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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

First National Bank, Seaford, Tues
day elected as directors, Joseph Neal,
Joshua II. Marvil, Isaac K. Wright,
Philip L. Cannon, David j. Fooks John
II. Kinder, William Il. Records, George
w. Emery and James Il. Dutton. The
directors elected the following officers :
Philip L. Cannon, President, Daniel j.
Fooks, Vice-Presideut; H. w. Baker,
Cashier; George H. Shipley, Teller
Madison WIllin, Assistant Teller. A
semi-annual dividend of 8 per cent was
declared
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

Grand Chancellor William II. Lincoln
and staff installed the following officers
elect of Friendship Lodge, K. of p,
last Tuesday: Chancellor Commander,
G. w. McCaulley; Vice. Chancellor, j.
r. Simmons; Prelate, John A. Orr;
Master Of work, w. W. Sitter; Keeper of
Recorps and Seal, Thomas II. Buckley;
Master of Exchequer, Robert Nc.
Caulley; Master OF Finance, James p.
Green; Master ral-Arms, Lewis 9. Grubb.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11
Street and Sewer Matters.

At the meeting of the Board of Street
and Sewer Directors on Tuesday it was
decided to lay sewer on Second street
from Tatnall to West, and on West
street between Scond and Third. The
board granted number of sewer per.
mits,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

John A. Hanf and Miss Emma P.
Morine were married Tuesday at the
parsonage of st. Stephens Church by
the Rev. Lewis j. Bickel. Harry
Morine was groomsman and Miss Katie
Hanf bridesmaid.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

Mrs. Belle Wright, who removed to
Sharon Hill, Pa, about six months ago,
has returned to this city and engaged in
the dry goods business at the southeast
corner Of Eighth and Pine streets.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

ELKToN, Nd, Jan. 9.-Mary Short,
daughter of Elisha Short, of this
vicinity, died recently and was inferred
at Boulden's Chapel, silk dress of her
mothers having been used as shroud.
The mother was soon afterward taken
i'll, and not improving, was told that it
wason account of her dress having been
used as shroud and that as the dress
decayed SO would the health of the
owner fail. Superstition overcome her
and the father, with the aid of the
sexton, John Clark, exhumed tine body
aud changed the dress. 1t is said the
mother is getting we'll. -......
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11
AFTER THE PEACH WHAT :?
Something Profitable Should
Take Its Place.
PEARS, APPLES, CORN OR WHEAT
Tobacco Might Be Tried with
Chances of Success.

An Able Paper Read by DR.. Henry
Hidgeiy Of Dover, President of the PEN
insula horticultural Society, at the
Society's Animal Meeting, ro-day--some
Valuable Suggestions to Farmers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11

The Jackson & Sharp Company recently
shipped nine passenger coaches and four
baggage cars 10 the Jacksonville, St. Au-
gustine d. Indian River railroad.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-11
FIRE At THE FAIR GROUNDS
Exhibits in the Big Manufac-
turers Building Ruined.
THE LOVELY PERISTYLE IS GONE
Music Hall and the Casino
Also Destroyed.

One Fireman Killed and Two Injured
While Fighting tho Elames-RussIanI
French and British Exhibits In the
Manufacturers Building Suffer Great
Damage.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
CURIOUS EPITAPHS.

One of the most remarkable and confus-
ing epitaphs ever written is to be seen on a
weather beaten stone in the quiet church
yard of Culmore, few miles from London
derry, Ireland:
"Here lies the remains of Thomas Mich
oils, who died in Philadelphia, March,
1873. Had he lived, he would have been
buried here
This is equalled perhaps, by an epitaph
from a tombstone in Ulster, recently copied
by traveller in that country:
'''ro the memory of Thomas Kelley, who
was accidentally shot by his brother as a
mark of respect"
Another curious epitaph is legible on a
tombstone in the church yard of Wood
bridge, Suffolk, England:
Here lies the body of
Benjamin BrinlSey,
Who though Lustic and
Strong. was one
That by misfortune, Shot
Himself With II Gun
In the sd year of his Age
He departed this Life
To the Grief of his Parents,
Spectators and Wife"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
More than Ever Attractive.

