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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

JOHN wORTHINGToN
ELIZABETH JANE THOMPSON LEWIS THOMPSON
and AMELIA, his wife, HUGH CAMERON aud
and LOUISA, his wife, JOHN JOHNSON and MAR
GAREr, his wife, JACOB HYLAND and HANNAH,
his wife.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity.
No. 755, D. 5. May s, 1877.
THE object of this suit is to procure a
l. decree for the sale of certain mortgaged premises
i'll Cecil county, which were the sth day of April.
1865 mortgaged by John Thompson, deceased, and
the defendant Elizabeth Jane Thompson, to the com
plainant.
The Bill states that the said John Thompson. decd
and Elizabeth J. Thompson, the 9Th day Of April
1865 conveyed certain real estate which is
described in the Bill and its accompanying exhibit,
unto the complainant, by Of mortgage, to secure
the payment of s. 10000 with interest the date Of
said deed, which then due and owing from then to
him, in year from the date thereof. That the whole
OF said sum of money and interest is still due and
owing. That the said John Thompson has since died
That he left the said Elizabeth Jane Thompson his
widow and the said Lewis Thompson, Martha Cameron
Louisa Richardson, Margaret johnson and Hannah
Hyand, his only children and hers-at-law and that
the said Jacob Hyland and Hannah Hyznd reside out
of the State Of Maryland.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered, that the
plainan by causn. copy of this Order TO be inserte
in some newspaper published in Cecil county, once
week for month before the 18th day of June
give notice the said absent defendants of the sub
and object of this Bill, and them appear
in this Court in person by solicitor before the
18th day of September next to the premises and
show cause if any they have why decree ought not
pass prayed. A. W. MITCHELL. Clerk.
True copy; test, A. W. MITCHELL,
May l2-lm Clerk.
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BUBBLES.

