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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-05-17

The figures of the Grant 4 Ward
failure in New York grow with each
days investigation. As yet, there has
been no accurate summing up of liza
bilities and assets, but Wall street men
put the loss at $4,000, 900. Mr.. Ward
methods Of getting money and manlp-
ulating securities were SO questionable
that a criminal prosecution is talked Of.
The Grants appear to have heen figure
heads in the firm, and their share in the
management consisted mainly in losing
their money and that of their friends.
Last Sunday, at the solicitation of his
Young partners, General Grant went to
his friend William H. Vanderbilt and
exchanged checks with him for $780,
900 to meet some payments on the
following day. When the crash came
General Grant conveyed to Mr.. Van
derbilt all his own property and all of
Mrs. Grants to secure this loan. Be-
fore Mr.. Vanderbilt sailed for Europe
on Saturday he returned to General
Grant all his conveyances, and told him
that he would wait until his debtor was
ready to pay. The incident is highly
creditable both to General Grant and
Mr.. Vanderbilt.
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THE WHEAT PROSPECT.

Mr.. ]. K. Dodge, statisticlan of the
agricultural department, in his report
for April, fixes the area of winter wheat
at about e7,6oo,ooo acres, which is an
increase of between 5 and per cent.
over the area harvested last year. This
is an increase of more than 1000, 900
acres over the area reported in the
census of 1880. The gain is mainly
or the Pacific coast and in the South
crn States. 1t is very hopeful sign
for the South that the wheat and corn
area is constantly growing. The South
needs varied agriculture quite as much
as varied manufactures.
In the standard adopted by the agri-
cultural department 100 represents a
full stand, unimpaired vitality, and
medium growth. The March reports
from Maryland, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Kansas, California, and Oregon
put the crop above par. Pennsylvania
is rated at 90, New York at 81, and
Ohio at 8S. Persons who derive
their impressions of the condition OF
the wheat crop from what they see in
the fields along tine great railroad routes
in Maryland and Pennsylvania vii!
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Charles O'Conor the distinguished
lawyer. died at his residence IN Nan
tucket on Monday afternoon last lie
was 81 years of age,
Wizards hotel, in Washington. was
damaged by fire on Tuesday morning to
the extent Of about $500 The flames
started in the boiler r.,a-vir, and, runnGni.
uD the r"sodi elevator, set fire to the roof
No injury was done to any of the BOARD
, ers though some of them narrowly es.
capped sulfocation from the thick smoke.
The following star Route awards have
been maze for carrying the mails in
Mary land: From Falston. Hartford
equity. to Percy Hall, F. 5. Smith.
Washington, 1886; from West River,
Anne Arundel county, to Galloways,
James II. Tanner, Galloways, $50; from
Drawbridgc, Dorchester county, Md, to
Elicit, f. s. Smith Washington, Sis,
from Vale Summit, Allegany county, to
Frostburg. G. T. Carpenter, Washing
ton. s1G3
The Mississippi river sometimes takes
strange freaks. On Saturday last the
flood in the river forced a channel through
a point of land two miles above Water
p.'oof, Louisiana, quarter of a mile
across at il bend of the river where the
distance around is nine miles. thus short
ening the river from nine miles around
to quarter of IA mile straight through,
and making the river straight for several
miles. This it is said. leaves the towns
of Cypress Grove, Gum Ridge, Rosedale
and Coles Creek Point upon "A Lake. The
steamboat City Of Gazoo attempted to
90 through the cutoff, but the eddies
prevented The pilot is certain, how
ever, that on the down trip the steamer
can easily make the passage, and he also
thinks that before the water goes down
the cutoff will be the main channel
The Chicago Farmers Rerie,c pub
fishes crop reports from 700 different
points in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa,
NGUraSkd ana MISSOURI. ne winter
wheat reports from many points in H.
linois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan are
dismal and indicate short crop. The
report is from Kansas are almost uniformly
of very promising character. With the
exception o! Kansas the indications now
are that the remainder of the winter
wheat belt will be more or less spotted.
