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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09
French Criminal Justice in the Olden
Times.

Formerly the first step taken when a
person was accused of any offense was to
put him to the question. Now, this quest
ion was not addressed to him in words,
out by the application of red. hot bars.
spikes, thumbkins, iron screws, and other
equally persuasive appliances to his limbs.
which were torn, MANNED and crushed
in the service of truth. A man was con.
signed by the most kind hearted of Judges,
in an off-hand, matter of fact way, lust as
prisoner is now committed for trial by
Magistrate. There were two kinds of tor
ture-the one, which was merely prepara-
tory, was inflicted on every person accused,
to obtain all the details of the crime: the
other was intended only for those who
were condemned to death, so that they
might confess the names of their accompli-
ces. The mode of trial then was exceed
iDgly primitive. The prisoner was produc-
ed before his Judges, who had already
mastered the indictment against him; he
was not allowed to bring witnesses, or to
employ any advocate in his defense, and
he was questioned until he acknowl-
edged every crime laid to his chargs. As
for the punishments, they were as simple
in their way as the trial. Calumniators
were burnt; a man who debauched girl
had his ears cut off and was banished;
another who enticed away married wo-
man was dragged in public and then be-
headed; libelers were condemned to be
whipped for the first offense and hanged
for the second. Criminals who died in
prison were stuffed to be duly executed,
drawn and quartered, and every unhappy
wretch who was on the eve of death was
constrained to make what was designated
amende honorable, that is, he knelt, with a
rope round his neck, with bare feet, and
with wax taper in his hand before
church, to entreat of God pardon for his
crimes. The last time this barbaruos cere-
mony was practiced was in 1899.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09
Remarkable Conduct of q Horse,

A recent French paper relates an extra
ordinary punishment inflicted by horse
on its master, Tor an act of brutality by the
latter toward one of the animals stable
companions.
A carrier, named r., at no time ten.
der in his treatment of his four-footed SER
wants, returned one night in a state of
Standardization from Mormant to Givors.
The mans natural barbarity was at this
time aggravated by the drink he had TAX
en-, and being dissatisfied with the efforts
of one of the horscs-a poor hack which
had almost served its time-he decided that
the animal was no longer worth his feed,
and resolved to put an end to it. For that
purpose he tied the poor brute to a tree,
and taking massive lever used in moving
goods, he struck the animal several violent
blows on the head, until the unfortunate
creature sank to the ground insensible.
The master, thinking the animal was
dead, left it on the spot, intending to re-
move the body next day.
The horse, however, recovered his senses
short time after, found its way home, and
entered the courtyard at day break. Its
arrival was welcomed by the neighing of
its companions in the stable, which noise
awakened the master, who was now fur
ious at having failed in his cruel purpose.
He tied up the animal afresh, and COM
menced again to shower or its head.
This act of brutality was committed in
sight OF two other horses in the stable; and
ut length one of them, a young animal,
became so frentic with rage, that it broke
its halter, and, rushing on the man, seized
him in its jaws, and after shaking him vio-
lently. threw him down, and trampled on
him with such fury that, had not the mans
cries brought some persons to his aid, the
master would certainly have been killed.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

4 TOAD UNDREssING.-Aubu relates
that he once saw a toad undress himself
He commenced by pressing his elbows hard
against his sides, and rubbing downwards.
After few smart rubs his hide began to
burst open along his back. He kept rub
bling until he worked all his skin into folds
on his sides and hips; and then grasping
one hind leg with his hands, he hauled off
one leg of his pants the same as anybody
would; then stripped Of the other hind leg
in the same way, He then took his cast
off skin forward between his fore legs into
his mouth and swallowed it; then, by rails
ing and lowering his head, swallowing as
his head came down, he stripped off his
skin underneath, until it came to his fore
legs then, grasping one of those with the
opposite hand. by a single motion of the
head, and while swallowing, he drew it
from the neck and swallowed the whole.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09
THE SAGE'S REPROOF.

