The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-04-24

In view of what it terms ''The An
nexation Mania" a great daily questions
if after all, it is worthy of tremendous
and self-contained country like this to
yearn so much after more ground, and try
to get it by hook or crook. 1t pleads gull
ty to entertaining the old-fogy notion that
the public morality of nation is pretty
nearly the private morality of society, in a
great measure; land certainly" it says,
IF we advocate grabbing of property
from our neighbor States, we give a tacit
and terrible encouragement to those other
grabbers who go in for greenbacks and
bonds, and are capable of drilling holes
through chilled STEELE
There were eleven persons in one house
in Montreal, recently, says the Gazette, who
sat down to dinner of cold beef but one
of the boarders not liking cold beef the
landlady sent out to buy some ham, which
was hastily cooked for him. The ham
coming on the table, eight others also par
took of a little of it, and the landlady re-
GREETED that she did not get some more
OF the eight who partook of the ham, all
became sick to greater or less degree
But those who ate of the cold beef only did
not suffer. An investigation was had, and,
and trichine were found Some of the
patients are very i'll, and it is feared will
not recover.
"A safe in Philadelphia was recently
''relicved of a million dollars, and other
large robberies are reported. They man-
age these things better in London. The
banking-houscs there oblige two or three of
their clerks, and also their porters, to sleep
on the premises, and never to leave the
building ;;.occupicd. The Bank of Eng
land, not satisfied with these precautions,
employs company of soldiers to keep
guard over its treasures during the night.
In consequence, such depredations are al
most entirely unknown.
The laws of New Jersey require the
railroad companies of the State to submit
each year :, list of the persons slaughtered
on their various lines of travel. The aggre-
gate number of victims during 1868 was no
less than one hundred and tifty-eight, of
whom one hundred and three were killed
outright, and this appears to be about the
annual average of such casualties.
A double elevator is to be constructed
at the whirlpool" below the suspension
bridge at Niagara Falls, to enable visitors to
get a view from that point.
The Richmond papers complain of the
city authorities for having leased one of the
principal public squares of that city at 1925
year for corntield and hog pen.
For the seventy five or eighty positions
in the office ofSuperintendent of the United
Stated Treasury, there arc more than fifteen
hundred applications.
A number of Frenchmen have appear
ed at Decatur, ILL.,, with patent traps to
catch bull-frogs for the New York mar
ket.
The poles of the telegraph across the
plains are said to be source of delight
to the buffaloes They use them as scratch
ing posts.
Forty years ago a man could carry the
Southern mail from New York to Jersey
City; now it requires eight four-horsc
teams.
Wade Hampton has been buying a
Thousand mules in Illinois for use OH his
Southern plantations.
-Cork-trccS are being raised in Florida
from seed sent from Portugal.
One dealer has just imported sixteen
hundred c;nary-birds from Germany.