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\ Robbery,

On Tuesday morning Captain Holmes of
the schooner Tired Avon which was at Sin
gerly's wharf the early part of this week
loaded with popular wood for the pulp
work, was robbed of SIG. He suspected
Frank RenShaw IA colored man who was
employed by him as cook and pat the mat
ter in the hands OF the officers. Renshaw
was unprecedented AS he was about to leave
Elkton on the night train north on Tuesday
night Fifteen dollars of the money was
found on his person. He practically ac-
knowledged the theft he handed the
money to the captain saying-here is yonr
money. He was given n hearing on We'd
nesday morning before magistrate Scott
and committed TO Jail in default of bail to
answer the charge at the September term
of court
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1t Looks Like Beechers.

From the Ncw York Sun.
The short code of moral and physical
philosophy which somebody attributes
to Abraham Lincoln, and which is now
going the rounds of the press, rea is more
as if it had been formulated by Henry
Ward Brecher
"Da not worry"
Eat three square meals day"
"Sly your prayers.
"Fhnk of yonr wife -
"Be courteous to your creditors.
"Keep your digestion good
''Steer clear of biliouSnesS.
"EXerciSe."
'G0 slow and go easy
1t is superficial and inadequate. Worry
is bad thing, but not the worst in the
world: some men don't worry enough.
Three square meals day are too many
for some people. 1t is necessary not only
to say our prayers, but also to mean
them; Otherwise better not say them.
Let your affection for your wife take "A
more practical form than thought. You
owe something besides politeness to your
creditors; pay EN-. Sometimes an attack
of indigestion or biiousness has an ex-
celleat effect in starting up a torpid con-
science. Everybody exercises; the thing
is to exercise in the right way and to the
right extent. Go slow aud eat. but not
all the time; if you do, you will be an
octogenarian before you arrive. Go like
the very deuce when circumstances re-
quire.
1t sounds, we say. more like Henry
Ward Beecher than like Abraham Lin
coln-particularly the maxim with refer
ence to the treatment of creditors.
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Sale of the FAIR Privileges.

y large number of fakirs who make IA
living Il fortunate by selling various
notions at the seashore in the summer and.
at the courty fairs in the spring anu fall as
SrrAbled on the Cecil county fair grounds on
Thursday afternoon last, the occasion being
the advertised sale at auction of all privi-
leges at the fair Ia be held on Oct ), +, :, x g.
The sale called on the grand stand
which was the coolest place to be found.
DIR. ChaS. NJ. Ellis, vice president of the So
ciety managed the sale and A. p SchockIey
was the auctioneer 1t being rumored that
the fakIrs had cont ined to keep down prices
1t was announced that bid had been re-
ceived for the privileges in gross and the
managers would reserve the privilege of re-
jecting all bids after the privileges had been
knocked down if they did not bring this
amount. The Cigar and Tobacco privilege
was the first offered. 1t was started at so
and sold al $50 to Chas. IL. Smith of Elk
ton. The peanut privilege was bought by ~
Cardinette an Italian for so. Temperance
drink was offered, bid up to 800 and with
drawn. Photograph gallery privilege No. l.
WAS bought b., Frank Snyder for $40. Pho
tograph gallery privilege No. after
spirited bidding WIS Sold ut S63 to F. II
Hawkins. The diuing-room privilege one
of the most valuable was sold for SlIJ |
Lunch stand No. was bought tor $50 by
jos. Daniels. j. Il. Snyder bought lunch |
stand No , for $40. The ice cream and cake
privil,g. WAS Withdrawn ut SD. The right
to sell peanut candy brought so. The bid
ding tor the ice cream candy on - lioky |
Puky" aS they call 1t at the seashore this |
down To Mr.. Cummings for S4l. Joe
Daniels the lutte fellow who bid against
him said he didn't want it, but Cummings
had done MIN IA dirty trick at Dover and he
would make him pay Tor every thing he
got. Wherever Cummings made bid, |
Daniels would run up the price. Popcorn
the childreu's favorite, brought So. Gum
drops Went low at Sll, to an Italian with il
name unspellahle. The all other candy |
privilege brought $40. The right to sell
bananas brought SD and all the other fruits |
privilege SO. Wilmer Witworth of Elkton
p'hSut tut ldli'I. w IL lS Su'l CiutS Dl'uSub |
so. Toy balloons sold at sd. Henry
Chase, colored of Eikton, bought the right
To feed and water horses for $40. The
programme card privilege was offered and
il bid of $50 made for Bowen 4 Bro OF New
ark. The privilege was not sold The fly |
ing horse privilege brought So. The prlvi- !
leges this year will net The society over a
Thousand doll IrS
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Gr0Ome for Governor.

