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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
QliIXXlNG HIS LITTLE FRIENDS.

"One afternoon, he says, 'when none
but ourselves were present, he busy with
his correspondence, and | with my work,
ragged, barefooted boy crept softly up
the stairs, and peering timidly around the
edge OF the open door, looked with mani
fest awe at Mr. Lincoln. Busy as he was
he heard the soft step, and telling him to
come in, among other questions, asked him
his name, The boy answered, "My name
is Folks Well, said Mr. Lincoln that
wrong. Don't you see that you are only
one, and folks mean more than one? Tell
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
THE WHITE norsE MENAGER1E.

Tad was particularly fond of animals
and at times during the Lincoln adminiStr.
alton the White House contained a whole
manageric which Mr.. Lincoln never al.
! lowed to he intrrfered with Moncurt
| Conway describes an episode in connection
with these pets which shows what pleasure
the President got from them. Mr. CONWAY
had gone to the White House with very
solemnlv disposed commission who wanted
''to talk over the situation with the chief
executive. The President met them laugh
ing like boy, saying that in the morning
one of his children had come to inform him
that the cat had kittens, and now another
announced that the dog had puppies, and
that the White House was in IA. decidedly
sensational state. The commissioner looked
very much shocked at the gaiety of the
President, but in Il moment his smiles had
passed, and they felt a greater shock in see
ing his face take on its look of awful
anxiety and care.
Among the animals which the boys kept
about the White House, the best known
were three or -four goats. Tad's devotion
to them was unalloyed There was neither
man nor beast about the premises which
in his Judgment, should be allowed to in
terfere with their sweet will Tad's per
sistency in defending the rights of the
goats always amused Mr.. Lincoln greatly.
and it was to this he referred when he
ended telegram to Mrs. Lincoln, who was
in New York: Tell Tad the goats and
father are very well, especially the
goats
1t was not his own children alone who
interested the Pesident There was never
a strange child came near Mr.. Lincoln that
he did not notice it and try to draw it out.
Some pretty stories Of this are told by 4.
Jasper Conant, the portrait painter. Mr.
Conant was i'll Springfield III 1860, paint
ing portrait of the candidate for the
prnSila
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08

4 Mchi.pn man died the other dav
from the effects of kissing a puy dog
Buffalo Commercial
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
School Commissioners.

TIME School Commissioners of Cecil County
l. will meet at their office, in Elkton, for the
SECOND TUESDAY in each and every month
GEORGE BlDDLE, Secretary.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
nj. 90
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HE LOVED CHILDREN.
With them Lincoln Showed the Sweetest
Side of His Character.

There never was a president in the White
House who more thoroughly cnjoyed
children than Abraham Lincoln. lie de
lighted in their mischief and their quaint
ness; he loved to puzzle them with remarks
they did not quite understand, and he
never was happier than when he strobe
down the street with one of his own boys
on his shoulder and another hanging on
to his coat tail. 1t was fortunate for Mr..
Lincoln's peace of mind that he could
laugh at the antics of children. for two of
his own boys, Willie and Tad, are historic
in Springfield, H., Mr.. Lincolns home
before his election, and in Washington, for
their pranks. Lincoln's humorous charac.
terizations of their performances are still
told by old friends of the family. The
Rev. M Alcott, OF Elgin, H.. has story
of scene in Springfield which he loves to
tell
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate made but little progress
yesterday toward final adjournment.
A final report on the postoffice appro-
priation bill was agreed to. The immi-
grafton bill was before the Senate after
two o'clock, but Mr.. Morgan, of Ala
bama, diverted the debate into dis
cussion on Cuba. He took occasion
during his speech to disclaim having
,, made harsh criticisms on the Queen Re.
gent of Spain. When a further dis
agreement on the District of Columbia
appropriation bill was presented Mr..
German took occasion to say that the
disposition of the House Oh all the
pending conferences was to threaten
the Senate with continuance of the
session. 1t was time to notify the
House conferees that this threat could
not intimidate the Senate. The terrors
of remaining here another six months
would not, he said, drive him from the
support OF appropriations he regarded
as imperative. He referred in particu-
lar to the disagreement on the charity
items of the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill and declared it to be
the result of religious prejudice. The
District of Columbia bill was again re-
ferred to conference.
In order to guard against the failure
of a quorum in the closing hours of the
session, the House revoked all
leaves of absence, and ordered
the sergeant-at-arms to telegraph
to the absentees to return forth
with. 1t is expected that this order will
at least hold those who are at present
in the city until the final adjournment,
which is expected to occur on Wednes-
day. The final conference report on
the postoffice appropriation bill was
agreed to. 1t contains the compromise
relating to the consolidation of post
offices. This left but four appropria-
ton bills still in conference. The COM
promise relative to the old settlers
claims in the Indian bill was also agreed
to, leaving only the sectarian school
question in this bill open. Just before
the session closed, after one unsuccess-
full attempt, the House decided to take
up the consideration of the Aldrich.
Underwood contested election case,
from the Ninth Alabama district. In.
stead of adjourning, the House again
took recess in order to render the
special order of Friday still operative.
The conferees on the Indian appro.
priation bill met again yesterday and
failed to agree on the church school
question, the House conferees declining
on account of the House action Satur-
day to accept the compromise extend
ing the appropriation one year. The
report goes back to the two houses for
instruction to the conferees.
President Cleveland signed the gen.
eral deficiency bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
The Passenger Department of the

