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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12
New Leeds Items.

The concert given by the Viva Quartettc
of Oxford, Pa, under the auspices of ]. F..
o. Daniel, agent for the Mason & Hamln
Organ Company, came Off with considera-
able tclat. Miss Charlton, organist and
soprano singer has a peculiarly clear and
sweet voice, and is fine performer. Mr..
Bowden varied the exercises occasionally
by violin solo, and received considerable
applause.
The spelling mania being at its hight in
our midst, 4 few weeks since, the interest
eliminated in "bee," which passed off
pleasantly. The church was we'll filled,
order excellent, and the spelling pronounced
"good." Mr.. James McCauley acted as
pedagogue and orator on the occasion. His
remarks were interesting and to the point.
The Misses Harvey, recently of Baltimore,
favored the audience with some fine music,
Instrumental and vocal, which was duly
appreciated.
Rev. J. Thompson, of the NJ. P. Church,
Superintendent of Cecil Circuit, delivered
his first sermon at this appointment on Sun
day, May 30th, to a large and attentive
congregation from Psalm 81: 6. After
preaching, the first quarterly collection
was taken, and in an astonishingly short
time the sum of $40 was raised, which is
one-half the annual apportionment at this
place.
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In last weeks Wing see &c Letter from
Fox Chase" signed "School Boy" in
which alusion is made to Cowantown, and
certain of its people. | find unanimous
denial of any authorship of, or completely
in, that letter from this place. We believe
the writer of it lives elsewhere, and has a
selfish motive, as there is no sentiment con-
tanned therein with which we have any
sympathy, and some of it we know is ut
terly false.
On Saturday evening last we had re-
freshing rain, but too late, fear, to help
the hay crop. Oats were doing no good,
pasture was nearly gone, and vegetation of
all kinds suffering. About the usual quaint
ity of potatoes were planted here this
Spring, and this far the bugs have not been
as numerous as they were last year. We
pick off and kill the old ones, and will fight
the young with Paris Green.
Jefferson Evans, while trimming brush
in the woods last week, accidentally cut
his arm, severing the artery of the thumb.
DIR. Carter had to be called to sew up the
wound and tie the artery. The patient is
recovering,
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Buy Your Jelley Glasses at the
GLASS FRONT.

"A committee appointed by the Board
of Town Commissioners, waited on the
Schools Commissioners Tuesday last with
proposition to pave Dolly Warden street
from Main to Howard, and Howard street
as far as the new Public School building,
if the School Commissioners would furnish
the curbing. This novel proposition took
the breath from the School Board for {
minute. Commissioner Biddle was the
first to recover and suggested that their
authority was limited to building school
houses and did not embrace paving streets
or road making. Commissioner England
said it was new question and he asked
for ample time to consider it. President
Everist thought they had better postpone
the question. When the deputaton from
the corporation authorities retired the
School Commissioners leaned up against
the wall and laughed till they cried, and
then laughed again. Funny fellows, those
School Commissioners. Sharp fellows,
those Town Commissioners.
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Notice to Paye.-It will he remember,

