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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-07-05
MODERN ARITHMETIC

as elucidated by Town Assessors and Town
Commissioners.
Question-Suppose the Legislature pass
Law to the effect that in valuing property
for purposes of taxation, two thirds of
market value shall be taken, how much
Goes that increase the market value for
such purposes?
Ansrer-Just one third?
&C How is that for high" Mr.. Editor? or
in other words, chew high is that ~
Yours, SAM JoNsING.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
- Enterprise: A rag depot has been
established in Elkton.

- Enterprise: A rag depot has been
established in Elkton.
Refreshing showers on Monday
afternoon and Tuesday morning.
- Brisk-The divorce business. Two
applications filed in the Clerks office in
one week.
Rev E. Miller, Pastor Of the NJ. E.
Church, of this town, is about publishing
work on Christian Assurance.
The hot weather has also caused the
"Tree Frogs" to assemble in front of the
Row Offices every day discussing politics.
j. P. Alexander formerly of this county,
and late of the Oxford hotel, has taken the
Washington House, in Wilmington, Del.
Money Sale.-The Mutual Building
Association, of Elkton, sold 500 at 1872
cents premium, $500 at 1876, and $500 at
1877.
MIR. J. Montgomery Brown is erecting
fine frame dwelling house, On the lot
adjoining the property of Messrs. George
F. Harlan and Jacob Rambo, on Main street,
at the east end of Elkton.
Proprietor not responsible.-O Sat.
urday last passenger in the Louisville
and Elkton, Stage sneezed too hard, and
threw his teeth out, which the wheels
passed over, leaving the gentleman minus
set of teeth which cost twenty dollars.
This hot weather has caused 4 number
of the members of the "the Farthingsale
Club " to leave off their proper names and
assume nome de planes, prominent among
these, figure the names of some of the
Modoc braves and Latin surnames.
The slaughter-house excitement in
Elkton is now at its height. Petitions have
been in circulation for several days praying
the town Commissioners to abate the nui-
sance Of slaughter-houses in town. No
action yet by the Board.
"A local appeared in Tile Wing last
week, which offered low price for ma
chimes as old iron. The advertiser forgot
to sign his name, and as it read, it would
seem that we were in the market for ma
chimes, which we are not.
-Messrs. Bennett & Denny, OF Little
Elk, have pair of tame California par
tridges. The hen has nest in a segar box
placed in the corner of a cage in the back
room Of the store, where she has been sit
ting on 10 eggs for two weeks.
Come and 60 with us, say the mana
gers, on the Grand Excursion from Elk
ton to Havre dc Grace and Port Deposit,
Monday, July 14th, 1878. good string
band has been engaged for the occasion.
Boat leaves her wharf at Elk Landing
at o'clock, p. NJ.
ALI persons wishing to tent at the
Woodlawn Camp, which commences the
10Th of August, will please meet ON the
ground, July 18th, at 2 o'clock.
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MARRIED..

CHRISTIAN-SPRINGSTEAD.-Chesa -
peake City, June Goth, by Rev. Charles
p. Mallory, J. II. CHRISTIAN and Miss
c. SPRINGsTEAD, both Of Cecil county.
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LOst.-On Tuesday evening last, between
Mr.. Bratton's residence and the ice cream
saloon of Mrs. Woods, or on Church
street, the lower section of gold ear-drop
of tassel pattern. The finder will be suit
ably rewarded by leaving the same at this
office
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NOTICE.
IN TIE SALE OF THE REAL EST

