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THE WAR In EUROPE.

The Daily Telegram despatch from Rust
has commenced among the Russian troops
on the opposite bank at Giurgevo. Eight
battalions of Russian infantry, several bat
terics of artillery and squadrons of cavalry
passed through Giurgevo, following the
road to Siminitza. They have considera.
BILE force at Komava, Desultory firing is
going ON. The Turkish troops are enthu-
siastio."
The TelegrapEs special from Bucharest,
after recording the visit of the Grand Duke
Nicholas to the city, says: "The campaign
will now proceed according to the original
programme, the Romanian army remaining
on the defensive within its own territory,
the Russians crossing the Danube at eight
points simultaneously and pressing forward
toward the Balkans with all possible rapid.
ity, leaving behind in Bulgaria civial Off
Gals charged with the reorganization of the
institutions
Signs of activity multiply ON the Daunbe.
The Russians arc moving more troops to-
ward Galatz, evidently intending to invade
the Dobrudi ia at an early day. Further up
the river the main army continues to move
eastward of Giurgevo, upward of 10000
troops having already taken that route
Cannonadng has been maintained between
Giurgevo and Turtukai, the Turkish for.
tress on the opposite shore. Another bat
tie is expected at Batum in Asia Minor.
The Russians admit that they failed to
destroy Turkish frigate with torpodoes,
but claim that their steamer and boats are
safe. The British fleet has arrived at Port
Said, at the entrance of the Suez Canal.
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Catholic fellow citizens! Surely this was a
desperate attempt to create brotherly feel
ing among all men! Truly this was dis
play of charity! We venture to say that
the sensible men and women of his own
congregation will be far from putting his
teachings into practice. Who would?
We have not yet exhausted our supply of
notes, but to review all would occupy much
greater space than we feel at liberty to ask
you to allow. After all, we feel satisfied
that MIR. Heberton has done more good than
harm. The truth loses nothing by being
assailed, and the Catholic Church at all
times courts investigation. She is not {.
political party, whose leaders are fearful
lest the captains of the opposing hosts
might discover their plans; but her church
doors stand ever open, her worst enemy
may enter, and her ministers inculcate her
teachings without hestating. Possibly Mr..
Heberton may have believed all he said, to
be true; but he is certainly of all men the
last who should attempt to stir up strife,
where peace and harmony reigns. Let per-
secution and calumny cease, and brighter
era begin; when Protestant may meet Cath
Ole with a smile, not with a frown; when
all may be united in a spirit of true charity
and when it may be said, with the Psalmist
of old, Behold, how good and how pleas
ant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity. CHRISTIAN.
Elkton, Ad., May the 18th, 1877.
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Coon ADvICE.-Now is the time of the
year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, &c.
Every family should have bottle of Bo-
sCEHE's GERMAN SYRUP. Don't allow for
one moment that cough to take hold of your
child, your family or yourself. Consump-
ton, Asthma, Pneumonia, Group, Hemor-
rhages, and other fatal diseases may set in,
Although it is true nERM4N SYRyn it
curing thousands of the dreaded diseases,
yet it is much better to have it at hand
when three doses will cure you. One Bot
tie will last your whole family Winter
and keep you safe from danger. If you
are oGnsumptiye do aot rest unit! you have
tried this remedy. Sample Bottle 10 cents.
Regular size - cents. Sold by H. H.
Mitchell, Elkton; f. B. Frazer Port De-
post; and DIR. l.. r. Kirk, Rising Sun, and
Druggists generally.
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HARD TIMES.

