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THE TWO MYSTERIES.

In the middle of the room, in its white
coffin, lay the dead child, nephew of the
poet. Near it, in a great chair, sat Walt
Whitman, surrounded by little ones, and
holding beautiful little girl on his lap
The child looked curously at the spectacle
of death and then inquiringly into the old
mans face. You don't know what it is,
do you, my dear 90 said he, adding, "We
don't either
We know not what it is, dear, this sleep SO
deep and still;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the
cheek so pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again, though we
may call and CALL
The strange, white solitude of peace that
settles over all.
We know not what it means, dear, this
desolate heart pain:
This dread to take our daily way, and
walk in it again
We know not to what other sphere the
loved who leave us 90,
Nor why we're left to wonder still: nor
why we do not know.
But this we know: Our loved and dead
if they should come this day
Should come and ask us, " What is life ."
not one of us could say.
Life is mystery as deep as ever death can
be,
Yet oh, how sweet it is to us, this life we
live and see,
Then might they say-these vanished ones
and blessed is the thought,
$50 death is sweet to us, beloved. though
We may tell We naught;
We may not tell it to the quick-this
mystery of death
le may not tell u.s. if ye would, the mys-
terry of breath;
The child who enters life comes not with
knowledge or intent,
SO those who enter death must go as little
children sent.
Nothing is known. But believe that God
is overhead:
And as life is to the living so death is to
the dead.
.Scri6ner.
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Notable Events in the History of the
Delaware River.

Recently the New York NaH published
an article containing recollections of the
olden times by Admiral Charles Stewart,
which were noted down by gentleman
visiting the old hero, a short time previous
to his death, at his residence at Burlington,
\. J. We select the following items which
will be of interest to our readers:
sin 1882 two hundred and fifty head of
cattle were washed off Smiths Island into
the Delaware. In 1890, he said, | have
seen, just below Trenton, ships loaded with
flour and lumber for the West Indies, now
a shallop cannot get there only on high
water. In the year '9G | was loading a
vessel in the West India trade at the
wharf in Philadelphia, in the month of
March early, and while Northwestern set
in, which blew for fifteen days, with so
much force that it forced the coast water
off the Gulf Stream, and drained almost
all the water out of the Delaware, so that
men, women and children, with sacks and
shawls, baskets and bags, walked about
the bottom of the river at Philadelphia,
raking ont old ropes, small anchors purses
of money, watches, and various other
articles which had been lost from vessels
and ends of wharves. That DECENTRALIZATION
continued about a week, and there were
very few wharves at Philadelphia where
any vessel would float; my own vessel was
high and dry in the mud, and we stopped
loading for week. The same thing oc-
/ CURED in the year 1880, when Benjamin
/ Cooper, who kept the ferry at that time at
Camden, walked over from Camden to
| Smiths Island, on the muddy bottom, and
marked on one of the rocks the precise
| point of the lowest water, putting on the
date of the year; ana he again went over
| in 9G before named, and found the same
rock and the same mark. There was then
| four inches lower water than it had been
! in 1850. which rock he marked again that
/ year, March, 1876. This whole statement
may be found in the records OF the Franklin
| Institute, aud in the Philadelphia papers
/ of March, 1896. In the Winter of 81,
! there was a brig, | think, from Maine to
Philadelphia loaded with peas and beans.
She was cut through with ice, the water
got in and swelled the peas and beans in
her and burst her, and that was the founda.
ton of the Pea patch. 1t was caused by
the loss of that vessel in March, hence the
name Pea patch. The John, in the Winter
of '9S, was cut through within and sunk,
and that gaze the name to the john
Sh0al y
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NOTICE.

JOHN BERRY, Executor of Christopher Jonas.
WILLIAM T. GARNETT and CAROLINE GARRETT
his vile
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Chanc.ry.
No. i23, D. >.
ORDERED, This 10Th day of Novem-
" Der. 1876 that the sale made and reported by Vim
j. Jones and l. Marshall Hanes. Trustees for the sao
of the real estate of William T. Garnet and wife lie
ratified and confirmed. unless tie CONTRA
thereof be shown or before the 20 day a IannHty
next: provided copy Of fiis 0eg be inserted some
newspape; inEGd il, Cecil soanty week FOR one
month before the 4"th day Of December next.
The Report states tho amount of sales be SG00uO
A. ". MITCHELL. Clerk
True copy: test, A. ". MITCHELL
Nou lS 1S76-1m Clerk
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softly under the white flowers upon the
bosom, and STOPPING, kissed the waxen
hands and brow. "Oh, Jim, JIM she
said again, and let her black veil down
over her face, and went her way.
And the gossips who stared after her, as
dered again if she had ever been engaged
to jim Wadsworth
But none of them ever knew.
The grave keeps its secret.
So also does n woman's heart
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/ REMARKABLE CURE