Maid of money-A young heiress.
Spring showers-Clerks showing new
goods.
Walking in your sleep is now termed a
transaction.
The weather has nothing to do with
the heat on a race course.
Whatever the appropriateness of the
name may be, Kalafat is not in Greece.
What lovers swear-To be true until
death. What husbands swear-Untit for
publication.
Advances made on land in Europe and
Asia, without interest. Apply at the Rus
sian Army.
The man at the strawbury festival who
loudly sings I" would not live always"
usually eats fourteen shortcakes.
Some one who believes that "brevty
is the soul of w.t." writes:-ss Don't eat
stale Q cumbers. They'll W up
The price of strawberries is gradually
coming down, but they are still so high
that only editors of newspapers, Niagara
Falls hackmen, plumbers and other million
airs can afford to indulge in them oftener
than twice day.
When you hear mother calling to her
son, to "come here and shut the shutter"
and hear him respond, sit is shut, mother,
and l can't shut it any shutter" do you
ever pause to analyze the delicate beauties
of our language?
-" Postal Card Proposals." read Miss
Pert, Indignantly, from the Washington
news: elf a man has not got stamps
enough for letter he has not got stamps
enough to get married. No cards for
me, if you please"
Charles, playfully-"How much, really,
did that hat cost, Jennie?" Jennie, archly
eff you really want to inspect the bill
for my dry goods, Charles, there is way
to do it." And what else could Charles do
but propose on the spot?
"A correspondent writes to ask why
newly married men are called Benedicts
The reason, we believe, is that in entering
on their new state of life they are supposed
to give up all the bad bachelor habits to
which they have benedicted.
"A Frenchman, having heard the word
press made use of to signify persuasion, as
"Press that gentleman to take something
to eat" took occasion at party to use a
term which he thought synonymous, and
begged friend to squeeze a young lady to
sing.
-" Were you member of the army?'
asked the traveller of the wooden-legged
man from West Hill. "Yes, SIR was the
reply; 81 was membered by a recruiting
officer, dismembered by rebel artillerist,
and remembered by peg-leg manufac-
turer.'
The Burligton Hamkeye says that a
man who will order fifteen cent drink,
throw down a quarter and never wait for
the chance, will get down on his knees in
a street car and claw around in the straw
for two miles and a half, hunting for a
cent he has dropped.
An elderly darkey was inquiring of a
policeman if he knew anything of his son
Pete. The policeman replied that there
was young darkey in the lookup for
breaking up prayer meeting with an axe
handle. "Dat's him." exclaimed the over
joyed parent, she told me he was gwine
to muse hisself.."
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he carefully rolled back his cuffs, spit on
his hands, and grasped the iron bar firmly,
while the proprietor stood by, with great
anxiety depicted on his countenance.
"Now," said the tall man, impressively,
as he slowly exalted the bar, care you
ready?"
"All ready" returned the proprietor,
excitedly.
Then" said the tall man, "bring on
your rats"
For the space of five minutes the excite
ment of an entire Presidential election filled
the room. When it subsidized the tall man
was no where to be seen, and the proprie-
tor was standing before glass, tying an
oyster on his left eye. The rats still revel
in their native freedom.
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Describing the Cinnamon and their
haunts in San Francisco, the Bulletin of
that city gives the following account of one
of their opium dens and the method of
smoking the drug "A first-class opium
den is fitted with a table about 8 feet long
and feet wide, and about p feet high.
This is covered with mating, and fine mats
are placed on this. In the centre of the
table is tray containing opium, opium
pipes, and peculiarly shaped lamp, which
has small flame. The opium pipe is made
of piece of mahogany or ebony wood.
The stem is about three quarters of an
length. A hole about half an inch in diam
eter runs the whole length of the stem.
About six inches from the end of the stem
is the bowl of the pipe. 1t is made of
peculiar kind of sand and clay in China,
and is very hard and fire proof. The bowl
is about two inches in diameter. The top
of the bowl is entirely closed, except
small hole in the centre, about the size of
a large darniug- needle. In the bottom is
hole about half an inch in diameter, into
which is inserted brass coupling connec-
ting the stem of the pipe. The opium is
kept in small box, made of horn. Every
Chinaman carries one. When person de-
sires to smoke opium, he reclines upon the
table, upon one side. With piece of steel,
about the length and size of large knit
ting needle, and sharp pointed, little of
the opium is taken from the box. 1t is
held over the flame of the lamp until it is
thoroughly cooked. The piece of steel
is kept in motion all the time, and the
opium cooked is formed into the shape of a
small pistol cartridge. The point of the
steel needle is then inserted into the
small hole in the centre of the bowl of the
pipe to the and gently drawn through the
cartridge of opium. The smoker then turn
the bowl of the pipe to the flame of the
lamp, reposes upon wooden pillow, and
smokes. He gently draws in his breath in
long and rapid respirations. He must be
careful, however, to slightly remove his
lips from the stem of the pipe when taking
breath. If he should breathe slightly in
to the stem it stops the flow of the smoke
of the opium. When the flow is stopped
the sharp-pointed steel is used to open the
small hole in the bowl of the pipe, 1t
takes about three minuets to prepare the
opium for the pipe and about one to smoke
it out, ten or twelve whiffs only being re-
quired. From six to twelve pipefuls are
generally smoked before the smoker is sat
istied. A little over year ago great
many white people of both sexes patronized
the opium deus. The Board of Supervisors
deemed it best to put check upon the
growing evil, and stringent law was pass
ed making it a penalty of not less than
$500 for the keeper of any opium den to
allow white person TO smoke in that place.
1t was also made a criminal act for any
white person to be found in an opium den,
the fine being fixed at not less than $50.
Since the passage of this act the dens drive
less lucrative business. Their customers
are all Chinese, two generally occupying
one table and using one lamp. The Chinese
resort to opium smoking for any slight all
ment, and it is regarded by them as a pan
acea for all their ills.
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Notice to Creditors,

This is to give notice, that the subscriber of Crci
county. hath obtain ID from the Orphans Court OF
county letters Parliamentary the personal estate
SARAH J. BRI KLEY
late of said county deceased All persons having claim
ag inst the said deceased hereby warned exhibit
the same, with the vouchers thereof duly
On or before the 18th day of May. 1873;
they otherwise. by law, be excluded from all bench
of said estate All persons indebted to said
reques ted to make immediate payment the subscriber
Given under my hand this 10Th day of May. ls77
JAMES A. COULSON,
Executor Of Sarah j. Brckley, dec Il.
Test-REuBEN d. LAMAR, Register.
Nav -6w
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Notice to Creditors.
Notice to Creditors.

