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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-02
MIR. Tonnes Gift to Dickinson Col
leGc.

Hon. Jacob Tome, Of Port Deposit, in
Dickinson College at Carlisle. Pennsyl-
vania, that he will assume the entire cost
of the large and elegant new Scientific
BaildIn@, now in course of construction,
upon the college grounds. The building
will cost when flushed So 0C0. The new
bailding will be called the Come Scen-
succeeding generations the name Of the
generous donor Dickinson is the Alma
Mater of Hon. John A. J. Crcswell ext.
5. Post Master General, of this town,
nephew of Mr.. Tome. y correspondent
writing from Carlisle, speaks as follows
of this gift
Dickinson College has been the recip-
lent of another generous gift from Mary
Lind. Hon. Jacob Tome, of Port Deposit.
one of the most sagaciouS and successful
business men of the State, has for years
been warmly interested in the college,
and has assisted numerous worthy young
men who were educated there. His first
visit to the college, however, was in at
tendance at the meeting of its trustees
in June last, having been chosen a mem
Der of the board at their previous meet
Ing. While in Carlisle he intimated to a
friend that he had it in thought to as
sumo the cost of the Scientific Building,
then fast approaching completion. This
he has now declared his purpose to do,
This admirable structure, planned and
being built by Baltimore architect, Mr..
Charles l.. Carson, is to cost SO 600, and
as the contributions thereto are released
by the noble gifJ of Mr.. Tome, the effect
is the addition Of that amount to the
permanent funds of the college. In rec
osnitiun of his generous deed the autho!i-
ties of the college have determined to
name the ediice the Jacob Tome Scien-
titic Building.
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Death at Chester Heights Camp.

On Friday morning 25th, Mrs. Jesse
c. C"ul>ton, residing at 1913 tiirard
Avenue, Philadelphia. died in the camp
at Chester Heights. sac was taken sick
on Monday last with dysentrry, which
was not thought at the time serious.
y" physician was called in, until Thurs
day evening. She wa; found III Il semi
unconscpu, condition. Ga Friday morn
ing at about : n'circi. she died. The
ease was one of unintentioual neglect
Some claim that the trouble was cholera
morbus OF an aggravated character, but
this is denied by the physicians, Lor"i
Np,rx
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Tl!tlltoplts Qolun,,.

MIR. EDIToR-We have noticed on sew
eral occasions, particularly on Saturday
night last, that our pavcments on our
principal streets are so obstructcd by
loungers that ladies were, as they have
often been, compelled to take the middle
of the street. Yet, our officers of the
law were in full view and not an effort
was made or word said by them to
clear the sidewalks or crossings. H.
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What advertise 10 do and what we
will do. For each and every pair of shoes
bearing our label that may rip or burSt in
reasonable time we will refund the money
or make the shoe rs good as new. In our
cheaper grade of goods we tell orr customers
all that we know ABOUT them and they NAV
rely apon what we tell them.
WARD x DAVIS, the Elkton shoe store
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The Italians at Chesapeake City yes
terday, suspecting their interpreter of
being in the secret of tie swintlle with
Ryan, they jumped into him and would
have killed him but for the interference
o" others. Four of them were arrested
and put in tue lookup.
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LOCAL NEWS.

From this dute The Cecil. WING rW be
serccd to ,ceehly subscribers in P"'t Deposit
by ROBERT l. STEBBINs. RobeH Is an
Industrious and enterprisj"g bag, ard riH
mart tie good acW Of his customers dy las
prompt sereire and obligi"g djSPositto".
H,fr0ut-f him.
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MARRIED..

BENJAMIN -TIIoMPSON.-On July 30th,
at the Zion NJ. L. parsonage, by the Rev
j. France, Mr.. WINFIELD S. BENJAMIN,
to Miss OIEvIA THOMPSON, all of this
county.
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DIED.

