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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
WELCOMING A PASTOR.
A Reception TO Rev. A. S. MOwbray by
the Members of the ElktOn
NJ. E. Church.

The members of the Elktou NJ. L. Churc
rendered Rev. A. $. Mowbray, their me-
pastor, a pleasant and gratifying receptio
at the parsonage on Wednesday evening Th
affair was one OF much social enjoyment an
was largely attended
Among those present We're:
Mrs. Teresa Crouch, Miss Emma Hogg,
Ms. q. V. Perkins, Christie Thackery,
Mrs. Jacob Dean, Mary Terrell,
Mrs. WnI. q. Mercy, Hattie Terrell,
Mrs. Jos. Hinchlifre Mary Walmsley,
Mrs. james Scott, Amanda Ford,
Mrs. VIM. Watson, Addie Ford,
Mrs. j. E. Alexander. Mamie Ellis.
Mrs. Henry Cleayes, Mollie Mccoy,
Mrs. Annie Lang. Grace Wells,
Mrs. John Dean, Lidie Alexander,
Mrs. Howard Bratton, Charlotte Ash
Mrs. Lydia Greenfield Annie Person
Mrs. VIM. j. Smith, Mary Budd,
Mrs. Geo. Witworth, Lizzie Shockley,
Mrs. Rich'd Maxwell, BERTHE White,
Mrs. Harry Larzalere, Clara Merritt,
Mrs. Brennan, Lydia Alrich,
Mrs. B1uchellc, Mary Alrich,
Mrs. William Silk, Marie Perkins,
II. Frank Witworth, Mary Smith,
Mrs. Wltworth, Helen Larzalere,
Frank p. Price. Helen Hague.
Mrs. Price, Henrietta Hague.
Daniel Harvey. Adelaide Taylor,
Mrs. Harvey, Emma Hughes,
Henry VinsinSer, Alice Perkins,
j. Will Perkins. Nan Smith,
William j. Alrich, Gertie Smith,
George Ricketts,, Stella Smith,
Harvey Ricketts,, Jennie Reaey,
Wesley Reynolds, Katie Realey,
G. j.. Alexander Addie Realcy
Howard Ash, Bertha Witworth,
Eddie Alexander, Ella Witworth,
Fred Lelfler. Mary Ford,
Fred Lewis, Matte Dean,
Fred Ludwig. Edna Strahorn,
j. H. Terrell, Jennie Moore.
Joshua McCay, Laura Dill
Edwin Vinsinger, ANA Dean,
Andrew Dean, Mona Dean,
Ricketts, Nelson, Lula Brown,
Ollie Giles, Daisy Tuft,
Leon Blondon, Carrie Ricketts,
Harvey Mackey, Lou Ricketts,.
Clarence Perkins, Maggie Dean.
Harry Alr1ch. Erine Crouch,
John Clark, Lydia Terrell,
John Tuft, Eva Dean,
Winfield Lewis, Helen CuIeney,
Rudolph IuIl, Mabel Cullency,
Charles T.arzaere, Roberta Tull
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
]. Wesley Freeman,

j. Wesley Freeman, II we'll known citizen of
Elkton, died suddenly at his home on High
street. on Friday evening" March 20, in the
55th year of his age A wife and four children
survive him. Caleb Freeman, editor and
proprietor of the Middletown, Del, Mem Fra,
is Il brother of the deceased, and his father
was John Wesley Freeman, IA carpenter Of
this town. for years Il respected member/of
the Elkton NJ. Il. Church.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Mullen.

Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Mullen, wife OF Hugh g.
Mullen, died at her home in Elkton on Thurs
day morning, of pneumonia, aged 81 years.
She leaves eight children. Newton Smith
was "A son of the deceased The funeral will
take place at the house on Sunday at two
o'clock.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Killed at Perryville,

The mangled remains of an unknown white
man were found strewn along the p. W. Il b.
railroad tracks at Perryvile. at o'clock on
Thursday night. The man is supposed to
have been killed by the Washington and New
York express, northbound, due there at $50.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Orphans Court.

