The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-05


and also, to put mail upon the early
afternoon trains in each direction. This
would give, in addition to the morning and
night mails, now sent, a mail from WASH
ington to New York, starting at 70 A. N.
and another at P. NJ, and two new mails
from New York to Washington. leaving
New York at $50 A. N. and 2.55 p. NJ.
The necessity for these mails is very great,
and it is not believed the companies will
refuse to carry them.
"A report of a horrible murder and sui
eide has reached Troy, N. Y. A carpenter
named Elias Williams recently began the
erection of frame house in forest dis
trict of Hamilton county, N. Y, and hired
George Smith to assist him in its construc-
ton. A few days since they got drunk and
quarrelled, when Williams threw Smith
upon wooden saw horse and held him
there until he sawed his head off with
hand saw. When conscious of what he
had done, Williams committed suicide by
cutting his own throat. A boy named
Grant, who saw the tragedy, carried the
news to the nearest neighbors, two miles
distant, and they buried the bodies of the
men.
The investigations into the Jay Cook
& Co. business reveals one of the grandest
wild cat operations of the age, and yet the
projectors believed they were embarked in
a fair and what would prove eventually to
be, a profitable enterprise all round; and
the meeting of the creditors in Philadelphia
on Tuesday, will not afford great deal of
comfort to anxious people who are waiting
to get back some of their money from the
assets of the bankrupts. The order for a
dividend has been revoked, and it hardly
seems possible that any can soon be made.
There is less than half million of dollars
now applicable to the payment of claims,
the amount of which are not known and
will not be until a tedious process of litiga-
ton is ended. The members of the firm
owe individually that much money, and if
their creditors are paid there will be only a
few dollars left for depostors and the credi-
tors of the firm generally.
Judge Barrett, in the Court of Oyer
and Terminer, quashed the habeas corpus,
on Wednesday, sued out by the counsel for
Boss Tweed's release from Jail. So that
dodge has failed to release this model thief
The next proceeding in behalf of Tweed
will probably be the taking of writ of
error to the Court of Appeals. \ letter
from Governor Dix to Mayor Havemeyor
has just been published, which gives sou.
account of the prison life of this ilreprcs-
sible Boss" who seems to be almost as
great man in the county jail as he was in
the city government. He performs no
prison duty whatever, wears the dress of a
citizen, lives in a finely furnished room,
and has al the comforts and Injuries about
him that he can possibly use. Governor
Dix declares that such favoritsm as this is
a disgrace to the State of New York and a
gross violation of the law on the part of
the prison officials.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
arrived at San Francisco on Saturday night
in the United States steamer Benicia.-
Salutes in his honor were fired from the
forts and Government vessels in the harbor.
His Hawaiian Majesty landed on Sunday
and was received at the wharf by
a military escort ordered by the Governor,
salutes being again fired by the forts and
vessels, and flags being displayed on the
and most of the public offices.
About six thousand people witnessed his
arrival at the wharf and welcomed him
with loud applause. He was conveyed in
a carriage to the Grand Hotel, accompanied
by the Mayor and other officials the streets
along the route being thronged by specta-
tors. The King, who was plainly dressed,
evinced perfect Indifference and selfposses-
sion. The royal party will leave for Wash
ington in few days, and then visit the
Atlantic cities. The King says
he is merely on a visit to the President,
and will take no part in the negotiation of
the reciprocity treaty.
In the Cheap Transportation Conven-
ton, at Richmond, Va, q bill, prepared by
General Duff Green, of Georgia, providing
for scheme of internal improvement, to
be sustained by system of banking con-
nected Herewith, was presented and refer
red. Gen. Trobel, of the same State, in
troduced a resolution looking to the
establishment and maintenance of CONNER
cial intercourse between the States, and
the revival Of the commerce of the nation"
The Committee on Resolutions presented a
report on the proposition of Colonel John
son, of North Carolina, asking Government
aid for the Texas Pacific Railroad and the
great water routes. Four of the members
of the committee protested against asking
Government aid for the construction of
railroads. Their protest and the majority
report were discussed at some length, and
the question of substituting the minority
for the majority report appearing to be
favored by most of the delegates, Colonel
johnson was allowed to withdraw his reso
luton.
An alarming railroad accident occurred
near Baltimore, on Monday last, which
the american gives the following account
of:-Many years have gone by since rail
road disaster occurred in the vicinity of
Baltimore SO alarming in it's incidents as
the falling of two passenger trains into
Swami Lake on Monday. There are few
persons in the city who have not seen the
bridge that gave way; many thousands
have passed over it and under it, without
a thought that it would prove treacherous
in the end. The Northern Central Railway
runs across narrow neck that forms a
sort of connecting link between the two
sections of the Lake. The embankment
is built into the Lake from both sides,
leaving channel for the water about one
hundred feet in width. This is spanned by
an iron bridge. which is perhaps ten feet
above the surface of the water when the
Lake is full. The bridge is not high, and
it seemed to be SO strong and firm that no
one ever apprehended the least danger in
crossing. About four o'clock on Monday
afternoon the York accommodation train
going North, and the Cockeysville accom-
mediation train coming South-both trains
we'll filled with passengers-reached oppo-
site sides of the bridge at the same instant
and attempted to cross. The engines had
just passed each other, when the bridge
gave way, and the tenders and baggage
cars of both trains together with the front
passenger car of each train, went through,
and were submerged in the water below.
The passenger car rested at an angle of
forty-five degrees, the upper part remaining
above the water. The passengers scram-
bled up the inclined plane and saved them
selves from being drowned. Two gentle
men, who were going out cunning, were
riding in the baggage car of the north
bound train; one of them was instantly
killed; the other was so seriously injured
that his recovery is not probable. A great
many people received severe Commissions,
but considering the fearful wreck, it is
most singular that the casualties were so
few. The bridge was built in 1858 by
Denmead & Co., Of Baltimore. In the
first days of the war it was thrown down
by party of Marylanders, who were trying
to aid the Southern cause by destroying
the bridges on the railroads leading from
Baltimore to the North. 1t was rebuilt,
and stood firmly until 1870, when new