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Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

''Here is that little sum that I owe you" 'tAh had completely forgotten it" ''You should have told me that sooner !'
 Out in the far West, toys being scarce, the inhabitants hang cattle thieves to the Christ mas trees.-Philadelphi Ohronicle-Herald.
 ''Yes." said the Idaho man, ''it's dreadful unfortunate that my gal got hugged by that ar bar. She's sort O held me in contempt since. ."-Boston Post.
 Longfellow said: "In the world man must be either anvil or hammer" He was wrong, however. Lots of men are nothing but bel lows. Christian Advocate.
 Examiner: Give an instance from scrip ture of an animal endowed with speech. Pupil: "And the whale said unto Nose g." Almost thou persuadest me to be a Chris tian. "'-London Society.
 Beautiful manners are more captivating than good looks. If you see very ugly man get up in 8 street car and give his seat to lady you can bet that he has been reading this paper.-Philadelphi Chronicle.
 Discomfort is the want of self-reliance; it is the infirmity of will.-Emerson. Don't quite see it so. A man stuck in the mud may be very discontented and yet his position may be the result of too much self reliance.
 ''You come here for money. sir" shrisked one lawyer to another in New York court. To hear such truthful statement in a court AOOn1 SduS0O LII SAcAC0. 4AC GCLAhKh completely staggered the attorney addressed.
 "Yes," said the young clergyman, ''I have always said to myself I would marry that girl if I could, and now am going to do it. But it is to another fellow she is to be welded I am sorry to say. The only consolation I get out of the affair will be the fee. Howell Citizen
 Uncle Lather is an intensely practical man. When he read in the newspaper the report of murder case, in which it was said that ''life's thread was severed by razor," Uncle Lather exclaimed, Didn't the blamed fool know that 'ud spiIe razor?''
 ''What are you doing with my boots on?' indignantly asked high State official of colored gentleman. ''Is dese here yer boots boss?' ''Of course they are" '.Dat's mity cuis. :" ''1Jot curious st all, you scoundrel Yeu found them in my room when yon clean ed up'' ''Wall, dat's mity cuis Yer ken hab de boots, sah, of da's yersef's." q wouldn't have them now" ''Den what yer wanter make all dis great 'niration bout? White folks gittin' wuss ebery day. De blame boots too little furssme nohow."-Arkansaw Traveller.
 sAnothar old rioneer gone," said man
 As to lunch counter he Etrsyed,
 And spoke to 8 friend of comrade who had
 Meath the cold sod been recently laid.
 EsYes isn't it sad?" was the feeling reply,
 As his hand to his mouth often flew,
 "And see the Coincidence {munching pte},
 Here's another old pie near gone too!'
 Bismarck Tribune
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22
7 MORNING, DECEMBER 22. 1883.

he, without waiting to be proven guilty. shall prove his innocence. And what must be prove? That he is not tramp and the law does not tell him what & tramp is. He must find that out if he cata
 Now it may be said that man who can work and who is unwilling te do so, and who wanders about sponging his living from the public ought to be punished. Granted. But make law that describes such man, and in making it use precise terms. Give to him accused of the oRense at least the right al- lowed to burglars and murderers. Don't presume him guilty until 1t is proved. So frame the law that you will not punish inno- cent and unfortunate people for the purpose of making it easy to punish those who are guilty. This act is wrong net because it at. tempts to punish those who are unwilling to get an honest living, but because it may be used to punish also those who are willing to get an honest living and cannot.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22
Fox as . GamesGeF.

