The Cecil Whig., 1869-06-26
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

taking of the new census
An Alaskan is unhappy unless he has
one seal day for his own consumption.
The smallpox has now left San Fran
cisco, having tarried in the city for yea,
past.
Edwin Booth was recently married te
Miss Mary McViker, the popular actress.
The work of building the Denver Paci-
tic Railroad is to be carried through with.
out delay.
Petroleum V. Nasby is said to have
gained $4,000 during the past year by
lecturing.
Mrs. Frame, a handsome Quaker revi-
valist, is arousing great religious excite
ment in indiana.
Some people like to walk three abreast
and move SO slow that people in a hurry
must either go between them or get into
the gutter.
Another "last surviving servant Of
General Washington died in New Orleans
the other day. The name ON this occasion
was Susan johnson.
1t is reported that the boll-worm has
appearned on several plantations in Ala
bama, and is doing damage to the cotton
crop.
The last number of the Cretan has been
published in Boston, as the Cretans have
ended its mission by giving up the con-
test.
The next meeting of the International
Convention of Young Mems Christian AS
sociations will be held July 14th. at Port
land, Me.
Mr.. John E. Owens, is, probably, the
wealthiest actor on the American stage
His property is said to be considerably in
excess of half million dollars.
A singular mirage was seen recently
on Lake Ontario. The shore of Canada
visible, buildings loomed up, and vessels
appeared sailing keel uppermost.
1t is reported that vein of pure anth-
racite coal, about nine feet in thickness, has
been discovered at Buffalo Gap, eleven
miles west of Staunton, Va.
A lady vocalist appealed to the musical
critic of the New York Tribune the other
day for 4 lenient notice of her forthcoming
concert, because she chad bad cold and a
large family of children"
1t is said that Jay Cooke has determin-
ed to take in hand the construction of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, which is to con-
meet Lake Superior and the railroads of
Minnesota with Puget Sound.
The President has made inquiry into
the reports of abuse of the Indians and ma
tives of Alaska, and of lack of dicipline
among portion of the troops, and has de-
cided to remove the commanding officer.
1t is rumored that Mr. Reverdy john
son, before quitting England, had to pay a
forfeit of upward of $4,000 OH giving up
house he had taken in Portland Place for a
period of five years.
A student at Cornell, included in the
cash account which he sent to her father.
the item, "Charity, $780," The father re-
marked in his reply, =" l fear charity covers
a multitude of SINS"
Anna Dickinson says; "Politics to-
day means an indecent scramble for office,
where every man is for himself and the
devil takes the hindmost. As for the fore
most, they are already safe in his hands,"
Why is it that there are more young
men vending their way homewards at a
late hour OH Sunday night than on any
other? Whose meeting" keeps in so
late?
A London Clergyman advertises that
he will "lend" " his weekly sermons for half
crown piece, or four for ten shillings,
warranted original, earnest, and evangeli-
cal"
elias your husband got naturalized,"
inquired an energetic politician of robust
female. SCOT natural eyes," was the re-
sponse, in an indignat tone; "yes, begorra,
and natural lathe too"
In Indiana a women hit her second
husband Oh the head with fire-shovel, af-
ter family prayer, for praying for his chill
dren, and omitting her own. There was
no discrimination thereafter.
"A man living in Monroe county, Mich,
who had been saved from punishment for
smuggling through several hundred dollars
by a friendly farmer of the same town, re-
Gently ran off with the wife of the benefac-
tor.
The newly organized Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Phil
adelphia, commenced operations by arrest
ing a number of drivers for over loading
their cars. One had seventy people in a
car built to accommodate twenty.
The way the poor Indians are treated
by our ''inhuman Government" is quite
shocking to Mr.. Wendell Phillips, and he
cheerfully entreats them to retaliate by
tearing up the track of the Union Pacific.
Every blow struck at that road, says Mr.
Phillips, sis heard round the globe"
therefore Lo is advised to ''haunt it,
The harassed housewives Of Hartford,
believing that ''the exorbitant ways, the im-
pertinent exactions. and topOlofcal man
ners of our servant-girls demand grave con-
sideration," propose public meeting to
see what can be done in the premises. The
servant question is certainly a serious one,
and it is respectfully commended to Soros-
sisters as better worth discussing than some
others over which they waste good deal
of time and tea.
In the suit of the session of the Wal
nut street Presbyterian Church, Philadel-
phia, against the Board of Trustees, to pre-
vent the latter from introducing into the
religious services of the church 4 paid choir
of vocalists, Judge Pierce, of the Court of
Common Pleas, on Saturday, decided that
church-music is connected with the relipi-