The Passenger Department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
published its annual Summer Excur-
sion Route Book. 1t is destined to
provide the public with short descrip-
tive notes of the principal summer re-
sorts of Eastern America, with the
routes for reaching them and the rates
of fare. There are over four hundred
resorts in the book to which rates are
quoted, and over fifteen hundred diff
ferent ways of reaching them. Several
maps, presenting the exact routes over
which tickets are sold, are bound in
the book. 1t Is also profusely illus
trnted with cuts of scenery along the
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
elsewhere. Any doubt as to where the
summer should be passed will be dis
PEELED after an examination of the con-
tents of this publication. 1t may be
procured at any Pennsylvania Railroad
ticket office at the price of ten cents, or
at the general Office, Broad street sta
tioD, Philadelphia, by mail for twenty
cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Frank Mayo, the actor, died sudden
ly yesterday on train coming east
from Denver.
Ex-Postmaster.G General Wanamaker
was defeated by State Senator Boies
Penrose in the contest for senatorial
delegates in Philadelphia yesterday.
Five negroes have been arrested in
Montgomery county, Md, for engaging
in the riot at a grove meeting near
Sandy Spring in which Clarence Thorn
ton, colored, was beaten to death on
Sunday.
Many of the prisoners captured in the
battle between the Egyptian troops and
the dervishes at Firket were surprised
to see Slatin Pasha, who escaped last
year, after seventeen years imprison-
ment at Omdurman.
The Arizona democratic territorial
convention yesterday elected six dele
gates to the national convention, pass
ed resolutions denouncing President
Cleveland's financial policy and de-
clared for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to l without
regard to the action of any other nation.
In the Holt will trial in Washington
yesterday David N. Carvalho, q New
York expert, pronounced the alleged
will forgery both on account of pecu-
liarities in the handwriting and because
the ink with which it was written con-
tanned an adulteration that has not been
in use more than ten years, while the
will purported to have been drawn in
1873.
What shall be done with the colored
delegates and alternates to the national
republican convention is question
which is puzzling the members of the
national committee who have arrived
at St. Louis, as we'll as the Business
Mems League, which secured the con-
vention to st. Louis. Every hotel and
boarding house came out dat-footed
Yesterday, and declared it would enter
tain no colored man as guest or GUS
toner. Money is no object. Threats
of prosecution have had no effect, and
from the present outlook it would seem
that unless tents are secured the colored
men will have to so hungry and I'M
housed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
Sensation Brewing.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June ga special
from Frankfort says: The biggest sen.
ton is brewing at Frankfort that this
republican campaign for president has
yet known. 1t may result in the publ.
CA ion of letters and documents that
msy yet change the tide at ST.
Louis. 1t is lin reference to letter
written by Bradley to Mckinley, and
said to have contained free silver senti-
ments. The truth of the business seems
to be that there are in the governors
Office letters from more than enc of the
several candidates for president; that
most of them are letters in reply to
those written at the time that the one
to Mckinley was written, and at least
two sets of them may become public as
result of the interview now being
prepared for publication.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
The North american Revie,c, for June,

