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The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13

The Grand Duke.-Those who have not
seen the future Gar of all the Russia's,
may i'll some measure have their curiosity
satisfied, by going to LEWIS, where they
can see his hat. They may at the same
time and place see number of other fine
articles fit to clothe princes and dukes.
LEWIS is the place to buy Imperial goods
and no mistake.
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13
PUBLIC SALE.
H -. IN, IS

Having ceased farming, will ofer at Public Sale"
TUESDAY JANUARY tie 23rd, 1872,
the farm of Mrs. S E. Eldrid=e. on tho road from
Cecilt0n to Fretericktown the Stock. Farmin, Imp.
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13
MARRIED.

JENNESS-LINTON Jan 10Th, '72,
at the Rising Sun Parsonage, by Rev. J.
W. Weston, DAVID W. JENNEss and
MARY A. LINTON, all of this county.
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13
STOCK:

II head of Horses: line drivers and several
in fual three-year old horse. two-year old
mare yearlirg colts. spring colts ! thoroughbred
Stallion HERME!, hy Mariner, out of FHshi0n. the
f,muus running mare who the 10000 race against
Pcytuna. at the Camden four-nle of North against
South. See handls for hs pedigree showing the best
blood in the country, without stain or taint Yoke Of
oven. two yoke used TO plow Il head Of Cattle: 81
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Beautiful ChrOmOs.

There seems to be no limit to the enter
prise of S. S. Wood & Co.. publishers of
Woods Household Magazins They have
just sent for our inspection, a copy each of
the beautiful Chromos, Easter Morning,
Niagara Falls, and the Autographs, Our
Joy and Our Hope, companion pictures, a
boy and girl. 1t would be impossible to
find two more lovely faces of children than
those life size portraits, and their selec-
tion speaks well for the proprietors' taste
for the striking and beautiful in art, as
well as their confidence in the public esti-
mate of what is really valuable as works
Of art, in comparison to the cheap. clap:
trap which is too often foisted upon their
patrons by publishers. Niagara Fails is
perfect, and any one who has witnessed
the great Falls will recognize how faithful
the artist has been to Nature in this ex
quisite work. The green water of the
observer, as it leaps over the tremendous
precipice, the rising mist the green trees.
and all the grand and varied scenery of
the place, has been caught, as it were, by
the artist and transferred to the picture
Bnt for exquisite beauty, Easter Morning
stands preeminent. A plain, solid, Latin
cross Of white marble, and twined wreath
of exquisite flowers. Should one sit down
and select the very first of his favorites of
the conservatory, there they are in all their
wealth of beauty, hanging gracefully over
the arms of the cross; ioses pansies,
fuchsias. geraniums, heliotrope, &C., with
their varied green leaves, so ar,istcally
arranged that the contrast of colors is most
beautiful in its effect. SO fresh, dewy and
natural are these gems of the garden, the
air seems filled with their fragrance. A
rare combination of beauty, faithful to the
original painting and called Prang's best
Reduced size 7tx104. Price per copy $3.
These charming Chromos are sent free
to subscribers who form clubs for the
Household Magazine. BY addressing the
publishers, S. S. Wood & Co., Newburg,
\. Y, a list of premiums and terms will
be forwarded to any one wishing to sub
scribe or canvass for the Magazine.
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13

BUSINESS MEN.-Adams d Bro, No. 5O6
Market street, Wilmington, Del, are the
kind of business men that always succeed.
When their advertiser sends his bill. they
send him check Immediately. Men of
that stamp always succeed in business, for
they are emphatically business men; but
the poor devil who CLOCKS forty ways" at
once, and squrms and shivers as though
his shirt were full of crawling snakes at
the sight of bill, never amounts to much,
and invariably fizzles out in short time.
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13
The Howe Sewing Observation-Disclosures
J. Wilkinson, Elkton.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MARYLAND Agricultural CAllGgG,

The SPRING TERN of this pro>prrous Institution
VIII hrgin FEDECAaY lst. 1S1...
A limited number Of STArE SCHoI ,RsTIrs NAV be
secured hy an immediate application
For catalogue &c. address
REV. SAML REGISTER President.
Agricultural Colles." P. O.. Prince Georges Co.
Jan L.; lS12--4w
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FOR RENT.

Two new and convenient DIV ELLING HOUSES, and
WHEELN RIGHT SHOP, al Mechanics Valley Terms
reasonable Possession given March 18th. ISI.
Apply t" THOMAS McNEf.
ur, u. VI. RlTTENHoyoF, at the place
-tu%
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For Rent-StOre House, in ElktOn.