This il to give notice. that the subscriber of Cecil
county hath obtained from the Orphans Court of said
county letters of Administration the personal estate
of WILLIAM SHROFF,
late of said county deceased All persons having claims
against the said deceased hereby warned exhibit
the same with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
On or before the 18th day of May 1878:
they otherwise by law be excluded from all benet
of said estate All persons indebted said
requested TO make immediate payment to the subscriber
Given under my hand, this 18th day Of May. 1877
THOMAS KENNARD.
Administrator of William Shron, decd.
Test-REuBRS D. LAMAR, Register.
May -6r
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man, with long, thin, gray hair, standing
beside fence, holding it with trembling
hands, as though to keep himself from fall
ing. Beside him a middle-aged woman,
dressed in black, with her hand on the old
mans arm, looking with fearful eyes into
his face. My own eyes fill with tears as
see them. ] cannot bear to look, and
run into the house, for know the woman
in widows weeds is telling the old man,
her father, that he must 60 to the aims
house.
know very little about either the man
or his daughter. The old man is the rela-
tive of my landlord. "Uncle," they call
him. And they tell me that once he had
wife died. He had one son and one daugh-
ter. The daughter lives miles away, was a
widow, and worked hard to support herself.
The son was married, and to him the old
man gave up his little property, expecting
to be cared for the rest of his life. God
alone knows where the blame lies; but the
son and father quarreled, and the old man
left and came to his other friends, thinking
childishly, he could yet earn his living.
But the Winter was coming. There would
be no more work out doors the old man
could do, and, well he must 60 to the aims
house. And this bright October morning,
with the leaves of trees scattering over
them as they talk, she is telling him. Poor
old man! he looks as though she had cut
him to the heart.
rush into the house to my room, catch
up my baby daughter, and cry out: go
my love, how many hard things there are
in this world! God help us alln' She pats
my cheeks with her little hands, and COOS
as if there were no sorrow ever to come to
her. Thank God! none ever did, for my
little daughter is in Heaven.
VarG in 4rthur's Magazine.
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PL A n tt
KITCHEN GARDEN

l8EETS.
Early Egyptian, Blood Turnip,
Long Dark Blood
CABBAGE.
EARLY York, Early Wakefield,
Early Fottlers, improved Brunswick,
Late Flat Dutch, Large Drnuhcad,
Drumhead Savoy, Improved American Savoy.
CAULIFLOWE
Half Early Paris, Lenormand.
CELERY.
White Solid, Seymour Superb,
Superb Dwarf
CELERIAC.
Turnip Rooted Celery.
EGG PLANT.
New York Improved Purple.
LETTUCE.
Tcnni. Bell Royal Summer Cabbage,
Hanson, very large.
PEPPER.
Large Bull Nose, Cayenne True, pods small.
TOMATO.
ConIueror Earliest of fair size,
Cooks Favorite, very smooth,
Trophy True, none better.
SAGE. Broad Leaf.
SWEET POTATO.
Nansemond True Jersey.
All these Plants of the very best quality, and will
he sold by the Dozen, Hundred or Thousand.
ROBT. III. BELL.
Nav l2-2m HIGH ST, ELKTON, ND.
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FOR RENT

TNHE STORE ROOM in The Cecil Wing
l. Building recently occupied 10y John Wikinson.-
Possession given Immediately. Apply at
Sep TO- lS76-u THIS OFFICE.
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NOTICES, &c.
NOTICE

INHE firm of Kirk & Haines, at Rising
l. Sun, is hereby dissolved by mutual The
business will be continued by Lewis Kirk.
JS0 d. HA1SES,
LEWIS KIRK.
Rising Sun, Md, May 10th, 1877. may I9 --3w
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JOB PRIS SE1xsi an. r.our1.r.
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SPRING OPENING.

