The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-02
News Items.

Rev. Mr.. Milburn the ''blind preacher,
is lecturing in San Francisco to crowded
houses.
brigands and travel there more dangerous
than in Georgia.
The Delaware peach crop this season
is estimated at a million and a third bas-
kets suitable for market.
The democracy of Missouri will nomi-
nate no ticket this fall, but preserve pol
icy of "passive resistance"
of all its past possessions the Demo-
cratic party has but one principle left to
fight oil, and that is the British one of free
trade.
Reading has met with 4 great loss in
the destruction, by fire, of one Of the most
magnificent Railroad workshops in the
country.
-Workmen are engaged in clearing
away the remains of Aston Terrace (the
hotel recently burned at Downingtown,)
preparatory to rebuilding.
"A New Jersey preacher is. being tried
in his Synod for preaching dry and unin-
teresting sermons Maybe he had a dry
and uninteresting congregation.
The Lancaster people want Horse
Railroad. They say Easton and Allen
town both have them, and neither of them
are as large or wealthy as Lancaster.
Charles A Murphey has been offered
for his fine horse, Sir Cecil, the sum of
$11 800. He declines taking this sum as it
is thought that his speed may yet fully
equal that of his half brother Dexter.
A charter has been obtained for build
ing railroad from West Chester to Down.
ingtown, and it is stated that the route will
soon be surveyed, and the work pushed
through. West Chester is certainly wax
ing up.
The Mormon wives and daughters have
resolved that "Paniers, and whatever ap-
proximates in appearance toward the Gre
clan Bend, are burlesque on the natural
beauty and dignity of the human female
FORM"
The people of the South are manifest
ing lively interest in the establishment of
cotton manufactures. Experimental es-
Establishments of the kind started in Georgia
have prospered so well that it is proposed
to build many others.
The Western grain spectators who
have been holding back the wheat crop of
1869, in hopes of engineering rise in the
with the accumulations of a year on hand
Just as the harvest begins.
AT Baltimore ON Wednesday, the office
of the Maryland Fire Insurance Company
was robbed of trunk containing L. S.
bonds and other securities to the amount Of
$4,000 The robbery was committed
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Insurance Of a house at Richmond Va.
1t is asserted by those who pretend to
know that one of the citizens of Whining
ton, is worth elecen millions Of dollars. 1t
is stated that he has made several millions
recently by happy investment in Rail
roads, and the termination of an important
suit. What is the estimated wealth of
Henry S. McCombs.
Delaware College is once more thor.
oughly organized, and on a more perma-
nent basis than ever before. Its buildings
and grounds are in complete ORDER it has a
vested fund of probably 500, 000-libraries
of $1,000 volumes and a splendid collection
of philosophical apparatus.
New York is having an ice panic
Last summer the price of ice was from
thirty to fifty cents per hundred pounds,
and this season it has sold for 81 for the
same amount. The ice monopolists have
now given notice that they intend to still
further increase the price to 81. 80 per hun
dred pounds, notwithstanding the fact that
the supply is fully as large as it was last
year.
"A dangerous counterfeit fifty cent frac-
tional currency note of the new issue of
Lincoln vignette, has just been put in Cir
culation. 1t so nearly resembles the fifty
cent note of the new issue, that any one
is liable to be deceived. The paper used
is an imitation of that used by the govern
ment, but is unlike the genuine, which is
pink tinted. The counterfeit is slightly
greenish In color, and the face is somewhat
blurred. The words fractional currency
and stamps are darkly shaded, which is not
the case in the genuine.