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The midland journal., 1886-06-18
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on the
second Tuesday ofeverv month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few DAYS before Court.
Test: r. E. JAMAR, Register.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18
Death of Mrs. Hendrickson

Mrs. Geo. r. Hendrickson, died at
the residence of her son, Mr.. f. G.
Hendrickson, short distance from
the Sun. on Wednesday afternoon,
10th inst. The deceased was strick-
en- with paralysis few days before
her death, from which she was unable
rally. The interment will be at
Hayre de Grace on Saturday (to-mor.
row.. 10th inst.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18
NOTICE

By THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY
January IT, 1882.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex-
ecitors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: r. E. JAMAR, Register.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

The partnership in the canning busi-
ness, heretofore existing between Jas.
K. Brown and Edwin M. Hunt, under
the firm of Brown & Hunt, has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent.
JAS. X. BROWN.
EDWIN NJ. HUNT.
Rising Sun, Md. 9th mo. 'Sth, 1856.
June 18th st
The midland journal., 1886-06-18
Mendenhall Committed.

The bail of $3.50 on which John
Mendenhall was released for the al
legged rape on the young girl, Ella 1.
Miller, was on the advice of States
Attorney Bratton, revoked by Esquire
Taylor, and Constable Wagner, com.
mittcd him to Jail on Saturday last,
to await trial at next term of the cir.
cult Court. Mendenhall stoutly de.
nies the charge, and says the girl lies
and has told conflicting stories.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18

T'OR SALE: E:-One O. K. CHURN
l. has never been used. Will make more
butter than any other churn. Will be sold
cheap Enquire at this offic.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18

NOR RENT-A good HOUSE 4sessSassssr 4sssSasr
- F. G. HENDRICKSON, ia'' NH
Rising Sun. Md. June II st s.l5lAsssA sss5AsA
The midland journal., 1886-06-18

TOR SALE.-ONE LITTLE DE-
a tective" scale, weighs from ounce to 25
pounds. Very accurate. An indispensable
article that every prudent housewife ought
to have in her kitchen. Apply at this office.
Can be bought at bargain.
The midland journal., 1886-06-18

SHILOH'S COUGH and Consump-
ton Cure is sold by DR.. Kirk a guar
antee. 1t cures Consumption.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
The Biennial System.

A Washington correspondent has been
interviewing senators and members of con-
gress in regard to their opinions of the bien-
NAL system of elections and legislative ses-
sions. Mr.. Stewart was not in the city, but
the other members of the delegation eX-
pressed themselves as follows:
SENATOR EpMUNDs: 81 am decidedly OPP
posed to the biennial system, as | wrote at
length TO leading citizen of Massachusetts
time TO send my views again to a Massachus-
etts gentleman who has asked me for them,
/ fully believe that the extra cost and
trouble of annual elections are more than
offset by the constant supervision of our eX-
ecutive officers, and by the mingling of the
people and discussion of public affairs that
follow from frequent elections and meetings
of the legislature"
SENATOR MORRILL,: " am myself in favor
of annual elections. ! believe that they and
frequent meetings of the legislature are edu-
cational agencies, especially as under the
annual system members of experience are
more likely TO be in the legislature. But
hear of no movement in Vermont to return
to the annual system, and do not think that
one is likely TO be made"
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT: "In Vermont we
have suffered no hardship, but the promised
reduction in expenses has not followed for
we have longer legislative session. | hear
many leading men in different parts of the
state express themselves as not wholly salts
fled with the experiment, and the suggestion
is often made that we would do well, while
retaining the biennial elections, TO have n
yearly meeting of the Legislature, Still, as a
general thing, the people appear to be salts
fed, and have heard of no tangible move
ment looking TO a change in our present
order of doing things"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
The School Question in COrinth.

