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The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

hair seemed to have turned to gold. The
gas burned with the color of electric
lights. This was the case more or less
all over New England.
There are various theories To account
for this unusual condition. Of the :timos-
,hcre Some aScribe it t" the vast forest
iires in Canada. where on Tuesday and
"Wednesday. it was SO dark that in all the
cities artificial light was needed all day.
Mills and factories there. the telegraph
informs us, have had to shut up and
business is largely stopped. From Can
ada. it is claimed, a vast smoke blanket
has spread ali over the Atlantic slope.
farther south than Washington. With
this is combined an excessive quantity ot
vapor, which. for some reason, has not
p"ecipitated itself i'll the form of rain,
but remaining in the atmosphere makes
the heat more irritating and oppressive.
How long this remarkable state Of things
will continue remains to beseen.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
,>eUUte.
Clinton Mccullough.

LIT every one explain it as he may,
-st the fact is that the old Democratic
leaders, have lost their party Influence,
s,nd With it whatever nerve they once
had. The policy pursued by them in the
recent primary contest in this district
shows they were demoralized. After one
raf the most hotly contested fights ever
7lrown in the district during the Con
.gfessionai campaign last fall, at which
primary poll four hundred and eighty
votes we're cast, they had y majority of
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

II the tax payers OF Cecil county had
bHen treated with 1.-THE of the liberality
THAT other counties of the Eastern Shore
have received at the hands OF Democratic
Legislatures, instead of being required
70 pay - cents on the dollar of the State
stock Of the Bohemia Bridge Co., the
~tate' ) interest would have been released
without the cost of cent Ito our people
! ct Ar. Heating and his political asso-
cIate> think 1t a genrr"'s thing to take
Iris sum out of our tax payers pockets to
make the Bohemia Bridge a free one.
ATrI-HING TICKET As THE RING TICKET As
NpNI<tTEr- <pT NOMINATED.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
TOO PRELIMINARILY PREVIOUS.

When Montgomery Blair was kicked
out of Mr.. Lincoln'S Cabinet. he soon
afterwards attended and addressed a Re
publican meeting at Frederick. Henry
Winter Davis, hearing OF it, caustically
remarked that Blair had done this to
show that he was not sore on the spot on
which he had been kicked Upon the
same principle, perhaps, Senator Groome
invited to an entertainment at his house,
on Tuesday, the members of Il county
conN ention that had just turned down
his Ring candidates. The cream of the
joke. however, lies in the fact that the
Senator and his political associates Thought
they had captured the convention, and
We're only Il little too preliminarily pre-
yjpnS
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

That a remedy made Of such common, sim
pie plants As Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dan
delion. &c, make so many and Snch marve-
Ions and wonderful cures as Hop Bitters do"
1t Wqsl la, for when old and young, rich
and poor tasiqr and bocfor, Lawyer and
Editor, all testify TO Aayips Reea eireu pE
them, We must believe aud doubt no longer,
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
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The circulation Of The phig being among the
most intelligent classes Of Cecil county and the
ddjoining counties OF Maryland, Pennsylvania and
DeiGpare its proprietor confidently recommends il
10 Business Men most desirable medium for
re3luncrdtipe advertising.
To maintain its high standard as fdnqiy Journal
no oBensire objectionable Advertisements riH be
1dmitted into its columns at any price.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
THE APACHE MURDERS.

The one man. whose Judgment of the
accounts of the Apache outbreak on Mon
day was calm and reliable. seems to have
been General Hancock. He doubted the
truth OF the published reports, not be-
lieving it possible that so wholesale 4
massacre could have been effected by the
Indians under the circumstances. or that
General Carr could have got into so per-
ilous situation as must necessarily have
been cause of his supposed death and
that of his brave companions. General
men familiar with Western warfare and
with General Carr'S character regarded
it as improbable that he should have done
anything SO rash as the PERCEPTIONS march
which was attributed to him. The good
news, which came later. confirms this
favorable opinion of General Cars dis
dierly courage and his ability as conf
mandcr in making a good retreat by
forced marches
This news. however, is only compare
lively good, as eight deaths occurred at
the time of the Indian attack, and one
afterwards from wounds received. besides
several deaths of couriers and scouts.
The act of the scout who shot Captain
Hentig was most dastardiy, and illus
trates the spirit of desperate defiance
which animates the hostile Apaches. An
Indian war is imminent. and the only
remedy for this sort of thing is an in
crease in the number Of troops on the
frontier and a vigorous effort TO break
down all resistance to the Government.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

