The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-02-27
GENERAL NEWS.


The Wabash river, on Wednesday, rose
fourteen feet in twenty four hours.
A despatch from Trenton, N. J., saws
the hat of Charlie Ross has been found in
that city, and sent to Philadelphia by the
Mayor.
The bill to admit Colorado and New
Mexico as States has passed the Senate,
and has been sent back to the House for
concurrence in some amendments by the
Senate.
The county bridge and two mill dams
at Glencoe Station, Nd, on the Northern
central railroad, were swept away, on
Thursday, by the breaking of an ice gorge
in the Gunpowder river. The bridge cost
$4,000.
Lucy Hawkins, colored, died in Wash
lngton, on Monday, at the age, as reported,
OF 10 years. The pension agent at Wash
| ington was informed, on Monday, of the
death of pensoner in Georgia, at the age
of 80, who leaves son 16 years of age
The prosecution in the Beecher- Tilton
| scandal case closed the evidence on their
side on Tuesday last, and Mr. Tracy COM
menced his speech on the side of the de-
Tense on Wednesday, which occupied both
sessions of the Court and was continued on
Thursday.
The whisky lobby appears to be very
strong in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The House on Friday of last week, by a
vote of 1872 to 81 made the bill repeating
local option the order of the day on Wed
nesday last, when the bill passed its first
reading.
-Heldry Page, a colored youth of II,
has been convicted in the Circuit Court of
Chesterfield county, Va, of 9 house burn
ing He had made thirteen attempts to
burn the houses on Colonel Ruffin's farm
in that county, within the last year, and
five of the attempts were successful. The
penalty for his crime in Virginia is death.
Hon. David A. Wells has written
letter to Senator Jones, of Nevada, on the
Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. Mr.. Wells
comes to the conclusion that this treaty is
"a shrewd scheme to deplete the Treas
ury, and that, if ratified 1T will take from
the Treasury, for term of seven years. an
average of $1,000, 600 per year.
The prominent colored men of Wash
ington complain loudly of the Senate for
placing the Civil Rights Bill and the Pinch
back case in the rear of other business,
fearing that Congress will adjourn without
| these two subjects being acted on for al
legged want of time. Their fears in this
respect seem to be well founded Congress
can afford to postpone both of these meas
ures without serious detliment to the pub
lie interest.
1t is estimated that the new tax bill
raising the rate of tax on whisky to ninety
cents per gallon, and exempting from the
increased taxation all WHISTLES on hand,
will result in putting into the pockets of
distillers and others who hold it, s., 600, 900
to S1,O0O,000. When it was suggested at
the opening of the present session of Con-
gress that spirits would likely be one of the
| things on which an increased tax would be
imposed the distillers commenced running
their works to their utmost capacity, and
have consequently on hand enough to sup
ply the demand for year.
The troubles between the EMPLOYEES
and the employers in the mining regions of
Pennsylvania have developed a phase of
atrocious tiendishness- firing of the
mines by incendiaries, who, for the pur-
pose of gratifying their revenge, do not
hesitate to imperl the lives of hundreds of
other men. The magnitude of the crime
is exhibited by the offer of so large a
reward as $4,000 for the perpetrators
On Wednesday night all attempt was made
TO explode nitro-glycerine and set fire to
shaft near Pottsville. If the flames had
once gained start there would have been
little probability of any one inside the
mine escaping with life.
The observance of Washington's birth
day was more general than usual through
out the country. In Philadelphia the great
feature was the opening of the " Centennial
international Entertainment" At Wash
ington most of the Departments were clos
ed, and the schools had holiday. In New
York the veterans of 1912, twenty eight in
number, whose ages ranged from 20 to 50,
had their reunion. In Baltimore and Prov
idence, K. l., there were Martha Washing
ton Tea Parties, the proceeds in the former
city being for the benefit of the poor, and
in the latter tor the Centennial Fund. In
Charleston and other Southern cities there
were also appropriate celebrations,
This is given out as Andy Johnson's
sturdy reply to the invitation to come up
to New Hampshire and take the stump for
the Democrats:
GREENvILLE, Tenn, Feb. 18th, 1879.
Hon. GEORGE. +. PUTSAM-Dsar Sri
am too busy, and your weather is too lively
for me to think of going up to New Hamp-
shire this Winter. All our troubles have
arisen from the Democratic attempt to
break up the Union and overthrow the
Constitution in 1S6l-5. The only obstacle
to peace now is the refusal of the Demo,
| cratic party TO concede equal rights to ali
men. When | say that | am for equal
rights, mean it; but when You say it you
don't mean it. When the Democratic party
gets right on this question then the Const-
tuition will be safe, and you can command
the services of
Yours truly, ANDY JOHNSON.
There used to be, many decades ago,
song which every young lady in boarding
| school or out was expected to MARBLE for
the admiration of parents and friends; it
| is as faded and ld-fashoned now as the
| yellow paper on which it was printed, and
| the crazy piano which accompanied it. 1t
| had burden something like this: 80, tits
| love, It's love, tbs love that makes the
world go round.' and there be sentimental
| people who declare that though the song is
| gone its meaning stays. This is the opn-
| ion of a youth who abides in small town
| in the State of Connecticut. But his views
| did not commit him to any poetical non
| sense--he was practical. a short time ago
| he said to his betrothed, Z" Let us have a
| home and build it our own selves, and the
| winner OF his affections and possesSor of
| his heart acquiesced. He bought an acre
of ground and in the intervals of factory
work cleared it. Then he began to build
a small house, and the young lady, learn
| ing carpentry with dispatch and energy,
| became his sole and apt assistant. They
finished it; they furnished it, and now the
| two youngsters have married and gone to
| hOuSe kecDiDp in it as haDDily as two DrOyi-