The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-07-29


all-summer session.
Mrs. LINCOLN was a prominent ex
ample of person raised to eminence
without the smallest merit of her own;
but her personal character did not, at
the least, detract from the great respect
due her as the widow of one of the
noblest of men. and she died in the ell
ioyment of the esteem and consideration
vi q great nation.
The Republican State Convention of
Delaware met on Thursday in Dover and
nominated Albert Curry for Governor
and Washington Hastings for Congress
man, both by acclamation. The resolu-
tons adopted declare, among other
things, ''for fair and full protection of
I'll American industries, and the foster
ing of our shipping interests.
TIE payment of 500, boo, 600 in pen
sions during the present fiscal year has
seemed an immense burden, but it is said
shat the payment will be $4,000. 600
greater next year, 100000, 900 the fol-
lowing year, and at least $4,000, 900 the
year after that. The annual appropria-
tons for pensions should then be not
more than s50.0OO,00o although that
Spm will seem large to pay at the end of
nearly quarter of a century from the
war. The payment of pensions to dis
ahled soldiers and sailors is most cheer
fully made. but the knowledge that a
large Per cent. of the pension money
>s"es into the hands of persons whose
names have found place on the pension
list through fraud e1cites the righteous
Indignation of the people.
The Cincinnati Commercial. which is
one of the best authorities on the crops,
lays:
The last week has made certain good
corn crop. 1t will not surpass in guam
tity and quality all presidents, but it
will be sufficient for all our needs, and
leave millions upon millions of bushels
to feed the starving nations, if any such
there be. The wheat is saved and is
glorious, and there will be no lack of DO
tatoes this time, while Astounding buck
wheat will bloom on the ground that the
farmers grew weary of planting in corn.
a'asturage has never been more luxuriant
than this summer; and the cattle, sheep
and other stock have been making a fat
living on the grass.
HE sententious announcement of
Arab Pasha that the United States will
soon have to consider whether to permit
americans fighting under him to be ex-
@cUted as traitors by England when they
are captured by English troops does not
seem likely to be verified, for nothing
has been heard of Americans going to
Egypt to fight against England. The
only American soldier known to he in
Egypt at the present time is Gen. Chas.
L. Stone, who has for many years been
Chief OF staff to the Khedive. lie is a
graduate of West Point, and for some
years after completing his mill
iary education he Was banker in San
francisco. \ clerk stole $50, 900 of his
fR1ney, and that ended his career as a
banker. He commanded the Union
forces at the battle of Balls Bluff. At
The end of the war he went to Egypt and
enlisted in the service of the Khediye. as
I'D several Confederate officers, but he
is the only one who remains. As the
only American soldier in Egypt is not on
Arabis side, that braggart's assertion is
not worth serious consideration at pre-
sent.
SURELY ibis shall be the last of Sc
eres marriages celebrated by me-" is the
declaration of Pastor Ray, who in Nav.
1881, married Mr.. George tombstone.
highly esteemed citizen of Germantown.
10 Hiss Bessie Katz, agreeing to keep
the marriage secret The man who mar
''SS odb IL NOt brave enough to ac-
knowledge he has wife and give hey a
nome is almost sure to come to grief. as
Mr. tombstone has Low learned. His
wife went to her home and continued to
&eceive friendly calls from gallant
1oans dentist, Dir. Henson, as before.
and when Mr.. tombstone met the two on
the street together recently and told the
doctor that Bessie Katz was his wife that
lady denied the assertion, and the case
4'ccame the sensation of PHILADELPHIA as
well as of Germantown. Pastor Raw
says that it is impossible that the girl
could have been SO ''dazed and Devil
dered'' that she did not know what hap
pened when she visited his house with
Mr.. tombstone, and Bessie is left in
sorry plight. 1t would be we'll for all
ministers to initiate Pastor Ray in refus-
ing hereafter to officiate at secret mar