The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-02-02
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charge OF and divide the estate. The father
wished a continuance OF the case, aud the
sons urged a peremptory trial and con-
demualion, and unmoved by the old mans
tears tears wruug from him by this cruel
perst cution-they tried to force the issue,
till driven with misses from the court.
In Brooklyn a case is pending between an
old lady and her daughters. The old lady's
husband died some years ago, leaving
fortune OF one hundred thousand dollars.
She had two daughters who were married,
and who desired an immediate division of
the estate. 1t was partnership business,
and could not be divided at once without
involving serious loss. Both the daughters
had abandoned their husbands ana had re-
turned to the homestead to live off of the
mother Quarrels ensued; and at last they
have dragged the old lady into court, and
want her adjudged a lunatc-not that she
has ever done anything, but she will not
divide the estate, of which she is execu
tress, till it can be done without loss.
Last week duOtUcT Cdsc Was liitu VI ah
old lady who was sued by the wife of her
son. She wanted the old lady to be sent
to the lunatic asylum, and on the case
being tried, one of the most important
witnesses, who, by the way, was cousin
of the plaintiff, swore, as an evidence of
the old woman's idiocy. that one day when
she went there to lunch that she had no.
thing but Goldfish cakes and pickles, that
there was no mnce pie, aud could not
swear positively if there was any molasses
cake or not
We are not a reverentia people neither
parents, nor government, nor God himself
seem to have any reverential claim on the
rising generation. They treat nothing
with the respect which is its due. Boys of
ten, twelve or fifteen years of age will sit
in a street car or ferry boat chewing their
tobacco while women stand with children
in their arms almost ready to faint do
not think, in an experience of years. that |
can recall the fact of boy ever offering
his seat in any public conveyance TO per-
son older than himself; for this their
mothers are undoubtedly to blame, and it is
this lack of paterna and national reverence
which is so shocking to fore gners visiting
our shores. 1t is this characteristic which
is instrumental in affOrding US the shameful
exhibitions of the past week of four dis
tinpuished families endeavoring to shut up
their parents in mad-house because they
were unfortunate enough to have little
property.
There is a row in the temperance camp.
DR.. Crosby, who has done some noble work
in his time, has taken his friends quite by
surprise by preaching sermon in which
he declared a little wine is good for the
stomach's sake. Brother Mundy, who has
been regular Boanerges in the ranks of
the cold water army. is about being hurled
from the exalted position, some of his op
ponents unkindly limiting that Croton
water was not the only fluid that mostened
his clay. These divisions in the cold-water
camp have sadly impaired the efficiency of
the force which Brother Murphy calls the
army of the Lord. Instead of thinking of
Ndlei, EONthciJ we dCliNSiy
on fire, and trust may be permitted to
say it without being accused of irreverence,
it is fire all along the line, and getting rather
hot. Brother Talmage gave US rooster
last week, none of your milk and water
sermons, but one of the good old fash Toned
discourses wherein he called things by
their hard Old Saxon names. He'll was
hell, fire was fire, sulphur was sulphur, and
Talmage was Talmage. When / see SO
much of cruelty and wickedness and crime,
so much of oppression and cheating and
villainy, l could almost hope that DR..
Talmage's version was the true one, though
| don't care about taking up permanent
lodgings there myself. The peace news
has had very depressing effect upon the
grain market, and holders of heavy stocks
are sure to go to the wall. The steady de-
cline of gold, which dropped to one and
half, represents shrinkage of values of
hundreds of millions of dollars. The
wind that inflated our balloon in 1864 is
gradually being let out, mortgages are
being foreclosed, everybody is trying to
sell real estate. and nobody has money
to buy, or, if they have, they feel abund
antly able to keep it. Never was seen such
sacrifices III dry goods, and never was ex-
hibited such sells sacrificing desire on the
part of our females to wear them, and to
wear as much as possible of them: not able
to carry their dimity on their backs. they
now parade the streets with both hands
full, and carry load that would stagger
porter when they would almost faint at the
idea of carrying home pair of stockings
or hoop shirt. This is something which
of a victim. Yours truly, BRoADBRIM.