Year: 1872

Our Bow.


In this, the first issue Of The Wing, in
the New Year, we greet our numerous
readers, and return thanks for the liberal
patronage with which they have met our
efforts to make for them the best local
paper in the State. In this feature, which
is a leading one, we win not acknowledge
any peers. We are happy to be able to
announce that our efforts III this direction
have been appreciated and nobly responded
to by the public, and the year just closed
has proved one of the most prosperous
since the establishment of the paper. Our
efforts to CLEAN every item of interest that
might transpire, within the county, and
lay it before our readers fresh every week.
by organizing paid corps of special con-
tributors located at or near all the prin-
cipal points in the county, has proved a
signal success; and the enterprise has
received marked favor from the public.


While numbers of that Improbable
species of newspaper patron, who seldom
or never trouble themselves to pay sub
scription bill, have been Topped off-and
the small remnant remaining will be speed
ily-our list has filled up with new subscri-
bers who pay in advance, and has steadily
increased. With the increase of subscrip-
ton, advertising patronage has steadily
advanced.


In the year which is just opening upon
us, we contemplate other improvements,
which will be inaugurated and carried out
with the same steady and unremitting toll
which has been devoted to our business in
the years that have gone.


The project of giving valuable maga-
zine to every subscriber who paid a year in
advance for the paper, has been success full
beyond our most sanguine expectations;
and many who did not avail themselves OF
the opportunity to procure magazine OF
choice reading for year, "free, gratis
for nothing" will, when they consider the
matter, regret their neglect In the list of
premiums, North East stands in the front
rank, fifty-ive premiums having been
sent to subscribers through that post office;
while Port Deposit has fairly won the tin
cup, for making the poorest show OF any
Office in the county, in this respect. TIE
usually wide-awake people of that town and
vicinity seem to have been fast asleep on
this occasion.


To our local correspondents who have
contributed so much to enliven the columns
Of The Wing. by supplying everything
going on likely to interest our readers, we
and the public owe much, and to them we
return for ourself and the public, cordial
thanks, and solicit their cooperation in the
labors of the present year. Our corps OF
local contributors is not yet sufficiently full,
and we would like to employ the services
of one at Rowlandsville, also at Brick
Meeting House and Warwick-or in those
neighborhoods. If there are any in these
sections who would like to join the ''charm-
ed circle -" of our contributors they can
address the Editor.


AS the business of farming is the main
stand-b by of the country, we have endeavored
to make The Whig medium of support
and encouragement to that branch of indus
try, and have weekly furnished column of
the best selected or original matter we
could command. Our practical knowledge
of farming, gained by upwards of twenty
years experience in the business, enables
us to Judge of such matter as will be of
most value to the practical agriculturist.


While the local affairs and business inter-
ests of the county have been kept con-
stantly in view, and the latter encouraged
and aided to the extent of our ability, Tile
Wig has been firm and untlinching in its
pol itical course, and constant and I'M
swerving advocate Of Republican measures,
as the only sure basis for our Government
and future greatness as a nation and
people. While opposing the nefarious prin-
ciples OF the present so-called Democratic
party, with all the power we possess, we
have endeavored to avoid assaults on indi-
viduals, as far as the nature of the circum-
stances would admit. We hope that the
past course of The Wing, and its efforts to
promote the domestic interests of the
county, and propagate the grand, benevo-
lent and patriotic principles of the truly
great Republican party, will be taken as an
earnest of our future course; and conf
IDENTIFY resting our hopes for the future on
our experience in the past, we take leave,
for the present, of our numerous friends
and readers.