HARLAN-On Friday, July 18th, 1884,
in Upper Oxford township, GRIFFITH S,
son of Enoch l.. and Mary Il. Harlan, aged
five weeks.
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Farmer HlsH Stock Breedcr.
D0irylllGn, GnrdcGer

and their household, and every species of
industry connected with that great portion
of the people of the world, the Farmer. The
subscription price is 81 per year. Farmers
cannot well get along without it. 1t puts
new ideas into their minds. 1t teaches them
how to farm with profit to themselves 1t
makes the home happy, the young folks
cheerful, the growler comtent"d, the down
cast happy, and the drmagosue honest.
lmlN li-li
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

T!IIS is to give notice that the subScri-
4 her. OF Cecil county, has obtained from the
Orphans Court ui said county letters of admins
tration on the persona! estate of
LEVI :. JOHNSON,
late of said county. deceased. All persons having
claims against the said deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated,
on or before the 18th day of January, 1855:
they may otherwise. by law he excluded from all
benefit OF said estate. All persons indebted 10
said estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment to the subscriber Given under my hald
this 10 day of July. 1881.
MARY JOHNSON.
Administrative.
TeSt:-R. L. LAMAR. Register.
Julyl5-6w
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VHE uHRKETS.
Elkton Markets.


Philadelphia Grain Markets, July 31st 1884.
Wheat in better demand-9jM96ly
Corn was tirm-63GG64c.
Oats We're tirm-3Std I2c.
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Baltimore Markets.

Corrected Weekly By W. II. Mchacl e Sons
cram and P|odacc Commission Ncr-
chants, 81 Nc kfderry's Wharf.
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PHILADELPHIA Cattle Market Iulv Al 1as

Beef cattle dull and iower-3l@ @6aic.
Sheep dull and lower-2Gg5c.
LambS-GITc.
Hogs We're unchangcd-71s@ Sc.
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My WIFE'O FOOL OF 4 HUSBAND !
WE OPEN TO-DAY
FOR MIDSUMMER

$50 yards India Linen IL I2 cts.
$50 . India Linen 20
$50 " India Linen IS
500 g Figured Batiste IS
1000 - Pacific Lawns IL l.
1000 . Belfast Lawns 6 II
500 . Madras Ginghams IL I-2 g
$50 " Fancy Silks so
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

TNllS is to give notice that the sub
L srrihcr Of Cecil county has obtained from
the Orphans Court of sand county letter. Of ad-
InInistrdtiun on the personal estate OF
WILLIAM II. EMERSON.
lat" OF said county. deceased. All persons having
claims against the said deceased are hereby
warned To exhibit the same. with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated.
un or before the 18th day Of January. 1855;
they may otherwise. lay law he excluded from Ill
benefit Of SAID estate. All persons indebted To-
said estate are requested To make immediate pay
m"ui 80 the subscriber. Given ,lder my hand.
this l-,h day "i June. 1854.
" VI. II. ENEESDN.
Administrator.
Tcst-REuBEN L. LAMAR, Register
July l2-Gw
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ThreSher For Sale.

One WESTINGHOUSE THRESHER AND
CLEANER WITH STEAM Power ENGINES.
Mounted and in complete order. Warranted. Also
the celebrated UNION GRAIN DRILLS. KEY
STONE CIDER MILLS For sale on iaVora bile
terms ny
July25ti JOHN PARTRIDGE, Elktun.
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A TwO-HOrSe Power ThreShcr
"A and Cleaner, has been in use, but is yet in
ir>t-claSS order, for sale low by
.Iuly26tf JOHN PARTRI DGE.
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American Farmer

a sixteen page Agricultural Magazine, pub
lished 10y f.. y. X. lIarkett, At Fort Wayne,
Indiana. and which is rapidly taking rank
rs one of the leading agricultural publirI
tions of the country. II is devoted eXclu-
>iVely to the interests of the
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P, W. & B. Branch Penna. Railroad
TIME RLE.

