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four square miles of worked territory
have yielded los, 600 400 barrels of oil,
and he estimated that but eleven miles
of certainly available teri tory remains,
which at the same rate of production
would give ~, GOO, 0OO barrels of oil. In
addition, there are $40 miles of what he
calls uncertain territory, which at the
average rate of production for such soil
would give $4,000. 600 barrels, making
the total supply 5000, 600. AS the av-
erage amount used annually is 25,0o0,0OO
barrels. Mr.. Wrigley thought he had
proved that petroleum must give out
some time in the year 1886. But since
his paper was prepared great excitement
has been occasioned in Warren county,
Pa, by the discovery of wells almost as
remarkable as any known i'll the early
history of the petroleum industry. Three
wells i'll one township, '646, the Great
Unknown and the Mystery. are produc-
ing 4, 000 barrels of oil daily, and work
n1en are busy sinking wells i'll all parts
of the county. The developments in
Warren county are sufficient to over
throw Mr.. Wrigleys calculations and to
Justify the expectation that petroleum
will not give oat until improvements in
the electric light and the discovery of
other oleaginous supplies have rendered
it less necessary to mankind. At present
the expectation of petroleum from the
United States brings us about $40, ooo,
Geo, year in foreign goods or money.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-07-08
MURDER IN THE PRIZE RING.

The narrow escape from death of Wall
ing, the pugilist whom Campbell defeated
in the prize fight in Pennsylvania on
Wednesday of last week, indicates that
actual murder in the prize ring is not i'm
probable When Walling fell at the end
of the thirty-second round his seconds
found that his vertebral column had near
ly been dislocated by the powerful blow
upon his neck of Campbell's fist. The
barbarism of prize fights is forcibly illus
trated by the fact that a pugilist was al
most murdered, and the circumstance
should increase the adherence of the
public for such contests. Were a pugilist
to be killed by blow from his antago-
mist. there would be such a revolt of the
public against pugilism that The prize
ring would be abolished. The illustra-
ton afforded by the encounter between
Campbell and Wallng that the brutality
of pugilism amounts almost to the de-
struction of life ought to arouse the peo-
pie to demand that prize-ti lighting De sup
pressed. Sullivan, the champion bruiser
of America, and Tug Wilson the cham
pion OF England, have made an agree
ment to fight with soft gloves as a pre-
liminary to meeting in the prize ring.
We're the authorities to perform their
duty the barbarians would never meet in
the prize ring on American soil. If the
fight occurs perhaps it would be as well
to have it result in the murder of one of
the men, for then the country would rid
itself of the disgrace of prize fights.
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CARRYING GOALS TO NEWCASTLE

More than million dollars have been
paid for potatoes imported from Germany
and Scotland during the present year,
and a considerable amount of beef ship
ped from New York to Europe has been
brought back here for consumption. The
importation of potatoes still continues, {,
large amount going West to the great
prairies whose productiveness is famous
the world over. The scarcity of beef has
made prices so high that it is thought
likely that the importation of meat from
South America and perhaps from Europe
will be extensive during the next year.
In the spring of 1881 about 30 per cent.
of the cattle of the West had died as the
result of extreme cold and starvation,
and the failure of the corn crop last year
made it impossible to bring what cattle
were available to market in the best con-
dition. Spectators are almost always
charged with ''cornering' the market,
when the price of any commodity is high,
but real scarcity of beef is the chief
cause of the astonishing price now asked
for meat. The necessity of carrying
Goals to Newcastle could not be more
surprising than that of supplying the
United States with potatoes and beet
from abroad.
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JUSTICE, AT LAST.

The vilest specimen Of humanity who
ever got to be conspicuous in this country
since it's earliest settlement, has paid,
though tardily, the penalty of his dia-
Garfield 1t is some consolation to know
that no such creature as Gulteau was ever
before known by our people or as one of
them AL that there was representative
in his character was his morbidly develop
ed hunger for Office, and his belief that it
was entirely legitimate.
But, for the most part, Guiteau was as
alien to the average American as he could
could have been: His ecoentricities did
not amount to madness. but they isolated
him from his race.
All good citizens of the Republic ex-
pelience the sad and sober, but real sat
isfaction OF having executed justice, the
highest end and object of civilized gov
ernment. The people have been Won
drously patient with the most disgusting
and provoking of criminals. They have
respected the majesty OF the law and
waited for its officers to do their work.
And now-in spite of all the mismapage-
ment of the trial-the civilized world
can but respect the people that allowed
even Guiteau to live year after he had
made the whole land house of mourn
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THE ARMY WORM SCARE.

