The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-11
GENERAL NEWS,


the Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad, and the
cnterprising company are now carrying the
mails and passengers on hand car.
Miss Carrie Ostrander, who was injured
by tie falling of the church floor at SYRIA
case on the 23d ultimo, died on Monday
evening, making the fourteenth victim Of
the disaster.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens announ-
ces, in reply to n letter from number of
his constituents, that his health will not
permit him to be candidate for re election
to Congress.
On Tuesday the thermometer marked
1902 in Cincinnati, 95O in Chicago, and
about the same figures generally through.
out Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, We suf-
fered at about SOC only in the East.
The amalgamaton and consolidation
of the Mississippi Central, and the New
Orleans, St Louis and Chicago Railroad
Companies have been completed. Colonel
II. S. McComb, of Wilmington, Del, has
been unanimously elected President of the
Company.
Official reports of the Indian attack on
St. Joseph. near Pembina, show that the
savages killed family of six or eight per-
sons, and burned several houses. The
citizens of Pembina are organizing for self
protection. The commanding officer at
Pembina sent one company of U. S. SOL
diers to st. Joseph.
Capt. Colby, of the steamer Falmouth,
who arrived at Halifax, July 9th, from
Portland, reports that on Sunday afternoon,
off Seal Island, he passed brig rugged
steamship, with cable-laying gear attached
to her bows. 1t is supposed to be the mis-
sing steamship Faraday. The Ambassador,
which was sent in search of the Furdddy
arrived at Halifax ON the afternoon of ] uly
9th. Later accounts are to the effect that
the Furaday arrived at Portsmouth, n. H.,
on the afternoon of July 9th, all right, hav-
ing been detained several days by excessive
fogs. The Ambassador is expected to re-
turn to Portsmouth Immediately, when the
cable will be laid forthwith.
Notwithstanding that over 100, 900, 900
of postal cards were sold during the fiscal
year that closed on the 30th of June, the
postage stamps sold increased from COL
931, $50 to 632, 733 400. There were also
issued over $4,000 900 official stamps for
the Government. The number of stamp
ed envelopes that were sold has not yet
been made public. The total value of all
the adhesive stamps issued was over $685.
100000 Doubtless the abolition of the
with the increased sale of stamps.
The Nathan mansion is now being torn
down, and ON its site magnificent build
ing will be erected for business purposes.
A discovery was made by one of the work
men engaged in removing the dumb-waiter
day or two ago, which has not only re-
vived the recollection of the mysterious
tragedy, but may possibly afford some clue
to the murderer, who has thus far escaped.
A package was taken from one of the con-
cealed recesses of tie apparatus, which on
being opened proved to be bloody night
shirt. 1t is said that the word Nathan
appears in indelible ink under the collar.
Who wore this shirt on the night of the
murder?
An official report from India Agent
Miles shows that the hostile Cheyennes,
Comanches and Kiowas, are on the war
path in the Indian Territory. Five war
parties appear to be moving in the direc-
ton of the trail from the Cheyenne agency
to Caldwell, Kansas. They are plundering
and destroying everything in their way,
and have already murdered and scalped five
white men. One of their victims was tied
to his wagon and burned to death. The
agent asks for soldiers to "strike the hostile
clement and the War Department has
ordered troops to proceed to the points
designated by him. The hostile tribes
number about 5000 warriors, and serious
trouble, if not an Indian war, is feared by
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
u. S. Marshal Dunn and number of
deputies left Wilmington, Delaware, on
Sunday night, on the revenue cutter Hamil-
ton, for the Breakwater, where they ar
rested seven men, on the charge of having
Id e. hi ~
tic, about the LIST of June. Their names
are VIM. G. Ellegood. Joshua Ellegood,
VIM. Ellegood, Jr., VIM. Crosby, Alton
Crosby, Samuel Marshall and Andrew H.
Baker. The seven smugglers had hear
ing before United States Commissioner, s.
r. Smith on Wednesday morning. Evil
dence was adduced to the effect that VIM.
S. Crosby, Alton Crosby, VIM. II. Ellegood
and VIM. II. Ellegood, Jr., had been con-
nected with the smuggling Of sugar. The
accused were held to bail in the sum of
81, 900 each to answer the charge at the
September term of the United States Dis
trict Court. Andrew Baker, whe was
charged with receiving struggled goods,
admitted the charge. He was held for
trial in the sum of $500 bail. VIM. II.
Ellegood and Samuel Marshall were dis
charged, the evidence not being sufficient
to warrant their retention for trial.
"A great storm swept overa large por-
ton of the country, on Saturday evening,
which did great deal of damage to the
crops in some sections of Maryland, and
many barns and sheds were blown down.
In Montgomery county the hurricane of the
early evening was supplemented with
hail storm at midnight, which demolished
windows, stripped the fruit trees and beat
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