The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-08-26
Late News Items.

/ Mr.. Moody is living at Northlicld, Mass.
/ The cheapest quotation for butter yet
! noticed is Il Western article at 81 cents per
| pound.
| The General White, in the Turkish
army, formerly kept a shooting gallery and
saloon III COnstantlnople.
Ex-Postmaster General Jewell addressed
large Republican meeting in Fergennes
VT, on Saturday evening.
Miss Beckwith, who swims ten miles on
the Thames, is coming over here to paddle
from Staten Island to New York.
J. c. Bancroft Davis. T. s. Minister to
Germany, arrived in New York on We'd
nesday, ON the steamship Hisia, from
| Hamburg.
Hon. Joseph r. Underwood, ex-United
States Senator from kentucky, died at
Bowling Green, in that State, on Wednes-
day, aged Sc.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias met in Philadelphia
on Tuesday. Representatives from 42O of
400 lodges were present.
Speaker Kerr died at Rockbridge, Alum
Springs, w. Va, on Saturday evening,
after lingering illness. His remains were
inferred at New Albany, Ind, yesterday.
Mr.. George w. Chlds, of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, at his own expense, is sending
all the boys in the House of Refuge at Phila
delphia to see the Centennial Exhibition.
The first twenty-ti cent day at the Cen
tennial Exhibition, the number of paid
admissions was 52,4l0. The employees of
Steinway & Co., of New York, attended in
a body.
Henry Smith and Squire Hammond,
charged with murder, were taken from Jail
at Owenton, Ky, early on Saturday morn
ing by gang of forty masked men and
lynched.
Mr.. Rufus S. Merrill of Boston, in a
recent address before the American Chem-
cal Society, asserted that between five and
six thousand people persisted in this country
last year, victims of kerosene oil accidents.
The delegates chosen by the Methodist
Episcopal Churches North and South to
effect union of those bodies, have been
in session for several days at Cape May,
and have agreed upon basis Of union.
In accordance with the retrenchment leg
islation of Congress, about $40 employees
Of the Interior Department and thirty
clerks in the Post-ot1ice Department will
be discharged on the 10th of October next
St. Paul kilograms state that Indians
arriving at Standing Rock. report a severe
battle between the combined forces of
Terry and Crook and the Indians under
Sitting Bull. The losses on both sides
were heavy, but the Indians were repulsed
and have scattered.
y convention of Changers, in session in
San Francisco for the purpose of devising
measures to break up the "grain ring re
solved, on Tuesday evening, to sell no
wheat i'll the market for less than 81, Gj per
Genital, and made arrangements to ship
grain on the Changers own account.
"Orpheus c. Kerr''-Robert II. Newell
one of the most genial of our American
humorists, is dying i'll New York, wasting
away of disease that battles physicians
He takes food only every other day, and
then nothing solid. His marriage with
Adah Isaacs Menken wrecked his life.
The tramp nuisance Is both grievous and
expensive The New York Central rail
road has been compelled to place special
guard along its line, with orders to arrest
all tramps found near the tracks. The re-
cent attempts to wreck express trains have
rendered such precautions imperative.
A terrific wind and rain storm swept over
a portion of Western Missouri, Saturday
evening, doing immense damage to crops,
railroads and other property. The loss is
estimated at over one hundred thousand
dollars. Frosts were reported at Port jar
Wis, n. Y, and Milford, Pa, Sunday night.
The enrolling clerks of the House of
Representatives, are not as Invaluable as
they ought to be. BY the strangest over
sight imaginable, and because it cannot be
explained, they failed to incorporate in the
Legislative Appropriation bill the sum of
Sl4, 600 voted as a contingent fund for the
Department of Justice. This provision
was incorporated in the bill as it was first
reported to the lIouse, was never an item
of controversy between the two Houses,
and its omission is either the result of a
blunder or design.