The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-12-13
CURRENT NEWS.
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| CURRENT NEWS.
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Professor Asassiz is seriously III at his
home in Cambridge.
-Howes & Macy were forced into bank
| ruptcy by one of their creditors.
BY a recent revenue decision. tropical
| fruits and flowers are on the free list.
John +. Irving, who has said so much
about the Nathan murder, was convicted
Of burglary.
In New York on Tuesday broker S
cashier disappeared with $4,000 of his
employers money.
The Roman Catholic Churches and
institutions were consecrated to the Sacred
Heart, on Monday.
The marriage of the Duke of Edn-
bnrgh with the daughter of the Gar of
Russia has been postponed.
"A Test suit was brought to recover
$4,000 usurious interest paid on brokers'
balances in New York City.
"A log so dense as to turn day into
night, has yelled London for three DAYS
and extended 80 miles into the country.
The President of Mexico has been
congratulated by our Government on the
adoption OF the recent reform measures.
Harmony has been restored in the
Spanish cabinet; vigorous measures are to
be executed against the Cartagena insur-
gents.
Marshal Bazaine has been condemned
to death by the Versailles Court Martial:
al the members of the court Joined in an
appeal for mercy.
President orion of the Western Union
Telegraph Company is convinced that the
sentiment of Congress is averse to the
Postal Telegraph sch enc.
The United States Supreme Court has
rendered a decision determining the rela-
tive powers of the Territorial and United
States District-AttorneyS in Utah.
Efforts are making in New York to
| induce Woodward. one OF the Ring rascals,
to return from Europe on IL guarantee of
safety, for the purpose of having him tell
all he knows of the doings of the plunder
ers not yet punished.
A Salt Lake despatch says that passen-
gers from the West report very deep snow
on portions of the Central Pacific Railroad
In the Sierra Nevada sections five engines
are required to haul a single train. AS vet.
however, there has been no delay in con-
nections with the Union Pacific at Ogden.
Six feet of snow has fallen in Wasat Oh
| Mining canons.
The apprehensions in regard to the
safety of the Kansas are now relieved by
the intelligence of her safe arrival at San
tiago de Cuba after stormy voyage. The
naval preparations are likely to be carried
on with undiminished energy. The Score.
tary of the Navy has asked Congress for L
/ special appropriation of $4,000, 900, and
! the committee TO which the request has
been referred has recommended 81, 900, 900.
a special to New York paper from
Madrid says Minister Sickles has rendered
his resignation; up to the hour of going to
press the story lacks confirmation. The
ship Loeb Earn, which ran down aud sank
the Vile du Havre, has arrived at Ply
mouth, England. The captain and crew,
IN their accounts of the disaster, give,
among other thing, as the cause for the
! great loss OF life, the lamentable cowardice
4 OF the crow of the. Inflated steamer, and
its hardness i'll displaying signals.
The Wilmington bank robbers were
sentenced, on Monday, TO pay the cost of
prosecutions; pay fine of $500 each, and
stand in the pillely Oh Wednesday last 10th
instant one hour; and be whipped the same
| day with forty lashes, and be imprisoned
for ten years. The pi!iory and whipping
We're carried into effect on the day desig-
mated, although great efforts were made
by some of their friends and doubtless
confederates, to avoid the whipping. If
any criminals are to be whipped these are
the proper subjects to try its virtue on.
Great activity is still continued by the
Government in putting the navy in COM
plete fighting trim. All the Navy yards
are worked to their utmost capacity
Large quantities of naval stores arrive at
| Key West, Florida, by every steamer.
The Spanish Government has agreed to
the supplementary protocol. and Tuesday,
the 10th inst, has been fixed as the day
for the delivery of the Nirginius to an officer
of the United States Navy. The survivors
of the crew and passengers, now held a.
Santiago de Cuba, will be given up on the
same day. The United States steamer
Canandaigua will sail Immediately for
Havana, and her commander Captain
Lowery) will receive the Virginius on behalf
of the United States. Captain Braine will
take the prisoners on board the Juniata
and bring them home. Inquiry at the
State Department fails to elicit ANYTHING
concerning the reported resignation Of
Minister Sickles.
The Rurnl Ne,o TorIer says most OK
cellently and pertnently to the times: s'It
disc"ntented farmers. farmers wives, sons
and daughters, who thinks the delights of
city life something worth realizing, could
walk through our streets to day and read
one thousandth part Of the misery and ap-
prehension that haunt the hearts of all
classes and are making lines on their faces.
they would thank God for the peaceful
seclusion, and abundance gathered in the
gamers of their homes. Thousands of
men and women are at the beginning of
winter suddenly thrown out of employ
ment Few, comparatively, of these have
aught laid up in store. Young women
flock through the streets with restless,
eager. anxious eyes, with lips quiverinc
with fear lest they fail to obtain employ
ment that shall give them food and shelter.
Boys and girls of the country be grateful
for plenty and shelter. You will, perhaps,
never know how to valne it until you want
and cannot get either. How many of
these i'll the city are country born; and
how many would gladly go back to the
homesteads for refuge, and yet may not
have the means to get there . Farmers .
thank God for the harvests, and that you
have unsold food for your families You
| have reason
IS Cooley for January contains another
of the handsome chromos :. Attic Winter, -
which the proprietor promised the readers
of the Book. There is something new and
fresh about every number, giving it dis.
tlnct feature from the last and always an
apparent Improvement. and yet it is difficult
to see where an improvement can be made
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