Pcrryville Record. Oct. "a.
Our esteemed neighbor, the CECILWHIG,
is truly subject for congratulations, and
we most cordially extend our heartiest.
In entering upon the fifty-third year of
its publication, the WING celebrated the
occasion by making its appearance last
Saturday, the Goth. inst, in a new form
and a new dress. and in so doing inaug-
urates new departure in county journal
ism As a county newspaper the WING
has always stood in the front rank, but,
not content with this distinction its enter
prising proprietor has now placed it in the
lead.
In its new form our contemporary will
be more than ever attractive in appearance
and convenient in size. The arrangement
and classification of its different depart
ments, and the matter contained therein,
will render it much more pleasing to its
readers and at the same time more profit
able to its advertisers. In this special
edition the WING appeared as sixteen
page paper, hereafter it will consist of eight
pages, folded, pasted and trimmed, with
six columns of matter on each page.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Neat and Artistic.

Middlctown Transcript, Oct. 2G.
The CECIL WING came out last Satur-
day in a brand new outfit: new type, new
form, new makeup, and 50 entirely
changed that its old friends and admirers
hardly knew it. 1t celebrated the dawnin2
of its tifty-third year in a special edition OF
sixteen pages, and its neat and artistic
Typography indicates not only well equip
ped office but sllllful workmen as well;
while the editorial and news columns have
the old time ring which proves that though
the outward form may change, the spirit
remains the same. The WING is entitled
to the first rank among peninsula papers.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
A Complete Plant.

Newark Ledger, Oct. q.
The CECIL WING, published at Elkton,
Md, celebrated its tifty-fourth anniversary
by issuing special edition of sixteen pages
on Saturday last. The makeup of the
paper has been changed from four to eight
pages, and printed entirely from new type.
A folder, paster and cutter has been added
to the press room, which makes the
mechanical department of that paper the
completest in the State outside of Balti-
more city.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Attractively Gotten Up.

Bel Air Times, Oct. 20.
The CECIL WING appeared last Satur-
dav in a new and tasteful dress and in a
new FORM the pages being smaller than
heretofore and increased to sixteen in num-
Der. 1t is attractively gotten up, and con-
tains large amount of well edited news
and miscellaneous reading matter. The
WING is one of our most valued exchanges
and has our best wishes for longc0ntinued
usefulness and prosperity.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
More Handy and Convenient.

Middlctown New Era, Oct. 20.
The Elkton CECIL WING comes to us in
a new and much improved form. Instead
of the large, cumbersome, unwieldy quarto
it is changed to an octave form, more handy
and convenient. The WING evinces unmis-
taxable signs of prosperity, as it also made
its appearance in a new suit. 1t looks neat
and tasty.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
A New Departure.

Baltimore Sun, Oct -.
The CECIL WING has made a new depart
ture by coming out this week with sixteen
pages instead of in its accustomed blanket
sheet folio form. The Typography and
general makeup of the issue are higly
creditable, and its printing implies the
possession of a first rate mechanical equip
ment The extent and variety of the
advertising indicate also that the business
of the WING is prosperous.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Greatly Improved.
North East Star, Oct. q.

North East Star, Oct. z.
The CECIL WING has changed its make
up from a blanket sheet folio to a conven-
iently sized quarto, and has donned new
dress. This is an evidence of prosperity
and enterprise that we are gratified to see,
and we congratulate the WING corps, from
editor-in-chief to the devil, npon the
greatly improved appearance of their val
ued journal. Every advance made by one
newspaper furnishes an incentive to others
and the public is the gamer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03

Cecil Democrat, Oct. p.
Our neighbor, the CECILWHIG, appeared
last week in sixteen page edition with an
entire new dress From this time the
WING will appear regularly as an eight
page paper, much after the style of the
Philadelphia Ledger The departure of
our friend marks an era in Cecil journalism
and thus pays tribute to the energy and
enterprise of the editor and proprietor, Mr..
Torbert, while the appearance of the paper
is credit to his taste. We offer our con-
CALCULATIONS upon this evidence OF our
neighbours prosperity
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
In the Highest Degree Creditable.

