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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-04-26
\ BOY WHO FOUND 4 HOME.

The Hon. a. IL. Stephens, of Georgia,
in n recent address at Il mectingat Alex
andria, for the benefit of the orphan
asylum and free school Of that city, re-
lated the following anecdotes:
A poor little boy ono cold night,
with no house or roof to shelter his
head, no paternal or maternal guardian
or guide to protect or direct him ON his
way, reached at nightfall the home of
a wealthy planter, who took him in,
and fed and lodged him, and scnt him
on his way with HE blessing. These
inspired him with fresh courage to bat
tic with the obstacles of life. Ncars
rolled on. Providence led him on, and
he reached the legal profession. Ills
host had died; the cornorants who
prey on the substance of man had fOrnn-
ed conspiracy to get from the widow
her estate. She sent for the nearest
counsel to commit her cause to him,
and that counsel proved to be the boy
long before Wclcamed and entertained
by her deceased husband. The stiml-
ltis of Il warm aud tenacious gratitude
was now added to the ordinary motive
connected with the profession. lie un-
dertook her case with 4 will not
easily to be resisted; he gained it; the
widows estate was secured to her in
property, and, Mr.. Stephens added
with an emphasis of emotion that sent
an electrict thrill through the house,
"that boy stands before YOU
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-04-26

Edwin Booth received an ovation on
being released from the parish prison,
where he had been incrcerntcu for u
hours by HnwSins, for alleged con-
tempt of the Suprcln" District Court,
in continuing business and refusing to
pay taxes to the Kellogg collectors,
Hawkins having ISSUED an injunction
restraining him from doing further bust
ness until the taxes were paid. n process
sion with Il band of music escorted Mr..
Booth from the prison through the
principal streets to his place of business,
frequently cheereu along tho route. AS
the procession passed the corner of
Camp and Graver street Kellogg was
hung in ehigy to II lamp post. The
effigE was afterwards burned.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
PRICES lN.EUROPE.

Switzerland is! literally full of tourists,
her heights and her hotels fairly swarming
with English, American, and German trav-
elers. What Europe would do without
this annual releasement of British and
American gold, cannot imagine. 1t is
announced that eighty thousand Americans
have visited Europe this season. Allowing
six hundred dollars as a fair average of
expenditure in each case, including the
Atlantic voyage-for the steamships are
owned here-and America alone pours into
the active money circulation of Europe
annually, forty-eight million dollars
That this average is low, l could readily
believe when saw single bill at Gene
vas jewellers of one thousand francs,
paid by an American for some mementoes.
Prices Of articles in Europe seem lower
than they are, and, in many instances, they
are dearer than in America. Food is high
er here. Jewelry and watches can be
bought quite as we'll in America. Cloth
ing is really but little lower, counting the
exchange and premium on gold. An
English shilling costs an American twenty
nine cents, or nearly so; and when coat
or parcel of hosiery is said to he worth
three pounds, or only sixty shillings,"
he is paying seventeen dollars. An intelli-
gent railway porter expressed his astonish-
ment that we would buy English trunks,
giving his Judgment strongly in favor of
American manufacture. This is emphati-
cally true of this branch, as it is of boots
and shoes, hats, umbrellas, and many 9TH
er articles. In silk, laces, hosiery, shawls,
and cloths, we may save, probably, thirty,
per cent, and in travelling, sightseeing,
ETC., we must pay at every turn.
1t is very pleasant to travel on the plan
OF the tourist broker, Mr.. Thomas Cook,
paying your coupon tickets for railways
and hotels before leaving home. 1t re-
leves the strangeness of foreign travel to
be met at the station by an English-speak-
ing porter, who represents one of Cooks
hotels, and to find everywhere in Europe,
English-speaking clerks and officials
This, with even an imperfect knowledge of
the French language, enables any one now
to take the entire European tour with en-.
tire satisfaction. Nothing can exceed the
devotion, the patience, the fatherly super
vision and the liberality of these Cooks,
or, indeed, of the entire firm Of Cook, Son
& Jenkins, the latter being the New-York
representative of the firm. Their work
lies in the future, the past being but be-
ginning.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
HIGGINBOTTAM,S PORCH.

