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The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
THE PET LAMB WINS.
Mr. Winans Described AS Il Ninr"d Of IiiH;' =
TABLE NOracitv.

MIR. winans Described AS a Ni,nrod Of Ins:t-
TABLE Voracitv.
Objection is frequently made to foreign
capitalists leasing or buying mp tracts OF
land in this country, and perhaps prop
erly in many cases, but it is not sencri'ly
known that some American mii!i,naireS
are the owners of far larger properties III
foreign countries than anv a,icn owns
here. The following from London Trath
of June, 18th, will give some idea Of the
vast territory held 10y Mr.. Hinans
of Baltimore, in Scotland.
The Court of Session gave Judgment
last week in the famous "pet lamb case.
The decision of tie judges was in favor
of the crofter, and in accordance with
propriety and common sense. As Lotd
Young forcibly puts it: There are 200,-
900 acres of wild, untenced land, with a
public road running through it, and a
cottage on one side of that road, and the
lessee of this wild land actually asks that
| it should be protected against the incur
sions of lamb owned by the occuper of
the cottage. Life in this country would
| not be possible if these unenclosed lands
were fenced by interdict of a court of
Justice against small treSpasscs OF this
description"
If MIR. Winans desires eilectua;ly to
protect his vast tracts of waste land, lie
must erect good many miles of fencing
| and when he has done this it is probable
that his fences would be pulled down.
| Mr.. Winans is a Nimrod of Unsuitable
voracity, and has added deer-forest to
deer-forest until he has become the lessee
of domain which actually extends right
acros. Scotland, from Beauly Firth on
the east to Loch Dutch on the west. He
desires to protect this immense game
preserve from the intrusion of all ''bes
tials" except red deer, and from all
human beings except his own friends and
servants. This is monstrously selfish
and most iniquitous policy, and one
which appears the more outrageous when
one remembers that this Mr.. Winans is
an American citizen. He certainly would
not dare to play the game he has tried to
play in Scotland on the other side of the
Atlantic; and, if he pei sists in these pro
ceedings much longer, | expect he will
find his position unpleasant even in the
peaceful Highlands. Mr.. Winans has
done more in two years than all the other
landowners and shooting tenants have
done in fifty years to bring the system OF
| deer forests into disrepute.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
Mir Richard T. Merrick Dead

Mr. Richard T. Merlick died at 1915
o'clock on last Tuesday morning of con-
gestion of the brain at his residence in
Washington, d. C., in the fifty eighth
year of his age. He was unconscious for
several days before his death His eld-
est daughter was the only member of
his immediate family present at his deah.
bed. Judge Wm. NJ. Merrick, his half
brother, and Judge Morris, his law part
ner, arrived at 5:30 \. NJ, that morning
and together with DIR. Sowers and DR..
Magruder, were constantly with the dy-
ing man from that hour until he died,
Mrs. Merlick is very i'll, ard was not
aware of the critical illness of her huS-
band, as her physicians deemed it mad
visable to inform her
Mr.. Merrick was IA native of Charles
county, Mary land, where he was born in
lS2S His father, William ID. Merrick,
who died in 1851, file several prominent
positions in Mary Wand, and represented
the state i'll the United States Senate
from $50 to 1915. lie was the auth II
of the cheap postage system in Congress,
or what was SO called in his time. Rich
ard T. Mrrrick was educated at George
town College. and took a later course at
Princeton. When the Mexican war broke
out young Merlick was yet in his teens,
but patriotism and love of adventure
were strong within him, and he went to
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
Order Of Publication.
JOB GALLAIIER AND WIFE.

