The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.

1t is stated that the Postmaster Gen.
eral will, on the assembling Of Congress,
suggest modification of the present law
governing newspaper postage.
The contract for carrying the mails on
six routes in Minnesota and twenty -four
in Iowa, have been annulled by the Post
Office Department, on the ground of fraud.
"A memoir of Gen. Burgoyne is soon to
appear in England. 1t will contain many
hitherto unpublished letters of the most
eminent English and American statesmen
of the time.
1T is said that Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, who went over to New York to 6" bull
Bonanza" lost upwards of 100000. In
stead of being successful bull, Jay Gould
gobbled him up like lamb.
The Brooklyn correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that Beecher
has received letter from Cardinal McClos-
key, who says he sympathizes with him,
believes in his innocence and prays for him.
The Republican Convention of Sum-
nit county, Ohio, which met on Saturday
last, unanimously instructed its delegates
to the State Convention to favor the plac-
ing of an "anti-third term plank in the
platform.
Judge Porter concluded his argument
in behalf of the defendant in the Brooklyn
scandal suit on Wednesday. 1t was an
nounced that one of the jurors was unwell
and the court adjourned over till Thursday
when Mr.. Evarts began his argument.
In the New York Supreme Court on
Wednesday, Mr.. Jewett, President of the
Erie Railway Company, was, on an alega-
ton of general insolvency by the Attorney
General of the State, appointed receiver
Of the Company, his bond being fixed at
100000.
We have celebrated Lexington, Con-
cord Westmoreland and Mecklenburg and
there are fifty three centennial celebrations
still to commemorate. They extend over
period of six years, ending with Yorktown,
1881. The next celebration will be Bunker
Hill on the 18th Of June.
The State Department has received
communication from the United States
Consul at Porto Rico, conveying the intel
ligence that by royal decree the linrarta-
ton of potatoes into that island is prohibit
ed. Owing to the drought in the island
this action is likely to produce great incon-
venience.
The Postoffice Department is in receipt
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attorneys demurring to the action of the
Department in prohibiting the transmission
of his lottery schemes through the mails,
and asking for the law in the case in order
to test its consttutienality before the
courts.
The Postmaster General, in reply to
Mr.. Kneass' letter in relation to an early
mail train from New York, says that he
hoe Mt tv IN traJ or
to pay for such extra service, but that if
the Pennsylvania road will put on the extra
train for the amount now paid the Depart
ment will be glad of it, and the public will
be benefited thereby.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and five others
of the Indian delegation now in Washing
ton, who had been refused change of
quarters by the Commissioner, took the
matter into their own hands, on Monday,
and proceeded to the Washington House,
where they lodged on their first visit to the
Capital. They have since returned.
In Wilmington, DEL, Sunday, the Old
Swedes' Church reached one hundred and
seventy-six years of age, and with slight
repairs of the ravages of time it stands now
a fit temple for worship. At the ceremony
on Sunday was used the ancient commun-
Fahlun Mining Company of Sweden in
IT'S.
Mayor Vansant, of Baltimore, has de-
feated the little scheme of appropriating
$4,000 by the city, to defray a pleasure
trip for the Fifth Regiment to Boston. 1t
will soon be in order for that Regiment to
take trip to some of the watering places,
the expenses for which will be paid out of
~.
will have to brush up their gray round
abouts with tails sewed on, and be ready
for the arduous campaign.
-Grasshoppers have appeared in myriads
in the streets of Kansas City. They are
the young crop Matched out from last years
eggs Persons arriving at Jefferson City,
Mo-, from all directions, say that most of
the "grasshopper talk" is all bosh; that
grasshoppers can be scooped up by the
bushel in some countless but that they are
doing little or no damage to the crops.
They assert that tho Governors proclama-
tion, setting apart June 3rd as day of
fasting and prayer for deliverance from the
"scourge," has done great injury, and that
to the State will be greatly
retarded thereby.
The grasshoppers have invaded Indi-
of contradiction about the grasshopper
business. The telegraph reported them in
Lee county, Iowa, on Wednesday. Millions
of the pests were said to be in the neigh
borhood of Fort Madison. Reports from
all parts of Jackson county, Missouri, at a
meeting of farmers at Independence, were
made that the grasshoppers are destroying
all the crops and fruits. The meeting
resolved to issue an address calling on the
people of the country to assist the helpless
farmers. A meeting was held at Jefferson
City to consider what can be done to render
aid to the sufferers and Governor Hardin
has issued brief address, setting forth
there is much restitution in various parts
of the State.
The war on the whisky ring is still
progressing in lively fashion. Large
numbers of prominent whisky men have
been in Washington striving to find some
way out of the difficulties they are involved
in. They do not receive much encourage
ment, and are very much cast down. The
legal proceedings against them are being
pushed forward as vigorously as possible,
and Attorney General Pierrepont is acting
in entire harmony with Secretary Bristow.
The investigations are also being pushed in
new fields. The force of clerks in the In
ternal Revenue Bureau are now engaged
examining the returns of rectifiers and
them with the books of the
wholesale dealers in the Southwest. 1t is
not given out yet what success has attend
ed these inquiries, but it is intimated that
discoveries have been made in
that quarter.
The fires in the mountains of Carbon
county have destroyed great quantities of
timber and other property. Five saw mills
and eighteen houses in Mud Run, and the
saw mills, house, barn, and five tenements
of Abel Kelsey, on Hickory Run, have been
destroyed. Stephen Gould lost 100000
feet of lumber on Mud Run. At many of
the villages, the people had to turn out to
eight the fire." A heavy rain and thun-
der storm on Saturday extinguished the
forest fires in the Moosic Highlands and
along the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad, in Pennsylvania, which threat
ened the destruction of several towns. 1t
will be some time before there can be any
accurate knowledge of the loss, but it is
feared that many scattered villages and
dwellings and immense quantities of lum-
Der have fallen prey to the flames. The
burned district includes thousands of acres.
The forest fires in the vicinity of Port Jervis