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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-11-10
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- omaine Gold, so extensively worn
- in Paris, was first discovered in
1870, by the celebrated French chemist
Mons. ID. Be Laingc, who manufacture
] ed 1t into iewclry, and for five wears
sold ii to the leading jewellers OF Paris
for .Suiit Gold. In 1875, when his Sc
cret became known, ten of the manu-
! featuring jewelers. established a stock
company, with a capital Of $l0G09, 600,
for the purpose OF manufacturing ko-
maine told lewelry an. Watches
With this immense capital, and the aid
of improved machinery, they are en-
: ahlcd to produce all the latest patterns
I OF jewery at less than one-tenth the
I cost Of Solid Colo, and OF a quality and
color which Makes it impossible even
for tApults to detect it from the gen
line.
We hire serured the ercInsjce agency
Of tie United St0fFs and EanddG. for til,
sale of all goods manufactured from
/ this metal, and in order to introduce
4 them in the most spec Y manner. have
put up assorted sample lots, as given
I below, which we viii sell at 0n6-trnth
/ The retaH 1a!ue unt5 JGaaagy 1St, 1878.
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-11-10
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Grand Square and Upright.

Grand Square and Upright.
From Geo. f. Le.chsr, firm of VIM.
Letcher & Bro. Bankers F.ye,te, O.
I'VE received the piano and think it =
very fine toned one out here. Visited e
>hoit time 10 give it good test. If vo
wish word in favor OF it we will cheer,
fully give it,"
'"nes r. Brown, Esq. Edwardsville, Ii
says:
The Beatty Piano received gives entiI
satisfaction
Agents wanted Send for catalogue
Address, DANIEL F. BEATTY,
Washington, New jersey, U. 5. A.
Does
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
THE OHIO ELECTION FRAUDS.

special despatch from Cincinnati to
the New York Times says:
Hamilton county politics are being stir
red to the depths, and the result is a spec
tacle of rottenness that shocks the people.
On Saturday, the Sheriff of the county and
his chief clerk were arrested for the abiuc-
ton of the witness Charles Young. now on
trial for murder in Philadelphia. Young
was captured in Cincinnati soon after the
election. and was on the point of revealing
the whole conspiracy of illegal voting when
he was snatched out of the hands of the
officers one night, placed i'll a close carriage
standing near, and driven off. Two OF
Sheriff Wallace's tools in the plot to alb
duct Young have disclosed the whole affair.
and there is fair prospect now of some
politicians of standing going to the peni-
tertiary.
1t is shown beyond question that Ban
ning's majority over Matthews was fraudu-
lent, and that three or four comfy officers
who were elected by small maiorities have
very uncertain tenure of their seats. Re
pubicans here, chatting at their defeat by
repeating, and at the brazen speech of Ban
ming in Congress for an honest ballot box,
are determined to probe the conspiracy to
the bottom"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS.