Alhakem, the sage. whom all people
humored for his great wisdom and his
many virtues. sat in the market-place Civ
ing instruction. A youth named Seyd,
who had recently inherited vast wealth,
passed that way, and shared with the old
teacher the attention of the multitude.
"see," cried Seyd, how my good for
ture hath lifted me in day to claim a
public attention which Alhakem hath been
long years in gaining"
And he smiled proudly as he spoke.
Alhakem had heard his words, and mo.
toned for him to draw near.
"My son." said the sage, 'slet me speak
unto thee fable. Once upon time a
gourd wound itself around lofty palm,
and in few weeks climbed to its very ton,
elbow old mayest thou be ." asked the
gourd.
GA hundred years." answered the palm.
"A hundred years." cried the gourd, in
derision. "Only look; have grown as
high as thou art in fewer days than thou
CONTEST yearsr'
81 know that very well, the palm made
answer. every summer of my life a
geurd has climbed up around me, as proud
as thou art, and as short lived as thou wilt
ber'
seyd heard, and went away with his
head lowered. C.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

RULE FOR WEIGHING HoGs.-The Ken
lucky rule for estimating the net weight of
hogs is said to be for the first 1O0lbs., de-
duct % for gross; for the second 100 lbs,
deduct II ); for the third 100 lbs, deduct
81; all over the third hundred is net. The
net weight of a hog weighing 100 lbs.
gross is 10 lbs.;a hog of $50 gross will
net 11ss; of $50 gross, 209s net, and hog,
the gross weight of which is 300 pounds,
will net 256i pounds. From the gross
weight of hog that goes over 800, 434
pounds only is deducted, even should the
weight be 400 This rule, if correetl
stated, may be Of use to somebody.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

Do PEOPLE READ ADVERTISEMENTS
There is now and then person so stupid
as to believe that advertisements in the
newspapers are not generally read, and
that money expended in advertising is
practically wasted. Even such will con-
cede that if a hundred men of polite ad-
dress, of fluent speech and ready wit were
to call daily or weekly each upon an hun
dred others and get the ears of each long
enough to say John Smith, or Jones, or
Thompson at such place, has such and
such goods at such prices, or would sell
farm, or house and lot, or had lost il horse
or pocket book, or would loan money, ect.
we say such men will concede that the
services Of this 100 men would be of great
value to Smith or Jones and in some mea
sure advantageous to the party to whom
this statement was made. This 100 men
could not be employed to go from door to
door and make this statement to ten thou
sand people at less than cost of several
hundred dollars each trip. All this is done
by the newspaper at cost of few dimes,
or few dollars at most, and the visits are
made week after week. day after day. The
messenger who travels addresses himself
to the ear and takes the party addressed
when he may have his thoughts absorbed
in business or other matters; but the news.
papers reaches the party sought through
the eye, when the reader has his thoughts
solely fixed upon the paper before him.
But those who affect to believe that
there is little use in advertising urge as an
objection that advertisements are not read.
They can be easily convinced of their er-
ror in this respect by making inquiry. Let
them insert an advertisement offering to
purchase some article that is tolerably
plenty in the market, and they will be
flooded with offers to sell before the ink of
the advertisement is dry. An enterprising
weekly that has a circulation of one, two
or three Thousand copies is in position to
do the village merchant great good, and
for which, as rule, the publisher does not
get one-fonrth of what he justly deserves.
In its sphere, the weekly is quite as much
service to the advertiser as in the daily,
and oftcntimes it enjoys the privilege of
being the exclusive family visitor, a privi-
lege the daily seldom has.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

SALT WITH NUTs.-Medical men advise
that salt should be taken with nuts. espec-
tally when eaten at night. "One time"
says writer, while enjoying visit from
an Englishman, hickory nuts were served
in the evening, when my English friend
called for salt, stating that he knew of the
case of woman eating heartily of nuts in
the evening, who was taken violently ILL.,
The celebrated DR.. Abernethy was sent
for, but it was after he had become too
fond of his cup, and he was in no condition
to go. He muttered "salt, SALT" to which
no notice was taken. Next morning he
went to the place, and she was a CORPSE
He said that had they given her salt, it
would have relieved her; if they would
allow him to make an examination, he
would convince them. On opening the
stomach the nuts were found in mass
He sprinkled salt on this and Immediately
it dissolved. have known of sudden
death myself which appeared to have been
from the same cause. l generally eat salt
with mine, and consider that it improves
them"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09
illinois farmers find that the partrid