The Orphans Court for Cecil County was in
special session on Tuesday. The bond was
approved and an order passed for the sale of
personal property by A. J. Michener, admin
isttator. G. t. H. of james II. Headley.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Mrs. Hanna L. Belts.

Mrs. Hanna l.. Belts widow of Joseph
Belts, a native of this county, died on Friday,
March 49, at the residence of her son j. Man
Gill Belts, in Cincinnati. Ohio. Her remains
were brought east and inferred at Labaska,
Bucks county, Pa, on Tuesday. Mrs. Belts
maiden name was Hannah Scarborough, and
she was native of the Fourth district of this
county
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Clarence Frazer.

Clarence Frazer son of VIM. Frazer well
known citizen Of Cowantown in this county,
died at his fathers house from consumption
on Saturday the 30th, i'll his twenty second
year. His body was buried at head of Chris
tiana Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. I
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Stanford Dewberry.

Stanford Dewberry died at the residence of
his son-in-law George Davis, near Waterford.
Third district, on Sunday night, of paralysis
aged rs years. The funeral took place on
Wednesday, interment at Bethel Cemetery.
He engaged in farming for many years
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
Amor Jenkins.

Amor Jenkins, II well-known farmer resid-
ing near Rock Springs, died on Saturday, of
typhoid pneumonia. He was in his 54th
year and unmarried. The funeral took place
on Wednesday, interment in the Baptist
burying grounds, near Rock Springs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06
DEATHS OF A WEEK.
Mrs, william Denver.

Mrs. William Denver died at her home near
funeral took place on Friday morning at nine
o'clock, interment in the Elkton Catholic
Cemetery.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06

that both Bodey and Weston knew it to be n
loosing venture when they enticed Cooper
into it knowing him to have considerable
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-06

