The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-03-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Grant,
died at his residence in Washington on
Sunday last.
Governor Groome has signed a war
rant for the delivery of DIR. Paul Schnppe
to the authorities of Illinois, where he is
indicted for forgery, under the name of J.
B. Schulenberg.
An engagement is reported between
| troops under Major Randall and band of
Apaches, near Florence, Arizona. Eleven
warriors were killed and 80 women and
| children were captured. Three soldiers
were wounded.
On Sunday, 22nd inst, the Emperor
William, of Germany, celebrated the sew
enty-seventh anniversary of his birthday.
He told party of Generals who came to
congratulate him that he meant to preserve
the peace of Europe by keeping the army
up to the maximum standard. 400, 900 men.
The tow boat Crescent City, from New
Orleans for St. Louis, with five barges in
tow, blew up on Tuesday morning at Mon
tezuma Island, ten miles below Helena,
Arkansas. The boat was blown to frag-
ments and all the barges were destroyed by
fire. Ten persons We're killed and four
injured.
On Monday sparks from locomotive
set fire to some underbrush, near Bresiau,
l.. l., and in three hours seven miles of
territory were burned over, all the timber,
fences, hay, etc, in that area being con-
sumed. One farmer lost seventeen cows.
The total loss is estimated at $4,000
The manager of the city street rail-
road in New Orleans recently went through
melancholy operation. Taking bag
containing 1900 counterfeit nickels
which had been received from passengers.
he carried it in boat to the middle of the
river, and there consigned it to watery
grave.
"A despatch from SCOTS Bluffs, Wyom-
ing, reports that on the end instant, a
white man was killed by Indians, who
stole all the horses at Goods rancho. Good
says the Indians have been killing his cat
tie daily for the last two months, and he
has telegraphed to the Governor of Ne
braska for provisions. General Ord, it is
said, cannot send cavalry to protect the
settlers, there being no means Of transpor-
tation.
"A number of the freight handlers at
the Jersey City depot of the Erie Railroad
have been on a strike for some days. and
there is great accumulation of freight in
consequence. On Saturday there was a
COHlelclCC DcGWeeil Tue CTle anu the 1Suu-
sylvana authorities, at which it was deter
mined to make no concessions to the
strikers, and pay no more than seventeen
and half cents per hour for handling
freight.
A despatch from San Francisco gives
most extraordinary instance of young
mans hair suddenly turning gray. He
happened to be standing near railroad
depot in Virginia, when a man was run
over by train and had his legs cut off.
The frightened spectator of the dreadful
accident tainted away. and when he was
brought to consciousness his hair was
white, although it Lad been black few
minutes before.
A despatch from Richmond says that
the legislative committee On 5he Virginia
and Maryland boundary question have
agreed upon a report. 1t is to the effect
that Virginia is to accede to the PROPOSE
ton of Maryland to submit the boundary
question to arbitration. Ex-Gov. William
A. Graham, of North Carolina, "a member
of President Filmore's Cabinet) is to rep
resent Virginia on the Board of Arbitra
tion-he, with the HeA Jeremiah S. Black,
of Pennsylvania, named by Maryland as
her arbitrator. 30 select a third member.
A bill will be introduced next week en-
bodying these propositions.