No little alarm is felt at the appear
auce of the army worm in many parts of
the country. The ravages of this pest
are sometimes great, but there is little
reason for fear that it will cause any
great decrease in the crops this year.
The harvest of 1880 was the largest i'll
the history of the United States, and yet
the army worm caused great alarm that
year. The pest may destroy the crops
in sections, but the acreage of the coun-
try is so vast that there may be many
barren spots without seriously affecting
the aggregate yield of the crops. At the
present moment the crop prospect is re-
markably good, if not equal to that OF
1880 at the same date. The chief perils
are from drought and early frosts, but
the hay crop is now safe from drought.
and wheat, barley and oats are not likely
to be much injured by lack of rain.
Corn is the most important cereal, and it
is more likely to be short crop than
any other grain this year. \ hot sun
will send it forward rapidly, and scorch-
ing sun will also stop the work of the
army worm it is said AS July is likely
to be a very warm month, there is hit e
cause for fright lest that pest should
ruin our harvest.
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DOCTORS AND PREVENTIVES.

Whatever may be said as to the uncer-
tainty of curative agents, and the differ
ences of opinion among medical men as
to their relative value, there is very little
difference of opinion upon the subject of
hygiene and preventive medicine yet IN
reference to the latter and most import
ant branch of the art. of which we really
know the most, the people to whom we
minister know apparently the least.-Dr.
Fr"nh H>Ifamito".
The above paragraph is an extract from
Health Aphofisms, a neat little volume
published by Birmingham Il Co., pub
fishers of the Mldicul G0zoHe. The book
contains Dr. Hamilton views as to air,
temperature, moisture, ventilation. hot
air furnaces, light. residence, dress.
bathing, exercise, sleep, food, stimulants
and narcotics. burns, drowning, vaccina-
ton, medicine and other topics. The
eminence of the author and the familiar
ity of his name in every household in the
United States give peculiar interest to
his compact little volume. whose frank
Acknowledgement that hygiene and pre-
yentive medicine are the most important
part of the physican's art, and the one
about which doctors know most, has sell
dom before been publicly made by an
eminent member of the profession. Doc.
tors have seemed to think that to teach
mankind how to prevent disease would
rob them of their practice, but the wiSest
members of the profession know that
such theory is fallacious.
Dr. Hamilton thinks it not topian to
believe that men may obtain the same
immunity from disease and premature
decay as beasts, and in his opinion the
knowledge of hygiene now possessed by
men, if understood and prarttrcd by tie
people, would insure that result. He
admits that the physician comes before
the people On the platform and in the
daily prints as an instructor less than
any other professional man, and it is
perhaps to that fact that we must attrir
| butte the popular ignorance as to hygiene
and preventive medicine. Is 1t not high
time for physicians to break their modest
reserve and use the lecture platform and
the daily press to instruct the people
how to liveo DR.. Hamilton's suggestion
as to this matter deserves the widest cir
culation.
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A QUERY.

The temperance people of Cecil county
seem to be turning to q. w. Crulkshank,
Esq, for the iudgeship because he has
long been consistent friend and advo-
cate of the temperance cause. 1t is i'm
portant to have the courts right on this
vital question. Ledger.
Will some friend of Mr.. Cruikshank' 5
please inform the temperance people of
Cecil county, rhen he became a consist
ent friend of the Temperance Cause, and
There he adr0cated local option i'll Cecil
county, We have looked in vain up and
down the columns OF Tile rCcH Dtmocrat
for one word that looked like encourage
ment to its friends during the late dis
cussion OF local option, and have failed
To find one inc of editorial endorsement
Of measure that all good citizens con-
cede, is blessing to every community
in the county.
Let us have the ecidcnca of what the
Ntrdrh Ledger assumes is the fact.
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.ssYHE+W HIG.s*.

