The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-24
GENERAL NEWS.

day reelected Hon. George F. Edmunds to
be United States Senator for the term of
six years from the 18th of March next.
Democratic candidates for Congress
seem to have the Withdrawing " fever,
some half dozen or more in the different
States having given up the race this week.
Phelps. the embezzling ex-cashier of
the New York State Treasury, was SEN
fenced at Albany yesterday to fifteen years
mprisonment-tive years on each convic-
ton.
1t is believed in Washington that the
Plympton Company will be able to supply
the demand for stamped envelopes within
reasonable time, all circumstances con-
sidered.
Brigham Young's health is reported to
be very infirm, and he is not expected at
Salt Lake to live much longer. No decision
has yet been given in the almony suit Of
Ann Eliza.
i. Garrett Pyle, we'll to- do farmer in
Chistiana Hundred, Delaware, committed
suicide early on Monday morning, by cut
ting his throat. He was 50 years of age.
No cause is assigned for the deed.
Archibald Sterling, Jr., of Baltimore,
has been appointed to represent the govern
United States Commissioners in relation to
claims for the Geneva award, at their ses-
sion in Baltimore.
Over million dollars of the Pennsyl-
vania State debt has been redeemed this
year up to this time, and it is expected
that the amount will be increased to ST.
300, 900 by the end of the fiscal year. on
the 30th of November. She is under Re-
publican rule.
At Salt Lake City, on Wednesday,
George Q. Cannon, the Mormon Delegate
to Congress, learning that he had been
indicted by the Grand Jury for polygamy,
surrendered himself to the United States
Marshal, and gave bail in $1,000 for his
appearance.
There are fierce bush and prairie fires
around Fort Wayne, Indiana, the conse-
quence of extreme drought. The city is
filled at times with almost binding smoke.
After shutdown the falling ashes and the
smoke settle SO thickly as to make breath
ing difficult.
Judge Mexican, the terror of the Nor
mons, is sensitive of his official reputation.
Some implications regarding his integrity
having been published in Salt Lake City
newspaper devoted to the Mormon interest,
he has called upon the Grand Jury to inves-
tigate the charges and indict either himself
or the editors as the accusations may prove
true or false.
"A large boiler in the rolling mill of
George Coates & Brother, at Locust Point,
Baltimore, exploded on Wednesday morn
ing. The boiler house, solid brick struc-
ture, and brick smoke stack, over 20 feet
high, were demolished. A two story brick
stable adjacent was destroyed by fire. Five
men seriously injured, two of whom are
likely to die. Two hundred and fifty men
are temporarily thrown out of employment
by the damage to the mill.
On Tuesday afternoon, Lieutenant
Colonel Frederick Grant and Miss Ida
Maria Honore were married at the house of
the brides father, Mr.. II. H. Honore, in
Chicago. Among those present at the
ceremony were the President and Mrs.
Grant, General Babcock, Secretary Belk-
nap and wife, ex-Secretary Borie and wife,
General Sheridan, Gov. Beveridge and wife,
Vice President Wilson, Senator Logan,
General Ord, and General Custer and wife.
The newly married couple left for St. Louis
in the evening.
The Centennial Anniversary of the
burning of the brig Peggy Stewart, with a
cargo of tea, in the harbor of Annapolis,
in Baltimore and Annapolis on Monday
In Baltimore, bells were pealed and flags
displayed, the public schools and offices
were closed, and there was military
parade. In Annapolis there was an Grafton
by Professor Thomas Sharp, and in the
evening grand tea party in the Hall of
| Delegates, at which the State officials and
other prominent persons were present.
AT Milford, N. H., on Monday night,
six masked men entered the house of the
cashier of the Souhegan National Bank,
gagged him, and tied rope around his
neck, shut his wife, four children and a
servant in a closet, and then dragged him
| to the bank and compelled him to open the
vault. They took from the vault about
$780, 900 in securities. They then led the
| cashier back to the house, tied him to a
bed post, and escaped. About four O clock
in the morning the family forced open the
| closet and gave the alarm, but too late to
discover any trace Of the robbers.
MIR. II. b. Cobb, of Z. Cobb & Son, of
| Wilmington, Del, manu- facturers of Cobb's
patent car seat and bed spring, has invent
| ed a new and improved design in sleeping
| cars, for which patent has been asked
and which there is no reason to believe
will be refused. The design has already
been inspected by Mr.. A. B. Pullman,
Second Vice President of the Pullman Car
Co., who has barganed for the exclusive
| right to use the patent as soon as it shall
have been granted Its value is thus at
tested and an early and general introduce
| tion will soon be made.
The steamship Japan has arrived at
| San Francisco, with Yokohama advices to
September Goth. The French Government
was taking the lead in urging the opening
| up of the whole Japanese empire, the dis
position being to ''wrest this concession
from Japan in spite of all remonstrances. :"
On the 22nd ultimo the Mikado gave a
breakfast at his own residence to all the
foreign diplomats This was the first enter
tainment in which a japanese sovereign
has mingled freely with foreign guests and
received them at his table. The relations
with China remained in the same cond-
ton, but patriotic war spirit prevailed
throughout Japan.
The records of the General Land Office
| at Washington show that during the fiscal
year ending June Both, the total number
of acres of the public lands disposed of
| was $3.50, S73-a decrease of 3,499, 732
from the number disposed of the previous
year. The falling off is principally in lands
certified in aid of internal improvements
and railroads, swamp selections, and lands
granted for..educational purposes. The
decrease in lands certified to railroads
alone is 2,Sl9, 222 acres. In lands disposed
| of for actual settlement, the decrease is
only 274, 751 acres, but this is more than
made up by the entries under the @ Tim
Der Culture Act" which reached 500, 945
acres. The total area of the public domain
is 1884 998, 400 acres, of which 1,1S5, 605-,