Opposite the Court House. Location ,Inal to any n
~" town Immediate possession.
AFply to Il, y. MAY. hali.m"ir.
Or. l.. l.. EWING, Elnt"n.
. Jan g. ISIl-2ln
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13
FOR SALE.

The undersigned offers FOR SALE his .t.;SSr
COMFORTABLE COTTAGE, 12 roomsj i'll the I!1i,GI
neat. quiet and healthy Village Of Zion. Also. E,s M
STORE HOUSE. - ~
Jan Il, lS12-Sw STEPHEN Il. FORD.
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Ia Wear like iron Wanamaker e BIS.
every day Clothes,
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OMNIBUS is the answer to last week s
charade. Answered by several.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS,

The County Commissioners OF Cecil cnua,v will M at
nj their ufic:, in the Court House Elltnn on Tu
'liy and Wednesday. the 18th and lI'h and u Tue,, v
Wednesday md Thursday. the Goth. 2St and 2.ud M nj
on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 9Th and .Sth GAYS o;
February, rext. for III" purpose Of making Trtnsf-rs
and Correcting Assessments. and notice hereby sivr,
that after the 2>th day of February. next alteration
will be nla de in any assessment for the yr7r 1872.
By or.."r. WM. T. MILLER. Clerk
Commissioners OF Ccci! county.
Persons making application fpr transfers of property
will he required t. comply with the following sections
of the Code. Article 81:
SEC L. Whenever any person shall make application n
for any allowance deduction account of the .al.
transfer alteration. loss removal Of property
the col.ct"'i lnyment of any pnhir private
curity for money. The County Comm;ssoncr- appeal
Tax Court, shall ntcrr"sate him oath. in reference
thereto, ami the disposal "f the snr and especially
inquire Of him To whom the has been sold or
transferred and l,c Of III" purchase money or
the m"n,r cnllsc.-t., and h"u the same ha. Leen
invested.
SEC. 10 They shall ahs, interrogat, said person
oath in rfrrrnce 10 acquisition Investment made
by him and not already asses.ri, and The Of
all sech acquisitions aud Investments -hi b, added 10
his asseisale property AMI if he refuses answer
allowance deduction sla b" mad" ht
Jan l3 1s12-4w
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13

.B So Cheap .-Clotlling this s.ason at
Wanamaker & Browns.
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CRAIN BAGS and Tarrcd Rope Yarn
cot "a JOHN PARTRIDGE
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A SHALL FARM FOR SALE,

] ] =
The SUBJ crher will sell al Private Sale tn" FARM "f
William ard and on which he now RESIDES adjoining
ian- Of hn W. Holt the s,riber and others
tanning ut out
S1 ACR ES,
Of which about three acres are in WnoG AMI au
ie resi- cultivation aud well fenced. There f5f
l. suhst n'ia STONE DWELLING HOUSE s=o=j
10 by il -et two stories high. the prorerty-I~Al
There i, also Stable and Corn-crt on the premises.
ans! We L of good water.
The rr, perty will be sold on reasonable terms.
JAMES McCACLEY,
Ian 1} 1S12-jw Agent
The Cecil Whig., 1872-01-13

FIRST FLOOR (West.)-Arranged
for Furnishing Goods and Coats. The
Job Lots, LESS than Half-Price
Lots" Piece Goods for Custom Work,
which share in our general reduction
of prices.
SECOND FLOORS DEPARTMENTS ::
DRESS PANTS.
SECOND DRESS PANTS.
WORKING PANTS.
JOB LOTS.
PARTICULAH LAHS.-FIRST-StOr I
SECOND-An {
THIKD-A lara
CuStOl
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NOTICE..

in 81 II a uanner that every person can perform
INA Jan Il. lS72-1v
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Street Conversations in Scraps.