Illinois farmers find that the partridge
is a great destroyer of the chinch-bug,
which is so injurious to wheat fields, and
are beginning to protect them from the fow
Ter. One farmer says he has hundreds of
tame cartridges about his place, and his
wheat crops are unusually abundant, while
in places not far away the chiDch-bug COM
mits great ravages. He feeds the birds in
winter.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

w A lady who had borrowed diction-
airy to read, returned it after she had got
through, with the remark-"It was yery
nice reading, but it somehow changed the
subject very often" 1t was her sister who
thought the first ice cream she tasted was
"eetle touched with the frost"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

ss The Titusville Press prints the fol-
lowing recipe: "To find out the number of
children in a street beat brass drum. To
find out the number of idle men start q
dog fight. To find out the number of
women let woman 90 through quiet
street with the latest style Of bonnet on"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

CARBoLIc Soar will certainly kill lice
on fowls or chickens. We use Buchan's.
Dissolve half an ounce in a quart of boiling
water; when C; oil, wet their heads and
necks with it. he lice die in an instant,
and in half al bur the chickens are as dry
and nice as
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

FEED.-Corn or corn meal IS the best
food for fowls intended for the market; it
is cheap, and contains large per cent of
fat and oily substances. Dat meal and
middlings are cheapest and best for laying
hens.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

To CLEAN S0ILED PLUMAaE.-Confine
the fowl in small coop and cover the bot
tom with dry clean sand at least six inches
ueep, the lOWl Will clean itself. Is
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-09

Fearing some of you are becoming tired
and may throw an old shoe after me will
stop writing. Echo.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
Johns Joker.
From the Norristown Herald

An exchange asks 'Why do steam boilers
eyplole?" 1t must be because they put such
yery hot water into them. We never hoard of a
steam boiler exploding when it was filled only
with cold water. Perhaps these explosions
would be lass frequent II boilers were to be filled
one-half with boiling water and the other half
with cold water
An old rural gentleman went to the city the
other day, and at the depot placard told him to
Look out for pickpockets." SO he thrust his
head ont Of a window and glanced all around
but didn't see one, he said. A few minutes later
he missed his wallet ii having been abstraoted
by one Of those fellows he was looking out for.
lIe says the next time he will look inside for
pckpockets.
A Professor Goltz. Of Konigsberg, says if
you take out the brain OF frog, and then rub a
wet finger down the frogs back. the creature
will crOak al il pleased. The Professor has
uiel it, we presume but frog might live dis
pleased for az much as fifty years. before we
would brain the creature and rub its back.
Those letters ''from all parts of the country
printed IN the New York Tribune endorsing
Greeleys nomination, just keep one man in the
office busy writing from early morn till midnight
and now be threatens to strike for thirteen hours
a day. and nine dollars a week. And we think
the labor he performs is worth that much money,
too.
Missionaries should be sent to California as
soon az possible. A San Franciscan was fined
AZ much fol- beating his mother in-law as for his
wife And this ia called even handed justice out
there IL Brigham Young were to take his
mother-in-law to San Francisco and beat her, it
Mould bankrupt him.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
DOMESTIC NEWS.
MEIoHsoRIMo oouNTugs.


--Coatesville has two cases OF the small pox.
---Longwood meeting comes on the 18th, 14th
and 18th Of June. sr
Tho Friends Old Kennett First Day school
lie very prosperous.
The public schools of Phmnixville closed
last week for vacation.
The Chester County Sunday School Oonven-
ton will be held on the 18th and 18th Of July.
The Democratic State Convention brought
with it the pickpockets to Reading. Very nat
ural.
Garrett 4 Sons are building new snuff mill
near their present one, about miles south Of
Kennett.
Greeley hats won't sell at Havre de Grace,
but the merchants are sold who have laid in
supplies Of them.
Tho old Mennonite Meeting House, in Phe-
nixville, is to be removed and q new and more
modern structure to take its place.
The Phoenix Iron Company shipped during
the month OF May over 1900 finished bridges,
worth nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
AN attempt was made to murder Father
Mckee at Oatasaugua, recently The assassin
was admitted into the priests room, when he at
once discharged pistol at him.
Alex Black is propasating trout in ponds
near Kennett. He has six large trout in his two
ponds and about 200 smaller ones He has dug
third pond for the propagation Of cat fish.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
Tho Lonswood AIOnument.
DEpIcAr1oN crnrMorrrs on suNpAl

