The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-02
GENERAL NEWS.

DIR. Paul Schoeppe, of Baltimore noto-
riety has been convicted of forgery and
sentenced to five years in The penitentiary
by the criminal court of Chicago.
The original Freedman Saving Bank
in Washington has at last caved in. Even
the wards of the nation are made the VIC
tins Of the national mania for speculation.
"A new financial bill is spoken of in
CongreSs-something that will meet the
views of the President; but how to frame
one exactly to suit all hands it is difficult
to decide.
There was severe snow storm on
Tuesday, in the Lehigh and upper Schuyl-
kill regions of Pennsylvania. At Allen
town the snow fell to the depth of ten
inches.
"A New York despatch says the Federal
Council of the 1nternationalists in that city
resolved on Friday night to disband, "the
organization having proved complete
failure in the United States"
There has been a great flood at Bag
dad in consequence of the overflow of the
Tigris, caused by late heavy rains. A
great amount of property was destroyed,
and several persons were drowned.
Seventy. three of 1856 estimates of the
cotton crop were opened on Saturday at
the Memphis Exchange. The highest esti-
mate was 1881. 900 bales. the lowest, g.
SOL 900 bales-average 4, 1872 900.
Captain General Concha has ordered
another draft in Cuba to take place on the
first of May. When they can no longer
raise draft the Spanish fire will be likely
to die out in the lever faithful isle"
The New England States We're visited
on Saturday night by storm of snow,
sleet and rain, accompanied by severe
easterly gale. Snow fell heavily in Maine.
The storm was the severest for several
years.
An escaped colored convict, named
Henry Smith, felonieusly assaulted two
women in Washington county, Ga, on
Saturday. On Sunday morning he was
taken from Jail by an armed mob and
lynched.
On Tuesday last the currency bill and
veto message were taken up and disposed
of by the Senate. "a yeas and 80 nays, and
for the want of a constitutional ma iority
of two-thirds the vote was sustained and
the bill lost.
The veto of President Grant is re-
garded as an achievement as brave, cour-
ageous and beneficial to the country III I.
civil sense, as the capture of Nicksburg
and the victory of the Wilderness were in
military sense.
On Wednesday for the first time in the
history of Congress, colored man presid-
ed in the House of Representatives. When
| the House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill,
Speaker Blaine appointed Mr.. Rainey, OF
South Carolina, to the Chair.
-Advices have been received at Harris
burg from Altoona, Pittsburg and Will
Transport to the effect that the temperance
women intend visiting the State Capital en-
masse to prevent the passage of the bill
repeating the Local Option law. The date
of their visit will depend upon the time
when the bill is considered.
A contemporary remarks that a Presi-
dent who dares to act contrary to the
wishes of the great body of his friends
and supporters in carrying out policy
his judgment opposes, deserves fairer treat
ment than President Grant has received
from a large portion of the New England
press during the past few weeks.
While five men were walking on the
track of the Pennsylvania Railroad, neal
| Cresson, Pa, Wednesday morning, they
met a freight train coming east. They
stepped on the other track to get out of
the way, and were struck by an express
train going west, which killed four of them
and seriously injured the fifth.
The Summer commemoration in Bos-
ton was very largely attended, notwith.
standing the severe weather. Senator Car
| Schurz, the orator of the day, was intro
duced by Wendell Phillips. The audience
included the State and city officials, the
Legislature and Councils, the Judges OF
the Courts, and prominent personages from
other States.
The receipts Of Internal Revenue fol-
April will exceed those of the correspond
ing month of last year of half million.
Thus far the falling off due to the panic
has been to considerable extent reganed.
and if the receipts for May and June are
kept up to those of last year the full esti-
mate by the Commissioner of one hundred
millions for the year will be reached.
The question of woman's suffrage in
Michigan will be decided by ballot next
Fall, and the best lady speakers are pre-,
pairing for the canvass. English woman's
rights advocates only want the political dis,
abilities of widows and tax paying spins
tiers removed. and in reality they constitute
| in the main the class who are most inter.
ested in the question of this country.
AT Cincinnati saloon keeper, named
| Charles Wagner. with the assistance of his
wife, forcibly elected several lady crusaders
who were praying upon his premises This
collected large crowd in front of his
saloon, but disturbance was prevented by
the police, who ordered both crowd anG
crusaders to move on. Wagner was subse
quently arrested for assaulting the leading
| crusader.
Since the passage by Congress of the
bill to relieve the sufferers by the Missis.
sippi floods, it has been found that no sup
plies can be spared from the military sta
tons in that region. The Secretary OF
| War, after conference with the President
has therefore ordered the purchase of 800,
600 rations of meat, -four. beans and rice
and asks an appropriation of 500, 900 to carry
the law into effect. His estimate is based
on twenty-f five days issue of rations to 90,
600 persons.
The proprietor of the Grant Locomo-
tive Works of Paterson, n. j., has just
closed contract with representative OF
the Russian Government for the building
of sixty-fve anthracite coal burning en-
gines for use on railroads in the dominions
of the Gar. There was an animated
struggle between the Oraut Works and the
| BALDWIN Locomotive w OfQS OF Inllauel-
phia for this job, but the Jerseymen Sc.
cured it. 1t is some consolation that
American artisans will do the work.
The story that Mrs. Harriet Beechel
Stowe meant to do no more writing fol
several years, meets rather prompt death
at the hands of The Christian Union,
which announces, this week, that on the
23rd of May, it will commence the publica-
ton of a new serial story by Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, entitled We and Our
Neighbors," upon which she has been
engaged during the past guar, and which
has been largely inspired by consideration
of the social follies and profound domestic
miseres resulting from intemperance.
Mr. John Livingstone, residing at Lis
tonell, Ontario, has just received two let
tiers written to him by his brother, the
late DR.. Livingston. One is dated Mon
neura, in the Cannibal Country, April and
November, 1870, and the other Lake Ban
gallo, December, 1872. The Doctor men,
tions his meeting with Stanley, whom he
styles :" his good Samaritan" whose con-
duct 'was beyond all praise He finish
es his last letter with an ejaculation that
God will permit him to put a stop to the