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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
The Trials of Novelists.

Dining one evening with friend, Will
kie Collins. relates the London Literary
World, spoke of the difficulty OF imagin-
ing place or character which had not
it's original in real life. After he had de-
scribed the house in "Armadale" a gen.
tleman called upon him and upbraided
him for putting his residence into print.
The description was exact, although
Wilkie Collins had never seen the place.
Again, he invented a man who was so
careful about his food that he weighed
it in little scales at the table. A gentle
man was introduced to MIR. Collins and
said: "You had no right, sir, to carica-
ture me. weigh my food in little scales
sir! Here they are sir! | always carry
them about with me by advice of my
physicians. But is that any reason why
l should be held up to ridicule, sir9" In
vain Mr.. Collins protested that he had
never before heard of such habit.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

The total number of bodies registered
as buried in cemeteries used by London
is !, 276,S75.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
A Monument to Gen. Grant

A statue erected in memory of Gener
was unveiled on Saturday The cost OF
the statue was betrayed by public sub
scriptions from all parts of the country.
The statue is bronze military figure OF
heroric size, nine feet high, upon pol
ished granite pedestal of equal height
The left foot is slightly advanced and
the left hand holds paper of official APP
pearance to which points the right fore
finger. A SLOUGH hat, which all the army
veterans recognized AT once as Grants
army had, covers the head. The figure
is draped in a long military coat, the cape
thrown back over the shoulders.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
Midget Trees.

A gentleman, now in Tallahassee, who
has travelled all over the world, says he
saw one little trick the Japanese had
which he was very anxious to understand
He saw a gardener who had plat OF
ground some 20 yards square, which was
laid out after the plan of farm of hun
dreds of acres. There were trees of all
kinds, but by some secret process they
were dwarfed to a height of few inches
and kept at that any length of time. PEG
pie bought the trees as novelties, but
they Immediately commenced to grow.
The gardener refused to divalge his Sc,
cret, saying if he did so he would be be
headed. Stratagem also failed to discover
it, and the Japanese are yet the only PEG,
pie who can make trees mature in min.
iature.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
Paine'S
Celery Compound

81 have been greatly afflicted with acute
rheumatism, and could find no relief until
used Paine's Celery Compound. After using
six bottles OF this medicine | am now cured OF
rheumatic troubles
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

Among specimens of children's essays
lately published, the London Hospital
cited pathetic one on 1.-THE Doctor by
a small boy, who eventually died of brain
fever. The doctor has seen me three
times for the purpose, cuz have head
aches. My mother looks at me, and cries
when he's gone. never tells mother !
have headaches, except it hurts me very
much. love my mother. | wish my
head was same as ther boyses. Yesday
I arskt Webster if he ever felt dizzy, and
he said no. All boys ask says no. What
the doctor gives me makes me feel worser.
But mother likes me to take it, so dom
mind. wish l was man, but I'd rath-
or be a woman like mother. Doctors
nav'nt niced houses. There is bottles all
round and no washen. Doctors hav'nt
loud voices like men yon hears in the
street, but their eyes are brighter. l am
not so frightened of doctors as OF perlice.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
A LAND OF TURTLES.

A correspondent OF Ceylon Journal
gives some interesting information about
the turtles on he coast in the neighb Dor.
hood of Jatfna, in the north of the island,
which are said TO be innumerable. They
are of three species, called sea, milk and
pariah turtles respectfully. "The ordi-
nary, or sea turtle, is generally large in
size, and is met with everywhere at sea
around Jaffna. Two tiny islands, called
lranativu, are literally swarming with
them. The islands themselves are sterile
and always exposed to inundation; tie
inhabitants are poor and ignorant of agri-
culture, and life chiefly on the turtles.
They use the shells of the largo ones as
seats. In the town of Jaffna the ordinary
urtle is always procurable, and is IA
vorite article of food with the people
The milk turtle is small in size, and is to
be found only in wells and banks. 1t is
not an article of food except with the
poorer classes. The pariah turtle has a
high back, and shell which somewhat
resembles that of the tortoise. 1t is
found in marshes and bitches. 1t is not
an article of food, bat is highly valued
by native medical men, because it's flesh
and blood are supposed to be panaces
for ailments peculiar to children"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