The Peoria Reoie,o observes: "There is
nothing so nice as having a good porch in
| front of your house, unless, indeed, it is
having the porch built. Mr.. Hiram Hig.
ginbottam, of Monson street, has got new
porch completed. 1t is small affair, not
over ten feet long, but it took seven weeks
to build it. The first week carpenter
came to the house, climbed over the fence,
set his tool-box down on a fine moss rose
bush, and solemnly made some measure
ments, put some marks on the house, and
went away.
Nobody came for week, when another
carpenter came up with pair of trestles
and an armful of saws and things. He
carried his trestles into the front hall,
hung his saws on the hat rack, looked
vacantly around and mysteriously dsap-
peared. That evening Mrs. Higginbottam
rather snappishly asked Mr.. II. if he in
tended to get the men to work on that
porch. lie answered gloomily and thought
they would get started about next week.
Along toward the middle of the week a
third carpenter came up, jerked down the
saws, planted the trestles in the middle of
the oldest Miss Higginbottam's verbena
bed and began to saw furiously.
Two or three days after laborer came
and dug place for the masons to lay the
wall and threw dirt all over the gravel
walk, and then a man came and emptied a
cart load of bricks on the tulip bed. Then
the masons came and threw mortar all
over that part of the township, getting a
little of it everywhere except between the
bricks. That was the only safe place.
Finally the lumber for the porch arrived,
and was hurled madly over the fence, blot
ting out the last traces of a flower garden
in the front yard, and sending the grass
plat in a partial eclipse.
Then there was business. The entire
yard was two feet deep in shavings and
saw dust, and eight penny nails permeated
the very hash. One morning Mr. Higgin-
bottam opened the front door, and was
Immediately afterward disagreeably sur
prised to learn that short ladder was
leaning against that door, with carpen-
ter and tool box on the top round. No
body seemed to enjoy the consequent Incl
dent SO much as the tool box. The car
penter and Mr. Higginbottam held brief
conversation, in which their remarks,
though fitful, were earnest, and appeared
to have reference to the Copperas creek
dam, or some other dam, and Mr.. II. went
down to his office shaking chisels, bits,
gouges, straight-edges and nails of various
denominations out Of his hair and sleeves.
The porch is done now. One day the
carpenters scraped up everything portable
about the premises and slid away. The
porch stands little awry, is higher at one
end than the other, and stands about three
inches from the house, and the roof leaks,
but the Higginbottamses are satisfied and
don't want any repairs made. The yard
looks as if Mr.. Higginbottom had been
pasturing three or four streaks of chained
lightning in it for a week or two, and they
had been unusually restive and prone TO
gouge things. But these are tritles COM
pared with the comfort of having a new
porch.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

GoING WEsT.-After heightened visit
to that part of Central and Western Kan
sas included in the valley of the Arkansas
river, we can not hesitate to commend that
portion of the country as especially favora-
BILE for those who desire to move where
cheap lands, some free homesteads, fertile
soil, abundant water, perfect healthfulness
and extensive range for stock may be found;
all these with short winters and a season of
ten months during which the plow may be
kept constantly at work may there he en-
joyed. We understand that the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad has over
two millions of acres for sale in that valley,
but that the government homesteads are
about all taken up; consequently the coun-
try is already comparatively we'll settled.
american Agrieulturist.
The above named company has publish
ed circular which contains full informa-
tion, giving Prices Location, Products,
Kind Of Soil Climate, etc., and with the
circular is the best map Of Kansas ecer
issued, all to be had free Of charge by ad.
dressing
E. E. EWING, Agent for the Co.,
at Elkton, Md.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

A RAMPANT WIsTERIA.-The foreign
journals speak of beautiful wisteria-
recently in full bloom-covering the front
of a well-known hotel near Slough, in
England, and running around each end for
some distance, making altogether length
of about 80 feet. 1t was planted against
strong iron support of the veranda, which
support it long since lifted bodily from the
ground, and broke in pieces with the SEEM
ing ease with which a man would break a
lucifer match. A laburnum grows against
the building on one flank, and the contrast
flowers is declared to be perfectly charm
inp''
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
MUSK.RAT MASONRY.