W.
ABEL A. MORRIS y WIFE, AND OTHERS.
In the Circuit Court Tor Cecil county. In Equity
No. l275.
HNIIE object Of this suit is to procure
4 decree ior the sale of certain real estate situ-
ate in Cecil county, Maryland. whereof John ID.
Morris, late OF said county. died SeiErd
The bill states that the said John -. H"rgis
departed this life intcStatc in the month 0 Sept
erbcr, 1854. seized "t 'rtan real estate situate
in said county. particularly described IN Ihi bill
and the deed therein mentioned. N'h% II" wid-
Ow. bat leaving eight children. VIZ Mary -
Gallaher, Abel A. Morris. who has wife named
Anna Morris Sarah Ann Brown. vile oi Thomas
Brown: I'hlneas Morris. who has wife named
Anna Morris: David H. Morris. who has wife
named Catharinc Morris: .Iac"h l.. Morris. Joseph
:. Morris. Seneca T.. Morris who has a wife nam
ed Margaret Morris; and i've @randchildren, chill
dren OF his deceased son John Morris, viz: John
Morris Jr.. Jane Morris. lhineas Morris. .Ir.
Sarah Morris and Walter Morris as his next OF
kin and only heirs at law To which said real cS-
tate descended.
That afterwards the said Joseph $ Morris de-
parted this life incStatc leaving no widow or
issue. but leaving his said brothers and sisters
ana nephews and nicceS as his next oi kin and
only heirs ut law to whom his interest in said
real estate descended. That all Of said next OF
kin are Of full age except said grandchildren. who
are infants under twenty-Onc years of age: and
that said real estate cannot be divided without
loss and injury to the parties Interested.
A petition hici in said cause by the complain
ants states that since the hlin@ OF the bill the
saiu liNlu H. MOTIFS mas dicd lhtcStiIc leaving
one child. David Morris who is infant under
twenty-One years OF age. his only heir at law to
whom his interest in said real estate descended.
subject to the dover interest of the said Catha-
rine Morris therein AMI that the said David
Morris resides out g! the Stale Vi Maryia and
prayS that the said David Morris may he made
party defendant to thiS suit III ptc" OF the said
David IL. Morris AMI answer said bill and pet-
ton.
1t is thercupon this 18th day Of June. 1sS5 ad-
Judged and ordered that the complainantS 10y
causing Il copy ui this order to Ice inserted in some
newspaper Published in Cecil county once. a week
for one month. before the list day Ut July next,
give not &c to the said David Morris of the object
and substance Oi this bill. and petition and warn
him to appear In this jurt in person or by sulic-
itOr or before the list dav OF October next TO
answer the premises. ami show cause il any he
has why decree ought not to pas and relief be
granted rs prayed.
JAMES i. DAVIS, Clerk.
True Copy-I.St:
June 2U-5t JAMES y. DAN is Clerk.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

A Washington correspondent of the
mony in the Cabinet and the President is
troubled. He is not at one with the
Secretary of State, and the differences
that have arisen will not be mitigated by
time or obli'erated in the progress of the
administration. Mr.. Bayard's course in
regard to appointments and the general
spirit in which he has conducted the de-
partment have been great disappont-
ment to the President and to soma other
members of the Cabinet. Mr.. Bayard,
they say. has proved capricious and un-
certain; his course has not been guided
by any fixed policy or logical purpose,
and he is declared to be the one dissent
lent and permanent inharmOnious Gle
ment in the administration. The objec-
tions to Mr.. Bayard are cumulative, and
no degree of patience, leniency or ingen-
ious explanation can conceal either the
present drift or ultimate result. That
result is that Mr.. Bayard will presently
leave the Cabinet. The President is
kindly disposed and by nature a very
tolerant man but in respect to what he
regards as unjustifable obstacles he
knows no amenities whatever.
A gentleman who comes in daily con-
tact with Secretary Bayard said yester-
day to a correspondent of a Baltimore
paper: There is nothing in the story
about Secretary Bayard's resignation.
The Secretary is on excellent terms with
President Cleveland. and is working in
perfect harmony with him.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
COLONEL INGERSOLL'S VIEWS AL
TERED.

From the Baltimore american.
A story credited to Bob 1ngersoll
comes from Washington. 1t was
brought to Baltimore by a delegate
who attended the Conference of Chair
ties there last week. The genial IN
iidel, so the account runs, was talking
to a batch of delegates, among them
several Marylanders, in social gath
erng. He said that he never took
much stock in a Creator or creation.
BAT" said he, ''recently have seen
one thing which strongly inclines me
to change my opinion. | mean the
oyster. You are surprised? Perhaps
you are bur just suppose that Provi-
dence had put legs on the oyster I'm
asine the result Why, two thirds of
the Eastern Shoremen would starve to
death" A suit for slander and libel
against Colonel Ingersoll, with the Eas-
tern Shore of Maryland as plaintiff,
will now be in order.
The above is the toughest old
"chestnut" we have met for a long
time. Don Piatt or Judge Bond, we
forget which, got off that JOKE in Elk
ton just twenty-five years ago, and In
gersol has just caught on. His jokes
are as stale as his inidelity. The
american should have known better
than to assert at the resurrection of a
Joke at the funeral of which nearly a
quarter of century ago; our grand
fathers acted as pail bearers.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
A FALSE PROPHET.