Mr.. Editor:-With regard to the discussioa
of the system of public schools, it is true that
the lyceum was conducted by the scholars
of Cooksville Graded School. But upon the
evening of this discussion the academy hall
was filled with persons of all ages. After
the students had spoken volunteers We're
called out, and among others George NJ
Dearborn, one of the best debaters in this
part of the county. He is a man of large
experience as a teacher, was for several
years principal of the academy and is still
teaching He has also had several elections
to the state legislature, and, consequently
has large legislative experience. Mr.
Dearborn held the audience for some time
while he explained the working of the sys-
TEN in towns with which he had become ac-
quainted. He had also gained considerable
Information from members of the legisa-
ture with whom he had become acquainted
at the last session. He also told how Corinth
had tried il. They adopted it several years
since, and the board refused TO act In con-
sequence there were no public schools that
year, and the town was put back by a special
act of the legislature to the district system.
He then told how they went to work to re-
district the town, reducing the number of
districts from twenty-siX to sixteen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Notes and Opinions.

THERE are now $4,000 southern war
claims before congress. This is one of
the results of the democratic restoration.
SENATOR LOGAN is reported to have
said to friend that he has no presi-
dental aspirations at the present time.
THE cold wave appears to be expe-
riencing more freedom in the South
than the ordinary ballot Chicago In
ter-Ocean.
ALL Burlington seems to have gone
crazy over tobogganing. They will get
over it with the advent of summer
The disease is not necessarily fatal.
IT is asserted that William Scully of
London, England, who owns large
tracts of land in Illinois, has introduced
there some of the worst features of
Irish landlordism.
THE st. Adams (Vt.) post-office is
rather an inconsequential something to
make a national issue out of, but it
seems to be just one of those opportuni-
ties which thrills with Joy mugwump
newspaper.-Manchester Union.
THE Caledonian need not worry about
the WATCHMAN. 1t will be a long time
before the people of Vermont will favor
the abolition of political parties and
the conduct of political affairs by the
chaotic methods of the mugwumps.
THE Brattleboreans were excited and
indignant, last Friday, when the report
came that the President had pardoned
Silas M. Waite, but it turns out that the
report was unfounded and that no ac-
ton has yet been taken in the case.
IN the United States, the Star says,
our successful politicians, as class, are
the bustling, busy men of the world,
self-made and practical, to whom life
has been the open book, and who have
become useful public servants through
the lessons of experience.
THE accidental discovery of the fact
that some Italians carrying child sick
with the SMALLPOX have been riding in
Third avenue car makes one wonder
how often such thing occurs without
discovery. Tribune. g SMALLPOX " is
probably a new disease invented by a
careless proof-reader.
AN exchange remarks that ga nut
for free-traders to crack is that while
business is improving in the United
States and labor is very generally en-
ployed, and in some instances wages
have been advanced, the depression of
business, according to the speech of the
Queen, is more severe than ever"
THERE is one thing to say in mitiga-
ton of the cupidity of Judas Iscariot.
The thirty pieces of silver paid to him
were full weight, as far as we know,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Gold and Silver.
cotting.

