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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

The latest song is, "Two Tramps that
Beat as One"
London has 1000 miles of gas mains,
and upwards of "a, 600 lamps.
-Venison sells for five cents pound in
Wisconsin. Cheap for deer meat.
There are IA, OO7, 522 school-going chill
dren in the United States and Territories
-"Man proposes but there are still
81 ,000 more women than men in Massachu-
sets.
One certificate of Stock belonging to
Commodore Vanderbilt, represents $780,
600, 900.
-"Hugging Bees" are the newest
Western invention. They are as amful as
popular.
"A Denver journal records case where
a Chinaman twas frostbitten from this
cold world into the rosy future"
An Irish painter announced in an Irish
journal that, among other portraits, he had
a representation of "Death as Large as
Life"
To Indianapolis belongs the honor of
having invented fine tooth comb which
can also be used as stove-handle and
tack hammer.
A young poet out West, describing
heaven, says: It's world of bliss fenced
in with girls Where is the man that
won't repent now.
The municipal funded debt of the
United States is estimated at $500, 900, 600,
and somewhat more than one fourth of
this amount belongs to the State of New
York.
An intoxicated man told New York
judge that he had seven reasons for get
ting drunk. Said he: give got six boys
in my family, an last night-its girl,
Judge He got off.
The Leavenworth Times sums up a
late breach Of promise suit in two head
lines, thus: can Injured Woman Sues
Her Deceiver for $50, And She Runs
$40, $50 Behind the Ticket
mere were no morse rallrOaQS Ill Lon
don before 1870, and there are now over
twenty four routes in running order. The
traffic has increased from 4, 900, 900 passen-
gers in 1871, to 21,000,0 GOO in 1875.
The new census in Paris shows that
the city has a population of 100000.
This was the population in 1870, just pre-
vious to the Franco German war, SO that
the city has simply regained lost ground.
The following is genuine copy of
bill made out by the hostler of an inn in
village in Dorsetshire, England Galore
theos (hay for the horse), 3d.. ; clninosausha
cleaning horse and chase, 4d.; brininoni-
momign bringing him home again, 3d.;
total, Is. Id.
This is told of Judge Abbott When
he was in Charleston, few days ago, he
asked the old darkey at work in his room
what made him so slow about building the
fire. The aged African replied exact is,
Judge, dar is no coal down stairs. Use
been up and down de alley and stole all de
wood | could find, and, in de present
demoralized condition of society, | can't
do no better"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

/ These and other preliminaries arranged,
we set out for Alton in order to pass over
to Missouri, on the opposite side of the
Mississippi river-the place appointed for
the fatal encounter. My father and myself
both accompanied Lincoln and Merryman
to the scene of the action-he to see the
fun, and to see that there was no fight.
My prediction was fulfilled. Shields would
not, or at least he did not, fight with broad
swords.
Lincoln had put down his foot for broad
swords, and nothing could shake his pur-
pose. Gen. Ewing, the friend of General
Shields cursed and swore, and carried on
at a great rate about "the - barbarous
practice of fighting with broad swords in
the nineteenth century," Mr.. Lincoln very
coolly and calmly replied that for his part
he thought fighting duels in any way a
rather barbarous practice for the nineteenth
century, and he had to fight he would choose
his own weapons The more Gen. Ewing
insisted on rifles and pistols the more Mr..
Lincoln held on to the broad sword; and
there was another dead lock-" But it
did not last over an hour or two. General
Shields was finally induced by his friend to
withdraw his challenge. Mr.. Lincoln ex,
planned the offensive matter in the only let
ter written by himself, and the great trou-
BILE about the pin was settled honorably to
both parties" The second of Mr.. Shields
had declared, before the choice of broad
swords, "that he would as soon think of
asking Mr.. Shields to butt his brains out
against brick wall as to withdraw that
paper the challenge; but yet, after all,
this son of blood and thunder did with
draw that very paper rather than expose
his brains to the long sword and the long
arms Of Abraham Lincoln.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