Notice to Pave.-It will be remembered
by some of the oldest inhabitants" that
the Town Commissioners of Elkton once
upon a time, "when this old hat was new"
for instance, or to which the memory of
tax payers runncth, that an enterprising
Board of Town Commissioners invested
largely in Port Deposit granite for curling
the streets. Every property holder was
supplied with curbing who agreed to pave,
no matter where, SO that it was within the
somewhat ample corporation limits. A
number of the heaviest receivers of curb
stones, failed, after the curbing had been
put down at considerable expense to the
taxables, to comply with their part of the
contract, not being able to see, we suppose,
how brick walks would return to their pock-
cts the direct outlay. The curbng has re-
manned sticking in the mud to this day,
with the side walks unbricked. The pres
ent Board of Town Commissioners has
given notice to all who were supplied with
curbing, during that season of town i'm
provement enterprise, that if their part of
the contract was not complied with in 80
days, that the curbing would be taken up
and used where it is more needed. The
town authorities are likely to have pretty
large lot of excellent curbing on their hands
shortly, which has been utterly useless
these many years, though paid for with
the money of taxpayers lily able to bear
Such useless burdens This shOuld he a
warning to Commissioners in future.
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Stocking the Elk with Shad.-On last
Wednesday, Mr.. Downes, one of the State
Fish Commissioners, arrived at Elkton by
the morning train from Philadelphia, with
three tin cans containing 40, 600 young shad,
which were emptied into the creek below
the fording on Main street. Some of the
young fry had died on account of the water
not having been changed in the cans the
night before, which resulted from a blum
der of the agent or one of the employees
on the Delaware Railroad. The fish were
shipped at Clayton on the express car which
was sent on to Philadelphia where they re-
manned all night. The intention of Mr..
Downes was to have the cans containing
the young fry transferred at Wilmington,
where he left the Delaware train, to the
baggage car of the passenger train which
reaches Ekton at o'clock p. NJ. The
weather being cool the most of the young
fish were in good condition when they
reached Elkton. The spawn was Matched
on Chester river where the State Fish Com
mssioners have Matching apparatus. The
Commissioners have Matched about 2,000,-
600 shad eggs at this establishment this
season and distributed them in the rivers
on the Eastern Shore. The young fish are
so very small that large per cent of them
escape through the wire screen which COW
ers the bottoms of the Matching boxes, af-
ter they have Matched, and perish or paddle
off from the spot where they are Matched.
Mr.. Mitchell got number of the young
fish from one of the cans and has them in
vase in the drug store where they can be
seen. They are about as thick as a large
pin, half an inch in length and almost trans
parent, two diminutive black spots indcat-
ing the eyes. They riggle about lively,
very much like young wag- tails seen in a
barrel of rain water.
When the row is pressed from the shad
the milt is distributed over the eggs, and
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One YARD Wide fine Muslias, 10 cts,
Choice Style yard wide Prints, 125
Choice Styles Prints. 10 "
for sale by MCCRERY s. BoULDEN.
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The Spelling Bee at Principle Furnace.

Summer Underwear selling cheap at the
GLASS FRONT.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12

Store Closes promptly at o'clock; be in
at and avoid the rush.
MCCRRRY & BoULDEN.
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sB- Always keep on hand, as delay in
creases suffering. If you feel sickness
coming upon you, take dose of DR.. Bulls
Vegetable Pills. They can do you no harm
and may save you from the sick room.
Price % cts.
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Fox Chase Items.

Fresh Roasted Rio and Laguayra Coffees
at MCCRERY & BoULDENs.
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To Save 25 Per Cent on Boots and Shoes
go to MCCRERY & BoULDEN'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12

Sweet Potato Pianist will furnish
Sprouts at $500 per thousand, and guaran-
tee them to live if properly planted; fur
nish new plants or refund the money.
RoBT. Ii. BELL,
Sign Of Blue Bell, opposite School House.
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Black Alpacas a speciality by
MCCRKRY & BoULDEN.
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Bny Your Linen Drills and Cottonades
at MCCRERY g. BoULDEN's.