The symptoms of Biliousness are un
happily but too well known. They differ il
different individuals 70 some extent A
Bilious man is seldom breakfast eater
Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent
appetite for liquids but none for solids of a
morning. His tongue will hardly bear in.
spection at any time; if it is not white and
Alrred, it is rough, at all events.
The digestive system is wholly out OF
order and Diarrhea or Constipation may be
a symptom or the two may alternate. There
are often Hemorrhoids or even loss of blood.
There may be giddiness and often headache
and acidity or tiatulence and tenderness in
the pit OF the stomach. To correct all this
if not effect a cure try Green's August
Flower, it cost but trifle and thousands
attest Its efficacy. 2.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
Effects Lasting Cures.

Paine's Celery Compound has performed many
other cures as marvellous as these.-cop1es OF
letters sent to any address. Pleasant 10 take.
does not disturb, but aids digestion, and entire
ly vegetable; a child can take 1t. What's the
use OF suffering longer with rheumatism or
\ npuralpia9
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

Whilst ofren what costs the least does the
most work. Try Broom Herb Bitters the
Medicine thatspeedly cured. Rob't Livezey,
of Churchville, Hartford county, Md; Mrs.
VIM. Ensor, of Psrkton station Baltim GRECO.
Mrs. Catherine Holland, OF Fair Hill, Cecil
county Md; f. G. Price, of Cecilton, Cecil
county, Md; and Peter Everts no. 9 Colds
Court, Baltimore, Nd, besides m any others
who fingered along time with Rheumats
Dyspepsia, Ague Chills and fevers. For
sale at Hoppers Drug Store, Chesapeake
City, and at Frazer's, Drug Store, Elkton
Md. Trial bottle % cents, large size 500
Ask your druggist for it, IT,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

Mental worry and disquiet arising from
any cause, is the strongest agent in aging
men Iand women. 1t is an ineessant
source of exhaustion to the vital forces
1t carves lines on the face and bleaches
the hair. A peevish young woman at
twenty will look old at thirty, because
her peevish or worrying thought repre-
sents so much of her force used to tear
her down instead of to build her up,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28

The proprietor of well.known patent
letter; Dear Sir: A couple of months
ago my wife was hardly able to speak.
She took two bottles of your medicine,
send mertwo more bottles of your valua-
BILE MIXTURE"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA

"Paine's Celery Compound has been God
send TO me. For the past two years have suf-
fercd with neuralgia Of the heart doctor after
nearly four bottles OF the Compound, and am
free from the complaint | feel very grateful
10 yOun CHAs H. LEWIS, Central Village, Ct.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-28
Afflicted Friend.

If suffering with Rheumatism, Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint or any disease caused by
impurities in the blood. Try Broom Herb
Bituers, a Medicine that is vegetable and
harmless. If weak, feeble and nervous you
can trust it. 1t has cured many a sufferer
who suffered with pain and who tried every
known remedy in vain. For sale at Frazer's
Drug Store, Elkton, Nd. Trial bottle %
cents. large size 800. IT,
The Press., 1889-01-31

war. of disease contracted in those fearful pens. Few if any of those how living are free from the lifelong effects of horrible starvation and exposure. All through the terrible days of their imprisonment the little patches of the old flag were carefully guarded and preserved by those to whom they were intrusted.
 After the war beautiful white silk flag was procured for the regimental organiza- tion. A meeting of the survivors was held, and the little shreds of the old flag were assembled from widely scattered sources and sewed together in the form of shield and scroll, and these were sewed on the center of the new white silk flag.
 A year after the close of the warthe reb- els were SO determined to find the missing colors that they ploughed mp the ground covered by the camps of the Union forces and levelled the breastworks at that end of the town, believing the flags had been bur- jed by our men. They found nothing to reward them but the flag staffs, which had been thrust into hole under the breast works.
 One of the flags of the 16th was an ele- gant state lag which was presented to the regiment by the Sharps Rife Mannfactur- ing Company, Hartford, and had an in scribed silver shield on it's staff, with the name of the donors. After the flag was stripped from its staff, torn up and passed around, this silver shield was removed by Color Sergeant Latimer and hastily secret ed in the lining of his dress-coat.
 All through his long imprisonment Ser geant Latimer carefully guarded this cher ished relic; but when exchanged and pre- scented with clean clothes at Annapolis, in his delight at getting rid of his dirty, yer. mini filled rags he threw them on the lively pile accumulated from those ahead of him in line, utterly forgetful of the silver shield sewn into the lapel of his old coat. His grief was great when he discovered his loss but it was too late, and the shield was forever lost.
The Press., 1889-01-31