Was that of Edward H. Hanson, Engineer at George
He had violent cough night swrS. thr2a. srcat
up all hope recovery Thro.- Of DR.. Swaynes
Wild Cherr" Sy,rp became a sound and hearty man,
aud repan- this day, although twenty years
have elapsed since he cured
ss-We permitted 10 refer To the following zen
+" pr. Swaynes Compound Sc-ar "a Wild Cherry i'll
ti'ir family for may ,e,r-.
SAMUEL &. .4".T arm of Jacob Reise & Co., Dry
'.ouls. 40. 233 Market street. Philadelphia:
EIwooD I. Pussy formerly firm OF Wife. Pussy &
Wis., n. +. corner Fifth and Market streets philal:
ROBERT HuTcHIsoN, No 20Ol Spring Garden street
Philadelphia.
JONI $. LYTHE, Dry Goods Merchant. corner Seventh
and Spring Garden streets Philadelphia.
JOHN b. MYERS Founder, Coates street above Twenty
second. Phila.
And thousands of others from sert,c.. OF the
hRhitahe globe
CACTION-ln y ire .,", ,'"uarly for ''nR SWAYNE's
COM"C,.ID irrP OF WILD CHERRY the frs
and only Wild Cherry preparation prepared 10y regular
physician
PRICE $lO0, 6 BOTTLES FOR S.
II not sold by your druggist ,t1,eh"erer, viii
forward half dozen tc as aniress, freight paid, OF
receipt of the i.."~. prepared only 10y
DR.. SWAYNE 4 son.
$50 NORTH SIXTH STREET, pHILA. PA.
Sold by all prominent druggist.
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NOTICE

rs hereby given, that meeting of the
l. Stockholders of THE GREEN HILL FIRE BRICK
COMPANY OF CECIL COUNTY will be held 1T the
Office Of said Corporation in the town of North East
c. Gil county, Md, SATURDAY, the 23rd of b, cember
1876 at o'clock NJ, to take into consideration the
proprety of increasing the Capital Stock of said co..
porition The amount to which it is propc=u,; 20 an
crease the said Capital Stock Is Five TLosana Dollars.
i. z. Low,
JAMES n. CAMERON.
JOHN X. BOYER.
THOMAS W. ROWLAND
Nov IS, 1Sf6-Im JOHN R. HALEl.
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NOTICE.
WILLIAM W AID
WIFI I VI W 4 TTs
InIIN a SIInlr II I,fJlLrnS

JNHN 2. s4CDE AsD usnEKs.
IL ,ht Circuit Court fog Cecil county. In Chamcrry.
No. G9i, d ..
ORDERED, This 10th day of Novem-
~ Der, 1876. that the sale maize and reported 10y l..
Marshall Hanes Trustee for the sale of the
real estate OF Elizabeth Snod-. he ratified and confirm
ed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown
before the 10th day of January next provided copy
Of this Order be inserted in newspaper printed in
Cecil county week for month before the
day Of December next.
The Report rs the amount of sales to he Si7L,0
A. W. mitchell l., Clerk.
True copy ties, a. Il: hlTtHELL.
Nov Is lsTg-1,t Clerk.
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ORPHANS, COURT.

The STATED MEETINGS of the Orphans Court Of
Cecil county will he held the SECOND TUESDAY
in every month. Executors, Administrators AND Guar:
dams ~ant,u@ teIr accounts stated. VIII please bring
in the vouchers a few days before Court.
REUBEN D. LAMAR,
Nov 40 la6!-y Ragistar
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sFs You can buy from Messrs. VIM. Read
X SON. l3 Faneuil Hall Square. Boston, IA
good English Breech- loading Gun, for the
small sum of $500; they keep also the
finest guns and there is nothing in the
sporting line that they cannot furnish you
AT less price than any sther house. Write
them for 4 catalogue.
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MERCERSRURG COLLEGE,