The members of the Elkton NJ. E. Church
rendered Rev. A. $. Mowbray, their new
pastor, IA pleasant and gratifying reception
Mt the parsonage on Wednesday evening The
affair was one Of much social enjoyment and
was largely attended
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youth persistent enough and plucly enough to have won the title 'shero" had his valor been brought forward by less absurd occasion. The meetings of London's vast hordes of unemployed in Trafalgar square few years ago will be remembered by most newspaper readers. They were not interfered with until red-mouthed anarchists began to secure control of them. Then the po- lice were instructed to silence incen- diary orators. This resulted in what were enormously called the ssFree Speech Riots.n The young man who went up there with the placard and locks and chains was one of the many who believed them. The placard calls loudly for honest British worlsingmens right of free speech, and with the chains and padloclxs he securely fastened him. self to a stationary iron railing, so that the police had to get blacksmith be- fore they could remove. him. And while he stood there, chained by his own hands to the spot where he claimed to have a constitutional right to sta01, he shouted out long harangue.
 Many relics there be in the Black museum of Fenians in England, of the Fenian invasion of Canada and of the Fenian headquarters in New York. About one of the square pillars which support the roof stand of Fenian rifles helps lot of murderers' shotguns to fill q big gun rack, while at the end of the room Fenian uni form hangs limp at one end of table, guarded on the other end by the uni form of q London policeman of many years ago. A frame near by holds Fenian muster roll, issued from head quarters at No 10 West Fourth street, New York city. EDWARD MARSHALL.
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guess how any human being could plan and do them-and your left shoulder will very likely strike and set a-swinging a plain oak frame which holds the only two mementoes, save the pickled bodies and blood soaked victims clothes which the London police possess, of the most daring and amazing murderer this century has produced. They are a letter and post card written to the police by Jack the Ripper" announc- ing the dates of two crimes, butcheries which he had in mind. Both are writ ten in red, and the stains on the post card indicate that when he wrote it his hand was still wet with the blood of one of his miserable sacrifices. The stains are not red ink spilled-they are blood I tried to get permission to scratch off particle of the sanguinary stuff so that I might ask Dr. Edson of New York to analyze it by his new process and thus definitely determine whether it came from the veins of a human being or an animal, but failed. Many claim over here that the stains were deliberately smeared into the card by the sender, for sensational pur- poses. These are among the folks who believe the letter and card to have been written by a newspaper man for the sake of making talk, But this idea is rendered rather forceless by the facts that both crimes predicted by these ex- traordinary communications were com
  sharp on schedule time, so to speak and that man who could exhibit Jack the Ripper's inhuman coo1ness and bravado in taking human life would be unlikely to hesitate in case the fancy seized him to write a post card to the police while yet his hands were wet with blood, or, for that mat ter, in the very presence of new killed victim.
 As one turns from contemplation of this strange leaf out of the history of crime, he is confronted by a shelf which changes the current of his thought; which quite reverses its di- rection. There, against side wall, is row of plaster heads-ghastly coun- terfeit presentments of criminals who have not escaped, but who, having wickedly done murder, were, in turn. themselves justly done to death. That row of heads is not pretty sight. Spotlessly white is the plaster from which they were cast, but they are hor- ribly fit subjects for exhibition in the Black museum.
 Seven death heads there are in the grisly burden of this pine shelf-seven death heads, each tipped slightly to tn. right, as if they had been listening
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in appearance just as they were when in the hands of the anarchists. A few having exploded are represented only by packages of torn and twisted frag- ments. The most ingenious of the for mer is made so that it exactly resem- bles a large chunk of coal That which was found in the house of the duke of Bedford is, externally, merely Q tin can.
 Two brass bombs were found in pub lie place. One was unloaded and is now in the museum. The other was ex- ploded in the bomb room at Woolwich arsenal. It was surrounded by twelve dummies of human figures, and, after the explosion, each of these was found to have an average of thirty-seven frag- ments of brass in it. This illustrates the havoc that very little anarchy may work. The only really amusing
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thing in the whole museum is in this case. It is queer-shaped affair with a curving neck, and was found in front of the house of a very exalted person. Dismay was general, for it was taken for granted that it was bomb. Sub sequent investigation, however, devei- oped the fact that it was a model for a baby's feeding bottle. EA
 For one group of curios Scotland Yard is indebted to American inge- nuity. They are card sharpers' imple- ments, and were without exception taken from Americans. For the most part they are commonplace swindling tools of the ordinary professional gam bier, but one of them is so ingenious as to merit a brief description. 1t is a contrivance by which q player can con ceal four high cards up his sleeve, and, without making any of the suspicious motions for which his victims may be waiting project them into his hand at any moment The cards arc held, slightly separated from one another. in a little brass clasp. This is connected to q leather armlet, which buckles just be- low the elbow, by set of extensible steel joints planned on the same prin- ciple' as are the gates of many New
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between only two combatants, and no one believed that the confusion came from such source. It was the general theory that for some reason not known the murderer had wrought the havoc carefully and methedieally Every stick and splinter in that wildly wrecked room, every flower in the car pet, the pattern of the wall paper, even the one little broken pane in ono of the windows, is reproduced in miniature in box two feet by two, which was pre- pared for exhibition to the jury, and is now in the Black museum.
 But by far the most horrible murder relics in the places are mere photo graphs. The series tells the story of the murder of NJ. Gouffe in Paris by Ga- brielle Bompard and her aecomplice so we'll that memory has few gaps to fill in it. The Bombard woman was very beautiful and Gouffe became enamored of her. He called upon her in her room and declared his love. She told him to make his avowal on his knees. He did so. She sat, meanwhile, with her back close to the wall. As he knelt she casually picked up a girdle and holding it out toward him said playfully Gin substancel:
 Eff l thought you were not telling me the truth I would strangle you with this"
 He, in turn, jokingly told her to pro ceed. She, still smiling, dropped the girdle over his head, so that it hung around his neck. There the joke ended, for her aceomplice held rope which next room, and was attached to the girdle. While Gouffe was still smiling at the woman he loved the assassin drew the rope taut, and then jerking the victim up against the wall strangled him with the girdle. The interruptions pair, after robbing the dead man, cut his body into pieces and packed them in trunk, after having practically embalmed them. They then travelled over good part of Eu- rope, taking the trunk with them wherever they went. Finally they tired of this and shipped the trunk to a minor London railway station. 1t lay there for time unclaimed and un- opened, but the nature of it's contents was finally discovered and after most sensational trial both assassins were sent to the guillotine. The photo graphs in the Black museum show the murderers, the victim, the girdle, the trunk and each part of the dismem- bered corpse.
 On one table is curious leather bel lows, connected by rubber tube with
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THEY LEAN TO THE RIGHT.