If, as now seems almost inevitable, there is to be an extra session of congress, one of the first duties it should perform should be the passage of the educational bill whose operations are so urgently need ed in the south, that of which Senator Blair is the framer and earnest advocate. No important bill has been more persist ently misrepresented than inc great educa- tional measure for which MT. Blair has so bravely fought. It has been the target of unintelligent satire, shallow witticisms, malignant, invective and interruptions at- tack. Yet it has been steadily gaining favor with the ablest and most sagacious of the republican leaders who best con- prehend the tremendous problems growing out of an appalling prevalence of illiteracy in the south, which, directly and indirect ly, threatens the perpetuity of our form of government. The most impartial and in- telligent class of judges of the Blair edu- cational bill are the men who hold high positions as educators in the south, and their testimony will surprise large num- numbers of careless northern republicans who have been misled as to the real char acter of the bill. In the Charleston News and Courier we find letters written by some of the foremost of the southern teachers that will be eye-openers to. many republicans of high position in their party. ~. y. Mail and Empress.
 The Mail and Express proceeds further to quote from eminent southern educators favoring the bill, as Prof. Crowell of Trin- ity college, North Carolina; Prof. Carlisle of Wofford college, and Prof. Lee of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college.
The Press., 1889-01-31

CArARRH IN NEW ENaLAND.-ELY's CREAM BALM.-The best remedy for it's pupose have sold.-John Hooker, Druggist, Spring field, Mass.
 An article of real merit.-C. P. Alden, Druggist, Springfield, Mass.
 Those who use it speak highly of it.-Geo. A. Hill, Druggist, Springfield, Mass.
 Cream Balm has given satisfactory results. W. P. Draper, Druggist, Springfield, Mass.
 believe Ely's Cream Balm is the best arti- cle for catarrh ever offered the public. It has given satisfaction in every case.-Bush & Co.,, Druggists, Worcester, Mass.
The Press., 1889-01-31

PEOPLE are assuming to be in worry about their ice supply. There have been mild winters before this, but does any one know of one when nature didn't furnish a good crop of ice in New England? There will be ice enough in this section, though the New York city supply, which comes largely from the Hudson river, is endangered. But much of the supply of the city to-day is artif- cial, so that she may fall back on art if na- ture fails. ...- :'-s-.
The Press., 1889-01-31

ED1roB FLA of the Manchester Saturday Herald sends out an improved paper since hif reatting after the late fre. MT. Els essay read before the late editors meeting in Hart ford proved that he had sound ideas as te editing, and he will succeed in his choser vocation. No doubt of that.
The Press., 1889-01-31

Are you going to travel? If so you must be very careful of your health, or your doc tors bills will cost you more than you travel ling expenses. A bottle of Sulphur Bitters will protect you from all sickness incident to change of climate. Euensng Telegram.
The Press., 1889-01-31

THE West Virginia legislature is trying vainly to elect g U. 8. senator. So far Gov. Goh, republican, leads, but lacks four votes of an election. Senator Kenna is but one vote behind him, but is not getting the full democratic support. The lance of power is held by independents and labor reformers. Probably Kenna will ultimately be chosen.
The Press., 1889-01-31
ucccssor to Judge L.oomis.