IN TIE SALE OF THE REAL ESTATE OF JULIA
CORCORAN.
OrnFRED, This eth day of June. 1873 that the sale
male and reported 10y Reuben Iaincs Trustee for the
sal" of the Real Estate of Julia Curcorar be ratified
and confirmed unless cause to tho contrary thereof he
shown or before the first day of September. next
provided, copy of this Order be inserted in
paper published in Cecil county, Md. once a week for
one month before the Both of July,
The Report states the amount Of salts to be $3.50 CO.
DAVID SCOTT.
True copy; test, Clerk.
DAVID SCOTT,
June IS, lS73-lm Clerk
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Grand Drama on the Fifth, at the GLASS
FRONT, in which Flora NJ Flimsey " IIav-
ing Nothing to Wear" has her mouth shut
by having the latest styles of Paris and
London laid at her feet.
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COnstable's Sale of ono Large Five
Spring Wagon in good order, at b. F.
Thomas Hotel, North East, Saturday,
July 18th, 3 p. N. J. 3. DEFoRD,
TopSta blo
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NOtice.-Sunday, July 9th, 1878, there
will be Bush Meeting held in Shippers
wood. near North East, by the Rev. E. w.
Scott. The friends are respectfully solc-
tied to be present.
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GY"J. A. Wilson, agent for " Whining
ton City Soap has again supplied our
grocers with quantity Of that superior
article.
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ElktOn TaIent.-Mr. John S. Writ, of
this town, was the orator of the evening
at the anniversary celebration of the
Philokabian " Society of St. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis. In speaking Of the affair
the Baltimore american says:
The orator of the evening, J. sluyter
Writ, of Elkton, a member of last years
graduated class, and l believe lineal de-
scendant of the famous VIM. Writ, follow
ed Mr.. Dawson's essay on The Power of
Debate" and for about forty minutes
entertained his audience in manner that
might well have done honor to older orators
than he. Mr.. Writ is young man of
great talent, and his address was really an
extraordinarily fine production.
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College Prizes.-Among the successful
competitors for prizes at the law school of
Yale College, at the commencement, last
week, Mr.. Isaac II. Ford, A. B., of North
East, was awarded the end jewel prize, for
best essay on Legal Fiction.
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Children often look Pale and
Sick

from other than having worms in tho stomach
BROWNS VERMIPUGE COMFITS
will destroy Worms without injury the child being
perfectly WHITE and free from all coloring other
injurious ingredients usually used in prepare
tons.
CURTIS BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 2l5 Fulton, New York.
Sold bg Druggists and Chemists and dealers in Med-
ciHes at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box. July Sly
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Base Ball.-A game of base ball was
contested on Saturday last, between the
Agile, or Newark Club, and Alphas or
Elkton Club, on the play ground Of the
latter, which resulted in favor of the
Elkton boys by % runs to 10.
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New Boy.-Mr. Edward Jones, son of
Capt. J. T. Jones, who resides near town,
has received a situation in the National
Bank of Elkton. Mr.. E. II. Miller, who
has been Clerk in the Bank for four years,
will shortly be transferred to the Cecil Ma
tional Bank, with an increase.
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Jail Bail Club.-The report that 4 club
of amateur gabel ball players had organ
lied to practice inside of the Jail yard for
the amusement ofthe prisoners, was prema-
ture. Application had been made to the
Sheriff, but refused.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-07-05

Mrs. WinSIOw's SOOthin. Syrup IL the
prescription of of the best Female PHI ians
and Nurses in the United States and has been used for
thirty years with falling safety and by
millions of mothers and children, from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult 1t corrects acdty of the
stomach. relieves wind collie regulates the bowels and
gives rest health and comfort TO mother and child We
believe it to he the Best and Surest Remedy in the
World in all cases of DlSENTERY and DIARRIItEA
IN CHILDREN. whether it arises from Teethng
from any other cause. Full directions for using will
accompany each bottle. None genuine unless the fac
simile of CURTIS 4 PERKINS is the outside wrap
per- Sold by all Medicine Dealers. July 5-ly
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AGENTS WANTED!
CAST ADRIF! Cast Adrift!

~ A companion to the famous Three Years in
Mnn-Trap ." and Ten Nights in Bar-Room" by
T. s. ARTHUR The latest and greatest book of this
celebrated author-splcndidy Illustrated elegantly
hound, and will sell ut sight 10y thousands. Is highly
ndorse by the most prominent people and papers of the
country story of crime and outrage in midst
which will appal the stnutest heart. Will do for
the of temperance and morality than the law
Agents who have sold Man-Trap" cannot fail to sell
double the number OF this book. A Life OF the
Author, with steel portrait presented 10 every sub
scrbrr. Descriptive circulars and terms sent froe
application to J. NJ STODDART CO, Publishers, 133
SnIl.nm Street PhililrlnIiu Pa.
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LETTER FROM WOODLAND.
WOODLAND, June 9th, 1878.

