The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-01-26
Late News Items.

All the employees on the temporary roll
OF the Treasury Department, ninety five in
number, were discharged on Saturday,
Congress having failed to provide for their
retention.
A willow tree, recently cut down in
Norwich, Conn.,, was the growth of twig
taken from tree hanging over the grave
in which Napoleon lay at st. Helena before
his body was conveyed to France.
Gov. Carroll appointed on Tuesday Hon.
+. *. Wilson, of Worcester, to be associate
judge of the first judicial circuit, in place
of the late Judge Franklin, deceased. 1t
is understood Mr.. Wilson has reluctantly
accepted the appointment.
The Secretary of the Treasury has trans
mltted to the Speaker of the House list
OF 34o claims for quartermas;ers' and COM
missary stores under the provision of the
act OF July, 1864 amounting to $l31 ,406,
allowed during the past year, and tor which
Congress will have to make an appropIia-
ton.
The jewelry store of Simon l. Rodberk.
IN Baltimore. was robbed, on Sunday night,
OF over $4,000 worth of gold and silver
watches and diamond rings. The stolen
Jewelry was taken from the safe The rob-
bers left about IS silver watches in the safe,
and did not touch the .jewelry in the cases
on the counter.
young married couple, named Brag-
don, were found suffocated in their sitting
room, in Melrose, Mass, by callers, on
Friday evening of last week The wife
was dead and her husband insensible, but
at last accounts, he was expected to recover.
1t is supposed they were suiiocated by an
escape of coal gas from a register.
MIR. ColfaX arrived at an inn in Warren,
ILL.,, the other night, at a late hour, and. as
he was to take an early train, he told the
landlord that he would not 90 to bed.
The landlord, therefore, WHO did not know
his guest, asked him to act as clerk during
the night, keep the fires going and wake
the porter in the morning. The ex-T ice
President did SO.
Messrs. Adair and Ross, of the Cherokee
Delegation now in Washington, have sub
mitted to Congress their objections TO the
bill now pending in the Senate "to enable
Indians to become citizens" They say it
conflicts with all treaty obligations, would
have demoralizing effect on all the tribes,
and is in violation of the Constitution of
the United States.
Col. A. X. Long, U. S. A, depot COM
missary in Washington city, on Tuesday
last, shot himself through the heart and died
instantaneously. The deceased, who was
President Johnson's private secretary, and
was by him appointed to the position which
he occupied up to the time of his death,
had been addicted for some time past to
excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, and
1t is supposed he committed the deed while
IN fit of temporary insanity. Col. Long
was about 40 years of age, and native of
Pennsylvania, and his tragic end casts a
gloom over his immediate relations and
large circle of friends.
The trial of Judge Yellott, of the third
judicial district of Maryland. at Annapo-
lis, on Tuesday, resulted in his acquittal
on the several counts of an Indictment for
drunkenness while in discharge of his Judi
cial functions. On demurrer, several counts
OF the indictment were stricken out by the
court, on the ground that the LEGGED oifense
Is misdemeanor, and that it must be
proved as having been committed within
twelve months, which was not so alleged
On other counts, which alleged the offense
as having been committed within purview
of the law, the State was unable to give
proof of it, and the traverser was acuuit-
ted. In relation to counts charging drunk
enneSS while off the bench and not engaged
in Judicial duties, the court said that such
case was proper ground for impeachment
by the Legislature. but is not within the
jurisdiction of the courts.