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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-24

ST. NICHOLAS FOR NOVEMBER offers greater variety
than usual There stories by c. A. Stephens Miss
Elizabeth S. Phelps, 5. W. G. Benjamin New York
Thanksgiving Story Coon Story, and d interesting
Ghost Story. Then there practical articles such
" The Transit of Venus How the Cars Stopped"
" Venus Of Milo Legends and Supersttions.' 10y N
5. Dodge; The AardV ark. with illustrations of this
curious ANIMAL and article the construction of
East India Toys Poems 10y DR. J. G. Holland, Anna c.
Bracket, Mary +. Bradley, and Mary Mapes Dodge.
The illustrations this month deserve special commend
ton. W. Il. Sheppard has spirited frontispiece and
several smaller pictures Sol Eytinge Jr. contributes
capital pictures, and Granville Perkins a beau
ful view Of Florida Bayou. Then there comic
pictures by Frank Beard and Master Frederick Chap
pictures of animals by James c. Beard Concklin
and lochstein: ftncifu drawings 10y Mary A. Lthbury
Jessie Curtis and f. NJ :. Scanned; pictures of Japa-
subjects 10y A c. Warren and excellent picture
of the Venus Of Milo There three full pages for
the Very Little Ones. Every family ought to have
ST. Nicholas. Published by Scribner & Co, New York.
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NOTICE TO GUNNERS

All persons are hereby forbidden trespassng upon
the premises Of the subscribers, with dog or gun with
out permission. Al offending will be dealt with
according To law
r. b. GILLESPIE, GEORGE GILLESPIE
W. l.. GILLESPIE, b. WILSON
). X. THOMAS, J. T. CLENDENEN
d. 7. BOWMAN. loot 10 IS7I-2w
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tB- Go into store in Cecil county on
a wash day and sit one hour, and You will
hear enough calls for more of MOORE s
" Wilmington City Soap" to make you
dream at night, you are making soap in Il
tin pan with tea spoon for a ladle. Try
it. 2
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-24

Ey- The Burdick National Hay, Straw
and Fodder Cutter has proven to be the
best in use and MICHENER & Co., have
them. [16
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Speculate in Wall Street

Without much risk, with Puts, Calls and Double Prvi
leges which answer instead of large cash capital and
gives equal chance to make money. Negotiated by
at lowest rates on responsible parties On 100 shares
stock for 80 days 500: for Is days. $50 from 5000
shares at proportionate rates.
Pamphlet entitled " Road to Fortune" sent free on
application. Address
DARRAGH, BRIDGEMAN 4 CO.
BROKERS'
Box 5026. 50 IS Broadway, New York
Sci,
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G0DEr's LADrs BOOK for November is filled with its
wOntcd wealth of Illustrations coored fashion plates
designs for the work table. knitting netting model
cottages oriSina! music. &c. Cooley is generally
known and universal favorte, that it is only
stry call attention the fact that the number for
coming month has been issued place its thousands
of lady friends the qti For year IL cents
must be sent along with the subscription price the
publisher, who is Obliged to prepay postage the
magazine and chrome at the post office in Philadelphia
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gB-If you are in want of Nails by the
single pound or by the keg or Carriage
Bolts, Hardware, Tin Ware, &C.. call at
MIcHENER & Co.'s, Colora, Md. They
are selling very low. [76
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NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

All persons hereby forbidden trespassing upon
the premises of the subscribers with dog gun. All
offending will be dealt with according to the law
TOWNSEND POOLE, JAMES f. BARROLL,
r. +. RIDDLE. II. II. MITCHELL,
Mrs. A. f. MITCHELL, DAVID VI. TAYLOR
GEO. W. DENNY, WIN. DICKINSON,
GEO W. B0ULDEN, CHARLES DAVIS
CHARLES McNITT, JOHN BOOTH,
THOMAS BIDDLE. n. DEVALESGER,
MRs. WM. TAYLOR, DAVID HUTTON
GEO. DEKINE, TOBIAS RUDOLPH.
PETER X. WRIGHT. TOct TO- lS74-2m
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DEMoREsTs MoSTHLY.-On our first page publish
number of choice selections from this popular fashion
a4lzne that will be found to contain the cream of
the fashions for November, and will not fail to interest
lady readers No lady who desires to be posted up
the chit chat of the fashions and 'a home in society,"
but may have her desire gratel for whole year by
forwarding 81 for the monthly, W. j. Demurest New
York, and 10 cents prepay postage.
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Grand Opening.-Mrs. Ganss' annual