Close of School-C Camp Meeting-Festigal-
FareWeN!
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M Elk VANVNNSINU. AGLNTS AMI Statesmen
ATTENTION, Bryants Lir0rU Of Poetry and Song: Tn,
Nor HOuSekcfpcy'S N6Hu1t, 10y Miss Beccher and Mrs
Stowe. Both selling fast aud far. Exclusive Territory
liberal terms }. b. FORD CO, New York, Boston
in. IL Eral,r
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Pilot Town lite ms.

Lost Landmarks accident Black Barrsns
Springs.
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Special Serm0n.-By request, Rev. E.
Miller will preach tomorrow morning from
tie following text: "Thou art priest
forever after the order of Melchizodec."
''For this Melchizedec, King of Salem, priest
Of the most high God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings,
and blessed him to whom also Abraham
gave tenth part of all being first by in
depreciation King of Righteousness, and
after that also King Of Salem, which is
King of Peace without father, without
mother, without descent, having neither
beginning Of days, nor end of life :; but
made like unto the Son of God abideth a
priest continually
Fire Extinguisher.-An agent for Bah
cocks celebrated Fire Extinguisher, gave
an exhibition of the machines ''extinguish-
ing" powers, on Wednesday evening last,
on the vacant lot at the corner of Bow and
Main streets. A number of barrels and
light wood were piled up and had coal oil
and other inlamable material thrown on
the pile, when the whole was fired. The
hose of the extinguisher was then played
on it and the fire smothered in few mo-
ments. The machine used was ten gal
lon portable machine. We have seen the
extinguisher tried on much larger fires than
the Elkton bon fire and the flames master
ed almost Immediately. No fire can live
in the gas elected from these Machines
Even coal oil has to succumb.
How Scotch I,assies Raise the Wind
A party of visitors at Marley Paper Mills,
the other day, picked up from among the
old papers which are worked over, and
converted into clean sheet to receive the
impress of the Public Ledger, bunch of
pawn broker tickets that had served in
the office of one Thos. Ballantync, of
Glasgow, Scotland. The following arc
some of the persons who had been trading
at the sign Of the three balls and the
goods r1odnaJ.
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NEW ENTERTAINMENTS.

"Camphorine" cures every pain, &c. Try it, Sold by
all druggists. REUBEN IIOYT. Prop'r. New York.
MONEY.MAKING BOOKS FOR SUM
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June IS, 1S73-1n
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REAL ESTATE.
TRUSTEES SALE

BY virtue Of decree of the Circuit Court for Cecil
county in chancery the undersigned Trustee will Offer
at Public Sale at the Court House door, in Elkton,
Cecil county, Maryland, on
TUESDAY, the 9Th day Of JULY 1873,
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Thirty Years Experience of an
Old Nurse.

FUTON Street, Now K.
For sale by all druggists. fully 5-ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
The Coming Wheat Crop.


The magnitude of the coming wheat
crop, If 1t is safely gathered, may be
approximately learned by understand
lug the crops of 1912. According to
government reports the wheat crop of
the United States for 1871 amounted to
231, ~, 600 bushels, and there was an
abundance and to spare the world over.
and prlces ut no time ranged high. The
crop OF 1877 was 249,977 bushels, show
ing an increase of 12,275,OO bushels
over the crop OF the preceding year. If
there had been no failure of wheat in
Missouri, Kansas and southern Illinois,
there would have been a much greater
increase in the crop, because the crop
in the northwestern states alone was
20, 23O, 600 bushels; whereas the in
crease on the crop in the whole coun-
try was only 12,275,0 900 bushels. If
there had been corresponding increase
IN the winter wheat producing states as
there was IN the spring wheat regions
OF the northwest there would have been
heavy gain to have been added to the
above, let us say 10000 900 bushels.
This year the northwestern states bid
fair to grow at least $4,000, 900 more
wheat than they did last year. as the
area sOwn to wheat has been greatly
enlarged. By adding $4,000, 600 bush
els to this crop it would amount to
liz, 29S, 600 bushels. If nothing hap
pens to the winter wheat between now
and harvesting, the increased Weld may
Toe safely put at 10000. 600 bushels,
making the crop of the United States
over 2S4, 900, 900 bushels, by far the
largest crop of wheat produced by any
one country on the face of the earth.
According to Milwaukee figuring there
Is in the northwestern states about IT.
900, 600 bushels of spring wheat to come
forward from first hands. We think
tins Is an under-statement, and that the
allowance for food and seed is too high.
With corn at 20 and % cents per busbel.
and wheat 81. and S1.1O on the farm,
the farmers will sell the wheat down
very close and live upon the corn. De-
pend upon 1t, the northwestern farmers
have done this very thing, and more
than 2O,OOO,OO0 bushels vet remain to
be sent to market and now, that still
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
ARemarkabIe Progress