The recent failure of a number Of life
insurance companies, located in New
York City, and the hopeless insolvency
which a subsequent investigation Of
their officers has disclosed, is creating,
unfortunately, a general distrust Of life
insurance. TO such an extent have
fraud and rottenncSs crept into the bust
ness, that ruin and disaster not only
now threaten worthless concerns, but
even sound and solvent companies share
the general suspicion That general
life insurance panic would result disas-
trousl V to the welfare of the many
thousands Of people whose interests are
involved, is doubtless true. Mere de-
nunciation of the rascalties of dishonest
concerns, however, can effect nothing
in the interest of unfortunate policy
holders. Stringent legislation is ncces-
sary for their protection, particularly
against the amalgamating process, by
which one insolvent company surrep-
titiously mergcs itself into some other
equally worthless concern, whereby
hundreds of policy-holders are com
PEELED either to surrender policies upon
which many years consecutive prem
iums have been paid, or exchange them
for equally worthless policies IN com
panics in which they are compelled to
reinsure Take the case of the Cont
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The count Of the Electoral vote for Presi-
States commenced on Thursday, according
to programme.
At l o'clock, the Senators entered the
Hall of the House and were assigned seats
on the right of the Chair. The Joint Con-
vention was called to order by Acting Vice
President Ferry, and the business of the
day was then entered upon. As the pre-
siding officer opened the certificates he
handed such as came from undisputed Til
den States to the Republican tellers, and
such as came from undsputed Hayes States
to the Democratic tellers to be read. The
reading of the certificates and accompany
ing papers was a tedious business, the re
turns from each State occupying nearly tif-
teen minutes in the reading. Alabama,
Arkansas. California, Colorado, Connect
cut and Delaware were in time disposed of.
and the tellers recorded in all twenty five
votes for Tilden and Hendricks, and nine
votes for Hayes and Wheeler Florida was
then reached, and three certificates were
read. The one declared the Hayes Electors
elected, and the two others zone Of which
was received only on Wednesday, and is
| the report of the State CanvaSSerS recently
| appointed by act of the Legislature de
clared that the vote had been cast for IL
den. The latter was a printed document
| of thirty-siX columns, and would have &C
| cupied an hour or TWO in the reading if the
| Joint Convention had not consented that
| the reading shnuld be dispensed with
| Then came the objection to the count of
the vote of this State. Senators Jones'
| of Florida, Cooper and Mcdonald and
Representatives Field, Tucker, jerks
and Springer objected to the couut of
the Hayes Electoral vote. on the general
ground of fraud and .conspiracy.-
| Senator Jones, and representative
! Thompson objected to one of the
| Electors. Humphreys, on the ground of
| inelgibilty, because he held a United
| States office at the time of his election.
| For the Republicans, Senators Conorer, Sar
| gent, Sherman aud Teller, and Representa-.
tives DuLnell. Woodburn. KasSon and
| McCrary objected to counting The T:iden
| votes on the ground that they were not
properly authenticated. In other words
| that in counting the vote Congress could
| not 90 behind the returns. \ further oh
| lection was interposed by Senators Sargent
| and Sherman and Representatives kasson
| and Hurlburt to the last returns read, on
the ground that they were not properly
authenticated. All the objections having
been made, The case WAS referred TO the
! Electoral Commission and tie Senators
retired TO their chamber; the crowds in
| the galleries were speedily ihinned out,
and the House resumed is Legislative
| BUSINESS.
| Under the second section of the Electoral
act, the joint convention cannot he dis
solved until decision has been rendered
as to all the States. They have simply
separated for the time being, and will not
come together again until after they shall
have been informed that the Tribunal of
| fifteen is ready to report. Each House
may, however, go on with its Legislative
| business in the meantime.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

mental COMPANY recently merged into
the New JERSEY Mutual. which in turn
its cunning managers undertake. to
amalgamate into the National Capital
Company. The Continental Company
was hopeiesslv insoIvcnt. As the an
nual premiums of its policy-hoIders We're
maturing, reinsurance in the New Jcr-
sey Mutual was advised by the mama
gers of the Continental Company. BY
this means over one thousand policies
of the Continental are transferred to
the equally inSoIvent Mutual, the man
ayers of which realize large sGm in
premiums wrung from unwilling policy
holders, hoping to secure themselves
against loss by the transfer. The Con
| tinental, however, being insolvent, can
not transfer with its policies to the
| Mutual the money necessary to render
them safe, which when it accepts the
| policies it has failed to lie reimbursed for,
must either endanger its own. or dcfraud
the rensured policy-holders. 1t requires
| but half an eye to see where the fraud
comes in. Holders of policies in the
Continental are thus compelled either
to allow their policies to lapse, or eX-
! change them for vaueless ones The
object Of the transfer is to prevent the
Continental being forced into liquida-
ton, by which policy holders might
receive some benefit in dividends
| While it is true, that if soll ent com
| panieS We're at this time to he forced
into bankruptcy and he compelled to
call in their loans, invested upon deprC-
cated real estate securities, serious loss
would be detailed upon policy holders,
vet some immediate protection should
be afforded them by preventing these
surrcpttious transfers of one company
| into another in utter disregard of the
| rights Of the holders Of their policies.
In the State of New \ ork active meas
ures are being taken to secure such
legislation as will prevent such frauds,
and under the rigid enforcement of
which. rotten concerns will he forced to
the wall, to the relief of the legitimate
business Of life insurance, and the add
vantage Of solvent concerns, and the
protection Of sound companies.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
REFLECT SHUNS,

o the ann NowC ronm's a imbof the law
Republic louisa abunlanc
hin
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Fo elected
And that It's 70 Republican
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And roninu h wlir the badge
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Mr. Thomas Mast
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York. latuinr
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with his
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explained Mr. il who judge those
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and be aughe
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