One day rs passed out of church l
walked very leisurely, and as the crowd
hurried by me, caught the following
scraps of conversation
at is most too hot to come to church--I
hate long sermons" Her trail was too
long and not pretty shape" "And
what fine eyes he has, but do believe that
moustache is dyed, for it." "Don't you
think she is pretty? Well, just middling,
perhaps" "If he did not drink he
would be one Of our finest" "Did you
notice her new hustle Wasn't it splendid.
Yes, but" "Oh, fiddle / would not
speak to her, she is so stuck up and"
eyes she will do more work than any ami
NAL ever had, besides she eats so little"
"She looks as though she'd blow away,
wonder she don't pad" "But then you
can't get that breed of pups very often,
there was only three in the" GA very
pretty family, but don't see how they can
afford to dress them in" "That fly-net
ought to have better head-piece-" "Did
you say she had worn it two years and had
it made over twice and" "Ill bet he has
corns, for he walks as though his boots were
two sizes" "And they say she paints and
powders, and l guess that" "Oh yes,
we start next week. Papa has bought me
three trunks for" "Thirty dollars for
that pipe, why the boys fool to" "Do
you think so ? I know it, for helped
measure the" Well, they say it is a
fact, and l have noticed they don't dress as
well as" "Four dollars yard, why ]
bought as good as that for" "Two drinks
before breakfast never would have
thought he would come to" "Oh yes
will be there in time. Good-by old fellow
Just then turned into bye-street.
wondering what good had been done by the
sermon.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
A Dog StOrys

A ranchman in Colorado has sagacious
dog which the owner firmly believes can
count. He has seven yoke, or fourteen
working oxen, and when not in use these
are turned loose with large herd of cattle.
Whenever they are required, he speaks to
his dog the same as he would to a boy, and
tells him to go and drive in his oxen. The
dog Immediately starts off and does the
job as we'll as anybody. On one occasion
during the last season when the dog had
the cattle nearly in, he was noticed to sud-
denly leave them and run back to the herd
as fast as he could go, which was three
quarters of a mile away This excited
some surprise, but it was soon discovered
he had driven in but thirteen, and h ad
gone back to correct his carelessness by
bringing in the fourteenth.
An instance of rare honesty, and show
ing how dog may desire to pay his board
bill, recently occurred in Fitchburg, Mass.
A lady saw dog frequently about her
house picking up odd bits which had been
thrown out and one day she called him in
and fed him. The next day he came back,
and laid an egg on the floor, when he was
again fed. The following day he brought
his egg to pay for his dinner, and ON the
fourth day, he brought the old hen herself
who it seems had failed to furnish the re-
quired egg
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Insurance Notice.

On and after the tenth day of April,
1872, The Home Reserve force of Insur-
ance Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva-
MIA Central Insurance Company" will leave
Pottsville in heavy force, and occupy ten
different counties of the State, where they
will continue to act as the Company's S
Agents until full line of Local Agents
can be appointed, when they win be recalled.
AS body of men, /. believe they are supe-
rior Insurance Agents, and most Of them
speak the English, French, Welsh and Ger
man Languages. The City Insurance
Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual
Companies, and continual cry Of Fraud !!
Fraud &C., cannot muster any better In
surance material! Why don't the City In
surance papers tell the public that no Mu-
tual Company broke or failed during the
last ten years? Why don't they tell the
public that more than half the Stock Com
panies started within the last ten years
have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual
Companies cannot fail.
JAMES ii, GRIER,
Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur-
anee Company. JIG
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
A Font Of TyDe.

1t may be interesting to some of our
readers to know how the letters in use in
an ordinary font Of type vary in number.
To font containing 1900 of the letter e,
there will be t, 900; a, $50; n, o, S, i, 800
h, GAO; r, $50; d, 440; !, 400; u, $40; C, m,
800; f. $50; W, y, 200; 6, p, 17O; b, 160 ; ",
1870; k, 80; q, So; j, x, 40; z, 90. Besides,
there are the combined letters fl, so; fl, 40;
fl, 30; fiji, 10; FIJI, 10; e, 10; e, 8.
The proportion of capitals vary, COM
ing first, then E, then A, then T. then S,
and many of the remainder being about
equal in number. . uu.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
A Good Smuggling Story.

