The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

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! ing in New York.
Jerusalem is connected with Europe
by two lines of telegraph.
The Presidents Message is longer this
year than last, covering eighty pages of
foolscap.
! A petriiied butterfly was found in a
Dubuque quarry the other day, and all the
delicate outlines as perfect as in life.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
sell $500, 900 in gold on each Thursday of
| December, making a total of so, 800, 600
| for the month.
! Mayor Havemeyer, Of New York, died
suddenly on Monday, of apoplexy. Alder
man Vance was qualified as his successor
! for the unexpired term.
1t turns out that the sale of the Phila-
delphia Press to Mcclure is not correct.
The negotiation has been broken off, and
it is now said that Mcclure will start an
independent paper or buy the New Age.
| "A Chinese contractor who has been
detected in endeavoring to defraud the
Government in the erection of the Emper-
or's Summer palace is to be beheaded. A
little Oriental law would be wholesome for
the morals of our American Government
contractors.
sets forth that Joseph Bonaparte was taxed
in 1921, $40 for 1000 acres of land, by
Nathan Satterthwaite, then Assessor of
Bordentown, n. J. The ex- assessor is still
| living, and says he "stuck it on a little, as
Bony was rich and could stand it,
The oyster pungy MaHfosoer was sunk
! by an unknown schooner, i'll Chesapeake
Bay Monday morning. Five of those ON
board were drowned. Thomas j. Green,
owner of the pungy, and James Filman, of
Boston, chung to the rigging. Filman was
frozen to death, but Green was rescued in
| the afternoon.
| The National Board of Fire Under
writer's have gracefully retreated from their
advanced position in antagonism to fire
insurance in Chicago. They have resolved
to let each Company decide for itself on
the question of taking risks in the city,
which means that the trouble is ended and
! Chicago will get all the insurance it wants.
"A magnificent theatre built in New
| York some five or six years ago by Edwin
| Booth, was sold, on Thursday, under
decree of court to satisfy mortgage. 1t
was bought by Oliver Ames, of Boston, for
| $685., 900. The property was sold subject
to mortgages amounting TO $27G, 900, which
sum is to be deducted from the purchase
money.
Ex-senator Yulee, of Florida, writes
that report now going the rounds of the
press that he is buying up slave claims in
the hope that Congress will ultimately pay
for the emancipated slaves is "absurdly
| false" He says the hope of any possible
remuneration for the loss of slave property
is "too wild to be entertained by any sane
man."
Proceedings have been instituted by
A. B. Mitchell, against Rev. DR.. Talmage,
| of Brooklyn, on charge of SANDER
Mitchell was for number of years
prominent member of Talmage's church,
| and was expelled On the testimony of the
pastor, who charged him with conduct
| unbecoming a Christian. The damages
are laid at $500
Superintendent Black fan, of. the For
eign Mail Service, who has just returned
from Switzerland, says his mission to the
| Postal Congress has accomplished all that
he desired in relation to uniform ocean
| postage. The maximum rate between the
| United States and other countries which
were parties to the Convention will be six
cents from and after July l, 1915.
"A question Of grave Importance that
will have to go to the Supreme Court for
decision results from the disagreement of
Judges Bond and Hughes in the Petersburg
election cases. Judge Hughes pronounces
the Enforcement act Of 1870 unconsttu-
tional, and declares that the citizen derives
| his right to vote in State elections from the
State, and cannot be deprived of it by act
of Congress-.
| Mont Blanc, it is said, has been dwarfed
| by the discovery in Europe of taller mon
arch of mountains. Mt. Elburz, on the
European side of the Caucasian watershed,
has been found to be Is, 526 feet high or
2,742 feet higher than the greatest esti-
mated height of Mont Blanc. The noun
tain is in shape a fattened dome, and
although possessing the Alpine character
istics of snow fields, ice lakes and glaciers,
is easily climbed by mountaineers.
The scientific exploring party of Pro.
o. G. Marsh arrived at Cheyenne on Tues
day evening from the bad lands" south
of the Black Hills. Notwithstanding ex-
tremely cold weather and hostile Indians,
the expedition proved successful. About
two tons of remains of extinct tropical ami
mails were collected, including many speci-
mems new to science. The collections will
go to Yale College, and description of
them is to be written by Prof. Marsh.
| The managers of the Western House
of Refuge, at Rochester, N. Y, resolved,
on Saturday, by a vote of II to ., to "grant
freedom of religious profession and wor-
ship" to the Catholic boys confined in the
| House, the Board to appoint a Catholic
Chaplain for them. This action was based
upon report of a special committee. which
contains legal opinion by Judge Selden,
affirming such religious freedom to be
constitutional right.
A reporter Of the Erery Ecening says
one of the jurors in the Taylor murder
trial told him that if poll of the jury
had been demanded when the verdict of
acquittal was rendered. on Friday, four of
the jurors would have refused assent to
the acquittal. He said that, after fasting
tifty-eight hours, they agreed to remain
silent when the others gave the verdict,
but if asked individually they would have
refused their assent.
On Friday and Saturday last, severe
snow storm prevailed in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois. Kansas, Missouri and Michigan,
and extended to Canada. The depth of
snow varied in different localities from six
TO eighteen inches, and railroad travel was
interrupted at various points. At Chicago
the depth of the snow was about twelve
| inches; St. Louis, four; Cleveland, nine,
and Toronto six inches. Navigation in
the lower St. Lawrence is beginning to be
impeded by ice.
1t is said that application will be made
to Congress for the incorporation of the
Omitted States Land and Emigration Com
pany,' with nominal capital of ten mil
lions, for the purpose of facilitating set
Element on the public lands" The same,
or similar scheme, was before the last
session of Congress. We hope Congress
will have the wisdom. and honesty as well,
to place its foot on all such schemes. The
public lands are filling up quite fast enough
without such aid.
On Friday of last week, Theirs. the
great French statesman and patriot, in An
interview accorded to the representative of
La France newspaper, said that Italian
unity was irrevocably accomplished and if
France wishes to preserve the friendship of
Italy she must recognize this fact, and not
adopt the clerical policy towards that
country. In relation to France, NJ. Theirs
said that the country was neither Bonapar-
fist nor monarchical, but republican, and
this must be recognized by Marshal Mac
| Mahon.