Kent News, Oct. y.
The CECIL WING comes to us in its new
form and new dress. The form is in six
teen pages and the Typography and make
up in the highest degree creditable. Col.
Torbert is an experienced and able journal
list and withall clever and popular gentle
man, and now, having the aid of his son,
will make the WING even better than
before.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
A Good Newspaper.

EastOn Star, Oct. ..
The CECIL WING, published at Elkton,
came out in an entirely new dress last Sat
urday, making it possibly the neatest look
ing journal published on the shore. Besides
its new dress of type, it has changed from
a four to an eight page page paper. The
WING is good newspaper and one the
people of Cecil county should be proud Of
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03

event by coming out in a new outfit of
type. Everything, even the head and Wig
nette,is new, and the paper presents a hand
some appearance. The style has been
changed from folio to octave. We extend
to the WING our heartiest congratulations
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Well Equipped and Thrifty.

Smyrna Times, oct. a.
The CECIL WING came to us on Saturday
with eight pages or in this case sixteen,
being an extra edition. instead of the usual
folio form The Typography of the WING
is excellent and the makeup indicates a
well equipped and thrifty paper.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
One of the States Leading County Jour
nails

Harre de Grace Republican, Oct. 26.
The CECIL WING has changed its form
from four-page to an eight-page Sheet
and commemorated the change by appear
ing last Saturday in an entire new outfit,
and also issued an extra edition of eight
pages. The WING is one of the State
leading county journals 1t is clearly and
ably edited by Mr.. Henry r. Torbert, and
his son. Victor NJ. Torbert and its success
is only commensurate with its deserts.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
THE NEW WING.
Meets the Approval of the General
Public.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Its Readers Appreciate the Papers I'm
proved Form and Convenient
Arrangement.
Credit TO its Publishers.

Aberdeen Enterprise, Oct 25
The CECIL WING surprised its readers
paper instead of thirty-siX column as
heretofore. Besides it had new dress of
type and the general appearance of the
the WING continue in its prosperity.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Fair and Candid,

Centreville Observer, oct. %
The CECIL WING came to us last week
changed from four to eight pages and Il
new dress of type throughout. 1t presents
a handsome appearance. The WING is one
of our most valued Republican exchanges
giving the news in concise form, and its
editorial utterances are fair and candid.
We wish it renewed prosperity.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Very Complete.

Oxford Press, Oct. 25.
The CECIL WING has changed its form
from folio to an eight page issue. The
new paper has neat dress of type, head
letter, and the various departments are full
of local and general news. The departure
is very complete.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Pleased with the new Wing.

WILMINGTON, DEL. Oct. ~, 1904.
l am much pleased with the new WIG
and recognize in it striking evidence of the
steady progress of old Cecil.
Yours very truly, -
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
ENstOn Lndger. Oct. ..

The CECIL WING, one of Elkton's most
readable papers, has entered upon its fifty
third year in new dress and changed form
the pages being increased in number and
decreased in size. Last weeks issue was
an excellent paper of sixteen pages
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
A Handsome Appearance.

Baltimore Herald, Oct. -.
The CECIL WING has entered upon it's
fifty-third year, and has celebrated the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03

Furniture

ut the lowest prices. either city or country
Large Ovcr-stuficd Brocatelle Suits, were $50,
now $50.
Imported Rug Suits, were SO, now SO.
Mohair Plush Suits, were $40, now So.
Hair Cloth Suits, S?5 and $50.
Antique Oak and Birch Chamber Suts-scven
pieces, Sls, so, SO and $50, and up.
Six foot Oak Extension Tables, $50.
Eight foot Oak Extension Tables, $500
Ten foot Oak Extension Tables, $50.
\ large display of all kinds of Furniture in
stock to be sold at
rs Per Cent Less than
ormer Prices.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-11-03
Marks an Era in Cecil Journalism

Yours very truly,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15
The Future of Silver.