Brother Dana of the New York SIN
is a theoretical free-trader, but con-
cedes that free trade is impracticable
and impolitic. He deals out unspar-
ingly his vigorous English on Frank
Hurd's head in this slyle.
The Hon. Frank II. Hurd of Ohio
is an eloquent and enthusiastic cham
pion of free-trade. He goes to the
very extreme of his favorite theory, and
is disinclined to the practical exped-
tents of craftsmanship, by which op-
posing policies are often reconciled.
He gives no quarter to the protection
lists. and he asks none for himself.
In a speech on the Morrison hori-
zontal scheme, delivered in the House
of Representatives on the 20th of April
last year, Mr.. Hurd predicted the most
terrible evils for the farmers:
81 predict that before January next
the price of wheat will be so low that it
will not pay the cost of production. and
the corn on the Western prairies will be
burned again for fuel, as was the case
some years"
January came and July is near at
hand, without the fulfilment Of either
of these prophecies. Wheat has risen
in price, and corn has not been burned.
The value of these products does not
depend upon high or low tariff.
Mr.. Hurd was not satisfied with one
prediction. He made another equ-
ally emphatic with the first, and which,
as the sequel shows, had no better
fate than the original experiment on
public credulity:
''If those interested in protection re-
iect this bill then | believe in less than
year the farmers of America will rise
from the lethargy in which they are
slumbering and sweep in an hour The
whole system away ago.
More than year has passed away
since Mr.. Hurd foretold this rising
In his language, the farmers are still
"slumbering." They have shown nc
disposition to cast off the alleged leth,
argy or TO enlist under the recruiting
banner of the honorable gentleman
whose former constituents dropped him
at the last election.
1t is not to Mr.. Hurd or to his more
compromising associates in the las'
Congress that the farmer or anybody
else in this country under its present
conditions will look for leadership.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
No kissing oT Hands or Winkiu-.

The investigation of the conduct Of
some of the naval cadets OF the second
class of the Naval Academy, on the / .th
instant, when the steamer Nellie White
landed Sunday school excursion from
Baltimore at Annapolis, disclosed that
some of the cadets oged the excursion
lists with pieces of glass, hailed others
with the greeting, "Ain't she a daisy"
and others still with pipe to the sides,
a nautical expression used V hen son. G
disntary comes aboard ship. There
were 10 kissing Of hands and wiuking at
the ladies. as charged. The offenders
were given dement's, and the cadets ex-
cluded from the wharf when excursion
boats ltnd. The majority of the second
class disapprove of the conduct of their
classmates upon the occasion.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
\ Fathers Crime and Shocking Suicide.


Thomas l.. Roach, 55 years of age,
resided for more than quarter of
century on one OF the most pleasant
farms IN Indian River hundred, few
miles from Lewes, Del. His life SEEM
ed to be SO blameless and his reputa-
ton for integrity was SO great that for
years he was arbitrator of disputes be-
tween his nelGhbors. His wife was
some years younger than himself and
one OF the loycllest women IN the
county. They brought up SIX children,
the youngest OF whom Is I5-ycar-oid
daughter named Anne.
Last Monday night Mr. Roach COM
mlited suicide under shocking cIrcum-
stances. For some months past Mrs.
Roach had noticed that her husband
was growing melancholy and morose,
and mat ther youngest chlid seemed
to be failing physically and ANXIOUS to
avold the other members OF the family.
Anne strength gave way, and on be-
ln9 closely questioned by her mother
she confessed that she was soon to be-
come mother, and that the iather OF
iler child was her own father. MIS-.
Roach was almost heart-Droken, and 1t
was many houfS before she showed any
signs ol recovery from 'ne nervous
Pfosbatlon the d9nsh'tra revelation
had caused.
0poh nearing 'h''t h'S crime had
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

ognized by the tax paying voters of the
county. A comparatively small portion
of these voters are othce-seekers. A
large majority of them care but little
who fll the offices the only condition
they impose is that those who do fill
them shall be honest and competent
men.
If therefore with these facts before
them the Republicans of Cecil county
will turn their backs upon their past
discorls and differences.
If local leaders will forget their petty
iealou>es in the higher demands of
principle and of public duty.
If local ticket composed of repre-
sentative Cecil county Republicans,
selected not upon personal or partisan,
but upon the higher grounds of qualiil-
cation and fitness be submitted to the
voters of the county. our word tor 1t,
the Democratic ticket will have no easy
road to victory.
If, on the other hand, rent and di-
vided by chickering's and jealousy, weak
ened by internal discorls,with the hand
of one Republican turned against an
other, and its record disgraced, as it
was two years ago, by the ruthless
slaughter of its most deserving expo
nents and candidates, it attempts a
campaign now it can only end in defeat
and disaster.
We earnestly pray for the Republic
ans of Cecil a more enviable record
this fall.
To that end, earnest in our Repub-
licanism, we pledge our honest en-
dcavor.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
GEN. GRANT FINISHES HIS BOOK.
He Is So Much Improved That He Is Able
to Work Several Hours

