The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-04
GENERAL NEWS.

-Four inches of snow fell at Boston and
at Poughkeepsie on Friday night of last
week.
The anti liquor people of Brooklyn
have laid out three routes for the work of
visiting saloons. Their task has been
found "far more extensive and complicated
than was anticipated" but they are not
discouraged.
The steampship Jamaica stuck in a
mud bank at the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi fifteen days ago, and has re-
manned there since. About fifty vessels,
mostly outward bound, are awaiting her
removal.
"A number Of Boston clergymen. at an
informal meeting GU Sunday, resolved that
they would "give hearty God speed to any
Christian women in their churches who
may feel moved to embark in an anti-liquor
crusade.
AT Harrisburg, on Saturday, three
ladies called on the Mayor and presented a
petition signed by 81 members of the E1-
ecutive Committee of the Women's Tenn
perance Union, asking him to close on
Sundays all saloons, restaurants and bust
ness places not authorized by law to be
kept open. The Mayor promised to give
the subject early consideration.
Efforts are to be made in Cuba TO
bring about a peace between the Govern
ment and the insurrectiOnIstS. A treaty is
to be proposed, the basis of which includes
a pledge that the island shall remain
united to the Crown of Spain; that the
people shall elect representatives to the
Cortes; that slavery shall only be interfered
with by consent of the owners, and in case
emancipation be decreed, then the owners
of slaves are to be Unidentified, &c.
While a party of about twenty persons
were returning from a visit to Campbell's
Church, near Carbonate, ILL.,, on Saturday
night, they were fired upon from an am
bush, and two of them-Mrs. Hansell and
David Bullmer-were dangerously, if not
fatally, wounded. The assassins are un-
known, but the affair is supposed to be the
result of an old feud between the Bullmer
family and some of their neightbors. In
the same feud, Bullmer's father lost his
life three months ago.
of this years Congressional Appro-
priation bills the Naval Emergency, Army,
Navy and Fortitication bills have passed
both Houses and become laws. The India n
and Military Academy bills have been re-
ported, but await action. The Legislative
Appropriation bill is pending in the Hous {.
The Deficiency bill was reported this week {.
1t will be followed in the order named hy
the Pension, Postal, Diplomatic, River and
Harbor, and Sundry Civil Expenses bills.
There has been a reduction of nearly $12,-
100000 in the bills already reported, and
it is expected that when all are disposed of
an aggregate saving of $50, 900, 900 will be
accomplished.
"A Havana letter, dated the 25th of
March, reports that incendary fires have
been raging among the cane fields through
out Cuba, and the destruction of property
is fearful. In the jurisdiction of Cienfue-
gos, eighteen plantations have been burned
over. On the Eastman plantation, the
owner, his son and three other persons
were murdered by former slaves of the
estate, before the place was burned. The
Maria plantation. in Remedies, embracing
about 800 acres of sugar cane, was destroy
ed on the 18th. All efforts to capture the
incendiaries, who are said to be insurgents,
have thus far been unavailing.