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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-22
AN INTERLOPER.

"The big boss" as the old apple woman
calls him, stopped moment as he passed
through our Office. Everybody was won
drously Industrious at that moment.
"a young woman will take the place
left vacant in this establishment by the
death of Edwards" he said in his usual
abrupt manner, at the same time looking
at nothing and seeing everything. "She
will be here to morrow, and I've no doubt
will perform the duties required of her in
a satisfactory manner. Good afternoon"
We looked at each other in surprise,
and Thrall just stopped himself on the
verge of a whistle, and coughed instead; but
not word did we say until we were sure
that our head had reached the street, for
the ears pertaining to our head are exceed
ingly sharp.
Then burst forth torrent of words.
I" A girl! what a nuisance!' said Smith.
calais! my melodious voice is silenced
forever" said Thrall, who was great in
opera burlesque, at the same time, with
appropriate gestures of despair bursting
into Infelice."
"What possessed Lawrence? Such an
old fogy as he is, too. l can't understand
it at ALL said Marlowe.
"Got her at half the salary he paid
Edwards drawled julie Gerard, young
fellow disliked by most of US for his uppish
airs, and chaffed numerically behind his
back for his immense belief in himself and
the Gerard family.
"And dear at that price, in my opinion.
A chit of girl, smart at her sums; gold
medal for mathematics at What's it's-name
Institute, and consequently highly eligible
for any position any where" said Thrall,
tlinging his hat across the room, and sing
ing some ridiculous words of his own to
an air from Somnambula."
"Do be quiet moment, Thral," l
interrupted; but he never needed me, but
went on until the very last note was reached,
and then politely requested me to proceed
"Lawrence didn't say girl; he said
young woman, and that may mean any
thing in pull-backs from sixteen to sixty.
Any how, as Smith says, she'll be nuisance.
Why don't she sculp, or paint, or draw,
or engrave, or something of that sort, all
undisturbed in the privacy of her own
dear little studio? Or better yet, why don't
she marry somebody ?"
Marry her yourself, Dickson, and prove
a benefactor to mankind in general and
your fellow clerks in particular" sugges-
ted Smith.
ooh! l say!' drawled Gerard; "life' S
too short to be wasted talking about a
woman. Let's go round and get some
beer" Che called it " be-ah''), "and drink
death to all interlopers." We went.
am Dickson. the young man who was
kindly advised to marry the girl book
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-22
GLEANINGS.

Good luck must be gained by hard
work, like other good things.
When times are good the paper hang
er's business goes to the wall.
"A pocket handkerchief is about the only
thing to be taken for a cold
There are two great classes of men
known as wise and otherwise.
There is always room for poetry-in
the paper or in the waste basket.
frequent eruptions would not break out
1t takes two to make a bar gain-the
man who sells and the man who drinks.
When a woman finds she has married
a prodigal son, she should arise and go to
her father.
When people speak of being bathed in
tears, it is well enough to have an eye on
the bath tub.
Body servants of the late George Wash
ington are expected to go as such to the
Centennial in body.
The man who does not know his own
mind, will obtain an introduction as soon
as his mind is big enough.
"A man may be said to have been drink
ing like fish when he finds that he has
enough to make his head swim.
"A man is 1850 times as large as the
common honey bee. and yet it is useless to
try and argue the point with the bee.
You are entitled to walk eighty four
miles through the Centennial buildings in
one day for the small sum of fifty cents.
An American flag made of silk and
costing $4,000, will float over the main
entrance to the Centennial Exhibition.
The bull frog was the first circulating
greenback, and the entire breed have been
notorious intlationists ever since the flood.
An Indiana glass factory has received
an order for $50, 600 demijohns, and lively
strawberry shortcakes will, this year,
be cut bias and rather fuller in the crust
tlldH USUAL. luOSc III lWO VI Sdli-
ratus, trimmed with the material, will be
much in vogue.
Half the people who are making the
uproar over the exclusion of the Bible from
public schools, couldn't tell whether the
book of Genesis was written by St. Paul
or Christopher Columbus.
If men are the salt Of the earth, women
are the sugar. Salt is necessity; sugar
luxury. Vicious men are the saltpetre;
hard, stern men are the rock salt; nice fam
lily men the table salt. Old maids are the
brown sugar; good natured matrons the
loaf sugar; pretty girls the fine pulverized
white sugar. Pass the sugar, please!
| "A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, unwilling to admit that Kentucky
can produce any more wonderful phenom
ena than the Buckeye State, reports that
while the sun was shining in clear sky,
there came down the heavens a copious
| shower of ham and eggs. This strange
shower lasted for half an hour, and at this
writing the whole face of the country for
miles around was covered with slices of
sugar cured ham to the depth of about four
| feet.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-22
Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn
BY SIDNEY AND CLIFFORD LANIER.

