The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-17

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of which was sown in this section, has uni
formly yielded better than the old Medi-
terranean or other varieties. 1t stood the
Winter better than the other, bears longer
heads and is better filled. The Fultz pro-
misses to be the leading variety of wheat
for this REGION
The farmers in this county also speak
favorably of this variety of wheat.
Mason's Improved Fruit Jars, porcelain
lined cap, cheap at T. DRENNEN's.
Railroad Accident.-What might have
proved terrible catastrophe occurred on
Thursday morning, about o'clock, on the
P, w. & B. Railroad, about three miles
north of Elkton. The New York express
train, which left New York on Tuesday
night at nine o'clock, on reaching the spot
indicated, ran into six COWS that were cross
ing the track. The train consisted of the
engine, tender, one Adams express, one
postal and two baggage cars, and ten pas
senger coaches, five of the latter being
Pullman sleepers, and one parlor car.
At the time the COWS were encountered,
the train was rounding curve and going
at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Two
of the COWS were killed, and another terri
bly, mutilated. The pilot of the engine
threw one of the former with great force
against an embankment on the side of the
road. The dead body of the animal re-
bounded and struck the rear truck of the
first passenger coach, completely reversing
it and throwing it off the track. None of
the other cars left the rails. The train
was stopped as quickly as possible. There
were some seven or eight passengers in the
disabled car, none of whom were hurt,
though they had all been pretty we'll shaken
up. The ends of the cross-ties for one
hundred and fifty yards were cut off by the
wheels of the truck. The front of the en-
CINE presented a sickening sight, being
covered with blood and bits of flesh, as
was also the road-bed for some distance.
All the sleepers were full of passengers,
but very few of whom were aware of the
narrow escape they had had. 1t was found
impossible to proceed with the train, so
that it had to remain where it was for about
two hours, when freight train approached
from the direction of Elkton. On reaching
the scene of the accident the freight train
was halted, and its engine was attached to
all the cars of the passenger train in the
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taken on to Elkton. The engine of the
New York express, with the Adams ex-
press car, the postal and baggage cars, fol-
lowed, leaving the partially wrecked car
on the track. At Elkton the train was
once more made up, and came on to Balti-
more.-Baltimore american.
School Matters.-The following state
ment shows the number of pupils who at
tended the Public Schools for the four last
terms in the 9th, 18th and 9Th Districts.
The total amount expended in conducting
the Schools for that period in those dis
tricts was 81, 332. 43, and the cost of each
pupil for the four terms, $2.43. The aver
age number of pupils attending school was,
in the 9th, 400, 18th 400, Sth 292. This is
very small amount for tuition covering
term of four quarters, much less than pri-
vate schools can be kept open on. If uni
versal education is desirable-and it is not
only conceded to be desirable, but an actual
necessity, if the theory of popular govern
ment is to be the established system of gov
eminent for civilized society in the future
then education by the State is the only
possible plan of reaching every child. In
the face of these facts, which none attempt
to question, there are persons who pass for
intelligent, who cavil and grumble at tax
to carry on the Public Schools.
The Examiner of the present School
Board of Cecil county, who, it will not be de-
MED, is a well-informed man on educational
subjects, and, moreover, having had the
experience as an officer of the Public School
Board for several years, asserts that the
sum necessary to pay the current expenses
of the Public Schools of the county for ten
months-which constitutes school year
is $4,000. This sum will not allow any
thing for incidental expenses, which are
always occurring, and unavoidable in every
business; nor any thing for new school
houses or repairs of others. But in addi-
ton to the expenses above alluded to, the
school debt of the county requires an ex-
penditure of about 81, 400 annually to pay
the interest on it.
The. levy for the present year of Is cents
on the 500 for the Public Schools, will
produce about $21, 900. Add to this sum
SIS, 900 received from the State, and Cecil
county has fund of 5000 with which
to run the schools the next year, pay the
interest on the school debt, incidental ex-
penses, and build some new school houses,
which the people are calling loudly and
persistently for from the localities when
such buildings are needed. The day of
miracles being past, it is evident to the
most obtuse mind, that there is no POSSIBLE
ity of defraying the expenses of the schools
on the $4,000. None are bold enough.
who know B from bulls foot, to assert
that the schools can be closed for one or
more terms without detriment to the chill
dren and more or less demoralizing the
whole system. And this will have to be
done when the funds are not sufficient to
keep them open. The School Board are
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