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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

The labor vote has disappointed the
Democrats all over the country. Con-
trary to their expectations SO generally
INDUCED before the recent Congress
sional elections, that vote has been
thrown either for republicans who were
pronounced protectionists, or for men
who were known to be opposed to
Democratic free trade. That doc
trlne" said George H. Thoebe the labor
candidate who in all probability will con-
test Speaker Carlisle's alleged election,
won't 60 down with the working men,
The labor party in Morrison's district
voted solidly for John Baker, the Re-
publican candidate for Congress, be-
cause the tariff question was made the
main issue of the campaign, and they
voted for the man whom they thought
would best represent their interest. So,
too, in Virginia, the labor vote was for
tariff candidates. Politicians of both
parties were surprised at the result, fol
no one really knew where the solid
labor vote would. Now they do know
1t IS for the tariff every time, and hence
forth the men who shape legislation viii
have to do so in accordance with the
best interests of labor, which has now
found its voice and has spoken anc
acted with wisdom.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

scandal loving and gossip seeking null
titudes who constitute the mass oftheir
readers Mr.. Cleveland very truth
fully and forcibly says that, mo public
officer should desire to check the ut
most freedom of criticism as to all Off
cial acts, but every RICH thinking man
must conCede that the President of the
United States should not be put beyond
the protection which American love OF
fair play and dccency accords to every
American citizen. This trait of GU!
national character would not encourage,
if their extent and tendency were fully
appreciated, the silly mean and COW
ardly lies that are every day found In
the columns of certain newspapers
which violate every instinct of Ameri
can manliness, and in ghoulish glee
desecrate every sacred relation of pr
vate life. Every intelligent man anc
woman appreciates the necessity fo
some correction of a practice, which too
frequently disgraces American journal
ismr The Presidents rebuke of thi
practice is quite as deserved as it i
timely.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

The friends of Carlisle have pro-
posed a scheme to insure him seat in
the next Congress should it turn GU,
that Thoebe has valid ground upon
which to base contest. The plan IN
such an emergency is for Carlisle, who
has secured the certificate of election,
to resign and the Governor of Ken
lucky to order special election to fill
the vacancy. Then the rest of the
programme is to beat the bushes
throughout Carlisle's backwoods coun-
ties, scare out all the Democratic moss
backs and give him majority that
cannot be questioned. This is an in
genious idea, and we harbor no doubt
that the election judges would return
any majority the Democratic managers
might require.-Er.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
DEMOCRATIC DEVICES.

A Scheme to Capture the senate-Two Sem
ators to be Manufactured-Leanin Upon
Broken Reed.
WASHINGTON Nov. 9-The Democrats
are playing big bluff game. They have
everything to gain by capturing the SEN
ate next year, and think by gently pat
ting Riddleberger on the back and cover
ing him with tatfy and caresses now that
they can win him over to them. But
never has Riddleberger been worse treat
ed than by the Democrats, and it is hardly
likely that he will listen to their siren
calls, only to find them falser and more
hollow than the alluring maidens of old.
But it is the game of the Democrats to
capture RiddIeberger. Tney have a
scheme which they are working for next
session. 1t is not very well remembered
that last session the Senate passed bill
to admit Washington Territory as state.
This DILL went to the House. Washing
ton Territory has elected a Democratic
delegate tor some time past, and it is
thought that once given the privilege Of
electing state Legislature, it would elect
a Democratic one, and thus secure two
more Democratic senators. Should the
House call up this BILL with its forty two
majority the Democrats think the bill
could be passed and the two senators
elected and seated by the time of the as
sembliDg of the Fiftieth Congress. This
1 l.. a.
with Rlodleberger to win over. Should
the House pass the admission bill for
Washington, the President, of course,
would sign it; but then 1.-THE best-laid
plans of mice and men aft gang a glee,"
for now comes the report from Indiana
that the Republicans have carried that
state and legislature. Indiana statesmen
who ale coming here say that Senator
Ben. Harrison is a fair and straightfor-
ward man. and would not stoop to fraud
or corruption; but, when he has fairly
won by the ballot and knows it, nothing
can prevent his seeing that fair play is
dous. Senator Harrison, it is said, knows
exactly where the Democrats are trying
to count him out, and he is prepared for
them; and before long it will be seen that
if the Democrats are counting on his
pldC6 IOf DetuOCFaG, Lney Will Uo lelC.
One of the most ludicrous things in this
vain attempt to throw the Senate into
Democratic hands is the talk about Sen
ator Van Wyck acting with the Demo
Gratis. If anything can make Van Wyck
mad, it is to say he is conniving with or
aiding the Democrats. Once when a
friend called on him and asked him about
the rumor that he was siding with the
present administration, he said: Il would
rather be buried by an avalanche of de-
feat than vote with the Democrats or up
hold the Democratic administration. |
am Republican and am true to Repub
lican principles" Those who know him
we'll say that there need be no fear as to
how Senator Van Wyck will vote when
the question of politics comes up. He 10
always with the Republicans. Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, is also trotted forth
in desperation as a doubtful senator, but
Senator Mitchell is and has always been
a true Republican.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
School commissioners.

