The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-08
Late News Items.

The public debt statement for November
shows a decrease of 81 1923, GA.
Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Providence, r. l., for the
twelfth time.
Hon. John Welsh, Minister to England,
sailed srom New York on Saturday on the
steamship Adriatc.
Gen Grant has gone from Paris to Lyons.
He has gained forty-eight pounds in flesh
since he quilted Washington.
Colonel Robert Tyler, a son of ex Presi-
dent Tyler, died suddenly at Montgomery,
Ala, on Monday night, of paralysis of the
brain.
Two families in Utica, N. Y, were
poisoned on Saturday by eating "head
cheese" and three of the victims are
seriously ill.,
1t was reported at Deadwood, Dakota,
on Saturday, that the Indians had resumed
depredations near Red Water, and COM
menced by killing ranchman.
The motion for new trial of Heinrich
Wahlen, convicted of the murder of Max
Huge Hoehne, hear the Changers encamp-
ment. at Elm station, Pa, in the Fall of
1876, has been denied.
Henry Leland, the young American land
scape painter. was accidentally killed on
Wednesday by the discharge of a pistol
which he was carelessly handling, not
knowing that it was charged.
A telegram from Little Rock says the
cotton crop in that region has been injured
by the cold weather "to an alarming ex-
N,,t h,l -, g. h. II
that remains in the field is injured
At Norfolk, Va, on Sunday, Benjamin
Godfrey, aged 10, shot and killed Mollie E.
Winingder, aged II, and then shot himself
in the left breast, intlicting a wound which
is likely to prove fatal. Jealousy was the
cause.
fire broke out about midnight at Mil
lerstown, Butler county, Pa, and was still
burning at the latest adviceS. Two blocks
in the business part of the town had been
destroyed, including the Bank House, a
large hotel.
Samuel Barth, F. A. Savir, Charles Har-
vey and W. H. Strauss, lately directors of
the Union Banking Company, at Baltimore,
have been arrested and bailed to answer
any indictment for fraud which may be
found against them by the Grand Jury.
Local elections were held in Massachu
sets on Tuesday. In New Bedford George
A, Richmond, Citizens Temperance can
didate, was elected Mayor. In Lawrence,
j. r. Simpson, Republican,, was elected
Mayor, gain for the Republicans since
last year.
J. Y. Maginn, under bail at Chester, Pa,
on the charge of embezzlng $4,000 from a
Building Association, disappeared on
Thursday morning, the Goth ultimo His
friends fear that he committed suicide, or
has been murdered. He had surrendered
all his property.
A coal train ran off the track of the
Reading railroad at Lost Creek Station
on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty cars were
wrecked, the passenger station was de-
molished, the freight depot and storehouse
were badly damaged, the telegraph lines
were torn down, and several persons were
injured.
A telegram from Western Texas says
that the number of United States troops
i'll that section is now SO small that the
Indians rove and murder with impunity
Near Stockton, few days since, Indians
captured coach, killed a driver, cut up
the mail bags and took off the team. The
coach which left Port Concho on last Fri
day was attacked, but escaped
A farmer named Blackman, living near
Birmingham, Mich, decided his farm to
his son Henry, about two years ago, on
condition that the latter should support his
parents and his sister. The young man
failed to do this, and on Saturday his father
went to Pontiac to take steps for the revo-
cation of the deed. During the fathers
absence Henry quarreled with and killed
his mother and sister, and then set fire to
the house and barn. He is now in Jail.
In the cemetery at Montgomery, Ala,
Sunday mo ming. the dead bodies of Anto-
MO s,lcrosi and Miss Aurelia Sharp were
found lying together, pistol ball being
embedded in each head. They were lovers
and went out to take walk together on
Saturday afternoon. \ note from Nicrosi
intimated that they were willing to die
together" though why they should do SO
is not stated or surmiSed. Nicrosi was a
youth of 90. The lady's age is not men
toned, but she is said to have been pretty.
Richmond is excited over the discovery
that $50, 900 of Virginia State bonds have
been distracted from the State Treasurer S
office after being funded and funded the
second time under the funding act of March
30, 1871. This abstraction is supposed to
have taken place during the TIeasurership
of Joseph Mayo, in 1873, who was indicted
for defalcation, but acquitted on the ground
of insanity. The actual value of the alb
stracted bonds is about $23, 600, and adds
that amount to the State debt.
The Hon. John Fl. Burleigh, ex-member
of Congress from the First Maine district,
was killed, on Wednesday night, by the
carriage in which he was riding falling
from the bridge over the Salmon Falls
river, distance of twenty-f five feet The
accident was caused by the horse steering
off suddenly. Mr.. Bureigh was born in
1929; he went to sea at the age of sixteen,
and commanded a ship on foreign voyages
for seven years. He was member of the
Maine Legislature for six years, and served
in the Forty-third and Forty fourth Con-
crosses.
Mrs. Sarah J. Spencer and Mrs Sargent,
wife of Senator Sargent, called on the
President, on Monday morning, and asked
him to recommend in his message "legis-
lation by which women should be recog.
nized in foreign as well as domestic APP
pointments;' also the adoption of female
suffrage amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. The President replied,
that cat future time he might state in
writing his views on the subject He
would now say. that {" if Congress should
recommend for adoption by the States such
an amendment to the Constitution, it would
meet his approval"
SB Corruption in our National affairs
has the same effect on the Government
that severe cough or cold has upon the
human system. Political reform in the
former and DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup in the
latter case will remedy the evils. 1t can
be had of all druggists for % cents.
A TIME-HoNoRED SPECIFIC.-The long
and successful of DR. WIsu ne