ORSON D. FOtLkS, MAE FOULkS, HIS WIFE AND
WILLIAM ii. ABBOTT.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Chupcery
December 81, 1876.
THE object of this suit is to procure a
decree for n sal. of certain mortgag-d premises in
Cecil county, which were, the 18th day of December
i'll the year 1866 mortgaged by Charles T. Foulks and
Martha D. Fouiks his wife, of the city II Philadelphia
and State of Pennsy lvania. to the complainant.
The bill states that the 9TH day Of December in
the year 1866 the said Charles Fouks and wife CON-
veyed certain real estate which is described in the bill
and Its accompany exhibit, unto the complainant by
way of mortgages secure the payment of the
eight thousand dollars with Interest from the first day
of January, in the 1867, which then due and
owing from the said Charles T. Fouks to the complain
ant before the first day of January in the year
1873. The bill admits the payment of interest accrung
prior to the first day of December, i'll the year 1874
also the payment of five hundred dollars Of the princ
pal sum of said mortgage debt.
The bill further that the said Charles T. Fonlks
and wife by their deed dated 18th of December in the
year 1873, conveyed their equity of redemption in the
SAID mortgaged property 10 Orson ID. Foulks of Cecil
county, and that afterwards the 25t day of Novem
Der, in the year ls74 the said Orson D. Fouik- and Mae
Foulks, his wife by their mortgage deed of that
conveyed their interest i'll the said property certain
William ii. Abbott who is resident of the city OF
payment Of the sum Of five thousand dollars The bill
then claims that the of seven Thousand five hun
dred dollars aud interest thereon from December LIST
1874 has not been paid to the complainant al thou ri,
the time limited for payment has passed.
1t is thereupon adindged and ordered that the com
painant by causing copy Of this order to he
in newspaper published in Cecil county once !,
week for month before the BIRD day of .Januar,
next, give motto. to the said William II. Abbott who i,
nonresident aforesaid, of the object and substanc,
of the bill and him appear this Court in
person by solicitor, before the 23rd day o
April next to answer the premises and show cause
any he has why decree ought not to pass prayed.
A. W. MITCHELL, Clerk.
True copy; test. A. ". MITCLELL,
Dec Is, 1S76-lm Clerk.
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BUBBLES.

Never postpone happiness.
Can the news transmitted through the
ocean be fresh?
Before arithmetic was invented people
multiplied on the face Of the earth.
-" Potatoes" says an Irish agricultural
journal, "should be boiled in cold water"
Why is nursery a good place for
dancing. Because it is regular bawl-
room.
How handy Baron de Palm would
come in now to sprinkle on the slippery
pavements.
Mrs. Darlington is credited with say
ing that few persons nowadays suffer from
suggestions of the brain.
There's no special style of engraving
engagement rings A SPIDERS web with a
fly in it is very pretty device.
The man who was moved to tears"
complains of dampness of the premises,
and wishes to be moved back again.
-Simkins has found that the pleasantest
way to take cod-liver oil is to fatten pig.
cons with it, and then eat the pigeons.
-" Times are so hard" says Brown,
"that have had to reduce my cigar bill
to forty dollars a month" Poor fellow.
1t was a very cold day, and Bennett
and May were both shaky. 1t is doubtful
whether they hit the State of Delaware.
An Irishman being asked why he left
his country for America, replied, sit wasn't
for want; had plenty of that at home"
Ladies who can't afford costly furs now
wear a thin lace scarf about their necks
evidently on the ground that it is chir-
chiler.
The times are so hard that an Irish
man says he has parted with all his elegant
wardrobe, except the armhoes of an old
waistcoat.
Don't say this is not pleasant world
to live in, there are 695 varieties of dolls.
With this number to choose from every
one should be happy.
A grave digger, who buried Mr..
Button, put the following item in the bill
which he sent to Mrs. Button: "To
making one Button hole, five dollars
AT medical examination young as
pirant for a physicians diploma was asked,
I" When does modification ensue 90
"When you propose and are rejected"
was the reply.
"A gentleman was accosted by boot
black in this manner: "Shine, SURF"
"No"' "Shine 'em quick. sur. Dot in
three different languages Publican, DEM
ocratic, and greenback." He got the job.
When an unsophisticated young girl
gets her pompadour panier on before, in
the excitement and nervousness attendant
on the trial trip, her general resemblance
to a Uuion Pacific snow-p pillow is what
makes people stop and stare at her in
speechless amaZement.
She was forlorn and mild-spoken
woman, but firm, and as the lady of the
house placed half loaf of bread and
some cold meat in her basket, she calmly
said" Ma'am, | couldn't think of taking
it. You've given me cold veal once afore
this week, and my family hasn't been raised
TO repeat their meat more'n once in two
weeks"
George Eliot says that girls are delicate
vessels, in which is borne onward through
the ages the treasure of human affection.
George George, you don't know anything
about it. Did you ever take a week S
salary into ladies' restaurant and try to
fill one of these dedicate vessels " with ice
cream, layer cake and chocolate caramels ?
GIRLS, it can't be did. This idea is stolen
from the Cuniform inscriptions found at
! Niueveh
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20
NOTICE.

