The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-08

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ELKTON. DECEMBER s, 1877.
How about that letter, General?
CONGRESS passed but two bills at its
extra session-a poor business for two
months labor.
SIXTY-Two dead bodies, from the
wreck of the steamer Huron have
been found on the North Carolina coast
and buried.
ARE there any more tax collectors
anxious to see us! We have Just laid
in full supply of Bowie knives and
Colts revolvers.
WILL 1.-the Eastern Shore law" as
applicable to the election of United
States Senator, be repealed? Conun-
drum.
If "the Eastern Shore law" be re-
pealed, who will get the plum? Sec
ond conundrum.
THE investigation by the Govern
ment of the loss of the Huron"
recently wrecked off the coast of North
Carolina, has developed no facts not
already published.
IT is said that, when Representative
Bland read the Presidents message, his
smile was " child-like and bland" Bret
Hartes heather Chnee " faded into
insignifcance by comparison.
ISN'T it about time for our neighbor
across the way to blow another blast
upon his fraud horn? Several weeks
have elapsed since we had the pleasure
of seeing in his progressive journal
two-column editorial on 1.-the de .taeto
President" We hope he will not allow
the cob-webs to gather in the trumpet.
''SLIPPERY Dick" Connolly, lately
of New York City, has just confessed
judgment to the city for the small sum
of SO, ,000.l5, for money borrowed
from its treasury without its consent
"The Tribune " suggests that, while it
can not be expected that he should re-
turn the eight millions, he might show
his sorrow by returning the fifteen cents.
THE war in the East proceeds with
varying success No striking victory
has been achieved by either of the COM
batants during the past week, and it is
probable that both Turks and Russians
will shortly go into Winter quarters to
recuperate and to make preparations for
a vigorous Spring campaign. The ques-
ton as to which is the sick man " is
still an open one.
THE maddest editor in America is
said to be Wash Mclean, of the "Cin-
cinnati Inquirer" The cause of the
anger is the message of the President
Joined to his idols, " captured by the
Wall street sharks TRAITOR to the
interests of his own people," are some
of the expressions this model editor
INDUCES in-all because the President
refuses to adopt the initiation theories of
Ohio lunatics
THE Virginia Legislature met, on
Wednesday last, and elected as Speaker
Of the Lower House, the leader of " the
debt adjusters" When it is known
that debt adjusters is another name
for repudiationists, it will be seen of
how much value is all the boosted
" honor of Virginia " and her d" unfair
nished escutcheon' Time for the Bour-
bon journals to pitch the fraud " yell
on another key.
Tis announced, on what seems to be
good authority, that Daniel w. Voor-
hees, " the tall sycamore of the Wabash"
is preparing to spread himself" on the
financial question We hope Senators
will give him full opportunity, and that
the Washington patriots will crowd into
the galleries and applaud, to the echo
the glowing rhetoric Of the windy states
man. 1t will be great dav for the
American eagle
THE Prisoners Aid Society have is
sued a circular, inviting the Sheriffs,
States Attorneys, County Commissions
ers, Physicians, Superintendent of
Aims Houses, Keeper of Jails, and
others interested in the matter, to meet
in the city of Baltimore, in State Con-
vention, to consider the tramp nuisance,
and to draft bill to be presented at