Fox was not one of those dupes who never understand the principles of any game. On the contrary, he played admirably both at whist and at piequet; with such skill indeed, that by the general admission of Brookes
 club, he might have made G4 900 year, as they calculated, at those games. if he would have confined himself to playing them. But his misfortune arose from playing at games of chance, particularly at faro. After eating and drinking plentifully, he sat down to the faro table, and inevitably rose a loser. Once,
 indeed, and only once, he won about e8. GOO in tue course of single evening. Part of the money he paid away to his creditors, snd the remainder he lost again almost immedi.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

ately in the same manner The late Mir. Boothby. so well known during many years in the first walks of fashion and dissipation, himself an irreclaimable gamester, and an intimate friend of Fox, yet appreciated him with much severity, though with equal truth. ''Charles, :" observed he, lis unquestionably a man of frst-rste talents, but so deficient in judgment as never to have succeeded in any object during his whole life." He loved only three things-women, play and politics. Yet at no period did he ever form 8 creditable connection with a woman. He lost his whole fortune at the gaming table, and with the exception of about eleven months of his life he has remained always in opposition
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22
NEW HAVEN, CONN. SATURDAY M
tSonrnsL xnS Gpurisr.
SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE cITz, IS DENTS WEEK, 70 CENTS MorTH, ss.eo YEAR BY MAIL, IN COUNTY. IN ADvAEoE. s7.00; AT EXPIRATION, S7.50 OUT OF COUNTY, IN ADVANCE, s7.5e, AT EXPIRATION, $500
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22
EDITORIAL NVI'Es.

Virginia is Hooking up," when bill to remove the disabilities of certain persons i'm plicated in dueling fails to pass the legisla- ture. Dueling will probably not be respscta- ble. in Virginia much longer.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

In recent lecture on Evolution President McOosh said: My first position is the cer- tainty of evolution. Evolution is but the coming of one thing out of another. No scientific man under thirty years of age in any country denies it, to my knowledge. To oppose it is to injure young men. I am at the head of college where to declare against it would perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once 8 vapor from which the earth evolved is not inconsistent with the Scriptures, for they speak of it's being s'void without form' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the Attest, most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experi- ence. Without order, of what benefit would experience be !? Evolution teaches that the present comes out of the past and goes down to the future. Evolution but shows the agencies by which Gods plans are carried out. It is but the evolution of Genesis when each brings forth after it's kind" Science tells the same story. But what is the limit of the fxedness of the law2 I believe that the evolution of new species is question in science, and not of religion. It should bs left to scientific men,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22
A0UND TIE WORLD.

The Gate of the Two 6tngs-CuriOus
 and Elaborate WOrk-The Tombs of the Shoguns-The Religions of Japan -Splendtd Temples-The Gongs and
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

The Vicksburg (MississippD Herald is one of the fairest and frankest of southern Democratic newspapers. It thus speaks it's mind on the negro question:: We will be very plain about this question. The south ern people know how to get along with the negroes, and they know it is not wise to allow them to rule or to attempt to rule. If they must rule somebody, the sooner they go to Africa and rule their own color the better. for the white people of the South are as much opposed to being ruled by negroes as the white people of the North. The south ern people Vili conoede great deal to intel ligent and capable colored men, but they will not submit to the colored masses, led by such men as Chalmers and Malone It is better for the South and the North that this is the case.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

MT. John Joseph Ryan, who was natural izsd in tho court of common pleas in New York about three years ago, has deliberately cast off the country which adopted him be. cause, as he says, stAmerican citizens are strung up numerically on the gsllows in England" and other American citizens are sentenced to life imprisonment in England on the evidence of lying informers without American interference" MT. Ryan has given notice to the judges of the court of common pleas, that he wishes his name ''erased from the American citizenship roll of their court and America at large" Goodbye, John Jo- seph. We hate to loss you from the rank of American citizens, but it is evident that American citizenship is not exactly the thing for you.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

As the time for the assembling of the leg increases. It is understood that there will be no contest over the clerkship of the House or the Senate. MT. Perkins, ths clerk of the House last year, will be advanced to the elerkship of the Senate. MT. Paige, the as- sistant clerk of the House last year, and very efficient assistant, too, will be made chief clerk of the House. Who will be made his assistant is a hard question. There are not many candidates as usual, only three being in the feId-W. J. MoConville and James P. Andrews, of Hartford, and W. E Downes, of Derby. Either of these gentle men would make good assistant clerk.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

