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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-05-17

Close connection at Harpers Ferry for all points
East and West.
may Is S. NJ. WOODWARD, DR., Supt-
w c., vIRG. MIDLAND & G. 8. R. R.-JNo
w S. BARBOUR, Receiver.
On and after Monday, May 7th 1877, Passen-
ger Trains will run as follows:
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Port Deposit Items.
WOOD LAWN CAMP MEETING

WOOD LAWN CAMP MEETING
commences Tuesday, August 14th. The
first service will be held in the evening.
The secretary, Mr.. C. S. Abrahams, has
received orders for about the same num-
Der of tents as in former years, and while
there will be a good many changes the
same number will tent on the ground as
usual. A large number of ministers have
accepted the invitation of Mr.. Rigg, the
preacher in charge, and he will have an
excellent corps of assistants. At the meet
ing of the board of managers, held last
Tuesday, they gave permission to those
in charge of the Murphy Temperance
organization of Port Deposit and Rising
Sun to hold service in the large union
tent, when other meetings are not in pro-
gress. They also approved of the arrange
ments of the Secretary of permitting VIM.
Oliver the use of the BARRIERS tent. Will
liam is a good barber and all who call on
him can get good shave.
THE EXCLUSION.
A large number of our colored citizens
left on the stermer .SaraA Il. Taggart for a
trip to Annapolis they were joined at
HAVE de Grace by goodly number from
that place.
ITINERANT sHOWMEE.
Three men with an organ and a monkey
dancing on table afforded amusement for
the Juveniles of our town on Tuesday after
noon. They gathered up the spare pennies
and left in the evening.
HON. j. TOME
left for Dinnequa, on Wednesday morning
to spend few days Of social pleasure.
THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS
are taking up their candidates for this Fall $
work. Rumor has it one of our citizens
is talked of for the State Senate, besides
they claim one or two more of the miner
offices.
THE ROADS
leading out of town have been terribly
washed by the rains and need repairing
badly. The County Commissioners in
selling the roads did not sell them down to
Main street, as it has been the custom in
the past, and our city Fathers will not as
sumo the control, as the water from more
than mile on some of the roads run into
town, and do not believe they should be at
the expense, besides the citizens within
the corporate limits pay large proprtion
of the district tax. Messrs. J. ii. Rowland
and J. j. Abrahams are having the Port
road put in good condition for travelling,
but expect the county to foot the bill, as
they should do without any opposition.
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who takes out license to engage in it,
with the suspicion of being = thief and a
liar? We do not say :his; i is the lac
that says it, even if some good men, now
i'll the trade, have failed to see the position
in which they are placed.
With all these odiouS restrictions, the
man who now sells liquors is specially pro-
tectcd from any liability for damages he
may commit, as is no other man, in any
other occupation in the country. Why the
corporation of Port Deposit was sued for
having hill in their limits . down which
drunken man might fall An apothecary
is liable to a criminal prosecution for sell
ing poisonous drugs, if any mischief befall
his customer. If a farmers sheep are killed
by dogs he can recover, but his sons may
be all killed and he is powerleSs to prevent
it or prosecute the offender.
Yes, while the State grants these licenses
and exactS these terms she is yet partner
in the transaction, and liable for any dam
age committed by her agents; but the agent
himself cannot be held to any personal ac-
count under the present arrangement.
The second object aimed at by license is
to keep the business in bounds and prevent
disorder. If what we now witness is a
sample of the order that license law
secures to us, what must disorder bel
They say the object of the present law is
to keep the business in the hands of
respectable men," How long will Gre
spectacle men" support a business that
must cause their fellows to violate every
rule of the decalogue? If the object be to
prevent Intemperance, then the less respect
a6ie the dealer the BETTER for his power to
work mischief ceases with his loss of Gre
spectablity." On the other hand, if it is
merely to allow a wealthy few to monopo-
lie the business, then the law is undemo.
cratic and should never be tolerated in a
free country. One man has Just as much
natural right to sell as another, and the
poor man is just as mnch entitled to be
protected as the wealthy. PUBLIUs,
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Farmers Hotel, lost a fine horse on last
Friday evening, from an unknown cause.
Mr. II. drove the horse to the Rising Sun,
in the morning, seemingly all right, and
not until five o'clock in the evening was
there anything wrong noticed From the
time he was first noticed until he fell dead
was less than half an hour.
BASE EAfL.
On last Saturday afternoon, quite an
interesting, though rather one-sided, game
of base ball was played in the suburbs of
town, between the Pennington Club and
Brick Meeting House Club, resulting in a
victory for the latter. Score: Pennington,
8; b. NJ. House, 23.
BEATEN AGAIN.
Mr.. Bob Frazer's eighteen ounce potato
has again been beaten and by one only
lacking a half ounce of coming up to the
Christiana Hundred potato. This man.
moth potato, weighing nineteen and a half
ounces, can be seen by calling on Mr.. S.
Hambleton, at the BRICK.
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Upper Principle Items.

