The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

1t is thought that Mrs. John W. Gar
rett, wife of President Garrett, of the
b. & O. Railroad, of Baltimore, who has
been seriously ill for some time, will re-
cover.
The barge Cockade City, so intimately
connected with the terrible disaster at
Tiyoli excursion resort near Baltimore
last Summer, has been sold by the
United States Marshal to satisfy a claim
upon her.
A prize fight took place at Ottawa,
Canada, on Wednesday, between John
Evans and d. McCallum for 500 side.
After fighting twenty rounds, the police
interferred and captured the combatants,
who were fined $50 each and costs in the
Police Court.
Some hunters in Idaho says the Ter
ritorial Enterprise, claim to have recently
seen white bcar-that as regards color,
but possessing the manners and style of
black bear to such an extent that the
discoverers felt warranted in calling it a
white black bear.
The grand jury of Kent county Circuit
Court found true bill of indictment on
Tuesday against James S. Leary for the
murder of Edward B. Gallup on Sunday,
the Goth of August last, on a farm near
Still Pond, by stabbing him with knife
in the stomach.
A London child who had never seen a
tree was afraid of one when she was
taken in the country, and, as the wind
moved it's branches and leaves, she ex-
claimed, clinging in terror to one of the
school teachers who went with the chill
dren: why don't it keep stiHo"
In the United States District Court at
Wilmington. Del. on Wednesday. John
Wood, an illicit whskey seller captured
some time since in the Blackbird forest,
pleaded guilty to the charges preferred,
and was sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment and fined 800 and costs.
The Tri- County Fair opened at Hagers-
town Tuesday under most favorable aus
pices Upwards of 5000 people were
present. The exhibition OF machinery
and agricultural implements and pro
ducts exceeds anything ever seen in this
part of the country before. A vast
amount of machinery is in operation by
| steam.
Lord Bacon's signs of short life are
quick growth. fair, soft skin, soft, me
hair, early corpulence, large head, short
neck. small mouth. fat ear. brittle sepa-
rated teeth. Some of his signs of long
life are slow growth, hard, coarse hair
rough, freckled skin, deep burrows, in the
forehead, firm flesh with veins lying high,
wide nostrils, large mouth, hard. gristly
ear strong contiguous teeth. He adds
that early gray hair is not significant,
some of the longest livers having turned
gray in early life.
A dispatch from Washington to the
New York papers, says that the forth
coming annual report of the Postmaster
General. will show that forty-two new
| free delivery offices were established
throughout the country during the last
fiscal year. Employing 223 additional
carriers, and that 292 carriers we're added
to the rolls of free delivery offices al
ready established. The total number of
letter carriers in the country at the close
of the year was $3.50. Congress apprO-
priated So, 200. 600 for the free delivery
| system, and So, 173 336 of this amount
was expended on it during the year.
showing an increased cost in the system
of $500, 900 over the preceding year.
Some months ago an English tourist,
lingering in a country ehurehyard was
present at funeral, and observed among
| the group of mourners young man who
particularly attracted attention by his
swollen face and the utter detection of
his appearance. ''IIere at least is one
true mourner," thought the Englishman.
| While this thought was passing through
his nina the supposed mourner took up
skull which lay CT the top of heap of
dry mould and crumbied ZONES. He rails
ed it TO bis lips, and with his own teeth
extracted a tooth from it. Horror filed
the stranger as lie watched this proceed
ing and saw him throw the skull care
lessly away, while he wrapped the tooth
in paper and put it in his pocket. Can
you tell me why he did that ?" asked our
tourist of an old man who had stood be-
side him during the funeral ceremony
"Aye, surely, your honor; the poor boy
VS. very bad with the tootLaehe, ar it s
allowed to be cure if you draw tooth
frae skull VII your ain teeth. He'll
sew the tooth in his clothes an wear it
as long as he lives" ''iou don't tell me
so Do you think the remedy will be
etfectual?' cts like enough, sir" said
the old man, showing where tooth was
Sewed in the lining OF his own waistcoat
cts five years since | pulled that one
the same say, and never had touch
O. the to0thaGLe SiDcs."