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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-08-25

During the last half of the year the roads
and bridges have been repaired under the
| Immediate supervision of the County Com
missiOners and although the old road law
was still operative till June 1st, no work
was done by the Road Commissioners unless
directed by the County Commissioners.
The roads are now in the charge of compe-
tent working men and have been put in
good repair throughout the County with but
very few exceptions.
The cost of all road and bridge work under
the presen: Board of Commissioners for the
past six months has been
for hOaus ............. So,ooO ~
For Bridges. ................ l,204 20
Total INSTRUMENTATION. 1924 80
L certify that the above statement is cor
rect to the best of my knowledge aud belief
that the various sums under the head of re-
ceipts embrace the total receipts during the
time specified, and that the sums marked az
expenditures were expended in the public
service of the County as therein set forth.
L. ID. DAVIS,
Clerk to the County Commissioners.
July 25th, 1888.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-08-25
Total.
Discount.

Allowed by Treasurer on County Tax, as
required by law aw...................... 3,OS5 81
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
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CHINESE FEDAGUGCES,
Glad Enough Of the Money of Foreign Pupils
But Ashamed OF the Pupils

Glad Enough Of the Money of Foreign Pupils,
But Ashamed OF the Pupils.
All of US have our experiences of the
invinclble contempt in which we are held
by our stolid mentors, says the Chinees
fime-, who accept our presents with the
air OF chief !evying tribute from his re-
tainers. Amusing Indeed are the ways in
which the trowsy old pedagogues betray
their feelings, and childishly ingenious
the devices TO which they have recourse
In order to preserve their assumption of
superiority before their countrymeu
while Disgusting il before the foreigner
Chinese etiquette helps them, for they
can put 1t on and off at pleasure. and
trust to the foreigner nog being cute
enough 10 follow it's ramificationR. But
sometimes even the ceremonial forms are
q snare to them. One who was in the
habit OF being reverentIaliy bowed out of
the house after each days session, and
stopped at the threshold TO return the
ob1isances of his pupils, found on one
occasion sudden necessity for adjust.
ing his dress and in doing so omitted the
customary formality.
Struck by the singularty of the pro-
ceeding, the foreigner had the curiosity
to follow the teacher in.o the street, and
there saw pass ug a Chinese Ting .ch'ai
In whose presence the old teacher would
not demeau himself by doing reverence
to the foreigner.
Another kindly disposed scholar in-
duced his teacher to dine and accom- pany
him to the theatre. Unpleasant as IL Is
to sit near weil-nourished Chinese dur
ing the time while his thoracic air pas
sage Is charged with explosiveness, it
must be allowed that the courtesy of the
Western pupil was commendabie. But
the guest felt fidgety, not withstand.ng
the sedative effect of pork and beans, and
soon found an excuse for leaving his for
eign friend. He could not, in fact, on
dare being publicly seen in :he company
of foreigner. Needless to say that in
the street your wellbred Chinese walk,
like the Levite, on the other side when
they see their foreign scquaintances ap-
preaching.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
CRIME.
TO politics

AN election Judge was killed at San
Rafael, n. NJ, While trying to protect the
poll books from a mob.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, who brutally muir
dered his i've grandchildren last May, was
hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on Wednesday.
The Whtechapei murders still contin-
ne to be an apparently unsolvatie mys-
terry.
THE down stage was stopped by n sim
gle highuayman near Do~nie vile, Cal,
yesterday, AID $4,000 in cash and valn.
lie mail stolen.
ANOTHER murder more horrible than the
White Chapel murders has been perpe-
trated in London. The victim was n
prostitute. Bloo6hounds could not track
the murderer.
A MAN was arrested at Laporte, Ind,
while trying 10 sell lot of postage
stamps, and in his satchel was found a
| full kit OF burglars tools He refuses to
give his name.
WHILE riding through the woods in
Breckenridge, KY, Buck McCombs and
Fulton French We're shot dead by persons
unknown. French was the leader OF the
faction against the Esersole gang.
PHIsEAs Rooms, of Mechanicshnrg, Pa,
arrested on the charge of arson, has con
fessed to being the leader of a gang that
had set ire TO three factories, causing q
total loss of 100000.
CEsrRALIA. Ili.-During family
quarrel Friday afternoon, George Br,den-
baker, farmer living four miles north
west of here, became crezed with rage,
and shot his wife and two children. Mr..
denbacker received dangerous
wound in the abdomen, and will probably
die. little daughter of the frenxied
man crught one of the bullets in her arm
which was badly shattered, and his son
was badly wounded in one hand.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
The Conscience of the XIyth Century.