DISTURBANCE OF THE PEACE.
The residents of our usually quiet and
peaceable village were unexpectedly dis
turbed in their slumbers on Saturday night,
2lst instant, by the appearance of rioters
in our midst. They threatened much, but
nothing serious occurred, excepting one of
our citizens had the door of his residence
knocked in and the windows knocked out
Quiet was finally restored, partly by the in
reference of citizens headed by the mayor
and magistrate, and partly by the appear
ance of daylight upon the scene. During
the confusion some one inquired, What
shall we do with them? Tie 'em up,
shouted the bailit from his garden across
the street, distance sufficient to insure
his own safety. Such an one is our peace
maker.
HARVEST, ETC.
Harvest is thing of the past in this
neighborhood and some are threshing their
wheat. The yield is in most cases, large,
turning ont, as the farmer terms it, a bushel
to the dozen, which is considered very good
Many of the farmers are preparing to en-
joy ten days rest at Woodlawn camp
meeting, which bids fair to be as well at
tended as usual.
BRIDGE BUILDING.
Our enterprising mason (Mr. Harrison)
is progressing very rapidly with the ma
sonry of the new bridge near Zion. We
can say that the county will receive first
class job from Henry, as he has no supe-
rior at his trade. He is noted for solid
work and square dealing.
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE.
Strong hopes are entertained by the pa
irons of Jefferson school that new and
more commodious school building will be
erected upon the site of the one now stand
ing. The old building is nothing more or
less than a lodging place for tramps and
a disgrace to the school system OF Cecil
county. We hope this nuisance will soon
be removed.
LARGE POTATO.
A very large potato of the Early Rose
variety, weighing 90 ounces, is now on ex-
hbition at j. Lackland's store. 1t was
grown upon the farm of David p. Came
ron, near this village. This beats the Elk
ton potato and also the one from Christiana
Hundred. We do not want the reward
offered by the Wig, as it is sufficient re-
ward for us to know zee are ahead.
SEMPER IDEM.
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Personal,

The Hon. Alexander Evans, ACCOMPANIED
by his son, has gone on trip to Fort Lara
ME, Nebraska, to visit his brother, Col.
Evans.
Elkton from visit to the shores of the
Emerald Isle, where he has been, for some
months past, on a visit to his relatives.
Mr.. w. has decided to locate permanently
ing machines.
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The Gttil MIhia
ELKTON, AUGUST 4, 1877.
IMPORTATION WANTED.