TRAINS LEAVE ELkTON STATION &:
NopTUBoUND ScUTHBOUNp.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
EFFECT UPON EUROPE OF THE
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

The voyage of Columbus in 1892 was in
many respects the greatest event which had
occurred in the world since the birth of
Christ. Politically and socially it was the be-
ginning of an entirely new chapter in human
history, and it wrought effects upon mems
speculative thinking which, though perhaps
less conspicuous, were not less real or re-
markable. In much more than the mere geo.
graphical sense was this the discovery of a
new world 1t was the first in complicated
series of events which four centuries have not
yet fully rounded into period; the founda-
ton of a new Europe in America, in Africa,
in Australia and in the islands of the Pacific;
the rise of the English race to political and
commercial supremacy, and the advance of
the English language toward what may be-
come universal dominion the reorganization
of government upon higher plane than the
middle ages had even been athletic foreshadow;
the renovation of society in the old Europe
through countless subtle influences the per-
manent triumph of the industrial over the
predatory spirit; the successful assertion OF
individual freedom against the paralyzing
absolutsm inherited from the Roman empire;
the overthrow of sacerdotalism, and the Chris
tianization of the world. 1t would probably
be too much to assert that some of these de-
sirable results might not have been attained,
so far as the old Europe is concerned, even
if the lands beyond the sea had never been
explored and colonized. 1t is unquestionable,
however, that the progress would have been
much slower and much more subject to inter-
ruption. The part performed by England,
for example, in the work of European civil
zation since the age of Elizabeth has been SO
immense and SO complicated that no elaborate
ness of analytic description can do it justice.
Yet England in Elizabeth's time was hardly
first-class power and but for the colonization
of America in the seventeenth century it is
difficult to see in what way she would SO
surely or SO soon have gained the commercial
supremacy which gave her in the eighteenth
the dominion of the ocean, and thus secured
her the foremost position in the world. To
those-and there are many such in America
who are in the habit of regarding American
history as dry and uninteresting study, it
may be profitable matter of reflection that
since the beginning of the seventeenth century
it is impossible to follow intelligently the
affairs of the old Europe through single gen.
Grafton without constant reference to the
New World.-Johaa Fishe, in Harper's Mag
dzine.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
BLUNDERS OF THE ABSENT
MINDED.

Absent-minded people make queer blum
ders. Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the great
New England preacher, who died of smallpox,
when out riding asked small boy who bowed
as he opened the gate for him: "Whose boy
are you, my little man?" "Noah Clark's boy
sir" was the reply. When he returned the
same boy appeared and opened the gate.
"Whose boy are your" asked Edwards.
"Noah Clark's sir. The same mans boy
was a quarter of an hour ago, SIR" The first
Lord Lyttleton was terribly absent-minded.
He fell into the river once and sank twice be-
fore he remembered he could swim, thus
coming near committing the egregious blum
der of drowning. clergyman walking one
day in the country was in deep thought He
was SO accustomed to riding that when he
reached the toll gate he cried out
"Here, what's to.pay?"
tPay for what?" said the gate-keeper.
"My horse" replied the preacher.
"What horse? You've got no horse"
"Bless me" looking down to his legs. II
thought / was on horseback AL the Year
Round
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miscellaneous Reading.
SUNDAY EVE AT SEA.

