The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-12

Henry Edgar preached to the Positi-
visits in this city New York; last Sunday.
Miss Susan Anthony was personal---very.
properly, for she is a decidedly positive
woman-and took exception to some things
which the speaker had said about woman's
share in the social reconstruction. She
demanded to know why if woman was to
be prominent in the great work of social
reconstruction, her voice was not allowed
to be heard? Mr. Edgar laughngly re-
Piled that he thought her voice was heard
whether allowed OF not, which the audience
rather enjoyed.
The Spanish Constituent Cortes has
finally adopted the Constitution by vote
of PA in favor of to 81 against. Figueras
announced that the Republicans would sup
port the Constitution, although they were
opposed to its monarchical clauses. Spain
is vet only halfway out of its difficulty
for although it has decided to have a mon
archy it has found no one yet to fill the
vacant throne, and does not seem likely to
agree upon any one of the aspirants.
AT the Boston Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention, last week, the Rev Gilbert Haven
claimed 1--WE quote from a newspaper re-
port) that woman was a man i'll true, ser
enc sense Mrs. Livermore said that if
the right to vote depended on the ability to
fight, then large number of the women
should receive the ballot.
General Butler, in his speech at Glou-
cester, on . Decoration Day." devoted a
large part of his time to showing that it
would be the sacred duty of American par
ents, for generations to come, to educate
their children to eternal hatred of Great
Britain. OF course, these were not his
words, but they give his spirit.
1t is stated that there is an error in the
law regulating marriages in Ohio, as print
ed. The law, as written and passed, pro-
vides that no girl under eighteen years
shall marry without the consent of her
parents or guardian; but the Enrolling
Clerk of the House, in copying it for the
printer, wrote twenty-one in the place of
eighteen, and so it went to print.
1t is rrmored that if an injunction be
issued to the enemies of the Western Mary
land Railroad Company to defeat the OBJ
iects of the ordinance recently passed by
the City Council, there will be an iniunc-
ton issued to prevent the appropriation
of S2.000,000 for the completion of the
Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad.
In Lodi, New Jersey, on Wednesday,
had been i'll the habit of drinking a bever-
age composed partly of oil of vitriol and
alcohol, were poisoned by taking arsenic in
their mixture through mistake for vitriol-
Four of the men died within a few hours.
and the fifth is apparently dying.
Chambers Journal tells story of a
young man who was persuaded by his fam
lily to break his engagement with young
l,I, 81, Sl,n Il,
and obtained $25, 900 damages, whereupon
he again paid his addresses to her. saying
that the objections of his friends were now
removed, since she was worth $50, 900.
The members of the "Ladies' Union
Aid Society,"" of St. Louis, declined an in
vitation of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, of that city, to join them in decorating
the soldiers graves on May 30th, because
they "deemcd it inconsistent, as Christian
women, to take part in the ceremonies
which are to be held on the Sabbath
The vigilance committee of Bryan
Wyoming Territory, called upon desper-
ate character a short time since, and gave
him fifteen minutes to leave town. He
mounted his mule, and said ''Gentlemen,
five
The ladies have indicated their fit
ness to g run with the machine At the
burning of a barn, recently, attached to
the Holyoke Female Seminary, in Massa-
chusetts the young ladies turned out and
rendered very efficient help in extinguish-
ing the contlagration.
The following advertisement appears
III London paper: "a young lady who
has received a good education, can read,
write, and is versed in geography, history,
music, dancing, and elementary mathemat-
les, wishes situation in a respectable fam
lily as washer and ironer.'
A Greek at STEAMBOAT recently had a
dream that a vast treasure could be found
in a certain hill. if child were sacraticed
to the guardian demon. He took his little
daughter to the place the next day, beat
out her brains, and dug for the gold in high
spirits until he was arrested.
The colored Republicans of the thir-
teen upper wards of Baltimore city held a
mass meeting on Thursday evenig at Mount
Vernon Hall, Howard street, for the pur-
pose of organizing and consolidating the
colored men of the district.
The annexation resolution was moved
i'll the Nova Scotia House of Assembly on
| Monday night, but discussion was avoided
| by manGuvre of the Government men,
bers, and the resolution was defeated by a
| vote Of seven to twenty-six.
"A number of passenger railway drivers
were arrested in Philadelphia for overload
ing the cars. One car built to accommo-
date twenty persons had seventy upon it.
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