The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
GENERAL NEWS.

morning to Il depth of five or six inches.
The Changers are extending their or
ganization into all the New England States.
Treasurer Spinner left Washington on
Friday for Florida, 10 recruit his health
Gen. Burricl has been summoned to
Madrid to answer to the charge of insub
| ordination.
"A large number of workmen were
discharged from the Boston Navy Yard Oh
Tuesday night.
Since November 1st $40, 2S4 hogs have
been packed at Chicago, 400, 900 at Cincin-
natl and $50, 2l5 at st. Louis.
In New York, on Saturday afternoon
| Patrick Donnelly, aged Is, was killed by
his aunt, Rose Riley, during drunken
quarrel.
| Three illicit distilleries have been de-
stroyea by revenue officials in the Second
District Of Tennessee, and nine in the
Third.
Partisan journals obtain their reports
from Versailles by means of carrier pig
cons, the government not allowing them I.
special wire.
The strike of the Pennsylvania railroad
engineers ended on Wednesday, and they
! went to work at the reduced wages offered
| Dy Tile company.
| The L. S. steamer Juniata arrived at
New York, on Sunday last, from Santiago
de Cuba, with the Virginius survivors,
numbering 1902 persons.
1t is said that the Secretary of the
Treasury will be compelled to ask Con-
gress for an appropriation Of 81, 0O0, 600, to
supply deficiency in the Indian service.
| The Attorney General has recommend
ed the pa,dou of Ringgold Young and
Neal Haskins, of Alabama, now serving
terms in the Albany penitentiary for Ku-
kluxism.
An inquiry into the Vile du Havre
disaster has been begun by the English
Board of Trade. The second and third
mates OF the Loeb Earn testified in regard
to the efforts to attract attention on the
steamer.
| The bronze cannon, captured from the
French and presented by the German EN-
peror to St. Matthew'S Lutheran Church
in Baltimore, have been received in that
city. They are to he cast into bell for
the church.
1t is understood that Minister Cushing
will offer Spain the good offices of our
Government for the pacitication of Cuba.
Among the reforms suggested to that end
will be the abolition of slavery in the
Antilles. He will also negotiate new
commercial treaty with Spain.
The subcommittee Of the Judiciary,
consisting of Representatives Wilson and
Eidridge, left Washington on Saturday
night for New Orleans, to investigate the
charges against Judge Durell, of the Unit
ed States District Court.
The Commissioners of ST. Marys coun-
ty, Md. at a meeting on the Gath instant.
voted SS1, 500 to the Southern Maryland
Railroad. The money was the balance of
a State appropriation awarded to the coun-
ty for works of internal improvement.
"A serious strike of the western railroad
engineers in the employ of the pennsylva-
MIA r. r. Company occurred last week,
which caused much inconvenience and de-
lay of trains. Some violence and serious
disturbances have taken place at several
points.
The Mississippi has been bridged.-
The great iron structure, extending from
the Missouri to the Illinois shore at Louis
lana, and built by the Chicago, Alton and
St. Louis Railroad Company, was finished
or Tuesday, and train passed over it the
next day.
"A meeting of the Schuyllill coal oper-
ators was held at Pottsville on Saturday,
and committees were appointed 10 meet
the working mems committee and the An
thracite Board of Trade to arrange a
"basis" for 1874. Getting ready to fleece
the people.
In the Massachusetts, State Teachers
Convention, at Worcester, Superintendent
Philbrick, of Boston. made an address,
contrasting the foreign methods of educa-
ton with those of Massachusetts, and pro-
nouncing the latter faulty in many re-
spects."
The Senate Transportation Committee
arrived in New Orleans on Friday &c ut.,
and on Saturday heard testimony concern
ing trade, statistics, transportation, etc.
Hon. w. NJ. Burrell. Mr.. Highly, and 9TH
ers, gave their views in regard to the Fort
St. Philips canal.
Mr.. John E. Owens is still at his home
i'll Baltimore county, but is recovering
from the effects of his injuries. Ee is able
to walk, and expects to fill an engagement
1T Wheeling in two weeks. The injuries
of the comedian were caused by an unlucky
fall on the stage.
The Kentucky Lottery Office in New
York, was pounced upon on Saturday last,
by the police, who took possession of the
property found there, and arrested several
persons. Governor Bramlette, of Ken
lucky, will have to hurry forward to pro-
tect his agents.
The examination of the passengers
and crew of the Firsinius began on Sunday
on board of the Juniata by District Attor-
ney Bliss and his corps of assistants, and
was concluded on Monday, and the survi-
vors released, and entertained by their
| frsa dc IL t1,o r,,l,~
The wife of Mr.. E. Coale, Treasurer
of the Central Savings Bank of Baltimore,
was terribly burned at her residence near
Catonsville. on Monday night, by the up
setting of coal oil lamp, and died of her
injuries Tuesday morning. At the time of
the accident her husband was watching by
the bed of a sick brother.
1t is expected that the Congressional
Committee appointed to visit the site of
the new Post Office, in Boston, with refer
ence to its proposed extension, will make
an adverse report, on account of the ex-
pense involved. 1t is said that nearly
$500, 600 more than has been appropriated
will be required to pay for the land.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade, on
Saturday, adopted a resolution protesting
against the repeal of the Bankrupt law,
oHpcSiaiiy 1hC lh'olultdly ClluSe. 4 uey
recommend amendments reducing the fees
of officials, and making the time in refer.
ence to the suspension Of commercial pa
per 30 instead of II days.
1t is stated that the deputy sheriffs
who have gone in pursuit Of Genet have
traced him to Canada, land got him in
side a circle of one hundred miles, with
the principal points Of escape we'll guard
ed" Il is, therefore, Supposed that Genet
will be brought back to New York by Mon
day, or g in home most likely.
"A review of the produce trade of Chi
cago for the past year, shows the receipts
of grain to have been SO, 731 ,59S bushels,
and the shipments 81 ,035, 703 bushels. The
receipts of hogs were 4. 800, 006 head; cat
tie. 765, GOO; sheep, 500 COO; lumber, ,OS4,
293, 900 feet Total value of produce re
ceivcd during the year, $40, 000,COG
The Spanish newspapers at Havana arc
: pouring down imprecations on the heads
Of President Grant, General Sickles, and
the whole American people, under the i'm
preston that the same policy was purSucd
in regard TO the Nirginius as was charged