5000 Yards of Calico and Muslins from
6 to 10 cents a yard, at T. DRENNEN's.
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~ Cecil county families know what
good Soap is; they use the Wilmington
City" 4
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In accordance with the requirements of the Code of
Public General Laws hereby give notice the Judges
of Election and to the Voters of Cecil county, that
Election will be held on
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Il "
national election. Here in Maryland, as |
understand it, there is no difference of
opinion between the two parties on the
currency question. Republicans as well as
Democrats say they are in favor of the
contraction of the currency and speedy
return to specie. Now as the Ohio and
Indiana Democratic victories have been
fought and won on principles which we
both declare to be erroneous, it is a reason
why we should both be professedly sorry
that result has been obtained which we
both believe would be a national misfor-
tune if carried out.
l would also point out to you that the
modern Democratic party is not the one of
ten years ago. 1t has adopted, one by one,
Republican principles, and by their help
has gone to battle. In its conventions it
has solemnly affirmed the sacredness of the
18th, 18th aud 18th amendments to the
national constitution. 1t does not propose
to restore slavery. or to divest the colored
man of citizenship. AT least its leaders
say so, and the time has now come in the
history of that party in the north when the
mass of it's adherents would never consent
that these amendments should be abolished.
SO far have they adopted Republican prin-
ciples, how sincerely on the part of it's
Democratic party adopts the principles of
its antagonists is no reason why the people
of this State or country should entrust it
with power. Its past history is bad. Its
history for the past IA years is one of rebel
lion, reputation, fraud, and midnight muir
der. 1t offers no inducements to be trusted.
During these years while the Republican
party has been in power, you all know how
glorious the history of the country has be-
came, how it's national prosperity has adj
vanced. The exports of the country have
been doubled, its miles of railroad and tee-
graph quadrupled; its wealth, its prosper
iiy, its population vastly increased. What
was the share of the Democratic party in
this? Its share was it's browning shame,
the manufacture of great rebellion for
the perpetuation of human slavery, and
the entailment of mammoth debt upon
us and our posterity, which debt the Re
publican administrations have been since
slowly paying of. [Applause.l The
Southern Democrats are rife for a new
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
WOMEN IN ENGLAND.

Kate Field, in her " Republican
Notes on England" in the ST. Louis
Republican, burts out with Though
the highest Office in the land may be
held by woman, every other is closed
to her, saving that occasionally women
are governors of prisons for women,
overseers of the poor. and parish clerks.
A woman may be ranger of a park, and
it has been held that women are eligible
to the Offices of High Chamberlain,
High Constable, Common Constable,
Sexton and Returning Officer at an cleo
ton to Parliament, but the eligibility
is more honored in the breach than in
the observance. A woman duly. quail
fed can vote upon parish questions and
for officers, oyerseers, surveyors, Vestry
clerks, etc. Does Queen Victoria give
aid and comfort to reform ? No. She
has been known to make a Gift of e20
to the writer of pamphlet deneuncing
any change in the legal and political
condition of her sex
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
THE SUNS CRUST.

Prof. Young has put forth very
novel theory as regards the construc-
ton of the sun. He says there can be
but little doubt that Faye, Secchi, and
others, who hold that the sun is mainly
gaseous, are correct while, at the
same time, the phenomena of eruption
which are always occurring on the sur
face, as seen with a telescope, estab
hsh the idea that there is a crust of
some kind which restrains the impris-
oned gases. Prof. Young states that
this crust may consist of more or less
continuous sheet of descending rain
not water, of course, but of the mate
rials whose vapors are known to exist
in the solar atmosphere. AS this tre-
mendous rain descends, the velocity
of all the falling drops would be re-
tarded by the resistance of the denser
gases underneath, and the drops would
eventually coalesce until a continuous
sheet would result, and several of these
sheets uniting, would form a sort of
bottomless ocean, resting upon the
compressed vapors below, and pierced
by innumerable jets and bubbles.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
GRAssHOPPER RAVAGEs.