Sitting alone at the sunset hour,
With my good ship moored in foreign bay,
Comes hallowed thought, with memory fraught
OF the loved ones far away.
Faces familiar upon me smile,
While my heart with the sweet remembrance
swells;
And seemed to hear the music clear
Of jubilant marriage bells.
OF marriage bells on Sabbath day.
In beautiful village by the sea
When the world was bright, all filled with de-
light
For my own Annie and me.
score of years have passed since then
And | have anchored my ship in many bay,
But my loved ones, dear. ever seem more near
The farther l sail away.
Moments there are when may forget
To think of one spot DER the sea afar.
Of the JOY and light of home made bright
By love where my treasures are;
But whenever the Sunday evening comes
And the waves are fierce and the night is drear
Like angels of love- as if sent from above,
Nv loved ones seem lowering near.
| behold them then, my treasures dear,
As at this moment they come to me;
For sail where will their images still
Ny companions are at sea. Caleb Dunn.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Moths can be kept out of garments by
wrapping them in solid colored calico.
Sponging the head frequently with sage
tea will prevent the hair falling out.
To make green blinds that are faded look
like new, brush them over with linseed oil.
Black ornaments may be mended with
shellac. Smoking the joint renders it black.
If the brass top of kerosene lamp has
come off it may be repaired with plaster of
Paris wet with little water, and will be as
strong as ever.
To keep ice from windows take sponge
or ordinary paint brush, rub over the glass
once or twice with little cold alcohol.
Tough meat may be made as tender as
any by the addition of a little vinegar to the
water when it is put on to boil.
Fish may be scaled much more easily if
dropped for an instant in boiling water
Chester Euening Neaos
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08

learning that was severely, but it was hoped
not fatally injured, he thenceforth contented
himself with such tidings of my condition
and improvement as could be gained from
village rumor.
At last it was known that would never re-
cover entirely from the effects of my injury,
and that very day Elliott Tracy departed from
the village. He made no attempt to see me,
nor sent me any farewell. When I was once
more abroad, and beginning, though with
much unalloyed bitterness to learn the lesson
of patience and resignation that awaited me,
l received letter from him, in which he
merely said that he presumed my own judg-
ment had taught me that, in my altered cir
cumstances, our engagement must be at an
end, but to satisfy his own sense of honor
(his honor y he wrote to say that, while en-
tertaining the highest respect for me, he de-
sired formal remuneration of my claim.
Writing at the bottom of this letter: Let
it be as you wish" I returned it to him at
once, and thus ended my brief dream of ro-
mantle love.
l had heard ere this of Elliott Tracy's
eowardly conduct on that day, and now l first
bethought me to inquire who had rescued
me from imminent death.
And then learned that James Frazer, his
arm already broken by the jerk with which
Brown Bess tore away fron him as he caught
at her bride, had ridden after me and had
been the first to lift me from the water. Many
times daily he made inquiries for me. His
had been the hand that sent the rare flowers
that decked my room. His were the books l
read in the lingering days of convalescenee,
and his, now, was the arm that supported
me as slowly and painfully paced the gar
den walks.
I have been his wife for many year. have
forgotten that he is not handsome, or rather
he is beautiful to me, because I see his
grand and lovely spirit shining through his
plain features and animating his awkward
figure. I have long since laid aside as utterly
untenable my pet theory that beautiful spirits
dwell only in lovely bodies. 1t may be a
providential compensation that in denying
physical perfection the soul is not dwarfed
or distorted, but shines the brighter that it is
not marred by petty vanity or love of the
worlds praise.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
HOW DO THE TIDES RISE AND
FALL

Let us consider the moon first as its action,
from its greater proximity to the earth, is
much more effective in producing tidal waves
than that of the sun. We know from the
laws of gravity that the moon tends to draw
the earth toward itself If the moon be over
head, it's tendency is to draw the earth up
ward; if it be at the antipodes, beneath our
feet its tendency is to draw the earth down.
ward. Now, if the earth were rigid, solid
mass, like ball of iron, this action of the
moon would have no other appreciate effect
than to draw the earth as a whole upward or
downward The case, however, is different
when on the surface of the solid globe there
is an ocean of liquid matter. The force with
which gravity acts is greater the nearer two
bodies are to one another; consequently when
the moon is overhead the surface of the sea is
attracted with greater force than the solid
yields to this force, and is raised up in the
shape of wave, much in the same manner
as we may have seen the hair of the head rise
up toward a charged electric machine The
converse of this action holds good also at the
antipodes at the sane time. There the bot
tom of the sea is attracted more than the sur
face of the waters; consequently the latter
drop away, as it were, from the earth, and
also form wavelike foam. Thus we have
at opposite sides of the earth similar waves
raised at the same time by the moons attrac-
tive force. Then the earth, as it revolves on
its axis, brings every place in turn under
each of these waves, when it is high water in
each place as it arrives at the wave, and low
water when between the two waves.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08