A Paris correspondent of the London
Times gives the following On the Belgi-
an frontier the French smugglers are doing
prosperous business. A few days ago
information was given to the Custom
House authorizes that at a certain hour
a wagon-load of straw would pass in
certain direction, amongst which a guam
tity of tobacco would be concealed. The
wagon arrived at the time and place indi-
Gated and was stopped by the Custom House
officers. In reply to their questions, the
WAGNER answered in an unsatisfactory
manner, which created suspicion, and
strict examination was commenced. 1t
was ascertained that the wood was solid
and that their was no double bottom to the
wagon, and therefore the tobacco must be
in the bundles of straw, which the officers
commenced probing with their long skew
ers without coming in contact with any
thing which felt like bale of tobacco;
they therefore decided upon unloading the
wagon and examining the straw bundle by
bundle. When they were in the midst of
the operation funeral came up, proceeded
by little boys carrying incense and tapers,
the cross and the priest, chanting psalms
accompanied by the sound of the serpent
The employees hastened to make room for
the funeral to pass, and remained uncover
ed until it did so, when they set to work
again, undoing the bundles of straw, and
examining them one by one.
While this was going ON the hearse and
funeral cortege was continuing its route,
and had been long out of sight before the
wagon had been thoroughly searched and
the bundles of straw tied up and reloaded,
and to the disappointment of the Custom
House officers not an ounce of tobacco
found. The wagon was allowed to con-
tinue its route, but was followed at dis
tance, in order to discover the secret which
appeared to be concealed from them. But
there being nothing to conceal, they dis
covered nothing until the following day,
when all the tobacco had safely been dis
posed of, and the smugglers were out of
reach. The funeral cortege was composed
entirely of smugglers-the priest, the
player on the serpent, the incense boys, and
all the cortege was band of smugglers,
and were laden with tobacco, as well as
hearse and coffin. The value of the tobacco
thus entered is stated at $4,000, but this is
probably greatly exaggerated.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Curing n Thief.

Would you like to know how your grand
father cured fellow of stealing? Well
I'll tell you. Poor Eli, your grandfather s
hostler, was a natural-born thief. lie priz-
ed no things so well as those he had stolen.
Even loaf-sugar, though would give him
lump as big as his fist, was not half so
sweet as the ounce or two which he would
be half day trying to abstract from the
pantry. Your grandfather, like all "old
time' doctors, kept small drug store in
his Office. A part Of Eli's duty was to
dust the bottles and shelves.
"What desc white pipe-stems doin' in
this watah, Massa Jim ?" he asked one day
of young Office student, when brushing
off bottle containing sticks of phosphate
of lime.
That's pepper candy. Don't touch it,
Eli, for it burns like the tooth-ache,, said
Mr.. Jim.
81 amt 'fraid no tooth-ache," said Eli
to himself, as he decided to have stick of
that peppered candy before night His fa-
vorite dress-coat was an old cloth one, with
narrow swallow tails that touched his heels
when he walked. Supper over, and the
horses stabbed for the night, Eli asked
leave to go to neighbor's corn-husking
for an hour or so. The coat was put ON,
his woody hair unplaited, and true to his
intention, a piece of the PHOSPHORUS slyly
slipped from the jar and lodged in the end
of his coat-tail, pocket before he left the
house. He started off on run, but it was
not many minutes before he smelt smoke,
nor many more ere he came running into
the house with those cherished coat-tails
abaze to the waist, his shins badly scorch-
ed, and his big eyes rolling with terror and
pain.
Weeks afterwards when slowly getting
well Of his burns he said to me so humbly;
'Deed, Mistis, Use done stealin' now,
for ebber and ebber, amen. De debbil
hisself was in dat pepper candy, for smelt
fire and birthstone and matches fore / seed
the flames but when dey bust out of my
coat-tails, den ] know for sartain 1t was
monsus wrong to be a thief--a' aoW l'ei
dom" M Ht
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Gbe Gintes, Ntw Bloonthtlo, pa.

character. One point Of difference is
always expected. The deeper we descend
the warmer the water becomes, though the
rate of increase in temperature varies in
different places.
Water from the famous well at Grenelle,
near Paris, is the uniform temperature of
SO degrees, while the mean temperature of
the place is but 81 degrees. One use to
which the water is put, is warming the
hospitals located there. In Wurtemburgh
large manufactures are warmed in simi-
lar way, the water being carried through the
building in metallic pipes. A constant tenn
perature of AZ degrees is said to be thus
maintained while the temperature without
is at zero. Another incidental use of water
from the artesian wells is as a motor, the
water often coming out with force suffic-
lent to drive engines of many horse power
In regard to the comparative depth to
which these wells are carried, 1t is conced-
ed the Chinese take the palm. Some of
their wells are said to be three thousand
feet deep. The deepest in Europe a few
years ago land we believe still) was one in
Silesia, 1890 feet. One in Columbus, Ohio,
is $500 feet A well, which has become
somewhat famous, dug in st. Louis by a
private firm to supply sugar refinery, is
two thousand one hundred and ninety-nine
feet deep. The famous one in Grenelle is
one thousand seven hundred and ninety
two, and was about eight years in digging.
The discouragements here were so great
that it would have been abandoned after it
had reached fifteen hundred feet, had it not
been for the earnest appeals of Arago.
Fifteen hundred feet was about the depth
to which scientific men had predicted it
must go.
One most important use of artesian wells
is for purposes of irrigation in desert
regions. The French Government have
bored large number of them in Algiers
within few years, and the native Sheiks,
though at first very skeptical, have more
recently been following its example. The
work is not difficult there, supplies of water
being found at a small depth as one to two
hundred feet. Though not altogether pal
atable it answers well for irrigation and is
not unwholesome. A traveller in the region
says "every well becomes the nucleus OF
a settlement proportionate to the supply OF
water, and several nomade tribes have
abandoned their wandering life, established
themselves around the wells, and planted
many thousands of palm trees, besides
other perennial vegetables. y If the
supply of water shall prove adequate fol-
the indefinite extension of tho system, it is
probably destined to produce greater geo.
graphical transformation than has ever
been effected by any scheme of human i'm
provement. ."-N. Y. Mercantile Journal.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