queer little furnace and crucible, into which an iron pipe meant to carry gas also turns. The whole thing is beauti- fully made-it might well be the pet of model bakers heart. It impressed others than this present writer, too, for the scamp who owned it, before he went to prison, convinced one of the oldest and richest of London's Jewellers that with it he could transmute iron brass, or any other base metal into gold, and eventually swindled gullible folk, who were willing to believe that mod ern alchemist might succeed where those of bygone days had failed, out of something like thirty thousand dol lars.
 A facinating collection is in the case devoted to relics of James Peace, Eng lands most famous burglar. Peace worked in all for nearly ten years with out being captured, and he never bothered with small hauls. He always worked alone, and he was a dreadfully sharp thorn in the flesh of all the po- lice of England. The only disguises he used were spectacles of various kinds and goggles. Seven pairs are in the case. Once he lost a finger, and in such a way that the police knew of the mutilation, although they had no other way of identifying him. He guessed rightly when he guessed that consta- bles were then instructed to gather in, for questioning, at least, every man who was short one finger. But Peace, after that, was never short finger. Of course he could not replace the miss ing digit, so he posed as a man whose whole hand was missing. The false stump, which he made of wood, so that it would hide his hand, and from the end of which a hook projected, like Capt. Cuttle's,'' is one of the most in genious contrivances in the museum His ladder is another. It is made of wood so that it folds up compactly and forms bundle in appearance precisely similar to package of waste sticks which any poor person might be seen carrying about London without att tracting attention. Indeed. he prob ably assumed that this bundle helped him to look the part of an honest work ingman-a part which he ever played, for he announced after his arrest that he had never hidden that ladder in his life. He always carried it frankly under his arm. When opened it is long enough to reach from the ground to the second story of an ordinary house, and it is so built that by open ing one section the other sections open automatically. Peace could stand on the ground and force this thing quietly upto almost any window he wished to reach, climb in, rob the house, climb back again, close it and go away with a mere bundle of old wood under his arm.
 Another queer tool is that invented by a thief who worked until recently in the small public houses where they have no cash register and keep their change in q glass on shelf behind the bar. This fellow fixed up walking
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LONDON'S BLACK MUSEUM
The Greatest Collection of Crime
 Relics in the World.
Trail of Many Murders-RelIcs of Jack the Ripper and of London's Most Famous Burglar-An AIchemist's
 Furnace.
iCopYRIGHr. 1895. I

The most grewsome place in London is not some dark cellar where thugs and murderers plan the crimes they are to do; it is light, airy chamber, where are preserved the relics of the crimes that have been done-the Black museum, slowed away at the end of many winding passages, beyond many doors, hedged about by many regula- tions and restrictions, in a little corner of the great Scotland Yards police headquarters.
 Money will not buy a peep into its horrors. It is only on invitation of some high official in the force that one can gain an entry to it. Frequently not one visitor is admitted for many successive days. It is well that it is thus closely guarded, for were it open to the public. the lessons in crime which it's contents so vividly illustrate might teach those already ill., disposed to break the laws. In all the world there is not another room so strangely occupied. In all the world there is not another lot of exhibits which tell so terrible a story of de- prayed humanity-of murderers and
 