When the history of the present de-
cade comes to be written, the historian
will find no subject connected with it
more worthy his careful consideration
than the universal stagnation of trade
which, for so long time, prevailed.
The causes which led to it, its long
duration, the financial embarrassments
which it produced, and the remedies
that were efficacious in effecting cure,
will be fertile topics for reflection.
The history of the country presents,
perhaps, no exact parallel to the condi-
ton in which the business interests of
the land have been since the panic of
1878. Other periods of business de-
preston have occurred, and been quite
as far-reaching in their effects, and the
masses of the people have felt quite as
severely the pressuse of hard times. u
But the revival of trade has always
quickly followed, and the commercial
failures that took place served to clear
the business atmosphere. In this in
stance, however, the stagnation is uni
versal and continued. No industry or
interest has escaped, and in every sphere
of life there is felt, to greater or less
extent, the want of money. Begin
ming in September, 1878, when the
crash came, it has continued for nearly
four years without single encouraging
interval.
The causes which lay upon the sur,
face and are most frequently seized
upon arc" wildcat speculations, rail
road investments, business ventures
that took the risk of magnificent reali-
cation or total loss. But these were by
no means all, for the prolific source OF
the evil comes nearer home to the great
body of citizens in the private extrava
gance that prevailed during the years
that Immediately succeeded the war
and the prevalent prohigacy that grew
out of that great struggle
That the end of the present state Of
affairs will soon come, and recupera
ton quickly ensue, we must continue tc
hope. The war in the East, giving a
new and stronger impulse to commerce
the prospects of good crops through
out the country and the promise of re
munerative prices for grain give reason
for abundant courage and expectation
America is too great nation to sub
nit for any considerable length Of time
to business paralysis. Her resources
are too unbounded, her material wealth
too extensive, her opportunities and
natural advantages too numerous tc
permit her to remain in the position in
which circumstances of an exceptional
character have forced her for the past
three and half years. We confidently
look forward, therefore, to the begin
ming, before many months, of pros
perity that will be unparalleled in oul
history, that will extend to all classes
of our people, and which will be stabl,
and enduring, because founded upon
the sound principles of integrity and
fair dealing.
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PRESIDENT HAYES AND MR.. TILDEN.

If Mr.. Tiden and his New York
coterie of officials desire to forfeit en-
tirely the respect of all right thinking
citizens, they need only persist in the
course which marked their treatment
of Secretary Evarts few weeks ago
at Albany and of President Hayes on
Monday and Tuesday last during his
visit to New York City. With Bour-
bonish obstinacy they have refused to
accept a righteous verdict and in a
spirit of extreme pettiness and spite
fulness declined an invitation to meet
Mr.. Hayes at dinner rendered by the
New York Chamber of Commerce.
They fear that to shake hands with Mr.
Hayes will be to recognize him in his
official capacity, and, to that extent, to
concede the injustice of the claim which
they have persistently set up to the
Presidency.
Now from whatever standpoint the
matter is viewed, Hayes is the legal
President of the United States, and
however much Democratic disappoint-
ment may deny, he occupies that posi-
ton to-day not only with the decision
of duly constituted commission in his
favor, but also with all the right and
equities of the case upon his side He
represents majority Of the legal vot-
ers of the country, but because the acts
of White Leaguers and other political
banditti were nullified and their designs
frustrated, Mr. Tilden and his friends
attempt to palm off the bitterness of
defeat for the air of injured innocence
They endeavor to make denunciation
and vigorous asseverations DO the work
of reason and argument, and cheap pro-
testations and ridiculous obstinacy take
the place of facts and figures. The
scheme is entirely "too thin" But if
it affords Mr.. Tilden any pleasure, his
indulgence in that direction can do no
possible injury to the President, while
it will only tend to lower Tiden in the
estimation of considerable class of
people who have heretofore been in
clined to regard him fayorably.
BY the way, we have noticed lately
that the organs which, while protesting
that they were not organs, took their
cue from Mr. Tilden and for several
weeks after the Inauguration vehemently
shouted His Fraudulency," whenever
they had occasion to refer to Hayes,
are not now in such terrible state of
effervescence Can it be possible that
Democratic vituperation has already
spent itself? Has the boiling indigna-
ton of the immaculate patriots so sud-
denly cooled? Have "the warnings
for the flesh pots" been so quickly
quieted, and shall the stainless bosoms
of the modern REFoRMERs no longer
swell with the burning sense of wrong
that they have suffered? Is degencr-
acy universal? and have crime and cor
ruption so completely lost their hide
Gus mien" as only to excite transitory
flashes of condemnation and hate? o
tempora! o mores!
But worst of all, even the spotless,
undetiled organs in our own dear old
ring-ridden Commonwealth have set.
tied down into condition of compare.
tive tranquility, have smoothed their
wrinkled fronts "aud become as ''suck-
ling doves" remembering, no doubt,
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Late News Items.