AS soon as the first frosts are felt, the
musk-rats select mud bar, or spot where
the rushes grow in the winter, often near
lillies-as the root of this plant is favor
ite article of food with them-and proceed
to lay foundation for their houses. In
the first place, they gnaw off at the waters
edge quantity of coarse grasses, rushes,
and small bushes. Gathering this between
the chin and fore paws, as if carrying the
material in their arms, they push 1T to the
place they intend using it. The place where
they have harvested their grass and rushes
looks as if some one had moved it with
scythe. After the musk rats have brought
together material enough to make solid
foundation, and have raised the structure
to the waters edge, they dive below and
tunnel underneath it, coming up through
the middle of the mass. The work is then
carried on from the inside; mud, decayed
are carried through this tunnel and pushed
ont from the inside until it is raised to the
right height and rooted over, or, as Whit
tier POLITICALLY describes it:
"The musk-rat piled the mason's trade,
And tier by tier his mud walls laid"
Inside this hillock a small chamber
about a foot in diameter is left, and here,
within solid, compact walls, sometime two
feet thick, the musk-rats have their COM
Portable winter quarters.
Their tunnel gives them access to the
water when the brook is frozen over. In
the winter a rap on this nest will bring one
or more of its inmates out, and you will
see them scatter away on the bottom of
the brook, picking their way among the
stones and roots leaving wherever they go,
if the brook is frozen over, line Of bub-
bles under the ice. When an open space
is reached, the creature gently rises to the
waters surface, and just putting the nose
and one eye above water, takes an observa-
tion and breath of fresh air at the same
time, but instantly dives again.
These nests vary in size and look quite
rough when first built and until the snow
and rain smooth them off. If the nest is
broken open, they Immediately begin re-
pairs, working from the inside. When
the meadows and brooks are frozen over,
the nest appears as if built Oh the ice, and
sometimes, in the late winter or spring
freshets, the upper part of the nest is lift
ed up and moved, which would naturally
confirm this impression; but upon exami-
nation, it will be found that the foundation
always rests on the solid ground below.
Old and Neu.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE.
ELIZA RICKETTS,
rs.
NITET. n EQARn OF al

SAMUE Is. FOARD ct al.
in the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Chancery
No sos D?.
The objsct of this Bill to procure decree for the sale
OF certain Mortgaged Real Estate in Cecil county
The Bill states that on the End day of September. 1862.
said Foard conveyed real described in
said Bill and exhibit to the plaintiff to the pay
of the Of $1,000 90 with interest thereon that
said of money with interest thereon from NJ rch
2nd, 1878, except the of Sl0SS remains due and
owing; that Mary Hongsworth Henry 8. Cou.on and
Jacob Tome hold mortgages upon said property that
Elkton, Henry W. Archer Thomas Drennen Jos. Veach,
Floyd Bruf Co., Chas B. Finley, The Singer Manufc-
turing Co, s. NJ. Anderson Son, Samuel Ilibber,
George Co.. Caufman Chew and Jacob Tome have
judgments against the said Samuel b. Foard in the Cir
cult Court for Cecil county that said Foard has since
assigned all his property for the benefit of his creditors
Jacob Tome and that the said vi illiam Cochran. d.
P. Mcdowell Co, Garretson Blakemore Co, The
Singer Manufacturing Company, Samuel NJ. Anderson
Son. Samuel Hibber, George Co.. and Caufiman d
Chew residents
1t is thereupon ordered by the Court this fourth day
of October, 1873 that the complainant copy Of
this order together with the object and substance Of
TIE Bill, to be inserted in newspaper published in
Cecil county, Maryland, a week for month,
before the eight day Of November next giving notice to
the said absent defendants and warning them to appear
in this Court in person solicitor before the
eight day of February next to show cause ifany they
have why decree ought to pass as prayed
DAVID SCOTT Clerk.
True copy: test, DAVID SCOTT,
October IL, lS13--lm. Cl,rk.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

WHY CHUBB MoURNED.-WhenC Chubb's
wife died we called in to mourn with him,
and if possible to console him in his afflic-
ton. The old man sat in the rocking
chair, with his eyes closed, chewing a
toothpick and rocking to and fro as he ap-
parently mused over the years that had
sped SO happily in company with his late
partner. We gently approach the subject
of Mrs. Chubb's departure. We assured
him that we sympathized with him in his
deep affliction, and the more sincerely be-
cause we we'll knew the estimable qualities
of his wife and were familiar with the
virtues with which she adorned her home.
"She was indeed" we said, "an excellent
woman; remarkable woman; a woman of
sterling qualities and of an unaffected
piety." Chubb stopped rocking and look
ed at us mournfully: Unaffected piety ?"
he exclaimed; "unaffected piety? That's
just it. That is just what's the matter. l
tell you Adeler," he said, bringing his
hand down emphatically On the arm
of the chair, 1.-THE way that there
woman could roast sugar cured ham
would bring tears to the eyes of a craven
image" Then we went out and left him
alone with his sorrow. There are some
kinds of grief that are too sacred to be
lightly intruded upon.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
OVER THE DAM.
BY ZELoTES r. BENNETT.