There is nothing in the general situation
to indicate any larger receipts of old
corn on this crup, as whatever Kansas
and Nebraska may have in reserve will
be neeGed very largely for their own
wants.
Two additional failures took place in
New York on Thursday, when Fisk x
Hatch, and w. A. Dimock u Co.. we'll
known brokers closed their doors. The
former firm it is said Jose -. 800, 600 on
the decline in government bonds alone,
as they had almost Il monopoly of trade
in this class of securities.
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have disappeared. For General Grant.
who was but a special partner in IL Q
concern, much sympathy is expires: ed
throughout the country. Like all great
Generals and Statesmen, Gen. Grant
is n poor business man Gas the term is
unde,Stoo on Wall street, New York; },
knowing nothing of the tricks and ex-
pedientS OF the brotherhood and was
easily deceived by the willy Ward, who
was the cause of all this troublc, the
whole business OF the house having been
entrusted to him. BY some his course is
denounCe. as criminal, and by others it
is ascribed to his ignorance, he being but
clerk on moderate salary previous to
entering the firm.
The Marine National Bank also failed,
being unable t. give security for $500 600
to the Clearing House, and the firm of
Ward x Grant being indebted to it to the
amount of $4,000 900. The banks as
sests foot up 10000 900, but it will not
be able to pay more than s. cents on the
dollar, and will have to be wound up.
General Grant still has eft the quarter
of million Of dollars subscribed by his
friends aud held in trust for him, the in
terest of which he receives. but he can
not touch the principal.
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THE FINANCIAL PANIC.

The financial cyclone which burst upOnI.
Wall street, New York, or. Wednesday
last has not been a"euualed since the men,
,rable hlo .ack Friday of 1878. Such a
ynplete decentralization of the money
market seldom occurs, and it is not de-
sirable that it should: but at the same
time, as thunder storm ON sultry day
clears and purities the air, this outburst
will be beneficial to the financial atmos-
phere, and when confidence is once more
restored the money market will be in a
sounder condition than it has been for
some time past.
! 1t is now plain to be seen that there
has been rottenness in the New Yolk
money market for some time past. Bust
| ness men who were looked upon as per-
lectly sound have been all the time prop
ping themselves up by means of the over
certfication of checks; and when Wand,
the false prophet of Wall street, topped
the Marine Bank against them, and
the banks becoming alarmed, refused
further accommodations, Che whole bust
ness of them went down like Il row of
bricks set on end.
The over-certitication of checks is at
the bottom Of all the trouble Without
this kind of fictitious wealth, which en-
ables an individual to impose upon the
business public by appearing to be worth
great deal more money than he really
is, such occurrences would be far less
frequent.
A bank official who certiles a cheek
for greater amount than the customer
really has on deposit aids that customer
in deirauding his neighbor, and Congress
should enact law imposing heavy
penalty upon such acts.
The banks themselves also had much
to do with bringing about the panic.
They became frightened, and instead of
discriminating between responsible bust
ness men and unreliable spectators, they
shut down tis lit on all, aud thus sent to
the wall many good men whose assets
far exceed their lab ilities. A good stock
of cool business nerve and discrimina-
ton would have been worth millions on
| Wednesday last
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naturally anticipate very heavy crop.
The growing wheat in Western Mary
land and in Southern and Eastern Penn
sylvania is remarkably luxuriant.
The experience OF the present year
tends to confirm the very general be
lief that the snow fall protects the
wheat during the winter. In the
Middle States the fields were covered
with snow during January, February,
and part of March, and when the
snow melted the wheat looked green
and vigorous. 1t was feared that the
drouth in the autumn would iniure the
newly-sown crop, but the protection
furnished by the snow in the winter
seems to have more than compensated
fer the bad start in the fall. On April
Ist the snow was still foot in depth in
some parts of New York. Connecticut,
and Michigan.
