The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-11

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ELKTON. AUGUST IL, lS77.
SECRETARY SHERMAN predicts 20, OO(
4 Republican majority in Ohio.
THE Presidents policy is vastly NOR
popular than it was a week ago.
TURKEY is willing too conclude peace
on the basis of Count Andrassy's note
THE Georgia Constitutional Conven
has adopted a resolution in favor 0
reputation.
If the workingmen and Greenbackers
unite, what will become of the Demo
cratic party
HEAVY losses among the reiners and
importers of sugar are now generally
admitted to be invitable.
UNCLE Jimmy Blue Jeans looms into
international prominence as pure and
unadulterated demagogue.
THE Virginia Conservatives are hold
ing noisy convention no platform is
yet reported nor nominations made.
The Solid South is rumbling from
one end to the other and the foreordain-
ed split may start at any time. And
then again-it may not.
THE predestined fate of the Demo.
cratic party to put its foot in it has been
of late years, and ever will be the bull
wark of Republican strength.
DEMOCRATS are down in the mouth
Ohio endorses the President, and their
own party have to carry Know
Nothing candidate for Governor
ALEXANDER H STEPHENS says that
Mr. Hayes is doing what Mr.. Tilden
never could have done in composing the
difference between the North and South.
HARK, from the Toombs Robert
Toombs of Georgia, says the capitalist
who does not respect labor is a fraud,
and the laborer who does not respect
capital is fool. Good enough, Bob!
MISSISSIPPI Democrats have dis
graced themselves Gf that is possible)
by renominating their imbecile Gov.
Stone. This Stone is the coward who
dared not face the Chisholm murderers
JoNEs's advertisement of silver mines
has reached page 600 and is still grow
ing. If the Government is to pap for
printing the report, it will either have
to cork up Jones or abandon all hope of
resumption for the present.
THERE may exist somewhere politi-
clans Of more noisome variety than
those who, for the purpose of winning
votes, are deluding the most ignorant
and restless class of .workmen with hol-
low promises and vain hopes, but they
have not yet been described and CLASH
fed
THE Collector of Customs for the
District of Alaska in consequence of
ill health has rendered his resignation.
The government is in want of a person
Of steady, quiet habits, with tenden-
cy to literary pursuits, to fill the vacan-
dy. The position is worth $4,000 per
annum in gold and affords ample oppor-
tunity for reflection and study. Resi-
dence, Sitka, near the North Pole.
In the recent great battle at Plevna
10000 Russians were hurled against
defences held by $4,000 Turks, and met
with serious defeat. The immense
army of 10000 men, supported by IS,
900 Roumanians at Nikopolis, which
the Russians have now concentrated,
promises them greater measure of
success in the coming conflict at the
same battle-ground.
THERE is altogether too much Dem
ocraey in Virginia The State Conven-
ton which met at Richmond on We'd
nesday is described in our dispatches
as "pandemonium," and "howling
mob" The strife of rival factions was
carried beyond all bounds of decency,
and the temporary Chairman was boot
ed down because he ventured to speak
of the necessity of maintaining the hon.
or and credit of the State.
Gov CoNNoR has been renominated
by the Republicans of Maine the Con-
vention adopted resolutions expressing
alarm at the consolidation of the South,
and suppression of free political action,
saying that the Oemocatic cry of fraud
is unmanly, and favoring specie pay
ments, Civil Service reform, and pro-
lection to industry; ex-Gov. Chamber
lain offered resolution commencing
the Southern policy. and Mr. Boutwell,