The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-03-07
GENERAL NEWS.

| Peach trees are in bloom in Caroline
county.
The Wilmington Conference met at
Salisbury, Md, on Wednesday.
-Shad have been caught in lower Chop
tank river, in Somerset county.
Chief Justice Waite was sworn in on
Wednesday, and took his seat upon the
bench.
The public debt statement for March
list shows a decrease of So, $50, 047 during
February.
The State Grange of Maryland met at
Baltimore, on Wednesday, Al subordinate
Oranges being represented.
Dispatches received at Detroit from
the upper lake ports indicate an unusually
early opening of navigation.
The State constables seized some ST.
500 worth of liquors at the Revere House,
Boston, on Saturday last
| In Indiana there are now 14J0 oranges
of Patrons of Husbandry, an average of 1G
to each country in the State.
In New Orleans they label hotel thieves
on the back "hotel thief" and march
| them around to all the hotels for inspec-
| ton.
In Adelphia, a town in Ohio. the sa-
loon keepers fought the praying women
with blasphemy, but surrendered in the
evening.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
ordered the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell 100000 in gold during
March.
In the New Jersey House of Repre-
senta'ives, on Monday, two bills were in
troduced providing for the compulsory
education of all children between the ages
of and A.
Lewis Lambot, a machinist, was az
rested i'll Newark, on the charge of coun-
terfeiting five cent pieces. Il quantity of
| the counterfeit coin and all the machinery
for carrying on the business were found in
his house.
| The Legislature of Wisconsin has pass
ed bill reducing the rates of storage in
warehouses from two cents to one cent per
bushel. Also one regulating passenger
and freight tariff on railroads, largely re-
ducing the rates.
The bark Everett Gray, Of Yarmouth,
Me-, which arrived at New York on Mon
day from Matanzas, reports that on Feb
ruary 18th, when OFF Havana, she was
boarded and searched by a force of Span
ish soldiers.
The temperance mo vement at Column
bus, Ohio, has converted prominent res
taurant keeper from the sale of liquor and
induced a brewer to promise that =. he will
never brew another keg of beer This
has greatly encouraged the women, and
they will carry ON the war with renewed
vigor.
The election in Paducah, Ky, on Mon
| day on the question of liquor selling.
which was decided in favor of liquor, was
the first held in Kentucky under the provi-
sions of an act providing for the holding
of such elections III cities and counties on
petition of twenty citizens.
The receipts of the National Govern
ment during the quarter ending December
81 are officially reported at $50, 521, 596.
| OF this amount S31 1893, 449 were the net
receipts from customs and S22, sos, 064 from
internal revenue. The net expenditures
during the same period were $G2, 1888 7777.
The President has directed the Attor-
ney General to prepare papers for the re-
mission Of the fines and imprisonment of
the election inspectors in Rochester, N. Y,
who were convicted in June last of regis
ing aud receiving the votes of Susan b.
Anthony and other women. These inspec-
tors are now in prison.
The suit of Luther G.. Challis, against
Woodruff, Clatlin and Blood, for the infa-
nous and obscene charges brought against
him in WoodhuH and CldRin's Weekly, was
brought to trial yesterday. The defend
ants are now confined in Ludlow street
Jail, their sureties having surrendered
them into the hands of the Sheriff
The Tichborne case has been brought
to an end. After a trial of many weeks
1t was given to the jury on Friday after
noon, 9th ult., and on Saturday morning
verdict was rendered against the claimant
on all three counts. The Court sentenced
him to fourteen years Imprisonment.
Mrs. Sarah c. Desney, widow of a mem
Der of Congress from Ohio, has brought
suit for 800, 600 against the proprietors of
a New York omnibus line, from one of
whose stages. while getting out, she was
thrown violently to the ground and serious
ly injured, the horses having been started
too soon
Tile Commissioner of Internal Reye-
me reports to the Senate that during the
last six months go illicit distlleries have
been suppressed. Of these, - were in
North Carolina, II in Tennessee. 81 in
! Georgia, 20 in Kentucky and 10 in Eir-
ginia. The capacity varied from Is to
1000 gallons, the daily average being 80
gallons.
The appiehensions of disaster to Sir
Garnet Wolseley's army on the Gold Coast.
which were Sllral in even by the
War Office, have been happily dispeled
later dispatches confirming the accounts of
the great victory over the Ashantees pre-
viously reported The King of .Ashantee
has surrendered himself prisoner to the
English commander.
Two freight trains consisting of II
cars of tea and silk worm eggs, from San
| Francisco, passed through Baltimore on
| Friday night, for New York. This is the
first consignment of through freight from
California, which has passed over the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. The run from
San Francisco to Baltimore was made in
IA days.
The Hon. Robert Fowler died at Bar
NUNS Hotel on Tuesday night of pneu-
monia, contracted at Annapolis some six
weeks since. Mr.. Fowler was member of
the House of Delegates being one of the
six representatives from Baltimore county,
and it is supposed that the disease, which
proved fatal, was supelinduced by the i'm
perfect ventilation Of the hall in which
that body meets.
The miners who have been fighting
the fire in the Empton Mine for two months,
ceased their labors on Monday being con
WINGED further effort would be hazardous
and unavailing. The same evening a large
portion of the mine caved in, giving free
scope to the fire, which now threatens
utter ruin 10 one of the most valuable
mines of the Wilkesbarre and Lehigh.
People leaving near the mine are prepar-
ing to leave the dangerous vicinity.
The Indians are becoming very trou-
blesome to the settlers in Loup Valley, Ne
braska, and the settlers have applied to
Gen. Ord for protection. Some of them
have left thevaley, and the others say they
will have to leave if protection is not given
them. Later reports fom the Red Cloud
Agency are to the effect that many of the
Indians heretofore reported pcaceablc are
becoming hostile. Troops will leave Fort
Laramie this week to watch their move
mentS.
Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has
brought suit for libel against the Detroit
| Tribune, and claims 100000 damages
| The libel is contained in a special despatch
! from Washington. dated February Goth