The North american Review, for June,
has been received from its publishers
in New York. It's contents are: The
Ship of State Adrift, by Andrew Car
negie; Immigration from Italy, by the O..
S. Commissioner of Immigration; Poll
cy and Power of the A. P. A., by the
President of the American Protective
Association; How to Arrest the In
crease of Homicides in America, by
the Hon. I. G. Parker; The Outlook for
Silver, by DR.. Otto Arendt; England's
Colonial Empire, by the U. S. Minister
to Spain; Progress of Theosophy in the
United States, by the President of the
Theosophical Society; The Sky Scrapers
of Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani; Dreams
and Their Mysteries, by Elizabeth Bis
land; Environment and Man in New
England, by N. S. Sbaler; The Future
Life and Condition of Man Therein, by
the Rt. Hon. w. E. Gladstone; The
Loyal West, by Senator 81. M. Teller, of
Colorado; Other Presidents that Might
Have Been, by Joel Benton, and The
Truth About the 'Opium War;" by
David A. Wells.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES..

There was much excitement in the
Chicago wheat market yesterday. prices
rose and fell very rapidly. After an
advance, prices fell very rapidly to Coz,
a break OFFS in fifteen minutes.
James Redpath was arrested at Mari.
nette, Wis, yesterday for the alleged
murder of Nellie Beveridge, for which
John Mcdonald was convicted and
served six years in the penitentiary.
Madame Patenotre, wife of the
French ambassador to the United
States, formerly Miss Elverson, of
Philadelphia, became the mother of a
girl last night at her cottage at Cape
May, N. ].
Maj. McKinley's campaign managers
who have reached St. Louis are getting
nervous because they fear the contest
may not be settled on the first ballot.
McKinley's opponents think they may
yet prevent his nomination by forcing
delegates from free silver States who
favor him to bolt because of the money
plank.
Governor Stone, of Missouri, to-day
notified Mayor Walbridge, of st. Louis,
that his request for special session of
the legislature to appropriate money
for the reconstruction of the municipal
and State institutions damaged by the
tornado of May 81, was denied. Gov.
Stone says that the necessity is not so
great but that it can wait for the regu-
lar session.
Mrs. Peter Stein, while crazed by grief,
committed suicide last night by drowning.
She Jumped from the Deal Lake bridge at
Asbury Park, N. J. Her body wss found
this morning, Mrs. stein had been to the
Long Branch Hospital to see her husband who
was fatally kicked by horse last week. The
doctors told her he could not live through the
night.
The storm which visited the Loup Valley,
Nebraska, Saturday, was the worst that has
ever visited that section. Railroad traffic
gill not be resumed for several days owing TO
the washing away of bridges and culverts.
Much of the country is inundated and it will
be impossible to move trains before Friday.
In the twenty second Pennsylvania Con.
gressional republican convention to-day Hon.
John Dalzell was honored for the tenth time
by unanimous nomination for Congressman.
In the convention which met at Allegheny
William A. Stone was unanimously nominal
cd for Congressman for the fourth time.
Chancellor MeGill filed an opinion to-day
in Trenton, N. j.. in the now celebrated
Slsck-Perrine case which is the contest of q
mother for the recovery of her two children
held by other people under the will of the de-
ceased father and its effect will be to reopen
the whole litigation.
@The Milwaukee, Wis, Council yesterday
afternoon passed four cent fare ordinance
and allowed the company thirty days in which
to csrry out the terms The company will
carry the matter to the courts.
The Minneapolis paper affected by the
strike Of the printers appeared this morning
as usual. The machine composition was
done by the reporters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