N its Course of Instruction, from the
Il beginning to its close its students Taught in the
Christian religion. Starting with Lessons the Life
of Christ, the Course soe completion in Christian
Culture. Church Confessions and Christian Ethics.
MER 'ERsBURG COLLEGE cOmmends itself to public
favor also by the advantages of its location easy
of being in direct railroad communication it'll
the great thoroughres of travel every side and vet
at the same time sufficiently retired form a secure
retreat from the and noise public life. In this
respect its students removed from the excitement
and distraction of large city and brought under
eevatng and educational power of undisturhed col
lee life in the midst of scenery almost unrived in its
beauty and grandeur. In point of air water AMI gen
era Innate, 1t is all that the most anxious parents
desire.
For boarding, tuition and room, not supplied with
anything but fuel. 500 per year. Send for Catalogue
Address REV. +. L. HIGBEE. D. D.. President
Mercersburg, Pa iune TO- lS7G-l6w
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Board of Control and Review
Attention, Buyers.

TNHE celebrated Remington Type Writer,
Il Remington Sewing Machines,
Breech and Misunderstanding Firearms,
and other Goods Of these celebrated nanufsc
turcr.. nakc
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MEDICINAL
TENSIONS
Capcine Porous PIasters

OipClIt IOIOuS IldSlcTS
Relieve You instantly and quicker than any known
plaster. Imminent compound.
They gem inc pharmaceutical preparation and in
IA patent medicine
Capcine i, recently developed powerful vegetable
principle
Capcine is superior to electricity.
1t is the most powerful medicine yet discovered.
BenSOn's Cdpcine Porous Plasters
Will cure your ailments in a few hours
They great improvement other porous plasters.
They will positively cure Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Kidney Affections Lame and weak Back. Shooting
Pains in the Back and Sides Sprns and Bruises
Soreness any part of the body.
They where other piasters simply relieve.
Benson's Cdpcine Porous Plasters
Are purely vegetable.
They do not blister.
Are free from dangerous metallic and mineral posons
Benson's Capcine Porous Plosters
Possess medicinal merits their use ensure instant
relief and cure their unquestionabe superior
ity all other porous pIasters is endorsed by
two thousand physicians AID druggists whose names
alone a sufficient guarantee of their merits Try
them. Price % cents
SEABURY g. JOHNSON,
pu,,u.rrr-,c,,
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NOTICE,

rs.
THOMAS LOGAN and TIE NORTH EAST BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Chancery
ORDERED, This 25th day of October,
" 1876, that the sale made and reported by George
A. Blake, Trustee for the sale If the in the
above entitled cause mentioned be ratified and confirm
Cd unless TO the contrary thereof he shown
before the 2Sth day of December provided copy
of this Order lie inserted in newspaper bished
in Cecil county week for month before the
2St day Of November next.
Tho Report states the amount OF sales he $4,000.
A. W. MITCHELL Clerk.
True copy: test W MITCHELL,
Oct Is, lo1G--lm Clerk.
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NOTICE.
WILLIAM X. HOLT aud JOHN I. HOLT Adm nistra
tors of John W. Holt. deceased.
JOHN NJ. TERRELL AND OTHERS.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. l. Chayc,.

No -ce b. =, -'
6RDEnEO, This 10Th day of Novem-
" Der 1876. that the sale made and reported by l..
Marshall Haines Trustee for the sale of real
John VI. Terrell be raft fled and confirmed unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown before the
tn day of January next: provided. copy of this
Order be inserted in newspaper printed in Cer
county once week for month b"forg ,& 1JtL day
of December next.
The ,,epoT, states iii" tales to b. 81 0100l.
A. W. MITCHELL. Clerk.
True copy; test 4. W. MITCHELL,
Nov is, ls76-lm Clerk.
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Board Of Control and Review,
NOTICE..


DERSONS who may consider thenl seiyes
l. aggrevcd by any f.nat,on OF property made 10y
the Assessors for any Assessment district. within the
jurisdiction of this Board hereby notified that
full consideration of such complaints and APP
I.eals. in time complete the returns, which this
Board is required to make under the General Assembly
Act, such complaints and appeals "ght 70 he male to
This Board AT the earliest possible day after the return
this Board of the assessment OF the property
corning which such persons may consider themselves
aggreved 1t all cases in which complaint appeal
made within thirty days after the return this
Board of the valuation complained of, this Board will
proceed, although complaints appeals he made,
review under the powers given to ii by the Assess
ment Act the valuations returned TO it. and will
consider such review final disposition. upon its
part of all valuations in reference to which COM
plant appeal has been mad" within thi ti.e dss,g
mated as aforesaid. --''
The assessment for Cecil county having been fully
completed 10y the Assessors, the
Board of Control and Review
hereby give motto" that they ready to hear any
Appeals from the
By order Of the B"a;,
Nm. +. GILPIN,
NOV is. lS.1--tf Clerk.
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FEMALES AND ALL WHO
VALUE HEALTH
DIR SWAYNE'S TAR AND SAR
SAPARIILA PILLS,