There was not much snow in Virginia.
and in some localities the wheat was
injured by the frost, and the crop suf-
tered in most of the Southern States
from the same cause. The wheat in
Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and
Mississippi suffered considerably from
the severe freezing.
California expects to produce a
great crop. The winter was favorable,
and rains were frequent. There is one
danger to be passed which may blight
the hopes of the farmers. In May
and June winds from the North fire.
quently sweep down the great central
valley and deprived the ground of all
moisture Just when the maturing wheat
needs it most. The prospect in Ore
gon and Washington Territory is I'M
usually good, and. if no unfavorable
contingency happens the crop of the
Pacific coast will be extraordinarily
large
The Hessian fly has made its appear
ance in a few counties i'll Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and Maryland, but the area
Of its ravages is restricted. Some dam
age has also been done by the fly in
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and
Kentucky. The complaints of losses
by the fly that have reached the agri-
cultural department this year are few
compared with some former years.
Taking the whole country over, the
prospect of a good wheat crop is highly
favorable.
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CHARLES O'CONOR.

Mr.. Charles O'Conor, another distin-
suished lawyer, has followed at short
interval jeremiah c. Black to the silent
repose Of the grave.
Like Judge Black, Mr.. O'Conor was
pre-eminent in legal ability, and pos
sessed the qualities that constitute a
great lawyer.
When the slavery question was the
main issue in American politics, Mr..
O'Conor was probably the foremost
champion of the peculiar institution in
the North. He was thoroughly con-
scientious in his views, and at the
breaking out of the war he refused to
Law aside the Constitutional theories
which he had maintained during the
great anti-slavery struggle. He opposed
the action of the Government in max
ing war on the seeded States from first
to last, and when he profered himself
as one of the bondsmen of Jefferson
Davis it was out of genuine sympathy
for the man and the lost cause which
he represented.
Mr.. O'Conor was nominated for
President of the United States by a
convention Of stai'hsntout Democrat
who refr->>ra to support Mr.. Creole
,h,unough he declined the nominatio
he received some 10000 votes. Pc
haps the greatest political service til
he ever performed was when he al
peared in his professional capacity
the counsel for the honest people
New York city against the Tweed rim
Whatever may have been his failiny
as a politician and statesman, he W;
free from the faint of political CORFU
ton, and it was his disgust at the 10
state of political morals that led hi
into some Of his remarkable specu
tons concerning the true functions
government.
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MECHANICS WAGES IN BIER.
LIN, GERMANY.

Mr.. NJ. S. BREWER, United States
Consul General at Berlin, has furnished
the State Department with a schedule
of the wages earned by mechanics in
that city, which should be carefully
studied by the tariff reformers in Con-
gress. Mr.. Brewer says that nearly all
the necessaries of life cost as much in
Berlin as in New York or Philadelphia.
Meats of all kinds, flour, bread, butter,
fish, and fruit are even more expensive
than in New York and Philadelphia.
Wooden and linen goods, boots, shoes,
and clothing generally are cheaper. All
mechanics work from eleven and a-half
to thirteen hours day.
Stonecutters earn S4.2S per week ;
glassCutters, $500; brass founders,
S4.76; filecutters, $500; toolsmths,
1851 (werklng thirteen hours a day. !;
moulders, $500; masons, S7.I4 car
penters, $500; painters, s4.99, and SO
on to the end. These are the highest
priced workmen. Apprentices get from
SI.66 to 81 week, and laboring wo-
men in the mechanical trades get from
SI.oo to S2.I4. Women in Germany
perform labor which in the United
States is monopolzed by the strongest
mel.
The list of prices of the standard
articles Of food given by Mr.. Brewer
show that subsistence costs about as
much in Berlin as in our cities. Wheat
flour is S to Sc per hundred ; eggs, IS
cents per dozen butter, so to So cents
per pound beef and mutton for roasts,
II to 20 cents pork, I6 to 20 cents
per pound a pound loaf of wheat
bread, 10 to IL cents black bread
(rye), about half the price OF wheat
bread. This bread is preferred by very
many among the wealthy classes. The
German laboring people spend less for
living than the laboring classes in the
United States but necessity has taught
them to be more economical. After
looking over Mr.. Brewers price-list, no
one will be surprised to learn that 2oo,-
900 Germans leave their native land
and come to the United States every
YEAR
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REPUBLICANS WARNED.