The baltimore Sunday Ueruid in its
Last issue contained the following:
Not long ago a few prominent Demo
cratic politicians dropped into Collector
Groome's office, and i'll the course of the
conversation the collector SAID
80, yes this is Il very pleasant office,
very pleasant indeed. Or course | like
it-Iike the salary and like the honor.
There is one little weakness in the way
of ambition, however, that still clngs to
me-"
What is that was inquired.
"Tne L .gislature elected me Governor
of Marylan to ill out an unexpred
term replied Collector Groome, " but
my desire is to be elected Governor by
the votes OF the people"
Collector Groome's casual remark was
taken up at once and discussed among
the big chiefs, and now the rumor is
abroad that next year the collector will
be taken up by the managers as their
candidate Tor Governor, while Barnes
Compton is to be made collector of the
port IN his place. THIS would be salts
factory to all concerned, 1t is thought.
Groome has strengt hened himself in the
by his appointmenJS-that IS,
drawn the machinery to him; while
Compton could better afford to be collec
tor at $ 900 IA year than Governor at
81 1DD
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A Suggestion to Parents.

MIR. EDITOR Pleas print this article
are of such moment that it would be
well for Elkton parents to read and con-
slider well. PATRON.
1t is by no means infrequent that the
papers of the country are Called upon to
record sensational Incidents, in which the
moral character and habits of young girls
are involved, which suggest most empha
tically the inattentiou they must have re-
ceived from their parents at the age when
they most needed parents advice and
counsel. Whenever such cases end in a
tragical manner the remark is invariab-
ly made: Where could their parents
have been? The question may well be
asked, but it is rarely that satisfactory
answer is returned, or that other parents
are led to direct their attention because
of it to their own children.
In the cities of this country it is a COM
mon, every night occurrence to meet
scores of young girls on the public streets
idly promenading up and down. 1t is
probable that nine out of every ten of
these are proper enough girls in their
habits of life, and well meaning but, in
paths from their being cut without II
male or a parent protector, it sometimes
seems remarkable that their parents do
not see these dangers and ward them off.
1t is not at all improbable that many a
proper-minded young girl has turned off
into the first path of wrong doing while
innocently promenading, as habit
nightly followed, the public streets.
Where there are crowds of lighthearted
and readywitted girls, whose love of fun
and adventure outruns their discretion,
there is sure to be an equally large crowd
of mlddle-aged and young men ready to
address them and initiate them into new
ways, which, all things considered, it is
Just as well they remained i'll ignorance
Of
1t is not our intention in this article to
create an impression that the girls whom
We have referred to indiScriminately are
reckless and dissipated as rule, but it is
important that the attention of parents
should be again called to the natural dir
ection the habits of young people take
when surrounded by conditions inviting
the utmost freedom of behavior. In other
words we imagine they would be less use
for the Industrial Schools and like eSt;b-
lishments if there was less street. walking
at nights, fewer cheap dances and the
exercise OF greater forethought and eau
ton on the part of parents. We CON-
mend this line of thought to our readers
whose children come and go as their tas-
ties determine.
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North East SiftingS.
THE STRIKE NOT ENDED YET-HOP-AC-
CIDENT-IMPROvEME

THE STRIKE NOT ENDED YET-HOP-AC-
CIDENT-IMPRovEME
The report in two mid week county
papers that the strike at the Mccullough
Iron Companys works had been declared
off and that the hands had returned to
work on Tuesday, We are sorry to be
compelled to deny. The manner in which
the report became current was as fol-
lows: The company agreed some days
ago to take the men back at the rates de-
manded excepting in case of the forge
men whose wages they refused to ad :
vance. The men were rather tardy about
accepting the terms but did so at last
Preparations were made for the starting
of the mills on Tuesday. The managers
of the company put "A stop to this. how
ever, by sending orders on Monday af-
ternoon not to resume operations.
\ number of our young men held this
week hop in lIousekeeper's hall on Ce-
Gil avenue.
Mr.. Patrick Reedy, of North East, has
been chosen to represent the joint as
semblies Of Cecil county Knights of la
Dor, i'll the general assembly to be held
i'll Richmoud. Va October Ash.
On Sunday two boats loaded with
watermelons arrived at this port.
GA "Wednesday morning Elijah Rey-
while working on the roof OF building
GU Main street. fell to the ground and re-
celved painful but not serious injuries.
Mr.. Reedy has been engaged in paint
ing the front of Mr.. T. H. Blake's house
Oh Main street. CARP.
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Personals.