The st. Paul Press draws the follow
ing conclusions with respect to the
grasshopper invasion of Minnesota: 1t
is safe to estimate the titled area in the
ravaged district at 275, 900 acres, and of
the area of wheat in that district at
200, 900 acres. Of this area, probably
not less than 10000 acres have been
destroyed. This represents not less
than $500, 600 bushels of wheat de-
voured in the germ by the grasshop-
pers, or about one-twelfth of the wheat
crop of the State. Add to this area
10000 acres of oats, at 33 bushels per
acre, or 100000 bushels in all, or
one-twelfth of the oat crop of the State );
10000 ceres of corn, at 80 bushels per
acre, or $40, 900 bushels, or one twelfth
of the corn crop of the State, and per-
haps 10000 acres more in rye, buck
wheat, barley, potatoes and other crops
and the full extent of the grasshopper
havoc can be easily estimated.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
OLD TIME BoNNETs AGAIN.

A correspondent of the Chicago Jour
nal says q A startling. announcement
from Paris will interest your lady read
ers. The new style of head gear is to
be the old fashioned bonnet, with brims,
crowns, strings, and perhaps, curtains.
1t appears that the conclusion has been
reached that the prevalence of neuralgia
and kindred diseases, unknown COM
paratively few years ago, has been due
to the fashion of leaving the head, neck,
ears, and throat without any protection.
The large number of weak eyes is also
attributed to the want of shade afforded
by the fall or curtain. I am afraid,
however, that the argument will not
hold good, for neuralgia is almost as
common a complaint with men as with
women, and we certainly have made no
change in the chimney-p pot construc
tions we call hats"
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river would furnish a not improbable
solution of the mysterious fux and re-
hux of the lakes.
PLANTS.

It is well known that plants sleep at
night but their hours of sleeping are
a matter of habit, and may be disturbed
artifcially, just as cock may be woke
up and crow at untimely hours by the
light of lantern. De Candolle sub
jected a sensitive plant to an exceeding
ly trying course of discipline, by COM
pletely changing its hours exposing it
to a bright light all night, SO as to pre-
vent sleep, and putting it in dark
room during the day. The plant ap-
peared to be much puzzled and dis
turbed at first; it opened and closed its
leaves irregularly, sometimes nedding
in spite of the artificial sun that shed
its beams at midnight, and sometimes
waking up from the force of habit, to
find the chamber dark in spite of the
time of day. Such are the tranamels of
use and won't But after an obvi-
GUS struggle the plant submitted to the
change, and turned day into night with
out any apparent i'll effects
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
FoR TIE PUBLIC 4ooDt I

1t is rather unfortunate for the public
generally that many newspapers retail
gossip rather than news, and thus throw
to the greedy seeker for information
crumbs which cannot well be spared
from "the masters table" llustra-
tive of this reprehensible practice an
incident comes under notice. Recently
a French newspaper published that a
bankers country house had been rob-
bed in the night; but unfortunately
the thieves, in their hurry. had failed
to open the second drawer on the right
hand side of the escretoire, in which
was large sum of money in bank
notes. Two or three days latter the
editor received the following note:
Mr.. EDITOR cannot sufficiently thank
you for the information given in your excel
lent paper. It was in every respect exact, as
found on going last night, for the second
time, to the house of Mr.. L
''[No signature. You will understand my
scruples.'1
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
SOME FACTS ABOUT TIE EAr.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE EAR.
Never pick or scratch the canals of
the ear with pins, pencils or scoops. It
will eventually cause troublesome
Inflammation and subsequent deafness.
Do not try to wash the canals of the
ears with so-called aurilaves or end of
the towel, or even with the fingers.
Such treatment produces impaction of
the wax and is not necessary to cleanli-
ness.
Do not try to remove the wax with
the ear-scoop. There is danger of in
luring the drumheads or of causing in
tamation. Have some competent per-
son inspect the parts with the ear mir
ror and remove the wax with the syr-
inge charged with warm water. This is
the best way to remove any foreign
body from the external auditory canal.
Only occasionally other means are re-
quired. The parts are always under
inspection.
A discharge from the ear is always
fraught with danger. It should never
be neglected. Occasionally it stops
itself, but frequently leads to danger
GUS complications, such as Inflammation
of the brain, disease of the surround
ing bone, and may set up Inflammation
in other parts of the body, as the lungs,
bowels, etc.
The middle ear, from which the dis
charge generally comes, is small, but
exceedingly vulnerable. It is surround
ed on all sides by vital organs, the
partition walls being very thin. Syr-
inging with warm water in such cases is
absolutely essential and unaccompa-
MED by any danger whatever.
Under proper treatment there is no
danger of ssdriving in " the discharge,
which is neither healthy sign" nor
SO safety-valve.
Never keep the canal blocked up with
cotton or anything else while discharge
is present.
The ear requires fresh air, and is not
likely to become more infaIned by its
admittance, unless exposed to direct
draugut, which should be avoided.
Black sleeps wool has no healing
virtue.
Wetting the hair, especially when it
is long, and allowing it to dry slowly
often produces deafness and aggravates
it when already present. Medical In
,,ecfjo0fo5.
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I y. PECKS RULES AND REG ULA-
TIONS
For THE CONVENIENCE OF MERCHANTS,
BANKERS AND OTHERS.

