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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
COLLECTOR SELLMAN'S REMOVAL.

The removal of Collector John H.
Sellman deprives the Government OF
the services of a gentleman of capacity
and fitness, and one, to whose official
fidelity all who had business with his
office Can testify. The best thing we
have read about his removal was said
by the Baltimore Herald He leaves
his position says that paper not because
he is an offensive partisan nor for
"pernicious activity" in politics, but
simply because he is Republican, and
his place, which is a $1,000 plum, is
needed by hungry Democrat. He
retires with fl, ing colors, victim to
the Jacksonian shibbolcth that to the
victors belong the spoils.
He has been lucky, indeed, to hold
his place this long in the tabernacle of
the new regime, and the psng of his
taking off is relieved by the reflection
that it was not sudden. but, like length
ened sweetness, long drawn out.
There may be some carplng critics
who will suggest that, inasmuch as we
nov have an administration pledged to
literal execution of the civil service
law, at least one Republican flower
might have been allowed to bloom and
blush on Maryland soil but Mr.. Cor
man is practical politician, and be
does not intend that any but the faith
tul shall retain even a finger hold upon
the window sill of the public crib. Civil
service is beautiful thing to behold
remotely, where distance lends enchant-
ment to the view, but at home, here in
Maryland, it IS doomed to waste its
sweetness on the desert air.
The Democratic theory of civil SER
vice reform covers the land like buggy
umbrella, but its pratice leaves all the
Republicans out in the pelting rain.
In giving up Colonel Sellman we are
glad to know that SO able statesman
as Mr.. Joseph X. Roberts, the brilliant
Democratic leader of Prince Georges
county, has fallen heir to his mantle.
We entertain no doubt that Mr.. Roberts
will prove himself to be in every way
worthy of his new honor. If he shall
conduct the office with the same spirit
that has marked its management by
Colonel Sellman, he will do well, and
the people will be satisfied.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

THE President has just made an
other Federal appointment for Mary
land in the person Of Mr.. Southey
f. Miles, as Collector of Customs at
Cristield. Mr.. Hance Lawson, the
present incumbent, is an influential
Republican of Somerset county, and
a prominent Methodist of that coun-
ty, he being an official member OF
the church there of which the Rev.
Walter Z. Avery has recently been,
and we think is still, the pastor of.
We tender Mr.. Lawson our congrat-
ulations, that he has been able to re-
tain his position so long. He is too
influential a Republican to have rea-
sonably hoped to escape the Admin
isuation axe any longer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Ceptabie plan of organization of the
county. In the r~eantime we beg the
friends of Prohibition throughout the
county to give this matter the consider
alton which its importance deserves.
Since the adjournment OF the commit
tee meeting on Tuesday a prominent
friend of the new law has handed us
the following outline of plan of or
Grafton, aud which if not adopted, may
possibly contain some suggestions to
the committee and the friends of the
new law generally.
(D This plan proposes general
association to be known by the name
of The Law and Order League or As
ISOLATION of Cecil county, and its mem
bers shall consist of such persons re-
siding in the county who will annually
contribute a certain sum of money, the
payment of which is to be the Condl-
ton of such membership, towards the
oil jects and purposes of the association.
(2) The general officers of the
League shall be president, vice-preSl-
dent, secretary and treasurer and an
executive committee of five members,
three of whom shall constitute quo
rum
CD the object of the League shall
be to secure ii enforcement of all
laws, which have for th"ir object the
preservation of the public morals and
the protection of community in the en-
joyment of peace ard good order, but
more especially the successful enforce
ment of all existing laws against the
Illicit and illegal sale Of Intoxicating
| liqu ,rs and the observance of the Sab
bath day commonly called Sunday.
ca An annual meeting of the
League snail be held when officers shall
be elected for the ensuing year, and a
report made of all monies collected for
its use, how they have been discussed.
and what results have been attained.
50 All persons who have complied
with the necessary conditions of men,
bership shall be qualified to vote for
officers and on all other matters pertain
ing to the objects of the ASSOCIATION.
CO.. Local committees shall be ap-
pointed for the several towns and dis
tricts of the county whose duty it shall
be to carry out the objects and pur,
poses of the association, solicit contrl-
buttons for such objects, and to pro-
mote them by assisting local organ,
izations in their behalf
Whatever plan the committee may
finally adopt we urge upon the friends
of the new law that they give it theil
hearty and active support, stree sc
much depends upon its successful en-
fOrCement
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
ORGANIZING FOR ENFORCEMENT