The notorious Democratic House of
Representatives, now nearing its little
bed of official death, is destined to blum
der on to the last little flicker of its ex-
istence. The latest instance is not par
tlcularly important, except to show
what blockheads there are in Congress-
1t seems that some brilliant Democrat
got up and got through resolutions d.
recting the Secretary of State to com
municate to the Republic of Pretoria
(who is she y the high appreciation by
the Congress of the United States of
the complimentary terms in which said
Republic has referred to the first GEN.
tennial of our national independence in
their resolution to Congress in May
last, and the other Of similar import
in relation TO congratulations of the
Argentine Republic President Grant
vetoes these resolutions, and calls the
attention of the House boobies to the
fact that all communications with other
countries must be directed by the Presi-
dent We have not read more polite
vet crushing rebuke of congressional
ignorance for many dav.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

IT is difficult to imagine what advan-
tage the Democrats are to reap from the
startling expose" of such shallow
piece of rascalitv as the very recent seq
saton of that prince of detectives, Mr.
David Dudley Field. Pickett, the Con
federate Archive man, is low-priced
political adventurer, who hoped to reap
his modest ten per centum OF honest
commissions, and Maddox is evidently
a man Of the same type. As the Flee,
toral contest is now narrowed down tC
louisiana and Oregon, we may expect
Democratic mares nests to be daily dis
covered by outside patriots. Littlefield
will soon come to grief, as number Of
unbought witnesses, now on their
way to Washington, will soon dispe
the democratic illusion raised by this
precious trio Of political rascals
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
SiguRIs of Distress.

When the eyes dull and heavy. The nervous >ys-
TEN morbidy sensitive, the muscles cid the
pleIon sallow, the body angui, the nina -tlcss rnd
the fire and energy which should charactrrih health
have wholly measltrabiy dsapp,arr the Individual
exhibiting these symptoms may take IT to- granted that
his stomach diseased HE liver darlered hi, blood
impure Impoverished, and LIS constitutional stamina
and vitality impaired What his require, is imme-
date and judicial medical treatment. lie need not.
however put hiG.,clf to the expense OF consulting a
physician. II il clear ths SIN in clpEdl"S sky
that r is dysprptic aud it is any dpInpl
-tratei fact e, that IIo>tcttyrs Stomach Ett-r
will dyspepsia and all the brood of bodily and
mental ills Of which it is the raIe.t. Let him COM
mrncr course of Tie remedy once, and following the
directions faithfully. continue take it until every ds
agreeable symptom shall hav" Disappeared II it he 3.
case of long staining the will not be sudden and
immediate. The great tonic and corrective potent as
is, docs not work niracIeS hut surely, though grd-
ally, it Will restore the sufferer perfect health From
day to day his eyes will hccoma brighter his nerves
frmcr, his muscles elastic, his complexion fresler
,nd clearer. his spirits hi>kcr In duo he will be
in a fit condition fight Ih- battle of life
vigorously and effectively aud VIII admit that if ,Iys-
Biticrs national specific ,iIa! !" the emergency.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

LITTLEFlELD, the clerk of the Louisi-
ana Returning Board, who swcars that
he changed the figures on the returns
from Vernon parish, substracting rs
votes from the Democratic side and
adding them to the vote of the Rcpub-
lican candidates. is now believed hv all
sides TO be a frst-rlass scoundrel, one
who does not regard his oath: that he
manufactured the certificate and then
Swore to its gcnuinencss. Proof has
already been presented, that one of the
three candidates mentioned by him, as
having been elected by the transfer of
the rs votes. was not returned elected
at all, and that the other two had no
need for the famous It's, having enough
without them. The transfer Of votes,
alleged to have been medc by him, did
not affect the result of the election.
except as to local candidates in Vernon
parish, and the result aimed at by this
conspiracy was to damage the mem
bers Of the returning board and cloud
their acts with suspicion. They have
lost both their time and money by in
vestiny it with such scoundrel as
Lttleiield
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

