The Cecil Whig., 1877-09-01
Late News Items.
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Gold, l04t.
Brigham Young will be buried to NOR
row.
Brigham Young died at 4 o'clock p. NJ,
on Wednesday.
Senator Morton's health continues to i'm
prove steadily.
Servia proposes to send her army to the
rivers Drna and Ninok.
1t is estimated that G, 900, 900 people will
die of famine in Southern India.
Ben De Bar, the vetern actor and theatri-
cal menager, died in St. Louis on Monday.
f. L. Stanton, son of the late Secretary
Stanton, died on Wednesday in Washing
ton.
The Turks have blockaded the Shipka
Pass on three sides and expected to cap
ture it.
Rev. Thomas J. Mumford, editor of the
Christian Register, died on Wednesday in
Boston.
The wife of Rear Admiral S. d. Trench
ard, of the L. S. Navy died in New York
on Monday.
The death-roll from the accident on the
iNoCh lSidiiu hdilIOdu NOW NUN UeES twenty,
forty were injured.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has made arrangements in Europe for
loan of $4,000, OO00.
f. Wayatt Blanchard, lawyer, and
politician, of Baltimore, died suddenly of
apoplexy on Wednesday.
1t is generally believed that the President
will call Of to
meet on the 18th of October.
An excursion train at Salem, Mass, ran
into group of persons, killing four and
injuring another, on Thursday.
A private telegram from Mnnequa
Springs reports that E. L. Davenport, the
actor, was at the point of death.
A drug clerk, named Steele, 25 years of
age, who occmpanied an excursion from
Chester, Pa, was drowned while bathing
at Cape May on Wednesday. His body
was recovered.
General Bedford Forrest, the well known
Confederate cavalry officer, is so ill, at
Bailey Springs, Alabama, that his friends
have little hope of his recovery. His dis
ease iu chronic diarrhEa.
The Sixth Maryland Regiment was for
mally disbanded by its officers at meeting
IN Baltimore, on Monday night. The resig-
nations of the officers were sent to the
Adjuntant General this week.
The latest developments in regard to the
suspension of the State Savings Institution
of Chicago are not very favorable to its
President, d. d. Spencer, who went to
New Yory last Saturday for the alleged
purpose of raising loan.
A freight train in which four tramps
were stealing ride ran off the track of
the Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette
railroad at Hanselis Station on Tuesday.
Two of the tramps were killed and the
other two severely injured.
James Carey Williams, who was woun-
ded in the riot in Baltimore, on July Goth,
died on Wednesday. His death makes the
number of victims of that riot eleven.
Nine were killed on the spot, and two have
died of their wounds.
Raphael Semmes, Commander of the
Confederate cruiser alabama, died at Point
Clear, Alabama, on Thursday morning.
He was native of Charles county, in this
State, and graduate of the Naval Acade-
my, at Annapolis He was GS years old.
The State savings Institution, in Chi
cagO. made an assignment on Tuesday. 1t
was established about twenty years ago,
had good reputation, and secured the
patronage OF large numbers of people of
small means. Its officers states its liabii-
ties at 81, 9SS, 339, and its assets at s., ,624,-
500.
The ceremonial visit of the Governors to
the Pertinent Exhibition took place on
Tuesday. An industrial procession, IN
which two thousand workmen took part,
passed through the aisles of the exhibition.
The Governors were taken to witness the
launch of the steamer City of Washington,
and the evening was wound up by ban
quet at the Continental Hotel.
train on the Chicago Rock Island and
Pacific railroad broke through bridge at
Four Mile Creek near Des Moine, Iowa,
on Wednesday morning. The bridge had
been washed out" by heavy rain
Eighteen persons, including seven of Bar
NUNS showmen, are reported killed, and
the names of sixteen injured are given.