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

N. :. Mr.. Wright sSnfident that he
can ,lesh and cleanas bushel of wheat
per lutte. The msans is now at work
on tearm occupied FMichael Keegan,
anday one desiring % see a first-class
piecemachinery shoaigo and look at it.
3.
Th ostal Car CslIuTersy.-The con-
trowsbetween Nj. Hnckley, President
of tie | W. & B. Rshoad and the Post
Offie Dartment, appears to have become
quit, though no yaement has been
reaced,y the containing parties. Mr..
Hinkle, last letter despatch to the
Deprtmt, insisted that if the Govern.
men cGinued to use heir cars that he
wom list on the term,which he offered,
that's enills in placsd5 mills per liueal
footof .rs used per nile. The Post.
masr-tneral declared most emphatically
thathe I'd no option in the matter, that
Conreaad fixed thsnilroad compensa-
tion :. Hinckley GEMS satisfied to
allo thmails to 90 under his last assur,
anceto,e Department that a tender OF
the nilHould be consdered as an accept.
ancs lis terms, and the Department
willing tsend them, after repeated Motif,
catias Mr. Hinckleyha no more would
be pii an is allowed E law. The letter
pla0 lch stress upon the fact that the
Deptmt pays the rod from Mantua to
Gras Fry, of whichhis also President,
a nchbigher rate pr mile than the
Phiiehi;., Wilmingtn and Baltimore
Roa
Tctract on the hntua and Gray's
FerR,d, which is brthree miles long,
waadmany years az, and is nominally
deninied messenger srvice. An effort
wasas to induce th Department te
cont or service oveiIhe Pennsylvania
Roaich is fifty-one niles longer, at a
hxee per mile, ah then allow the
mai! the conveniens of all parties, tc
60 b of that road Ger Mr.. Hinckley's
= tratr the Postmasr- General refused
to ut to any such arrangement.
: StliVery.-On Rday evening last
r abark, three prisoners escaped from
p Eijail BY scaling tho wall, by the use
:, Oh ladder they constructed of debri:
), anicking and Blankets. The mater
la'f which they s1temporized theil
e la''her than the blankets and bee
t t'swas procured from a vault, Oh
It racancy left under the cells on the
d mn; an opening leading into these
+ r@nder the cells from the Jail yarc
l. weed by removing small iron rod
If ,Nsecret caverns nails, pieces o
le "~hs, &C., were found in abundance.
,r wy had been dropped by the work
al nm building the Jail, and had lair
Of uSed till found out by the prisoners
F." Asr was made in sections in thes'
'g pfence the noise could not reacl
in I'VE, and when completed, the sec
ID ~ dashed together, forming a lad
ID N-enough to reach the top of thu
in opportunity, which they though
Ii twas watched to make their ext
ne all yard where the prisoners arr
lis -. - exercise in the open air, durin!
fy me, and are locked in the cells a
be @ies who made their escape wer'
'-s'e (colored,) who was chargee
n n"ptlng to commit rape at Por
lis white man named Hammond
ng NTH the larceny of a knife frou
jill sf R. H. Bell; and John Kennel.
n. ,sceny of shoes from the shop o
he 1rnck, Of Chesapeake City, ant
en- lash, of this town. The escap'
eiy sabout dark, the Sheriff having
,m IN ~ bis family was detained from
ey "a the prisoners somewhat late
by a. usual hour for locking up, ane
qsnediately discover their escape
81 ~ Sheriff, Mr.. A. J. Scott, being
M ~ oay' was not about the Jail, bu
NJ. ~, the escape of the prisoners
'err thy went in search of the fugi
.nt =. IT, corn lots back of the Jail were
Ir. m, . number Of persons who soor
he d., ,he a.t the news circulated of the
he hs' becoming satisfied that they
,es es var OF the town, Mr.. Scott go
nd ts oldham to accompany Tim ane
as ~, 1,0r Ash's bridge, a point on thu
D. ~ tween Elkton and Newak; ant
led led Image with Thomas Wright ane
len s. sckley took another road or the
sor ~ Not finding any trac'of the
: NJ, ~ the bridge after waitis somt
''n =. = started for Newark, WIRE the
Al sa till after the half-pasuine P
the t.. passed up, which brosht nc
age Z ttae runaway. The ofriss con
at .a's below The depot, win neal
5 ; 1s 1.-TWO men came up the riroad,
l' " together, the voice ofno O
=, - ! Scott '% recognized. The aicer:
men IStlll the men came withia few
Que wi, when they sprang ) ano
md both They provedo be
u snu the colored boy Rees who
l. ucteG oack to their old qrters
ehn Kennedy, who was first
ed. nad msde off before IL two
and over tie wall, and they new
y him' Tor has he been caro-