The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-04
GENERAL NEWS.

Monday was pronounced tho hottest
day in New York in many years. The
thermometer in that city marking 1929 in
the shade at o'clock P. NJ.
"A Halifax despatch says it is reported
that there will be a larger catch of mack
erel this season than at any time during
the past twenty years.
The post office at Rehoboth Beach has
been opened for the season. The camr
meeting promises to be larger than last yeal
and boarding moderate in price.
Marshal Concha, Commander in Chief
of the Republican army of Spain, was
killed on Saturday in a battle against the
Carlists, who are besiegng Estella.
The Massachusetts Legislature ad,
Journed sine die on Wednesday. Among
the bills passed was one declaring women
eligible for service on School Committees.
The strawberry shipments for the en-
tire peninsula this season run up to the
enormous number of 7,470, 400 quarts-an
excess of about 5000, 600 quarts over last
year.
The new elevator of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, at Locust Point, Balti-
more, was opened Tuesday for the receipt
OF Western grain. 1t has a storage capac.
ity of l, 800, 900 bushels.
The Treasury will sell 81, 900, 900 in
gold on each Thursday in July, making
$5,OO0,000 for the month. If it would
hoard that gold it might resume specie
payment in few months.
Governor Tolbot of Massachusetts,.
vetoed liquor license bill passed by the
Legislature. Massachusetts, has prohibi-
10 md t1n I ~.,1,
to introduce greg again.
Hugh Donahue completed the feat of
walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, at Spring
held, Mass, on Saturday morning. He
nearly broke down on Friday night, and
his strength was almost gone when he fin
ished his task.
Most of the Cabinet officers left Wash
lngton this week, Secretary Fish to West
Point, Secretary Robson to Rye Beach,
and Secretary Delano to Mount Vernon,
Ohio. Internal Revenue Commissioner
Douglass is visiting his home in Pennsyl-
vania, and Colonel Rodgers is acting com
missioner during his absence.
During the month of June five hun.
and sixty post offices were established and
ninety eight re-established for the purpose
Of prompt accommodation to the towns,
villages and neighborhoods along the many
routes which, under recent lettings, were
put in operation. These, with other changes
and appointments, show over one thousand
appointment cases in two weeks.
The English Government is now en-
gagged in the stupendous undertaking of
furnishing three millions of people with
food enough to keep them from starvation
until the Fall crop is harvested. The re-
ports in regard to the growing crops are
favorable, but in the meantime the pressure
for food is fearful, and in some instances
has resulted in rioting and bloodshed.
There was a reduction of the public
debt to the extent of $2,1S0, 1876 "a during
June. Since June 80, 1878, there has been
a decrease of 81, $50, 472 al, notwithstand-
ing that during several months of the year
there were considerable additions to the
debt. The revenues, both from internal
taxes and customs duties, were greater
last month than in the corresponding
month of 1878.
Marine telegraphy sustains a serious
loss in the sinking of the Faraday, the
magnificent steamship, the second or third
largest ever built, which occurred few
days ago, in consequence of collision
with an iceberg. The Farady was espe-
immense cost, and was a splendid speci-
men of naval architecture. She had near
ly two hundred souls on board at the time
of the disaster, concerning whose fate we
are in ignorance.
Monday last was one of the hottest
days of the season. The intense heat was
general throughout the country. The Sig
nal Service office reports the thermometer
as marking 81 degrees in the shade in Bal
timore. AT Washington it was SO degrees,
Philadelphia 95, New York 90, and Boston
"a, whilst farther to the southwark the
temperature was more moderate. Charles
ton reports 50 degrees, New Orleans 80,
and Augusta 80.
Harvesting has commenced in Cali
fornia and the yield of grain is described
as "enormous." After a while the specu-
lators will have bought up the greater part
of the wheat crop of the country ut low
figure, and the report will be started and
circulated through all the papers, that the
wheat crop was not SO large after all, and
the price will 60 up, and the farmers will
grumble, and some of the spectators will
make fortunes. But some of them will
burst up which will be some consolation to
the farmers.
-Advices from Dodge City, Kansas,
confirm previous reports of Indian hostili-
ties in that neighborhood. The Indians
have killed two hunters at Dolby Wells,
and two other men near Canadian river,
and have killed and scalped man named
Warren near Mulberry Creek. A party of
citizens, including James Hanrahan, who
left Dodge City for the Canadian river, on
the It'll, were attacked and lost their stock,
and as they have not been heard of since,
it is feared they have been massacred. At
Camp Supply soldiers have been wounded
and lot of stock has been stolen
The French Canadian Convention was
held at Montreal on Friday, at which about
five Thousand persons, including the dele
gates and their friends, were present A
| report was submitted showing that during
the past twenty-fi years 500, 600 Canadi-
ans have emigrated to the United States.
1t was urged that the return of these emil
grants would place Quebec at the head of
the Canadian Confederation, and to secure
their return, gratuitous grants of land,
free passage to Montreal. the improvement
of the roads in the Province, and other
inducements were recommended. The re-
port was adopted, and the Convention soon
after adjourned.
Tuesday was dark day at Washing
ton among the clerks. 37J female clerks
in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
were discharged. Fourteen of the girls
tainted when the news of their discharge
reached them. About fifty clerks in the
Interior Department were dismissed. The
clerical force in all the departments will be
greatly reduced, aggregating several hun
dred more. 1t is said that the city post
offices and other offices under the Federal
Government are full of superfluous clerks
which if weeded out would effect great
saving and add to the efficiency of the SER
vice. At the Baltimore Custom House on
Tuesday ten employees were discharged,
not on score of economy, but because
other men wanted their places. Ten new
appointments were made by the Collector.
"A statement prepared in the Office of
the Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Department shows that from 1900 to 1878
the total expenditures of the United States
on buildings and other public improve
ments in the District of Columbia we're
$65, TAG, 500. The largest items are the
following: For the Capitol, $12, s51, 500;
Treasury building, Sc, 476, 500 Washing
ton aqueduct, $3,Gl2, 552; avenues and
streets, $3,647,817; navy-yard, So, 2O3, 296;
hospitals and charitable institutions, ST.
575, 342; Patent Office building, 50, 500, 145;
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