twenty votes. Does one pretend to deny
that, with the Champion physically ihca-
pibe of taking the field. they could not
have secured all the five delegates from
the district? And yet erith""t Il contest.
they surrender two delegates, and ly the
act lose control of the county conven-
ton. 1t was bad leadership to say The
least Of it.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

\" young professional man stands
higher i'll this community than Daniel
Grafton, Jr., Esq; no one is more gener-
ally respected for his admirable qualities
of heart and head. Yet, when it was known
III convention of his party that Senator
''roome desired his election to the Legis-
i1tnre. Nr bratton, popular as he is, was
turned down. Let every man make his
own commentary Oh the fact
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
UNUSUAL STATE OF THE ATMOS-
PHERE.

That the thermometer should rise to
lD2c on Wednesday is nothing remarka-
bic after teDnor had predicted frost for
that day, because We always expect one
or two ''hottcst days every S4mmer
But apart from the heat. which has bees
notably depressing, and which seems to
have deprived TIL, air of much of its
vitality there is attending the present
heated term the peculiar hue, of the sun
and moon, which have been attracting
very general attention for few days
past. Those who observed the moon,
particularly oit Wednesday evening, no.
ticed its hue as bein. n..,te like that of
the setting sun than its usual luna. 81
pearance. Up in New England more ex-
traor.!inary effects have been observed.
At Harrre,l. about 80 o'clock in the
morning, the sky beea...o filed with
wan, yellow light, and it began 70 gIo;s
dark. The darkness kept increasing till
by midday It was necessary to light the
gas i'll most dwe.Iiac houses and in all
business places.
At Boston a thick fog narrowed The
horizon, and everything had deep yei.
low tinge. The fairest blonde complex
ion had oopper-co'ored hue and white
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

TnE old Ring beaten again, with the
champion too i'll to take the field Could
any thing more clearly demonstrate the
fact that the scepter Of power has passed
rom the hands of Groome German &
Go. in Cecil county?
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

AL good citizens who believe that
cod rules and hears prayer and who be-
lieye that the recovery OF the President
l. something to be earnestly prayed for,
approve the idea of appointing a day for
special fasting and prayer for this object.
The governors of number of States
have already issued proclamations select
i'g such day of observance. Why does
not our governor do likewise: Are his
d titles as . Reformer SO arduous as to
a low no time for 50 plain duty?
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the intense heat.
Milton y. had his shn~l with him on
Tuesday. Like all other old Ring SYM
pathizers, lie was thoroughly thWed by
the result Of the day s work.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

THE authorities of the Pennsylvania
Railroad deserve and are getting the
highest honors for the perfect manage
!rtcnt Of the Presidential train. The re-
ports OF the trip will enhance the credit
OF American railroad management the
world over. Undoubtedly the Pennsyl-
vania Company will get an immense
amount Of advertising. worth a thousand
fold more, in the long run. than the spe-
Cial train cost. Bnt it will get no more
linn II deserves
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

lF the Champion, while PROSTATE on
ms back, could secure, through his lieu
tenants, Il majority in the Democratic
county convention, how badly would the
old Ring leaders have been beaten had
the Champion been physically able to
}al>c the field This is n conundrum.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

lHt heavy Senator recently remarked
to Il friend that after the Convention of
tuesday. he wanted to take holiday
He evidently needs rest after the fruit
i".,:, effort Of Tuesday.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
w a NTED

NIFTY THOUSA FEET of
Il Hickory Plank, suitable Tor Fcllocs. Will
pay the highest market price in cash Tor same
delivered to
SPRINGER. MORLEY < CAUSE.
Aug 2i-lw< WILMINGTON. DEL.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10