FUN
In response to the call recently made,
majority of the Prohibition Campaign
Committee met in the rooms of the
Cecil county Agricultural Society on
Tuesday last. The immediate object OF
the meeting of the committee was the
consideration and final adoption of the
best method by which to organize the
friends OF Prohibition throughout the
county, in behalf of the recently adopt
ed law, and which will go into effect on
the first of January next. The friends
Of the new law are perfectly aware that
It's successful enforcement will be the
test of its continuance as the settled
policy of the county in reference to the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors. They
have substantially conceded, that the
deficiencies of the present law, have
embarrassed and to a certain extent
have defeated its enforcement. With
that admission, and which the oppo-
nents OF prohibition in the county in
the late campaign made the best use of,
they appealed to the friends of Prohi-
bition and temperance throughout the
county, to ei1e a better Lac, further
and faIr trial, before deciding the
general impracticability of a Prohibi-
tory policy. This was the leading ar
gument of the friends of Prohibition in
the recent campaign, and its plausa-
bility and reasonableness were recog
nized by many voters who are true
friends of Temperance but who had
honest misgivings as to the possibility
of enforcing any absolutely Prohibitory
law. These appeals had their effect,
and sufficient number of this class
of Temperance men set aside their mis-
givings and voted for the new law
thereby saving it from defeat. Now it
is plainly apparent % every friend of
Prohibition that the next two years are
to be an experimental and probation
airy period during which the system
of Prohibition will be severely tested
Some of its opponents will with an APP
pearance of fairness ConCede that since
the measure has become a law all good
citizens should respect it as they should
all other laws, but they will not pro5a-
bly, lend their aid to or assist in any
way in its enforcement This duty will
devolve absolutely upon its active
friends. And it will devolve upon them
not only as individuals, but upon them
collectively, since organized effort in
behalf of enforcement is the only method
that can accomplish much. Fully aware
of the existing conditions in the county
and considered such suggestions as
were offered looking to organized en-
torcement. As no plan was definitely
settled upon, and the meeting was one
of conference, we hive not thought it
desirable to publish detailed report Of
the desultory debate that was had, but
rather wait until the committee ap
pointed for the purpose has formulated
such plan of organization as may in
their judgment secure the desired end.
1t is probable that the committee may
report at the adjourned meeting which
will be held on Tuesday next an &C
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Mr.. WArrERsoN has signalized his
return to Louisville by pitching into
the Cleveland administration with a
pugnacious ferocity OF expression which
no Democratic editor has heretofore
dared to indulge in. The kentuckian
declares that Mr.. Cleveland must i'm
mediately turn his back upon the civil
service law, and fill all the offices, big
and little, with Democrats, or reno un e
all hopes for a second nomination.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
EARLY THANKSGININGS.

Perhaps OF the thousands who duly
observe the day, there are many who
do not stop to think of the antiquity OF
Thanksgiving, or OF the manner IN
which it was observed in the old Colo
NAL days. Writing on this subject, Har-
riet Beecher Stowe says:
Our good Puritan fathers intended
to form a state of society of such equal
ity of conditions, and to make the
means OF securing the goods of life free
to all, that everybody should fad EN-
ployment for his faculties in a prosper
Gus seeking of his fortunes. Hence,
while they forbade theaters, operas and
darces, they made stale of unparal-
led peace and prosperity, where one
could so to sleep at all hours OF the day
or night with the house door wide open,
without bolt or bar, yet without appre-
hension Of any to modest or make
afraid.
'rhe Fourth of July took high rank
after the Declaration OF Independence,
but the king and high priest of all fes-
rivals was the autumn Thanksgiving.
"When the apples were all gathered
and the cider was all made and the
yellow pumpkins were rolled in from
many hill in pillows CT gold, and The
corn was husked, and the labors OF the
season were done, and the warm, late
days of Indian summer came in dreamy
and calm and still. there came over the
community a sort of genial repose of
spirit, a sense of something accom-
plished and of a new golden mask
made in advance on the calender of
life.
''In those days there were none ofthe
thousand ameliorations of the labors of
housekeeping which have since arisen,
no ground and prepared spices and
sweet herbs everything came into our
hands in the rough and in bulk, and
the reducing of it into a state for use
was deemed one of the appropriate
labors of childhood. Even the salt we
used in cooking was rocksIlt, which
we were required to wash and dry and
pound and slft before 1t became fit for
use.
Great as were the preparations for
dinner, everything was So contrlved
that not a soul in the house should be
kept from the morning service of
Thanksgiving in the church, and from
listening to the Thanksgiving sermon,
in which the minister was expected to
express his views freely concerning the
politics of the country and the state of
things in society in general
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