IN THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY.
ORDERED, This 9th day of January,
OS77 that the sale of the real estate OF Allen hrk
deceased made and reported by Luke Brown Executor
of said deceased ratified and confirmed unless cause
contrary thereof be shown on or before the l2h
day of March next; provided copy OF inns or'er De
inserted in some newspaper printed in Cecil county
once week for one month before the 18th Of February
next. .-.,..
The Report states the amount of sales to be 5OOoo
R. D. LAMAR. Register.
True copy: test, u. 'hMah'
Jan l3 1s16-lm Register.
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A Race of Men with Tails Reported.

From tile Pail Mall Gazette.
A Wesleyan missionary, the Rev. George
Brown, has returned in safety from an ex-
ploration of twenty months on the unknown
coasts Of New Britain and New Ireland.
He crossed the latter island, which he found
we'll populated. "No white man was ever
seen inland before, but no opposition was
offered to the explorers. A difficulty was
experienced in getting the natives to go any
distance from their villages, as they are so
often at war with one another. Plenty of
proofs of cannibalism were found. One of
the party, on going into one house to light
his pipe, saw woman roasting the thigh
and leg of man who was killed the day be
fore" The exploring party were inter-
ested in the curious legend of the tribe of
"tailed men which is met with in many
uncvilized countries, but they did not, I'M
fortunately, succeed in getting any further
than second hand testimony. The ma
tives," it is stated, "of Blanche Bay, New
Britain, affirm positively the existence of a
race of men with tails at place called Kali,
and deny Indignantly that they are mon
keys, asking if monkeys could fight with
spears, plant yams, make houses, etc"
But it is significantly added that the inter
esting race dwell in the interior of the coun-
try, "where no white person has ever pene
trated.' Mr.. Cockerell. naturalist, who
accompanied the expedition, had special
opportunities of research. He was de-
tanned for some time as a hostage in New
Britain, and was engaged. in collecting
upon New Ireland for five months. He
found the natives Every friendly" but he
does not otherwise give them good char
acter, "They are all dreadful cannibals,
/ and there is a strange custom in New Ire
/ land, which requires that chiefs daugh-
| ter shall be kept in cage within her faith
er's house until she is of manageable
age. The cage scarcely gives her room to
move, and she cannot leave it during any
part of the day, though she is allowed to
| take a stroll with near relatives after night
fall. When chief dies his body is wrapped
up and placed in tree, and the poor PEG
Pile are put in canoes in the sea to float
away. The natives have large plantations
and work about two days in the week.
They live chiefly on bananas, cocoa nuts
and pork, but they also indulge in human
ilesh.'
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NOTICE.
JACOB TOME

BENJAMIN F. MAY AND JAMES ALFRED MAY
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Chancery
No. 735, d. 3.
ORDERED, This 21st day of December,
" 1876 that the sale made and reported by jacob
Tome of the mortgaged real estate of benjamin =
May and James Alfred May, be ratified and confirmed
unless cause the contrary thereof be shown on or
before 23rd day of February next provided, copy
of this order be inserted in newspaper printed in
Cecil county once week month before the 23rd
day of January next.
The Report states the amount OF sales TO be leaoo
A. W. MITCHELL Clerk
True copy: test, A. W. MlICHELL
Dec % lSI6-lm Clerk.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

Ia Long indulgence in over eating or
drinking produces dis 'rganized Liver,
and all the evils attendant upon such de-
rangement: depression of spirits, habitual
costiveness, nervous exhaustion, indiges-
ton; pain in the head, with nausea; full
ness of stomach after meals, chilliness.
general debility and languor. Seek relief
from Simmons Liver Regulator. 1t is a
very valuable remedy for dyspepsia, sick
headache, torpid liver and such like dis
eases.-W. S. Holt, President of S. w. r.
r. Co., of Ga" 81
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TO TAXPAYERS