Yes, like swift runnin' river,
And tits mighty hard stemmin' its tide,
But the boat glides SO smoothly at startin'
That one feels jest like lettin' it glide.
You hear the wild roar of the rapids
That below you now thunder and break,
But you think you can easily pull back
When you see their white foam in your
wake.
Well, with me it was mighty smooth sailin'
Durin' all of life's first summer hours,
And the river sang ever so sweetly,
And it's banks were SO brilliant with
flowers
While the bow that hung over the torrent
Seem'd a halo that beckon'd me there,
And the white mist that rose from its
waters
Quite conceal d the black gulf of despair!
To be sure, pass friends as drifted,
Pullin' sturdily up gin the stream,
But laugh'd as saw how they labor'd
While my, boat danc'd along like a
dream!
What matterd d which way it was glidin'?-
If / sailed with it up or sailed down p
Behind | saw only life's struggles,
And before me was pleasure - life's
crown.
say pass'd friends pullin' up stream,
And they warn'd me of danger below;
But advice is so cheap that when given
1t amounts to jest nothin', you know
And experience - well, that's of some
value,
But it amt always wisdom it brings;
I've got-you're right: tbs a nettle,
And pluck'd it at cost of its stings
It's tough. lookin' up that bright river,
And seein' where l might have turn'd
back
To think that l took things SO easy,
Lettin' everything go to the wrack;
But I'm here now, jest as you find me,
And Fm-well, you can see what am:
drifted, you know, with the current,
And of course went over the dam
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
SA MI Eli NJ AXIS
Us.
MARY FRANCIS MARS.

In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Chancery.
The object of this Bill is to procure n Divorce a
pinculo mdtrin,onii" of the complainant from the de-
fendant.
This Bill alleges that the complainant and the defend
ant married July 22nd 1870: that about the
9th day of September 1870, the defendant abandoned
the complainant; that said abandonment has continued
uninterruptedy for than three years aud is deb
crate and final and the separation beyond any
bic expectation of reconciliation.
1t is tlreupon ordered by this Court, this 25th day
September 1873 that the complainant by causing copy
OF this Order together with the object and substance I"
the Bill to he inserted in newspaper published i'll
Cecil county, Maryland. once week for month
before the nth day of October next giving notice Ia
the defendant in said Bill and warning her appear in
this Court in person by solicitor, before tn"
Z1th day of January next, to show cause, if she
has, Why a decree shall not pass PRAYED.
DAVID SCOTT Clerk
True copy; test, DAVID SCOTT.
Sept y, ls73-lm Clerk
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

Notice 10 hereby given to all not to trespass
on the premises of the subscriber with dog or gun
ANY person offending will be dealt with according to
law. dEokuE W. shi' Ehi
Sent 13 Is-3-om Elk Neck, Cecil county, Md.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICES, &c.
NOTICE TO GuNNERS.

Notice is hereby given all persons not to trespass
upon the premises of the subscribers with Fog or uun
under the penalty of the law. - ~
TOWNSEND POOLE,
Oct ls73-om* z. X. WRIGHT.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

All persons hereby warned not to trespass ON the
grounds the subscriber with Dog Gun, the law
will be rigidy enforced against them
Sept q, lS73-6w WM. p FOWLER
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

All persons are hereby forbid trespassing on tn
premises of undersigned, with Dog and Gun. unde
the penalty of the law. HENRY ROBERTS.
Sept 6, lS73-2m
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

The undersigned give notice to all persons not to
trespass upon their premises. with Dog Cum or the
law for so trespassing will be rgidy enforced against
them S. II. MILLER,
4 C. MILLER JOHN WARD
ID. McELWEE, 7. BIDDLE.
Oct g. lST3-6w
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE.
NOTICE..

NOTICE.
DAVID I. DEyELINE
HANNAH A. SMITH AND OTHERS.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In chanccry
ORDERED, This sth day of October in the year 1873,
that the sale made and reported by W J. Jones and l.
NJ Haines Trustees for the sale of the mortgaged Real
Estate of John Smith, deceased, be ratified and confirm
unless the contrary thereof be shown
before the Sth day of December next provided copy
of this Order be inserted in newspaper published
in Cecil county week for month before the
sth day of November. hext.
The Report the amount of sales to be 81 10000
DAVID SCOTT, Clerk.
True copy; test DAVID SCOTT,
Oct IL, lS7S-1m Clerk.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Farm near Village.