SOLO.
Sins ROSTERS crowed, Ole Mahster's riz,
De sleepin' time is pas;
Wake up dem lazy Baptissis,
CHORUS
Dey's nightly in de grass, grass,
Dey's nightly in de grass.
Ole Mahster's blowed de mornin' horn,
He's blowed powerful blas'
o Baptis', come, come hoe de corn,
Fou's nightly in de grass. &c.
De Meth'dis' teams done hitched; o fool,
De days a breakin' fas';
Gear up dat lean ole Baptis' mule,
Dey's nightly in de grass. &c.
De workmen's few an mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look. jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hts mighttiy in de grass. &c.
De jaybird squeal to de mockin' bird: s'Stop!
Dom gimme none O yo' sass;
Better sing one song for de Baptis' crop,
Dey's m,ghtily in de grass" sc.
An de ole crow croak: "Do'n' work, no,
no.
But de fier lark say "Yaas, yaas,
An l spec you mighty glad, you debblsh
crow,
Dat de Baptississ in de grass" &c.
Lord, thunder us up to de plowin' match,
Lord. peerten de hoein' fas,
Yea, Lord, hab mussy on de Baptis' patch,
Deys mightily in de grass. grass,
Deys mtqhtily in de grass.
seri0ner for May.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-22
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

BY the flow of the inland river
Where the fleets Of iron have fled.
Where the blades of new grass CULVER,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
Under The sod and the dew
Waiting the Judgment Day,
Under the one the Blue,
Under the other the Gray.
Those in the robing of glory,
Those in the gloom nt defeat
All with the battle blood CORY,
IN the dusk Of eternity meet
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment bay,
Under the laurel the Blue.
Under the willow the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowfli hours,
The deSOlate mOurnerS 90,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike tor the friend and the foe,
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day,
Under the roses the Blue,
Under the lilies the Gray.
So with an equal spiendor,
Tie morning Sun-rayS fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgmrn! bay.
'brolrrtd with gold the Blue.
Mcilowed with gold the Gray.
50 when the Summer calleih
on forest and field of grain.
With an equal murmur tallrth
The cuuiing drip of the rain.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day.
Wet with the rain the Blue,
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upraiding.
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of years that are fading.
No Drawer battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment Day.
Under the blossoms the Blue,
Under the garlands the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever,
Or the winding river be red:
They Danish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves OF our dead.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment Day,
Love and tears for the Blue.
Tears and love for the Gray.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-22

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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

while they are making the most
strenuous efforts to smooth over, Till
the Legislature adiourns, the strife
that exists between the fac
ulty aud the Principal. And yet the
committee reports a bill to abolish an IN
siitution in which thee has always been
harmony ard good management, and to
support one which has ccsi the State three
times as much, per eapita, which has NOT as
good facilities, and does not do as good
work, which has a divided faculty, and
which, when it has printing TO do, patro-
nizes offices outside OF the State.
We ask no special favors for the Leaven-
worth School. We simply ask the members
Of the Legislature to bring 10 the consider
alton OF this subject the same good sense
that has characterized their conduct thus
far in the consideration OF other -ubiects,
and we shall have no fears OF the result.
The Normal School at Leayenworth
is one CT the most successful
institutions of the kind in the country its
'modei" school is the largest in the West,
While its building, donated TO thc SAFE Gy Lear
eapcTti Ciy, is the largest and finest educa-
tional structure in the Stste, excepting only
the University, at Lawrsoe. Let the Leg
islature consider these facts, also, in con-
nection with the figures given above.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
LET II BE MADE.