Spring has come, and
we are ready for it, with
the finest assortment Of
Ready-hlade Clothing ever
offered in America.
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Our goods represent the
latest New York Styles.
and our twenty-five years
experience in manufactur-
ing Clothing is sufiici ent
guarantee fer tit and work
InanshiP.
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One Column, $500 per inch for year. Three changes
allowed yearly advertisers without additional charge
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Buying all our goods for
cash, and possessing great
facilities for manufacturing
enables us to sell SO remark
ably low.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13

THE London Times, after a review
and criticism of several points in Sec
retary Sherman's Mansfield speech has
this pleasant word to say of American
credit:
"We have had to differ from Mr..
Sherman so much that we are glad to
be able to conclude by Joining with
him in one subject of congratulati0n.
He estimstes the annual saving caused
by the funding operations since March
last at s., 18l 900. This is clear gain,
and it is tribute TO the honesty of the
Federal government. While State
|Governmeuts have been shamefully
|insolvent, and private traders and cor
porations have done so much to destroy
American credit, the trustworthiness
of the Federal Government has steadi
ly risen, and we see no reason why Mr
Sherman's anticipation should not ul
timately be reaiized-tbat the whole
Federal debt should be converted into
four per cent bonds. The prevailing
paralysis of trade has at the same time
assisted the operation OF conversion
Investors must place their money
somewhere, and, having been bitten il
other directions, they have resorted Il
the stocks SOfGOvernments which coulo
be trusted. The reasons which have
loaded our banks with money when NJ
industrial enterprise could obtain an!
favor in the market have operated t
accredit Uuited States bonds, whil'
American railway and other securitle
have been discredited."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13

As A means of prevention, absti-
nence from the habit of drinking is to
be enforced. Such abstinence may not
have teen necessary for our fathers,
but il is rendered necessary for large
body of the American people on &C
count of our greater nervous suscepti-
biIty. 1t is possible 10 drink without
being q habitusl drinker, as il is posi-
Bile to take chIoral or opium without
forming the habit of taking these sub
substances. In certain countries snd
climates where tie nervous system is
strong, and the Temperature more
equable than with US, in what is some
times called the temperate belt of the
world, including Spain, Italy, Southern
France, Syria and Persia, the habitual
use of wine rarely leads to drunken
ness, and never, or almost never, to in
abriety; but in the intemperate belt,
where We live. and which includes
Northern Europe and the United
States, with cold aud violently hang
ing climate, the habit of drinking eth
ar wines or stronger liquors is liable tC
develop habit of intemperance. No
tably in our country, where nervOu:
SeDsitiveness is seen in its extreme
manifestations, the majority of brair
workers are not safe so long as they art
in the babit of even moderate drink
ling. For those individuals who inheri
a tendency to inebriety, the only saf'
course is absolute abstinence, especial
| Iy in early life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13
Wilson Shannon.
GAINESVILLE Courier.

LaDesVllle COURIER.
Many of the present generation will
inquire, who was Wilson Shannon? IL
you can find any Of the old politicians
of 1888, 40 and '42, they will be able to
tell you who Wilson Shannon was.
Wilson Shannon was, at one time, one
of the leading spirits OF the Democracy
in the Buckeye State. He never was
great man, Intellectually, but be pos
sessed the elements OF a successful pol
iticisn. The cid Wings remember the
time that
'.Wilson Shannon caught tannin'
From Tom the Wagner Boy"
He caught a tannin' from Tom the
Wagner Boy in 1910, when Old Tip
pecanOe and Tyler too overturned ev-
erything in the Buckeye State-seized
the Democracy by main strength and
crushed them. They set coons on
them, and dosed them with hard cider
until they struck their flags and Joined
in aiding to roll the ball along. Will
son Shannon was not satisfied with the
way his faithful flock was tampered
with in 1910, and put himself in train
| ing for two years, vaulted into the are.
ma and clinched his old antagonist, and
to the surprise of the old Wings, when
the smoke and dust cleared away Will
son Shannon was on top. In 1910 Tom
Corwin was elected over Wilson Shan
non by a majority of over fifteen thou
sand, and in 1912 Wilson Shannon was
elected Governor over Corwin by 6
majority of less than two thousand.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13
Temperance.

