper, and
He did until to-day-I guess He forgot
about me to-day. Don't you think you
could go to the druggists and getme some
medicine to keep of Me mad"
A child is insubordinate, and the parent
would rob II of its toys, its treasures,
land so, of its Individuality as a punish
ment The boy questions her right.
"You and your toys are mine until you
are twenty-one, said the mother. The
child was slenoed He thought, How
long to wait for liberty; until twenty
onel" Suddenly a thought struck him:
"But if you have right to me, why
haven't a right to your So some per
sons take the self-dependence and self-re-
spect from their children.
l have seen people watch, with most
sedulous attention, the temperaments,
habits and wants of the plants in their
windows, while they treat their children
either as puppets to amuse them, or as
objects of spasmodic caresses, or as VIC
tins of their despotism.
There are those who treat their ami
mails with the tenderest care, while others
treat theirs with systematic cruelty. Hap
PLY, most parents are instinctively what
they should be. Unhappily, others are
selfshly, ignorantly cruel to their OIL
spring. It is only for the latter class l
suggest the supervision of MIR. Berglh.
There is steadfast, patient love that
can look beyond personal ambition,
beyond love of ruling beyond the child
act to the child motive beyond even the
child motive to the physical, mental and
moral constitution which those parents
have entailed upon the child. Truly, it
takes wisdom to be true parent a Wis
dom from on high.-Rurdt NeO Yorker
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12
THE OLD WORLD.

At Cornwall, England, a few days ago, an
explosion occurred in safety-fuse manu-
factory where number of females were EN-
ployed Seven women were killed, one was
missing, and several Others were Injured,
some of whom, 1t was feared, would not sur
vive.
The French National Assembly took re-
cess on the 30th, until the 22d of April. Pre-
yious to adjournment NJ. Theirs addressed
the Assembly. He guaranteed the mainte-
nance of internal order, declared that the
army was faithful, and assured the Chamber
that no interruption of peace was threatened
from abroad.
A special dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, re-
celyed in New York on the LIST, says that
General w. T. Sherman was splendidly en-
tertained by the Khedive. state breakfast
was given in his honor, he was invited to
reviews, and special train was provided
for himself and suite. A palace was rendered
to him for his residence, but he declined 1t.
He was to leave on the I'd, for Constantine
ople, where he would be the guest of the
Sultan.
| II is stated that President Thiers has
abandoned his project for transfer of the
French Capital to Paris. His Excsllency
will, however, hold his receptions in that
city.
A Paris dispatch says that at the trial o.
the publishers of the Figaro newspaper, oil
the lst, Marshal Mcmahon stated that aftel
the severing of communications betweeI
the two wings of the Grand Army, tn
march to Sedan was directly against hi
wishes, aud that it was his desire to returl
to Paris. This testimony of Marshal Mo
Mahon caused great excitement.
Herr Won Seheumlin, Minister OF the In
terror of Germany, is dead.
A grand military review took place a
Brighton, England, on the LIST. The Battl
of Dorking was rehearsed. An immens
crowd witnessed the maneuvres. The reyie'
on tho. whole. says London telegram, wa
, considered failure.
The letter of Earl Granville, in reply
I Secretary Fish, was read ut the Cabinet NEE
: ing in Washington on the I'd, oceupyin
nearly all Of the more than two hours Sc
4 sion. Particulars of the letter could not
: ascertained.
The London Globe of the Sd calls attentio
to rumor of an extraordinary characte
r. which has obtained currency in Londo
p that the case of the American Governmel
n before the Geneva Tribunal of ArbitratiC
\ estimates the losses of citizens OF the Unit
o States, by the capture and destruction
D American ships and cargoes by Confedera
V cruisers built or fitted out in English water
at s14, 900 900 and the expenses Of the Unit