they purify the blood remove all distinctions cleanse
the skin Of all pimpcs and biotches and bring the rich
color of health 10 the pale check Female rrgGulag.-
ti=s restored healthy ,uui ou a,.d ti"y
certain cure iOr GiCk. sERhn,S, AID hEtaALGtC
HEADACHE. As Dinner iIll, nothing exceed
them: take one TIVE" or three may be found nrces
unlike others they neither grip" produce
any other unpi"a>iut sensation white they
powerful it Is possible fuT ;acdicne to lac and be
harmless. These i'ilis cleanse out tn" disurierel
hnmors enrich AMI purify the blood, remove all
healthy bilious s-crcti"ns of the stomach and bowels
causing perfectly healthy state of the liver, and
undoubtedly the best cathartic aud anti-hnus med.
cine yet discovered; aud We are determined that the
sick shall have them at price within the means OF all
(25 cents box of 81 Pills. II your druggist store
keeper has not got thrm, do not be put of 10y any
others that may be offered in their place, but send Il
: direct, and will forward Icy mail, receipt OF
the price % box, five boxes for dollar
r,pareA "'y y
DK. SWAyNE q son,
$50 North Sixth street, Philadelphia
'Ask Your Storekeeper for Them"
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EDUCATIONAL.
MAPLE LAWN SEMINARY.

a Select Boarding School Tor BOTH
ScreS.
KNOXVILLE, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.
WE claim far the cheapest School for
w the advantages in Pennsylvania.
For Circular address J. W. HARVEY
Sept ., lSI6-3n Principal
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Cucumber Pumps a speciality.
Farm Grisf Mills, CornsheIIers, Grain
Fans, &C.. &C.,
II. &. Strickland. Agent,

which will be sold low aud reasonable terms Also
of Mciutrcs Patent HAY PRESSES. which viii
he sold Il bargain.
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COAL.-
~ The Celebrated Baltim ore Company Coal for Fam
lily Use, en- baud and for sale. D. SCOTT BIO.
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NOTICES, &c.
NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

A LII persons are forbidden to trespass
"A on property of the subscribers with Dog or Gun
Parties offending will he prosecuted to the full extent
of the law. JOSEPH COUDON,
+. W. JONES, $. l.. CHAMBERLAINE,
HENRY s. C0UD0N. JOHN MAILDIN
WM. j. EVANS. JOHN STUMP
THOMAS NAfLOR' WM. J. LAMDIN,
e. p WHITAKER. W. W. BLACK
j. N BLACK. JNO. 4 JAS SHAW
Il. W. BARNES. Oct H. 1sT6-tf
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OFFICE OPPOSITE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
ELKT0N. MD.
NITROUS OXIDE GAS aiweys on hand.
Ian II, lEt--s-
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nR. IL. F. TULL,

Nov 40. 1857
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Il. z. SIT1CKEHVU. Agent,
AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE,
Corner North and High Sts. Elktnn, Nd.
J. II. ASH, Salesman.
Nov le ISTe-6m
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MIR. ToREERT.-The many friends of
Mr. Nicholson, in Eikton and other pats of
the country, will read with interest the in
closed tribute to his memory from the pen of
Rev. Adam Wallace, who knew him in
tmately and in company with whom he
paid his first visit to Elkton. May ! ask
you to give it a place in Tie Wig.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-30
AL.rs fsoM . O'CLOCK To cLosE or BUSINESS. 3


