The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-09
GENERAL. NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS
Congress reassembled on Tuesday after
the holiday season.
Vice President Wilson, it is said, has
decided to sail for Europe.
The working time in the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad shops will be increased to nine
hours per day, with reduction of eleven
and one-half per cent on wages paid here
tofore.
The shoe manufactures in Lynn are
now in full blast. Orders from the West
and Northwest have come in. and those
from the South and Southwest are begin
ming to arrive.
Another great strike among the schuyl-
kill coal miners has taken place, and the
Reading Railroad Company, owing to the
diminished production of the mines conse.
quent on the strike, has suspended work at
all its shops and rolling mills.
The trial of the suit of Tilton againt
Beecher for 100000 damages was fairly
started in the Brooklyn City Court on
Tuesday. Judge McCue refused to sit in
the case, and sent it to Chief Justice Neil
son for trial. Three jurors were secured
during the day.
Judge Dobbin, in the Superior Court,
Baltimore City. has decided that the Bati-
more Warehouse Company must pay the
State tax on its stock. The decision is of
Importance to many other corporations in
Maryland, and the case has been taken up
to the Court Of Appeals.
Gen. John c. Breckenridge, who was
thought at one time to be hopelessly i'll, is
now SO far improved that his flieuds are
hopeful of his permanent recovery. His
physicians are reported to have pronounced
his pulmonary symptoms merely sympa-
thetic, and he ROW seems in great meas
ure relieved from them.
"A company has been formed at Nor
rstown for the manufacture of butter by
patent process The butter is said to
closely resemble that made in the usual
way, has the same taste and is in every
way Just as good. 1t is especially recon-
mended for cookery and finds large sale
at Norristown at 30 cents per pound.
The express train which left Washing
ton for New York at 8 o'clock on Thursday
night, on the Baltimore Railroad, ran into
a freight train about six miles from Wash
ington. The mail and express cars were
burned, and mail agent Flaman was burned
to death. Several passengers were injured,
but not fatally.
The State tobacco warehouses. Nos.
and 3, on the Long Dock at Baltimore,
were destroyed by fire on Thursday even
ing last. 1t is believed that 300 hogsheads
of tobacco We're stored in them. The loss
on the tobacco is estimated at $3.50, coo,
and OH the buildings at $4,000.
The new Academy of Music, at Balti-
more, was inaugurated and dedicated to
the MUSES. on Tuesday evening. a full
dress ball was given, which was attended
by about fifteen hundred persons. the
wealth and culture of the city being large
ly represented. The whole structure is
one Of the finest in the country, aud in its
appointments and decorations it is equalled
by none other in America.
Another great revolution has taken
place in Spain, and Don Alfonso, the son
of Queen Isabella the II, youth of II,
he's been sailed % the throne ana proclaim
ed King by the army, the government,
President Serene and all the rest of them.
The young king has been attending school
i'll England for some time, but the Mar
quis of Molins with deputation of gran
dees has started for MAJ stiles to bring him
to Spain,
The evidence before the Congressional
Committee of Investigation at Nicksburg
has shown that Crosby's call summoning
the negroes to come into Nicksburg was
circulated throughout all the surrounding
country. and wac even READ from the pull
pits of the churches: but proof was also
given that negroes who had taken no part
in the disturbance were most merclless
massacred in their own homes.
the Ordnance Bureau, it appears that the
Government is paying a royalty on the
breech- loading rifles and carhnes manu-
featured now at the Springfield Armory
The contracts for the royalty are in favor
of Joseph V. Meigs, of Lowell, owner of
the patent, which will not expire until
1884. The Bureau, it is said, is embar-
raised by pending suits against the United
States for Infringement Of patents on the
Springfield gun
1t is stated that the bill PROVIDING &
new form of government for the District of
Columbia, now pending in the Senate is
not likely to become a law. Many of the
members and large number of the citizens,
it is said, are well satisfied with the present
arrangement. the three Commissioners GOV
erning the District having perforated their
duties i'll a way to meet general commenda.
ton. Mr.. Blow, one of the Commissioners,
having resigned, the President on Tuesday,
nominated Seth Ledyard Phelps as his sue
cessor. Mr.. Phelps is from Illinois. He
was commander of a gunhoat CT tug mis-
siss:ppi during the war, aud is az cid per-
sonal friend Of the President.
A change in the French Ministry is
impending on account of the de .eat OF the
Government in the Assembly on Wednes
day last. A vote to make the Constitu-
tional bills the order of the day before the
Army bill, was strongly advocated by the
Ministers and was defeated by vote of
ESQ yeas to 42D nays, the Legitimists aud
the Bonapartists voting with the Left,
composed Of Republicans. The Assembly
subsequently decided to take Up the Army
bill, and after it is disposed of. to consider
the Constitutional bills. This action was
naturally considered as equivalent to vote
of want of confidence in the Ministers, ard
later in the evening they all sent in .heif
designations. MacMahoa has rot yet ac
cepted them, but is forming new Ministry
from the majority of the Assembly.
Pho Mono, in whom center the excom.
municatory thunders of the Roman C.tho-
lie Church, has recently been hoist with
his own petard y at the hands of the Free
mason Grand Lodge Of the Orient, of which
Victor Emmanuel, King Of Italy, is Grand
Master. Aroused by the extreme severity
of the Papal DEGREES against that order, of
which the Pope himself was in his youth a
member, the Grand Lodge of the Orient
denounces ga man named Mastai Ferretti,
who was a Freemason," for the criuies of
"peIjury" and of touring his BRETHREN"
and expels him forever from the ancient
Order. Pope Plus, once Mastai Ferreti
will pI,ah nI,,r
with as much equanimity as his own has
been accepted by some others; but there is
certain curious interest in seeing that
even the Head Of the Church has in this
way ohance to know how it is himself"
The Compulsory Education law is most
excellent in theory, but in practice two or
three grave difficulties threaten it. Unless
something like the Ragged School system