FARM of so to 40 acres wanted in exchange for a
City property, increasing in value and renting for
good amount situated in Philadelphia. composed of
three Brick Houses, with good lots attached To any
desiring 10 exchage, good bargain be had by
applying to the undersigned
JOHN Z. WILSON, Attorney
Sept ~, lS73-lm for A. l.. Bonnafan
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

"a The young folks say, if 1.-Two until
l am gray will never use any but MooRK's
" Wilmington City Soap" 1
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.
FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE
DIEDEICH KNIcKERBoCKER.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
Of dreams that wave before the hafshut eyes;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass
For ever flushing round summer sky.
CASTLE OF INpoLENCE
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

All persons are warned not to trespass on the lands
of the subscribers with Dog Cum the law VIII be
enforced against all persons offending.
c. p HARDING. W. ii. NANZANT
" w HARDING, GEORGE d. SPENCE.
Oct IL, 1S73-3w* THOMAS BROWN
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
ASstcNEE's SALE.
TRUSTEES SALE

By virtue of decree Of the Circuit Court for Cecil
county sitting a of equity. and passed in the
case Of Joseph Pennel John T. Bowdcn and wife, the
undersigned will oer at Public Sale, at the Drug Store
of DIR. Lewis Il. Kirk in the village of Rising Snn,
Cecil county, Md,
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
THREE LOTS OF GROUND,

IN THE HEART OF SAID VILLAGE.
The First Lot containing 3ol5 Square Perches. The
Second Lot containing l22 Square Prrches. The Third
Lot described by and bounds together with like
description of the other lots in the deed from Laiy
X. sayor and wife TO John r. Bowden, by deed dated
September 10th. 1867, and recorded among the Land
Record Books of Cecil county, aforesaid Being the
same property upon which the Foundry formerly stood
THE TERMS prescribed by the decree, Cash
the day of sale. REUBEN HAINES
Sept 81, lS13-ts Trustee
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-29
CIVIL NOTES.

In the United States District Court yester-
day II cases of books imported by Geo. A. Laavitt Co..
and seized the Ctomh0use FOX an alleged nnderFa
udtlOu, condemned by default.
Frauceina Prophet is suing Wm. Prophet OF
East One-lundred twenty -Gftnst between Third
aud FGurthlves in the Supreme Court, for limited
divorce the grounds OF cruel anu nhuldn tiedt'h'
JOna Il. l. WIS has been appointed referee.
la n suit begun in the Marine Court by
Isaac Poty to debt Of $sj Sc RON Charles D
Archer Of No. 10 Warrens. alleged to be fnudulenty
contracted ny hIU Archer arrested yesterday ~
Dpputy sheriff JudsOn Jarvis, and compelled 10 give
bail in 500
In the United States Circuit Court yesterday,
in the ease of Wheeler agt Mccormick, and In the case
OF Autman agt Holly q F.tz, wherein actions were
brouqbt 10 recover damages for selling the Spragne
M1wlng Machine, Jddge Woodruff gave decisions Tor the
plutI with the usual orders OF reference 10 l3ccII1n
damages. the cases were ir@lcu py M haluInS '"'
the plaintiffs, and by Mr.. Baldwin for the defendants.
Yesterday, in the Surrogate's Court the
hearing OF the testimony OF the contested will case OF
Milford Martin deceased, adjourned until to-mor-
row Tuat OF the estate Of Richard r. Butler, de
cen ed was resumed .and william o. Butler, the cor
tsaut was placed upon tie stand and testified to the
urerpcrate habits OF Lis brother the deceased and TO
undue a. nuenre having been exercised upon him in the
making of his Will. Adjourned until next Friday az
lCi a M. b. L. banning for the pIopOnent ana eamuel
G. Courtney Tor the contestant. Fl.e nearing Oh luc
snouy In the rnaterOf the estate OF George Hardin
deceased resumed, and seven witnesses were e&-
ahmed an OF whom testified that the deceased ac-
know lcd2cd his alleged widow as MS VIE, ana ta'
their manner toward each other was very afectlonate
AMI one Of them NIrs Jeanette DIXON, SAID that MI
GRAY lone OF the eOntcstants) called her Mrs. HARDIN
Adjourned until next Thursday at II de H.