The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-05-30
GENERAL NEWS.

The Spring races at Pimlico, Balti-
more, came off this week.
The wheat crop of California for 1874
is estimated at 40, 000,0 bushels.
The Changers and the Railroad Com
panies of the West are coming to close
quarters.
There was a sharp shock of earth.
quake at San Francisco about A. NJ, on
Sunday morning.
The local optionsts have made a clean
sweep in Santa Cruz county, California.
No licenses will be granted to liquor deal
ers.
Congress has passed the bill providing
that all soldiers who have lost an arm
above the elbow shall receive $24 per
month.
The three commissioners of Barnwell
county, S. c., indicted last week for steal
ing the public money, have been convicted
for the crime.
w. D. Hildreth, an U. S. Deputy
Marshal, was shot, near Hillsborough, Ten
nessee, on Friday, by an alleged Ku-Klux
named Saunders.
Dispatches from Calcutta say that the
distress from the famine in India is increas-
ing. Nearly 100000 people are DEEPEN
dent upon the Government for food.
West Virginia Legislature has passed
resolutions asking Congress to divide half
the proceeds from sales of public lands
among the States for purposes Of public
education.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
in session at Boston, have appointed
committee to prepare monster petition to
Congress, praying the abolition of the
liquor traffic.
"A large number of Indians in the
Southwest are off their reservation. The
chief Lone Wolf, is one of their leaders,
and General Sheridan reports that it looks
as if they were going on raid into Texas.
The criminal suits were begun in Dane
county, Wisconsin, on Saturday, against
the Chicago and Northwestern and Mil
waukie and St. Paul Railroads, for collect
ing fares in excess of those allowed by the
State law.
Us If you are in want of Nails by the
single pound or by the key, or Carriage
Bolts, Hardware, Tin Ware, &C.. call at
MIcHENER & Co.'s, Colora, Md. They
are selling very low. [76
The Senate Committee have finished
ed their investigation of the District of
Columbia affairs, and will soon report to
Congress in favor of abolishing the present
government, appointing a Commission to
examine its accounts, and another Commits
sion to govern until some permanent plan
is decided upon
The Senators and Representatives from
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, have
information from the flooded districts in
those States, showing that $4,000 persons
will be dependent on the Government or
other outside aid until the crops can be
raised, about the list of September.
There was large sale of short-horrei
cattle at Dexter Park, Chicago, on the 21st
inst, in which bull brought $4,000 and
two heifers $4,000. On the following day
there was another large sale of short-horn-
ed cattle at Cambridge, Ind, in which a
bull was sold for ST, 400. The stock was
the property of Gen. Meredith.
There is good ground for the belief
that General B. II. Bristow will be APP
pointed Secretary Of the Treasury in the
event of a vacancy in that Office. He was
formerly Solicitor of the Treasury. and
was nominated as Attorney General by the
President at the time when Attorney Cen
eral Williams name was sent to the Senate
as Chief Justice of the United States.
"A letter from Havana, received in New
| York, says that the merchants exporting
goods to the United States are already add
| Ing 10 tnelr INVOICES Ine income TAX OF ten
per cent levied by General Concha; and
remarks that /" the plan is exceedingly
simple on their part-the people of the
United States thus almost directly paying
the income tax of the Cubans."
1t now appears that the Russian Grand
| Duke Nicholas, son Of the Grand Duke
Constantine, gave the diamonds belonging
| to his mother to Miss Fenix Tor Phoenix, a
beautiful American. The circumstances of
the theft, together with the fact that lie
had deposited large sums of money with
his bankers, to make provision (as he says
| against the necessities of old age, lead to
the belief that he is insane.
Gen. Sheridan teegraphs to Washing
ton that on Tuesday hostile Sioux entered
| the Bohemian settlement near Ponca
Agency, in the Niobrara Valley, and are
! killing and driving off stock. Troops
| have been sent to protect the settlers, who
| are abandoning their homes. Four hun
/ dred Sioux warriors have also left the
| Cheyenne Agency to attack the Lees but
| General Custer has been ordered to drive
/ them back.
! The Civil Rights bill was passed by
the Senate on Saturday morning after an
all-night session, by a vote of 80 yeas to
16 nays. Messrs. Foreman, Carpenter and
Lewis were the only Republicans who
voted in the negative. The name of Mr..
| Schurz does not apper on either side. A
Washington despatch says it is doubtful
whether the bill will be reached in the
House of Representatives., although there
| is clear majority in favor of it.
In the United States Senate Mr.. Ram
sey has introduced bill which provides
that newspapers shall 60 free through the
mails to subscribers in the same county,
and for the free transmission of newspaper
and magazine exchanges; it also proposes
to establish rate of one and ahalf cents
per pound, to be prepaid by the publishers
| and news agencies, on all newspapers and
periodicals mailed by them to regular sub
scribers OF news agents.
The bill of Ways and Means Commit
tee repeating the section of the law of 1879
authorizing the Sanborn contracts was
passed by the House on "Wednesday with
as little opposition as motion to give a
member leave of absence. The first vote
was taken on the amendment of Mr.. Beck
prohibiting Senators and members of Con-
gress from acting in behalf of any claim
ant against the Government under penalty
of fine and Imprisonment. This was
promptly passed without division, General
Butler sitting quietly by, and Offering no.
opposition. Then the vote was taken OIL
the Committees bill repeating the contract
law. There was not a negative vote given,
and when it was attempted to call the roll
not dozen members were found in fav or
of it.
Tuesday being Queen Victora's birth
day was observed as holiday throughout
Canada. The day was also celebrated at
Richmond, Va, by the British settlers
On Sunday evening special religious ser
vices were held in the Monumental Episeo-
pal Church, at which, in addition to the
prayer for the President, prayer for the
Queen and Royal family was offered. On
the same morning a salute of twenty-o one,
guns was fired, and congratuatory tele-
gram was sent to the Queen. Later in the,
day the 'iBritish Associa alton of Virginia "
was organized, after which the members
and guests sat down to a banquet, at which
Senator Johnston, Governor Kemper and
Mayor Kiely made speeches. Letters were
read from President Grant and Sir Edward
Thornton, regretting their inability to he
present