HON2Rs are easy it would seem tor
Philadelphia editors, Mr. Singerly of the
Record being reported as about to en-
ter the matrimonial state. and Mr.. Geo.
w. Childs being pressed to accept the
nomination for the mayorality, with a
certain election by an overwhelming
majority, even with the most popular
candidate that could be prevailed upon
to accept nomination against him.
Bat Mr. Childs will not accept the
nomination and Philadelphians are pa
thetic in their expressions of regret, at
Mr.. ChildS' determined refusal to re-
lent. The New York correspondent of
his own paper the Ledger says of him.
There IS a general feeling OF regret
expressed on all hands here that Mr..
Childs cannot somehow see his way
to the acceptance of a nomination to
the Philadelphia mayoralty. The idea
is that the community have need of just
such man in that position. The
working men would like to see him
there for a thousand reasons of their
own, but not more SO than the journa-
lists, the literary guilds and the "soIid
men" whom one meets at the clubs
It would need more space than is al
lotted to your correspondent to show
how unanimous is this sentiment on the
part of press and public alike, but the
following from the Commercial BNlIe-
tin may be fairly cited as an epitome of
what is thought and said in other quar-
tiers
philadelphia is to have a mayor.
atty election in February, and we notice
that there is a strong pressure upon Mr..
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
To the Creditors of Joseph P. Cutler.

Joseph y. Cutler. of Cecil county, havin. filed
his petiton in the Circuit Court for Cecil county
to be discharged from his debts and liabilities.
under Article Is of the Code OF Public General
Laws, entitled ''lnsolvents,' and such petition
being now pending notice is hereby given to the
creditors OF such insolyeht debtor thar v an or
der duly passed in he matt"ro the said petition.
wednesday heXt after the second Moi day in
December next has been appoint d for the said
JOSEF J.. Cutler to appear before the Judges OF
said Court at the court house. in EIktun, 10 an
swer such interro gatories or allegations as his
creditors. endOrserS or SuretieS may Propose r
allege against him or be otherwise dealt with ac-
corling to law RpBT &. THACKERI.
Oct 23-5t Permanent rrus ee.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

EX-Representative Frark Hurd stat
ed, in a recent interview, that he "never
saw the Democratic party in better
shape than now" The only visible
Improvement in the condition of the
party is in the defeat of its most blatant
free trade leaders.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
DEATH OF CHAS. FRANCIS ADAMS.
Career of the Statesman, Diplomat and
Author.

Career of the Statesman, Diplomat and
Charles Francis Adams, who died on
Sunday, was born in Boston August IS,
1907. wnen his father was member of
the Unite States Senate. In 1909 Pres
ldent Nj adj son appointed John Quincy
Adams minister at the G., urt of Russia,
and the year-oli boy WIS taken to st.
Petersburg. There, as he grew in years,
he developed a passion for study, and
under the care Of masters was quickly
taught to speak tluently the German,
French and Russian languages. After
wards his education Was further ad-
vanced AT a school IN Ealing, London
suburb, his father having been appointed
minister at the Court of St. James. At
length, in 1917 he returned to America
and entered the Boston Latin school. In
due time he was admitted to Harvard
College,, from which he was graduated in
1928, the same year of his fathers cleo.
ton To the Presidency of the United
States After wears study IN the law
office of Daniel Webster, in Boston, he
was admitted to the bar in 1928. lie de-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

ssYHE+WHIGsss

Preemrnenfly raiuabIe for its Local as reN Gen
srai intelligence Necs Communications are respect
fully solicited from all sections Of the County, in
addition 10 the lcsckly contributions Of its regular
Orps Of correspondents. anonymous communica-
lions IciH receire no attention, the name Of the
.crtfer being required in all guarantee OF
good faith.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

