The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-15
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 10, 1875.
DEAR WHIG:-As warm weather APP
proaches, the usual rowing matches and
ball games begin to demand public atten-
ton. Spelling bees in the Winter and
base ball games in the Summer are the
Yankee Inventions to develope mind and
muscle. What the next invention will be
is hard now TO say, but we need not be
astonished in a year from this to have
audiences gathered to hear discourses on
the sin Of cropping the hair in front and
the sanctity of allowing it to grow short
behind. There is no telling to what ex-
tremes we Americans will run.
OUR NATIONAL GAME.
Base ball is commencing-a little slow,
to be sure, but steady and certain. Broken
fingers and iodine are already on'hand, for
a baseballist besmears his fists with iodine
just as surely as a barber eats garlic. |
met number of these knights of the
sphere and willow this morning. They
were sweet and fascinating young roosters
from the City of Brothelly Love-
They had all been clip't and sand -papered
until the back part of their craniums,
sticking out from beneath their little white
caps looked precisely like the butt end of
a cocoanut, their pedal extremities being
shod in ungainly canvas shoes, while each
one carried a whacking great bat as long
as the
BEECHER-TILTON TRIAL,
the interest of which, since Mr.. Beecher
"stepped down and out " from the witness
stand, has been manifestly lessened here at
the Capital. Public opinion, however, is
as much divided as ever regarding his guilt
or innocence, and the result of his exam-
nation has not been to shake the belief of
his friends and admirers in the purity of
his character. On the other hand, people
who live on different plane from the
one he occupies are content to believe that
human nature is weak.
THE STRIKE OF TIE LABoRERs.
The strike among the laboreis here dur
ing the past week is a natural consequence
of our unhealthy and anomalous condition.
The vast crowds attracted to the District
after the war and during Boss rule still
hang on instead of seeking remunerative
employment on the farms and elsewhere,
and since labor. like any other commodity,
is regulated by the law of supply and
demand, its price is low. Numbers of the
customers of the almoners during the
Winter have either to work cheap, starve,
or steal! The Government and District
officials, above the operations of passing
events, paid $l.5O per day for eight hours
of unskllled labor, while outside it offered
and was engaged by street contractors in
levelling our hills for 81 per day, of ten
hours. feeling of jealousy and hatred
against the favored few was engendered,
and offered a fruitful field for demagogues,
resulting in riot and strife. But the dread
ed majesty of the law placed its mandate
upon their movements, the most boisterous
were arrested, and justice personified in
Judge Smell, nipped their eager intents in
the bud with thirty days in Jail and no
salary.
At the present time the outlook for en-
ployment for those of our colored popula-
ton who have been living on hope, faith,
and charity all Winter long is anything but
encouraging. In word, work-that is
| labor-is not, and will not be in the city
this coming Summer and Autumn. But
there is always a demand for the willing
laborer in the country, and there is the
place to 60.
More troubles are reported on the Mexi-
can border by the forays of Mexican ban
Ni. 1900 oeSiNSS'' ~ 10 AS"iSu, WIN
yet lead to serious complications between
the Mexican Government and our own,
and while we do not want, just now at least,
any more of her territory, and much less
her people, and as she is too poor to pay
any indemnity for losses, it is hard to tell
what remedy is best to use. The game is
too small for war, and yet it is hard to
put up Win her annoyance.
OUR IMPORTS.
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Gov ~ e., ,,oan - 49,, OF
49, moI,a.'I -. :' ".
-. 80 "s ~ i oou'l'i ieS
ti ,I, s y. "li H'us amounting " one
nan , y, ga, na,.on I usot, whlen; II aoueo
~. "n". d aDlo S ny 11.neiioa a our
i'.s' ana '' '"'"ssIu 'niousn
W. Po'.S iloI VI IVY anu Ine ih'e'esI
palo Oh Ine puolic uept held IN Europe, the
sum tota, VIII not he lar from fifteen hun
ared milllons. lew years more OF such
poney anu we VIII DC as paoIy OH as the
Vi pun liela,u' tne piouueIs Oh
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CONFECTIONERY E1opEMENT.
The world of oonf.o+iors 10 o1,o.,oa 70
French candies are onaLinr with faor fnr
their renntation Al affac7ionata cnrfoc
t;nnar tha fa,har f ~ ran o,;Idno oo, .,
husband of a wife, ,hougbt he could I no ore ,n
better. and went in accordance with his
thourhts on Thursday of LIST weat ,lso
with his nrettv nastrv cool. an nnn,arr;eS
maiden Of e;gbtaen summary He nama
is Geo Rsnsor and in hi. criotor ' d,ne
handled oum drons and 1nze,, $50 ~, ona as of
our nrincinal straets Il ;s ni1 nror
the FRAGRANT columns Of nennermint are
w,stinr thar sweotnoss en- ,hp ,losart or
Of mnnsanad oi,ss ;ans I'll III sno $50 h '','
and f,pt csles sre naor,dariu,t ,Io shn