The New York Sun argues in favor of
recommendation, but it would have the
standard silver and demonetize gold
"There seems to be no possibility of
arresting the movement toward silver
Standard" the Sun says, q" for congress
cannot be brought to repeal the present
law providing for steady coinage of
silver; and although the operation of
this law is slow and gradual, it is sure,
and after a few more years under it
silver will be our standard money, and
the gold will be gone" The Sun
argues at length that it is not practi-
cable to maintain gold and silver as
standards at the same time. Then we
should say that it would not be good
policy to make the inferior metal the
standard, for the inevitable result
would be the imitation of values upon
an unstable foundation. The Sun con-
fessed as much, a short time since,
when it said (more particularly in ref
erence to the newspaper business) that
it well knew that the establishment of
a silver standard, besides being unpop-
ular with creditors and bondholders,
would lead to higher prices for paper
and other supplies, higher wages for
its employees, and no larger returns
from sales and subscriptions. But it is
so welded to its silver idol that it is
quite willing that the country should
have another period of imitation, with
its attendant evils. 1t will be difficult
to show what the interests of the coun-
try have to gain ultimately by adding
twenty-five millions of underweight sill
yer dollars annually to our currency
and risking the withdrawal of five hun
dred million dollars worth of gold
from circulation. The attitude of
bimetallists like Mr.. Blaine on this
question is altogether more sensible.
He favors the double standard, but de-
mands the perfect harmony of coinage
values. He opposes an inferior coin,
whether it be a short gold dollar or a
short silver dollar, and insists that a
specific coin shall be worth all it claims
to be worth. Upon this basis the es-
adjustment of an international ratio for
coinage may the more easily be accom-
plished. But if monometallism is to
prevail, the standard should be gold
and not silver, because we cannot con.
troll the financial policies of other ma
tions which discriminate against silver
Our people, as whole, did not like an
unstable paper currency, and we do not
believe that they want an unstable sill.
yer currency.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

This notice was greeted by the Parnell-
ties with cries of " towards" d" shame ("
and with ironical laughter. Mr.. Col
lings (radicaD then moved an amend
ment to the Queens address on the
question of allotments. The amend
ment expressed regret that no measures
were announced in the Queens speech
for the relief of the sufferers by the de-
preston in trade and agriculture, par
ticularly in regard to affording facilities
to farm laborers, etc., for obtaining al
lotments of small holdings on equitable
terms as to rent and security of tenure.
The amendment was opposed by the
government, and was supported by Mr.
Gladstone. 1t was adopted by vote
of 800 to $50, the government thus be-
ing defeated. Lord Harrington, Mr..
Goschen and number of liberals did
not vote. On Wednesday the Salisbury
ministry rendered its resignation, which
was accepted by the Queen, and Mr..
Gladstone has been summoned to form
a new cabinet. No one ventures to pre-
dict the outcome of the present state of
affairs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

SENATOR HARRISON, in a speech fa-
voring the admission of Dakota to
statehood, said there were in South
Dakota $4,000 farms, containing 81
$50, 900 acres of titled land, the average
size of its farms being 1914 acres. Last
year it raised 7,500,000 bushels of corn,
100000 bushels of wheat and 49,
600 900 bushels of oats. The value of
its farms was SS7,00O,000 and of its
live stock 1926 ,000, 900, and the value of
its farm products S1S,000,000. Mr..
Harrison said he had heard the objec-
ton Outside of the senate) that there
were not democrats enough in the ter
ritory, and that Dakota should wait
until another territory, democratic in
politics, was ready for admission.
" Could we not get rid of this old pair
ing system? 1t grew out of slavery
and ought to have died with slavery"
AS to whether preliminary EN-
abling" act by congress was necessary
before a state could be admitted to the
Union, Mr.. Harrison contended that
no such act was necessary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
BOycOtting.