We have word to say with refer
ence to an apparent injustice done the
teacher of the Bayard School at Chesa-
peake City. While the complaints made
by our local correspondent are sustained
bv the actual state of facts, we are dis
posed to believe that the trouble grew
out of the iniudicious assignment of a
principal to the school in question.
While Mr.. Z. NJ. johnson is a young
gentleman generally respected in this
town, he is undoubtedly too ineXperi-
enced as teacher to undertake the
control of young men and boys, num-
bering among them some of the best
subjects for the pedagogue's rod to be
found in Cecil county. Neither our cor
respondent at Chesapeake nor ourselves
wish to do the teacher in question any
personal injustice, and we are frank
enough to say so.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

JUDGE DAVIS, being urged by his
friends to allow himself to be voted for
as a member of the Electoral Commits
sion, refused on the ground that if he
should do so he would consider himself
obliged to decline the Illinois Senator
shin. which be was not inclined to do.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

IT has been discovered that Tilden 5
electors in three States-New Jersey,
Missouri and Nirginia-are also hold
ders of United States Offices. This is
putting the shoe on the other foot.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

If Judge Davis persists in holding
his place in the Supreme Court until
after President Grant goes out of office,
it will be a piece Of indeccncy equal
to that of Joseph Bedle, of New Jersey,
who kept his place on the bench while
running for Governor, and hung on
until he knew he could nominate his
own successor.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
ELKTON. FEBRUARY 3, 1877.

THE next House of Representatives
will consist of l42 Republicans and las
Democrats, with three members to be
elected
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

AND now Mr. Hewitt says there will
be no National Convention. 1t would
be hard, indeed, if the patriots who
have been demanding Tilden or blood :
should find that they were to get neither.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

ESTATES rights is no longer Il part
of the Democratic creed In their greed
for office, they have surrendered this,
their great hobby, To count in Tilden,
they propose to trample out of exist
ence the only principle they ever con-
tended for. Degenerate Democracy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

ANOTHER dish of hash has Just been
served by Mr.. David Dudley Fields
In Proctor Knots Committee, he
David-pIacrd upon the stand that
eXcentric individual known as Colonel
John G. Pickctt-the man who, in 1872,
sold the Confederate archives to the t..
S. Government The Colonel testified
that the members of the Louisiana Re
turning Board offered to sell out the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

TIE CoURT-The Electoral Com
mission commenced proceedings on
Thursday The joint convention OF
the two branches of Congress met in
the hall Of the House of Representa-
tives and proceeded with the count OF
the States-in alphabetical order-un-
til Florida was reached. The triple
returns from this State We're referred
to the "Commission,' and the joint
convention dissolved to await its deci-
sion 1t is generally believed that a
decision will be reached in this case
count Of the proceedings Of the joint
convention on Thursday
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

State to the Democrats for the modest
little sum Of Sl,000,0O0 He SAYS he
undertook to raise the money to brihe
the Board with the approval of his
conscience, for if the Board should not
he bought for Tilden, he might regret
it ever hereafter" and before he had
been in the business a great while it
became "a high moral duty " with him
He expected Il large fee, which he states
he meant to distribute among the
widows and orphans of the South ="
land live in sackcloth and ashes him.
self" Noble Pickett. But Tilden and
Hewitt didn't come down with the
stamps, and the benevolent Pickett's
humane enterprise failed. From the
sublime to the ridiculous Oh Dudley!
Dudley, David Dudley.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

~ You can buy from Mrssrs. VIM Read
& Son. - Faneuil Hall Square Boston, a
good English Breech-loadlng 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 other house. MIite
them for Catalogue.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
Our NeighbOrS.