Mr.. James p. Merritt aud family, of Elk
ton, are spending week or two at Atlantic
City.
Miss Mo,lie Foard daughter of NJ. JAS.
l.. Foard of near Cowautown, has returned
! from Ashury Park.
Mr. VIM. McCrery has been at Saratoga
for the last ten days.
Rev Robert w. Beers and family re-
| turned home on Thursday after an absence
of five weeks.
DIR. John II. Sites and family, of Brook
Ign, who had been visiting Mr.. Mary y.
Cameron for several weeks, returned 10
their ONE last week.
Miss a nnie j. Smith Is at lie Bohemia
House, Town Point, Cecil county.
Mrs. Stephenson, OF Dover, Is visiting
her daughter. Mrs. X. Thackery, of this
place.
Mrs j. VIM Perkins and son, of st.
Georges are visiting relatives in Elkton.
Miss Carrie Booth. of Allegheny City,
Pa, is visiting her uncle, Mr. Roger Wit
worth, Of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanchez, of Baltimore, are
visiting her mother, Mrs. Caroline Oliver,
on East Main street
Mr.. William Chick, formerly of this
place but who now holds position in the
clothing house of Jacob Reed x Sons, Phil
adelphia, is taking two weeks vacation and
spending it with his friends in this town
and vicinity.
Miss Ella Rossell, of Thurlow, Pa, is
visiting her brother, Mr.. John 5. Eossell,
of Elkton.
I Miss Sallie Wooley, of Wilmington, is
visiting Mrs. Cecil Weaver.
Rev. John France, presiding elder of the
Easton district. spent Thursday night i'll
Elkton.
Messrs Henry Ninsinger, John Frazer
and f. V. HinchlitfA, who had been spend
ing several days at Ocean Grove, returned
on Wednesday.
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even excepting Ocean Grove. And the best
of it was, that the musicians were all good
christian people and entered into the music
with spirit. Onr boarding tents this year
We're eXceilently kept, possibly never as
we'll.
Temperance Il ~ seems To have horne good
fruits, as | have heard OF three 60 orgaui-
cations of W. CT. |. societies since Who
can tell what silent good they may have az
May We ali live To meet anoth-
er year III the service of The Master.
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Port Deposit Rocks.

PoRT DEPOSIT, August 26th-Some-
unknown parties entered the boarding
house of John III. Sherman on Sunday
night while the occupants were attend
inn church and ransacked the rooms of a
number of his borders, succeeding in
carrying away SO belonging to a Mr..
Crawford, who is stopping there. There
was no money amo-g the effects of the
other borders, and nothing else was mis-
sing. After strewiug clothing, &c, over
the floors they departed, earring away
only SIS.
Toby johnson, colored boy in Mr..
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Jurors for the September Term.

Judge Stump was in Elkton on Friday
morning and drew the jurors for the Sep
teInber term of court. They are as follows:
Henry \. Lindsey, = district Joseph NJ
Broadway, ST.. ,; Frank NJ. Alexander, .;
ChaS w. Wilson. &: Tobias Brown, /: John
Moke, .: ThoS NJ. Tyson, j; Henry j. PenSel,
>; Henry h. McCay,1 !; Jacob Metz, >: l..
Wesley Thomas, 9TH; Joseph CroeS, ith;
George K. Ryan, 9TH; Elwoud Mcdonnell,
I: JOS Jordan, >; David =. Cameron, >:
Patrick Boyle s; Thos. G. Crookshank: l.;
Johnathan L. Finley, /; Thos. G. Bond, =;
Joseph S. Terrell, 3; Henry NJ. Paterson, ::
j. Alex. Rutter, >; Henry w. Black, l.
Adam X. Minker, ): John y. Black, .Ir. D;
Zachary T. Rawlings, $; jefferson NJ. Boyd,
!; Isaac 5. Deford, >; Samuel Frazer, l:
VIM. j. Wilson, ); Wilson ID. Pierson, O.;
John X. llogg, 3; VIM. ii. Moore, .; Han
son II. Haines, i; Geo. Johnston, >; Henry
III. Clark, |: Samuel Whitaker, !; Vim.
Ward. /; Aaron j. Kitchener, u; Edwin q.
Chandlee, /: John +. Stephens, l; Andrew
j. Seth, 5; Norris Dunbar, 3; VIM. Fulton,
8; James NJ. Jefferson, = X. G. Mackel, B;
Jos. Is. Fryer, &.
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ZiOn--Temperance News.
ZION, Aug. -, 1885,

ZION, Aug. %, 1856.
Dedr wing: The ladies of Zion met re-
Gently and formed w. c. I. L, which will
meet every two weeks alternately in the Me
thodSt and Presbyterian churches. Once a
month public meeting will be held when
prominent speakers from distance will be
invited to address it. The following ladies
hold official positions in the Society.
Miss j. X. Mulligan, Miss G. +. Sheppard,
Mrs j. L. Wilson Mrs. Amos Martiudale,
Miss Ella Oldham, and Miss Berthe Shep-
phard. A public meeting TO which all are
invited will be held in the Presbyterian
Church on the afternoon of Friday Sept.
10th, al 5 o'clock. Yours, b ).
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Bishop of EastOn.