IT seems that there is but one county com missioner to be chosen for Holland county this year, the new statutes having extended the term of office to four years, and provided for the appointment of one in 1889, two in 1891, and so alternating in each year of iegislative session.
The Press., 1889-01-31

Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure is sold by us on 8 guarantee. It cures Con- sumption. W. D. Heald, agent.
The Press., 1889-01-31

TIE cabinet makers have about agreed upon Blaine, Allison, Wannamaker and Warner Miller as being part of the selected timber.
The Press., 1889-01-31

Will you suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you. W. D. Heald, agent.
The Press., 1889-01-31

THE Press has on page 1st letter from a Stafford man in Africa, one who uses his eyes, and depicts what he sees in an enter taininQ manner
The Press., 1889-01-31

WHILE the public has much sympathy with the New York street car lines which desire to break the iron rule of the labor organiza- tions, whose methods to enforce their de- mands are reprehensible, it does not sympa- thize with the refusal to advance the pay of the employees to $2 per day. The present pay, $1.75, is too small for the amount of work required. These car lines bleed the public, and can afford to pay fair wages.
 STRIKES are in progress on nineteen street car lines in New York, and the old scenes are being repeated. Each car fights it's way along, police clubbing strikers. Employees whe continue to work are maltreated, one poor fellow being at the hospital with fractured skull. The railroad officials announce pur- pose to persist and henceforth be independent of labor organizations. The people don't like methods of the strikers, but concede tha. their pay is too small for the service demand ed of them.
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~'.~ ~: INCORPORATED 1854.
 A. 0. BARSTOW, President. WILLIAM KNIGHT, Treasurer.

MECdAN1CS 5AV1NGS BANk. PROVIDENCE March 28, 1888. H., H. FITCH, Eso.: .."- .
 DEAR SIR: From the best information we can get as to the management of the Equita; ble Mortgage Company of Kansas City, Mo, we think it in very competent hands and managed by men who seem to understand their business. We had confidence enough in it to take line of their steck and $10O, 900 of their per cent. Debentures, secured by first mortgages on real estate. Yours truly,
 WILLIAM KNIGHT, Treasurer.
The Press., 1889-01-31

THE state association of selectmen met in Hartford on Tuesday. Stafford, Ellington, Hebron, and Vernon were the Holland County towns repreSeuted
The Press., 1889-01-31

CERTAINLY Holland and Windham counties should each have judge on the superior court bench. Windham county will beyond doubt have one of the new appointments, and Holland county should as certainly furnish 2 successor to Judge Loomis.
The Press., 1889-01-31

INHERIT WNs.-We desire to say to our citi zens, that for years we have been selling Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Dr. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as we'll, or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesi- tate to guarantee them every time, and wa stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory results do not follow their use. These remedies have won their great popular ity purely on their merits. E. K. Taft, drug Qist.
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Yhe 2t:esa,

JAMEsMoLAueHLIN& & soN, PUBLISHERS. sl50 per year. S1 .2S when paid strictly in advance.
The Press., 1889-01-31

HE daf@ofd Courant recommends that ln- stead of selecting out few representatives of favored newspapers and paying them hand some wages for work that their employers can afford to pay them for doing-reporting proceedings of the legislature-at about one- half the cost of the present plan, supply to each legislator two morning and two evening state dailies, each member to select his pa- pers. This is & good idea. What the av- craze member wants is to see his name often in big type, which he imagines will look as big to each constituent as it does to himself, and make folks at home see him as through glass of great magnifying power. And the papers which give most liberal doses of taffy will sell the most papers. Surely the pro- posed arrangement will work best for the commonwealth, will work fairly for the com- peting papers, and will answer every purpose of the modest statesman who desires to figure in each days history.
 A New York young man went to a ball the other evening, and before doing so in- vested in black silk stockings. Unfortu- nately one of them ripped just above the top of one dancing pump. His best girl had given him a little silver monogrsmmed case of court plaster. It dangled from his watch chain. He grasped it eagerly. In a trice the hole was effaced. A neat black patch efectually concealed the bad break in that stocking. On his return home he could only get the stocking of after tear. ing some flesh with it. Now he limps. A young miss who heard this tale of woe, ob. served "Any girl would have known bet ter than thatl At school we use black crayon, which washes right of
The Press., 1889-01-31

