The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.

mittee arrived at New Orleans on Wedpes-
day.
| Ex-Governor Yarmouth has been tried
for the killing of Byerly, before one of the
New Orleans Judges and acquitted.
"A number of clerks, openers and 9TH
ers have been dismissed from the Baltimore
Custom House, but none of the unfol tu-
mates hail from Cecil.
B. F. Atkinson, Republican, was elect
ed Mayor of Newburyport, Mass, on Tues
day, over Eliphalet Griffin, Democrat, by
AZ majority in a total vote of 1852.
-Oconomoauk, or Gland of the Winds, -
is the name given to settlement com
menced on the high lands, about six miles
from Wilmington, on the w. x w. r.. r.
VIM. A. Potter, of New York. has
been appointed Supervising Architect of
the Treasury. He has accepted the posi-
ton, and will enter upon its duties on the
Cd of January.
On railroad train, near Port Jervis,
n. y, John Tagle, Il recently discharged
soldier from New Mexico, was robbed by
"three- cardm monte " gamblers of $780, the
savings of five years.
The Delaware Legislature meets on
the first Tuesday, the 9TH day of January.
1875. The Inauguration of the Governor
elect will take place on the third Tuesday,
the 10Th day of January.
Wednesday night and Thursday morn
ing were intensely cold in New England
and the Cahadas. In New Hampshire the
temperature fell to 80 degrees below zero
In Canada it ranged from zero so 50 de-
grees below.
-Gerrit Smith, the great Abolitionist,
died, on Monday, at the residence of Gen
John Cochrane, in New York, in the 18th
year of his age. The cause of his death
was an apoplectic attack, which developed
itself on Saturday morning.
AT convention eff the School Com
missioners and Superintendents of New
York, held in Syracuse, 4 resolution was
adopted asking Congress to apply part of
the money accruing from the sale of public
lands to the cause of education.
A dispatch to the New York Post from
Washington says: "A demand comes from
the West, particularly from Ohio, for the
recall of General Schenck, the United
States minister TO England. on the ground
that he has insulled his own country by
writing book on the art of gambling.'
The heavy grades of leather made in
this country are SO far superior in quality
to those manufactured in Europe. that an
effort is about being made to introduce
them in Germany, in which country our
leather can be delivered below the cost of
that made in Europe.
What have the Ohio Crusaders done :?
Answer: Reports from ten Internal Reve-
nue. Districts show a decrease of 597 sa-
looms and distilleries, and the amount of
revenue collected on distilled and fermeut-
ed liquors from May to July, 1874, was
STA, TOT less than during the same period
last year.
The Geological Society have added to
their collection at Paramount Park, pair
of African Lions, a Royal Bengal Tiger,
and black Leopard. They have also pur-
chased and will receive during the coming
week, the largest Indian Elephant in this
country; also an African Elephant, a full
grown Rhinoceros Zebra and hex
A telegram received at the Smithson-
ian Institution from Mr. Airy. astronomer
at Greenwich Observatory. stating that the
observations at the transit of Venus, made
by Mr.. Peters, one of the American ohserv-
srs in New Zealand, were very successful
Two hundred and thirty seven photographs
of the first contact were made.
Lieut.. Frederick Collins, command
ing the United States Darien Surveying
Expedition, is in New York mastering his
forces for the expedition. He will sail
from New York in the first Pacific Mail
Steamer, in January, for Aspnwall; thence
he will proceed in the United States steamer
Cdnanddigdu to the Atrato.
A report from Captain Keys, of the
Tenth Cavalry, has been received at Army
Headquarters in St. Louis, which states
that the Captain, after following up
Cheyenne trail to the north fork of the
Ito, Il o
captured 80 Cheyennes and 20 ponies be-
longing to the band of Medicine Water
and Medicine Arrow.
Perhaps the richest discovery of silver
ore. ever made, is in the great Comstock
ledge in Nevada. 1t lies in tissure l 200
to 1900 feet across, and is developed
that it is estimated at $500, 600 600. In
San Francisco the discovery is pronounced
by far the most important event in the
history of the Pacific slope. The ore yields
an average of 5000 per ton
Collector Simmons has abolished one
deputy collectorship and about thirty other
offices held by inspectors, weighers. gaug-
ers, etc, in the Boston Custom House,
thereby etfecting saving of $50, 600 year.
1t is intended to make reduction in The
clerical department, in the Spring. of from
ID to 20 per cent, which will effect total
annual saving of about $780, 900.
Fifty thousand starved out people of
Asia Minor, whom the famine drove thence,
crowded into the city of Adana, itself
place of ten thousand inhabitauts There
suffering and disease have cut down one
half their number. The simple mention of
the aggregate of victims suggests the ex
tremes of restitution and misery into which
the unfortunate refugees must have fallen.
Petroleum Springs have been discovered
on the Luneberg Heaths, in Northern Ger
many. The petroleum is obtained by sim
pie borings, and at some spots, as the vii
lage OF WeitZ. the sand is saturated with
rock oil. In clearneSs, purity and specific
weight the Luneberg is said to be identical
with American petroleum, and to be, more
over, almost entirely without smell of any
kind.
Statistics of the workings of the Pro-
hibitory law of Maine during the past year
show that fifty thousand dollars in tines
was imposed and collected for violation of
the law. There have been 21G convictions
in the Supreme Court of rum. sellers and Al
commitments to jail a larger number than
in any similar period previously. Crime
has decreased, the number of convicts be-
ing % per cent less than ten years since.
-Four hundred men and women employ
ed in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing at Washington, were discharged on
Saturday, in consequence of the transfer of
a large part of the work to New York by
the awarding of the contract for printing
revenue stamps to the bank note companies.
Instead Of discharging them at the Bureau,
notes were sent to their residences, and
the affecting scenes of former dismissas
were spared the Treasury officials.
General Sheridan has autographed to
the General of the Army that eight war
rlors and thirty nine squaws and papooscs,
with sixty-two ponieg, of Medicine Waters
band of Cheyennes, surrendered uncondi-
tionally to the troops at the Cheyenne
agency, on the Goth inst. Two messengers
had arrived from Stone Calf, who is said
to have 200 lodges on the Staked Palms. to
ask for peace. Word was sent to him that
he might surrender Internationally, and a
demand was made for two white women,
whom he held captive.
The report of the mortality in Phila
delphia for the year just closing, shows
that there were fewer deaths this year than
last There unra 1f ~9e Ia. H., ,,,.,,