IF there is anything in name, the
delegation from the Third district to the
Democratic Convention. on Tuesday.
have it:
George Washington Cruikshank.
George Washington Denny.
George Washington McNeal
Andrew jackson Scott.
David Copperiield Work
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
County Executive Committee

UNDER the circumstances, the Old
Ring defeat of Tuesday is the worst yet.
Two names out of eight, and they got
by suttrnnce, is the net result of Old
Ring effort on Tuesday.
THE latest dispatches concerning tho
President are more gratifying and he is
said to be better than for the past ten
fayS
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
NOTICE.

TnE Annual Meeting Of the Stoch-
L holders ni the WOOD LAWN CA Mp MEET
ING ASSOCIATION will be held at the NJ. T.
Church. Port Deposit, on SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER
10th. ut 2"clock Z. NJ. &. :. ABRAHAM
AliG Et-1W SncrctHrN.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
FOR SALE

A T MODERATE PRICE. three thor
IA ough-hred Red Irish SETTER PUPPIES
ten weeks DID oi Rufus and Elchu stock: the best
in the country Address Isoi 81. Elktou Po>r
Office. ISept ln-2"
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
MARYLAND POLITICS.
REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE.

Sympathy with President Garfeld-State Convex
ton to meet at Cambridge, on October 9th A
New Plan Of 0rganizatiel Reported fer
Ratification by the Stale Convention.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
5000 AGENTS WANTED to sell the Lie Of
PRESIDENT GARFIELD

1ncluiin@ tHH and GcCrunfC account OF his brief.
hut crr"ttni administration: the great conflict with
the "StaiUarts " headed iy Conklin-: the ,lia-
h"!ical attempt 70 asSiSSinatr him: with tull par
iicnar OF his extraordinary surgical treatment.
etc. Thousands desire !uli particulars hence this
hook must sell Immensely Terms HbcrGi OUTFIT
J0c. Circulars free.
i, GEArp Bios. Pubs 123 Chestnut ST. phila
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
"a 81 ACRES OF LAND,

~ which lame McMullcn now resides, situate
i'll the Sixth Election District and ahalt
miles from Rising sun, on the road to Lee ;
Bridge.
The improvements are n TWO-STORY EM
FRAME DIV Filing. with Porch and l,.s9
Pump Shed the pump furnishing sup .a
ply OF good water: FRAME BARN. :iOX47 feet
with Stahling under: and Straw house. Wagon
house and Gorncrb attached: and there are sew
eral other outhuildngs. The land is in IL good
state OF cultivation. except about three acres in
wood.
At the same time and place. will be offered Il
lnt of MEX i,,ip
The Cecil Whig., 1881-09-10
s. Acres, 2 R00& and 10 Square PerCleS
TRUSTEES SALE
Valuable Real Estate.

RG virtue of a decree of the Circuit
- Court lor Cecil county. in Equity. the under
signed, as Trustee. will offer at Public Sale at
the 'uuit Go"r. III the town vt Elhton. Md. on
TUESDAY, the 4th day of October, 1881
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

The Springfield Register has made out
defence for both Guiteau and the repub-
lican party, The only trouble with it is
that it is alternative, 1t is not intercharl-
gable. There is stern logic in it ard
it is worthy of careful consideration by
republicans. The Register says;
eff Guiteau was insane when he shot
President Garfield the republican party is
responsible for the shooting. If Quit
eau was not insane he was acting as a rad
ical politician, and the party is responsible
for his course. If he is crank he should
not be hung-if he is not crank both he
and the radical party. should be hung drawn
and quartered. These considerations may
account for the efforts of some of the
republican politicians to prove Guiteau in
sane
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

