The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

to have been lost and thirty eight hundred
dwellings destroyed by the recent hurricane
in the Philippine islands. The crops were
all ruined.
-Chock Wong, an eminent man among
the Chinese population of San Francisco.
has declared his intention cf taking out
naturalization papers i'll the u ltcd States
District Court, which will test the question
of the right of Mongolians to become
citizens.
Charles O'Conor, the famous New York .
lawyer, who lay at the point of death for
two or three weeks, is now believed to be
recovering. The daily newspapers are rec
commended to distribute the obituary no.
tces they have had standing in type for
some time past.
The number of immigrants who have
arrived at New York this year, is 90. $50
against $40, 1862 in 1874, being decrease of
about 80 per cent. This falling off is at
tributed to the dulness of business The
number of return passports issued during
the year is 80 per cent less than during any
year since 1865.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson was Clerk OF
the House for twelve years, beginning 1868
and ending 1915. More than six millions
of dollars of public money passed through
his hands. few days ago he made final
settlement at the Treasury department..
when it was found that there was surplus
in his favor of Sl.1G.
Governor Garland, of Arkansas, has
invited the Governors Of Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee to
| unite with him in a call for convention Of
the Southern States this Winter at New
| Orleans, for the purpose of determining
upon mutual plan for the encouragement
of immigration to the South from Europe.
AT Westerly, Il. l., on Saturday night,
Philip Gallagher, being drunk, attempted
! to kick his wife, bat struck an infant III
her arms and killed it He was arrested.
The coroner's jury in the case returned
verdict, declaring the person from whom
Gallagher bought the liquor guilty of the
murder. Gallagher was held in 81, 900 bail
| to answer.
| The Borough Council Of Oxford have
| concluded to bore an al tesan we'll at the
| town reservoir instead of the contemplated
| large one from which the water was to be
raised by the wind engine already in place.
| The contract for the artesian well has been
awarded to Melvin & McMorris, of Phila-
delphia who have already set up their en-
CINE and other apparatus ready for work.
Mr. Edward Young of the Bureau of
Statistics, informs the country that the
public debt of the United States was at the
highest point in 1866, when it amounted to
So, 1873, 425, S79. On the first of December
the debt amounted to So, lis, 391, 212. 1t
would appear therefore, that the debt has
been reduced S665, O2S, CO. in nine years,
or at the average rate Of nearly $14, 600, 900
a year.
Several cities are competing for selec-
ton as the place of holding the Republican
National Convention of 1876. Philadelphia
of course puts in strong claim: Boston
people think it ought to be held there; St.
Louis and Cincinnati are putting in bids
for it; while Chicago magniticently asserts
that no other place can be thought Of when
that town is suggested. The decision is to
be made on the 18th of January.
u. S. Marshall Packard at New Or
leans, received telegram from Sheriff
Kaufman, of West Feliciana Parish, dated
Bayou Sara, the eth. stating that Deputy
Marshall Young and another man were
kidnapped on the morning of the 25th;
that "the blood of colored people flowed
freely in the town. that the REGULATORS
were in force;'' that business was dis
turbed, and that L. S. troops were wanted.
EC haSpl VI Diilllllolt, III UlllCidl
recognition of the beginning of the new
century in the life of our Republic" di-
rected that the great bell of the city hall
and the bells of the Fire Department be
rung for half an hour, commencing on mid
night of Friday. The dome of the city hall
was illuminated. On Saturday, New Years
Day, national flags will be displayed on all
the public buildings, and the citizens are
requested to display Them from their dwell
ings and business places.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota de-
clares constitutional the law of the Legis-
lature of 1878, providing for special tax
of $40 per annum on liquor dealers for the
creation of fund for the erection and
maintenance of an inebriate asylum. said
asylum not to be erected till fund of
S25, 600 has been raised. Most of the sa-
loon keepers of the State have not paid
this tax, but the Attorney General, under
this decision, will commence suits all over
the State for its collection.
A tornado passed over Tuckertown
and st. David's Island, Bermuda, on the
18th ult. The house of Daniel A. Smith
well known pilot, in Tuckertown, was
blown into the harbor with all within it,
Smith was hurled into clump of trees and
saved. His wife was carried across the
died of her injuries few hours after being
picked up. Their four children were
drowned. Several other buildings were
destroyed, but no other lives were lost.
The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass,
i which employs $500 operatives, has given
notice that it will on the LIST of January
reduce the rate of wages from ten to fifteen
r per cent. The annual statistical report of
, the Lowell Mills shows that there are $780,
600 spindles and 7, 80 looms in that city,
giving employment to 10000 female and
1000 male operatives There are produced
per week 8, 100, 900 yards of goods, GO, 900
yards of woolens, 10000 yards of carpet
| ing, $500 shawls and 10000 dozens OF
: hosiery.
: On Saturday last, about O'Clock, Mr..
James Avery, a laborer in the Diamond
State Rolling Mill, Wilmington, while eat
ing his dinner became strangled with a
piece of turkey. Mr.. Avery had only taken
few mouthfuls, when he was noticed to
,, become suddenly purple in the face and to
make efforts to leave the table. One of
the gentlemen present fastened to his as
sistance, and led him from the room out
into the yard to the hydrant, where he
l attempted to relieve him; not succeeding,
, he called to Mrs. Meenan that Avery was
choking, and started for physician, leav-
ing him in the charge of Mrs. NJ, who
/ poured some water down his throat, and
t took two small pieces of meat from his
! mouth. Her efforts, however, to relieve
him, were unsuccessful, and before the
doctor could arrive he was dead.
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