The Christtied Lcader says, that Rev. J.
\. Brindle, now pastor on that circuit, does
not wish to return.
The fishermen in the neigh borhood Of st.
Martins have caught large quantities Of
fish since the late thaw set in. On We'd
neSday last one seine caught over three
hundred bushels of rock and perch.
Corn popping parties have lately come i'll
voIue with theyoung ladies' of Snow
Hll, and furnish amusement and subSe
guent work fo: the dentist. \ popping
by party of oae. however. is sometimes
more acceptable TO some of the fair sex.
The oyster police Sloop Groonse is frozen
up in Miles river. Meanwhile the iredgeIS
are violating the law hy taking oysters on
forbidden grounds. PETITIONS have been
forwarded to the Governor for the Balti-
more ice boat to come to her relief.
Capt Nathan Corkran, formerly of this
neighborhood and now Of IIivre de Grace
commander of the schooner Richard
Rtoads, who is supposed to be lost with
his crew on the coast about the 18th of
December, wrote to his father " His Cork
ran, near this town, from Norfolk, Va,
about December, l9jh that lie was lying in
that port waiting for favorable weather.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

To CORRESPONDENTS -"Claudc's' vii
ming'on l. tier, and our North East items
both reached us too late for publication
this week.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
e We have just opened the handsomeSt
line of Hamburg Edgings and Iusertings
ever offered in Cecil county.
McCRERY & BOULDEN.


'o"ARDLf ASSAULTS" men cahdl-
date for high office is so well liked and so
nonular with the masses as To make his
tai.at ditf;rnlt in = f,irand bnuor,l,Ia ti,,,t
moan and cnvardlv mon are Nor wanting
who deIioh, in Observation-Disclosures lies and slam.
d,riup Ills Good name There are. also.
those whose seItishness prompts them to
prostitute their honor, pcryert truth. and
IGNORE RIGHT for the sake of iuiurinr 4 conn
nctitor in business whose nr0snaritv ,hev
nn,y and viii whose Lr.;nas. s,,,,city
,ho, nor rho ,aIo,t +, y s,c,.cy. r,II,7 cn,r
nate in an hnnnraI,In way Thasn th1nnbts
ara srcrested nv the moan cor,,dlv at
tarl,S mad, u,or mo ,.d INV medicines Inv
tLn.e who IMAGINE thair nacuniorv nrnS
rcc+s iniuraa h, tha rraa+ napuI.ritv which
my standard medicines have ocnuirad and
thn continuad Crn,ytb uf nv nrofessional
pr,otice Narrov;-mind.d ,tractitioners of
medicine and maruf,cturn,c of nra,,aro
lions which do NOT Masses sr Efficient merit
,o sucrassf,1Iv con,te,,. fnr ,,o,,,l,r favor
have rpsortrd ,o surI, rowardIv strategy as
+, nuhlish all sorts nf ridicuIous renorts
ahont tho cornositinn of my medicines
\lmonacs .Rrceint BnoLs' > and other
uamuhlets arr. issucd and scattered broad
cast over the land. wherein these contempt.
bic KNIVES rubliSh nreterdpd analyses of
NV medicines and rcorIuts for maxine
them. some of these publications are
,ivrn bich sound;nr names nretapd to he
i,sped by resnectahle men of rduG,tion and
position. for the GOOD of the prople-thc
more comuIrtely TO blind the reader to the
real ohicct in their circulation which is to
i,inre tie sale of nv medicines The
pnnnIar HeaIth ,Imanac, * the high-
sonnd,nc name of ON. IF these nuhIicn
tions. which contains bogus RECRUITS, with
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

~z5''2 600 Yards of Hamburg Edeings
just opened. GLASS FRONT.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03
TIE GRAND COMMISSION.
LIS PERSONNEL.

The Grand Commission which is to settle
all disputed points, aud declare who is
elected President Of the United States, is
now made up. justices Field, Miller, Cliff
ford and Strong, the four Supreme Judges
named in the bill, have selected Justice
Bradley as the fifth Justice and fifteenth
member of the tripartitc commission. On
the part of The Senate, Mcssrs. Edmuuds,
Morton, Freiinghuysen, Thurman and Bay
ard have been chosen, and upon the part OF
the House, Messrs. Payne, Hunton, Abbott,
Hoar and Garfield have been selected
Everything relating to the members of this
important commission is now of great i'll
tcrest and brief sketches Of them are not
omiSS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-02-03

FAT HOGS WANTED by the>r
Il ST. r'j1.r IT, Yves >.rg.,-h,m ,vu- q TY4
-nlp, n,r Fremont H. a., Chester r.u..ty. \ lIlS9
Pa ISAAC NICHOLS