Gen. Grant and family sailed from Phila
delphia for Europe, on Thursday.
The depot building at Little York, Court.
land county, New York, was burned on
Tuesday. Five children of the station
agent persisted in the flames.
The South Carolina Legislature has been
discussing the payment of interest on the
consolidated debt, and the chances seem to
be fair that the creditors of the State will
get somthing.
The Grand Encampment Of Odd Eel
lows, of Pennsylvania, in session at Erie,
is said to be the largest ever held in that
State. More than 100 I" Past Grands' OF
subordinate lodges were admitted to MEM
bership in the Grand Lodge on Tuesday.
President Hayes held reception in the
City Hall, in New York, on Tuesday, and
for an hour and half the people steadily
pressed in to shake hands with him. In
the evening he was again entertained at
the residence of ex Governor Edwin d.
Morgan.
Accounts are received from Denver of a
serious riot by the miners of California
Gulch, who compelled one of the ownt rs
who had fallen into their hands to pay
Them lOur thousand uOllarS, ana naQ CON-
pleted preparations for lynching him. At
the latest dates it was believed that danger
of further violence was over.
A crisis has occurred in the French Gov
eminent III consequence of the repeal by
the Chamber of the law of last year. The
freedom Of the newspapers seems to be
so exceedingly Objectionable to President
MacMahon that he has quarreled with
Jules Simon, President of the Council, on
account of the latter's sympathy with the
repeal of the law, and as consequence the
entire Cabinet has resigned.
Fires have been raging during this week,
in the lumber regions of New Hampshire
and New York On Wednesday, the peo-
pie of Stockpole. Corners Corners and
Centreville barely escaped with their lives.
At Centreville, number of dwellings and
their contents, six mills, church. 1G5, 900
pieces Of lumber, 10000 shingles and a
quantity of other property were destroyed.
The fire was burning within a mile of
Ellesburg during Tuesday. 1t started at
Churubusco on Saturday, but was not then
thought serious; when a force of men was
detailed to fight it, it had gone too far to
be checked. The loss in the county is
estimated at $3.50, 900.
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AMONG those who passed by the
President at his New York Reception
was a one-armcd soldier, who presented
his left hand saying, al have only the
left left to hand you, Sir" The Presi-
dent quickly replied, You are right,
Sir, but your right: l am sure, was left
in the right cause" One of the last
persons to take the Presidents hand
was an old gentlemen who, with smile,
said, 90 didn't vote for you, Mr.. Hayes,
but | would do so if | ever had the
chance again"
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FARMERS, ATTENTION.

TNHE next meeting of the "Cecil Detec-
l. tive Association" will be held in Rose bank Hall,
Brick Meeting House, On FRIDAY EVENING, May
18th. at o'clock.
Officers elected for ls77--Presdent Levi r. Nearns
Vice President Wilson D. Pi-rsun Secretary and Treas
urer, James A. Mearns. NJ r.: Directors, John Under
wood, Samuel Clifford II. III. Duyckinck Samuel Pass
more. DR.. Turner, and Adam X. Magraw Members on
the Roll-hfty-two.
directors requested to 8 o'clock p NJ to e.tab-
fish routes, &c. JAS. A. MEARNS
May l9-lw Secretary.
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Notice to Creditors.