The words of DR.. Cuyler, spoken at
Boston on this point, are worthy Of the
widest circulation and attention:
at is the business of the church of
God to save the children from being
wounded. 1t is not our business to use
the bandsge, the sling, and the poultice
|if by increased fidelity and devotion
the wounding can be prevented. There
are thousands to-day in danger that
never have fallen. but will fall if they
are not prevented. 1t is time to 90
back to the preventive work, and If We
do not there wi be an immeps
amount OF curative work to be done. II
men like Mr.. Cough and Mr.. SAWYER
throw a line into the stream aid now
and then secure poor drunkard, why
does not the church go five miles above
the falls and keep the children from
throwing themselves into the stream
1t is time that the church of God from
the pulpit clear down to the farthest
instrumentalities should give up the
bottle. When the devil puts a demi-
john into. the pulpit its contents are
sure to break out into half tie pews.
When man puts alcohol down his
throat and then tries to speak temper
ance, there is a strong collision in his
throat. The minister should see to
himself and see that his church is right
on the temperance question. A tenn
perance wheel propelled by the power
of God is great help to the church.
Men should understand that it is Q part
land parcel of Christ's work of soul.
Saving. Love of Jesus, hatred of sin,
and love of souls, are the three things
which We should require in Christians.
Why should not every one of you 90
home determined that before thirty
days your church shall have a we'll or.
ganized temperance society, have it ia
the Sunday school, for if the children
are lost all is lost. Administer the
pledge to the children, for child that
can say to his mother, Il will not lie
any more can say L will never touch
the Intoxicating cup God is now lay.
ing this work pre-eminently on his
church. Whatever you do by law you
cannot excuse yourself or your church
from this duty which God has imposed
upon you. What mistake people
make ia committing. the pure white
banner of Temperance to the hands OF
politicians. They will run it up on
their staff, and when the staff is cut
away down comes the flag. 1t is to the
church of God that the cause must be
entrusted"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13
The Arithmetic of Life.

Rev. DIR. Henry Smith, in addressing
the senior class of Lane Seminary on
commencement day, gave this graphic
view of the opportunities of life:
Do you remember the inexorable
logic of that remarkable arithmetical
speech which Thomas DeQuincy made
10 himself and to some imaginary
friend, when standing precisely where
you are standing to-day, at the begin
ming of his work of life: my friend,
You make very free with yeur days;
pray, how many do you expect to have?
What is your rental as regards the to-
tai harvest of days which this life is
likely to yield? Let us consider
Then follows his arithmetic, which ]
give without his language. Seventy
years Of life yield 25,550 days. Re
member now, that twenty years have
gone before beginning-before having
attained any skill or system, or any
definite purpose In the distribution Oi
time.
Deduction No. /, for twenty years
before beginning, 1900 days; remand.
er you have to deduct one third, at 8
blow, for one item, sleep. Deduct No.
2-12,l70 days. y
Once more DeQuincy says, on account
of illness, of recreation, and the serious
occupations spread over the surface o.
life, it will be little enough to deduct
another third. In the case of the min
ister it will be more, rather than less,
for, rs understand him, the time oc-
cupied in public speaking comes in
here but call it one-third. Deduction
No. $1,000 days, leaves remainder
No. 3-S,110 days.
Finally, he says, for the item which
the Roman armies grouped under the
phrase ''cOJpus ctrdre," attendance
upon the animal notwithstanding
drinking, washing, bathing and exer
cise-deduct the smallest proper
amount from the last remainder O
S,1l0 days, and you will have less thar
1900 days, in long life, left for the
direct development of all that is mos
august in the nature of man. Aftel
that comes the night when no man Car
work.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13
Death Of the Founder OF Adams
EYDreSs.

Alvin Adams, founder of Adams
Express Company, died at his resi-
dence in Watertown, Mass, on the lst
inst, in the 73d year of his age. In
Boston, in 1910, he opened an express
office in connection with p. B. Burke,
whom he had induced to join in the
venture. All the local and suburban
business was done on foot, and the sue
cess of the new firm was so limited
that Mr.. Burke retired disgusted at the
end of six months. The entire ex-
press business in Boston at the time
iof Mr.. Adamsb began was transacted by
Hsrnden d Co., and the former seized
the opportunity offered by their ab'
sorption in foreign operations to open
an Office in New York and to ether
wise push his fortune. His energy
and ability began to tell. and his rapid
ly increased until agencies were es
lished throughout the country. LIZ
1854 Mr.. Adams retired from busineS:
the possessor of great wealth, but HI
remained a stakeholder in the compa
until kis death.