On Sunday, June Goth, services will be
in the Catholic Church in this town at y
o'clock A. NJ. At 10 o'clock the same day
the new church-St. Rosa of Lima-at
Chesapeake City will be dedicated by Rt.
Rev. Bishop Becker, assisted by several of
the reverend clergy. 1t is anticipated that
several hundred persons will be present,
and dinner will be prepared for six hun
dred. An excursion from Havre de Grace
and Port Deposit will bring about five hun
bred persons.
AUGUST FLowER.-The most miserable
beings in the world are those suffering from
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More
than seventy five per cent of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effect; such as sour
stomach, sick headache, habtual costive-
ness, impure blood, heartburn, waterbrash,
gnawing and burning pains at the pit of
the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue
and disagreeable taste in the mouth COM
ing up of the food after eating, low spirits,
&c. Go to the Drug Store of Ii. II. Nit
chel, Elkton, or f. B. Frazer, Port De-
posit, and get IS cent bottle, or sample
bottle for 10 cents. Try it.
First Class Sewing Machines for sos
and $50. New ones, $G5. Terms to suit
everybody. Office days, Tuesday and Sat
urday. Letters for any information attend
ed to at all times. Machines given on trial;
instructions free gratis for nothing.
J. WILKINSON, Agent, Elkton, Nd.
Fans and Parasols-full line at the =
GLASS FRONT.
Phillips Fine Caters and Slippers for
sale by MCCRERY & BoULDEN.
Sweet Potato Pianist will furnish
Sprouts at s.. 90 per thousand, and guaran-
tee them to live if properly planted; fur
niSh new plants or refund the money.
RoBT. Ii. BELL,
Sign Of Blue Bel, opposite School House.
To Save 25 Per Cent on Boots and Shoes
cote MCCRERY & BOULDER
Store Closes promptly at o'clock; be in
at Z and avoid the rush.
McCRRRY & BoULDEN.
tB Always keep on hand, as delay in.
creases suffering. If you feel sickness
coming upon you, take dose of DR.. Bulls
Vegetable Pills. They can do you no harm
and may save you from the sick room.
Price % cts,
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Children's Day: NJ. E. Church.
next Sunday in the Elkton NJ. E. Church
will be in the interest of the children Of
that congregation. The Church will be
handsomely decorated with evergreens and
Summer flowers. Responsive reading
music by the children; sermon in the morn
ing; addresses in the afternoon and even
ing. All invited; seats free.
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The Fountain Pump.-Whitman's cele-
in The Wing this week, and one of the
pumps can be seen at the drug store of
Robt. B. Frazer in this town. AS a pre-
caution against fire every householder
should have one of these pumps The fire
in chimney can be extinguished in a few
moments by throwing a few jets of water
up the fiue; or, if a roof is ignited by fall
ing sparks with one of these pumps at
hand, before the flames have time to spread,
the fire can be extinguished.
The pump has two brass nozzles, one for
throwing an unbroken stream of water,
and the other sprinkler, perforated with
numerous very small holes, through which
fine spray can be thrown 20 or % feet;
the very best arrangement for wetting
shrubbery, fruit trees and plants with soap
suds or other decoctions intended to destroy
insects and worms. For sprinkling potato
tops with Paris Green when the poison is
used in water, the Fountain Pump is su-
perior to any other invention; having great
propelling power the spray can be distrib-
uted in shower which will wet every parti
Gle of the vines within an area of several
yards. With one of these pumps and a
barrel of water in which sufficient quaint
ity of Paris Green has been mixed, potato
field can, in very short time, be gone over
and every leaf thoroughly wet. The pump
is made of brass, aud therefore very dura-
BILE and not liable to get out Of order. The
price of the pump with hose, strainer and
sprinkler, all complete, is $40, The whole
apparatus weighs less than four pounds
and can be carried in the hand any where
Black Alpacas a speciality by
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12