Only an Un"biectionaI Candidate Can
Carry New York.

Only an UnobiectfonaI Candidate Can
Garry New York.
\ printed circular was sent on Mon
day last from New York city to every
member of the Republican National Com.
mittee calling attention to the urgent
necessity of such action during the com.
ing convention as may insure to tie
party the safety of New York State.
The circular attacks none of the candi-
dates by name, yet it is SO worded that
its meaning is easily perceived. and in
one section It refers pointedly to Blaine.
1t is signed by the Republican confer,
ence committee. Francis G. Barlow,
chairman, David Alerton, secretary.
The cir, ular declares that the Republ-
can party. in order to succeed. must
carry New York, but that there are cur
rents of thought an feeling now wclk-
ing in the popular mind that often de-
eide elections, and which are apt to be
underestimated or overlooked by party
managers, as well as by enthusiastic
friends of particular candidates.
y striking lustration was afforded by
the election of 1889 in New York State,
when dissatisfaction with the doings of
the Republican State Convention re-
suited in a majority of 193, 900 against
the Republican candidate. to the utter
amazement OF the party managers.
Party allegiance is no stronger now than
it was in 1882; on the contrary there is
an independent spirit abroad which has
become positive force, and there are
tens of thousands of citizens whose
votes can be kept on the Republican
side only by the nomination of candi-
dates who are in no way open to objec-
ton. Faction fights within the party in
this State have been SO bitter and the
"machine' has become SO obnoxious
that any candidate who has been con-
cerned in either would place the State
in the utmost jeopardy. This being the
business and financial center of the coun-
try, public sentiment here is very sensi-
tive as to the bearing of the election on
all questions of public finance, and
candidate who has advocated at any
time an unsound money system will be
very weak here. Any candidate who
would launch the government into an
adventurous policy likely to disturb the
peace OF the country would inspire the
greatest distrust. I'VE appeal to you,"
the circular continues. ito consider that
there is no necessity for burdening the
party with an Objectionable candidate.
since there are plenty of men of sound
principles and irreproachable records fit
to become our standard bearers"
The fact that no names were men
toned in the circular caused consid-
cradle surprise, as it was given out ten
days previous that the candidates would
be attacked and discussed in person. 1t
has leaked out that this program
was changed at the earnest solicitations
of the friends of several candidates, who
succeeded in convincing General Barlow
that he would only injure the party by
giving the names Of the candidates to
whom he was opposed. The Blaine men
have been fearing this attack, and are
considerably elated a. having escaped
from the full force of the blow
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THE LIGHT WEIGHTS.
Billy Edwards Knocked Out of Time 10
Mitchell,

Billy Edwards Knocked Out of Time 10y
Mitchell.
Not less than 5000 men were specta-
tors of the sparring match between
Charles Mitchell and Billy Edwards in
Madison Square Garden in New York on
Monday night. Botli men are popular in
sporting circles.
Mitchell is 23 years old. five feet eight
and a-half inches tall. and weighed 154
pounds. He has fought many battles in
the twenty. four foot ring, and is the only
man who ever knocked out John l.. Sulli-
van. Edwards is forty years old. five
feet four and a-half inches high, and tip
ped the scales at 1876 pounds. He has
fought in the ring since 1873. Edwards
was whipped man at the end Of the
first round, but came up pluckuv.
In the second round Edwards sat down
all over the stage. He was knocked
down twice. pushed down twice and fell
down three times. At the beginning of
the round the two men fought hammer
aud tougs, sometimes at half arms length.
Mitchell's superior weight and vigorous
youth told OF. Edwards 40 years. lie
got in some good blows and fought
pluckily and skilfully, but he was plainly
growing weak, having been so badly
used in the first round.
