The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
Late News Items.

General Rufus King, formerly L. S. Min
lister to Rome, died in New York on Fri
day night of pneumonia.
Counterfeit twenty-five cent pieces so
well executed that they eau only he detected
by the sound, are circulating largely in
Baltimore.
At sale of so shorthoru cattle in Win
chester, Ky, on Friday, the sum of So, 900
was realized. The highest price paid for
one animal was $1,000.
John C. Ferris, an actor, was struck
with paralysis on the stage Of the Holiday
Street Theater in Baltimore, on Friday
night and died on Sunday morning at two
o'clock He was from New York.
Four companies of artillery have been
ordered to be sent from Fortress Monroe to
Columbia, s. G., to report to Gen. Ruger,
commanding the Department. A battery
has also been ordered to the same point
from Fort Adams.
Five cadets were dismissed from the
Naval School at Annapolis, on Friday, for
refusing to disclose the names of certain
students concerned in a recent "hazing."
They had taken no part in the offence, but
refused to tell the names of the guilty.
\ report of the death of Commodore
Vanderbilt was started in New York We'd
nesday morning, for stock iobbing pur-
poses. 1t was contradicted at noon by a
despatch from the Commodore himself,
stating that he was better than he had
been for months.
special to the New York Sun, reports
that on Saturday morning there was des-
fi,,It hat, frn, n n l.
miners, near Shamokin, Pa, in which three
men, named Taylor, Lardncr and Grady,
were killed. Some strikers from mine in
the deighborhood were also engaged, and
one of them, named Dugan, was thrown
down an embankment of the Shamokin
branch of the Northern Central Railroad,
and cut to pieces by passing train.
1t was intended that Ireland's Centennial
Address to America should be presented to
the President on Monday, but the ceremony
was postponed, possibly because of the
important Cabinet meeting. The address
was adopted at meeting of GO, 900 Irish
men, held in Dublin on the 4th Of July
last, to celebrate the centenary of American
independence. 1t is enclosed in a gilt frame,
and is a beautiful specimen Of artistic pen
manship.
Official intelligence from Fort Laramie
states that ranchman, named Coffee, has
come to the Fort and reported finding
camp of Indians on the Platte, twelve
miles distant. There were several hundred
pounds of fresh meat in the camp and the
scalp of man killed on the Rawhide
few days previous. Capt. Egan has gone
to try to find this camp, if possible. The
telegraph west of the Fort is down, and
iDa I,n LOFT
are stealing horses and cattle in the coun-
try near the Fort.
The lequisition of Gov. Chamberlain of
South Carolina for troops to suppress dis
order and disperSe the rifle clubs in that
State, was considered at full Cabinet
meeting on Wednesday. The result was
that the President has issued proclama-
ton. commanding all persons engaged in the
lawless proceedings complained of to dis
perse within three days, and abandon their
unlawful combinations. The Secretary of
War last night instructed Gen. Sherman,
in view of the possibility that the procia-
nation may be disregarded, to Immediately
order all the available military force in the
Division of the Atlantic to South Carolina,
to be stationed where they can best be used
in case of resistance to the Federal author
Carolina, is also instructed to make it
known that the Government will sustain
the proclamation by the military force of
the General Government, supplemented. if
necessary, by the militia of the various
States" 1t is expected that 10, 600 United
States troops will be concentrated in South
Carolina within the three days named in
the Presidents proclamation.
From the tenor of the latest cable de-
spatches it is next to impossible to doubt
that war in Europe of very serious pro
portions is almost inevitable, the only Ques-
ton being apparently which and how many
of the great Powers will be involved in it.
So great was the excitement on the London
Stock Exchange that it was next to impoS-
sible to obtain accurate quotations. A fall
of nearly 90 in Russian securities has taken
place within the week. 1t appeared to be
regarded as settled fact that war had be-
gan between Russia and Turkey, and the
belief was general that other Powers would
become involved. 4 Paris correspondent
reports that all Russians in that city under
forty years of age have been ordered home.
Paris papers are vigorous in declaring that
whatever the disturbances i'll Europe. the
policy of France will be - abstention.'.
The London Times says that it is forced to
recognize the fact that negotiations are
practically at au end, and the two belliger-
euts must be left to the consequences of
their own acts. The alliance of the three
Imperial Powers of last Spring, it is sug-
geSted, has been re established, and is the
subject of heightened comment; and the
hint of a secret treaty between Russia and
Italy is said to be the probable cause of
Austria's sudden return to Russia 5 views.
Comfort seems to he gathered from these
considerations, and it is said if the Vienna
dispatches are true the panic is unwar-
ranted.
Is Mems Heavy Boots, from So to s.,
at MCCRERY 4 BoULDEN's.