Fro:n Dr.. Lyman Abbott's article on
THE New Reformation" in the November
Century We quote the following: Ger.
rainly the conscience of the American
people, should rather say of the Auglo-
Saxon people, never has been 80 sensitive
and never so resolute in dealing with
practical life. If the most Trustworthy y
expressions of religious feeling are those
uttered in devotional meetings, private
journals, and religious biography, it is
quite possible that what the theological s
call "convIction of sin" WAS moro
poignant in the last century than in this;
but If the most trustworthy expressions
of religious feeling are those embodied in
life, the sense of sin and the pur pose of
reformation have been far more effective.
ly expressed in this century than in the
last. Then millions of sla7es were held
in bondage in America, and other
millions under the British flag in it's
colonies, with only feeble and wholly
ineffective protest Drunkenness did not
lead to social disrepute either in Old OF
in New England. Churches paid for
drinks on occasions of dedications and
ordinations, and the minister's sideboard
took on the aspect of public bar. The
'ohSSiehSe VI Lnsiauu hootirheu sihfefy
In all English domipiops in 1888; that of
the United States, moving more slowly
and naving II more onerous task, accom-
piished its work thirty years later and at
an awful cost. But the task was accom-
plished. Almost on the very spot where
in the first half of this century North
ern missionary was publicly whipped on
the bare back, not for circulating anti
slavery tracts, but for having one in his
possession, now stand the buildings of
the Fisk University, dedicated TO the
education of the emsncipatsd negro. If
drinking has not been diminished, upon
that question social statisticians are not
agreed d,-drunkenns certainly has
decreased, both in England and in the
United States; and the conscience of the
people, awakened TO the enormity of
social crime which costs more in both
men and money than either war or pes
tilence. is seeking to find way to bring
the destruction OF this enemy to per
petnal end. It has not yet found 1.-The
way; but it has found, or Is fast finding,
the will. And where there is will there
Is u way"
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24

but one of many, and that the poor
author would nave to abandon all hope
of suppurting his family if he tried to
comply. The majority who thus appeal
to one know next 20 nothing of the liter
ary life or the conditions of success.
They write TO the author in perfect good
faith, often relating something that
touches his sympathy; yet il you tell them
the truth about their manuscript or say
you have not time TO read IL. adding that
you have no iofuence with editors beyond
securing q careful exaniL ati)n of what is
written, you feel that you are often set
down as q churi and your inability TO
comply with their wishes is regarded Us
the seitishness and arrogance of success.
The worried author has aso his own COM
Functions, for while he has tried so often
and vaIniy 70 secure the recognition re-
quested, till he is in despair of slch
effort, he still is haunted with the fear
that he may overlook some genius whom
il would be delight 10 guide throug h
what seems thorny jungle 10 the mex
perienced.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
In GENERAL.
DEATH IN A COAL PIT.
Kansas Adds II Mine Horror TO the Lis. of Dis
asters.