The Horticultural Society of K ansas has
asked the Legislature for an appropriation
OF FIVE thousand doIlars-which ought to
be made-to enable the society to make an
exhibition OF Kansas fruits at Philadelphia
during the Centennial. This is the society
it viii be remembered, which secured SC
much good advertising for Kansas by its
exhibition OF our products at Philadelphia
and Boston few years ago. 1t is COM
posed Of good, practical, straightforward
men, whose hearts are in the work of their
society, aud who have done more good for
the State with the few dollars voted to
them in times past, than our fancy
Board OF Agriculture" has accomplished
with all the many thousands which the
people have so freely lavished upon it. The
one is society of fruit-growers, working
in the interests OF the State; the other is
a political machine, run in the interest oi
the few politicians who manipulate it.
That's the difference.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
GETTING WORSE.

The Beecher business seems TO be assum-
ing more violent form than it ever had
before. Hitherto Mr.. Beecher has be,n
able to maintain his policy of silence, and
to keep up an outward show OF imperturb-
able good humor, but Mr.. Bowen has
touched him upon tender point-has laid
on the last feather, as it were, and the
spinal column of the pastors prudence
yields to the pressure. In other words,
Mr.. Beecher has at length 'got his dander
up" At the last Friday night meeting he
laid aside his hcnied vocabulary, put all
ambiguosity behind him, while from the
pulpit OF Plymouth Church, and in plain
unvarnished Saxon, he denounced Mr..
Bowen as "A slanderer and liarw And,
as il to make the words more "binding," he
declared that they wire uttered in the face
"of Almighty God and the judgment dayw
That is pretty tall swearing it attains an
altitude which the users OF everyday
oaths seldom aspire to,-but in view of Mr..
Bowen's charges, and all the Others of a
similar character, which have been made
and sworn to, it is strong testimony in sup
port of point upon which the public
mind has long been satisfied, namely: that
there's stupendous lie out, somewhere.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
PATENT OUTSIDES.

We are glad to see that bill has passed
both Houses OF the Legislature to legalize
publications made in papers which use
''patent outsides"-that Is, paper with one
side printed where purchased. The TINES
called attention to this matter originally,
in the interest OF the class of papers refer
red TO, and the discussion ELECTED by our
article on the subject has brought forth the
result above stated.
We are sorry to see that our statement
of the simple tact that publications in such
papers would not fill the requirements of
the law, hes been construed by one or
two papers of the class referred
to as an attempt to injure their business.
This does US very great injustice, since our
object in calling attention to the matter
was to bring it before the Legislature and
have the defect in the law remedied. We
claim the right to publish our own paper
in our own way. and We concede to every
other publisher the same right. Yet we
do not hesitate to say that We consider a
page filled with neatly printed reading
matter very decided improvement upon a
page full of dead "ads."
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
AN EVIL Ard A REMEDY"

The Fort Scott Monitor copies our ar
ticle on the Supreme Court, published a
few days ago, and suggests as the remedy
for the evil complained of, the adoption by
that court oi the rule in force in the courts
OF several other States, viz: that no case
can be filed except upon leave OF one OF
the Judges, after examining the records Of
the lower court, and determining whether
the merits of the case are sufficient to JUS
tify hearing in the Supreme Court. This,
says the Monitor, would cut off many unim-
rortant cases that now occupy the atten-
tion and time of the court, delaying the
final disposition of cases involving impor-
tant legal principles and large amounts Of
money.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
Az UNWIsE MEASURE.

| 4 bill was introduced, in The Legisla-
ture, short time ago, To abolish the three
Normal Schools Of the State. This was
referred to the com uittee on Public Insii-
tutions, who reported it baci; to the House
with the recommendation that it he 50
amended as to abolish the schools at Con-
cordia and Lesyenwor.h, but not the one
at Emporia
II this action Was taken on TIE ground
that it il not right for The State to main
tain institutions Of this character, why did
the committee make any exception? And
if it was taken on the ground OF economy
ii it was thought by the committee that
the State could not afford to-support more
than one such institution-then why retain
the one at Emporia, and abolish the one at
Leavenworth, while the figures show that
it costs the State three times as much to ed
uca;e pupil at the Emporia school as at
the Leayenworth school?
We have no disposition to make war
upon Emporia, or upon the school located
there-we entertain none but the friendiiest
feelings toward both-bat before the mem
bers of the House of Representatives con-
clude TO take such action as is recommend
ed in the report OF the committee above re-
ferred TO, we ask them to look at the facts
in the case, and if there is to be but one of
the three schools kept up hereafter, let it
be the one that renders the State the most
service at the least expense. Every gen.
tleman on the foor of the House will agree
with US that local feeling should not be
permitted to weigh against the facts, in
public measure of this character; and
careful examination OF the facts in tbe
case is all that is necessary to convince
every member who viii look at the matte,
without prejudice, that the passage Of suci
a bill as that mentioned above would he
exceedingly unwise, and far from economi-
cal.
To show the comparative cost to the
State of the two institutions, at Leaven-
worth and Emporia, We copy the following
items from the official records:
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
MR. PARTON's NEW WIFE.