The Board met on Tuesday last. All
the members present.
Commissioner Biddle reported that the
black board for school at Cayot's Corner
has been completed.
The contract awarded to l.. II. Medairy
& Company was extended to two years
from January LIST, 1887.
Miss NJ ,ggie Jackson, assistant in No.
l, Seventh district, rendered her resigna-
ton, which was referred to Commissioner
| Eyerist.
The resignation of o. 0. Saylor, teacher
of No. 5, Seventh district, was accepted.
Mr. r. Watts resigned as teacher of
No. 4. Eighth district, and was confirmed
as teacher of No. 5. Seventh district.
The bill for coal and outhouses for st.
Augustine school, amounting to $33 50,
was referred To Commissioner BIddle.
the Treasurer was ordered to pay Jas.
J. McCanley Tor surveying plats for
school houses at Cayot's Corner, Chesa-
peake City, Audola and Elk Neck
amounting to SIP.
The resignation of Geo. G. Morgan as
trustee of school No. 4, FIRST district
was received and accepted, and Rober,
Anderson aud Daniel A. jones were ap
pointed TIT stees for same school. j. g.
Price was appointed trustee for n. 2
FIRST district.
Mr.. Bid@le was authorized to have the
lot at Chesapeake City properly fenced
and was directed to secure new desks fol
same school.
The bill OF George Shrader for diggins
well and putting in pump at chesapeake
City, amounting to 1872. was ordered tt
be paid, and Commissioner Blddle Wal
authorized to have the cellar floor o
Chesapeake City school cemeuted
The Treasurer was ordered to ply t.
f. S. Sentman 81, 900 on account of nev
school house at Perryvile.
Mr.. Blddle reported that he could no
obtain lot from Mr.. M.ers, nea
Crouch's Chapel, and the whole matte
was referred to Commissioner Blddl-.
The bill of David Scott. deceased, wa
referred to the Treasurer, with authorlt
-, to settle the same.
The Board adjourned to meet on tn
DC h instant,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

WHEN the doctors disagree to whom
can you appeal, unless to sensible PEG
Pile. The Baltimore SIN whose devo-
ton to old fashioned Democratic ideas,
is generally conceded, endorses Presi-
dent Cleveland for his excoriation OF
scurrillous newspaperdom, while on the
other hand the New York W0rld,
thinks Mr.. Cleveland is dyspeptic,
and is wrong in betraying his personal
annoyance at newspaper criticism.
eve are sorry to find President Cleve-
land still fretting and worrying over
what he supposes to be very bad treat
ment on the part of the press. 1t is
surely an unfortunate sign when gen.
tleman invited to dinner at college
drags in his personal annoyance at the
conduct of newspapers 1t foreshadows
bad digestion. Really, We cannot see
any just ground for Mr.. Cleveland's
persistent and severe assaults upon the
press. 1t is true he was badly treated
during the presidential contest. But
since his election the democratic and
mugwump organs have been lavish Of
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

The situation in Congress ought to
suit every Republican, who takes a
proper view of it. The tendency will
be in favor of Republican harmony, on
account of the narrowness of the Dem
ocratic majority, while the responsibility
of legislation will also rest on the Dem
ocratic side. The demand now will be
made from the whole country for a
sensible reform of the tariff. There is
no doubt but this demand voices the
feelings of the majority of the people,
and especially of the labor element
which has voted with the Republican
party, because it believes that Repub-
licans will handle the tariff in the inter-
ests of American labor and not OF
British free traders. The tariff must
be reformed by Congress. The work
which was begun by the Tariff Com
mission of 1880 must be completed,
but it must be done by Republicans,
and not by Democrats. In this way
alone can the result of the present cleo
ton be attained and the Fiftieth Con-
gress accomplish the purpose for which
it has been elected.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
ORGANIZE FOR THE NEW LAW.

