The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-07
GENERAL NEWS.
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alton will meet at Cumberland in the latter
part of this month.
"A convention to change the constitu-
ton of Alabama has been sanctioned by a
vote of the people by large majority.
A telegram from Key West states that
the 5000 cigar makers who struck on July
LIST, resumed on Tuesday at reduced wages.
instruction in drawing will be begun
this Autumn in the primary, grammar, and
high schools of Baltimore, and in the City
College.
The United States Minister at Stock
holm states that 80, 900 pupils study horti-
culture or forest culture in the common
schools of Sweden.
The French Assembly, on Saturday,
voted an appropriation of thirty thousand
francs for the benefit of the French exhibit
tors at the coming Centennial.
The result of the State election in
Kentucky was the election of McCreary
(Democrat) by a majority, estimated by
the Courier Journal at thirty thousand.
Disastrous floods are reported from
the Northwestern Provinces of India
Many of the dwellings of the natives have
been destroyed, and it is feared that serious
loss of life has occurred.
BY the bursting of waterspout over
the town of Kim, in Rhenish, Prussia, on
Thursday, the place was inundated and a
bridge and several houses were swept away.
Thirteen persons are reported drowned.
The immediate cause of the death of
Hans Christian Andersen was cancer
There is universal mourning in Denmark
over his demise. Deputations from vari-
GUS parts of Europe will attend his funeral.
The Treasury Department is in receipt
of information that four hundred barrels
of crooked whisky which were hidden at
the time of the raid in July, have been
seized at Chicago by the agents of the
Secret Service.
Flour advanced again, on Thursday,
fifty cents per barrel for the best grades.
The wholesale price for the best Baltimore
Family Flour is 1925 per Dbl, which
makes an advance of 81 per Dbl. in less
than two weeks.
VIM. o. Avery, late Chief Clerk of the
Treasury, has been arraigned before the
United States District Court at St. Louis,
and plead not guilty to the indictments
found against him in connection with the
whisky frauds. He has not yet given bail.
Wheat advanced five cents per bushel
at the Baltimore Corn Exchange on Tues
day, prime Southern wheat selling up to
155 cents per bushel. Medium and high
grades of Baltimore flour advanced TWEEN
ty-ive cents. Western corn is also higher.
"A Montreal despatch says that the
sudden rise in grain has caused increased
activity in business, and boats that have
been lying up for some time past have
begun to move, and in few weeks it is
expected that the carrying trade will be
greatly improved
The telegraph under Government man.
agement in Great Britain has not been a
successful experiment. If the system will
not pay in that comparatively small and
densely populated territory with uniform
rates, the chances would be greatly against
it paying in our vast country with its sparse
population.
The town of Macomb, H., and its
vicinity were visited on Wednesday after
noon by violent storm Of wind and rain,
which destroyed fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars worth of property. A two-story
brick block, just finished, was nearly de-
molished, a church had its roof and steeple
swept away, and the end of a foundry was
carried off.
The Commission who have been max
ing the count in the Treasury have finished
their labors, and their report will be handed
to Secretary Bristow on his return from
kentucky. They report the cash correct,
with the exception of the forty-seven thous-
and dollars deficiency. The Commission
venture the opinion that the robbery was
committed by some one in the office.
Superintendent Leach of Providence,
says what can't be too often repeated !:
ITO educate the mind when the body is in
a nervous, feeble condition is frutless
and useless task. The first thing to be
sought is sound body with physical vigor
This should take precedence of everything
else; without this any acquisition can be
of but little avail
The Annapolis Gazette favors an indie
pendent county ticket for Anne Arundel,
and contains a great number of recon-
mendations in favor of it from both Repub-
licans and Democrats. The St. MichaePs
Comet says the local campaign in Talbot
county will open about the middle of Au-
gust, and will be sharp. 1t lis thought that
the chances for an independent movement
are excellent.
Dunedin, in New Zealand, had decided
to offer engagements to Moody and Sankey.
These popular preachers held farewell ser
vices on Tuesday morning and evening, at
Victoria Hall, Liverpool, the building being
crowded to its utmost capacity, and many
people being unable to gain admittance
AT the evening service Mr.. Moody stated
that the receipts from the London meetings
exceeded the expenditures.
Gen. Cook has arrived in the Black
Hills country to carry out the orders of the
President in relation to the occupation of
the country by miners. He has ordered all
unauthorized persons to leave that region
by the 18th inst, and two companies of
cavalry and one of infantry have been
despatched to enforce the order. The
miners have held meetings and resolved to
abandon their claims.
The Postofflce Department is making
a determined effort to break up the practice
of making straw bids for mail contracts,
and to this end is enforcing the law confis-
eating the deposits required of all contrac-
tors bidding for mail service, who fail to
fulfill the contracts awarded to them
Under this rule the Department last week
contiscated three checks of Matthew Ora
per. detaulting contractor, and the money,
81, 639, was received on Saturday. This is
the first money ever obtained by the De-
partment under the rule.
The centennial anniversary of the birth
Of Daniel OConnell, the Irish Liberator,
was celebrated by the Irish American citi-
zens of Brooklyn, N. Y, at the Academy
of Music in that city on Wednesday night
About 5000, persons, including Bishop
Loughlin and large number of Catholic
clergymen, were present. DR.. Hurd, one
of the newly appointed Police Commits
sioners, presided, and an Grafton was deliv-
cred by Hon. Richard O'Gorman, who was
frequently interrupted with enthusiastic
applause.
The Rev. Father Remy, a missionary,
has just arrived in England from Thibet
The Pail Mall Gazette says that he made a
number of conversions there under rather
peculiar circumstances. He was condemn.
ed to be quartered, and his legs and arms
were attached to four horses. But either
the Abbe's limbs were uncommonly strong
or else the horses were uncommonly weak,
for he resisted all their efforts. Struck
with admiration at his heroic conduct, his
prosecutors embraced the martyr and his
religion, certainly a signal triumph for
muscular Christianity.
The bump of irreverence appears to
predominant among the citizens of Marion
county, Ohio. Gen. 8. F. Cary, the infla-
ton candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
went there to speak recently, and in their