cB- The Rev. DIR. Charming had broth
or, physician, and at one time they both
lived in Boston. A countryman in search
of divine knocked at the doctors door.
The following dialogue ensued
"Does Mr.. Charming live here?'
Yes, SIR"
"Can l see him?"
81 am he"
"Who? You?"
Yes, sir"
"You must have altered considerably
since heard you preach"
"Heard me preach? ?'
Certainly. You are the Doctor Chan
ming that breaches amt you?''
"Oh, see your mistake now. 1t is my
brother who breaches. 1 am the Doctor
who practices"
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

CB-Since 1924 several Americans have
patented machines for making pins, but
the most successful invention was the work
of Mr.. Fowler. But the entire process is
mystery to the uninitiated, and the secret
is carefully kept hidden from curious eyes.
Most of the best American pins are made
in Connecticut, after Fowler's process. In
one establishment are eighty-iye machines,
which consume annually many tons of brass
or iron wire, and turn out millions of pins
Brass pins are whitened by long boiling in
copper vessels containing block tin. The
process Of making white iron pins is still q
secret. There are eight pin factories in
the United States, with au annual produc-
tion of about 100000, 900 pins. ~ 'iA.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

The manner in which nails received their
peculiar designation is supposed to be from
the old English method of selling nails at
so much per hundred the size now called
10d being sold for 10 pence per hundred
Sd for pence per hundred, and so on.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Number Of Nails TO the Pound.

The following list will be found very
handy for reference, giving as it does, the
length and number to the pound of each,
size of nails in general use. Different
works somewhat vary the thickness of their
nails but this calculation is made from the
Duncannon make of nails, which are about
an average weight
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

nB- A drunken lawyer going to church
one sabbath, was observed by the minister,
who addressed him thus: 81 win bear
witness against the, thou great sinner, in
the day Of judgement" The lawyer shak-
ing his head, replied with gravity "Just
so, have practiced twenty years at the
Bar, and have always found that the
greatest rascal is the first to turn States
evidence" &qiat rIii
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

The Home Reserve force of The Penn
sylvania Central Insurance Company of
Pottsville, Pa, will be in Perry county in
considerable force and act as the Com
pany's Agents until a full line of Local
Agents can be appointed when the reserve
force will be recalled
JAMES III. GRJER
Sec'y of Pa. Central Ins. Co.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25
Cross.M Word Enigma No. 9.

My first is in black but not In gray,
My second is in loiter but not in stay.
My third is in good but not In bad,
My fourth is in sorrow but not In sad.
Ny fifth is in man but not in boy,
My sixth is in grief but not in joy.
My seventh is in girl but not in beau,
My eighth is in hem but not in sew.
My ninth is in oil but not in fat,
My tenth is In bird but not in cat.
My whole is the name of town in this
State.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-25

ey- On the Little Miami railroad is a
station called Morrow. A new brakeman
ON the road, who did not know the names
of the stations, was approached by a stran-
ger the other day, while standing by his
train at the depot, who inquired:
"Does this train go to Morrow to-day ?'
"No," said the. brakeman, who had an
idea the stranger was making game of him,
cit goes to-day, yesterday, week after
next"
"You don't understand" persisted the
stranger, " / want to go to Morrow"
"Well, why in thunder don't you wait
until tomorrow then, and not be bother
ing to-day. You can go tomorrow or any
other day you please" 4f...
"Won't you answer civil question civ
lily? Win this train go to-day to Nor
row?'
"Not exactly. 1t will go to-day and
come tomorrow"
As the stranger who wanted to go to
Morrow was about to leave in disgust, an
other employee, who knew the station al
luded to, gave him the desired information.