Seventh Election District, Cecil County.
On all taxes for 1876 unpaid February lst ls' inter-
cat will h. charged from January lst 1871 until paid
And hereby give notice that taxes for 1876 remain
ing unpaid April LIST, 1871 will distraln Tor same
according to law. j. y. KEi NoLpa'
Collector of Taxes,
Seventh Election District, Cecil county, Md.
Port Deposit, Dec To- lSi6-3m
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NOTICE.
WILLIAM l.. BOSWELL

ELIZABETH II. THOMAS EFT AL.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Chancery
ORDERED, This 21st day of December,
" in the year 1876 that the sale made and reported
by James T. Mccullough Trustee for the sale of the
Real Estate of Russell Thomas, deceased be ratified
and confirmed unless to the contrary thereof be
shown on before the 23rd day of February in the
year 1877 provided copy of this Order be inserted in
newspaper printed in Cecil county. once week
for month before the 23rd day of January next
The Report the amount of sales to be $1,000 90
A. W. MITCHELL Clerk.
True copy; test, A. W. MlTCHELL
Dec %, lS76-lm Clerk.
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HARRIET yANNBMAN ET AL.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity.
No. GIL, D.3
ORDERED, This 4th day of January, in
Ohe year 1877 that the sales made and reported by
" iam J. Jones, Trustee, for the sale of the real
estate mentioned in the proceedings in this cause he
ratified and confirmed, unless TO the contrary
thereof lie shown before the 9th day of March,
next provided, a copy of this Order be inserted in
newspaper printed in Cecil county once week
for month before the 9th day of February next.
The Report states the amount of sales To be co.
A. W. MITCHELL. Clerk.
True copy: test, A. W. MITCHELL.
Jan &. lSs7-1m Clerk.
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DENTISTRY.
DR. r. F. TULL,
NOTICES, &c.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

THE creditors of Keaveny, Tosh u Co:
are hereb; notified file their claims against said
firm with the vouchers thereof with the Clerk OF the
Circuit Court Cecil county before the 10th day OF
MARCH 1877, BY order Of the Circuit Court for Cecil
county. IhoMAs u DoNp,
Dec % ls!6--Im Receiver.
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FOR RENT.

THE DWELLING portion of the house
Il on Main street part of which is occupied by
me Store. Possession 18th of Marcel.
GEO W. TAYLOR.
Or, JONES 4 HaINES,
Dec 30. IsIs-3u ATTORNEYS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

tE- You can buy from Messrs. VIM. Read
& Son, 10 Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, a
good English Breech- loading 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. Write
them for catalogue.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20

l. decree the sale of certain mortgageh premises
1853, morgaged by John Thompson, deceased and the
defendant Elizabeth Jane Thompson, to the COM
planant.
The Bill that the said John Thompson deceased
and Elizabeth Jane Thompson, on the Sth day of April
1858, conveyed certain real estate which particularly
described in the Bill and its accompanying exhibit
unto the complainant, by way of mortgage, to secure
the payment Of S0000 with interest from the date of
said deed which then due and owing from them to
him, in year from the thereof That the whole
of said of money. and interest is still due and
owing. That the said John Thompson has since died.
leaving Will which did dispose of said real estate
That he left the said Elizabeth Jane Thompson his
widow and the said Lewis Thompson, Martha Cameron
Louisa Richardson, Margaret johnson and Hannah
Hyland his only children and heirsaaw, and that the
said Jacob Hyland and Hannah Hyand reside out Of
the State Of Maryland.
1t is thereupon adudged and ordered, that the com
painant, by causing copy of this Order to be inserted
in some newspaper published in Cecil county,
week for month before the 2nd day of February
give notice the said absent defendants Of the
object and substance of this Bill, and them
appear in this Court, in person or by solicitor,
before the Ind day of April next, to the prem
ises and show cause, if any they have why decree
ought not to pass as prayed.
A. W. MITCHELL, Clerk.
True copy; test A. VI. MITCHELL,
Dec 80, lS66-lm Clerk.
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Board Of Control and Review,
NOTICE.

