The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-11-14
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
On Thursday, Udderzook was hanged
at West Chester, Pa.
| An immense fire in the woods at Mid
dleton, Mass, has burned over five hundred
acres.
Mail service was ordered by the Post
Office Department, on Tuesday, on the
Peach Bottom Railroad from York to Cross
Roads.
Two hundred and forty workmen have
been discharged from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. A further reduction of the force
will be made this week.
-Sprague's immense cotton mill, at
Battle, ten miles north of Norwich, Conn,
has resumed work on full time after a
three weeks suspension, caused by strike
of the mule spinners.
Three of the Kuklux raiders who have
lately been amusing themselves by flogging
negroes in Shelby county, Kentucky, have
been arrested by the State authorities and
held for trial in the County Court.
-Thirty-three members of the Council
General of the Seine have adopted resolu-
ton recommending the establishment of q.
system of gratuitous secular schools for
primary instruction in the city of Paris,
attednance upon which shall be obligatory.
The resolution has been presented to the
Permanent Committee of the Assembly for
consideration.
Military events in the north of Spain
Indicate the near approach OF crisis in
the Carl;st rebellion. 1t is denied that the
Corlicfc bava al p6opad tho ciopo IF Tr,r
as reported by the Government, but seems
positive that they are feeble and spiritless
at present. and that Don Carlos has aban-
doned his army and taken refuge across
the French frontier.
A special to the London Times from
Calcutta announces that the Viceroy of
India has ordered a suspension of formal
proceedings against the person supposed to
to be Mana Sahib until more mature con-
sideration can be had of the case. The
difficulties of Identification are increasing,
and opinions are divided. 1t is hoped the
trial will be held with open doors.
The United States Marshal for Ala
hama, in a letter to the Department of
Justice, maintains that the whites alone
were to blame for the riot at Eufala on
election day; that they began firing on the
negroes were not armed; that the casualties
among the whites were occasioned by the
wild shooting of their own friends, and
that, while more than dozen of the
negroes were killed, only one white man
and he an innocent spectat0r-lost his life.
General Sherman's annual report to
the Secretary of War shows that the total
number of enlisted men in the army on
u, Il
that by ordinary casualties, discharges and
deaths, the number will be reduced by the
1st of January to the $4,000 allowed by
law. He declares so small force made
quate to the demands of so large an area
of territory, and says it is impossible to
maintain companies on remote stations at
the small legal standard, because months
must elapse after discharges and deaths,
before recruits can be sent from the general
rendezvous.
"A bold and successful forgery was per-
petrated in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, by
which the City Controller and several bank
ing houses were swndled out of various
sums, aggregating $4,000. Warrants on
the city treasury which purported to have
been drawn by the Board of Education in
favor of certain school teachers and war
rants drawn in favor of policemen, bearing
the Mayors signature, were cashed by the
Controller without question, so skilfully
were they executed. One of the rascals
was caught while trying to obtain payment
of check in one of the banks, but very
stupid detective allowed him to escape.
Certain persons holding Virginia State
securities met in conference with Governor
Kemper and the State Treasurer for the
nf fol- lnnl to
an adjustment of the State debt, but the
proceedings were kept secret. An enter
prising newspaper reporter procured
bundle of Virginia bonds and demanded
admission to the conference as bond
holder. Gov. Kemper sent for police
man, but the newspaper man held his
ground, and the Governor did not like to
take the responsibility of having bond
holder elected by force. The brave man
was outtlanked, however, by strategy. A
resolution was adopted by the meeting
pledging all who participated in it not to
divulge the proceedings. The reporter
could not consent to this, so he took his
hat and left.
The notorious Mormon, John d. Lee
has been arrested at Salt Lake. He has
always been believed to be the leader of
the Mormon band who, disguised as 1ndi-
ans, fell upon and massacred the overland
emigrants at Mountain Meadows, more
than twenty years ago. For long time
afterward Lee was a marked man. He
retreated to secluded spot in one of the
river canyons far away in Southern Utah,
and lived there for years under the name
of Major Doyle. Latterly he has returned
to the centre of Mormonism, in hopes that
his great crime would have been forgotten
in the lapse of time. He is man of
extensive means and influence among the
older Mormons, and desperate efforts will
undoubtedly be made to shield him, but it
is to be hoped that he will be brought to
trial, and, with others engaged in this
bloody crime, receive the tarGy punishment
they richly deserve if found guilty.
Baltimore City has at last determined
upon a plan to prevent the disastrous
results in future which the overflow of
Jones' Falls causes to that part of the city
exposed to the flood. An ordinance has
been passed, adopting the plan submitted
by Mr.. Ford. 1t provides for raising the
grades of all the streets within the district
flooded by the freshet of July "a, 1868, so
as to fill up the hollow to the west of the
Falls into which the waters poured with
such disastrous effect The ordinance also
provides for the excavation of the Falls to
it's original bed, cutting off the abrupt
corners at Centre street bridge and between
Bath and Gay street bridges, raising the
walls of the stream and constructing the
bridges SO as to offer no impeachment to the
passage of the entire body of water that
may be contained within the walls Of the
stream.
The annual report of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Barber, just completed,
shows that during the last fiscal year there
were issued to postmasters, for sale to the
public, 632, 733, 600 adhesive postage stamps
valued at $17,275,242; 65,O00,00O plain
stamped envelopes valued at $1,927, 952;
100000 stamped envelopes, bearing a
return request, valued at 81, 1873, 73s; 49,
100000 newspaper wrappers valued at
$3.50, 900, and 100000 postal cards.
The increase in the value of ordinary issues
on that of the preceding year, was $685.
44s, or over pei cent. The figures rep
resent the cost of manufacture added to
the postage value. During the year the