We have already alluded to the prosperous con-
dition of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company
located in this city, of which Edison Fessenden Is
president and James F. Burns secretary. A more
carefuIinvestgation of its last annual statement
just published, warrants us Ia submitting TO the
readers of the Times some further remarks upon
its rapid progress to psblic favor and its remar-
kably prosperous condition at the present time.
Let US compare its condition ten years ago with
what it is at the present time. In the years 1862
and 1868 it issued 1,7I7 policies; its income was
sl25,572; dividends 81 pa: losses by DEATH SIS 600
assets s4S7 $685. Here was the business of two years
In 1872 it issued 1852 policies; its income was
ss,43,7 5245; dividends, S94344; losses by death,
sSsl 1852; net assets 81, 2Oe, S25.O7.
This increase of business and assets in the short
period of ten years is worthy of special notice. An
income in 1872 of near So $4,000 against SIPS ST. in
1862 and 1885, 1t is nearly thirty to one over ten
thousand policies last year against seventeen hun
bred in two years, only ten years ago. Its net
sets amount to over eight million now; then less
than half mfllioH-more than sixteen TO one.
This wonderful increase is not the result of sim
gle jump. It comes of regular yearly advances
showing the soldity and permanency of this signal
prosperity. For instance, the net assets of the
company at the opening of the year 1872 amounted
TO $75lO,6145; at the commencement of the year
1873 they were So 207 s5 O7-an increase during the
The Ph@1ix has has now $500 policies in force.
other liabilities carry its obligations up to S7OO9
1887. Deducting this from its net assets and the
company has a surplus of 81. 1893 S31 So
The officers lay these facts before the public with
the assurance that they cannot be eQualed in COM
parative strength by the statement of any COM
pany in New England, it, indeed, by any in the
country, though a few others have a larger aggre-
gate of assets No company in this city equaled ii
last year in the number of policies issued. Only
one came within 2,OOU of IL, and the others were
from 5000 to 1900 below IL.
In this sterling condition of its finances. in its
great and increasing prosperity, and in the firm
hold it has upon public confidence, the Phoenix
may, with due degree of pride and satisfaction,
dition.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27

THE SANDS OF THE SAHARA. Intense
radiation of heat in the great desert of
Sahara produces extraordinary effects
of insects as we'll as animals and men.
When caravan starts out to traverse
that wide waste of desolation, flies
follow on in prodigious multitudes, at
tracted, no doubt, by odor from the
camels, but they soon drop dead by the
intensified heat. Fleas burrowing in
hair, straw or sacks, are killed off rap
idly. But the most singular of all is
the malady to which the men are Incl
dent after being exposed short time to
burning sands and vertical sun on
that arid and life-forsaken region. 1t
is called ragel, kind of brain fever.
The stricken traveller is delighted,
amused and made extensively happy
by exhibitions of fantastic forms. He
sees mirages, palm trees, groups of
tents, shady mountains, sparkling cas-
cades, and misty forms dancing de-
hghtfully before his entranced vision.
From all that can be gathered of the
subject it seems that certain conditions
of atmosphere, wholly free of mois-
ture, with intense heat, produce effects
on the brain very similar to hash-heesh.
Both exalt the nervous system and
speedily destroy all desire to exist, de-
prived of the unnatural excitement of
the brain.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
Distribution of Seeds by Winds.

