The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-02-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty car loads of tea from San
Francisco arrived at Omaha on Saturday.
~ IF you want the best Plow, go to
MICHENER, at Colora.
The demand for the postal cards has
settled down to between eight and nine
millions per month.
The Senate of Kansas on Saturday
passed joint resolution submitting the
question of female suffrage to q vote of the
people.
Work at all the ice houses along the
Hudson ceased on Saturday night, and the
harvest is regarded as over. 1t is estimat-
ed that 100000 tons have been gathered.
Rev. John Bachman, Luthern cler-
gyman, distinguished as naturalist and a
lifelong friend and co laborer of Audubon
and Agassz, is dead. He was s. years of
age.
The business of the Patent Office at
Washington is now larger than at any
previous period. During the last two
weeks no less than 1899 applications for
patents were received.
The female temperance war In Sturgis,
Michigan, has been 4 complete success.
Every liquor store in the town is closed,
and the druggists have given bonds to sell
'iNoioiic oPiils ouiy III dCCoIudNCe Will
law
Some of the black cloth gentlemen
pronounce the Women Crusade against
intemperance, basphemy 1t may be
blasphemy from theological stand point,
but it appears to be kind of blasphemy
that makes the DEVILS chickens squalk.
The Indian troubles of the Red Cloud
Agency are said to have sprung from the
furnishing of supplies of flour absolutely
unfit for use by civilized or savage men,"
and it is stated that this Hour was sub
stituted for a good article that had passed
inspection at st. Louis.
The Congressional Temperance Society
held two large public meetings in Wash
ington, on Sunday. They were presided
over by Representative Cessna, of Penn
sylvania, and Senator Morrill,, of Maine.
DR.. Chickering reported that canvass in
Congress showed that one fourth of the
members 'stand on the society's abstin-
ence platform"
1t was stated at the Congressional
Temperance meeting, on Sunday, that a
praying crusade was about to be started
against the liquor saloons in Washington
A meeting of temperance people was to be
held in Louisville on Sunday to arrange for
mass meetings are reported throughout
Ohio. In Hillsboro, however, the saloon
keepers who were prayed into closing their
saloons say they will resume the selling of
liquor, Gin accordance with the law
City of Mexico advices to the 18th
instant, report a frightful affair in the
State of Vera Cruz. The townsmen of
Quimixtlan and Huascaleca in that State,
had dispute ending in a fight in which
seventeen persons were killed. The Huas-
calecans then went to Quimixtlan, and
began an indiscriminate attack upon its
inhabitants, killing the children and cut
ting off the breasts Of the women. A
neighborlng town sent militia detach-
ment to the scene to stop the atrocities
"A report has reached London that a
great battle has been fought in Coomassie,
the Capital of Ashantee, between Sir Gar
nett Wolseley's forces and the natives
The engagement is said to have lasted the
whole day without any decided result, and
the loss to the British is set down at 300,
including many officers. Later dispatches
state that the engagement took place at
Acroimboo, instead at Coomassie, and
upon January 81; the names of two Eng
lish officers are given. who are known to
have been killed, and the principal war
chief Of the Ashantees is also slain. The
Ashantees completely surrounded the army,
so overwhelming was their force. The
English papers regard it rs a great disaster
to the English arms and think that retreat
to the coast is inevitable.
The anti liquor crusade has reached
Staten Island, where some women took
advantage of the absence of saloon keep
er on Friday to hold a prayer meeting in
his saloon. The women of Orange, n. j.,
were to have begun movement on Satur-
day. 1t is reported that the Trustees of
Trinity Church, in New York, influenced
by representations of many of the old
church members, especially the women,
have decided not to release any of the
property of Trinity corporation to liquor
sellers. This, it is stated, will turn out
about forty retail liquor dealers. who are
Trinity's tenants, by May first. Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher approves of the pray
ing crusade, and calls it ga moral cy-
Clone The crusade in New York city
was initiated on Sunday evening, by meet
ings in the Church of the Strangers and
the Seventeenth Street Baptist Church.
A strong opposition to the movement is
expected, but the cold water people" are
sanguine.