THERE HAS been and is now great
deal OF talk about the love ofthe people
for the 'dollars of the daddies," the
"good old silver dollars" That there
were silver dollars before the war be-
tween the States, is unquestionable,
but it is no less true that the sight of
them was rare, and that most of them
bore the Mexican stamp. Silver half
dollars were plentiful before the war,
but comparatively few people have
ever seen silver dollar that was coined
before that deplorable conflict.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Howard Estes, well-known ven
cradle citizen of Danville, died at MS
home yesterday after brief illness.
The Tunis Lumber Company, at Nor
folk, have reduced wages ten per cent,
and many of the employees have quit
work.
1t is said some of the sound money
democrats of Richmond are hopeful
that ex-Judge Lunsford L. Lewis will
be the republican nominee for Congress
in that district.
Judge Tebbs, of Loudoun, has writ
ten a letter to the Fredericksburg Fret
Lance in which he says the McCabe
delegates "are for McCabe and McCabe
only, and look for him to win"
The York River Steamboat Company
has issued a circular stating that it will
start daily line of steamers on July l,
between Baltimore and Norfolk. AT
Norfolk connections will be made with
the Southern Railroad.
On Sunday while crossing the bridge
spanning Moore's creek, four miles
from Charlottesville, Miss Alice Nc,
Knight was thrown from buggy into
the creek, the vehicle falling on her.
She received injuries which resulted in
her death yesterday morning. Her
companion, John RUBBISH, was thrown
out and severely injured.
A fatal accident occurred in the Nor
folk harbor last night about 1l:3o
o'clock. The ferry steamer City of Ports,
mouth, while on her way to Norfolk,
collided with an unknown lighter, with
several men aboard, cutting her COM
pletely in two. Several men on the
lighter were knocked overheard. One
was drowned. The steamer was inJur-
ed but slightly. She had large num-
Der of passengers aboard.
A further development has occurred
in Norfolk in the case of George t.
White, who was married week after
his wife died, the lady only having
been i'll for about twenty minutes. He
was suspected by Mrs. Whites rela-
tives of having murdered his vile.
The body was exhumed yesterday and
an autopsy was held. The stomach
was removed and will be sent to DIR.
Gaines, the State chemist, at Richmond
for an analysis.
The contest between Col. Lamb,
chairman of the Virginia republican
State committee, and Gen. Edgar AL
Ian, chairman of the Richmond city
committee, was amicably settled yes,
terday. DR.. P. II. G. Cabell, who was
appointed chairman for Richmond
when Allan was removed by Lamb,
was yesterday asked for his resigna-
ton, and General Allan was reinstated.
This was mere formality, as the re-
cent State convention provided that
hereafter the voters should elect the
chairman, but this was Col. Lambs
way of showing that he had buried the
Ratchet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

AS Is natural, and just as might have
been expected, the Catholics have or
ganized an order to oppose the A. 2.
A., and it is spreading rapidly through
out the country. Hate begets hate,
and it is human nature to retaliate in
kind. Boycotts in business have been
declared by the courts to be illegal;
why shouldn't they be in politics? The
Constitution expressly prohibits the
introduction of religion into politics,
and common sense does the same, and
the right thinking people of the coun-
try may well say in respect of both the
organizations referred to, "a plague on
both your houses" though the latter
is the more to blame, as but for it, the
former would not exist.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

CHANGE HAS always been the order
of the day in everything, but it is more
so now than ever before, especially in
respect of politics. 1t was only week or
two ago that those who use neither their
eyes nor ears were prophesying a bolt
of the silverites at Chicago, but now
that they see and hear better, they an
ticipate, with far more reason, bolt OF
the gold standard men; and while the
democrats were as those without hope
in the late spring, now, in the early
summer, many of them seem to be con-
fdent of success.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
Foreign News.

MADRID, June 9.-The military coun-
Gil is engaged in studying the case of
the American filibustering schooner
Competitor, recently captured by the
Spanish authorities. No decision will
be reached before August at the very
earliest.
BERLIN, June 9.-Two British Off
GERS have been arrested at Metz on sus-
picion of being spies engaged in obtain
ing information regarding Germsny's
Notifications. 1t is likely that they
will be released shortly.
LONDON, Juno 9.--Miss Mary Gore, who
for three years lived under the protection Of
Yiscount sudley, has entered suit for breach
Of promise Of marriage, claiming $4,000
damages.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
Claims He Shot in Self Dclenc.