Any one in possession of any information
written, printed or otherwse-traditional
legendary, or acknowledgement as old
wills, deeds, family records, Or letters that
will shed light on the early history and set
Element of Cecil county and be of use in
writing an historical sketch of it, will con-
fer very great favor by sending brief
note to the office of the Wig, stating where
the matter can be seen, or, if unwritten,
where it may be heard, that 1T may be
obtained for the purpose above named.
Please address " office Cecil Wig Elk
ton, Maryland.
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RECEPTION AT GOV. GRooME's.-The
Groome Guards, who have been in readi
ness to march at the call of the proper au-
thorities for some time past, but are held
in reserve, in case of an emergency, met
at their armory. on Monday evening last
and, having been invited by our genial
townsman, Gov. Groome, they, after march
ing through the principal streets of the
town, stacked arms III front of the Groome
mansion and enjoyed the pleasure of par
taking of the Governors hospitality The
Governor appeared quite as much pleased
as his guests, and we are sure we express
the opinion of every one present when we
say that all enjoyed themselves, and each
was pleased with himself and everybody
else The Guards mustered about forty
men and are a well disciplined and credita-
BILE military organization, being armed with
needle %-ns. they, no doubt, will give a
good account of themselves if they are
called INTO active service. After the recep-
ton was over the band played a few pieces
and the company gave three cheers for
his Exoellency and marched back to their
armOry.
Adjutant Gen. +. A. Bond was invited
to be present and review the Guards, but
owing to the strike was unable to attend.
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TIE p. w. & B. CoMPANY.-Ths is one
of the few railroads which had no trouble or
shadow of trouble with its employees dur
ing the late strike, perhaps because it
treats its employees with justice. At any
rate, the fact has afforded President
Hinckley the opportunity fer q striking
point made in answer to an application
from a fruit growers convention for re-
duction of freight. The President SAYS
in reply to this application that the man
tenance of reasonable rates upon this com
pany's lines enables us to pay our employ
ees satisfactorily to them. Although those
employees have, | am confident, too much
respect for their own high and fairly earned
reputation to ever take any part in such
acts as have disgraced in the eyes of good
men the employees of other companies,
yet the fact of reduction of wages at this
time would have afforded the very pretext
needed for communistic disorder to outside
parties. And the people of Delaware, like
the people of other States to-day, might be
suffering from an embargo so far as rail
road communications are concerned, and
might have seen our employees restrained
by brute force from doing their duty to the
public, to themselves. and to the railroad
company rs they always hitherto have done,
and now wish to do.'
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Is Go to Mrs. LITZENBERG' new Mil
linery, Trimming and Notion Store, one
door below Mitchell's drug store, for your
Bonnets, Hats, new style of Belts, Metallic,
&c, Girdles with Fan Holders, Skirt Ele-
vator, line lot of Hosiery, Fans, Hamburg
EIgings, buttons. Yelvcts, Kid and Lsle
Gloves Ribbons, Lace. Caps, Crepe, Veil
ing Ali Millinery Goods % per cent be-
low city prices.
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THE IRON COMPANY,

we learn, have recently torn down an old
is represented by an old forgeman, who
had lived in it some fifty years ago, as
being an old and dlapidated house then
Although the house was of small dimen-
sions, the timber was sufficiently heavy for
large barn. The lath were put on with
hammered nails, evidently long before the
invention of machinery for cutting them.
The Iron Works here have resumed opera
ton, after a suspension of one month. The
long new Hume at the Shannon mill has
been completed, and we understand the
company are raising portion, and other
wise considerable improving, the old North
East mill, preparing for better times.
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DYSPEPSIA.
keller's Vegetable Life Drops
LIVER COMPLAINT.

When from any of the numerous Incl
ting causes the Liver begins to act abnor-
mally, the bile remains in the system,
vitiating and perverting every vital pro-
cess, and causing Boils, Carbuncles,
Blotchcs, Pimples, Coughs Bronchitis,
Asthma, Consumption, Dysentcry, Kid
ncy and Bladder diseases, and many other
disorders, all originating directly or indi-
rectly from the Liver kcllcr's Vegetable
Life Drops induce the healthy action of
the Liver by providing for the removal of
the hillary constituents by the Bowels,
Kidneys and Skin.
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GY"1f success depends upon health de-
ponds upon pure blood DR.. Bulls Blood
Mixture maintains the blood in state of
purity, and health is the result.
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cheare: Pc.os .aa ses: Fa:ly Ma3:!ae il III: wsrli!
For DYSPEPSIA. CONSTIPATION .Jann,licr Bil-
loi' attacks. SICK HEADACHE, Collie depression Of
Spirits. Snj Il STOMACH, Heart Eurn. 40. Ne.
ThF "nirtli'd Southern Remedy j. warranted nat to
contain -in@l" uartrl" 81 Nts.T.. vI ., INJURIOUS
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TRASfPS

e9 Mrs. Julia Frazier, late of Knoxville,
Tenn, writes us that she has been a great
sufferer with iniiammatory Rheumatism
and Neuralgia, and in every attack Keller S
Roman Liniment has given here relief very
often upon one application. She adds:
" Indeed, in relieving pain on every part of
the body l know Of nothing superior. ,"
Hers is the experience of all who use it
as pain destroyer.
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NEW TEACHERS