The Postmaster General has directed
that the salary of a clerk in the ninth
division shall be reduced from $500 to
$500 per annum ''for refusing to obey
the instructions of and engaging in a
personal encounter with the clerk in
Oh -
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
ELKTON. NOVEMBER 81, 1886.

SINGULAR as it may seem the Hart
ford Times says, ice houses are Classed
as extra hazardous risks by fire insur
ance companies, and some of the latter
will not issue policies on them at any
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Maybe, we'll tell you another
day. In a hurry, if not in a
furry today.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

The news of today shall be
in dress-stuffs out of alIpropor-
ton to what is going on all
round us.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
IEananaker's.


Not a bit of a furry in dress
stuffs! But you shall read, if
you will, what sort of business
goes on here without any fur
ry.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

A two-color homespun dag
onal, thick and soft and sub
stantial, 42-inch and 57H! All
wool and highly acceptable col
ors, mostly browns and grays
together. One side of a vale
is brown and the other gray.
There are several brows and
several grays. A few pieces
of other colors, gray and light
blue, for instance; not enough
to mention.
The homespun has dropped
from soc to 37H. 1t was cheap
at soc. What do you think Of
it now 1t doesn't look unlike
the costliest homespun we have
nor feel unlike it. Substantial,
pleasant, durable, genuine
stuff.
Some ten or more American
rather heavy wooden dress
stutfs, most of them brilliant,
none entirely plain, have been
81 and SI.25 till now; and were
worth the money; 44-inch. All
down to 65Cl
You want to know more
about them. Can't describe
ten styles, you know. Would
you read description of one:o
Two words will answer. lfthey
were entirely plain you might
call them flannel. Some are
plain in the middle with border
on edge or edges, the border
slight and sketchy or of widen
ing stripes. Others are speck-
d,and with conspicuous stripes
of plaid or of almost Persian
complication of colors, not fine
ly mingled like Persian weav-
ing, butneeding a little distance
for full effect, on the speckled
ground.
Ten more of large gay plaids,
on similar cloth. They are 50
inches wide. All SI.25 till now;
now 75c! What do you think
of that
Single lines of silvery silk on
another t1annel-like stuff, the
stuff of whatever color you like,
the silvery silk in lines SO small
they seem to partake of the
color; blush on blue, reddish
on red, clear silver or neutral
colors only; 44-inch and S. till
recently; dropped to 75c! They
are very dainty stuffs.
Like the last in wool and
silk, but with CROSSINGS added,
making little squares of wool
and color enclosed in tiny
squares of silk; but the silk not
always silvery; gold and silver
and colors; 44-inch and 81 till
lately; dropped to 75c!
There's a wider (5o-inch) and
heavier cloth with those same
stripes of silvery silk a third Of
an inch apart all over it. 75c
yard!
Very heavy wool diagonal,
soft, substantial, springy, yield
ing a little in thickness, strong
and tough. A week or two ago
one day it suddenly dropped
from 81 to 75c! 1t had been
highcr-SI.25. 1t may have
been dear at SI.25. 1t wasn't
dear at 81. But what do you
think of it now at 75co 1t is 40
inches wide.
To illustrate this diagonal:
There s another diagonal notso
heavy and not SO pretty, no
finer, on the whole inferior.
This has kept its original price,
$I.25, till now. 1t is an old lot
now. 1t might so to the rem
nant counter; but it goes SO
well with that diagonal next
above that we leave it there at
75c.
Plain basket flannel, plain
weave and plain color, for
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
Real Estate at Private Sale,

offer two DOT BILE HOUSES on west High
rect IN the town ot Elkt,n. cunta ming sever.
rvolus each three stories nigh new last year. The
street well shaded, near the railroad and
most desirable place to live. Good water, and
every modern Improvement. Terms made to suit
the purchaser. Address
JOHN WILKINSON,
Oct l6-tf E!ktun Cecil Co, Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Do you care to know how it
comes to pass:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
The Best Evidence