All the statesmen are not dead yet One of them lives in Georgia, and his name is Fl. H. Carlton. He comes forward and attempts to prove that the lost slave property of the South is a valid lien upon the federal treas ury. He would keep on raising hundred millions of excessive revenue annually in order to hand it over to the elave-ewnsrs who were deprived of their property by the fortunes of war. The North, he says, was enriched by the misfortunes of the South. It grew opulent while the South was over whelmed by bankruptcy. And he regards compensation for the loss of slaves 8 meas ure of reconciliation. 'It you want to reconcile the South,' says MT. Carlton, in substance, ''eompensate us for our slaves and refund the cotton tax unjustly levied upon our people," He thinks the sense of justice will move the North to agree to these meas- ures of reconciliation. Hardly
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

After St. Louis had experimented uusatis- factorily with wood, asphalt, granite and other materials for pavements. hundred public spirited men contributed $50 each to- wards fund to test fire brick for paving purposes. The test was made in the busiest streets A committee of engineers and others have just reported that fire brick show all the endurance of granite, and that they make smoother, cleaner and less noisy street, and are more easily repaired and give better foothold to horses; that neither frost nor fire affects them, and that they can be used at less than half the cost of granite"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

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 Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautiher and Toilet Requisite, prepared from CUTICUFA, is indis- uensable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors, Ssin Blemshes, Sunburn and Rough, Chapped or Greasy Skin.
 Cuffcura Remedies are absolutely pure. and the only real Blood purifiers and Sein Beautihars, mercury, arsenic, lead zinc, any other mineral or vegetable po'son whatever.
 It would require this entire paper to do justice to description of the performed by the CU IT. CURA REsoLvE,Nr T internally and CUTICURA and CUTI- CURA SoAr externally.
 Eczema of the palms of the hands and of the of the Lzers very difficult to treat and usually considered incurable; small patches of letter and salt rheun the ears, nose and sides of the face. heads covered with dandraf and scaly eruptions, especially of children and infants, many of which since birth had been mass of scabs;
 Itching. burning and scaIy tortures that baffied even relief from ordinary remedies, soothed and healed as by magic
 Psoriasis, leprcsy, and other frightful forms of skin dsease scrofulouS ulcers, old scores and dis charging wou ads, each and all of which have been speedily, permanently and economically cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES when physicians, hospitals and all other remedies failed, proven by a vast number of sworn testimonials in possession, which we will cheerfully mail to any address.
 Sold everywhere. Price: CUTIcURA, Gu cts REsoLyENT, $1 SOAP, % cts. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co, Bostcn.
 send for .sHovV to Uure Skin Diseases g REAY Gps,sS GGs Eoss9 sS1a GRsPRea RspR aeags a1d P1mples and Skin Blemishes use CUTIcULA SoAP:
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Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-22

The mountains of Gellivarea, in the most northern part of Sweden, consist, it is said, of pure magnetic iron in immense layers of several hundred feet thickness upon the sur face of the ground. One of these peaks clone is supposed to contain 28O, 100000 of tons. They are situated near large forests furnishing fuel, and are less than a hundred miles from the Atlantic. It is intended to build a railroad around the mountains to a -Ofoten-on the coast, and it is estima- ted the iron ore can be delivered on the cars at the low price of two shillings per ton.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
Base Ball.

An effort will be made next week to reor-
ganze the famous Elkton Base Ball Club.
From the playing of last wear, it is safe,
even so early as the present time, To predict
Il successful season. Nobody doubts that
there is plenty of good material in town.
The positions of MesSrS. Crow, Henry and
Ashton Gilpin will he hard to fill, but the
substitutes of last year are with us, and
are good players. The rest of the boys, hav-
ing rejected professional situations are all
i'll good condition, and anxious for game
The greatest difficulty will be 10 secure n
suitable field. Building lots have been laid
of III the old field, which has been the scene
of many memorable contests, particularly
one last season, when the Elkton boys de-
feated, by score of IS to 10, the Cecil Club,
of Chesapeak Ike City, which was especially
organized to clean out the Elkton Club,
and the members of which, before the = lme,
objected to playing with kids
y meeting will be held on Mond,y eve
ming, i'll Justice SCOTS office, to discuss the
subject. All lovers of the sport, and par
tcularly the hackers of The old team, are
requested to be present.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
Tht Big Mortgage.