Finest Mackinaw Hats at the
GLASS FRONT.
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town on Sunday last, and an unWarranted
desecration of the day was made. Early
in the morning gang of about twenty-five
railroad hands, employees of the Philadel-
phia & Baltimore Central Railroad Com.
pany, invaded the town on a special train
and proceeded to take up side track in
the vicinity of the engine house for the
purpose of relaying it in front of Woollens
& Alexander's coal yard. The former part
of the work they accomplished. Not SO
the latter. The proprietors of this land
denied the right OF the Company to appro-
pirate it, but the latter claiming the pos
session of release of right of way, pro-
ceeded to the work. Messrs. Woollens &
Alexander demonstrated, showing their title
deeds and forbidding trespassing unless the
Company could show their right of way.
This the railroad men did not do, and after
asking Mr.. Alexander how long he intended
to remain in their way, and receiving an
answer that he "would stay there until
you leave or l am carried away" one of
the men advanced to the work at the COM
mand of the foreman. On putting his
shovel into the ground, Mr.. A. pushed him
aside and then drew revolver, threatening
if any man laid hands upon him he would
blow his brains out. The workmen seeing
that Mr.. Alexander was determined to
resist encroachment upon the property to
the bitter end, withdrew and gave up the
contest.
These proceedings occurring at an early
hour in the morning, but few of our citi-
zens were upon the ground, but the cool
determination of Mr.. Alexander and Of
Mr.. Woollens in resisting an invasion of
their property is generally commended.
Through their attorney, T. X. Stubs,
Esq, an injunction has been obtained from
the Court, restraining the Railroad Com
pany from laying track.-Orford Press.
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Fans and Parasols-full line at the =
GLASS FRONT.
Phillips Fine Caters and Slippers for
sale by McCRERY & BoULDEN.
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Restraint.-We have been requested to
inquire if the Town Bailiff has been placed
on the retired list. The cause of the above
inquiry was riotous tumult which occurred
on Saturday night last at the coffee house
of Mr.. Stoecklin. The originators of the
disturbance were young Lea Carter, John
Briley and another party whose name we
did not hear. 1t appears they were each
furnished with bottle of whisky in his
pocket, which they frequently stepped back
or out and consulted till the noisy point was
reached, and then commenced disturb
ance by abusing the proprietor and his
daughter, ETC., ETC., in the usual style.
Quite racket was kicked up, which was
more noisy than dangerous, but very dis
turbing and disgusting by its drunken pro-
family to decent people, and great scan
dial to the town. The party were finally
elected into the street where they contin-
ued their noise and profanity till the wee
small hours of Sunday morning. No Off
Ger was present (or none interfered), al
though we have been told that one was
! looking on. Warrants were issued for the
disturbers on Monday, but that was after
the mischief and scandal had been perpe-
trated. No arrests had been made up to
Thursday. Now the town authorities owe
it to themselves and the people of the town
to check such outrageous proceedings, by
making it sine qua non in their appoint,
ment of bailiff,, to arrest all such disturb.
ers, and lock them up till morning.
! Mr.. Stoecklin, we are assured, has estab
lished a respectable coffee house where nc
disorder is tolerated, unless his premises
are invaded by rowdies when no officer is
| present to make arrests and keep the peace
He is making laudable effort to establish
public place Of entertainment, from which
whisky has been holy abolished and drunk
en- folks are sought to be excluded; and he
derives the support of peaceable citizens
and the protection of the officers of the law
against the rowdy element which seeks tc
convert his place into the same den of riot
and uproar common to the grogshop Of the
period. Peaceable and quiet people have
got to be little more warlike for theil
own protection and for the sake of peace
seize this rowdy element by the throat anG
force it down with a strong hand. Mora
suasion has no influence with it, because
the moral part of the creature has gone
out of it, and nothing but the brute par
remains.
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WOODEN HORSES.

Our tournament horses have left for
Oxford. The children feel lost since they
left, and now the five cents are spent for
sweetmeats. There was not very much
that was wonderful about these wooden
horses, but the wonder that strikes us lies
just here-that (a) Citizen" should be
afraid to mount one. They were as docile
as a little child, and there was not tho least
danger, but some folks are naturally so
timid.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-03
A PrOdigi0us Coal Mine.

An immense mine of coal has been
discovered in Uintah County, Wyo-
ming, near Carter Station, on the
Union Pacific. 1t was discovered by
Mr.. Crocker, Of Logan, from infor-
nation he received from an old In
dian, who showed him piece of fine
looking coal which he found while
hunting. He Offered to show Mr.
Crocker tac place if he would give
him $40, which off r WIS readily ac-
cepted. The Indian then took him
about fifty miles to i spot about five
miles from the mine, which Mr.
Crocker found by tracing the vein the
Indian pointed out to him. The
mine is in u sandstone III Jult in,
about four and il half mics long,
rulning north and sDuth, ficil ( eiSt,
and about three. mi cs and 4 qu lrter
across, the mountain dippiag sui'ian-
ly at each end. There are sixteen
veins Of coal ia siyat. Tle bottom
one is the smallest, being i've ieot :;
the next is the largest md most Z s.
of access, ald is upward u seyeIt
feet thick; the next above Is sixty
feet; another OF about thirty feet !;
five of about twenty feet each, and
five of sixteen feet each. The last
one is about twelve altogether
about four hundred feet of coal four
and half miles long; in fact it may
be correctly termed moultain of
coal. The veins lie ut an angle of
twenty-five degrees, with ledges Of
white sandstone Intervening. The
coal is very bright, is perfectly free
from slate or dirt, and is said to be
cannal coal. A small quantity of
the groupings from the 70-foot vein
has been tested for coke by the as
sayer, who states that it yields coke
52.e per cent.
When it is considered that very
large quantities of coke are shipped
from Pennsylvania to Utah and
Nevada, a distance of 1000 miles, at
a cost of $35 to $40 per ton, for the
purpose of smelling silver ores, it
will at once be seen of what i'm
mense value this mine is likely to
prove to owners of low grade silver
mines. But whether the coal will
coke or not, it is an excellent steam
coal. One engineer who mas used 1t
says that one bushel of il Will make
rs much steam as three bushels Of
ordinary coal, leaving less ashes
than any coal he ever burned. Pro
fessor Pontez, geoiOgist to the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad. has made an
investigation of the mine. and re-
ports is AS the finest deposit of coal
in Western America.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-03

