The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-08-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Gold declined to 109 on Tuesday, the
lowest point touched for long time by
the yellow mettle.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment left
Long Branch on Wednesday afternoon for
New York, where they were received and
entertained by the Seventh Regiment.
An Omaha despatch says the grass
hoppers were blown out of Nebraska, on
Saturday night, by severe storm of wind.
Much produce that had been given up for
lost will be saved.
The Delaware State Republican Con-
vention met at Georgetown, on Tuesday
last. DR.. Isaac Jump, of Dover, was
nominated for Governor and James X.
Lotiand, of Milford, for Congress.
-Donaldson's balloon passed up the
Hudson on Tuesday evening At o. clock
it moved along Peekskill Bay, about 200
feet above the surface of the water. 1t
then rose to height of about 1000 feet,
and passed over Cold Spring.
-Sewell c. Biggs, Esq, of Summit
Bridge, has shipped early varieties of
peaches to New York, for which he received
IS per crate. Charles B. Lore, Esq, also
shipped peaches from his farm in Somerset
county, Mary land, at similar rates.
"A general tone of joy pervades the
Democratic newspapers of Connecticut,
that the Legislature has adjourned with
out accomplishing more damage. 1t was a
disgracefnlly partisan body, that has turn
ed out competent officials to make room
for ring politicians, and has changed the
registry laws in the interest of fraudulent
voting. After ALL it was fair specimen
of Democratic "reform."
"A serious explosion of gas took place
in the shoe factory of Babb, Cox & Co., at
Gainesville, Pa, on Tuesday night. About
nine o'clock, Thomas c. Babb and his son
Willie, F. H. Beckel and H. A. Bessey,
the foreman, went into the cellar to repair
a leak in the gas pipe. The striking of a
match caused the explosion, which knock
ed out about thirty feet of the side of the
building, and made the third floor fall
down upon the second. All those in the
cellar were badly burned.
AT Jermyn, in Luzerne county, on
Wednesday morning, Alfred Green, a coal
mine superintendent, while on his way to
inspect the mine before the men should
men, who asked him to give them employ
ment. He said he could not do so, as he
had full force of hands. The men drew
revolvers and fired nine shots at Green,
wounding him in the shoulder and side.
His cries brought Robert Pierce and Ed
ward McCracken to his assistance, when
they, too, were attacked by the ruffins.
Pierce thereupon drew a revolver and shot
one of the strangers dead. The others ran
off, but not before one of them was wound
ed. A rumor reached Wilkesbarre last
night that the wounded man had been cap
tured and lynched at Jermyn. The wounds
of Mr.. Green are dangerous, but not ex-
pected to prove fatal.
Brigham Young has been interviewed
upon things in general. He says that the
Mormons were the first to suggest the idea
of building a railroad from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and that as far back as 1852 the
Territorial Legislature had memoralized
Congress on the subject. Before the days
of the railroad he erected cotton mill at
Salt Lake, the machinery of which was
transported across the Plains and noun
tans by OK teams. The cotton used in the
Mormon factories is grown in Southern
Utah, and is fully equal to that raised in
Tennessee. Mr.. Young added that he is
now experimenting on the propagation of
fish and oysters in the river Jordan, and
hopes to succeed. The first intmation he
had of Utah was from Fremonts book, in
WHICH lue ueHeidi uesCllped Cdlt Ldho,
stating that it was salt at the northern end
and fresh at the southern end. This was a
mistake, caused by the fact that Fremont,
in going westward, passed the northern
extremity of Salt Lake, and in returning
passed Utah Lake, which is further south,
and fresh. From Fremont's book, aided
by information given by Indians and hun
tiers, Brigham Young was enabled to find
the lake, near the shores of which he
founded great city.