Kansas Adds Mine Horror to the Lis. of Dis
asters.
KANSAS CRY. The Journal special from
Pittsburg, Kansas, Gays: The most dread
full disaster in the history of Kansas oc-
Cured at O'Clock Friday morning.
When the men were preparing to leave off
their work Ut shaft No. . at Frontenac Il
suburb of Pittsbnrg, a terrible explosion
was heard that shook the earth for great
distance and completely shattered the
shaff. Upon investigation, 1t was found
that one hundred and sixty men were
within the mine at the tine of the xplos
ION. BeiGg ll2 feet below the surface, ii
is almost certain that all are dead at this
writing. The only two exceptions were
two men who were in the car coming up
and being near the top of the shaft, man
aged to escape. Pittsburg is in the
center of the coal mines of southeastern
Kansas and is abont 100 miles south of
Kansas City on the Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
The Sacredness of Seven.

Undoubtedly seven is the sacred num-
Der. There are seven days of creation; !;
after seven days respite the food Game !;
the years of famine and of plenty came
IN cycles OF seven; every seventh day was
sabbath; every seventh year, the sab
bath OF rest: after every seven times
seven years came the iubiiee the feasts
of unleRvened bread and of the taber-
nacle were observed seven days; the
golden candlestick had seven branches;
seven priests with seven trumpets, sur
rounded Jericho seven times and seven
times the seventh day; Jacob obtained
his wives by servitude of seven years;
samson kept his nupitals seven days and
on the seventh day he put a riddle to his
W ife, and he was bound with seven green
~'thes, and seven locks OF his hair we're
shaved off; Net uchadn.zzar was seven
years beast; Shadrach and his two com
panions in misfortune were cast into a
furnace heated seven times more than il
was wont; and in the new testament
nearly everything occurs by severs, and
at the end OF the sacred volume we read
of seven churches, seven cand' esticks,
seven spirits, seven trumpe seven seals,
seven stars, seven thunders, seven vials,
seven plaques, seven angels and q seven-
headed monster. Such are merely few
instances of the sacred use OF the num-
Der, whose employment in this cen
nection seem common TO all nations and
all religions.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The New York Central Railroad switch
men ut Albany are cn a strike for an in
crease from $40 to $45 per month.
A STORE building in New York city own
ed by Col. Watson and filled with 35n, 900
bushels Of gram owned by the Fulton
Grain Milling company, burned, causing
a loss of $550,000.
A WOMAN, driven crazy by the loss of
her husband in the Pittsburk, Kansas, mine
disaster, saturated the clothing of herself
and four children with oil and set fire to
them. All five perished.
THIRTY NINE bodies have been tab en-
from the mine near Pittsburg, Kansas,
wherein the explosion occurred. II is be-
lieved that this completes the list of cas-
ualities.
THUS far seven of the bodies of those
who perished in the burning factory at
Rochester, N. Y, have been recovered,
and thirteen of the persons who we're in
the buildirg are still missing.
THE accidental ignition of parlor
u.atch set fire to the mill of the Indiana
Paper Company at South Bend, and it
was burned, causing loss of s15O,O00;
insurance, $ss. 500.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
successful Authors Troubles.

Said L. p. Roe in his last article writ,
ten for Lippincoit's: Perhaps one of
the most perplexing and often painful
experiences of an author comes from the
appeals of those who hope through him
TO obtain Immediate recognition as
writer's. One Ia asked 10 read manuscript
and recommend it to publishers, or at
least TO give an opinion in regard to
them, often to rewrite or even to revise
them. remember one month that was
asked to do work on the manuscripts of
strange that would require about a
year of my time. The makers of such
requests do not realize that he Or she is
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