nopoly which no one can crush un-
til its face in the moral world be.
comes SO offensive, an actual revo-
luton is necessary to end It.
At the present time this hydro
headed monster of ours, has not
reached its full proportions. 1t will,
however, some time, we hope, and
then, hallelujah."
Runaway horses are one of our
sensations at present. 1t is as much
as ones life is worth to cross Market
street at any time. In any other city
we should have the protection of the
police to aid us, but our city police
are not 50 "gallant F." as they should
be, and, consequently, ladies are in
imminent danger of losing their
lives, and, worst of all, bursting
their pin-back loose" in crossing
this over-crowded thoroughfare.
Pedestrians, they think, are not fit to
live and ought to die; and this is
one of the modes of getting rid of
them--but Mrs. Bacon was not cross
ing Market street. In this instance
the horse took the sidewalk, dashed
against her and knocked her brains
ont. 1t is the fault of our municipal
regulations that it never feels itself
called upon to enforce any law for
the protection of its citizens; and as
the confidence men have in the
steadiness of the nerves of their
horses is somewhat remarkable, they
are left united till somebody's life has
been forfeited, when little talk is
make about it and that ends it. Thus
a trap is laid for further victims.
Query-Shall We ever get enough of
it. CYNTHIA ANN.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-03
THE BIBLE SusPENDED.-The ca

THE BIBLE SusPENDED.-The Chi
cago Board of Education, one men,
ber only dissenting, has suspended
the Bible in the public schools of the
city. There are great many people
who will heartily approve, a great
many who will heartily disapprove
this action of the Board; and yet,
these different classes will agree that
the best use to which the Bible can
be put is to read it carefully at home
or at church, and that the worst use
to be made Of it, is to make it RAM
part to divide contending hosts. No
book is so COED, none 50 poor that i
may safely be handled as bone Of
strife and contention, and emphati-
cally is this the case when such con-
tention is working injury to the
cause of general education.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-03

NoTlcE = hereby given shat ~ ny
~ ON THE PROCEEDS OF MiNrs 3s
Sns Sus ~ Quarter ending June soth. lefs. q -
House. In the County of Lyon. snd 49, ~
ta Eaws iof ~ eoueotaon win b. aKfas1ly a.
0. = VASE, Asysssse
SagtAs, August %. lsss.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-08
Recent Holy Land Discoveries.

Lieut.. COnder Of the English Pale5-
tine party is confident that he has iden-
titled the site OF the city Of Adullam,
with David's famous cave, some four
miles from Bethlehem. At this rate
OF discovery-six or seven Biblical pla-
ces have already been definitely loca,'
ted-our maps OF sacred Palestine will
have to be entirely remodeled. These
announcements appear TO be made on
ly after careful comparison between
the localities and historical data, and
may be accepted as correct. In the
case of Adullum, for example, the
topography answers to the recorded
iacls, and the name, moreover, sur
wives, the modern place being called
Avd ell Mien, which preserves all the
essential letters Of Adullan. Prof.
Paine's claim, in the latest statement
of the American society for the sxplo-
ration OF Palestine, to have discovered
in Jebel Siagbah, a lower peak Of Ne
DO, the ancient Pisgah, is quoted by the
'Athen8um' and other English jour
nails with tho remarks that as yet the
proposed Identification rests solely on
the grounds that this summit is the on
Iy spot whence Moses could have seen
the whole OF the Promised Land, and
that the name OF Pisgah fingers in the
word Siaghah; and that so far Mr..
Paine is responsible for both assertions.
He certainly claims to be responsible.