IT is complimentary to Hon. John M. Hall of Willimantic that his place in the list of the supreme court judges is so generally conced- ed. MT. Hall is an able lawyer, a fair minded man of good judicial capacity. As lawyer, or in any place where he has been tried, in- cluding that close testing place of mems ca pacity, the speakership of the Conn. house of representatives, he has given evidence of good impartial judgement, and all the qualities that go to make good judge. His fellow lawyers have none but good words for him. Here's our respects to you, Judge Hall.
The Press., 1889-01-31

we think 1t in very competent hands and managed by men who seem to understand their business. We had confidence enough in it to take line of their stock and $IOO, ,OOO of their 6 per cent. Debentures, secured by first mortgages on real estate. Yours truly, .... WILLIAM KNIGHT, Treasurer
 OFFICES:
 NEW YORK, POS Broadway.
 BOSTON, IF Deyonshire-st.
 PHILADELPHIA, cor. 4th and Chest.
 LONDON, ENC.
 Send For PAMPHLET. |. I. ClanDGrll, ...: H.. Ad hNTe
 STAFFORD SPRINGS. THE Q. H. BRIGHAM coRA..
 PANv.
 Mems Depa1't1nent. Greatest of Nsld.Vvlnter Safes. l. Bargains Unapproachable.
 Overcoats and Winter Suits of very Finest Goods to be sold at prices never seen in Western Massachusetts. ..-
 OVERCOATS.
 Best Silk and Satin Lined, formerly $50, now $2O.
 Our overcoats formerly for $16.50 and $10, now sold for $11.75. Lots of Oyercoats for S9.50; and they could not be made for dollars more.
 Suits Cheaper Even than OTcrcoats.
 We have Tremendous Overstock, and sell we must. We cannot afford to carry to another season, and shall sell at prices for
 CASH ONLY, Which cannot be duplicated in this vicinity i; $2O, $22. 50 and $25 Suits for $12 and $12.5O; $1s and $20 Suits for $1O, and 90 we might go on. Without doubt the Best Suits for the money ever offered for all Fine Goods. MONEY IS WANTED, and money must be realized from our stock at once.
 PARENTS OPPORTUNITY. BOYS and CHILDREN'S DEPARTM'T Is included in our special Mid-winter Sales.
 Bargains unequaled. OVERCOATS are marked $2. 50 and &3.5O, and extra good ones $5 that formerly sod for $7 and $S. Cannot speak of all these lots, but you get great value for the amount of money invested.
 Suits for Large and Small Boys. Former prices $6, $s, $s.5O; go fast at s4.
 BARGAIN COUNTERS are loaded, and goods must be sold. Extra Pants, both long and short sizes, in 8 great variety. Will you avail yourselves of such bargains? It is treat for buyers.
 The D.H. BriglamCo., Springfield, Mass.
The Press., 1889-01-31
No rosin! No rosin !!
 No rosin! No rosin!

A boy on breathing: Breath is made of sir. We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our liver and kidneys. If it wasn't for our breath we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life a-going through the nose when we are asleep. Boys that stay in room all day should not breathe. They should wait till they got out doors. Boys in room make bad, unwholesome air. They make carbonicide. Carbonicide is poisoner than mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in black hole in India, and 8 carbonicide git in that there hole and killed nearly every one before morning. Girls kill the breath with corsits that squeeze the diagram. Girls can't holler or run like boys because their diagram is squeezed too much. If I was girl had ruther be boy, so can run and holler and run and have great big diagram
 Washington Star.
The Press., 1889-01-31

TIE Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company Is fortunate concern in being able to couple with the announcement of the loss of half million dollars, by defaulter, the statement that it's remaining assets are suf- fcient to keep it solvent and pay it's usual dividends. Joseph A. Moore, who has had the charge of its western investments, as also of other eastern institutions, has been specu- lating on his own account with the trust funds, and no one yet knows how badly he has vic- tinaized those who have put confidence in him, but it is certain that it is in the neighbor- hood of half million dollars, and that the bulk of the loss falla on the Conn. Mutual. Moore says that his financial difficulties began in 1e79-sO. On Tuesday he disappeared from Indianapolis, and is supposed to be in Canada now. Up to that time no warrant for his ar- rest had been sworn out, nor had any steps been taken that the public is aware of looking to such move. The investigation of his books proceeds, but the amount of the short age has not bee n increased above the original figures. ~".
The Press., 1889-01-31

1OTICE-I shall hereafter keep for service IN none except the thoroughbred buQ Asg4as Rva's Netherland No. S8is. Holsteip-EytaaiAD herd The price of ssrv1ce wm be e. paid M s4vanss.
 1Sjan4w JULIUS SONVkksk