The adjourned convention of the Diocese
of Easton convened at Salisbury, Md, on
Thursday. On the third ballot the Rev.
Alex j. Drysdale was chosen bishop of the
diocese. The newly elected bishop was born
in Savannah, Ga, and is IL years old, and
for the past six years has been Rector of
Christ Church at New Orleans.
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COlora News.
COL0RA, Aug. Il. 1856.
WORK.

CoLoEA, Aug. a. 1856.
TEMPERANCE WORK.
Mrs. Black, the weil-known temper
ance worker, has organized society, the
w. G. T. L., at Rowlandsvile aud Hope
we'll The society organized by her at
Rising Sun in May last is in IA iourishing
condition. \ meeting of the society was
held at Rising sun OH Saturday last, at
which it was resolved to distribute TEN
perance literature particularly among
those Inclined to vote for high hcense.
a BIG TEMPERANCE MEETING.
On Monday night a rousing temper
ance meeting was held i'll the tent at
this place. DR.. Il. Il. Crothers was called
to the chair, but, being obliged to leave
before the meeting was over, Mr.. J. w.
Mccullough took his place as chairman
Of the meeting. Mrs. Black spoke briefly
i'll her usual persuasive manner. The
chairman then introduced our well known
towusman, Mr.. '.nomas Warning, who
made lengthy and forc,b'e address,
which WAS we'll received by the audience.
1t Is To he regretted that Mr.. Wariug
was unable t. finish his speech owing to
the iateneSS OF the hour. AS the last OF
the feast is always the toe no matter
now 8obu Ol SuDStdl lldl may nave DetD
the meal He should hereafter treat his
friends to the dc~~tH Mr.. Warning has
very pleasant voice and is an excellent
elocuUionist, which cannot be said of
many aSpirants for platform honors.
An APPOINTMENT.
Mr.. John Grant, of Liberty Grove, will,
it is reported sell out soon and move to
West Philadelphia, where he has received
a responsible position with the i. n ..
Jtilroad company, near that city.
THE CANNEKIES.
The tomato cannery at Liberty Grove
is running on full time. The one at Row
landsville will begin operations as soon
as some necessary repairs are completed
MEETINGS.
The Friends quarterly meeting will be
held on Friday at the Brick Meeting
House. 1t will be addressed by Sander
land L. Gardiner, of New YORK. now the
leading speaker among the llickslte
QuakerS. In this connection must men
ton the fine singing and playing of Rev.
Mr.. BarriyeI and wife which recently
startled from their hiding places the an
cient owls and bats III and around our
little Quaker Meeting House.
ESCUIArIANS On \ FRoLIC.
The doctors picnic on the Columbia
railroad at York Furnace is expected to
| be an enjoyable affair and will be well
attended by that profession from Cecil,
| Hartford and Lancaster counties. \.
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Chesapeake City Matters.
CHESAPEAKE CITY, Aug. 10Th, SO.

Peaches are very plentiful. Thousands of
baskets are brought here from Bohemia
Manor and shipped to the large cities.
Prices are good 50 far bus there is promise
of il decline.
\ CIER,iYMAN'S RETURN.
Rev. |. l.. Cation having returned from
his vacation tour to Northern New York
state filled his pulpit very acceptahly last
SUNDAY His many friends were delighted
to take his hand after his absence from them
and pleased to find HIM looking SO well.
IMPROVEMENTS.
r L. Cleavers house has been given Goa
of paint which has greatly improved its APP
pearance. =. f. Layman and W. f. Pryor
did the work.
our old friend T. b. Pritchett is tinker
ing away night and day on all kinds o
watches and iewelry to the great Satisfac
ton of his patrons. He has added Il new
branch to his business which locks like =
small arnory with the stacks OF guns, re
vuvers and firearms brought in for repair.
PEAR CIDER.
ChpSapeake is the banner town for peat
cider in all its various and snaky forms
Tucktown has several places in a row.
rEKAMBULATING TAvEKNS.
| cannot count the travelling cider agent:
who carry their stock in trade in thei
pockets All one has to do is to give the
word show the money and get the pear
Sixty days in Jail is no terror To the class
of men who pursue this business. The cider
clause and only 80 days III Jail for IA penalt,
plays I he duece with our present prohibition
law. is better than no law, however
GROVE MEETING.
The colored people had a very interesting
grove meeting last Sunday near this place
TIE steamer Pilot Boy brought crow,
from Havre-,ie-Grace. They all apparently
had a good time. One poor fellow had the
misfortune to fall in with a cider agent, i'm
bibed too freely and got crazy drunk.
MUSICIANS Il MUSICAL INsTRu MESTS.
The agent of the Gem Organ Company
and his assistants are making things lively
down here They have been giving free
concerts III the streets and in the not5lS
There are several fine performers among
them IL is said that they have disposed o
Ii organs since their coming. | wager thai
some people will swear piouS oaths or worse
while their neighbours children raise dis
cord of sounds IL few doors away.
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The WoOdiawn Camp Meeting.

