The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-07
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arties'strugged for the prize, and all had
retired except the Widow B., whose graceful
gait aud general style had stirred the bitter
envy of the women and earned smiles of
admiration and approval from the men,
Her skirt swept the floor for yard and
a half, and the manner in which she slung
it around with her heel every time she
turned corner won vehement and bolster
Gus applause. "Dat cake is gwine round
to 22l Pine street shoe ''-she lovingly
whispered to Mr.. L., formerly dashing
waiter at the Hotel Brunswick, but now an
artist in calcimine and whitewash, with
excellent business prospects. The last
round was almost complete, the cake was
as good as won, when he stepped on piece
of lemon peel which some evil-dsposed
person had thrown upon the tloor,-his
legs flew from under him, and as he was
going he wildly grasped the first thing
within reach, which happened to be the
skirts of Widow B. The shock was terrific;
the pins and tapes gave way, and the
charming widow stood revealed before the
company in her hoops, the elevation Of
which was heightened by two copies of the
New York Sun. The widow tainted and
was carried to barber shop near by.
The outraged congregation threw Mr.. L.
out of the back door, and a suit is now
pending for damages, which threatens to
destroy the future usefulness of the church.
The Thirty first Street African Methodist
has not been free from contention, one of
the deacons threatening to put head on
the Pastor, because he said "dat de dea-
cons conduc' wild one of de sistern was
unbecoming a Christian" Both the par
ties were in court last week, and it required
the concentrated majesty of the law to keep
them from punching each others heads
under the very shadow of the judgment
seat; therefore, fear some white devil is
at work in our midst, which places in jjeop-
ardy this portion of our colored Zion.
Several shocking suicides have startled
the community during the last week. In
one case mother murders her little gill
aud herself, and in another, a poor shoe
maker, over fifty years of age, tired of liv-
ing, deliberately and sadly throws off his
weary load of life Poverty and suffering
have very little to do with increasing the
statistics of suicide, the overtasked brain
having much more to do with it than either
sickness, suffering or penury.
The races this Summer have not been as
attractive as in former years. The break
ing up of the pools has had financially
rather disastrous effect upon the race
courses, and while all decent people rejoice
that gambling is separated from what
ought to be an ennobling sport, still there
is no use denying the fact that where this
law has been put in force the race courses
will show balance on the wrong side of
the ledger.
The report that DR.. Mary Walker was
going to be married on the 4th of July to
an eminent politician of Washington, turns
out to be canard. The Doctor says that
she is not yet tired of wearing the brooches,
and when she is she will notify the press.
The Seligman- Hilton affair led to little
round of fisticuffs between some brokers
on Wall Street; one got a black eye, and
the other lost sleeve button. All quiet
on the Potomac. Two brothers pitched
into each other in the Gold Room on Tues
day, and as they are both top-sawyers on
Murray Hill, the affair has caused very
profound sensation in the fag-end of our
fashionable society which still remains in
town; some say a girl was at the bottom
of it, and another report is that the row
was about money. In either case one
young gentleman will need beefstake to
his eye for a week, while the other rejoices
in a head done up in diachylon plaster.
The ordinance forbiddirg fireworks in
the cities of New York and Brooklyn has
raised terrible commotion, the furnishing
of fire works on the fourth of July being
favorite and profitable job. 1t did not
matter how many lives were placed in jeop-
ardy or how much property was imperiled,
the job must be carried through, and some
body must reap the benefit. Brooklyn has
forbidden the use of miscellaneous fire.
works altogether, but New York still gives
the rising American chance. One foolish
alderman actually had the effrontery to
move that the sum to be devoted to fire.
works be donated to the sufferers at St.
John. wonder they did not throw him
out the window-in fact, it is not certain
that they did not, he has not been seen
for the last twenty-four hours. Our only
hope it that he may turn up in some
lunatic asylum. Every kind of trade is
complaining Of dull times, yet money was
never so low, and our crops give promise
of abundance. Fruit of all kinds common
to the season is plentiful and good, and
of tropical fruits the orange, banana and
pineapple glut the market. The weather
has been uncommonly close and oppressive,
one or two days the thermometer away
up in the nineties. The general health,
Notwithstanding, is good. Hoping to be
able to get out of town long enough to make
raid on somebody's melon patch or cherry
tree, am,
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.