The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-05-27
Late News Items.

MIR. Kerr is again IN the Speaker S
chair.
Illinois and Missouri are both for
Blaine.
The new Centennial stamped envelope
is ready for issue.
Immense schools of blue fish have ap-
peared at Barnegat, n. J.
-Godlove S. Orth has sent in his resig-
nation as Minister to Austria
The Nebraska and Minnesota Repub-
licans have declared for Blaine.
Eight girls were injured by a stroke of
lightning, in Pittsburgh, on Saturday.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., was admitted to
practice at the New York bar, on Thurs
day.
Five vessels and forty seven lives have
been lost in the Gloucester fisheries this
year.
According to the New Orleans Picyune
80 negroes were killed during the recent
disturbances in Mississippi.
Hon. J. A. Crawford was stung in the
head by a bee, at Kingston, Ga, on We'd
nesday, and died in two minutes.
Elk Congressman Shelby McCollum W as
nominated for Governor of Illinois, by the
Republicans, on Wednesday.
"A private fair in Baltimore last week
realized nearly $40 900 in two days. 1t
was in aid Of a Catholic charity.
Twenty prisoners convicted in North
Carolina of whisky frauds were lodged in
the Albany Penitentiary, ON Wednesday.
The President, on Wednesday last,
nominated Edward F. Beale, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, to be Minister to Austria
Five hundred and ffty-two houses
were damaged by the recent explosion of
"rend rock" at the Bergen tunnel Jersey
City.
The books of the Treasury Depart
ment show the amount of silver paid out
to the close of business, May gath, to be
Sc, 10000
"A letter received at Cincinnati from
the Black Hills country says the Indians
are on the war path and killing the miners
at fearful rate.
Rev. Geo. Peck, the pioneer of Meth
odism at Scranton, Pa, died there, on
Saturday, in the 18th year of his age He
Henrietta Sorhagen, 70 years of age,
died, at Newark, n. j., on Saturday last,
of hydrophobia. She was bitten about two
weeks previously by pet dog.
The signs intended to designate the
character of the various buildings in the
Centennial grounds are being prepared,
and will be put up in a few days.
science fund. One man who went in on a
pass, to which he was not entitled, has
sent the Commission a fifty cent note.
Francis Peralato, Mexican, on Thurs
day, accomplished, at Fleetwood Park,
Long Island, the difficult task of riding %
mustangs distance of 115 miles in seven
hours.
The Catholic Cathedral in Baltimore
was cousecrated on Thursday. Archbishops
Wood and Bailey, and Bishops Gross, Glib
bons, Becker, Corrigan and Kane were
present.
"A passenger train was thrown from the
track, near Glasgow, Ky, on Wedne sday,
and car, containing thirty people, tum-
bled down an embankment All were in
lured, some severely.
u he sea serpent mas again been seen.
This time in the Indian Ocean, He fol-
lowed alongside of the vessel, occasionally
raising himself upright in the water. His
head reached the topmast head.
Nine cadet midshipmen, of the second
and third classes at the Naval Academy,
who were found in possession of goods
stolen from a drummer, were requested,
on Wednesday, to resign "or suffer ejec-
ton from the academy for theft
Samuel p. Hancock, Comptroller of
the city of Philadelphia, has been arrested
for msdemeanor in office. He loaned
money to one Aaron b. Burton, ia former
resident of Elkton,) a contractor, and it is
charged, reimbursed himself by paying the
warrant to Burton,-after deducting the
amount loaned-knowing at the same time
that he (Burton) was not entitled to the
money, having sometime before assigned
his contract to one Quinn. Quinn finding
himself out in the cold, Burton having
drawn all the money, brought suit against
the city. Thus this job was brought to
light.