DEDICATION CEREMONIES ON SUNDAY.
The beautiful soldiers monument at Long
wood Cemetery, near Rosedale station, Chester
county was dedicated with appropriate oeremo-
nies on Sunday. Fred. Taylor Post. @. A. II (;
Edward Blaine Post, of Chester; and Mccall
and Shaw Posts, Of West Chester; were present,
with great concourse Of people, from all parts
Of the country. An eloquent address was ad-
dressed by DR.. Frank Taylor.
The monument ia a shaft nf Italian marble.
Tie granite base is three feet six inches square
and two feet thick The first inscription, which,
like the others, was furnished by Bayard Taylor,
h TO lhe dear and sacred memery OF our sol
ders, erected by their friends" The die is two
feet three inches square, and on the west side
contains the names Of the following officers:-
Colonel Charles Frederick Taylor, Lieut.. Joel J..
SWayne,, Lieut.. Robert Maxwell, Lieut.. Edward
Greenfield; also the names OF forty-eight others
On the top OF the die sets the cap, with moul.
ding, the whole crowned with a shaft that
reaches fourteen feet from the ground. The
monument was designed and manufactured by
Major David Jones. OF West Chester. The ladiei
o. Chester county have been active in raising
tue funds, and chief among them may be men
TONED Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, mother of Bay
ard TAYLOR
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
CrImes and CnsunlIIan.

The oil refinery of Brooks, Ballentino & Co.,
and roofing pitch factory Of Lupton, at Temper
anceville. near Pittsburg, were burned yesterday.
Loss, $50 900.
A large portion Of the village Of South Salem,
Madison county, Ohio, was burned on Friday
night. Loss $40, 900.
The house, barn and outbuilding Of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, N. Y, were burned on
Sunday night. The family we're absent at the
time.
Dr. L. B. Irish and Mrs. Anderson, of Brook
lyn, charged by the father Of Edward o. Ander-
son with poisoning his son, have been arrested,
an analysis OF the exhumed remains having
shown the presence Of arsenic in sufficient guam
tity to cause death.
At Trenton, N. j., yesterday, young man
named Robert ]. Thurman, was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment at hard labor, for
cattle stealing. After making some remarks to
the Court, he drew a knife and cut his throat,
but only made slight wound, when he was dis
armed,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
Philadelphia Topics.

-Fifty-six excursions to Atlantic City are an
nOunced
Deaths in the city, last week, 312; from
small pox A..
The journeymen horse shoers went on a
strike, yesterday.
"A tournament is in progress at oakdale this
afternoon.
The Central Congregational Church was
dedicated on Sunday.
"A Republican ratification meeting will be
heId at Broad and Arch this evening.
N, The passenger railway case OF the West
lHlladelphia cS, the Union was reopened in the
court Of Common Pleas, yesterday.
"A female child six weeks old, found lying
On step-a step-child, may be--was christened
NAY Hall, and sent to the almshouse. Had i
June haul.
Michael Sullivan and James Keating, two
Nei known democratic politicians. became st
eAIlted N political discussion, that Michae
t1Aouei Heating several times, and he now lie
III serious condition.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
8eaths.

THARP.-On Sunday morning, the I'd inst, Of para
lyses, Beniah Tharp.
His funeral viii take place from his late residence
in Mispillon Hundred, Kent Co., on Tuesday morn
ing, the Atm inst, at 10 O'Clock.
FIELD.-June I'd, at 12 P. M, OF small pox, Agnes,
infant daughter Of Wm. M. and j. II. field, aged
moaths, buried in Wilmington and BrandyWine
Cemetery.
DiCKINSON.-In this city. on the LIST inst, Howard
Pusey, sou OF Morris Dickinson, aged years, .
months and l2 days.
w-Chester County papers please copy.
ARMSTRONC.-At Klamensi, Del, Sunday, June
I'd, 1873 Mrs Elizabeth Deal Armstrong, aged ..
years, 10 months and IA days.
The relatives and friends respectfully invited
to attend the funeral from the residence OF hel
brother r-in-law, Thomas Pilling at Klamensi, OF
Wednesday the 5th inst, TO meet at the house at II
o'c,ook. Funeral TO proc ed TO St. James Church
Stanton.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
The Disputed Boundary.


