The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-02-02

Bishop Peck has Just received from
Japan the RECOMMENDATION for ad mission
on trial, by annual conference in this
country, of eleven Japanese preachers.
Asparagus and tomatoes, raised under
glass in New Jersey. are for sale in the
Fifth Street Market, Philadelphia, the
forper at seventy five cents per bunch, and
the latter at fifty cents per pint.
New jersey has SO distiileries, 90 brew
cries, 40 wholesale liquor dealers and S513
hotels and saloons. Taking the whole
United States, it is said that there is a
drinking place for each ESQ of the popu-
I lation.
The teachers in the public schools of
Ea!tiGore have Just tQI med beneficial as
ISOLATION. whose object is to proyIde Ger
tain benefits for the members in Eases of
sickness and disability, and for their fami-
lies in cases of death.
The trial of Judge Yelott, in the circui,
court of Baltimore county, on Tuesday,
reGuitei, IN his acquittal on the several
counts of All indictment far drunk enness
while in the discharge of his judicial func-
tions. The State examined but one wit
ness, and he was a know-nothing. The
Attorney General promptly abandoned the
case
The annapolis and Elkridge railroad
petitions for $1,000 damages for the de-
structiOn of car of that company i'll the
neighborhood of Camden station, on the
| night of July 90, during the riots in Balti-
more. The petitioners say that they are
advised they have no clam against the city
of EatimGre bY reason of the police of
rat he'll = IF I'd
of the State.
A report is published by the Galveston
-Ne1cs that fifty Mexicans, under Salinas, a
Lerdist partisan, made a raid into the State
Of Tamauiipas, from Texas, on the 23rd
ut., ATTACHED three towns. and made the
principal inhabitants pay $4,000 for their
release. Cavalry was sent in pursait of
the raiders, when they scattered, and TWEEN
II of them re-entered Texas, near Laredo,
on Monday night.
The special committe of the House of
whiGE Dir. Frank Brown of Carroll CO., is
chairman, charged With Investigation of
the State House expenditures, met on
Wednesday morning but did nothing more
than authorize the chairman to call upon
the board of Public Works for a bill of
items of the expenditure of the 49,, 900
appropriated, and the items of the debt
incErred and the names of the persons
holding the claims.
The Committee on Organization Of the
Centennial festivities at Valley Forge in
June next resolved on Tuesday, at Norris
town, to extend special invitations to the
public schools of the adjoining counties,
the faculty of Princeton College, the Cadets
OF tie Military Academy at Chester, Pa,
the American diplomatic Corps, Senator
Oscar de Lafayette, grandson OF the i2eyo-
lutionary hero and TO the Governors and
cabinets of the thirteen original States.
The question whether the celebratio
should be held on the 18th, 18th, 10Th or
2Gth Of June has not yet been determined.
The steamer i.tetrGlqlis, which sailed last
Monday from Philadelphia FOR Para, Brazil,
went ashore On CUrritGc- BEACH during the
prevalence of the southeast gale, Oh Thurs.
day evening last There were 24S passen-
gers on board the i'll fated steamer. Fifty
of whom swan ashore. Steamers have
been sent from Norfolk to aid the unfortu-
ate vessel. Carrtuck beach is fifteen or
twenty alles from Kitty Hawk. where the
L. S. steamer Hyr2R and nearly one hun
bred lives vera lost last November Most
workmen from Philadelphia, who we're
going to Brazil to construct railroad there.
Next week about forty convicts at the
Eastern Penitentiary will be liberated from
that institution by the reduction of their
terms andar the Communication law
Those who will be set a. ,iaerty ere among
the most dangerous Of the inmates OF Lue
pententiary, and it is probable they will
be heard from before they have been out
many days. The institution is still so full
there being eleven hundred convicts
.s;t,!,ii its walls-that this reduction in the
number will MAKE pa peeFcePtible differ
ence in the crowded state OF tho yr;sor
There are only half as many cells as there
are convicts, and solitary confinement has
become impracticable, it being necessary
to put two, and, in some cases, three men
lr ono cell.
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