This is to ii We notice that the subscriber of Cecil
county ati obtained from the Orphans Court Of said
county letters Of Administration the personal
of WILLIAM SHR0RF,
late of said county deceased All persons having
against the said deceased hereby warned 10 exhibit
the same, with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
On or before the 1Ttl day uf May 1873:
they may othersise ly law he excluded from all benefit
of said e=tatp All persons indebted to said estate are
requested tr make immediate payment the subscriber
Given under my hand, this 10Th day of May 1877.
THOMAS kENNiRD
Administrator of William Shron decd
Ttst-REUDES d. JAMtE, Register.
May lu-EM
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B- Hardly to be credited, but it is never
theless true, that q sick horse or bad con.
ditioned COW can be brought up in few
days by the use of Simmons Liver Regula.
tor, The powders should he mixed with
the food, and they will eat it readily; and it
is surprising to zee what improvement i'm
mediately takes place. 1t opens the bowls
strengthening them, and does all and even
more that the best Condition Powders. A
small quantity in the food for chickens will
cure cholera, and keep the poultry healthy.
46
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enlisted in favor Of the nation which
gave us its encouragement in the hour
Of our national trial, and as the soldiery
of the Car sweep on towards the Turk
ish capital all true Americans will be
glad to hearin their solid tread the death
knel! of Mohammedan tyranny.
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WADE Hampton has dragooned the
Democrats in South Carolina into the
election of his candidate for Chief JUS
tice, and now he is practically autocrat
and dictator. If he fails in restoring
harmony" his own party give notice
that they decline to be responsible.
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that however fully they may be con-
vinced that Hayes is usurper there is
in our Gubernatoral mansion at An
napolis, as Artemus Ward would say,
"A Fraudulency AS is A Frauduency !"
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Now and then a statesman arises
who says what he means and means
what he says. Such one is the melan-
choly Mr.. johnson of the Louisiana
Legislature, who plaintively remarked,
"All say is, just give johnson his
mileage and let him 60 home"
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Notice to Creditors.

This is 7" siye a.ioe, that the subscriber Cecil
county, hath obtain III from the OrIsns Court of said
county letters Testamentary the personal
SARAH j. BRI KLEY,
late of said county, deceased All persons having claims
inst the said deceased hereby warned exhibit
the same, with the vouchers thereof duly
On or before the 9TH DAY Of May, ISIS;
they may otherwise. by law be EXCLUDED from. all benefit
of said estate. pGrsans Indebted said estate are
relues ted To hake immediate To the Subscriber
Given under nay hand this 10th day of May. N77.
JAMES a. COULS0N.
Executor of Sarah j. Brickley decd.
Test-REunEN b. LAMAR, Register.
May l9-6w
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ANOTHER proof of The Presidents in
efficiency has come to light. He refus-
es to deadhead it, even in theology, and
has advised the elders of the Foundry
Church in Washington that he is will
ing to pay as mach as any member for
the support of the church. A vigorous
yelp from the Bourbon organs is in
order
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EVEN Democratic editors are disgust
ed with the work of the last House of
Representatives. They say it will be
known as the Candle-end and Cheese
pairing Congress.
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THERE is a loud call for Gov. Stone
of Mississippi to be doing something
about that Kemper county massacre.
Newspapers of all parties are joining
in it, and there is an immense volume
of public Indignation behind it.
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BRIGHAM Young won't be pushed in
to war; the Wing party refuses to be
materialized; William Allen and Charles
Francis Adams have retired from poll
tics; Cronin's nose is merely an ordi-
nary luminary Ben. Wade won't write
any more letters, and the nephew of his
uncle must go thirsty all the time
truly this is going to be dull Summer
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THIS dispatch is being sent out from
Washington on the authority of a So
called intimate friend of Mr.. B!aine's
He is bitter in his opposition to Mr.
Hayes policy, saying that he will OPP
pose it to the end, even if there should
not be another Republican in the Senate
with him. He believes Mr. Hayes in
gratitude to the Republicans of South
Carolina and Louisiana is simply in
famous" The best comment on the
above is given by the correspondent
himself, who Immediately adds: "Sena-
tor Blaine was entertained at lunch by
the President on Saturday"
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MARSHAL Frederick Douglass says
concerning the Washington excitement
about his Baltimore speech 4" 1t is all
a tempest in teapot"
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Mr.. Charles Francis Adams says he
has retired from politics. Wouldn't it
be more accurate for him to say he )" has
been retired ?"
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The death of Miss Chisholm, wound
ed while defending her father from
assassins, reminds US that no such ter
rible infamy has been inflicted upon our
country since the murder of President
Lincoln. No act done in the South
since the firing on Fort Sumter has so
blackened the character of her people.
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THE opponents of the Administra-
ton seem to have reached their wits
end, and they haven't travelled very far
either.
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A new revolution is promised in Mex,
leo There has not been an overturn
of the government for three weeks.
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ter its division, the church has again
come together, probably never again to
be separated
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For The Cecil Wing.
MIR. EDIToR:-In one of your late issues
you gave it as your opinion that the defer
ring of the extra session Of Congress from
the 4th of June to the 18th of October would
work no detriment to the two branches of
the public service (army and navy, for
whose relief the session was to be held.
fear sir that you have failed in being a
prophet in this case, for two months of the
period have not passed before the wall of
distress is heard from hundreds of families
who are alone dependent ON the small sti-
pend they receive monthly from the SER
vices Of husband and fathers. Greedy land
lords and other creditors are knocking at
their doors, demanding their months rent,
etc. No explanations will satisfy them
and many a helpless family is threatened
pay of the navy should convince you that,
with very few exceptions of the highest
grades, the pay of the navy is only from a
hand-to mouth living. Never stationary in
any one place, they have neither the means
or time to secure permanent homes, de-
pending alone on rented quarters to shelter
their families; and if the rent is not pune
tually paid, then the trouble begins This
deferred aid has opened fine field for
brokers and money. shavers. Already they
are offering to loan the officers and men at
an enormous rate of discount, which their
pay cannot possibly bear, and unless the
Government shall open some avenue of re-
lief there will be much distress among
many families. Yours, PORTER
-FOUR correspondent fails to place the re.
sponsibility of the present troubles of the
army and navy whore it rightfully belongs,
that is upon the late Democratic Congress,
who under pretense of economy, refused to
supply the means for their payment In
pestponing the session of Congress-, the
President has chosen the least of two evils.
We are pleased to announced, however,
that arrangements have been made through
Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co. to meet
Por The Cecil Wing
MIR. EDIToR.-Having been time after
time imposed upon in the purchase of
flower seed, plants, bulbs, &C., hesitate to
order, fearing again like fate. Do you
know of any thoroughly responsible party
from whom can order?
Yours truely, GARDNER.
Elkton, Nay, 10Th 1877.
Gardener need have no hesitation about
ordering of James Wick, Rochester New
York Ed
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ELKTON. MAY ~, 1877.