Ellen Eldridge, Mr.. Parton's new wife,
and his step-daugfiter, is said to be about
forty years of age. He married "Fanny
Fern" twenty years ago, and Mr.. Eldridge
had then been ten wears dead. Between the
Eldridge and the Parton marriage, Fanny
Fern" was united to Mr.. S. P. Harrington,
merchant then of Boston, and more re-
Gently of Chicago; but this union was OF
short duration. When Miss Eldridge en-
tered the Parton household she was a very
Young girl. Her elder sister married Nor
timer Thompson, and died a year after
wards, leaving an infant daughter. Since
the death of Mrs. Parton, Mr.. Parton and
Miss Eldridge have taken charge of this
child; and their marriage now enables
them TO unite more completely in caring
for her. Mr.. Parton is now 81 years OF age.
When he married Fanny Fern" he was "a
and she 40. The announcement that he had
married his step-daughter," caused the
marriage to appear to some as a very irreg-
ular proceeding, but statement of the
respective ages OF the severalparties shows
that the union with the daughter is a more
appropriate one, according to the popular
notion, than was that with the mother.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
4 MEAN THING.

The lawrence Journal says the Kansas
House of Representatives did a mean thing
in cutting down BY one-half he appropria-
to pay for the publication of the Constitu-
tional Amendment in the newspapers OF the
State. The price Of that publication is
fixed by law, aud the papers are entitled to
ii just as much as the honorable members
are to their three dollars per day and mile
age
We agree with the JOa, nal, that this was
-mein ,Ling-not only that, but little
ta;ns. Il was one OF those foolish attemp s
4 FL e economy which always leave the
STATE out OF pocket. The bills which this ac-
tion a.ieaIpts to repudiate, were all made
under contract with the Secretary of State,
and ii the money to settle them is not ap-
propriated this session, the only effect will
be 10 make the men who hare honestly
earned their money wait two years longer
for their pay.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
COAL OIL VS. GAS.

The gas question is just now receiving at
tention in several oi the large cities of the
country. The people protest against pay
ing prices which enable gas companies to
declare dividends of forty per cent. a year,
while all other kinds OF business are barely
able to make erds meet. THE TINES long
ago settled this question to its own satis-
faction, ard whereas We formerly paid Il
hundred dollars i month for gas, we now
get 4 Light that is just as good, and more
reliable, by using coal oil, at cost OF
about ten dollars a month. \ saving OF a
thousand dollars year is a strong argu-
meIr in favor of kerosene.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
REpuRL1cAN coiYaSr1aa.

delegate convention Of the republicans OF the
State OF kansas viii be held in representative ball. in
the city of Topeka on Wednesiay the 24th day Of
May, A u. 1876 at the hour Of two o'clo p NJ for
the purpose of choosing ten delegates and ten alter
mates to represent the republican party of Kansas
the Union Republican National Convention 10 be
hc 4 in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the i4ih day of June
prox for the purpose OF nominating candidates for
President and Nice-President Of the United States
Each representative district entitled to represenia-
ton in the Legislature Of 1877 shall he entitled TO
two delegates.
Ii Is recommended that the district conventions
for the purpose OF electing DELEGATES TO the state
Convention herein called. he held On Saturday, the
l3th day Of May, 1876, at such hour may he des
ignated by the central committee OF each represen-
tatve district in the event that there be no such
committee, by the central committee Of the county.
IL Is also recommended that in addition to the dele
Srfes herein provided for, alternate be elected
for each delegate
No person will be entitled 70 seat or vote in the
convention by virtue Of holding the proxy OF any of
the delegates
By order 0. the committee.
JOHN GUTHRrE, Chairman.
J. JAY BrcK Secretary
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
ABOLISHED.

