The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-02-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Cincinnati people VIII hate water worse
than ever now.
Ninety one deaths from small pox
were in New Orleans last week.
Two Easton seine -haulers caught one
day last week six thousand good sized
rock fish.
Public attention is about equally divided
between Congressional legislation and
the Ohio floods.
Those who thought that the backbone
OF winter was broken will now have time
to revise their calendars.
There is just shade of similarity be-
tween the Investigation of the Irish con-
splracy and the trial of the Star Route
frauds.
Col. Edwin Ii. Webster, Collector of
Castoms, Baltimore, has been elected a
member OF Rodgers Post. G. A. r. of
Havre de Grace.
MI Thos. {. Brown, of Finksburg Car
roll county, VINO attempted suicide by
shooting himself in the head on the 30th
nit, has lost his reason.
Percy, a little son OF Hon. Stevenson
Archer, received severe cut in the fore
head, on Monday, by fall ON the ice,
Dir. +. II. Richardson sewed up the
wound.
\ man who was burned in effigy two
years ago. at Quincy, ILL.,, has just found
out who melted the demonstration, and
commenced a suit against him for so,
600 damages.
\ bill has been introduced into the
Legislature at Harrisburg to distribute
bodies of unclaimed dead g." to the scien-
title colleges schools for scientific dissec-
ton"
Some of the farmers of Queen Anne's
county, Md. have not yet finished husk-
ing their corn which is in the field. An
early and severe winter caught them
mapping.
The Rev. Joseph Cook admits that his
knowledge as to the time that the soul
quits the body is not exact, and his
statement that it remains for hours after
death is partly IA surmise. But he kno US
for a positive fact that there is no pro-
baton after death.
One of the most attractive places in
the country to day is that Georgia town
where an epidemic is carrying off the
eats by the score. Tho nature of the
epidemic is unknown. and the citizens
have made no efforts to ascertain it.
Fact is, > said the physician, you
don't take enough exercise" 9 don't
take enough exercise exclaimed the
patient. in establishment. Why, doc
tor, belong to the Episcopal church and
attend service every Sunday. For heav-
Ell 5 sake, what more would you have?"
y Han in Blacksburg, Va, imagines
himse'fa horse. lie runs wildly through
the ST. Gets, beats himself with switch
and increases his speed at his own COM
mana to gee up there He has gone
to grass, IS it were, in the upper story.
At smyrna. Del, the protracted meet
ing at the NJ. T. Church still continues,
and % persons have professed religion
and 6:i have thus far bee.. admitted as
members of the church on probation.
Over 800 persons have signed the petition
to bring the Delaware railroad into
Smyrna.
Eight hundred employees Ct the Yves
tern MON Telegraph Company in New
York regularly eat in the great building
corner of Dey street AID Broadway. To
feed these the meats are put on the fire
every morning at ! o'clock. and when
cooked are carried Oh to the steam tables.
Beef, ham, tongue, vegetables, tea, choc-
ulate and milk are the ordinary dishes
served for dinner, which is charged at
cost price of ten cents This meal is ser
we'd " all no distinction is made from the
lowest to the highest official in the COM
pany. No wine, liquors or ale are allow :
ed. The men are waited on by men and
the women by women. If any one de-
Sices 4 steak, an extra charge of ten cents
is added.