Fame and fortune await the discoverer of
an efficient method of SO consuming coal that
none of its constituent and combustible parti-
cles can escape into the atmosphere of large
cities with the two-fold result of preventing
pecuniary loss and sanitary degradation of
the air. 1t is estimated by competent ex-
perts that London alone loses every winter
1926, 900, 600 through imperfectly burned coal,
not to speak of the damage done to buildings
and the injury done to the public health
through the breathing of polluted atmos-
phere.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
T III 3 M O N Z Q Il.

COnfederacy is gone up. mo" oon laws
owes you and me pretty good sum of money.
Suppose that, as soon as it gets dark, we 60 to
the wagons, get horse apiece, and strike Tor
home If we don't do that we will never get
a cent" I had to decline the offer OF my
would-be friend.
On the next day I bought horse for one
dollar, bride for five dollars, and sad
die for sixty dollars. My one dollar charger
would have borne, with the exception of his
eyes, some resemblance to the charger rode
by the Knight of La Mancha. On the after
noon of Tuesday, the 18th, our parole papers
were announced as ready and We're all duly
signed, and by the terms of surrender we were
permitted to go home. On Wednesday morn
ing the Confederate army was to stack arms.
At sunrise the Second Army Corps was
paraded for the last time Early's division,
led by Gen. Walker, took the front He rode
one of the finest horses I saw in the whole
army, and placed himself in the march at the
head of the division. My place was in the
rear of my brigade, with the surgeons. But
we were now passing under the yoke, and
had become infested with the demoraliza-
ton SO prevalent. I fell in just behind Gen.
Walker upon my 81 horse, no man saying
yea or nay The march was as solemn as
funeral procession. Not man spoke
word. The Federal army, at least portion
of it, was drawn up between our camp and
the Court House on our left, about forty steps
from the road, and stood at order arms.
When our division had reached the left of
this line the word " Halt" was given. Left
face forward march," followed When the
advancing line had approached within ten
PAGES of the Federal line the command
"Halt" was heard. Then came the order
"Stack arms" The rifles were stacked in
the customary style, and the cartridge boxes
hung upon them.
Then came the last order heard given in
the Army of Northern Virginia." Fall in
forward march" AS the column reached the
village where the public roads diverged, every
officer and man struck for home by the most
direct route. Not word of cheering was
heard from the Federal troops. Perhaps this
was Gen. Grants orders. They looked on In
silence.
An idle myth has been invented that Gen.
Lee surrendered under an apple tree" Pieces
of wood have been shown about as pieces of
the identical tree. Gen. Lee surrendered in
the hotel at the Court House. Here he and
Grant met, and nowhere else. Here, at Gen.
Grants writing table, he signed the stipula-
tons in the afternoon. Lees notes were sent
from where our baggage train was packed by
the roadside in the old field, and my opinion
is that there was nothing bearing the SEM
blance of an apple tree within o half mile of
the place. Small scrubby pine bushes were
plentiful. Everybody ought to know that if
Gen. Grant had come within the Confederate
lines he would have lost his life, or if Lee
had gone within the Federal lines he would
have met with the same fate.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08

Any one who has had the misfortune to in
jure the coating of a rubber umbrella will be
glad to know that it is not without remedy.
A preparation of damar varnish and asphal-
tum IN about equal quantities, with a little
turpentine, will make an easily applied coat
ing, which makes the umbrella about as good
as new again. Spots on gossamer coats and
cloaks can be covered with this also.