In the recent withdrawal of Sena-
tor John P. Jones, of Nevada, from the
Republican party, those persons who
believed that with the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase clause cur
rency legislation came to along stand
still have been supplied with a subject
for serious consideration. Senator
Jones Is one of the ablest men in public
life. Upon his special subject of free
silver coinage he ii a walking encyclo-
pedia of patiently acquired and extra
ordinarily ample knowledge. 1t is not
credible that he should lave taken
the step which he did take without
careful thought and deliberation. We
do not doubt that he feels disappointed
with the Republican party's course re :
garding silver as money metal; and
that, in this feeling, he is representative
of large number of earnest and con-
scientious men throughout the west,
men heretofore in sympathy with Re
publican principles and glad to be en-
rolled among the volunteer soldiers OF
the Republican cause.
We do not find provocation to flip
pancy in the loss Of comrades like
these. We cahnot bring ourselves
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

Ohio Democrats are in quandary. The
friends Of Senator Brice say that II the
Democratic state convention next week
adopts resolutions censuring him for his
course against the Wilson bill he will at
Gratis one vote in the senate, as Governor
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

The election in Maine of every Repub-
lican candidate for state senator and all
but four members Of the state house OF
representatives is hint to Pennsylvania
that should not be forgotten In the Twen-
tieth senatorial and four Lackawanna
legislative districts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

There is renewed talk of a new paper in
Wilkes.Barre, to champion Democ ratio
principles, but In view Of the coming
deluge it would clearly be money wasted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

in Potter county timber lands
has as good a right to make
a profit as has the English capi-
tai invested in Canadian timber
lands. We would prefer, any day,
to see an American industry prosper
rather than foreign industry, If it is
necessary that either should suffer.
Let Canada take care Of herself. We
live in America. Our markets and our
interests are here. The duty of Amer
lean legislation is to look after the well
fare of Americans. Canada's interests
should be secondary consideration.
If the removal of the duty on lum-
Der shall make some homes cheap, 1t
will just as surely make other homes
dear. The thousands of men in the
northeastern counties of Pennsylvania
whose sole means of livelihood is con-
nected with the prosperity of the
American lumber trade will not be
comforted, in the hour of that indus
ty's depression and of their own idle
ness, by the reflection that some fellow
workman, in another state, saves a
dollar or two on pile of raw lumber.
The same hand that is raised to strike
the lumberman may at any moment
descend upon the other workingman,
crippling him, too, in his opportunities
for gaining livelihood.
In the matter of coal the Record has
been refuted by its own party which,
with all its concessions to syndicates
and trusts, at the last moment did not
dare to say to the coal producers of
America: "We are Indifferent to you
and you welfare, we prefer the well
fare of the coal producers of Nova
Scotia" The Democratic party, in
repudiating reciprocity, destroyed its
one chance of securing a special field
for the Pennsylvania product in Lower
Canada" It wanted to give Canada
everything and ask Canada for moth
ing in return. The Canadian duty on
American bituminous coal is not fixed
at Washington, unfortunately, ,butat Of
tawa. 1t is our humble belief, founded
upon some know ledge Of conditions
hereabouts, that the Lackawanna coun-
ty miner would rather have the fuel Of
the Atlantic seaboard mined in Penn
sylvania than to have it mined in Cape
Breton; he would rather get the wages
for mining it than to have those wages
paid to Canadian half breeds and
Canucks.
We are glad, in conclusion, that the
'cat" is tout of the bag"-if thereby
the Record means that this newspaper
is for home interests first-and we are
not at all ashamed of having let the
animal out. We do not find it neces =
sary in making political arguments to
assume that "the great corporations
which turn the wheels of Lackawanna
county's industries and provide the
only employment there is for thous-
ands of Lackawanna county's citizens
are necessarily a pack of bandits and
eXtortionists; but even il we believed
that they were all Of this, we should
still trust ourselves to home bandits
and home extortionists in preference to
being "held up" by the corporation
bandits of some other country. We
think, if the worst came to the worst,
that we could make better terms with
the robbers that we know, and are
neighbors to, than we could with entire
strangers, who want to spend their
stolen riches in a foreign cline.
Mr., Singerly's arguments is that of a
socialist. 1t is unworthy the man
and the theme.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

