The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.

reported much injured in the counties on
/ this shore south of Cecil.
/ A trapeze performer fell twenty feet
from bar while performing at the Thea
! tire Comiquc in Jersey City Tuesday night,
and sustained probably fatal injuries.
England pays her military herous no.
bly,. Parliament has voted to General
Woolsely, the commander of the Ashantee
expedition, twenty-five thousand pounds.
The question whether women have a
right to membership in the Boston School
Committee has been referred for decision
to the full bench of the Massachusetts Su-
preme Court.
dispatches from New Orleans report
that the whole country from Monroe to the
mouth of the Red river is under water,
and that ten thousand people III that dis
trict will soon be on the verge of starva-
ton.
One hundred temperance ladies of
Pittsburg left that city Tuesday evening
in special train for Harrisburg, where
they appeared before the Legislature in
opposition to the repeal of the local option
laws, and to the bill allowing distilleries to
sell liquor in local option counties.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. gives notice that unless parties liable
to payment of special tax license under the
internal revenue laws make their returns
on form eleven before the 31st of May,
they will be liable to a penalty of fifty per
cent.
There was SHOWS storm at Concord,
n. H., on Monday morning which changed
to rain about noon. At s o'clock p. M,
thunder storm came on, and for ten min
utes heavy hail-storm was in progress.
Thunder and lightning continued some
time, the latter being almost incessant and
very vivid.
The Rev. Henry Slicer, D. D., one of
the best known and most highly esteemed
clergymen of the NJ. +. Church, died at
his residence in Baltimore, on Thursday
afternoon He had lived out three-score
and ten years, and his departure was not
unexpected. He was man of singular
uprightness and purity of character, and
most earnest and effective preacher of the
Gospel.
Before the House Committee on Post
offices, Representative Luttrell, of Califor-
MA has submitted list of witnesses and
detailed specifications OF his charges of
irregularities in the granting of mail con-
tracts. He said he desired only to break
up the alleged ring of postal contractors,
and he believed the Postmaster General
was DESTROYS of the same object.
The Executive Committee appointed
at the Faneuil Hall meeting in Boston, in
favor of resumption, have issued an ad-
dress. They recommend that leagues be
formed throughout the country to unite the
people in demand that the Government
shall redeem its financial pledges, and to
strengthen public sentiment in favor of
specie payment.
The Civil Service Commission have
made their report to the President in a
volume of nearly one hundred printed
pages. They say the methods of civil ser
vice reform already established, while they
may need modification in some details,
have been generally successful, and their
practicabiity has been demonstrated. A
longer supervision by the commission will
be needed to secure the proper adaptation
of the principles of the new system, and
an appropriation of $15, 600 will be needed
to carry on the reform for another year.
The Department of Agriculture has
very favorable information of the condi-
ton of the winter crop throughout the
country. In the South the crop is luxu-
RANT, and in the Middle States the promise
is good especially in Pennsylvania, where
ninetenths of the counties make favorable
returns Three fourths of the counties of
the Ohio Valley report an average or favor
able condition. Missouri and Kansas make
even better report. In California it is
estimated that the crop will be forty MIL
lions of bushels.
The floods in Louisiana are doing an
immense amount of damage. Greenwood
and Burtona, towns of the Iazeo, are
entirely submerged and deserted, the water
there being higher than that of 1867
The whole of Amite Valley is reported
under water The river generally has a
bank of twelve to fifteen feet, but now the
water is four feet deep over the bank, and
has washed away houses, implements, &c,
and the inhabitants have fled to the high
lands, where they now abide in destitute
condition.
Governor William 3. Washburn was
elected United States Senator by the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, Friday, 18th inst,
on the thirty third ballot. Efforts to make
the Dawes and Hoar men unite on third
candidate had been made during the day
and failed. but when the thirty third ballot
began there was large accession to Wash
burn, and the final vote stood: Washburn,
Isl; Curtis, "a; Dawes, 90; Adams, Is;
Loring, 4; Banks, 4; Scattering, 3. Total
number of votes cast, 267; necessary to a
choice, 1874. The result caused surprise in
Boston, but was generally received with
satisfaction.
The Brandywine is soon to be stocked
with the salmon trout by the Pennsylvania
State Fish Commissioners When will our
Maryland State Fish Commissioners be |
prepared to stock the rivers and creeks of
this county. The Wrghtsville Star says:
Last week Col Worral and assistants put
in the Susquehanna, opposite Wild Cat
Falls, 1000 salmon trout, from Lake |
Ontario. They were received in tin cans,
all alive and in good condition. They were
from one half an inch to an inch long.
The same number were also put in the |
river at Harrisburg.
The farce between Elisha Baxter and |
Joseph Brooks, the rival Governors of
Arkansas, eliminated in tragedy on
Tuesday. A regiment of colored militia,
after parading the streets of Little Rock, |
proceeded to Bakers headquarters and
gave him a serenade. He awaited himself
of the opportunity and made a bombastic |
speech. A great crowd of the partisans
of Brooks collected in the vicinity, but
there was no organized military force on
the other side. Somebody fired a pistol |
from second story window into the Bax-
ter party, and they returned the fire with |
a volley of musketry. A desultory Skin |
mish was kept up for some minutes. One
man was killed and number wounded |
United States troops, and matters became
quiet after dark.