The Cecil Whig., 1874-01-31
GENERAL NEWS.

The Cuban insurgents are menacing
ManZanillo again.
The harvesting of the ice crop has
begun in Maine.
An earthquake shocI, has been felt at
Chelmsford, Massa chusetts.
The principal stronghold of the Atche-
nese has been captured by the Dutch.
The Boston School Committee, on
Tuesday night, 27th by vote of 4G to 80,
refused to admit to their seats the women
elected to the Board
-hlr. Caleb Gushing is making his pro-
parations to go to Spain as United States
Minister. and will start from New York
about the middle of next month. He as
serts that the Davis letter is forgery
The physicians of Philadelphia, New
ork and Boston are making an earnest
effort to secure the bodies of the Sia mese
twins for autopsy. Between eight and ten
thousand dollars have been raised.
Professor Goodwin Smith, in a speech
at an educational meeting in Manchester,
England, on the evening of the 21st in
stant. explained and commended the COM
mon school system of the United States.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that the New Salary bill hav-
ing been approved on the Goth, the extra
pay to certain officers and employees under
the act of March, 1878, ceased on the 10Th
instant.
The advance in the number of Metho-
dist churches in the last year is large, Civ
ing an average increase of over one and
half church for each working day of the
year. In the number of parsonages the
gain has been nearly four each week.
The Duke of Edinburg, the second
son of Queen Victoria, and the Princess
Maria, the only daughter Of the Emperor
of Russia, were married at st. Petersburg
on FRIDAY last, the ceremonies being per-
formed according to the Greek and Angli-
can churches in different places.
-Parepa- Rosa, the greatest of English
singers, and the queen of English opera.
Is dead. The sad event took place in Eng
land on Thursday last. She was scarcely
over thirty years of age, hence she died
in the prime of her beauty and the height
of her reputation.
Jersey City was thrown into State
of excitement on Tuesday last by the an
nouncement that Alexander D. Hamilton,
its City Treasurer, had disappeared, and
that several thousand dollars of city money,
100000 in city water loan and his official
bond had disappeared with him.
The United States Government has
given permission to the Mexican Govern
ment to extend its telegraph lines across
the Rio Grande to Brownsville, and estab-
lish an Office there. This will ensure
direct telegraphic communication between
all points in the United States and the
City of Mexico.
The sixth session of the Wilmington
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, will be held in Salisbury, COM
mencing Wednesday, March 4th. The
Conference will be composed of about one
hundred and thirty Ministers and Laymen,
the latter being connected with the Mis-
sion, Educational and Church Extension
Societies. 1t will be in session one week.
Dr.. Livingstone, the great African
explorer, is dead; intelligence of his death
having reached London on the Goth inst
He died in June last by dysentery. while
travelling from Lake Bembi to Unyan-
yembe. His body has been embalmed. and
is on its way to England by way of Zanzi-
bar. At a meeting Of the Royal Geograph.
ical Society, several members expressed Il
doubt as to the authenticity of the report
of Dr.. Livingstone's death. MI Kirk said
when he left Zanzibar in September, ru-
mors of a similar character were current.
lie thought the news, if true, would have
been officially forwarded long before the
present date.