The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-20

but in time of need they are seldom near,
and in this case not a policeman appeared
at all, and if it had not been for the in-
reference of the neighbors, the unfor-
tunate girls might have been outraged
in the presence of their parents, and the
parents might have been murdered for
daring to strike in their defence.
This terrible result is the outcome Of
our present political organization. The
keeper of some whiskey saloon or low
gambling den wants to run for alderman,
SO he organizes the Michael Duffy AS
sociation," or the patrick Flanagan
Coterie," or the Limerick Fusilliers,'
Or some such organization in which all
the young roughs of the neigbborhood
join. They soon discover that in union
there is strength. If one of the gang is
arrested, the rest are under an immoral
obligation to rescue him if they can, or
failing in that to beat or MAIN the po-
liceman. There seems to be considerable
emulation among them to see who can do
the most evil things. A visit to the
penitentiary involves no disgrace, but on
the contrary is esteemed quite an honor.
A member of the association is hardly
thought tit to graduate till he has be-
come tough; that is to say, till he has
killed his man, or at least done his best,
to do it. There is not a ward in the city
but Is cursed with these organized gangs
banded together for crime. They are
outlaws in the worst sense, and should
be shot down like other wild beasts
without the intervention of judge or
jury.
We have laws against prize fighting,
yet Harry Hill, not.a block from the po-
lice headquarters, can give sacred con-
cert on Sunday night at his den, with
soft gloves, according to the Marquis of
Queensbury's Rules, and it is ten to one
that the alderman of the ward is not in
there on deadhead ticket to see the fun
and will sit there while the church bells
are tolling in the company of prostitutes,
sluggers and thieves, drinking cham
payne furnished d. II. by the gentle
manly and generous proprietor.
Think of it. This ignorant ruffian is
the stakeholder in all the great prize
fights. This is in itself criminal offence
but the law never reaches him. He has
at Babylon, Long Island, sort of slug
gers paradise. He runs his own steam
boat, and calls it the Harry HILL" o.
casionally for the amusement of our @s-
thetic Wall street brokers Harry gets up
plugging match at his country seat.
Only the creme de la creme are invited,
and standing room costs 10 dollars head.
Plenty of so-called gentlemen pay this
willingly to see couple of brutes pound
each other to mummy. Mr.. Hill had
smuggling match at his place last week. He
took in for the show more money than
Mr.. Abbey can draw in the finest theatre
on the continent, and with such an as
semblage of singers as it would be diff
cult to match in the world.
Appropos of singers, we are having
regular musical craze. French, German,
Spanish, Italian, and English. Every
body is singing or whistling, or humming
something from the opera.
A story is told of a we'll known Brook
lyn clergyman, whose daughter had been
surreptitiously to see the Queens Lace
Handkerchief. The young lady came
home delighted with the music, which is
certainly very pretty, and sat down to
the piano playing few of the airs from
memory. Her father was in the next
room preparing his Sunday sermon. First
he dropped his pen; then he started to
his feet, ard ali at once he struck into
double shuttle. The clatter caused gen.
eral rush to his studio, and on being con-
fronted by his astonished wife declared
the - must have been in the music.
If you go into dry goods store for
dress or gloves the salesman assures you
that they are beautiful opera shades. If
you want a pair of boots Or shoes they
have opera ties and opera bootees; opera
cloaks, opera hats, neckties. Even to
maternal cocktails and post prandial
smashes. Everything is opera. Even in
the churches, when the organist strikes
off on voluntary you can detect strains
from the Little Duke, Mascot, Patience,
Blue Beard, and the Mulligan Guards
Ball. What the aftermath of this musi-
cal craze will be is hard to tell, but it
looks just now as If we might pay dear
for the whistle.
Our neighbor across tho river is very
much exercised just now at the case of
miscegenation, where German brewer
was shared by the wiles of a dusky
maiden, whose complexion was about the
color of we'll polished boot. The brewer
was not frightened at shade or two; in
point of fact he was rather dark COM
plexioned himself, SO much so that the
minister who married him to his dusky
bride declares that he thought he was a
little off color. Brooklyn is indignant
that such thing should have occurred
in her bailwick. To tell the truth this
thing is growing monstrous. A few
weeks ago member of the African Bri-
gade captured one of Greenport's fairest
daughters.
The outraged citizens chased him out
of town. He fled from place to place, his
bride sharing his sufferings and priva-
tions, but wherever they went their lives
were in danger. The eastern section of
Brooklyn is all ablaze, and the people
declare if the brewer comes back with
his sable bride they will give him coat
of tar and feathers and ride him on rail.
hope not. If the brewer can stand that
sort Of thing it appears to me that the
rest of the community ought to be able
to do so. The brewer declares that he
will come back and settle down in Brook
Ign. would respectfully suggest Liberia,
or Sierra Leone, or some of Stanley's sta
tions on the Congo. They don't mind
such things out there, and it might be
the means of putting him on the high
road to official promotion.
The exciting question of the hour of
course is politics. The news from Ohio
shook the political fabric from turret to
foundation stone, So far the Republicans
have made no very aggressive movement