Pse.EMlNENTLY VALUABLE FOR IT'S LOCAL AS WELL AS
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, NEWS COMMUNICATIONS ARE
RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE
COUNTY IN ADDITION TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTIONS
OF ITS REGULAR CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS.
ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS WILL RECEIVE NO
ATTENTION, tn NAME OF The W9tTeE BEING REQUIRED
en- ALL CASES AS A GUARANTEE OF GOOD FAITH.
MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES INSERTED GRATu-
-cuSLY. OBITUARIES WILL sc CHARGED HALF THE
USUAL RATE OF TRANSIENT LOCAL MATTER.
Local matter, Ten cents q line for single inser
ton.
Transient rates-Eight cents q line for one, aud
to1tr cents a line tor euery additional insertion.
oae inch OF space counted as Taoelre lines. One
Column, Fire Dollars per inch, one gear.
-Four changes GHotced to yearly advertisers cifhom
additional charge.
The circulation Of The Wing being among the
most intelligent classes Of Cecil county and the
adjoining counties of Maryland, Pennsylvania and
Delaicare its proprietor confidently recommends 1t
10 Business Men as most desirable medium for
renluneratire advertising.
To maintain its high standard Us family Journal
80 oBensipe Objectionable advertisements wiR be
cdmitted int its columns at any price
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THE Saratoga Joarnal says: The Repub-
lean party has lots of grit. 1t has plenty
of good. backbone. 1t has no more fear
OF bosses, large or little, than veteran
campaigner has of a ward bully. 1t can
neither be wheedled by soft promises,
frightened by threats, nor alarmed by
presages of dire disaster. 1t means bus
mess
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ORDER NISi.
THE PENNSYLVANIA LIGHTNING ROD
COMPANY
rs.
ELIZABETH WALKER Ell AL

In the Circuit Court tor Cecil county. In Equity.
No 1857.
nRDERED. This Sth day Of June. in
" the year 1852. that the sale made and report
ed by l.. Marshall HainCS. Trustee Tor the sale Of
the real estate OF William Watkins. deceased. be
ratified and confirmed. unless cause to the CON
trary thereof be shown before the llth day
August next: provided copy OF this Order he
inserted i'll some newspaper printed in Ceci!
county. once week for one month before the It'll
day OF July next.
The Report states the amount Of sales to be
$1,000. JAMES \. DAVIS. Clerk.
True copy: test. JAMES y. DAVIS.
June lO--lm Clerk.
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II THERE is one article of manufacture
that ought to be taxed to death it is the
Hllainous cigarettes that are destroying
The threats and lungs Of men and max
iag imheciles and drunkards of boys. Yet
oDgress, in its wisdom, has reduced the
IA on these inventions of the devil to
= cents per thousand for cheap grades
.:ld to $500 per thousand for the only
Nnss fl TO smoke.
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PETROLEUM NOT GIVING OUT.

There has been much talk recently of
the probable exhaustion of the petroleum
supply, and in paper read at the last
meeting of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers Mr.. II. i. Wrigley
York and Pennsylvania will cease to flow
within four years. He said that fifty
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ORDER NISI.
! At'DB TOME

] AI7UB ITIIE
WILLIAM p. HOWARD EFT AL
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity.
No. ll41.
ORDERED. This 22nd day of June
" in the year eighteen hundred and eighty two.
that the sales made and reported by William !.
Jones Trustee Tor the sa lie OF the real estate men
toned in the above-entitled cause. be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof
be shown OF before the twenty sixth day Of
August next: provided. a copy of this Order he
inserted in some newspaper printed and pub
liShed in Cecil county. once Il week for one month
be ore the twenty fifth day of July next.
The Report states the amount Of sales to he
81 .U25.Un. JAMES A. DAVIS Clerk.
True copy: test, JAMES A. DAVIS.
June BIN Clerk
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Total taxes for State county purposes Sl09 81
Basis of State Taxation ST. .SI5 i!S
Basis OF County Taxation. l4.ou5 sos
Az the law provides. Taxes will be due and pay
able on the first day OF September next
BENZ. ID. BOWEN. CLERK
of The County Commissioners OF Cecil County.
lime .l-uM
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OK Saturday last, the President nomi-
mated F. NJ. Darby, Esq, of Hagerstown,
as L. S. Sub Treasurer at Baltimore, vice
Peter Negley, who was appointed to the
position by Gen. Grant, in 1869.
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Well try the experiment awhile
of giving you a little more sPe-
cihc news about goods. We
know well, if we can get such
news to you promptly, that 1t
will be acceptable. You can
write or come.
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Guiteau, patriot and Christian; his soul
is i'll glory The body should lie in Il
Booth
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with the improvements thereon, situate in said
town OF Elkton. at the corner OF Main street and
Mill lane. now occupied by said Jacob Rambo
which was conveyed to hun by George Rambo anu
wife. by deed dated May 2Sth 1858. and recorded
among the land records of said Cecil county. in
lber H. X. T.. No. J. folio :sl. Ne. The eseS1r
improvements consist of large three I:.,V
story nearly new DWELLING. large Esss f.
Stable. &c. 1t is very desirable proper a1 s&63l
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THE President has appointed ex-Post-
master-General Creswell counsel for the
government before the new Alabama
claims commission.
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ORDER NISI.
ALICE 5. DONNELL
rs,
)HN W. MORGAN AND MARY MORGAN.
HIS WIFE.