4
In view of the star route frauds which
the administration has promised to pun
ish, is it not trifle strange that there
should be any doubt that the promise will
be kept f-the treasury ring frauds, which
the people now only hope will be investi-
gated; and various other steals of republi-
can office holders; the opinion of the New
York World is exceedingly pertinent. 1t
says:
Pension Commissioner Dudley, follow
ing the excellent practice of all prominent
republican officials, has signalized his &C
cession by discovering a series of gigantic
frauds perpetrated during the incubeney of
his predecessor. This is most commend
able; still we are little puzzled at times
| to understand how our republican friends
manage it to go to the country every
fourth year and prove that there never are
any frauds under their administration, and
| then to justify their claim to public sup
port during the remaining three years by
showing that they are investigating and
preparing to punish series of colossal
frauds just discovered" si.r .a-,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

TO do on memorable occasion. It is one
of the most beau<zfm dispepsations of an
all wise and thoroughly Tepublican provir
-tience which makes the elections happen
concurrently with the renewal of our con
temporary's weekly subscription list"
The Chicago evening Journal has the
most pronounced case of half breed id that
city, and yet it follows suit in this manner:
1.-THE Washington correspondent of the
New York EDenfag Post is evidently a man
of little faith. He writes:
Now, just as there We're some deluded
people who believed that President Gar
field was constantly getting well when he
was slowly dying so there are others who
believe that President Arthur will turn a
political somersault, cut loose from his
trusted intimates and adopt the friends and
the policy Of the man whose bitter politi-
cal enemy he was. Such persons viii be
doomed to disappointment. Arthur is o
'.stalwart;" his friends are "stalwarts, and
his will be "stalwart" administration
General Grant can. believe, have any
thing he wants; so can Conkling; so can
Arthur. Garfield IS dead
While everybody knows that Mr. Arthur
has been a t'stalwart, and that his peliti-
cal associations have been of that charac-
ter, yet, we submit, it is not just nor fair
to PREJUDICE him as this correspondent does.
As far as heard from, those republicans
who make no special claim to "stalwart-
ism" have no cause Of complaint with the
President, and there is reason to hope that
they win have none"
Such small instances as the Davenport
Gazette, are hardly worth noticing. The
last named paper never had an opinion in
its life that did not look to the Davenport
post office as its ultimate object. 1t can
always be counted on to recognize the ris-
ing sun. Crow is its favorite diet. So
these papers go on, and one would think
which no one could remember, or care for
what opinions he had expressed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15
Saturday. October Is 1888.

The contest in New York promises to be
lively one, and conjecture is rife as to
the probable result. The republicans claim
| to be united and harmonious happy fam
| lily, whose only desire is to do good unto
each other, and in the result seek their re
at swords points, but in reality show more
| signs of union than their opponents. They
| have been having a contest, but it was not
| a contest in the party but instead, outside
of the party 1t was fight to keep the
party from the control of men who did not
give proof of their belonging to the party.
On the other hand, the republican war is
civil one 1t is a battle between two fac
| tions of the same party, not as the
democrats with Tammany. between
the party and an outside organization.
Hence it is not now possible to
determine with any accuracy the probable
result of the coming election. But in fig
uring on the matter the following synopsis
of the former vote of the state is of value.
In the presidential election of 1876 each
party in New York was united and did its
best. On an unprecedentedly large vote,
MIR. Tilden obtained plurality of 80, 742
over Hayes. The democrats carried the
state in 1877 and the republicans in 1878.
But in each of those years distracting ele-
ments mingled in the contests, and render
ed the results of small value for ascertain
ing the real strength of the two parties.
1t was little better in 1879 Though
there was a serious bolt against both Rob
inson and Cornell, the respective democrat
ic and republican candidates for governor,
the test on the Lieutenant Governor was
reasonably trustworthy. Both Potter,
democrat, and Hopkins, republican, were
satisfactory to their parties, and Hopkins
beat Potter by 900 votes. At the last
Presidential election Garfield and Arthur
carried the state by o plurality of 21 ,033.
1t is well known that this result was main
ly due to the extraordinary efforts put forth
near the close of the campaign by Gen.
Arthur and his special friends, but for
whose exertions the state would have gone
for Gen. Hancock
These facts and figures place New York
in the column of doubtful states; and both
parties will be wise if they regard the pend
ing struggle in that light.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