Last week we noted the fact that II ST.
900, 900 mortgl had been filed, on Tuesday
afternoon previous, in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court, of Baltimore city, TO
secure certain bonds to be issued by the
Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Com
pany Gin truth by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, for the completion of
the through line from Baltimore to Phila-
delphia. On Friday a copy of the same
mortgage was placed on record in the office
of the Recorder of Deeds for New Castle
county, Delaware, in Wilmington, and on
Saturday another copy was filed for record
in the office of the Cerk of the Circuit Court
for this county. The mortgages for g, i00,-
900, datel April l, 1883, and the bonds is
sued under it are payable April !, 1888,
bearing interes: at the rate of AZ per cent,
payable semi-annually at the agency of the
b. x O. Company in London. 1t is given
to VIM. +. Burns, John Gregg, and 7. Har-
riSon Garrett, Trustees; signed upon behalf
of the company by Robert Garrett, Fist
Vice President, and was executed before w.
Il. TunblerSon, Justice of the Peace for
Baltimore city We may now look for
work to begin upon this road at an early
day
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21

Two E}ktOn gentlemen, residing on
Bow street, whose gardens adjon each
other, are enjoying friendly contest in
vegetable culture. One of them planted
his peas ten days earlier than the other,
but the cold snap set them back, and the
others have now caught up to them. One
of the conte Stants is a public officer, and
he rises at daylight in the morning.
working in his garden until office hours.
We haven't learned what the stake is,
but suppose it is considerable one.
Another Elkton official this week. sue
cessfully sprouted some choice flower
seeds and from his we'll known success in
Horticulture, his garden will be a thing of
beauty during the coming season.
Writing of flowers. Mrs. John +. AL
exander, on North street has beautiful
display of window flowers as well as
luxuriant aud attractive out door growth
In the conservatory of Mrs. William J.
Jones. on the same street. the beautiful
blooming begonias are much admired by
passers by. Persons on their way to the
train, unless hurried by lack of time,
frequently stop to admire the rare plants
and flowers in the windows of the Misses
Ash.
Al MIS- IlUZenDerp ), Oh Maln street,
besides her large collection of blooming
flowers. may be seen over dozen bloom
ing Gala lilies.
Frequenters of Main street claim that
the Misses ,l"-es show their fine collec
ton of window flowers to the greatest
advantage, while Mrs. John T. Browns
handsome collection is perfect bower OF
beauty.
The west end people. however claim
that Mrs. Geo. r. Howard and Mrs
James B. Marrett. sustainstheir reputa
ton for window adornment and out vie
all others. Certainly many CT tie colec
lions are very pretty.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
The Town El.c.ion.

Public interest in the town election for a
board of five commissioners, the President
to act as mayor, and town bailitf, which
is to take place on Monday, the seventh f
May next, increases as the day approaches.
All the candidates are busy as bees in clover
time, each one claiming to hold the promise
of majority of the voters. The list is now
full, and no new man would be likely to
come out at this late day, after those al
ready announced have canvassed the field,
so there is no dark horse in the case. The
candidates are John w. Draper shoemaker:
Geo. A. Brown, carriage painter; Howard
Titus, black smith eX-Sheritf Richard
Thomas; Charles ii. Smith, carpenter, and
Geo Gordon, colorei waiter. If six bailtfS
were needed the list would just fill the bill,
but as only one can be accommodated at Il
time, five of the six must necessarily be dis
appointed. This office seems to be more
eagerly sought after now than il few
years ago, though the salary attached 10 it
has not increased. 1t must be from a pa
triotic desire to serve their country that so
many are prompted to thus sacrifice them
selves AS il way ont of the trouble, and
to prevent disappointment keen from visit
ing any Of the six, we would suggest that
voters select from the six their choice for
bailitf, and vote for the other five for town
commissioners There is no reason Why
this should not be done. Wouldn't it be
as good u board as could select. If this
plan is adopted, we will claim proprietary
rights in it as the discoverer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
A Very Bad Boy.