VINcENNEs, Ind, June 9.-At Bards
Ills, nine miles west of this city. DR.
J. h. barley was killed yesterday by
Prof. Sampson T. Mickey in quarrel
over young woman whose home was
at DR.. Dailey's and to whom, it is al.
legged, Prof. Mickey was betrothed
Mickey gave himself up and was taker
to the county Jail at Lswrenceylle TO
escape violence. Mickey says he shot
in self.defence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1896
SUCH OPPOSITION to the social equal

SUCH OPPOSITION to the social equal
ity of the negro delegates to the ST.
Louis Convention has already manifest
ed itselfin that city, that the republl-
can managers of that convention have
been compelled to issue public re-
quest to the proprietors OF hotels, res
taurants, boarding houses and places
of amusement, and other public resorts
there, that they accord the black dele
gate the same accommodation they
willingly afford his brother in white.
But st. Louis is too far South for such
a request to be granted. The places
referred to are open all the year, but
the convention will be in session
only few days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

THE FIRST session of the 54th Con-
gress has appropriated no less than five
hundred and twenty-five million dol.
lars, but has not reduced the tax on 8
single necessary of life. Times are so
hard and employment so scarce now
that many men, industrious and eff
Gent men at that, are glad to work for
dollar a day. 1t isn't probable that
such men-who are taxed on what they
buy to raise the more than the halt
billion dollars referred to-are overly
pleased with Congress in which the
republicans have so large majority;
but as their votes elected it, they have
only themselves to blame.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

ACCORDING TO the latest advices
from London on the subject, the Vene-
zuelan imbroglio is as far from settle
ment as ever, and yet five months ago
the President deprived Congress of its
usual Christmas holiday by his unac-
countable declaration of war" against
Great Britain and his demand for the
preliminaries of such war. The i'm
broglio is the most remarkable one on
record, as it implied not only that the
President had suddenly lost his mind,
but that a similar atlliction had be.
fallen nearly all the members of both
branches Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
Virginia Military Institute.

This old and famous institution at Lexing.
ton, Va has ever fully justified the wisdom
of the legislators Of Virginia. Its courses of
instruction are scientific, technical and mill
tary. Its ideal is exact discipline and thorough
instruction. The result is a highly trained
body of self.reliant, efficient mon, who make
their mark in wha soever profession or occu-
patton they engage. Msjor General o. o.
Howard says: among the most notable
military schools of the United States is the
Virginia Military Institute. II ranks merit to
fbnt at Hest Point
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
Forced to Quit Work by Strikers

CLEVELAND, o., June "a force OF
union molders marched to the foundry
of Dorner & Dutton yesterday, where
castings were being made for concern
in which there is q lockout. Two hum
dred union molders first attacked the
shops of the Dobson g. Crawford Com
pany and then rushing upon Dorner &
buttons shop, the moulders we're pulled
or driven out of the building. The
police finally quelled the riot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09
MONETARY And COMMERCIAL.

New YORK. June 9.-Operations at the
Stock Exchange were devoid of special signi.
ficance again this morning and variations in
prices, except in rare instances, Were confined
to narrow limits The dealings werc ligbt
and there was very little news soat to affect
prices. Even the professionals were inclined
to go slow until some light is thrown on the
currency muddle. Much is expected from
tho st. Louis convention and the dappoint-
ment will be bitter il the currency plank is
not explicit. At IL o'clock the mar ket vas
dull and irregular
baltimore, June 9-Yirginia century
59ti.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-09

IN THE earlier and better days of the
country, its prominent men led public
opinion; now, they follow it, and are
necessarily engaged in lodging and
bobbing in order to avoid being Cleft"
But in the times referred to, suffrage
was restricted to those who had some
material interest in the welfare of the
country. Many of the evils that have
befallen the United States are due to
the removal of that restriction.