The Best Evidence
that we can suit you in
Clothing in every way
is to try us and you can
then form your own
opinion as to whether
our success has been
observed or not. Our
customers are our best
advertisers and seem to
take pleasure in recon-
mending us to their
friends. 1t is useless to
tell you that we have
the Largest, Best,
Cheapest and Newest
Stock of Mems, Yoth's,
Boys and Children's
Clothing. 1t would
sound only like every
clothing announcement
In our Custom Clothing
Department. we will
take pleasure in show
ing you the New Styles
for Fall and Winter,
and with skilled and
experienced cutters and
tailors we guarantee sat
istactory Garments in
every particular.
J. 7, Mu||in & Son.
Tailors, 9th & Market,
C''o;hiers, Wilmington.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
ROOFING MATERIALS.

FFIIIT, PTICH, &c.
READY ROOFING, 2PLY AND 3PLY
ROOF COATING AND ROOF PAINT
For either Shingle or Metal Roots.
Carbolic Acid X Carbolate of LINE Disinfectants
BALTIC. COAL TAR n MFG co.
10 w Camden st. New CON Bait mo O.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Atwood cashmere, any color
you want, for 37Hc! You'll
find it outside at SOC. We shall
have to put it up ourselves by
and by unless some accident
happens to hinder,
We've touched, we may say,
one class of dress-stuHs and
only one, besides that SOC cash
mere for 37Hc. That class is
American dress-stuffs. They
constitute a small part of such
a stock of dress stufs as we
have here.
Now is not the time for for
e'gn tances to drop. If they
went down on our hands in the
midst of selling time we should
consider we had failed in choos-
in for you.
There are staple foreign
dress-stuffs. Iftheywent down
on our hands, we should con-
slider we have Numbered some
how.
We may as we'll say the same
of American dress-stuffs, these
that have gone down. They
haven't gone down on our
hands. They are new. They
are fresh from themakers. The
makers are losing the money,
not we. We are justas happy
in selling these stuffs that have
dropped to ridiculous figures
we are the happier because
they have dropped. We de
cidedly like ridiculous figures.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

And yet there's no furry!
Not a bit Of a furry! Trade
will flow as steadily here as if
we were only selling as usual
usual means close prices all
through and tons of all sorts of
stufs.
JoHN WANAMAKER.
Chestnut. Thirteenth and Market
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
TERMS OF BSCRIPT1UN !:
ADVERTISING RATES:

One Year ......... .... 81 90
NiA hohths. ......-----....-... w
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

A CRUSHER capable at reducing Is
~ to ~ tons OF Stone rer day. for sale cheap.
The machine is one vi great power and strength
and is in perfect order.
Maraut Il. SCOTT BRO, Elkton, Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
New Groceries,

VIM Kennard Brown has opened a Grocery
Sore in the building occupied by Mrs. NJ. j.
Brown. where can lie found everything usually
kent in IL first class Grocery Store, and at the
very Lowest Prices. Nov. 2O-5t
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27

Chestnut Thirteenth and Market streets
and Citv-hal square.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-06

The sound of the cars in plainly
heard on the line of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad at the Needles for q
distance of seventy eight miles to g
place called Cottonwood Island. The
discharge of the sunrise gun at Fort
Mohave can be plainly heard at Colo
RADIO Canyon, distance of 100 miles
Sound can be understood in the mar
rows of the Grand Canyon of the Co
dorado for distance of Is miles, or in
other words, if a man at one end
shouts "Bob" the man at the other
end can plainly hear the echo. The
whistle of Colorado steamer can be
heard from Ell Dorado canyon to Wea-
verville, the head of navigation, dis
tance of seventy eight miles, and by
tumbling rock over the precipice at
Lees Ferry, you can plainly hear the
echo down the river at Werverville, a
distance of SO miles.