The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
GENERAL NEW S.
Ex-Governor Hendricks health is 50
far restored that he has returned to In
dianapois and is again at work.

! Ex-Governor lleudTick' health is So
far restored that he has returned to In
dianapois and is again at work.
During General Garfield's Presiden-
tial term. Mrs. Gartield's brothers vii
take charge Of the Mentor farm.
Miss Lizzie Sergeant. daughter Of
ex-senator Sergeant. OF California, has
entered the medical profession in San
| Francisco.
Mr.. Simon Cameron. when the
| Pennsylvania Senatorial election is over
is going to travel through the Southern
States. ending his journey with a glimpse
of Cuba and Port-au Prince.
Five lawyers. out of the thirty-tive
members of the bar of llarrisonburg.
! Va. have died within short time. Most
of the deceased were young men, and
succumbcl after short illnesses.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe laments
the loss Of her entire orange crop on her
place at Mandarin, Fla. One hundred
thousand oranges are rotting on the
ground from the effects of frost.
| The champion woman farmer Of
Maine is probably woman at Minot
Centre, who has herself cut and yarded
ten cords OF sled wood this Winter. She
is Il strong Scotch woman. about thirty
! five years of age. Her husband is living
but past hard work. being over seventy
years of age. She carries on successfully
Il large farm, doing nearly all the work
herself.
Young America, the baby elephant
is likely to lose his mother. as she is very
sick. DR.. Leotard. who is attending
llebe. thinks her recovery doubtful
The keepers are devlSing means to feed
the baby with bottle as some Suhsti-
tute for the mother will lie necessary in
case of her death. The baby is now ten
monies old, weighs /. 100 pounds and is
rs playful us 4 kitten.
- Romeo and Juliet has been enact
Ell in real lie in Stuttgart. y student in
love with a very pretty girl had repeated
ly written to her parents for their consent
to Il marriage. Receiving no reply. he
poisoned himself at the girls lodgings.
Next day came Il letter with the parents
consent. ut the funeral the girl Swal-
Elwed poison, and fell lileleSS into the
arms of one OF the chosterS singing over
the grave.
MIR. William Ferguson. .; man of
eighty. and Mrs. Margaret Wilson. aged
seventy Were married last week in Will
ming ton, Delaware. They were engaged
to be married half century ago, but Il
rupture occurred in consequence of
quarrel and each took other partners.
Since then death removed the wife OF the
lover and the husband OF the sweetheart
aud at THIS late day the youthful engage
b.,., T,,It
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the new Sen
ator from Indiana, was badly hurt in Il
fall upon the ice. IA few days ago. and the
proposed public reception i'll her hus-
band 5 honor was therefore Deferred
General fiarri>on's only daughter is Il
slight and rather delicate looking youu"
lady, with regular features. fam lair and
attractive expression. She is accomplish
! ed and has II discriminating taste i'll ant.
Her mother is fond of painting and has
cultivated herself in that direction.
A certificate of the death of Mrs.
Sally Hunter aged rs years, has been
received at the Health Office III Wash
inston. Mrs. Hunter. it is alleged. was
born in Westmoreland county. Virginia,
in 1866. belonged to the Washington
/ estate. and was one of the servants man-
united by Gen. Washington S will. Size
and her children have lived Ill the Ma
tional Capital since the beginning Of the
civil war. 1t is believed that this aged
woman is really the last OF the servants
of George Washington
Mr.. Moody, i'll one of his San Fran
cisco eXhortaJlous. referred to Il dear
grandmother who was kind and good to
him, but as She was not reSenerated by
divine grace, he feared she had met the
late OF those who die not owning Christ.
He knew she was i'll hell. At that mo-
ment a young man near the front arose
and walked down the aisle toward the
door. There is a gentleman, SAID the
revivalist, who Is tired oi listening
about Christ. He is going straight to
hell" The object o! this public rebukc
turned and said. i'll 4 quiet, clear voice:
We'll. is there any message | can take
to your grandmother. Mr.. Moody?'
Archibald Gibson, second Lieutenant
of the Seventh L. :. Cavalry, died on
Wednesday,, at his father 5 residence, III
st. Louis. The cause of his death was
inflammation of the brain, believed to be
the consequence Of an accident which
happened while he WAS lit W est Point.
One day, on parade, spider got into one
/ OF his ears. Under the rules h could
not raise his hand. and he stood in the
ranks Tor more than an hour. while the
insect worked its way inside. When dis
missed. Gibson 5 ear WAS iuii ri blood.
and it was two days before tEc insect
could be removed. Corrusun OF the ill
ternal bone followed, and after suffering
severely from sickness while on day with
his regiment i'll Dakota. he went home
expecting to resign, but as it proved, to
die.
A n-years-old maiden was recently
dead headed from Portage. Wis. to
Chicago, ON the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
Railroad. The conductor OF the train
took her to police headquarters when he
reached Chicago. Pinned To her cloak
was Il paper, on which was written. Will
the conductor be kind enough to see this
child aho nd the train for Cleveland.
Ohio, where she expects to find relatives.
She is an orphan On the inside of the
cloak was similar slip. except for Clevc-
land was written Ravenna. There We're
no tickets. and the only money abont the
little one was 40 cents. which she had
tied up in her Observation-Disclosures. Her
only baggage was Il LUNCH basket Tiled
with food. The child Is very intelligent.
and. with bright face. twukiin9 eyes,
and almost wonanish ways. Won the af-
tections of all who net her.