The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-12
The News.

lllCult VII VIZ tttl vi 4hSlCl.
Hair-cloth skirts have taken the plac
Of hoops in Paris. There is just S
much gained.
Carloads new work is described a
| being one long, bitter furious attac
on priests and priest-craft."
Jeff Davis is hard at work as Pres
dent of the Carolina Life Insuranc
Company of Memphis, Tenn. Ger
Braxton Bragg is the Company's asen
for New-Orleans.
The telegraph between England an,
India has been finished and there i
now unbroken communication aroun,
the world with the exception of acros
the Pacific ocean.
a Paris despatch of Sunday say
that General Heine left there on Satur
day for Panama to conduct the explora
tons for the new Company which pro
poses to construct a ship canal acros.
the Isthmus of Darien.
Both houses of the California Legis
laturc have passed bill repeating tn,
act allowing the carrying of concealed
deadly weapons California seems t.
be in a fair way Of turning everything
upside down in the interest of the wicked
A composition of peat, coal-1ust ane
coal tar has been invented, which it i.
claimed is better fuel for steamers thai
coal, and the cost only one-half. 81,
hundred pounds of this fuel it is salt
will produce as much steam as twelve
hundred pounds of coal
An excellent rebuke was that adj
ministered by ex-Vice-President HamliI
to party of his friends who importunec
him to frank their letters. The Senator
took the letters, affixed postage-stamps
upon them all, and blandly returned
them to the writer's.
1t has now been fully demonstrated
that no vessel drawing more than sew.
enteen and half feet of water can pass
through the Suez canal with safety
The English papers now admit this
Well it is a step-rather foot-in adj
vance of their former admissions.
Cleveland denies that any of its citi
zens sent dog to Washington as a
present to the President Some scoun
drel in Washington took pup to the
White House and tried to raise SIC
as express charges, but, happily, miser.
bly, failed
The new Chinese restaurant in San
Francisco is known as the Chow
Chow Hong" Baskets of flowers
please the eye of the guest, the song OF
birds delights his ear, and his palate is
tickled by viands selected from red
and gold bill of fare and served in dishes
of fine porcelain.
1t is remarked as singular circum-
stance in the South-African diamond
diggins, that all the diamonds have
been found by natives and not by Euro
peans. The natives go on all tours,
scanning the surface and scraping with
their nails, while the European tries to
MAINTAIN the dignity Of an erect attitude
A freedman found, at the station
house in Toledo, Ohio, few DAYS ago.
his old master, with his wife and two
daughters, who were begging their way
from Virginia to Chicago whittier Friends
had gone before them The story
should have been completed by his pay
ing their expenses to their destination.
The phosphate beds, a few miles back
of Charleston, and extending mile or
more on the Ashepoo river, yield $50
tons of the phosphate rock to one
fourth of an acre Fossilized bones
possibly of antediluvian origin-form a
large part of the substance, and sharks
teeth seem to he very plenty. The
export of this substance forms valua-
BILE portion of the trade of Charlestown.
Rochefort was arrested in Paris on
Tuesday, which created great excite
ment. His partisans at once rallied,
barricaded the streets in the northern
and eastern part of the city and took
possession of it for two miles. The
police charged the barricades but were
resisted and driven back by the insur-
gents, who killed and wounded several
The Military were in force but had re-
Trained from using their firearms
The arrest of F. A. Stevens, ex-United
States Inspector and Gauger, appears
to have been made in ST. Louis by Off
GERS from New York 1t is said the
frauds perpetrated by Stevens and a
of bushes men there will aggrc-
gate 100000. In one case of 325
barrels of proof spirits the Government
is said to have received only $4,000
when it was entitled to S25 5000. Ste
vens has been taken to New York and
committed to answer
Isaac Greenwall, an American, was
brutaly assassinated in the streets OF
Havana on Sunday morning by a
Spaniard At the same time two of his
companions, Henry K Foster and Hugh
j Johnson, We're wounded. The sole
cause for the cowardly murder was in
the fact that the men wore blue ribbon
at their necks--that being the Cuban
color. The wounded men received fur
Their indignities and injuries at the hands
of the mob. Havana dispatches say
the criminals will he execu,ed-if tn,
authorities find them.
The new Navy Register for this veal
contains much interesting information
on naval matters. Of eighteen hun
dred officers in the service thirteen hun.
dred and forty-fve are on the active
list, while of the balance two hundred
and forty-eight are midshipmen at the
naval academy. There are one hun
dred and lightweight vessels of al
kinds and classes, from ships-ofthe-lin,
to the little torpedo boat laid up in har
Dor During last year fourteen vessels
were sold and one (the steamtug Maria
lost.
The SANTANA Bay purchase seems t.
be an accomplished fact The Navy
Department is making every preparation
to MAINTAIN the National occupation o
the broad harbor by their ships of war
Already vessels of the North Atlanti,