It is not so long ago that most people
do not remember it, that the majority OF
the republican papers of this country were
loud in their denunciation of Chester A.
Arthur. There was then nothing too bad
to say about him. and he was universally
held up to public execraion. But he was
then only Vice President and he was en-
gagged in political contest with his chief
Those papers then expected no favors from
him; his opponent was the dispensing of
ficer. But since then the scene has shifted,
and Chester A. Arthur is now President
AS such he holds a totally different
position with those same republican pa
pers that he then did. Many of these are
dependent on this form to the administra
ton for political pap, SO they have changed
front and the man whom they SO short
a time ago abused with all their power,
they now bow down before. When so
leading a paper as the New York Tribune
is subject to the following criticism, 1t is
no wonder that the smaller papers copy
The most stalwart of republicans need
scarcely hesitate about renewing his sub
scription to the weekly edition of the Times
Our esteemed contemporary has not waited
for the sting of the party lash-not even
for its crack before eomingint the traces
with Edmunds aad Malone and the other
managers on the question of the presidency
of the senate. If it has not applauded
Billy the Kids exhibition at the Union
League, it has &c least not found fault with
it, and in its Criticism of the local machine
its roar is that of the sucking dove. It
win not be necessary for our esteemed con-
to go to Don Cameronfor GER
tiicate of good character after freak of
serious Independence, as the Tribune had
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

n Uei0grafH from w washington says:
There is a good deal of ill-feeling
among old clerks in the postso office depart
ment over the appointment of young Har-
Ian, a son of Justice Harlan, to a 81, 600
clerkship over the heads of dozens of COM
petent men who have been working for
years upon salaries of 81, zoo and 81, 400
1t is alleged that Harlan is just out of
school, unacquainted with the routine
duties of the department, and to jump him
three grades over the heads of men who
have been working for years at lower sal
aries is regarded as favoritism not to be
explained by any known rules of civil-ser-
vice reform.
And yet this is civil service reform adj
ministration. Arthur was always noted
for his love for said reform while in the
New York custom house Mr.. John Sher-
man then wrote him letter which read
something like this:
'Gross abuses have continued and in
creased during your administration"
And Mr.. Hayes, of Fremont, Ohio,
added postscript, in which he said:
With deep sense of my obligation I'M
der the constitution, regard it as my
plain duty to suspend you in order that the
Office may be honestly administered"
But the gentleman from Fremont would
probably not write such letter now that
the person to whom it was addressed is
President Of the United States; and John
Sherman as he reflects upon his candle &C
count, wishes he had kept quiet.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-15

Mahone's vote is now of more impor
lance than ever in the senate, and in con
sequence the republican politicians are
more anxios than ever to preserve intact
the bargain by which they obtained tina
vote and in time promised to use all the
influence of the administration and the
power of the spoils system, to advance
the cause of Reputation in Virginia. In
order to enlist the support of northern
republicans in the fullfilment of this politi
cal barter, the politicians have been very
loud in their talk about the glorious deeds
that Malone was going to perform in Vir-
ginia if he could only obtain contract OF
the state. Education was to be advanced.
although it it was shown that the read
iustment'' of the state debt would ruin
every college in the state; and the negro
was TO have his right to vote made secure,
the plan being to abolish the poll tax
which in northern states is not considered
any for to free suffrage. These and vari-
Gus other pretexts are all advanced as
remains why northern republicans should
aid Virginia repudiations. when the real
reason was that they hoped by citing the
cause of reputation to secure another
state to the republican party. The New
York San thus states the case:
The only living question before the people
of Virginia to-day is whether an honest
debt, contracted before the civil war and
expended in improvements, kshan be paid
in good faith, or whether it shall be dis
gracefully repudiated The Democrats
contend that it shall be paid to the salts
faction of the creditors. The rotten coal
itionists, headed by Malone. say il must
be converted into job, by which Ring
of spectators shall put several millions in
their pockets, through corrupt Legisla
fure and courts made to order.
Every dollar contributed here or else
where for this Virginia campaign in Ma
homes interest, viii be no matter what
plausible pretext may be urged, SO much
aid and comfort for Republication. Bust