The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

L X
superintendent of the PHILADELPHIA aims
house, who is charged with forgery, and
for whose extradition from Hamilton.
ontario an extended litigation was had,
began in Philadelphia Wednesday.
Nancy Timbrooks, colored died at
Easton, Washington county; New York,
Wednesday aged 106 Years. She was
born in the year of Burgoyne's surrender
and bore upon her back the scars from
whippings she received when slave.
Arthur F. Francis, formerly of the
Wilmington 4Nornihg Ne,cs and later of
the Washington Post and the Philadel-
phia Press, has connected himself with
the Rocky Mountain Netcs of Denver, Col.
and will, in a few days, start towards his
new field of labor.
In the last Congress there were more
than fifty men who were beyond the age
of 60, more than twenty who were IS or
past, and three or four who had reached
or passed their three score and ten.
At Bayview, near the Atlantic High
lands, New Jersey, last Saturday. a large
fish hawk swooped down into the waters
of the bay, embedding in its talons a
huge plaice. The bird rose with it's prey,
but its weight proved too great and drag
ged him down. Several times the bird
struggled to ascend, but failed, and ex-
hausted, it finally fell into the water.
still chnging to its captive. It's talons
were SO embedded in the fish that it
could not release them, and it was
drowned. The fish died of its wounds,
and both were washed ashore, where with
difficulty they were separated
A few days ago o. F. Due, Scandina.
Wan Mormon, brutally beat one of his
numerous wives, young woman who
was married to him last August. The
newspapers took the case up and COM
PEELED the Mormon police to arrest Due,
who was, however, discharged by Nor
mob justice. The woman, not pleased
with the turns affairs took, went before
the United States commissioner yester-
day morning, and entered a complaint
charging him with polygamy. He was
arrested, and, waving examination, he
was held in $50, 900 bail to await the
action of the grand jury. The wise pie.
caution was taken to place the dlssatis-
fled wife. her sister and another wife un-
der bonds as witnesses. This is one of
remarkably few instances where Mormon
women have entered complaints against
their husbands.
John SwintOn, the communistic sub
editor of the New York Sun, in a recent
lecture on the men he has met said of
Denis kearney; No matter what YOU
think of him. if it should ever be your
fortune to meet him as met him at nv
table, you would find him able to de-
mean himself with as much dignity to
his own sex, and as gently to the other,
as any man of your acquaintance: he re.
mains "a type Of man not uninterestins to
students Of human nature Dol !, resting 'o
aIo.-tht. OF human nature.
According to one account, a bottle of
whisky tslst the bottom Of .strlkein TIE
Heading Hard are t't1} r&&s,a "a Goy havfns
been discharged for, bringing l,iYXuoff into
the ,foundrye and The mel, la vhtE stfntk
until. tie boy shah be Fet. earHHibBltey eda
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strihk9 tfStd t1S tsgHh
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nfertah ,Sfhnster,ih W6ieha ittshfdP ttisitter
New ,fotk 1Iakdsls3 zsitahV slaYfvet fto
Gefmany's action On the tsabieScrtt az tife
and Importation 81 ..Ammerfdan
potk,.o o. was cognizaHtl of the pabhea-
ton ~ such All article. MI ,sarseitftt Said
he sent a dispatch to his, Governirtenitf on
the ,sIb1eet,, which was property Publish J
cd BY tile STATE Department, and ''thatii
VAS then copied BY various joarnais,t III
Gliding even papers Id ;Betfifnf. u The paa5r
ticalaF Object OF attack, Gy. the -N5rh Ger
taaH >fasSSeslte were IN faet gn6tatiofns|
from a German paps., lahd We're tfiuify
cTe1ited. to II tyifiiih:. 81: SARGENT Ynf-
Tier declared that. there Was oflf9 trn I'll inI
tile statement that, be had said that tie
pf9hfbitioh Of tiit Importation or hnieff-
can Cal pork, was an5iilletgsaf measure aid Was
asrtisd DESPITE d 1PpposfttbioH = II