He Is So Much Improved That He Is Able
to Work Several Hours
General Grant has been at Mt. McGre-
gor now for nearly two weeks, and, in
reviewing the condition of his patient
since he left New York, DR.. Douglass
says that the general probably would not
have been alive nov had he remained in
the city. The Rev. DR.. Newman still
clings to the idea that General Grant
will recover, and he recently said that
only Que man ever went up on mount
to die, and that man was Moses. DR..
Douglas, however, does not take such a
favorable view of the case. He says
that to human power can stay the pro-
gress of the cancer; that all that can be
done is TO watch the progress of the dis
ease and relieve the pain which it causes;
that there can be only one end to look
forward to. The General has finished
the revision of his book, and that off of
his mind he will perhaps rest easier.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

The medicinal properties of whiskey
have been discovered in Topeka, Kan
sas, where the druggists have filled
nearly 900 prescriptions since pro-
hibition went into effect. The average
in each case is a pint flask, but the
doses are believed to be smaller than
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

MR.. A. LONG, recent member OF
the Ohio Republican state committee,
lately declared that the Democrats of
that state are SO thoroughly disorganized
that the Republicans could elect a
"yellow dog" for governor this year.
The Republicans of Cecil county, Mary
land, had better not risk any such a
nomination. If they do, they will find
the yellow one the under dog in the
fight this fall.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
Meanest Sneak In Town.

Malaria gases sneaked up through the
poorly constructed drains and made baby
verv sick with malarial fever. Baby would
have died but for timely use of Brown 8
Iron Bitters There is nothing meaner in
it's way of coming, nor worse in its effects,
than this Malaria from the underground re-
piops. Mrs. Mcdonald, of New Haven,
Conn. says, "For six years | suffered
from the effects of malaria, but Browns
Iron Bitters cured Ee entirely. Try it
when malaria steals in an d undermjnes
your constitution. 1t will give relief.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
Gh. QsfiI n>hie.
ELKTON, JUNE ~, 1885.

The Democrats of Cecil have opened
an early campaign this year. Let the
Republicans of the county follow suit
by nominating a ticket composed of
their best men. With harmony and or
ganization they can be elected.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

the scene of actien at the head OF Il Mary
land company, aui did much to help win
the fame and honor carried off by the
gallant Mary Ian,Icrs in that conflict He
was commissioned by President Polk
captain, and served with distinguished
gallantry in the campaign from Vera
Cruz to the City of Mexico, and WAS cspe-
cialiy mentioned in one nfGencral Scott 5
official reports for galIantry.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
Democratic Disapprovai of Democratic
Methods.

Democratic Disapproval of Democratic
Methods.
From The Washington Post, Dem.
If it be true, as stated, that certain
departments of the Government have
inaugurated the practice of hearing and
acting upon charges against incumbents
without giving the latter any oppOrtu
nty to answer or even know the nature
of such charges, we wish to remark that
the practice has our cordial and enthusi-
astic dsapprobation. We can imagine
nothing more cruel, more revoltinsly ty-
rannical, than this Star Chamber proceed
ing, which was abolished centuries ago
as being out of place in an era of human
liberty. To receive-nay, to invite-the
preparation of charges against an official,
to receive and consider those charges in
secret, and to pass upon him the final
condemnation without his having been
informed without his having had an op-
portunity to refute or even explain-and
add to this frightful injustice the cruelty
of expulsion for an Unknown crime-this
is barbarism which belongs to the mid
die ages-not to the nineteenth century.
Surely the transfer of the Government
to the Democracy can be effected with
out resorting to methods so unwhole-
some and abhorrent. the victory was
fairly won-openly, by honorable means.
with the whole world looking on. We
are entitled to it's fruits-Eo one Ques-
tions our light to take possession; on the
contrary, it is expected of US. Is there
any reason why we should approach by
stealth and compass by brutality that
which we are free to take in peace and
honor? We wish to repeat-and we speak
in the name of every fair minded man of
either party-that this practice of in
eliminating, presenting and condemning
Republican oflice-h holders them
without hearing and casting them out
branded with a nameless eriMe-is the
most repulsiye thing to which our politics
has ever given birth. III persisted in it
will disgust and ALLEVIATE every manly
soul. and it will bury its authors and
contrivers fathoms deep in odiuu.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