We urge a full attendance at the
meeting OF the Prohibition Committee
which is called for Tuesday. the 25d
inst, at II O'Clock A. NJ. Stated in a
few words, the situation in Cecil county
is simply this, with reference to the
LIQUOR traffic: If there is a better en-
forcement of the new law, which will
90 into effect on the first of January
next, than there has been of the pres
ent law, an increased sentiment will be
created in behalf of Prohibition. If
such is not the case, and the friends of
the new law let it 60 by default, either
from indifference, or lack of organized
support of it, they may rest assured that
we will have the license system restored
In the county before many months.
The whole question in the immediate
future hinges upon this issue Of enforce
ment. The friends of the law, there
fore, should see the necessity of strength
ening sentiment in its behalf, and every
section of the county should be fully
represented at Elkton on Nov. 23d.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

HERE is list of the jewelry which
Rev. Psalm Small bought, on credit, o.
the wicked Cincinnati jeweler whose
suits against him caused a scandal:
Soup ladle, fish knife, gravy ladle.
pie knife, berry spoon, butter knife
cream spoon. pickle fork, preserve
spoon, ice cream slicer, jelly spoon,
engraving above, ice cream spoons (I2)
ice cream dish (plated,) salad spoon.
ice cream plates (plated,) salad fork
fish fork, diamond locket.
The suits have been withdrawn, the
offensive remarks retracted and the
goods paid for. But it does seem odd
that self denying missionary should
want to indulge SO freely in the gauds
OF this wicked, not to say sinful, world.
-E,-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
FRESH EVIDENCE.

One of the oft-repeated objections
against prohibition is tie assertion that
it damages business locally, and drives
away from a community trade which
otherwise would contribute to the pros
perity of towns and villages. We have
always commended, and believe now, that
the contrary is the case, and that a
greater degree of substantial prosperity
can be attained in a community from
which the saloon has been banished
than IN one in which its pernicious in
huence prevails. But outside of the
argument to maintain this view, there
is ample evidence also to sustain it, and
we call the attention of the business
opponents of prohibitory laws to the
following, as indicative Of the salutary
business effect of prohibition in an ada
cent county.
Local Option In Kent County.
CHEsTERrowN, Md, Nov. Since
local option has been in effect in this
county Rock Hall, village in the lower
part OF Kent principally occupied by
fishermen and oystermen. has grown
most wonderfully. Scarcely is there a
man IN the village who does not own
his own house and lot. Then their har-
Dor was almost without sail, and all
the business done was by vessels hail
ing from Baltimore, while now as many
as 30 large-sized schooners, pungies
and sloops are owned and manned by
the citizens of Rock Hall. Rock Hall
can boast of two churches, 4 large
school-house, shoemakers shops, an
apothecary shop, doctors office, a
Knights of Pythias hall, canning fac
tory, giving employment to hundreds
of hands during the summer season,
boat builders, &c. There are four
stores, which are visited daily by drum
mers from Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York, and they say you would be
surprised to know how many goods
they sell there, and that they are able
to discount their own bills.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
A WE'LL MERITED REBUKE.

President Cleveland in his address at
Harvard College this week, took occa-
sion to express his condemnation Of
the recklessness of a certain class Of
newspaper reporters, who in search OF
startling personal items, violate every
canon of propriety and decency in their
mad scramble after sensational news.
The President has evidently become
wearied and disguised with the often
sive parade OF Mrs. Cleveland's name
in the newspapers. Presuming upon
the fact that she is the lady of the White
House, the President is compelled to
submit to an immense deal of news
paper rubbish about his family, written
by reporters who know that the dignity
of his Office prevents his resenting the
indignity of such publications, They
take 4 mean advantage of his official
position, to criticise and comment on
the habits, manners and appearance of
members of his household, knowing,
that they can risk published comment
on Mrs. Cleveland, which they would
no. dare indulge in the case of the wife
of any reputable private citizen. This
thing has become in this country not
only a public nuisance to the President
and his family, but to the family of every
prominent official in this country. There
is no reason why the wife of a govern
ment or state official should not be en-
titled to the same courtesy at the hands
of newspaper reporters, as the wife and
family of other citizens. Yet there
seems to have grown up an idea among
daily newspaper reporters, that there is
no limit to public criticism of them.
Public men expect their acts to be crit
icised, and the ambitions of their wives
frequently provoke justifiable newspaper
comment. But the liberty of fair criti-
cism is quite another thing from the
unbridled license too frequently in
dulged by city newspaper reporters in
their scandalous and sensational effu-
sions intended to satisfy and crafty the
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their praise. The independent demo-
cratic journals have criticised his pub
lie acts with friendly moderation, and
the fercest republican organs have not
been over malicious in their partisan
assaults on his administration. We
wish the President could get into bet
ter temper about the press, for we be-
lieve it would help his digestive organs
and improve his health"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISING RATES:

local matter Ten Cents line for single insertion
Mirage aud Death Notices inserted grafuifoEsiy.
Obituaries wiH be charged halt the usual rate OF
transient local matter.
Transient rotes-Eight cents q line for one, and
Four cents a line for erery additional insertion.
one inch Of space counted as Tseeire lines One
col ann, Eiue Dollars per inch, one year -Four
changes aioired to yearly advertisers withou add
tiO7Gi charge.
The circulation Of The Wing being among the most
Intelligent classes Of Cecil county and the adjoining
counties Of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delawdre,
1t proprietor confidently recommends it to Business
Men as a most desirable medium for remunerdfipe
advertising. To maintain its high standdrd as g
family Journal no offensive or Objectionable adrer
tisemenis lciH be admitted at any price.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

THE light of 'Libertys" torch has
already gone out, because no sppropri-
alton has been made to supply such a
beacon light for New York harbor. 1t
now looks as if the World will be COM
PEELED to supply electricity as well as
the cash for her. Let Mr.. Pulitzer take
up collection, the Government is too
poor to pay the bill.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13

The democrats having made mar
row escape with their majority in the
lower House, are trying to extract a
little comfort out of the fact that there
will be slight reduction in the Repub-
ican majority of the Senate. 1t would
be well, however, for them not to count
Senatorial chickens before they are
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
CURRENT NOTES AND COMMENTS

The Chicago Herald having teegraphed
the Hon. VIM. 4. Morrison the day after
the election asking how he had come out,
the distinguished tariff reformer re-
sponded laconcally: "Busted"'
4 man in Wisconsin was out hurting
and a shower came up. He put his hand
over the muzzls of his gun to keep the
powder dry when heavy clap of thunder
coming he voluntarily jumped. his knee
struck the hammer of the gun and his
hand was blown to pieces.
In a vacant lot on Westerd avenue, the
property of prominent Augusta GA
lawyer. signboard is erected on which
is inscribed the following legend. "All
persons passing through this lot are re-
quested to go round"
Alfred Smith, neat-loo ing and quiet,
hired out as a waiter at a hotel at Lake
Elmo, near St Paul, MINI. Soon he was
second steward, and was doing W sil, when
his room mate reported that he was wo.
man. 1t proved to be Matte Carpenter,
Rhode Island girl. She disappeared at
once.
A young woman wanted to know
(which is correct, two teaspoonfuls or
two teaspoonsful," is Informed by the
Boston Post "three fingers is about the
right thing" 1t is presumed that the
editor of the Post knows.
1t is stated that more than 1000 cattle
in Jasper and Christian counties, Indiana,
are afflicted with peuro- pneumonia, and
that the disease is spreading rapidly. The
malady was brought from Northern Onio
by spring calves nbout three weeks ago.
A very young lady in Cooper county,
Missouri. is said to have had the pleas
ure of attending the wedding of her
great grandfather. He Was 73 years of
age.
The Boston Transcript says: Stag is
rapidly demoraliziug our people. A beau
tiful and .tured young woman, the
other evening, i'll referring to the lustre
of her rich dress. remarked that it had
helped her in making no end of conquests.
i call it, she said, the mash sheen. be-
cause 1t has made SO many mashes.' This
is horrible.
The relationship of the members of
iouhiiy III NiOaihoiu Souppy, D., 10 oo
thoroughly tangled that some of the
children don't know their uncles from
their grandfather. This is due to the fact
that certain man and his Two Sons are
married to three sisters.
''You see" said An English gentleman,
who was handling his dinner with
wonderful appetite to a Scotchman din
ing at the same table, 81 ia Ike great deal
of butter TO my fish, "Ay,' said the
Scotchman. IAN deevilish deal o fish
to your butter, too!'
A remarkable illustration of the endur-
ing quality of human hair may now be
seen I'D the British Museum, where has
been placed wig lately found in tenn
pie at Thebes, which is supposed TO have
beeen worn by an Egyptian priest at
period not less than 3, 400 years ago.
Charles Warren, of Allumette Island,
has most industrious hen turkey. She
laid nest of eggs and Matched them out
last juno. The brood was taken from her
and she resumed laying again and hatch
ed out the second brood. When these
were two weeks old she began laying
al egg daily.
The charges at the IN iltby House,"
Baltimore, are surprisingly low for the ac
commodations furnished 1t is located in
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
Wanamaker'S.