Much interest is felt in who Mr. Rosine' S
successor will be. Mr.. r. left with the
good will of most all the patrons, and his
reputation as a first class teacher is great
Miss Mary Tammany, of Liberty Grove,
takes Rowandale school, in Pearce's Neck,
where Miss S. w. Broomall taught with so
much efficiency for four years.
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Ii. NJ. House Items.
THE POTATO CROP

is unusually large, both in quantity and
quality in this neighborhood, and as this is
the unlucky year, many Of our farmers are
becoming rather uneasy as to whether they
are going to keep or not. According to
the accounts of some of our best farmers,
the first potato rot of any account CON-
menced in this county in the year 1s47 and
again in 1857 and 81, and as it has already
commenced in 1877, we may look out for
what is to follow.
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EB"" Your Simmons Liver Regulator
has been in use in my family for some time
and am persuaded it is valuable addition
20 the medical science.
Coy. JNo. GILL SHORTER, of Alabama.
1t has proved a good and eflicacious
medicine.-C. A. NUTEING." ).
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SALES OF Town Rudolph
Bennett, Esq, has sold his dwelling and
store property, in West Elkton, to Mr..
William Neach, for $4,000. Mr.. Bennett
has been in the butcherng business here for
forty years and has become very popular
as the poor mans friend, from the fact
that he has been a constant enemy to exor-
bitant prices All our people will learn,
with regret, that impaired health renders
his retirement from business necessary
MIR. Neach will continue the business at
the old stand.
VIM. j. Jones, Trustee appointed by the
Court, sold the Odd Fellows Hall, in Elk
ton, on Tuesday last, to Ex-Gov Groome
for Sc, 900.
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SABBATH SCHOOL Pic -NICs.-The an
nual Sunday School picnic, at Wesley
Chapel, will be held on Saturday, August
18th, at 1 o'clock =. NJ. The friends of
Elkton, North East and Elk Neck are cor
daily invited to be present and participate
with us on the occasion.
The annual pic mic of Harris M. E. Sab
bath School will take place at Red Bank,
on Saturday, August 25th. North East,
Charlestown, Principle and Carpenter
Point Sunday Schools and friends are cor
daily invited to be present and participate
with us.
Quarterly meeting, with appropriate re-
ligious services, on Sabbath, the Goth, in
the same grove, at Red Bank, to be con-
tinued several days, if circumstances are
favorable. JOSEPH DARE Pastor.
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TRAMPs.-These able bodied yagabonds
ought to be prevented from roaming over
the country and levying contributions upon
it like bummers of conquering army,
who consider themselves entitled to be fed
without work, and to perpetrate any indig-
nifty o: wrong that is practicable This is
just what they are doing now in all of the
sparsely populated districts of Maryland.
They could get reasonable wages in the
agricultural regions if they would work,
but they practically claim it is their high
prerogative not to live by the sweat of
their own brows but by that of Others If
this were only question of vagrancy, it
would be difficult enough to deal with, but
as thing that directly concerns the pro-
lection of property and life, and all that
makes life worth having, it demands to be
dealt with promptly and vigorously by all
the capacity the local authorities have to
arrest and punish wrong doors.
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On Friday last the barn of Jacob Hooker,
in Baltimore hundred, was struck by light
ming and entirely destroyed, together with
all its contents. The loss was 81 600.
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Rising SUN Items.
THE HAIRY EST