y.
Tho stock market today ,ur0 is.i the average
operator hy it, strength under adverse cIrrum-
stances. n y, NOT unreasonable 90 expect that 81
open dsrlarit' ou Of war Ike sine ''U'ron oi pa--
.c., rlis, te and from the sea- pa.d and the W.
as advert "a hy tc Central and Hudson and Penn
5.l.ania Railroads ou sunday, and q response i-ou
Erie with ..Hl further reduction today, shon'd
materially al,ct t'r speculative F.lu's CO. Csc stocks
10 interest a. IL docs their real values but after
decidedly heavy opening there occurred % rapid and
sharp Improvements, that although not fully Sis
tanned ai III. close, Was not entirely Lost. Lake
Shore and Michigan Central were the center Of at
traction az the opening, the first sale, OF each being
p Der cent below the closing prices OF Saturday
night to wit, , and lJ3,-but they both quickly
rallied the former 20 525s and tho latter 10
iG"s after which they became dull and declined
10 81 d aud lJSs rayns 10 thc close 10 % Is FOR
Lake Shore. The early business was large and
active the shorts taking fright at the apparent
subbonne,, oi the prices, considering the condition
OF the railroad traffic, hastcncd to cover and
terially contributed 10 the rapid advance. Perhaps
a queer movement that occurred in Western Union
at the same time lent its influence toward the result
The opening price of this stock Gj5s ut which
price only 700 shares changed hands, after which
tie advance was rapid thaJ when the price passed
G5a ouly 5000 shares had been bought and sold at
81 aud rs; however, the market freely sup
| Piled and the price returned to GG3sa GG's. The
rapid advance III W. Il. quite likely. to
tent due to the fact that an order was
given 10 two different brokers by finn in the
street to buy certain number of shares without
limiting the price, and the brokers' each anxious 10
make his commission, bid the market up on each
other somewhat to the dctrment Of their principal
The st. pau stocks were strong, particularly
for the Preferred, which advanced 10 6j7s
The coal-carrying stocks seadicr and higher,
but not holding at best prices at the close. Pacific
Mail was l.. per cent better at II. the report Of
the Companys showing net earnings for last year of
over 100000, which might, when compared with
the former years loss Of about the same amount DO
very encouraging feature TO the stockholders If il
could De supposed that their steamers had not dete-
riuratcd TO more than twice the earned in the
Same time. The market closed irregular and fever
ish Among the stocks which at the close show an
improvement since Saturday Producers Petroleum
advanced Il II; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
and Northwestern Preferred each IL; Western
Union 81 St. Paul Preferred, 7s NewJersey Central
1ls and Pacific Mail. liz per cent. Rock Island,
Lake Shore, and Ohio and Mississippi, each declined
Is; Michigan Central. y, and Panama / per ceft
The following table shows the
RANGE or TIE MARKET.
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THE COURTHOUSE ARCHITECTS CASE.

The suit Of Hannah Kellum, executrlx, against
the city, which in its main features has beel already re
ported length yesterday before Judge Barrett IN
Supreme Court Circuit, motion to give the city an
extra allowance for costs the original claim OF inc
architects widow 100000. The extreme allowance
would be five per cent Mr.. Parsons counsel for Mrs
Keum, urged that in no case would costs be awarded
against an cxecurix unless She shown to have Will
fully brought useless suit.
Corporation Counsel Whitney in reply said that the
costs were asked against The cxecuIx personally
but against estate she represented she had chosen
To draw her complaint in such that she might get
$4,000. In drawing it, whatever excuse OF apology
was i'm her complaint she forced the city Ia 60 10 eN-
pense of meeting that claim and to prepare ms 10 me ei
that claim Five per cent. the highest allowance WOMB
moi compcns8e the city for thr whole cost 10 NhCh II
had been put in this suit. still he would submit tie
matter 10 the Court as aS0 the legal question whether
on extra allowance could be granted against an excel
triX. -,
Judge Barrett said he would take the matter under
consideration, not forgetting eth The expense ta me
city had that tie county own M gscnce
in paving bills proved now to be Fraudulent h"d cd 90
the claim whcl tho plaintiff had made ana as trustee
for others in some sort bound to make
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CIVIL NOTES.

Trial Term. Part of the Common Pleas Court,
was Adjourned yesterday morning 10 "Wednesday on account
Of the death Of JUdse Van Brunts mother
In the suit of Austin Black against the Continental
National Bank the which have already appeared in
THE TRIBUNE Judge Dykman ~ supreme Corr Circuit yes
erdav cmpaneri jury Adjourned the further proceed
ings 10 "Wednesday.
In the sut OF William W. Churchill against Ed
win A. Priest Judge Brady in Supreme Court Chamber has
refused TO discharge defendant from arrest The com
plant was smIy that the defendant had taken from the
plaintiff diamonds worth 5000, IN agreement t. return
either the diamonds money The was .orm
one for reyl and defendant arrested lie served
through counsel an oer that plaintiffs ake judgment li O
hich accept d and ut- l &C
dcftEGa then claimed his release on
the ground the Judgment aeanst him was mere Tor
Of fraud wrong oD his pant @tr'
waived Judge Brady holds that TIE offer Of Jude1n IT. and ~
aecepance change natuit OF 80 acton ana -
motion made On mere technical GTouhd "chitS "
with