EEARLY 10000 men have been natural
iz=d III New York city this year.
FRIENrs of Mrs Gen. Sheridan are rails.
ing tul of 100000 for her.
The Pennsylvania suprcme court has
decided 'ha+ the mechanics lien law Is
Unconstitutional.
! TnE heaviest SNOW storm ever known
~ this seas'n Of the year prevailed
throughout Kansas FRIDAY.
| The Norris nine in Michigan ia the
| greate-t mine in the world, the output
being 100000 tons STD far this season.
| OVER two feet of sao~ has fallen n,opg
| the lower st. Lawrence. Serious loss OF
life is feared.
FRAIRrE fires are raging west and south
west % Aberdeen, Dakota, doing cxten-
sive damage.
TWELVE more bodies were found in the
ruins at the burned fac sory az Rochester,
New York.
Gov. SwISEFoRD's s report ON the condi
tlon Of Aia-ka has been made public. 1t
estimates the populatio of the territory
at $3.50.
THE latest estimate of the Southern cot
ton crop of 1888 places the aggregate at
6 954 1888 bales.
LATEST returns indicate that the repub.
licazs will certainly have majority of
twelve m ore in the House of Representa-.
tives of TIE next Congress.
STEVE BRoprE jumped eff the new
bridge at Poughkeepsie, Friday morning,
and may die from the mi ur'es received.
The wager was $500 and $500 medal.
A SYNDICATE of forty Chicago capital
ists has purchased all the street railway
lines of the city of Los Angeles, Col,
paying 100000 for the same.
DANIEL HANDS noble gift of 100000
for the education of the colored people
in the sou h will educate five hundred pu.
pills u year.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Eu-
Rineers Lave formslly adopted a cooper
ative plan of assisting kindred organiza-
IONS.
The result of the election held by the
Oklahomites in No Mans land was largely
in favur of territorial government and
for a Springer Oklahoma bill. o. g.
Chase is elected delegate TO congress.
The I'd headed have beeL favored
again. Some Jacksonville physicians de-
clare that in no instance has the yellow
fever been known to attack parsons with
red hair.
THOMAS A. EDISON still works as hard
and us lndustriously as though he was
just eginning his career, and any day
he nay be found at his bench at his shop
in Orange, N. j., hard At work in his shirt
sleeves, making with his owu hands
models he considers too delicate to trust
to smother.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEoHER STOWE has made
the most remarkable recovery her phi sics
ans have ever witnessed. When she left
Sag Harbor il was believed that she could
not live to reach Hartford. Now, how
ever, she is better than she has been for
some yrars, and is able to walk with the
aid of csuc.
NEw YcRK.--The Herald prints three
columns charging that the Kings county
insane asylum Is overcrowded and that
the inmates are In horrible condition. /!
II describes dreadful scenes of misery ia |
cellars, where the atmosphere is |
laden with pestilence and characteriz ID |
it as q chamber of horrors. The writer |
sscrihes the frightful condition OF Affairs
to politics.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
FOREIGN.

LORD SAcKvILLE Is all right. He hRs
littie legacy OF 100000 in England thai
needs his Immediate attention.
CARL ScuuRz will leave Hamburg for
America On the steamer Hcmonia, whict
Will leave for New York Sunday next.
| KING Orro, the insane ruler of Bavaria
imagines that he Is a cat aud spends mos,
of his time trying to catch mice
, II is rumored that an attem pt has been
m ads TO essassinete Prince EerdiL and
ruler of Bulgaria.
| THs heavy rains of the last few days
have caused foods in many districts OF
England.
THE Russian agent in Bokhara reports
that Ishak Khan, the leader of the recent
Again reheiiion, has returned to Afg han.
isian.
GIN. WAsrEN, chief of the London
Metropolitan police has resigned owing
to criticism regarding the Whitechapel
murders.
BEN. JOHNSON, of Racine, used kerosene
To kndie fire. The explosion which
followed wrecked the building and badly
battered the furniture.
The Roumapism parliament was oreu-
ed by KING Charles Ia person. In his ad-
dress his majesty said that the govern
ment's foreign relations were absolutely
satisfactory.
The governments of Italy and China
have ngreed that hepceforth Italian mis-
sioaaries in China shalt carry Italian in
stead of Fren, Oh passports.
LospoN.-It is nov learned that the
collision between the Nantes aud Th-ur-
dore Rugger resulted in the drowning of
twenty five of the steamers crew aud
twelv. of the crew OF the German vessel.
The Prince of Wales will meet his sis.
ter, the ex empress of Germany, at
Flushing ON the 18th inst, and will es-
cort her TO Windsor cas- tie to visit Queen
Victoria.
LONDON. The police are confident
they are on the right track in their
search for the Whitecaapel murderer.
Two persons have been found who saw
the man who accom- panied the last VICTIM
To her room on the night che was muir
dered. Their descriptions of the man
tally in every respect.
Ten men in jolly boat belonging 10
the British steamer Saxmundham, before
repotted sunk in a coiii-lon with the Nor
wrgian bark Nor, have been rescued.
the remaining twelve of the crew are
probably lost.
UNDER the title of the United Ger
mar Left" the German Austrian aud Ger
man clubs have united in the basis of the
guarding of the unity of the state, the
protection of German nationality, and
the Legitimate positions of Germans in
Austria, and the maintenance and devei
opmeut of liberal constitutional pripci-
pies.
LONDON Demonstrations against the
conservatives, of one of which Ssnor
Canova del Castillo was victim in Mad
rid, have been made il other Spanish
cities and are increasing in number and
violence. Ssuor del Castillo declares the
movement is directed against the monar
chy. The latest advicts say that ali ia
quiet in Madrid at present, bur there is a
profound feeling of unrest and uneasiness
The revolutionary spirit is up and the
government is unable to cope with it.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
W WASHINGTON