No. 1885 ChGncery.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity.
In relation to the sale of the Real Estate Of
John W. Morgan.
ORDERED. This 9TH dav of july
~ 1882. that the sale made and reported by
Reuben Haines Trustee in the above-entitled
cause. be ratified and confirmed. unless cause to
contrary thereof be shown on or before the 18th
day OF September. 1882: provided. copy of this
notice be inserted in some newspaper published
ill Cecil county. once week for one month prior
to the 10th day OF August 1882.
The Report safes the amount of sales to be
$500 DC JAMES y. DAVIS. Clerk.
True copy: test JAMES A. DAVIS.
July Sim Clerk.
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REGISTRATION begins on Tuesday next.
Notice the advertisement of the times
and places of the sittings of the Regis
tars published in another column.
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No, 3. All that Lot or Parcel of Land,

situate east of til" town of Elkton, on the north
side of said Main street or road. adjoining tie
property occupied by W. +. X Frazer, and
formerly by John +. Wilson, Esq. and being the
same property conveyed to said Jacob Ramb" by
George Earle. and WIFE, by deed dated July 18th.
1900. and recorded as aforesaid in lber H. Il. T..
No .. folio 226. &c., except that part thereof con
vcyed 10y said Jacob Ramibo and WIFE, to Hannah
ID MilSnu wife OF Inlu f. " ilSnu Eel
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STATE and COUNTY TAX LEVY
OF 1882.

IN pursuance of an Act of Assembly,
Apassed January session. 1852 chapter 49, notice
is hereby given that The County Commissioners
OF Cecil County, at a meeting held by them on
May eth. levied the State and County Taxes for
1851 as iolowS-the rate Of State Tax as fixed by
law, being 49,. cents on each 800 OF the taxable
basis. and the rate OF County Tan as fixed by the
Commissioners. being 81 cents each $IUO:
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Weak lungs, splitting of blood. CON
sumption, and kindred affections, cured
without physician. Address for treatise,
with two stamps, WORLDS DIspENsAKY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, y. Y.
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THE President, on Monday, nominated
John Davis, of the District of Columbia,
to be Assistant Secretary of State, in
place of }. c. Bancroft Davis, resigned;
James Atkins, to be Judge of the L. S.
District Court for Northern Georgia;
Colonel Charles II. Crane, Assistant Sur
geon General, to be Surgeon General.
with the rank Of Brigaiier; Commodore
i. X. Hughes to be Rear admiral; Capt.
William X. Mayo to be Commodore. and
Commander George y. Stevens to be
Captain.
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4 MAN must have been treated pretty
roughly by this world to be SO soured as
to find fault with this weather.
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Beatty's Beethoven Organ is meeting with
wonderful sales. Nearly two thousand
were manufactured and shipped during last
month from his factory at Washington,
New Jersey. A special ten day offer is
made to our readers in another column.
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No. a. The Iife-estate of said Jacob

Ramho in the undivided moety of all those sew
eraI LOTS OR PARCE ELS OF LAND. situate
ON the south side of High or Back street in the
town ot Elkton and particularly described in IL
deed from Daniel Bratton. Attorney. to Elizabeth
Ramho. deceased. late the wife uf said Jacob
Ramho. and Mary lane Ramho by deed dated
November I'd. 1850. and recorded aforesaid in
liner d. $. No. .. folio S9. These lots are 80
improved by six FRAME TENEMENT I11IvE
HOUSES and two Stables. This Property lsssssS@
is sold subject to nurtga%e made by sand nssss538
Jacob Ranbu aud Elizabeth Ramhu and William
G. Rambo aud Mary lane Ramho, his wife. TO
Eliza johnson and others, dated November md
1859. and recorded aforesaid in liber d. S. No
). folio 10. Nc. Tor Sl0On, which covers the life
estate and tee of the whole property. The amount
due thereon will be announced ut the day of sale
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T|'t drill n1|'ie.
ELKTON, JULY s, 1882.