DERSONS who may consider themselves
L aggrieved by any valuation of property, made by
the for any Assessment District within tn.
ursdc ton of this Board. hereby notified that
ensure full consideration of such complaints and aT-
peals in time TO complete the returns which this
Board is required to make under the General Assemb
Act such complaints and appeals ought to he made To
this Board the earliest possible day after the
this Board of the of the property
corning which such persons may consider themselves
aggrieved 1t all in which complaint appeal
made within thirty days after the to this
Board OF the valuation complained Of this Board will
proceed, although complaints appeals be made
review under the given To il by the Assess
ment Act the valuations returned to it, and will
consider such review final disposition upon its
part of all valuations in reference TO which com
plant appeal has been made within the time desig
mated aforesaid
The assessment for Cecil county having been fully
completed by the Assessors, the
Board of Control and Review
hereby give notice that they ready to hear any
Appeals from the
By order of the Board
WI. R. GILPIN,
Nov Is, 1s76-tf Clerk.
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Board of Control and Review
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
JOHN WORTHINGTON

ELIZABETH JANE THOMPSON, LEWIS THOMPSON
AND AMELIA his wife. HUGH CAMERON AND
MARTHA, his wife, RICHARD II. RICHARDSON
AND LOUISA, his wife, JOHN JOHNSON AND
NAH his wife.
In l,eC EarC ncilr In Eulitl
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NOTICE.
HARRIET yANNBMAS ET A

HANNAH JANE STEEL by her next friend HUGH
STEEL
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
JOSHUA CLAYTON fof Thomas


ORS0N D. F0tLkS, NAE F0ULkS, HIS WIFE AND
WILLIAM ii. ABBOTT
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Chapcery
December 81 1876.
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TNHE object of this suit is to procure

In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity
December 10Th, 1876.
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GLEANINGS.

One Column $500 per inch for year. Three changes
allowed to yearly advertisers without additional charge
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-04-19
Preparations for War.

LONDON, April IL, \ despatch to the
Daily times from Pesth asserts that the
Turks intend to cross the Danube at the
same time the Russians cross the Pulth.
The Turks will probably throw bridges
over the Danube ut Widdrn. Nikapuli$
and Kustchuk. In thus securing and to!--
tltying positions on the left bank they
will derive a decided advantage unless
Roumania intcrteres, which is not proba-
bic, for the Russians must take three
weeks to reach the Danube Should war
break out.
The Teegraph's Vienna despatch re
marks it is feared Austria will not be able
long to remain an indifferent spectator.
The attitude she is preparing to assume
is one of defensive neutrality. The in
tluence OF Sclavonlc committees extended
almost to Austria's frontiers, and Austrian
statesmen who consider its vicinity in
permanent peril are bent ON checking its
progress and taking steps to annihilatc
its effects on the Selan population.
\ correspondent Of the Daily Telegraph
says: have just inspected the Ottoman
fleet in the Bosphorus and find the condi-
ton of the Sultan's navy really splendid.
The vessels are fully manned and the dis
clplnc IS as good us possible. Admiral
Hobart Plcshe has been appointed Com
mander of the Black Sea Squadron, which
comprises fifteen ron-clads. The forts on
the Bosphorus are also ready. The re-
ports from the armies are satisfactory.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-04-19
Letter from Senator Blaine.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD Youl
Columbia correspondent is III error in his
statement that | had conference with
Gov. Chamberlain in New York. have
seen Coy. Chamberlain but once for {,
year, and that was in the private Cabi-
net room of President Hayes, on the 27tll
OF March Nor have | written or tee-
graphcd him, or heard from him in any
way. The same is true respecting GOV.
Packard, except in the matter of one tel
egram received from him, which read
publicly in the United States Senate
But | am sure that Gov Chamberlain
knows that he has my protoundest SYM
pathy in the heroic, though unsuccessful.
struggle he has made in South Carolina
for civil liberty and constitutional govern
ment. am equally sure that Gov Pack
ard feels that my heart and judgment are
both with him in the contest he is still
waging against great odds for the Gov
ernorship that he holds by a title as valid
as that which justly and lawfully seated
Rutherford B. Hayes in the Presidential
chair.
| trust also that both Governors know
that the Boston press no more represents
the stalwart Republican feeling of New
England on the pending issues than the
same press did when it demanded the en-
forcement of the Fugitive Slaw law in 1851
Very respectfully, j. G. BLAINE
AUGUSTA, Me, April 10, 1877.
American made boots and shoes ara noyp bono