The ESTEEMED Washington Post
should beware of the explanation gun.
1t is generally loaded.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15
An Awkward Straddle,


1t is an interesting fact that no Dem.
ocrat has ever been a candidate fol
congress in this district upon the ma.
tional platform of his party. The mo.
ment one is nominated, he rushes pell
nell to the newspapers with the in.
formation that he is just as good a
protectionist as the other fellow, only
he daren't say SO with quite so much
emphasis. Mr.. Amerman, it will be
recalled, treated the Eleventh district
to one of these bluffs; and had nc
sooner taken his seat at Washington
than he was bobbing up to vote fol
free wool.
Judge Merrifield says he is a "Pro-
lection Democrat" The exact mean
ing of this is, we suppose, that he is in
favor of protection law but opposed
to its enforcement. If he is protec-
ZIONIST, he is by so omuch no Democrat if
he is a Democrat, he is by so much no
protectionist. The two things are as
different as day is from night. There
is no honest compromise between
them. A shifty band of political pres
tigiators may try to make the people
believe that they can successfully ride
the two horns Of this dilemma,
but the artifice is a thin one. Democ
racy means war to the knife on all
vestiges of protection. Soits platform
says and so its orators proclaim, in
those districts where it isIyet the fash
ion to tell the truth. He that is not
for protection is against it. He that
is againstit cannot be for it.
Judge Merrifield is personally too
honorable gentleman to willingly
place his party in the indefensible
position of straddling this question.
1t is his custom to speak out plainly,
himself; and before he signifies his
formal acceptance of last Tuesdays
compulsory nomination he ought, in
justice tothe party behind him, to tell it
fatty that he is protectionist, and
therefore, to that extent Republican,
and that he will only consent to re-
main upon the Democratic ticket upon
he expressed understanding that il
an not get genuine Democrat to
lake the nomination, This might not
improve bis chances Of election, but it
would preserve his honor and conserve
his self respect.
1t would also obviate a most awk-
ward straddle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15

around to the radical belief that they
are less honest and less patriotic than
the inhabitants of other states. From
our standpoint they are mistaken
judged at this distance they have acted
unwisely. But we will not wantonly
abuse them for it. We prefer instead
to ask them II they perceive at any
point in the chain of Democraticevents
such a superior knowledge of states
manship and such ripper capacity for
enlightened political action as would
justify them in weakening the cause of
Republicanism by desertion which
must inevitably aid the other side.
Let it even be assumed that the masses
of the Republican party today enter
tain beliefs inimical to free coinage. Is
the prospect of continued Democratic
administration more auspicious for the
prosperity of the silver states than the
return to power Of intelligent and rea-
sonable Republicans, upon whom
manly argument and rational eXplana-
tion are seldom lost?
The position of the great majority of
the rank-and-file of the Republican
party upon this coinage question may
be expressed without recourse to be-
wildering figures or recondite discus.
sion. 1t is one not of preconceiyed
hostility to silver, but simply of pro-
found regard for the honor and stabil-
ity Of currency "every dollar of
which, in the forceful words of Gen.
eral Harrison, "shall be the purchas-
ing equal of every other dollar" and
have behindit, if necessary, the equiva-
lent of dollar in real value. We, in
the east, do not believe it to be feasible
to open the nations mints to the silver
of the world; but few of us are so in =
sincere in our devotion to protection
as to wish i'll fortune to come to
the silver produced in American
mines by American capital giving en-
ployment to American labor. The
use of silver as money metal, up to
the limit of the safety of the national
credit and up to the limit of the SOL
vency of the American treasury, is
conceded to be wise, right and proper;
but we submit, for the consideration
of our western friends, that this limit
will be sooner reached under Demo
cratic supremacy than it will be under
the wise control Of experienced and
prescient Republican statesmen, to
whom the formulating of progressive
financial legislation is not an impos.
sible task.