The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-14
Late News Items.

An Independent Temperance Convention
met in Wilmington, Del, on Tuesday, and
nominated Charles Moore for Congress-
VIM. Nj. Kerr, a tobacco merchant f
Clarksburg, Tenn, was found dead in bed
Ill hotel, in Baltimore, Monday evening. :.
Two masked men overpowered the
County Treasurer at Knoxville, Iowa, on
tuesday night, forced him to open his safe
and carried off $4,000.
The British steamer John BromaH cleared
from New Haven, on Saturday, for Con.
stantinople, with $1,000, 600 cartridges for
the Turkish Government.
The Mayor of Brunswick, Ga, telegrapbs
thanks to the friends of the sufferers in
that city, and announces that there are now
enough supplies and money to carry them
through the epidemic.
| f. A. Woodward, Tweed's partner. was
brought to New York from Chicago, and
after being taken to the District Attorneys
office, where he pleaded not guilty and
demanded trial, was committed to the
Tombs.
Judge Bouldin, of the Supreme Court of
Virginia, died in Charlottesville, in that
state, on Tuesday night He was a mem
Der OF the Secession Convention of Vir-
glnia in 1860, and served in the Legislature
during and after the war.
The Bremen packet ship Europa caught
fire on the dry dock at New York, on last
Saturday morning, and five ship carpenters
at work in the hold were suffocated or
burned to death. Two others were badly
burned, one of whom is not likely to re-
cover.
AT the regular monthly meeting of the
Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, on Wednesday, President Garrett
stated that the revenues of the main line
and branches for September were 81 COS.
S0i, an Increase on the revenue for August
of $201,
The body of young man, apparently
about " years, was found floating in the
Delaware at Trenton, on Tuesday morning.
The skull was crushed in, one arm and both
legs were broken. and there was stab in
the lett lung There was no clothing on
and the body could not be identified, It
had been in the water about two weeks.
The entire business portion of Sandy
Hill, n. Y, was burned on Tuesday night.
Loss, $500, 900. The fire at Pine Bluff. |
Arkansas, which is now ascertained to have |
been the work of incendiaries, caused a
loss of $2j0,000. Over ten millions of feet
OF lumber were destroyed by the fire at
Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday night, and the
loss is upwards of 100000.
The arrangements for the reunion of the |
Army of the Tennessee, in Washington. on
the 18th and 10Th inst, have been COM
Pleted. Hon. John NJ. Thayer, of Wyom
ing, who commanded division, will deliver
the annual address. The statue of McPher-
son Will be unveiled on the 18th, when
Senator Logan will deliver an Grafton, and
General fickenlooper give history of the
statue. The statue which is equestrian, is
the work of Louis I. Rebisso, of Cincinnati
On the 9th instant party of twelve men
and seven OK teams were attacked by
twenty or thirty Indians. twenty five miles
from Fort Fetterman. John Ottens the
wagon master, was badly wounded, and
horse was killed. Two Indians were seen
to fall, but the number killed is not known.
The Indians were armed with Winchester
ana army rifles. A cattle herder, named
Rhode, was killed and scalped by Indians
forty miles from Fort Laramie, on Monday.
Many lives were lost by the burning of
The steamboat Southern Belle, near Plaque
mines, La, on Tuesday morning, but the
number is not ascertained Nearly all of
hose who were sleeping in the after part
Of the boat persisted. Herbert, the pilot,
leld the bow of the vessel against the shore
until all who could had got off; he then
Jumped from the pilot house to the lower
ieck, and escaped with severe injuries.
The boat was new and valued at S45,
Her cargo consisted of from five to eight
hundred bales of cotton.