THE HARVEST
is about over and the farmers can oongratll-
late themselves with good crops so far and
an extra fine prospect for corn.
BUSINESS
is said to be very dull, but still our shops
appear to be full of work. Teams are 90
ing loaded to our ware houses with pro,
duce and loaded back with lumber, coal,
or fertilizers. Everybody that wants to
work appears to have plenty to do.
POLITICS
are beginning to agitate the mind Of the
dominant party. The State Senate is now
the greatest agitation. The "wre- puler'
from "Corner ketch' still holds the forts
for his man, but his opponents claim he
must step down and out. We will see.
The candidates for the sheriffality are stick
ing about the corners and laying pipes to
run in easy. So we go.
CURIosITIEs.
Miss Lizzie Briscoe left at the drug stone.
few days ago, the larva of a new bug
that, in appearance, resembed a miniature
sea lion. 1t was taken from cherry tree
We hope this is not something else to go
for the Changers. "Doctor" Anderson
left also part of natural formed jug
formerly used for whisky, but now, pro
badly, owing to the Murphy movement.
broken. Brinton Nichols left two very fine
Early Rose potatoes.
TRAMPS
are still around, and the number of break
fasts poor, sick specimen can demolish
on warm morning is a caution to dyspep-
tics; but no work for we tramp, if you
please.
TIE GREAT TEMPERANCE
Murphy meeting, at Nottingham, Pa, on
the 10th instant, is the great event in the
near future. JONES.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENT-On Monday the
11.45 A. NJ. train from Philadelphia to Bal
timore was wrecked at Brandywine station
near Wilmington, Delaware. The engine
struck a COW at the station, throwing her
upon the platform in front of the station,
but unfortunately not far enough to pre-
vent her falling back beneath the truck of
the third coach, which jumped the track,
but continued after the engine for one hun
bred and fifty yards, when it went crashing
down the embankment. lying parallel to
the track, speedily followed by the fourth
car, which lay at a right angle to the other
one. A gang of tiremen, who were en-
gagged in putting out fire i'll the neighbour
hood, Immediately removed the wounded
from the wreck to a neighboring house,
some of which We're SO completely fastened
that it required the aid of axes to cut them
out. Sixteen passengers were injured, six
seriously, none killed outright. The rail-
road officials rendered every aid that was
possible for the relief of the passengers
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North East Items.
PLEASANTLY UNrLEAsANT.

On Friday, Goth ult., a pleasure party,
while seeking amusement on sail yacht,
in the North East river, was caught in a
severe thunder storm, and consequently
was compelled to seek shelter with neigh
boring farmer, Mr.. Edward Kemp, who
kindly contributed of his hospitalities for
their comfort during the night. When
morning arrived, they started for their
homes reioicing.
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CeciltOn Items.
NO NEWS.

So even has been the tenor of our ways
here, that for several weeks the itemiZer
has had no occasion to bring his pen into
requisition.
NEW METHOD.
This week our new Board of Town Com
missoners are trying to do away with the
old method of having the streets kept in
repair, by securing the services of some
one that will do it as well and with less
expense, which would be great relief to
the tax payers, for they are burdened.
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A PLEASANT TRIP.

On last Thursday week, your humble
servant and friend took drive through
Elk Neck as far as Mr.. Stackhouse's farm,
on Elk river. We found Mr.. S. suffering
considerably from the effects of broken
arm, yet he seemed to take great pleasure
in showing us around his property. He
has certainly a model farm; one that would
bother our Lancaster county friends to
compete with. He has surely the largest
corn that it was ever our privilege to look
at, taking the entire field. His wheat crop
was also large, amounting to fifteen hun
dred bushels. This certainly speaks well
for his farm, although the growing crop of
is far behind the old Ninth district.
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THIEVES ARoUND.-Mr. George Price,
the proprietor of the livery stable at Glenn
sons hotel, had two sets of harness, valued
at sixty dollars, stolen from his stable, on
Tuesday night last.
On Monday afternoon p. c. Strickland
had some clothing stolen from the clothes
line in his yard, supposed to have been
stolen by tramp.
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NEDiCINII,

ASH the IrroNr ID dys.
- pas. ii..uH> ufcrers,
Nictlus of Fever and A.uc,
thr mercuriai diseased pa
lirrr haN 1l'y recovered
Ia otit',,tl.nlf.. sgii'1 and
9'"i aipoti'r-thry will
I" Il Yea hy taking SIM
MONS LIVER REGULATOR.
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DEATH.
Thomas Y. Fisher, of this distric

Thomas Y. Fisher, of this district, after
lingering illness, died on last Friday
evening. Mr. +. has been suffering more
or less for many years from heart disease,
life great part of the time being burden
to him. Yet he could never become recon
cilcd to the fact that his case was hope
less one.
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BIG PoTATo.-Our enterprising friend
Frazer, he who runs the drug store and
makes the pills. has on exhibition another
mammoth potato. 1t weighs %! ounces
and was grown by Mr.. JAS II. Foard, near
Brewster's mill. in the Fourth district of
this county. 1t is triile more than 81
inches long. The other large potato, that
weighed Is ounces, was considered good
for the time it was dug, it having been
taken from the ground prior to the middle
of July. Delaware papers will take notice
that the Fourth district is ahead of all
competitors.