The Objectionable system of boy
cotting, introduced in this country from
Ireland, does not work successfully
here. The word " boycott " was coined
during the protracted contest of Irish
tenants with one Captain Boycott, who
was the agent of large landed estate
and who was driven away for time.
The tenants would not work the lands
nor suffer others to do so, unless the
rents were largely reduced or RENTED.
The system has been tried in this
country by liquor-dealers to coerce
temperance people to abandon the
movement against the liquor traffic; by
temperance people Gin the WesD to CO.
cree liquor-dealers into an abandonment
of their trade; by trades-unions against
manufacturers and merchants who
have provoked their displeasure: by
local land leagues against persons who
have been outspoken against the dyna-
mite policy; and it has been attempted
spasmodically in other directions.
Where labor strikes have occurred, a
disposition has been manifested to
make trouble for traders and business
men who have not expressed their
sympathy with the workmen, without
any regard to the merits of the con-
troversy. The boycotting movements
in the Northern States have mainly
been confined to the foreign element
only in few instances has boycotting
been practiced by native Americans.
The latest instance of the boycotting
method has occurred at Lewiston, Me-.
where the Knights of Labor boycotted
the agent of the Bates mills in that
city for some real or fancied viola
ton of the principles of their order.
The boycott included all merchants
and other business men continuing to
have dealings with the agent. Two or
three of the merchants obeyed the de-
mand of the organization; all the others
rendered the agent offers of assistance.
and finally the Knights felt compelled
to rescind their hasty and unjustifable
action. Probably the Knights of Labor
organizations everywhere will take
warning from the Lewiston affair that
boycotting is not popular and legiti-
mate proceeding for the redress of the
grievances of labor, and will be more
disposed to respect the opinion of Mr..
Powderly, the chief officer of the
Knights of Labor, who says that I" the
petty strikes and boycotts into which
assemblies rush are deplorable in the
extreme" If labor agitators can find no
better method to advance the interests
of good cause than by social and bust.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

THE interest which Encouragement
Garland had in rendering an opinion
against the validity of the Bell tele-
phone patents is now accounted for. 1t
is disclosed that he had 100000 stock
in the Pan Telephone Company, and is
largely interested in local companies
using the Pan electric instruments.
The list of leading stockholders includes
the names of several democratic sena-
tors and congressman. The New York
World, which is not over-friendly to
the administration, deals particularly
with Encouragement Garland's inter-
est in the matter, and is emphatic in
it's condemnation of his transactions
and of the conduct of Secretary Lamar
in aiding the encouragement to earn
the gift telephone stock. The San
thinks there should be a reconstruction
of the cabinet, and that Mr.. Garland
and Mr.. Lamar, who are deeply impli-
Gated in the scandal, should be COM
PEELED to retire.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
President and Senate.

The President has finally decided
upon his course regarding the demands
of republican senators for the papers in
cases of suspended republican officials.
On Friday the Encouragement sent a
communication to the senate declining
to furnish the papers containing the
charges on which District Attorney
Dustin of Alabama was removed from
office. 1t is understood that the Presi-
dent and his cabinet were all agreed
that the senate had no legal right to the
documents. 1t is reported that the next
step of the republican senators will be
to summon the encouragement to APP
pear and bring his papers. 1t is not
expected, however, that he will comply.
The democratic senators held caucus,
Saturday, and unanimously resolved to
sustain the President. They do not
think there will be any serious conflict,
or that any considerable number of
nominations will be rejected. If any
nominations fail of confirmation at this
session, they are of the opinion that
the President could renominate the
same persons after adjournment.
The democratic papers, and also the
mugwump papers that continue friendly
to the President, are much exercised
about the attitude of the republican
senators. The New York Times allows
its Washington correspondent to say
that Mr.. Edmunds has been the prime
mover in all the unsuccessful assaults
upon the President in executive session,
and to unkindly suggest that his ap-
pearance as an active republican parti-
san at this time is deliberate effort to
ingratiate himself with Vermont repub-
licans and so increase his chances for a
reelection next fall. But the ascrip-
ton of a selfish motive to Mr.. Edmunds,
or to any other republican senator, does
not prove that the action of the great
body of republican senators is not con-
trolled by sound principle. They
seem to be well agreed that when a
republican office-holder has been re-
moved ostensibly on charges affecting
his integrity and fidelity that the senate
has right to know the facts in the
case. AS all presidential appointments
are by the Constitution made subject to
the advice and consent of the senate,
the President cannot rightfully with
hold from the senate the reasons for
the removal of republican office-holders
before their terms have expired. There
is little reason to doubt that the sus-
pensions of republican office-holders
have, for the most part, been made for
political reasons; and even if the Presi-
dent persists in his refusal to give the
senate the grounds for such suspen-
sions, it will only serve to strengthen
the opinion entertained by everybody
except few deluded mugwumps that
the reform professions of the national
democratic administration are alto
gether insincere and meaningless.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

