The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-12-13

r ley Harvey, Enoch Mccullough, John W
~ w. Mccullough, George w. McCullougl
e Victor Spear, d. McCorkle, Henry Whit
~ ley, w. Irving Walker, James Mal'on an
S. ID. Mccullough.
d Hon. Clinton Mccullough, and DE-. Ii
s G. Mackall have been appointed by th'
!. Governor as delegates from Cecil county
r to the Southern Interstate Immigration
Convention which meets at Asherlle
!, North Carolina, on the 18th and lS5h lnStS
:, The Delegates from the state at large ar
Hon. Charles B. Roberts, Westminster
General FL. Kyd Douglass, Hagerstown
Hon. Levin L. Waters. Princess Anne
General William McKenny, Centreville
1t isn't often that good news kills any
body, but it seems that Alexander Bond
colored man of Centreville, Md, came very
near giving up the ghost on Monday last
when he received notice that arrearages o
pension amounting to S2,730, been granted
him. He was so overcome with excitement
that he came very near dying in the maSis-
trate's office. Restorativas had to he apph-
ed and he was carried home in a wagon. He
recovered sufficiently to sign the Proper
papers. The money will be paid in few
days.
james H. Manley a colored man for
merly of this town whe says he is Il
preacher of the Gospel, and who claims to
represent Christian church in Virginia,
| spoke in Odd Fellows Hall in this town on
Wednesday evening. The prejudice of the
white man towards the coIored brother was
the theme of his haran gue. The fact is
that such performances as Mr.. Manlys,
his niggernisms, and his hippant traffic in
anecdotes that illustrate the ignorance OF
his race serve more to keep alive tie race
prejudice than any causes we eau recall We
are sorry to be compelled TO speak so of
colored man born in Elkton, but we would
| be recreant to the truth, if We sad any
thing else about this so called lecture.
zone good cigar smoked after each meal
| says DR.. William A, Hammond, sis what
| may be called moderate use, and can rarely
intlict any damages to the system. The ex-
ceptions occur IN those persons of peculiar
| organization, impressionable and easily dis
| turbed by s;imulants, sedatives and mar
cotics. There are others, we know. in
whom cup of tea or of coffee or saucer
Of strawberries causes arrangement of some
one or more organs of the bod. Z, and others
with even more remarkable peculiarities,
so that it is not strange that there should
be individuals to whom tobacco is more or
less poisonous. Such instances, however,
are rare and do not conflict with the fore
going statement"
w. G. Bishop & Co, grain commission
merchants. of Baltimore, entered suit in the
United States Circuit Court on Monday by
n. Rufus Gill, Albert Richie and William
A. Hammond, their counsel, against the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Com pany, claiming $4,000 dam
ages for alleged violation of the interstate
commerce act The declaration charges
that the railroad company refused to trans
port from Nottingham station on the Cen
trail railroad to Baltimore, 4 carload of oat
straw consigned to w. G. Bishop & Co., al
though it was willing to transport it for
Parr & johnson. The business of the plain
ttfs. it is charged, has been greatly injured
by the action of the railroad III refusing to
transport any produce such as hay and
straw from any station in Pennsylvania to
Baltimore, unless it was consigned to Parr
& johnson, who were thereby given undue |
and unreasonable preference.
The football team from Washington |
College Chsstertown accompanied by other |
students and friends, went over TO Annapo- /!
lis on Saturday to play the return game, |
which was postponed from last week. Ii |
was dull day, and, shortly before the
game was called, the rain came down quite |
heavily. The weather, however, cleared up |
sufficiently to permit the game being play
ed. The result was disastrous for Wash.
ington College, as their team was outplay-
ed at every point from the beginning of he
game, The score was: St. Johns, 100; |
Washington, 0. This interchange of glmes
between the teams of the two sister colleges,
originally intended by their charter to con
stitute the University of Maryland, pro.
notes a reciprocity of sympathy and feeling
between these institutions which has not
been so apparent for many years. y course
of lectures on literary and scientific subjects
is being arranged by the faculty of St.
Johns which will be delivered before the
students during the elrly mnoths of the
coming ear.
Very many Of our readers remember
Captain John Linden, who at one time com
manGed one Of the vessels plying regularly
between Baltimore and Elk landing He
afterwards located in Baltimore where he
engaged in the Rio trade and after num-
Der of years service retired from business
altogether. Captain Linden never married
and last spring died, bequeathing his prop
erty, valued at S22 900, to build Marine
Hospital. The heirs consisted of Mr. josiah
Groves; formerly the owner of the Howard
Hoase, at Elliott City but now at Chicago
two children of the late William Groves,
two children of the late Ann Briscoe and
nine children of the late Mary Jones all of
whom lived at Elliott City, Nd. The will
was contested, and a decision reached in
favor of the contestants The net proceeds
of his property distributed among his heirs
to SIT 900; the balance having
been applied to cancelling an obligation
made by the Captain during his lifetime.
The heirs this week received their distribu-
tive shares of the property.
Col. Samuel a. Graham, a leading
member of the WicOmico County Bar for
many years, died at his residence on Cam
den avenue, Salisbury, on Monday night, of
paralysis. Colonel Graham was born at
Carlisle, P:, of Scotch ,rentage, NOvem
Der 30th, 1928. He received good educ,-
ton in his native State, and at the age of
twenty-five he was elected principal of the
old Salisbury Academy in 1850, and began
his career as teacher. He has resided in
Salisbury ever since. He taught the S alis.
bury Academy for five years, and in the
meantime read law under George l.. Collier
a brother of DIR. L. d. Collier. In 1865 he
was admitted to the bar, and in 1857 he was
elected prosecuting attorney of Somerset
county (Wicomico being then part of Som
erset) by the American party. At the
breaking out of the war he joined the Union
army entering Company ID, of PnrpelI
Legion, with the rank of Captain. He WAS
soon afterward promoted to the rank of Col
onel. During his war service he was ar
Antietam, South Mountain and the battle
of the Wilderness. When General Grant
was elected President of lhe United States
in 1869, he appointed Colonel Graham asses
sor of internal revenue in this district
Colonel Graham's next appearance in ppb
lie was in 1876, when he became the Repub
lican candidate for Congress in the FIRST
District. He was defeated by the Hon. d.