1T must be awful to be Democra-
tie editor and obliged to keep mad in
such weather as this.
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HERE is another Democratic sorrow
Messrs. Drexel & Co. are willing to ad-
vance means to pay the army until Con-
gress meets. Is there no way to pre-
vent men from doing what they please
with their own money? Howl, oh We
Democrats, for the evil days have come
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On the 18th day of November, 1928
body of men belonging to the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, contending for
lay representation which the church at
that day would not recognize, coded
from that society and organized the
Methodist Protestant Church. In No
vember, 1858, thirty years afterwards,
another separation took place on the
slavery issue, and twenty conferences,
including the bulk of the membership
in the free States, dropped the word
Protestant and have since been known
simply as Methodists." On Wednes-
day last the representatives of the two
bodies, numbering about two hundred,
who had for day or two been in sepa-
rate session in different parts of the city
of Baltimore, came together at Starr
NJ P. Church, in that city, and, amidst
fraternal greetings, sacred melody and
great manifestations of religious enthu-
siasm, consummated the purpose of their
visit to Baltimore, namely, the union of
the two bodies; thus, twenty years af-
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OUR Southern brethren had a cele-
bration ON Tuesday of the anniversary
of the battle of New Market, and went
in for "Union and fraternal feeling" by
lavish eulogies of the men who defeated
Gen. Sigel at that place. How they
would swear if we were to celebrate
the surrender of Lee
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To President HAYES !:

For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
NOTICE.

NolICE.
TfHE firm of Kirk j. Haines. at Rising
4 Sun, is hereby dissolved by inatual consent. The
business will be continued by Lewis Kirk.
JNO b. HAINES,
LEWIS KIRK.
Risn. Sun, Md, Nav 10th 1877. Tmay lew