A BILL has been reported favorably
in the senate authorizing the people of
Washington Territory to adopt con-
stitution and prepare for admission into
the Union. The proposed state is to
be enlarged by the addition of strip of
land known as the Panhandle of Idaho,
which is separated from the southern
part of the latter territory by practi-
cally impossible range of mountains. 1t
is claimed that the population of
Washington Territory is now one hun
dred seventy-fve thousand. 1t has
thirty-three organized counties, an as
sessed property valuation of $55, 00O,0 900,
and over eight hundred miles of rail
way. With the addition of the strip
from Idaho, the territory will be about
two hundred miles from east to west
and two hundred miles from north to
south, covering eighty-five thousand
square miles of land and five thousand
of water, or larger than all the six New
England States together. The natural
resources of the proposed state, the re-
port says, are more varied than those
of Pennsylvania. The agricultural
lands are adapted for the production
of all the cereals. 1t probably has the
largest and finest body of timber within
the limits of the United States. Esti-
mating that lumber equal to that now
cut annually in the United States were
cut every year in Washington, it would
take thirty-fve years to exhaust the
timber supply of the territory. The
value of its coal and iron deposits, as
well as of its precious minerals, is great
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

THE great event of last week abroad
was the overthrow of the tory ministry
in Great Britain. On Tuesday the con-
servatives gave notice that the govern
ment would introduce bill to suppress
the Irish National League and other
dangerous societies, to prevent intimi-
dation, to protect life and property and
to maintain public order in Ireland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

ness ostracism, they are unlikely to get
much sympathy from people who be-
lieve that justice and fairness are vio-
lated by the repulsive system of boy
cOtting.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

Ir is never too late to cleanse the teeth
and render the breath odoriferous with fra
grant SOZODONT, but ii is best to use this
Wonderful vegetable elixir before the teeth
begin to fail and the breath to lose its fresh
ness.
SPALpNG's" celebrated Glue, useful and
trua
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

What makes the breath so fragrant, pure2
What makes the rosy gums endure?
What makes the teeth so pearly white?
What makes the mouth dear delight?
iTis SOZODONT, that precious boon
Which none can use too late, too soon.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-06-10
ALIAS SUMMONS.

Territory of Idaho, County of Alturas-ss.
Eph Daft, plaintiff VS.. Edward Haw1ey Palmer,
Greville H. Palmer, and TIL j. Reeves as the
Minnie Moore Mining Company. defendants.
In the Probate Court of Alturas County, Idaho
Territory.
To Edward Hnwley Palmer, Greville H. Palmer,
and TIL. j. Reeves, as the Minnie Moore Min
ing Company.
In the name of the people of the United STATE g.
In the Territory of Idaho:
You are hereby notified that there is now
on file in the office of the Probate Court of
the County of Alturas, in the Territory of Idaho,
the complaint of Eph Daft, demanding of you one
hundred twenty dollars, interest thereon,
and costs of suit, upon the following cause of nc
ton: An &C count for work and labor rendered for
you by plaintiff during 1885. Said sum was due
and payable June l, 1885, as more fully appears In
complaint now on file in this oifc e. And that un.
less you appear and answer to said complaint at my
office in HALEY, l. t., within ten days exclusive
of the day of servicel after the service on you
of this sumnons-if served within this county or
if served out Of this county, but in this district
within twenty days. otherwise within forty days
or Judgment by default will be taken against
You for the sum of one hundred twenty mine
dollars s129) and interest together with the costs
of suit
In witness whereof, I, H. c. Street Probate Judge
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
lsEALl the seal of said Court at HALEY, Idah o
this 25th day of June. A. D. 1855.
Fl. Q. STREET, Probate Judge.
A. W. NICHOLS, Clerk. a3w
KINGsBURY Il MCGOWAN, Atty's for pl'f.