The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-27
Late News items.

Gen. Grant visited President MacMahon
at the Elysee.
Six inches of snow fell at Fort Coulonge,
Canada, on Thursday.
The Russian losses up to the 18th inst
amount to 60, 100 men.
Estrada and the other Cuban prisoners
are to be sent to Spain.
Mr.. Cameron viii probably not be APP
pointed to the English Mission.
The Russians have been repulsed in an
attack on For Aherz, before kars.
Schemes intended to battle the Chamber
of Deputies are proposed in France.
Senator Blaine is confined to his bed by
fever; the attack is not considered serious.
Upwards of 233 lives have, it is feared,
been lost by colliery explosion ner Glas-
gov.
About an inch of snow is reported to
have fallen in Northern New Hampshire
on Monday.
Controller Knox will recommend the re-
peal of the tax on bank deposits and the
abolition of check stamps.
Elk Governor Tilden, and Mr.. Hewitt,
member of the House, arrived at New York
on Thursday, from Europe.
The body of an unknown murdered man,
about 40 years of age, was discovered on
Tuesday morning at Spring Brook, near
Scranton, Pa.
An incendiary fire at Fredericton, N.
g., on Monday night, destroyed store, six
dwellings and several small buildings
Loss, $50, coo.
Among the petitions presented to the
United States Senate on Monday was one
from Samson Goliath, of Indiana, for an
increase of pension.
Governor Carroll has designated Novem-
Der % for the execution of a colored man
named Hawkins, convicted of a felonious
assault upon young white girl.
In the L. S. District Court at Baltimore,
on Tuesday, Joseph A. Ryan was convicted
of passing counterfeit five cent pieces, and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment.
Mr.. Henry S. Taintor, the expert en-
ployed to ascertain the amount stolen from
the City of New Y ork by the Tweed Ring,
reported this week that the total was $780,
100000.
Some boys in Pittsfield, Mass, loaded an
old gun barrel with powder on Sunday,
and discharged it. The weapon burst,
killing two of them and tearing off one
of the hands of the third.
The Manchester Saving Bank, of Allie
gheny City, Pa, suspended Tuesday morn
ing. Nothing is yet known of its liabilities
and assets, but its depositors are 'hope-
full" it being an old concern.
George L. Fox, the famous pautommist,
died on Wednesday at the residence of his
brother in law, in Cambridge, Mass, aged
50. He had been afflicted with general
paralysis for about two years.
The great two and a half dash of the
Pimlco races, at Baltimore, on Wednesday
was won Parole, in A minutes 81 seconds
Ten Brock was second, two lengths be-
hind. and Ochitree third, four lengths be-
hind Ten Brock.
The Woman's National Christian Tenn.
perance Union met in Chicago on Wednes-
day. There large attendance from
all parts of the country. Miss frances E.
Willard delivered the opening address. and
Mrs. Anna Wittenmyer, of New York,
responded.
There is no abatement of the yellow
fever in Fernandina. Eight new cases of
the disease were reported on Sunday, eight
on Monday, and five on Tuesday. There
were three deaths from the fever on Mon
day. 1t is now spreading among the col
ored population. The weather is cool, but
not frosty yet.
4 fair complexioned man about % years
of age, dressed in dark clothes and Derby
hat, was found insensibly at the Liberty
Street Ferry. in New York, Tuesday morn
ing. He was sent to the Chambers Street
Hospital. From papers in his pockets he
was supposed to be a Philadelphia, named
Charles A. Boyle.
A special from Indianapolis says; Dr.
Bliss who is attending Senator Morton,
does not now seem very hopeful of his i'm
mediate Improvement. He has eaten little
or nothing for nearly month, and it is
feared he will literally starve to death. A
change in in treatment has been decided
on, aud medical skill will now be directed
to infusiug nourishment in the system.
A passenger train on the Ohio and Mis-
sissppi railroad was thrown from the track
near Noble, H., early on Monday morn
ing, by the displacement of a rail. All
the cars were damaged, but no person was
injured. One of the rails was raised a foot
by means of jack screw, and the screw
was left under the rail to keep up. Some
section hands recently discharged by the
Company are suspected of the crime.
The French situation is unchanged
The Government organs continue to declare
that the Marshal will not submit nor the
Ministers resign. The RepubliQue Franchise
rejects all idea of Cancellation. 1t says:
" The resignation of the ministry will
not be sufficient. Nevertheless it IS be-
lieved that influential members of the Left
are resolved OF moderate coarse. Gam
BETA will deliver a speech next week at
the American circus.
A despatch to the Chicago Times, dated
Fort Walsh, British Territory, the 18th
inst. says the Commissioners sent by our
! Government to treat with Sitting Bull have
met him and utterly failed to obtain any
terms of settlement. lie continually fears
lreachery on the part of the Americans and
places no trust whatever in their profess
sions. Their offer of peace Oh the condi-
ton of his surrender being rejected, the
! Commissioners have begun their journey
| homeward.
At Reading Pa, on Monday morning,
the cases OF 81 persons indicted for rioting,
on Monday, July 23d, came up in court.
! 1 nc blsti III 1httoihcy tohSt t'i thc "itti
drawal of juror and the discharge of the
| jury empanelled, on the ground of the bias
manifested by the two of the jurors since
they had been selected and sworn. His
application was granted and the cases re-
tr,rsa nded for trial. Samuel Humphreys and
Edmut'-d Smith, pleaded guilty to the
charge OF buinring the Lebanon Valley
bridge, were sentenceo1 each to five years
Imprisonment and the paymenpt of fine of
$1,000.
Another railroad war; has broken out |
in the western part of the State. The |
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad crosses |
the track of the Lawrence and New Castle
read at Mahoningtown. Last week the |
Lawrance and New Castle Company began |
to grade for side track four or five feet |
below the grade of their main track, the
object being to prevent the new road from |
crossing their line. The Lake Erie officials, |
however, by putting large force at work,
succeeded in making the crossing. On
Monday night a number Of the Lawrence
and New Castle workmen tore up the new y
laid Lake Erie track. On Tuesday the