Nisites and other wraps are
seal or persianer, which latter
means a certain sort of lamb
skin that comes to us from Rus
slave presume it is Persian
a very good skin with pretty
curly black short hair. The
shapes are many and various;
the trimming, natural beaver
and black, black lynx, black
marten and balls and drops and
fringes of seal. SIoo to S225.
No tails on fine fur garments
Fur-lined circulars, same as
heretofore, except they have
dropped to the role of carriage
wraps. They are very plain.
Sicilian silk with hare collar and
edge down front and lined with
hemster, squirrel, squirrel-black
and mink sable; $40 to 500.
Now and then a raglan, S35 to
sI75.
We stop at fur wraps today.
1903 Chestnut.
Silk seal:plush wraps SIS up;
coats S23 up; listers $40 up;
and raglans $50 up.
1901 Chestnut second floor. Take car.
Long cloth wraps of all sorts
including that beautiful wonder
full English waterproof serge.
1901 Chestnut.
English fine fancy dress
cloths mostly 56-inch and $3.50
a yard; some 81; some s.. A
hundred styles, maybe two
hundred. Few such cloths are
found in this city outside; and
they at very different prices
sometimes.
| Southeast OF the center.
American fancy dress-cloths
not SO costly or rare or fine as
the English; the styles as many
perhaps; 81 to 81; generally
5o-inch or wider.
Southeast Ct the ce' ter.
Plenty of dress-stuffs are
down a peg or two.
A German serge cut into
half-inch squares by single
threads of bright silk; a SI.2:
stuff for 81; 42-inch. The silk
shows little more than a broker
line of stitches and dots. The
principal colors and black.
A German armure cut into
halfinch stripes by two-thread
lines of two-color silk; a SI.Ij
stuff for 81; 42-inch.
A German zig-zag twill cut
into half-inch squares by color
stripes of silk and wool; resem-
bling the last but softer;a SI.2 5
stuff for I; 42-inch.
American serge cut into half:
inch stripes by single threads Of
bright color; a Coo stuff for
5oc: yard-wide.
American pin-check cloth,
both pin-check and mixture, a
little way off the checks become
mixtures, 52-inch; ST stuff for
75c.
American plaid over pin
checks. 52-inch; a ST. stuff for
75c.
Frowsy diagonal, 4S-inch; a
$I.25 stuff for 75c.
Diagonal frowsier still; gray,
covered with tangle of silver
hairs; a S. stuff for 6oc; So
inch.
Check and not check, OBJ
scure, coarse texture, frowsy
with golden hairs; a S. stuff for
ooc; 54-inch.
Must stop somewhere.
| Southeast OF the center.
JOHN WANAMAKER. ,
| Chestnut Thirteenth and NJ arket strssts
| and Civ hall square.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
ELKTON, NOVEMBER 10, 1886.

The latest returns from California
give the Democrats E majority in the
Legislature on joint ballot. The Re.
publicans carry four of the Congress
sional districts, and of the other two
one is doubtful.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-13
Saved from the burning.

The recent calamity AT Salisbury, Md :,
has its bright spots, like "Lh- cloud with a
silver Inning" aud it is IA pleasant thing TO
know that III such fearful conf tgration
anyth hing could he saved. The specie and
funds of the bank, the books and valuables
nt many of the leading merchants. passed
securely through the great blaze protected
by the well known Farrell Il Herring Pat
ent Safes, which cannot DO too highly com
IN ended for their services.