The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-01-31
Che eastern GGcrtnan.

PdtrtOf, under date OF 10th inst, saws:
SIN this, the nineteenth century,
would you-nay, can you believe it,
when we tell you We have had but two
mails from your city in about six weeks,
bringing piles upon piles of papers and
letters which would tax the patience of
job to wade through ere we can find out
what events are passing around us. This
istoo bad. Messrs. Editors, and too in
tolerable to be borne in silence"
/ There seems to be a difference of
temperature between this and tewns low
er down the Shore, quite favorable to
the latter. At the time the Thermom-
eter was seven degrees below zero here,
it was degrees at Centrevllle and de-
greeS at Eu$on.
/ u5~An acquaintance and subscriber
TO our paper informs us that a rumor, to
a limited extent, exists, that the Kent
News, Is owned in whole, OF in part, BY
another, and that it 10 under other iunu-
ences than our own. In justice to 9TH
erS, as well as to ourselves, we avail
ourselves Of this opportunity to say that
the report alluded to is thoroughly and
entirely unfounded. The Press, we
purchased and took conveyance for,
more than four years since, and since
that period, we have been the sole and
bona fdc owner and proprietor, eXcIu-
sively interested in the paper and solely
responsible for its contents.
We are grateful to our patrons for
their liberal support, and hope TO make
the News more and more interesting.
Kent .NcmS.
I ny~1'he Dcnton journal learns that
Judge Hopper has Signihed his intention
: TO the Clerk Of Caroline county, Of hay
ing the Spring term Of the Court chan
ced lrom March to 4 priI in order to pre-
vent it from conflicting with Kent Co.,
Court: and asks show the people Of tn"
county would like S'ch change -
! The journal seems to think that the pro-
posed alteration would operate against
| the farmers, who at That season of the
year are very busy in their farming OPP
rrations.
! g. The Rev. Benjamin iIcphail. of
! Virginia, has accepted a call to the Pros
byterlan Church at Snow llill and Peter
Greek. Nd.
~ Jonathan S. Willis has been APP
pointed Postmaster at the Royal Oak,
Talbot couoty, vice Thomas c. Nicols,
eS;gncd.
rj~The Centrcrille (M3.) Sentinel
states that many of the farmers of that
county have been feeding regularly large
hocAs Of cartridges, during the present
winter, and tina, sportsman IN that town
ready purchase them alive in order TO
preserve them for the proper guHning
season.
I TRIBUTE TO WAsuNGTov BY THE
PopE>--The editor of the Frederick Ex-
amlner has prrusrd letter from Colonel
Anthooy klmm"I, of Liganore, Md,
Gated Rome, Dec. y, 1881, to his son
in Frederick. The Examiner saws the
Colonel appears to be now enjoying his
usual good health, and to be ayailing
himself ofevery opportunity to examine
points Of interest in his European tour
On the nth ult., he was presented to his
Holiness the Pope. The following is an
extract from the letter of Col. kimmel:
"The Pope has directed two large
stones-the one to be taken from the
Capitol, the other from the Coliseum
to be prepared in Rome and to be pre-
scented by him to the Washington Mon
ument now being erected in the CITY of
Washington to the memory of the Faith
er of his country"
BosToN, Jan. 1S.--Last night the
train of cars from Newton, on the Low
er Falls and branch of the Worcester
Railroad, came in contact with a sleigh
containing George w. Shaw a mer-
chant Of Boston, his wife and son. Mr..
Shaw had both Of his arms broken, and
and was otherwise injured, from the eff
fects of which he died this morning.
His wife also had both of her arms bro
ken and crushed, one of which it was
found necessary to amputate this morn
ing at the shoulder. She is otherwise
SO seriously injured that she is not ex-
pected to recover. The boy singularly
escaped injury altogether, having been
thrown out by his father on to snow
bank at the moment of the collision.
NORFOLK, Jan. 27.-The robbery of
the Portsmouth Bank, continues to be
still involved in mystery, though suti-
cient has transpired to render it certain
that the perpetrators were old and ex-
per'enced burglars. Some slight traces
of their movements have been discover.
ed. A quantity of plate deposited by
Mr.. Wilson Of this city, in the vaults of
the Bank, was found secreted under a
tree, and a short distance off, a lot bur-
glars tools we're discovered deposited I'm.