The California legislature has just abol-
ished the Office of chaplain, on the grounds.
first, that the State had no right TO devote
public money to religious objects; second,
that it had no right to discriminate in its
selection Of a chaplain in favor Of any one
of the many sects that offered candidates
thirdly. and principally, because legisla-
tive chaplaincy was not only useless, but,
like all State Institutions of religion, tended
to Journalism and hypocrisy.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
IcsT-oFFICE CHANCES IN KANSAS,


During the week ending February Il, 1876,
furnished BY Wm.Van Week, of the Post
Office Department:
OFFICES DIscoNIINUED.-Boud, Douglas
county Float, Pottawatomie county Yer
di, Wilson county.
PosTMAsTERs APPoINTED-Barrett, Mar
shall county, J. z. Farrant; Bellegrade,
Pottawatomie county, Charles Carlson !;
Calcutta, Douglas county, j. E. Longan-
ecker; Carney, Montgomery county, J. c.
White; darlington, Crawford county, II.
Brackney; Lazette, Cowley countp, r. c.
Story; Radical City, Montgomery county,
McKinzie Dufield; Salem, Jewell county,
Memo W. Smith Vinton, Riley county,
Perry Rubart; Western Park, Elk county,
Mrs. Rebecca E. Porter
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
B0WEN-BEECHER.

Mr.. Bowen proposed to tell the whole
story-siyins names. dates and all-upon
a.. .,,,su; ,J;,;. - a.. d.
'Ae io''o"s 'oiNi''o.s' "ni'. VIC y,
mouth church committee, having consid-
cred, unanimously refused TO accept:
I, ,L, .,-. . ;,h;, al. C,,-
,rada,;pusI t hndx h. hs ssiac,sd c | d;s,;non;shs5
g.. 80; 49, nd ;ens.,;.i;,v snch for
i % p...;ds,, tVaois.r -, ~
A. Is sn,;,h p,.s;1sn, Es;rci;iJ ImJos
I.f...,,o - IL srI
Hardy, or the Hon: Julius H; Seeyle, men
dan. aoss h ueeisi1n .ne Solia WIN 'sel @ conn
such evidence secret before whom onlv NJ
Beecher and myself shall appear with our
witnesses, and before whom l will consent,
@i.noo' any reserve Whatever, ana as soon
ssnce xh;cb hss isd e ms " 80 On a. '",s ~. e'
have no doubt Mr.. Beecher is guilty. of
adultery, hypocrisy, and perjury. 1 ask
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

The fitting up OF the hippodrome, in
New York, for Moody and Sankey, at an
expense of S50,0c0, called out the Louis
vile Cowier-Journol to remark, that there
are immense quantities Of souls in that
city to secure'whose salvation at cost of
three dollars thousand would be . great
waste of money.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

some of the weather prophets tell US that
the back bone of the winter (if it ever
had any is broken, while others declare
that, according to the "turkey-bone sign,'
the spinal column aforesaid is just getting
ready to stiffen ND.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

The "Great and Good Deacon Richard
Smith" Of the Cincinnati Gdzete, is terri
bly, worried by what he calls the 'revolting
marriage" of Mr.. James Parton, in viola
tion Of the Leviiical law. But then, the
Deacon continues to stand by Bro. Beecher,
and that keeps his average about right.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

"AN'r it pretty ?" said Mrs. H., holding
up her new bonnet. "There's some charm
ing ideas in that, l can tell you" "Glad
of it" said John. ats just as well to have
ideas somewhere about your head, you
know" and he paused to catch hair brush
on the ffy,
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

SENATOR IxeALLs yesterday introduced
bill for the protection of the agricultural
interests OF the country against the ravages
OF injurious insects-grasshoppers being es-
pecially referred to.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17

Our Legislature is '1after" those Kansas
railroads thai run to Kansas City. The
House yesterday passed a bill to prevent
all such roads from. having depots or Off
ces within two miles of the State line,
Possibly that law will accomplish some
thing. Probably it'll NOT.