GOV. WISE DISPLAYS BAD BLooD-ATToRNEY-oKN-
ERAL JONES DIsausrED. d..
Illustrative Of the bad feeling engendered in
the settling of the boundary disputes between
Maryland and Virginia, we publish brief colo
guy between Ex-Governor Wise and Attorney
General Jones during the examination Of a,wit-
ness, clipped from the Orisfeld Leader;
Mr.. Wise (straightening up) Now IL that amt
stui1lng witness, then don't know what is. /
am tired OF these Interruptions.
Mr.. Jones-You havnt put it down right sir I;
only want it right. T..tag'
Mr.. Wise-( (determinedly) y)-Sir, 1 am running
this business. and want no more Interruptions.
/ wont stand it.
not say that Mr.. Nelson pointed ont to you the
line, did you |? g.. ~
Witness-No sir, 1 said no such thing,
Mr.. Wise (str king . dramatic attitude, and
bringing his fist down on the table in such a
manner as to send some of the manuscript, to
floor and knock the pen from clerk Mowbrsys
band) say he did il nir,-rn be id il
he didn't say 80.
Mr.. Jones-Gn conoiliating manner and
with smile that was bland)-I bog your pardon
sir ; l beg your pardon we don't wish TO inter-
runt you sir, but really you misunderstood the
witness.
Mr.. wise-well sir, it's down now, and I can't
change IL
The Leader says that Attorney General Jones
is disgusted with his experiences thus far.
WHAT VIRGINIA CLAIMS.
General Henry A. Wise is trying to establish q
line beginning at Shelltown, at the mouth OF the
Pooomoke river, thence north through Crisield,
thence across Tangier sound TO Smiths Island,
thence to Smiths Point, This line, II establish
ed, will give Virginia large slice Of Little Au-
namessex, half OF Crisfeld, 20 miles of Tangier
sound aud part OF Smiths Island. 1t will also
cut of from Maryland some Of the most valuA-
BILE oyster grounds, which will have tendency
to materially injure the oyster interests.
II Virginia persists in claiming the line to be
as described above, there is strong probability
that the Commissioners will have TO leave the
settlement Of the question to the Supreme Court.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
Politics and Politicians.

Only one Democratic paper in Nebraska endor-
ses Mr.. Greeley.
The National Republican Nominating Conven-
tion meets at Philadelphia, tomorrow,
Carl Schurz declares It to bo " impossible for
him to define his position under the present cir
cumstances." -.
A Western paper notes the unhappy omen for
the ChappaquA WoOdchopper that his room, No.
IA, at the Astor House is the same which was
the home OF Preston King when his mind, totter-
ing led him to suicide.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Leader thinks It is ''per-
feotly appropriate that Genl. Beauregard, the
rebel who fired the first shot OF the rebellion,
should endorse the bondsman Of Jefferson
Davis, the torturer Of helpless Union prisoners" "
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-06-04
THE PENINSULA.
poRcHEsrER COUNTY.

D0RCHESrkR COUNT.
M Henry has been appointed Commission
er torestore lost wills.
The good people OF Dorset have concluded
that the Chateau ghost is humbug, but there
is something wonderfully funny about it.
Federalsbnrg's professor Of conjuration has
removed to Talbot. HHTF
The wheat prospect is improving.
Camp-meetings will be held, this season, upon
nearly every ground in the county.
- CECIL COUNTY.
Elkton has appointed colored lamp-lighter
As the Board Of Commissioners is Democratic,
Of course the appointment l. unobjectionable.
And now the Elktonians propose to build .
railroad from Townsend TO Eikton-
The soldiers graves will be bedecked with
flowers on Thursday, the 9Th inst.
The new M. p. Church at Fairview will be
dedicated next Sabbath. Rev. L. ]. Murray and
A. s. Eversole are expected to be present.
Jas. W. Clarks's meat house, containing 200(
pounds OF meat, was burned one day last week
His dwelling also caught from the burning meat
house, but wac saved by tho neighbors.
Near Pilot Town is a spring called the Blach
Barren. Col. Blake the proprietor, ships week
ly about 800 gallons to different points.
wIoonco COUNTY.
65270quarts of strawberries were shipped from
Salisbury in Aye days, last week.
Fodder is 80 scarce that 1t cannot be obtained
at any price, and the demand is so much greater
tnAn tne supply that large quantities OF hay are
sent to Salisbury every week and sold as a sub
stitute therefor.
A Yeung Mems Christian Association will
shortly be organized in Trappe district.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
Thos. d. Purnell has been reelected Trea
surer Of the Worcester r. Il.
Jas. E. Carey son Of Morris Carey, Of Snow
Hill, was recently drowned in Baltimore.
Several Of lot of sheep which Samuel d
Purnell had impounded In lot near Snow Hill
for shipment to Baltimore were killed one nigh
last week, by dogs.
The oars are now running regular TO and from
Snow Hill.
The Democratic primaries will be held in tn
several districts next Saturday.