The court of claims reassembled in
Washington Monday for the winter ses-
siDu.
LORD sAoKvrLLE and his daughters tre
just as popular ia Washington society as
they were before the President "sent him
his pass sports."
The Supreme court rendered a decision
in the case OF Judge Terry, the husband
of Sarah Althea Hill, for contempt of
court, which was appealed from the San
Francisco court. The motion for a writ
of habeas corpus was denied.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
Republicans Talk of Special Session Of Con.
gress 10 Rush Through Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, d.. C.-It now ap-
pears probable that Gen. Harrison will,
Immediately upon his induction into
ofhce. call the members of the Fifty first
Congress together. His mot We for this
will be to arrange some plan for the
reduction of taxation. There is no
reasonable ground for tho belief that any
concurrent action upon the matter
will be had at the session be-
ginning in December next. To
wait until the regular assem
bling OF the Fifty tirst Congress,
which will be republican in both branch.
es, would be to postpone the subject un-
I'll the session was well under way. In
other words, year and half from the
present time would necessarily elapse be-
fore tarf bill acceptable TO the ad
ministrstion could be passed. Gen. Har-
rlson's friends say he will be unwilling to
wait eighteen mouths before moving in
matter 30 important, and that the out.
look therefore for an extra session ia one
which may be classed among the strong
probabilities of the near futuIe.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24

AUSTRIA is being alarmed with the be-
ginning of what may lead to serious in
ternal trouble. The Austrian Czechs art
about to enter upon struggle for auton-
omy similar to that enjoyed by Hun
gary. They wish TO have their Empero,
crowned King of Bohemia, as he is nov
crowned King of Hungary. The Hun
,garians are opposed to this idea, being
unwilling to have another separate
Anstria an nationality advanced to the dig
nifty of theirs. The Poles also talk OF
obtaining special recognition by having
the Emperor crowned King of Galicia
The German element sides with Hangar.
ians, wishing to preserve the monarchy
in its present state. The Czechs and
Poles together make formidable power
and the opinion is freely entertained that
unIess Francis Joseph accepts the pro,
gramme Bohemia will be permane atty
disafected with strong leanings toward
Russia.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24

Six persons were killed and a dozen in
lured by the wrecking OF passenger
train on the Savannah and Western rail
road, near Eltaville, Ga.
A BOILER in the Lancaster (Pa.) Chemi-
cal Works exploded, badly wreck,ug the
engine-house and main building. Chas.
+. Miller, President OF the compa ny, was
injured. John Reid, an employe, SGs
found dead under pile of debris.
Michel kicun. AlouZp Hamhright and
George Smith were injured. Cause un
known.