This name i familiar with the people
through hUut the UnIted States That it, is
hardly necessary To state that he Is the
originator of the great br. Hnsanko Cough
and Lung Syrup, the fav"rita ramedy, wher-
ever known, for Coughs, Colds, Gonsump-
tIun, and all affections of the Throat and
Lungs. Price 80 cents and 81 90. Sold by
Dr. IL. IL. Mitchell. -
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
MONDAY, the 9th day of JULY,
TWO-STORT FRAME DWELLING, III i

in good order. This property is lcasehold and
subject to an annual ground rent OF - 81.
No. 2-ALI. THAT LOT OR PARCEL. OF
LAND situate on the east side of said street. IN
said town. adjoining the above lot, being Lot No.
OF said part OF said town: fronting % icct on SAID
street and running back :1iO feet. and being the
same property which was conveyed to said Thos.
FitlgihhonS by said Joseph Peoples, by his deed
dated April 4,h, 1853. ard recorded among the
land records Aforesaid, III Iibcr d. s., No :, i0lio
:.6T. Ne. Ihe imprNN emcntS cOnsict 0t
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

Avoid by all means the use of calomel for
bilious complaints. Ayers Cathartic
Pills compounded entirely of vegetable i'll
gredients have been tested for forty years.
and are acknowledged to he the best rem i
edy ever devised for torpidity of the liver,
costiveness, and all arrangements OF tine
digestive apparatus.
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
woodlawn Camp.
OISHIIANS' COIRT.

THIIE Stated Meeting of the Orphans
l. Court Of Cecil iuty will he held ON the
IIESDAY in c-"rv month EXccu-
tors Admins rators and Guar .innS, wanting
their accounts stated, will please br ~ in the
vouchers few days beio'e Court.
REUBEN +. JAMAR
.,.'aE2' Regis ter
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27

lCrNTO wanted io- Tho Lives OF all the lIes
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Hlll IL | u h:ndSumest and best book ever sold
iur less than twice our price. The
fastest selling book in America. Immense profits
tc agents. All Intelligent people want it, ANY
on, can become "A successful agent. Terms free.
HALLETr BOOK co. Portland Maine
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
fS5aa Three Two Story Frame
HEs Tenement Houses,

in fair order An excellent spring of water is on
this property. This property is leas2huld and
; uhlcct To an annual ground rent of so.
TERMS OF SALE. prescribed by the decree.
are: Dnc-hali OF the purchase money te he paId
in cash on DAY OF sale: balance in Two equal in
sediments ut and II months from day ot sale:
credit payments to bear Interest from day of sale,
and to he secured To satisfaction o the under
signed. Purchasers to pay cost Of conveyance.
JOHN +. JACKSON.
Committee OF the person ami cS ate OF Thorn IS
FitzgihhonS. pIincipi" Furnace. Md.
June l3-tS
The Cecil Whig., 1885-06-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

His own account OF the greatest military S;rugg le
ut modern times iuO.udU.. orders already taken.
VIII sell Immediately. For particulars address
HUBBARD BROS. Pubs. 723 Chestnut ST
Philadelphia, Pa.
, 1885-04-26

Though the guano-digging Cinnamon who
swarm upon the islands Of the California
gulf are not courageous enough to make sue
cessful divers, they are much given to the
secret practice OF many ingenious tricks by
which their countrymen in the Flowery
Kingdom produce pearls that ARE partly
artificial. As is well known. the pearl
oysters at certain seasons of the year con-
gregate in consid 'rable numbers ON the sur
face Of the waters, where they open their
shells to enjoy tho influence of the sun. Al
this period, from time immemorial, the
Chinese and Japanese fishermen nave been
in the habit OF throwing into the open shells
strings of tiny beads formed OF mother-of.
pearl, which. becoming encrusted in the
course Of a few months, present the same
appearance as real pearls. When the Gu
rious process is supposed to have been com
pleted, the oysters are drawn up from their
bed and robbed Of their penrly tire assures.
The truth OF this statement is not only
confirmed by the testimony OF travellers, but
BY the result Of many experiments. Pro.
fessor Fabricius tells us that he saw several
Chinese chame, then in the possession Of Sir
Joseph Banks. tho shells of which contained
iron wire covered with pearl. These wires
hnl once been sharp. and evidently the sa-
gacious oysters, to secure themselves against
the intrn sion OF such unwelcome visitors.
had enerusted, All thus rendered blunt tho
points with which they came in contact.