The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-22

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II think that's about the view the Amer
lean people take of our present account
against x. johnson.
eve would suggest that when the Hon.
Mr.. Washburn and the Hon. Mr. Donnelly
desire to have another match at Billingsgate
they select some other arena than the floor of
the House of Representatives. Their con-
duct and language would disgrace the lowest
'rum-milP in New York city. We can per-
ceive nothing in the debate which calls for
the laughter which SO plentifully besprinkles
the report of the affair; but, on the contrary,
quite sufficient to make the angels weep, and
and the judicious mourn" Sing Sing Repub-
lican May7.
John Schneider blacksmith in Grand
Rapids Michigan, has fallen heir to an estate
valued at $3,000,OO0. The property belonged
time since at Franl1fort-on the Main, and his
property falls to his only sister, the mother
of Mr.. Schneider, who has only two children.
The Democrats elected their ticket in Pitts
field township, Pike county, ILL.,, few days
ago, by 1902 majority In the county they
elected fifteen Supervisors by increased ma
jorities, to six Radicals The Pittsfield DEM
Ocrat says that Pike county is good for 1000
majority next fall for the whole Democratic
ticket.
The New York Tribune, in the course of o
recent article on bribery in the Legislature
at Albany, gives point to the charges of cor
ruption by the remarkable statement that &" q
Senator is currently reported to have sold
his vote and influence first to one side for
$4,000, then to the other side for $4,000,
insisting that he must have $4,000 extra for
his SOUL"
The wheat crop of California this season is
estimated at twenty million bushels; barley
ten million bushels and oats two million five
hundred thousand bushels, and fears are en-
tertained there will not be sufficient tonnage
for export. A very large wheat crop is also
reported in the country about the Black Sea.
The losses by fire in the United States by
conflagration, each of which destroyed $780,
600 or upwards, during April, are reported at
$2S90,000. For the first four months the to-
tai losses by fire in this country have been
$15073,000, as compared with $15, 432 900
for the corresponding period last year.
The Hoosac Tunnel, when completed, will
be over $4,000 feet five miles, long. Only
1000 feet of the mountain has been penetra-
ted. The project has cost Massachusetts 81
100000 already, and will require $S,0O00OO
to finish it.
In Ohio, a fruit farmer is planting man.
month orchard, which will consist OF 5000
apple trees, 10000 peach trees, 5000 pear
trees, 1900 cherry trees, 1900 Chickasaw
plums six acres of ounces twenty acres of
Strawberries, twenty acres ofraspberries, and
eigteen acres Of grapes. So says the New
York Farmer.
At Colts fire. arms factory, in Connecticut,
business is very brisk, the hands being ell
gagged in making 10000 Berdan rifles for
Russia. About four hundred workmen are
now employed.
1t is said that Forney is mad with the i'm
peachers because they neglected to enumerate
among the high crimes and misdemeanors"
of the president, his having called him "a dead
duck"
The New York Legislature has adjourned,
after refusing to submit the new constitution
lately framed bya convention in that State to
a vote of the people. The convention LETT
the matter discretionary with the Legislature
and though half a million of dollars were
spent in making the constitution, it now goes
for nought.
A raft containing 100000 feet of lumber
100000 laths, and 100000 shingles came down
the Chippewa river to Davenport, Iowa, on
Saturday last.