For THE CONVENIENCE OF MERCHANTS,
BANKERS AND OTHERS.
/. Upon entering this Office you are
particularly requested not to use the
door-mat, as we wish to accumulate soil
inside for potato crop.
III. Please leave the door wide open,
or, should you forget yourself and close
it, slam it Like thunder. Winter ar
rangement.
III. If the proprietor is engaged in
conversation and it is your turn next,
please lean your chair against the wall
and whistle '' MulIigan Guards ;" if
you can't whistle, sing.
". Never neglect an opportunity to
improve your mind ; if we are tempo
rarily absent, sit on the desk, pick your
teeth with the gold pen and read the
letters. More may be found in the
right hand drawer.
V. Smoking is particularly agree
able; if you are out of poor cigars we
will lend you a pipe.
VI If you see any spittoons please
expectorate on the floor, as the former
are only for ornament.
VII. Our Office hours for listening to
solicitors of church subscriptions are
from IL to l for book agents | to 3 !;
advertising men all day. We attend TO
our own business at night.
VIII. We need about one million
dollars more of life insurance. If you
are acquainted with any agent, please
send him in he hasn't been here since
yesterday.
TX. DON'T hesitate to ask for loan,
the larger the better; but talk about
something else half an hour before
hand-time isn't worth a cent year
to us.
K Persons having no especial bust
ness with us viii please call as often as
their health will permit, or send doc
tors certificate in case of absence.
XII Parties leaving date calendars
VIII oblige us by placing them for the
present IN basket under the desk. or
until we can get room with more COM
modious walls.
XII Bill collectors viii hano stata-
ments on the file and call on Saturday
at 4 p. m.
XIII. This store closes at 8 p. m, on
Saturday. Louis Republican.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
TIE SKOOL BOY

The skool boy il the within of cirkum-
stansiss.
If he lives in the country he haz got
to git up early enuff to puntch the
chickens off from the roost, then start
the ire in the kitchen stove, then put
on the -kittle, and then go for the
COWS.
After the COWS hav been milkt, he
hurrys down hiz hash and buckwheat
kakes, and thrashes beans two hours
with the old man out in the korn krib.
Now he walks three miles in sno
path to the distrikt skool-hous and gifts
thare just in time to help split up sum
wood for the days fire.
Skool opens and he takes hiz seat on
the fiat side ov slab bench, and bends
double over Webster's spelling book,
without emmy cover.
For variety he stands up in ro, and
spells and skratches greasy slate, with
the Figures in long sum ov addishun.
Noon Gums at last, and he eats up in
one corner hiz two slices ov rhi bread
and hiz piece ov pi krust, and browns
the dri dinner with pint oE lukewarm
water out ov the pine pail behind the
stove.
The only fun he haz IL to slide down
hill on a board, back ov the skool- -hous,
and git kicked when he goes home if he
happens to wear the sole ov hiz boots
emmy, or tare the base ov hiz britches.
Night Gums, and he haz had day
skooling, and plods back home to saw
wood enuff to last next day before he
eats hiz puddin-and-milk supper and
sinks off up into the wood-hous cham
Der, to bed, without even the ray ov a
tallo kandle.
This, waz skool-boy life in the coun-
try 40 years ago.
If the boys now daze had to skool it
in this way, they would sue the old man
for damages, and emmy kind ov jury
would bring in verdik, too, in their
favour.
But Daniel Webster dun it in this
way, and bekum the most learned states
man we ever raized, and SO did Josh
Billings, but he didn't never amount to
mutch. Josh Billings never could git
the rite hang ov a country skool-hous );
hiz spelling alIwuss had, and a1wuss
will hav, an impediment in it.-,JoSh
Billings.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
CREMATION VERSES BURIAL.

