The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-28
Late News Items.

The affairs of the Continental Life In
surance Company, of New York, have
been placed in the hands of receiver.
The engineers and firemen on the New
Jersey Central Railroads struck at mid
night on Monday and stopped all travel on
the road.
The Mayor and Councilman of Ottawa,
Canada, and fifty-one car loads of other
eXcursionists, arrived at the Centennial
Exhibition on Thursday.
John Walter. Esq, proprietor of the
London Times, and Mrs. Walter have ar
rived in Philadelphia, where it is expected
they will remain for about two weeks.
The widow of Richard NJ. Randolph
died at Newport, r. l., yesterday, aged "a
years Her husband was a nephew of
President Harrison and of John Randolph,
Of Roanoke.
The Secretary of State of Indiana re-
ports that the largest vote cast at the recent
election was for Treasurer PIP, 0l9 being
given for the Democratic candidate 206,-
21S for the Republican and l0,0 for the
Independent. Total 434 80. The average
plurality for the Democratic State ticket is
5S49, that for Williams over Harrison for
Governor being 5139.
The election for members of the First
Branch of the City Council in Baltimore
was held on Wednesday. The Democrats
elected their candidates in eighteen of the
twenty wards, a Reformer being elected in
the First ward, and a Republican in the
Sixteenth. A Democratic candidate was
also elected in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
wards to fill a vacancy in the Second
Branch.
a number of Methodist clergymen and
laymen, representing the Churches North
and South, held meetings in Louisville on
Wednesday for the establishment of more
fraternal relations between the sections Of
their denomination. Bishop Foster. of
Massachusetts,, and Kavanaugh, of Ken
lucky, made addresses and thanked God
for the reunion after separation of thirty
two years.
Captain Thomas J. Lloyd of the Eigh-
teenth United States Infantry, has made
an official report of the rioting near 4 lken,
5. c., few weeks ago. The negroes, &C
cording to his statement, numbered about
100, armed with old muskets and shot
guns; the whites about 800, we'll mounted
and armed, under command of a. p. Butler.
| The latter agreed to disband if the negroes
would do likewise, and both parties left
the vicinity. Eight negroes and one white
were killed during the disturbance. Simon
Coker, a colored member of the Legislature,
was deliberately murdered near Ellenton.
The whaling bark Florence arrived at
San Francisco, on Saturday afternoon, with
100 men on board, being part of the
crews of the Arctic whaling fleet, twelve
of which she reports lost in the ice with a
portion of the crews. The remaining sur
vivors have gone to Honolulu on the bark
Three Brothers. The disaster occurred at
the end of the month of August, near Point
Barrow, and the ships We're abandoned on
September 9TH. Several lives were lost,
but nearly all of the crews escaped. The
value of the twelve ships is estimated at
SOC, 600. mostly insured in offices in Boston
and New York.
A passenger train on the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey, which left Elizabeth
at Go on Tuesday evening, was thrown
from the track near Evana by the mis-
placement of a switch. The locomotive
ran off the track and plunged into bank;
three passenger cars were telescoped and
totally wrecked, and three other cars were
badly damaged. William Kelley, a brake
man, and Nathaniel Derrick, mason. were
killed. Eighteen persons were injured,
three of them-Colonel A. J. Teneck, of
Somerville, Hon. John G. Schenck, of Mesh
anie, and John 4. Cline, of White House
seriously. The switch had been pur
posely misplaced, it is supposed by one of
the striking tiremen or engineers.
Edward S Stokes, who shot James Fisk,
Jr., January 6. 1872, intictng a wound
from which he died the following day, is to
he discharged from the Auburn State Prison
to-day. In the month of January, 1873,
lie was sentenced to be executed the 2Sth
/ of February following. "A stay of pro-
ceedingS was granted, a new trial was OBJ
tanned, and instead of expiatng his crime
on the gallows he was sentenced to four
years Imprisonment. This sentence was
also committed, SO that the term of impris
onment will expire on the day mentioned
or, rather. it would expire Sunday, the
29th, but as Sunday is legally dies non,
the prisoner will be given his liberty the
day previous. Stokes spent about year
and nine months in the Tombs before he
was sentenced to State Prison, SO that the
whole period of his incarceration in the
city prison, the prison at Sing Sing and
that at Auburn, where he now is, will have
been four years, nine months and twenty
one days. During this long time the pris-
oner has changed very much in appearance.
When first arrested he gave his age as
thirty years; he now looks to be nearer
fifty. His father, who appeared to be a
strong. healthy man in 1872, has died dur
ing the sons imprisonment.