MIR. Alfred W. Bennett has called at
tention to the comparatively little known
article, by Kerner, upon the influence
of the wind on the distribution of seeds
In the mountain regions and, referring
to the popular impression that the
winds perform very important part In
the distribution of plants, quotes from
Kerner and from Mr.. Bentham to show
that the assumption rests upon INSULT
cient data. If that portion of the
thistle-down which has been carried to
a considerable distance by high wind
be examined, it will generally be found
to have left its seed behind it. And it
frequently happens that seeds well
winged, or provided with light pappus,
are less widely distributed than other
forms of composite without such pap
pus. The rapid spread of the common
thistle in any new country is referred
to the persistent vitality of the roots
quite as much as to the dispersion of
the seeds; and if the individuals are
examined, they will generally be found
to be all of one sex, showing that they
must have been propagated by the di-
vision of the Same Individual. Refer
ence is also made to the Canadian wa
ter-weed, Elodea canadensis, which
filed up the water-courses and canals
of England within a few years of its
first appearance and it is stated that,
to this day, the male plant is entirely
unknown in that country, and all may
have sprung by subdivision from the
first imported specimen. The memoir
of Mr.. Kerner is based upon careful
examination of plants growing on mo-
raines, and of the seeds found on the
surface of glaciers and he finds that
a large number of these, constituting
the moraine fora, are species widely
distributed over the high mountains in
immediate proximity to the glacier.
Again, in regard to the seeds on the
glaciers, he find not single one which
does not belong to species inhabiting
che adjacent mountain slopes or val
legs and he is, therefore, of the i'm
preston that the conveyance of seeds,
even when provided with apparatus cal
culated for being foated in the air by
horizontal currents, takes place only
within very circumscribed limits and
that the prevalent opinion that they
may thus be carried for very great dis
tances is not supported by facts.-Nec0
York Tribune.
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rRUrRFUL JAMES TO TIE EDITOR.
(YREKA, 1879

(YREKA, 1879
Which il is now my style
To produce needless pain
BY statements that rile,
Or that go gin the grain,
But here's Capt. Jack still Twin, and Nye has no
skep on his brain!
On that Caucasian head
There is no crown Of hair,
1t has gone, 1t has hedl
And Echo SEE % where 2"
And ask, " Is this Nation White Mans, and is
generally things on the square2"
She was known in the camp
As Nye's other squaw,'
And folks of that stamp
Hez no rights in the law
But is treacherous, sinful and Shiny, Nye might
heY well known before.
But she said that she knew
Where the Ingins was hid,
And the statement was true,
For it seemed that she did.
enteen Modocs, and-shd
Then they reached for his hair.
But Nye seq, I" BY the Law
OF Nations, forbearl
] surrender more.
And looks to be treated. you hear me ?-as r,rts
ner, pris'ner Of war"
But Capt. Jack rose
And he SEE, ats too thin
Such statements as those
It's too late TO begin
There's Modoc indictment agin you, o PaIefaoa
and you're Eoln' in !
L" You stole schonchin's squaw
IL bA46 gedE hlANy-IWOt
II was in siXty-fOur
That Long Jack you went through
ana you burned Nasty Jim's rsncheria and his
wives and his pappooses too. AIS
This gun in my hand
Was sold to me by you
Galnst the law of the land.
And grieyes it is true :"
And be buried his face in his blanket and want as
he hid it from view.
But you're tried and condemned
And skelping's your DOOM"
And he paused and he heTnned-
But why this resume2
He was skeped igainst the customs of Nations and
cut on Ike rose in its bloom
So I ask without guile
And trusts not in vain
If this is the style
That is going to obtain
II here's Capt Jack still a hvin' and Nye with no
skelp on his brain ?
Hrrto
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27

THE CARAT.-Probably many people
have speculated upon the precise
meaning of the word !" carat" 1t is an
imaginary weight that expresses the
fneness of gold, or the proportion of
pure gold in a mass of metal thus, an
ounce of gold of twenty-five carats fine
is gold of which twenty-five parts out
of twenty-four are pure, the other two
parts being silver, copper or other
metal The weight of four grains,
used by jewelers. in weighing precious
stones and pearls, is sometimes called
diamond weight, the carat consisting of
four nominal grains, a little lighter
than four grains troy, or seventy-four
and one-sixteenth grains being equal to
seventy-two grains troy. The term of
weighing carat derives its name from
a bean, the fruit of an Abyssinian tree
called kuara. This bean, from the time
of its being gathered, varies very little
in its weight, and seems to have been,
from a very remote period, used as a
weight for gold in Africa. In India,
also, the bean is used as a weight for
gems and pearls.