The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-02

can practically make good their assertions
| in its favor \ furnace for cremation is
now actually in process of construction by
Friedrich Siemens, civil engineer. Its
cost is estimated at 5000 marks, or $3.50,
and it is calculated that the complete COM
bustion of a human corpse will take about
an hour.
Colonel Hodges, L. S. Quartermaster at
New Orleans, on Sunday received and
turned over to the distributing committee,
the victims of the flood, $4,000 lined sack
coats, the same number of forage caps and
| pairs of shoes, and 1000 blankets. On
Monday a steamer left Louisville with Is
| tons of Government rationS for the destitute
Louisianaians. There was no diminution
of tue floods up to that date. Advices
from the Teche county reported the waters
! still rising, and it was thought that por-
tions of Morgan's Texas Railroad would
be overfowed. AT Brashear City, the rail-
road embankment was the only ground not
submerged, and the storekeepers have
built bridges between it and their stores, as
it was the only thoroughfare left.
The quarterly session of the Grand
| Division of the Sons of Temperance of
! Western New York, at its recent session,
the following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted. Resolred, That this Grand
! Division learns with astonishment that a
great political party in this State, appears
to be determined to array itself deliber-
ately on the side of Sabbath desecI alton
and the liquor traffic, by the nomination
for re election of John A. Dix for Cover
nor, who, by veto message one year ago,
shocked the moral sentiment of the State.
! Res0tued, That no true temperance man
can consistently vote for Governor Dix,
and no party which places him on its ticket
can claim the confidence or support of the
temperance electors Of the State.
The repeated assertion that the West
| is strong for initiation is not borne out by
the statements of the leading journals and
influential business men in that section.
The Detroit Board of Trade met the other
day. and, declaring that it represented the
undoubted sense of the city and State.
adopted resolutions warmly praisng the
President for his veto. Speaking for Min
nesota, Tile ST. Paul Press says there is no
popular demand there Tor an expansion Of
the currency, but that all the people ask
is that Congress give them stable cur
rency and then leave it alone. 1t feels
assured that the same thing is becoming
true of the entire West each day, now that
| the hard common sense of the people is
reasserting itself
The House Postal Committee are ma
turing bills to require the prepayment of
postage on all printed matter. and to revise
postmasters' salaries, reducing those in
the country towns, and increasing those in
the large cities. The new scedule will be
reported by the committee at its next call,
which will be in two or three weeks. This
includes the payment of postage on news
paper. In speaking of this the German
town Telegraph very APPLY remarks: If the
rate should be put at low figure, no. over
five cents year. we should approve of it,;
but beyond this it would be great hard
ship upon newspaper publishers and cause
would be lost than gained by the Depart
ment. There has been vast deal of tin
kering with the post-office laws in the last
ten years, and we should like to know the
good resulting from it.
The Erie, pa Dispatch says: A man
from the ''beech woods )" applied to the
proprietor of a foundry, corner State and
Eleventh streets, for big iron kettle. He
wanted bigger one than any for which
they had pattern, and was Informed that
such one as he wanted would cost sixty
dollars. The price didn't seem to worry
him, but when the kettle was made lie
refused to take it, and the firm used and
got judgment against him for the amount
and attached the kettle though it was still
at the foundry as part of his effects. This
was no sooner done than the greeny Fl ON
the beech woods claimed the 5000 exemp-
ton permitted by law, and the claim being
allowed, and he having no property at all,
seized the kettle as sixty dollars worth of
the amount, and had the impudence to ask
the constable, who was doing the business,
if he couldn't look around and find him
$3.50 worth more of stuff to ill out his
exemption quota.
The sewers of Paris deserve to rank
among the wonders of the world. They
are traversed through a great portion of
their extent by railways and are as free
from unpleasant odor the streets above
them. Passage through the remaining
portion is effected by means of boats
Along the magnificent sewers are carried
the wires of the telegraph as well as the
pnuematic tubes for the transmission of
small packages by atmospheric pressure.
The stream of water passing through the
main sewer is SO swift that not bit of
anything is seen floating along. They are
kept free from any large amount Of sewage
deposit by means of peculiarly constructed
barges, each of which does the work of a
hundred men. The smaller ones are kept
clean by hand, 630 men being employed for
they enter the sewers, rarely exceeds 10
years. 1t is by such perfect system of
sewage that Paris has earned the enviable
title of being the cleanest city in the world.
All the solid matter is utilized and made
to pay revenue to the city largely exceed
ing the interest on the original cost of the
sewers.
The danger of a sectional war growing
out Of the initiation veto is secuted by The
Wheeling (Na.) MteHigencer. 1t says the
present outbursts of passion will not
amount to anything few months hence,
and that any attempt to make initiation an
issue in the South and West will fail
There is nothing in the currency question,
it says, as a sectional issue, since more
money would have the same effect on all
sections. 1t then places the whole subject
in a nutshell by showing that it is not
scarcity of currency which ails the South
and West, but scarcity of values in the
shape of surplus cotton, tobacco, wheat,
corn, and pork. Continuing, it says, 1.-The
West shipped $500 000 900 worth of provi-
sions to England last year, and could have
shipped more if she had had more to spare.
She is as well off to day as compared with
what she would have been had her various
crops failed. Another year, if she has
large crops, will probably give her money
| enough 10 entlTely cnaISe tne present sec
tional prejudice engendered by the Veto
In few years the West and South will
both be very rich in surplus capital. The
present feeling is, therefore, not founded
on an issue that will endure. There is no
"peculiar institution to sustain it.
Five years of prosperity will bury it in
oblivion with the mass of excitements that
are continually springing up and dying out
in Il great country like this
John Short, the prisoner who ran a
whisky still in ng-Sing Prison, says he
earned $50 a day with the original STILL
which he worked with small lamps for a
whole year, until "blown on by another
convict, to whom he refused credit OF
course an officer of the prison was part
ner. At the same time they made large
profits on Struggled groceries, tobacco and
segars, estimated at 1000 per cent. The
keeper, who was with him, was able to
build FOUR story house with his share.
Subsequently small copper still and some
worms were struggled into the prison, and
set up in an Clubhouse, where gunpowder
| and nitro o1ycprinp for h1aStipp ra