We do not hear so much about crema-
ton as we did. The old Anglo-Saxon
feeling in favor of cofins seems to be
too strong for the Urn party, if there
ever was one and the fixed habit of a
race is not SO lightly surrendered. In
England the proposed change is unpop-
ular, as proposed changes usually are.
In the town of West Hartlepool there is
Board of Improvement Commission
ers. The chairman, Mr.. Edward Turn
bull, had given notice that he would
take the sense of the board upon the
question of cremation, it having been
proposed to purchase land for the en-
largement of the present cemetery.
Upon this mob of 200 women, mostly
belonging to the working classes, forced
their way into the room, and when poor
MIR. Turnbull made his appearance they
began to shout g Burn him % '' Stick
him in tar barrel !" s'Give us Chris
tian burial 70 Then the leader of the
Amazons handed in petition against
cremation, as being "revolting to the
ideas of modern civilization" The
chairman appeased the crowd by the
assurance that the Commissioners
'' had no power to cremate,' and SO the
intruders withdrew with further cries of
g Burn Turnbull Put him in furnacer'
This didn't prevent him, when order
was restored, from advocating his plan
"on sanitary, economical, and senti-
mental grounds" He mentioned,
among other things, that &c cremation
was being rapidly adopted in the United
States which will be news to most of
us. On going out Mr.. Turnbull was
received with a tremendous uproar by
the crowd, which had increased to about
8, 900 persons.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A FUNERAL EXTRAORDINARILY.

The Pal Mall Gazette says: "A
most successful funeral in which
woman played an important part took
place at Padua in 1913, and, indeed, in
some respects, the arrangements of the
funeral were in all ways less depressing
than the run of ordinary burials. An
eminent lawyer, by name Lodovich
Cartusius, who died in July of that
year, before his death strictly forbade
his relations to shed any tears at his
funeral, and enforced this order on his
heir by heavy penalty in case of DISC
bedience. He further directed that
fddlers should take the place of mourn,
ers on the sad occasion, and that twelve
maids in green habits should carry his
remains to the Church of st. Sophia,
where he was buried, the ceremony to
be enlivened by songs from these ladies,
who were to be recompensed for the
allotted for their marriage portions.
The monks of the convent at Padua,
who were invited to the funeral, were
on no account to wear black habits, lest
cheerfulness of the procession. If
funerals were conducted in this fashion,
there would perhaps be a fainter call
for cremation, and woman would have
no necessity for repressing her natural
delight at the obsequies of man.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
SPECIE RESUMPTION.

Mr.. Charles Nordhoff, in the New
York Tribune, suggests plan of re-
sumption which is new in several of its
features, and is at the same time in
harmony with the soundest views ex-
pressed during the currency debate of
last winter. Mr.. Nordhof' proposition
is that Congress shall order the cancel
lation of one-quarter of the greenback
circulation every year, substituting ma
tional bank bills, secured as now by
pledge of bonds. These bills should
all bear promise to pay specie at some
reasonably remote date-say ten years
hence. In this way we should easily
be rid within four years of the ire
deemable part of our currency.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
rBoyNETs TO BE REVIVED.

A Paris correspondent writes The
idea is to have real Donnets once more
-bonnets with brims, crowns, strings,
and perhaps curtains. 1t sounds strange
enough. No woman who had any pre-
tensions to youth has worn strings for
three seasons past, and curtains have
been for long consigned to oblivion.
Yet we are promised both for next
winter. This bonnet, which will be de-
cidedly large, will, however, not shade
the face at al1-fashion nowadays only
goes gradually from one extreme to an
other-but will be perched up on the
back of the head somewhat
as the first bonnets were un-
der the Directoire, before they be-
came the beauty -concealing cottage
bonnets of our grandmothers this ex-
tensive headgear to be attached under
the chin by short strings that form bows
with cravat-ike ends.