Michael kilbride is the name of a lad of
thirteen or fourteen years of age, who, for
some time past, has been in the employ of
Mr.. Henry Spittle, baker, of this town.
Michael came to this place from Chesapeake
City or vicinity, but, in fact, halls from
Baltimore, having journeyed from that city
to Chesapeake, by some one of the various
boats passing through the canal. He was a
favorite in the Spttle family, Mrs. Spittle
frequently calling him her "right hover, -
and INDUCED in speculation as to bow the
family could get along without him. The
seer, of this unusual favor in the eyes of
the ladies, was that Mike Gas they called
him) was first rate and willing hand at
caring for the babies. He seemed to possess
a species of magnetic influence over young
sterS, being able to quiet the most rantank-
erous of the class in an astonishing short
time. This benevolent occupation was what
Nike devoted last Sunday afternoon to.
Mrs. Spittle desiring 10 take walk, re-
quested the youth to take charge of the in
fants during her absence. This he freely
agreed to do The lady dressed herself for a
walk, and entirely forgetting that in her
bureau drawer was stored several hundred
dollars in bills and gold, left her bunch OF
keys in the pocket of the discarded dress.
Mike, after her departure, took a stroll over
the house, seeking for what he could freeze on
to. He knew his mistress kept large sums
of money in the drawer, and when he pick
ed up her dress to hang it carefully in the
wardrobe, and found that the pocket con
tanned the keys to the drawer containing
this golden treasure, his honesty ran right
out of his finger ends. He wasn't greed y
boy, however, for after reaching the treasure
he touched it mincingly. He took a gold coin
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21

On Saturday morning LAST as is customary
now, the mail was thrown from the SIS
4. NJ. express south, while running by this
station at the rate of about fifty miles an
hour The bags (two large ones) struck
the fence around the station lot, tearing
away one panel, bending the post and burst
ing one bag, scattering its contents in all dl-
rections The crowd around helped to
gather up the fragments, which were found
in all quarters. \ new bag was procured
from the post office, and the torn, crushed
and soiled letters put therein. y lot of steel
pens in n package were broken open and
flew in all directions. Half an hour after
wards the boys We're still picking up pens.
This certainly is il rough way TO use the
peoples mail.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
A Bird With a Bell.

The Oxford Press says A very singular
thing was observed by Webster McNev,
Richard Harper and Henry Harper at the
residence of the former, in Cecil county,
near State Line Station one day last week.
They were standing outdoors when their
attention was aroused by the ringing of a
small bell up in the air. On looking up
they discovered ii large turkey buzzard fly
ing overhead, to which was attached a bell.
They could not see the bell, bur its ringing
was distinctly heard Especially when the
bird gave its wings the Tapping motion re-
quired to enable it to mount higher They
watched the bird and listened to its
bell until it disappeared from sight. 1t is
probable this bird is from the South, where
they congregate in the winter, inhabit the
cities, and become very tame; where it has
been caught, the bell attached and given its
liberty. Has any other of our readers seen
or heard the bell-bird of the buzZlrd tribe
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-04-21
The Weather for May.

The following representations of the state
of the weather during the month of May
are credited to Prof. Virgins Nennor Moore,
of this town, a seer who has made the sub
ject a matter of profound study from child
hoods happy hours. We give his manu-
script verbatim as handed to us, except the
spelling LIST clear and warm, variable to
cloudy and cold with rain; ID, id, 18th and
9Th, uncertain, with changeable tempera-
ture; 9th and 9TH clear and cloudy with oc-
casional storms; Sth and 9th liable 10 be
blustry with wind; 10th, llth and 18th fine
varying to not SO fine, with high wind and
storms, but upon the whole pretty fair
weather; 18th and 14th moist, wet and dry
with threatening weather !; 10Th cloudy with
sun shine, thunder storms 10th more thun-
der 18th thunder; 18th storms; 10Th, 10Th
and 2lst very warm, now shed winter woods;