 thieves, of swlndlers, rioters, eranks and general scoundrels.s Men and women both are among those whose evil deeds it's strange curios celebrate, and from all nations have they come to Lon don to furnish articles for cataloguing in the Black museums grewsome list. America is well-or wickedly-repre- sented, and beside the New York knife or pistol may well hang the twisted dagger of the Malay or the delicate tools of burglar from the hands of Frances most expert rascals. l asked the very courteous attendant what human breed was most generously rep resented in the glass cases and on the hanging shelves and racks he knew so we'll, and he unhesitatingly answered: Irish" There may be some prejudice in his view. however. One can stand on any given spot in London and throw stone so that it will hit man or woman who hates Ireland and all that are born of her.
 Enter the Black museum-and well named it is; its contents commemorate deeds so black that the fancy fails to
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stick with fork at the end, with which, when the bar maid was not looking, he would quietly lift the and then decamp. He was prepared for places in which they simply laid their coin on the shelf with flat end of of the same stick. This was of the shape of small spade, and was smeared with bird lime. If he touched coin with it, the coin clung, and seon found it's way into his pocket
 A vast collection of skeleton keys is that which rests, now harmlessly, in the Black museum. With one bunch of them is ball of wax, still bearing the imprint of key, which was taken from natty cockncy who became known as the Servants Sweetheart" He was 8 handsome chap and made love to every servant girl he met with singular sue cess. Calling on her of an evening, if the family was out, he would ask her to take walk around the house so that he might see the fine things. When they reached the outer doors he would invari- ably exclaim that he was a locksmith and that he was struck by the merit tor | the wealxness) of the locks Taking the key out so that he might peer into the lSeyhole, he would press it against this ball of wax, thus securing a perfect guide for the manufacture of key for dishonest purposes.
 A collection of little wooden wedges of various sizes attracted my attention. Their history is interesting. A series of mysterious burglaries occurred in London. The robbers never left any thing behind, except one of these wedges, which, while they were at work, they placed under the door of the room they operated in. This se- cured them from intrusion long enough to give them an opportunity to escape through some exit which they took care to have always ready The police were in despair. One night a man was arrested 1 for drunkenness and on his person one of these wedges was found. Joyfully they went to his.lodging and found not only another man, but large number of the. wedges, together with the chair from which they had been cut. An ex- traordinary circumstance in connection with this crime is the fact that with the wedges which were already in the hands of the police and those in the possession of the burglars the entire chair was reconstructed. Not one was missing.
 A most interesting case is devoted en- tirely to internal machines found in London. Some of them have simply been robbed of their explosives and are
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OLD-TiME LECTURES.
"Reminiscences of Three Noted American
 Orators.

"Reminiscences of Threc Noted American Orators. A writer in New England Maga- zine, in discussing the New England lyceum as it was some years ago, gives some interesting "reminiscences of the speakers who made the platform of the past so powerful. Strangely they diff feredl Among the acknowledged fail. ures was George Macdonald, who came over quite without preparation, sro- posing it to be enough to extempor 2 to an American audience. James Y. Fields asked him at the dinner table:
 What are you going to lecture about to-night?"
 T don't know till I get to the hall, said Macdonald "I have made no preparation" Mr. Fields, who knew the beat of the popular pulse, warned him that this would not do at all, but It was too late and failure was assured.
 John B. Cough was a man who would never have survived the fatigue of lecture tour had he not received special attention, not only from his hosts, but the young man who con- stantly travelled with him to tend and guard him. At one house where he was especially happy the hostess was accustomed to meet him at the door and say:
 Your room is ready, MT. Cough; and your meals whenever you choose to go to the dining-room and give the order.''
 He entered the room feeling that it was in every sense his own, and that no one would disturb him there; that no one in the house would entertain him or speak to him, save to answer questions. All callers were resolutely refused admittance. After the lecture, so great had been the strain that he was hungry for approval, and even for betting.
 1t was splendid, Mir. Cough, splen- did!" his manager would say. "You never did better in your life"
 ssWas it?' returned the lecturer, as pleased as a child. "Was it really? We'll, now, was thinking, you know, it wasa sort of failure. What do folks care for lot of mysold stories?"
 So he would go on for moment, un- til he had regained his nerve after the fatiguing effort.
 Then, as now, there was great diff ference in the generosity of different lecturers. Wendell Phillips fee was one hundred and fifty dollars, but he always gauged hisaudience and refused to take more than his share. On one occasion the manager handed him roll of bills, saying:
 ''Your fee, MT. Phillips"
 'But how much is there?D he asked.
 ''One hundred and fifty dollars, as we promised.
 q will not take it, he said. "You did not have house to warrant it, and he handed back seventy-fye dollars Youths Companion.