The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-08-22
GENERAL NEW :.

MIR. Jewell, the new Postmaster Gen.
eral, arrived in New York on Wednesday
night.
"A railway collision occurred on Satur-
day last, on the Trenton Branch of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, about twelve miles
from Philadelphia. An excursion train
with a Lodge of American Mechanics on
board ran into coal train, telescoping two
cars, killing three persons, and wounding a
number of others.
The National Era, Fred. Douglass
paper, in commenting upon the general
adverse criticisms on South Carolina, in
sists that the maladministration in that
State is not due to the negroes as mass,
but to individual negroes, assisted by car
pet baggers and Democrats, and urges that
the whole race should not be denounced on
account of some of its members.
According to the Chicago Tribune the
wheat crop of the entire Northwest pro-
misses to be little greater than that of
last year, though the quantity will be
slightly inferior. The deterioration in quail
ity is chiefly in what is known as Minnesota
wheat. Iowa and Nebraska wheat will
prove to be fully equal to, if not better,
than that from the same sections last year.
The Pennsylvania coal operators have
over stocked the market, and despatch
from Poitsville states that there was a
general suspension of work at the principal
colleries throughout the Schuylkill and
Luzerne regions from Tuesday until the list
of September. Very little coal has been
mined during the last few days, and the
cars which have been sent to the mines
have mainly stood there empty.
A I'LL
have been greatly injured by excessively
hot and dry weather. In Arkansas not
more than fourth Of the usual harvest is
expected. In Kentucky, returns of the
tobacco crop from fifty counties, covering
three-fourtbs Of the tobacco area of the
State, which are published in the Louisville
Courier-Journal, indicate crop equal to
only thirteen per cent of the average annual
yield.
The peace policy has at last achieved a
position of success with the Indians. The
Cheyennes started out on the war path
early in the Summer, and there appears to
have been no troops to spare to send after
them. Having spent few months in
roaming around and eaten up all their pro-
visions, they are now returning to the
Agencies in a starving condition. Thus is
the medium of his stomach.
Lynch law seems to be working its way
northward. The laborers employed in
building the Breakwater and frankfort
Railroad in Delaware, having failed to
receive their wages they marched up to
Georgetown on Monday, and pleasantly
exhibited to the contractor a rope with a
hangman's knot in it, as an intimation of
ho
soon forthcoming. After some displomacy,
cheerful designs for few days, at which
time they intend to have greenbacks or
blood.
The Pennsylvania Republican Conven-
ton was held at Harrisburg on Wednes-
day. The nominations were A. G. Ohm
stead for Lieutenant Governor, E. NJ. Pax
son for Judge of the Supreme Court, Har-
rison Allen for Auditor General, and R. X.
Beath for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
All the latter three are denominations.
Among the resolutions is one nominating
Gov. Hartranft for the next Presidency,
and Congressman Dickey took occasion to
say that this was put forward because Gen.
eral Grant did not desire third term, and
was not in a position to say SO. The ticket
In almost every Department of the
Government there is an effort being made
to reform matters and reduce expenses.
The Secretary of the Treasury has per-
fected reduction and reorganization of
his force, which has been paid in loose
manner out of the indefinite appropriations
for expenses of national loans. This fund
amounted annually to between $4,000, 900
and 100000. The Investigations con-
Quoted by the House Committee on Appro-
priations last Winter, demonstrated that
this large SUM in many instances was grossly
misused, and practically in compromising
favorite officials and clerks, in addition to
their pay, besides allowing them expenses
while absent on unnecessary tours to Eu.
rope. The reorganization has wiped out a
large number of drones and eaters, who
were on the rolls of the general funds with
out doing a stroke of duty. 1t has also
operated as a check upon importuning
politicians in search of sinecures for their
friends, and, above all, it is a practical
reformation and retrenchment.