The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-03


| Some of INV readers will rrrolccl the OK
| quisile manner in which Mr.. Webster used
| To relate the following: One night. before
air ads were built. he was forcc,, to make a
journey hv riva,c conveyance from Baltimore
10 Washington. Tho man who drove the
wagon was such an i'll looking fcllow. and
told so many stories Of robhtreS and uur-
ders, that before they had gone far Mr.. Vel,
stcr was somewhat alarmed At list the
wagon stepped in the midst Of dense wood
when the man, turning Suddenly round to his
passenger, exclaimed iirrccv. =" NV, sir.
tell me who you arc" Mr.. Webster replied
in Ialcrirg voice, and ready to spring from
the vehicle, - am Daniel Webster, member
OF Congress from Massachusetts. ''Whatn'
rcjoiHed the driver, gras?ing hir, warmly by
The hand, " are you Webster ! Thank God !.
thank God You were such all ugly chap
that took you Cor highwayman.
GROWING" IN GRACE.
The bishop presiding at The conference was
the victim Of heart'dScose. Over his head
the sword "i Damoclrs hung ever suspended
by hair, the deaths head was never absent
from ms banquet ana the dread of sudden
uCatn nal nlScUiOrcu all MS ideas oil life.
lie was the morbid and sworn foe to every
yet his picly was welghty and lnenbrious. -
~ may wen De Imagined tiiat such chairman
mad trouble to keep IN order man like Peter
Cartwright, with whom hnmor and drolery
are as ha'u,ai as TO breathe. Bother Cart
wight had 'he moor one day. and by his
llfeS's"o'e iuh' set 'he conference IN roar.
H'"p' niolher cartwright, SAID the bishop,
cannot arrow such sin to Be committed
among Me,hoa'Si preachers when have the
ci'a'se u '''n'' , reau III inc 5iole be angry
ana SIN not out nowhere see laugh and sin
hot. Let us DOW down and confess onr
"m'''S'' b'other cartwright, lead III prayer.
he bacNWooaS preacher knccIe'i and repeated
'he Ln'a ; prayer, and then rising, said -
LOOK mere MI b'Shop, when dig potatoes.
ulT potatoes when noe corn, hoe corn:
Whcn pray pray and when attend to
business, want to attend to buSincss-l
","h yp" "'u 100 ana uoh want you TO
take $" n snap Judgment ON he again.
Drothcr' SAID the bishop III monltorv
tone - 10 you MINK y"n are growing IN
grace yes hl>h"p' think mn-in
SOUS IL Is ha'dIy necessary TO ADA, That
thc pISnoP gave MN up as ncorriglbe.
---- 49, -
me hEE"ERIES or LONDON. IS stated
,haI the seventeen i'rms Known as the great
brewers Oh i'"hnoh' produce nearly thousand
'h!!l'o'S o' 'hthoerS OF aIe ana porter every
year Vhe ol INC ESTABLISHMENTS IS thus deS'
cFin.a;-
vi the seventeen great London broweries,
me mousse OF truman, Hamburg, Buxton,
a on.. S'ooh last year at the top OF the list,
having consumed ltU,rW' quarters Of malt
ana pad to The excise tlsU,UVO, or enough
10 pollu TWO ninety'gun "hlps' at inc usual
cost OF thousand pounds per gun. The WIS.,
nor II proceeding through Tins establishment
realizes, perhaps better than IN any other
place the tHoi mons scale IN which certain
creature comforts tor the use OF the town are
nioaucta. AS ne walks between the huge
"o'iers IN Wh'ch loV0 barrels are oreWcd
nearly every day or makes the circuit OF the
lo"r great Va,S cach containing oV'oVo gallons
OF 1'9lor' OF loses himself a'nld me labyrinth
ho'd o'oOo''UO SaIl"nS--hc begins TO fancy
himself an lnhahit"nt o. l'i'l'h"t, who has