WOODLANDS, Aug. - 1856.
Dcu Hhig The Camp Meeting is over,
and silence reigns i'll the Grove, where re-
Gently We're raised voices of praise and
thanksgiving to our Heavenly father. 1t
was thought by many the best meeting ever
held, so you see our annual meeting is not
dying out although our Association has
been in existence fifteen years. and this
meeting was the sixteenth on the grounds,
some false prophets having predicted its
death zen years ago There were forty seven
conversions AT this meeting embracing chill
dren and those OF three score years. The
Church has been thus Streng theued, and
of the meeting, as many hereafter may rise
up to call it blessed.
The order on the grounds this year was
excellent, in fact never better since our or
ganiZation. The average attendance was
good although this not being The regular
many Elkton people. Ia other years we
have seen many candidates who come to
meet their " friends" But nothing in this
line was noticed this year.
Your ElktUn preacher the Rev. j. =.
Otis Is IA grand camp meeting man full of
the tervor and zeal of riginal Methodism.
Brother sheppard conducted the meeting
in a most satisfactory manner, and during
their progress seemed filled with the Spirit
of the Holy Ghost, which guided him i'll the
right direction. Indeed all our preachers
seemed to have the success of the meetin :,
ut heart, and their sermons aimed at the
Salvation of the people.
We We're favored with fine weather, and
although the roads leading To she grounds
Were dusty, we experienced no uncnnveni-
ence. from dust ON the grounds. Fluaucially
| do not know whether this years 1n"etiu =
was IA success or not, bat the singing was Il
grand success. IT. was under the le:tler-
ship OF bro. Wesley Ewing assisted by his
ST Johns friends, and others from oxford.
ON Sunday two comets were added, aud |
have heard many say, that they never heard
as grand singing at II camp meeting not
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2S Bushels Wheat per Acre.

RED POINT FARM, Elk NECK.
Cecil. Co, Md, July IL, 1856.
MESSRS. ID. SCoTT IL Bro:
Dear !Sirs:-I have just finished thrrSh-
ing one field Of eighteen acres of wheat.
on which | drilled in last Fall 400 lbs. of
Sure Growth Snper-Phosphate, and it
averaged ma twenty-eight bushels to the
acre.
We have used Sure Growth on all
crops for years-and hone my landlord
will continue to get it. lie is as much
delighted with it as am.
1onrs respectfully.
ROBERT MCCULLOUGH.
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Knows the Sure Growth from 8
Years Experience.

ELK LANDING, MD. July -, 1856.
ID. SCoTT IL BRO:
GentlemeN:-I have used your Sure
Growth SuperPhosphate ever since it
was introduced into this market in 1875;
and it has uniformly given me and my
tenants entire satisfaction. | use no.
other fertilizer except your Standard Oh
Spring crops. Knowing its value from
eight years experience, am not dlspos-,
ed to run risks when | can secure a Ger
tainty. Other brands of fertilizers may.
be as good, bit kn0tn Sure Growth is.
wellnamed and prefer knowledge to
speculation. Yours respectfully.
X. &. MACkALL.
i. S.-Since writing the above we have
threshed, and got 400 bushels of wheat.
from 90 acres, or % bushels per acre.
The wheat Was cut fully bushels per
acre by the worm. Il. G. II.
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Will Use it This Fall.

WARWICK, Md, July 10, 1856.
MEssRs. ID. SCOTT & Bro:
Gentlemen:-Last Fall used seventeen
QO tons of your Sure Growth Super
Phosphate which bought through your
agent, Mr.. E. E. Marsh. and | am per-
fectly satisfied with my prospects for a
good crop this year, SO much SO at least
that expect to give him my order again
this Fall tor Sure Growth.
Respectfully.
L. G. LYNCH.