In the third round Edwards was as
weak as Il kitten. He staggered as he
deli, cred his blows at Mitchell, who had
everything his own way. Mitchell
knocked him down. Edwards picked
himself up and gamely advanced to the
fray as Mitchell prepared to meet him.
but at this point the police interfered,
and the fight was called u draw. bus
Edwards and his friends acknowledge
that he was beaten. He received $1,000
for his services, and considers 1t good pay
for the maulinG received.
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M. E. GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Election of Four Bishops-W. y. Ninde. 81.
NJ Walden. w. +. MalIalieu and Charles
II. Fowler.

VI Walden. w. +. MalIalieu and Charles
II. Fowler. !
The proceedings of the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
fi"c.sSGah in Sc ssion in PHILADELPHIA, have
during the past week been of very in
| teresting character, and the attendance
has been large.
| On Monday the order OF the day being
| called for, DR.. Swindells, of Philadelphia,
| took the floor. He, at the request of DR..
| Taylor, Withdrew the amendment of the
latter substituting Africa" for India
as the place to send a res ident bishop.
! the necessities of the church require
bishops for Europe and India. Rev. w.
spencer, of Rock River, advocated IA
plan which would allow two bishops to
visit India in sixteen months during each
Iuadrennium Ram Chunda Bose, the
delegate from India, made the strongest
speech yet made against the plan. lie
said that nine tenths of the natives of
India in the Methodist Church did not
want bishop and one half of them
would not know bishop from a presid-
ing elder. The speaker was interrupted
by the expiration of his time. but he was
allowed five minutes moIr. lie said that
it was his duty to state that all of the
intelligent native Methodist> were against
any change. He thought that the measure
would pass because it belonged to Amer
lean ambition. The speech was the
strongest and most compreE ensive yet
made in the conference and created
marked sensation.
The Re William F. Warren, of New
England, president of the Boston Uni
versity, who made his first appearance
on the floor during the conference, said
that the question was Il very important
one, and he thought that some of the
laymen should be heard on the subject
lie said tina, the constitutional difficulty
was entirely cleared away. There ought
to be four bishops, one to work for the
Methodist Church outside of the United
States. He thought that a bishop of this
kind would aid and strengthen Gods
kingdom.
At the conclusion! of DIR. Warren'S ad-
dress the conference adjourned.
On Tuesday after the transaction of
some routine business, the order of the
day, which was the memorial services of
the lately deceased bishops and confer
ence officers, was taken up. The services
began with the singing of Il hymn. Rev
A. S. Hunt, of New York East, prayed
for the conference. Rev. J. b. Quigg of
the Wilmington Conference, read
memoir of Bishep Levi Scott, who was
for 56 years minister and 30 years
bishop. Many touching incidents were
related, and as DIR. Quigg told them his
voice Hembled and tears were in his
eyes. Hsev. c. N. Sims, of Central New
York followed with a memoir of the late
Bishop Jesse T. Peek. DIR. Sims ad-
dress was very eloquent description of
the bishops character. He told in plain
simple language how the good bishop, in
the face of years of Encouragement,
placed the University of Syracuse on its
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BorH Republican and Democratic
Senators seem afraid to tackle that UNI
deniable nuisanCe-the trade dollar.
The Senate Committee on Finance
postponed on Tuesday the considera-
ton of the House bill providing for the
retirement of this troublesome coin I'M
til after the June Convention at Chi
cago; and now Democratic Senators
will probably ask its postponement
until after the July Convention.
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1t is in view of these facts, and with
the certainty that an administration
which has been commended by al
most every State Convention that has
met as preliminary to the succession
of another is entitled TO better in
dolsemcnt than printed phrases, that
the business men of the country have a
right to be heard in their demand that
the peace and the quiet, the prosperity
and the progress, which have been in
sured to them by the prudence, the
wisdom. and the purity of President
Ar,hur's administration, shall be con-
tinued for them by his selection as the
candidate of the Republican party for
election in November next.