Don't fail to get registered, and see
hat your neighbor does the same.
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Baltimore Markets.

Corrected Wceblv Jy ". H. Michael If Sons,
GRAIN and Pt'oduce Commission Hcr-
chants, 10 McElderIys Wharf.
R1rIMnEE lily 9Th 1899
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ESTABLISHED IN i84i,

SUBSCRIPTION, TWO DOLLARS a YEAR. IN ADVANCE
Six MONTHS, ONE DOLLAR. No SUBSCRIPTION VII.
RECEIVED FOR LESS THAN SIX MONTHS.
THE OBJECT OF ITS PROPRIETOR BEING TO MAKE
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GUITEAU's REQUEST TO DR.. HICKS

Rev. DIR. Hicks is entrusted by will
with the body of President Garfield's as
sassin 1t should be borne in mind that
the law of the District of Columbia
places the disposition Of the remains of
executed criminals in the hands of the
not receive the assassin's body without
Their consent. He has shown himself
man of discretion, and we trust that he
will see the propriety of disposing of the
body in such way that there will never
[,e any opportunity for "cranks y to erect
:. monument over it and inscribe thereon
the epitaph written by the assassin HIM
eli; Here lies the body of Charles J.
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RIsHor HUSTrNGToN's late ''Conven-
ton address" treated the evils of the
times very vigorously. ''iIe said:
he passion for pleasure: indifference
10 all high and holy things. a vicious and
degrading literature scattered every
where, coarse and protane criticisms, bit
ter sneers at Il loyal discipleship, an idol
airy Oh wealth. multitudes torsaking
worship and breaking the fourth com
mandment. small classes for contirma-
ton, goddess social ambition and un-
"haste diversions among communicates,
hegrudged offerings at the altar. indie
scribable meanness in Sinking the duty
II giving, delayed salaries of Gods am
hassadors the eager riot of the world,
the fish and the deviI-they are all only
divers shapes of one wicl1edness within.
Goodness is the deep disorder under
nultitadinous manifestations. Whether
they grow and spread or not, whatever
heir strength. and whether the former
times were better or worse than these.
The way of duty is all one to u.s. 1t is
plain to you and me that what we are to
40, all we can do. what we ought to be
"oing. let the signs be never SO dark, is
10 Tedouble our devotion, i'll holy faith,
IA disinterested work. If the church
would have her face shine she must go
mp into The mount and be alone with God.
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Iroughtui
luhe octan el
Ne
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WOOL WANTED.

DHILADEIPHlAp PRICES PAID for
4 Wool.
della ARE. CLARK.
June 1T Glasgow. Delaware.
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Trustee S Sale.

p1 virtue of an order of the Circuit
lJCourt for Cecil county. in the matter of the
Petition OF Jacob Rambo an Insolvent Debtor.
and of a Deed of Trust in insolvency from said
Jacob Rambo the undersigned permanent Trustee
in Insolvency of said Jacob Rambo. will sell at
Public Auction. at the Court House door, in Elk
ton
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FOR RENT.

TVNlIE STORE HOU Sc, ON Main q
4 street. flktun. lately occupied by :. E=o=I
:. Rambo. Immediate p">Sr>SGn given. -4l4
Apply to HARRY q. HURN.
Feb -5-tt
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REGISTRATION N0TIGEh
To the Citizens Of Cecil County

T1IE undersigned. Officers OF l:egistra-
4 ton for the several Election Districts OF Cecil
county i'll compliance with the provisions OF AN
act OF the General Assembly of MARY land. APP
proved the seventeenth day of February. in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-two entitled
An Act to provide for the uniform registration OF
State, hereby give notice that the said Officers
OF Registration. for the purpose ut aSccrtaining
and registerin. in the proper Registry of Voters
and Poll Books the persons qualified to vote III
the respective Election districts Of said county
will sit i'll the respective Election Districts OF
which they are Officers OF Registration from 5
o'clock \. VI. to !. o'clock T.. NJ on the