The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-08

The city of New York is now to have an
underground railroad, q law incorporating
the company to construct it having passed
the Legislature and received the signature Of
the Governor. .-.,-
1t is to commence on the east side of
Broadway. at City Hall Park, and runs be-
meath the Park, Centre street and City Hall
place to Pearl street, thence to Mulberry
street, and beneath Mulberry street to Bleck-
er street, thence to Lafayette place and Fourth
avenue, beneath the avenue to Union square,
and thence in direct line to the depot of the
Harlem railroad at Forty street. This
portion of the road is to be finished within
two years from its commencement 1t is the
intention of the Company to extend the road
to Harlem River within five years.
At st. Eustache, Canada, a man named Fee
ban and his wife, who were in the habit of
robbing and numbering wayfarers, and trav-
elers who stopped at their house, recently at
tackled a traveller, the man with an axe and
the wife with razor. The traveller knocked
down his assailant, and the wife installing
her husband for him, cut his throat. She has
been arrested and has confessed all of her
past horrible transactions Three skeletons
were found in the house.
The wife of a mechanic died lately in De-
troit, and on the night after the body had
been laid out one of the watchers thought
she discovered evidences oflife. Restoratives
were applied, and the body warmed and at
the end of five days life was restored, the pa
tient obened her eyes, and is now in a fair
way of recovery. The coffin had been pre-
pared, and the body placed in it, and but for
the discovery of the watcher undoubtedly
there would have been case of burying
alive. = -sh ..- Nl
A shad fisherman sends line to the Phil
adelphia Inquirer, complaining that "the
stemebotes that traffic in the delawur Spite
the shaddn bisnes with their splashin and
runnin in shoar." Our piscatory friend re-
monstrates against this, and takes the indis-
putable position that "shaddin were invented
before stembotes."
The proposed railroad from New Hope to
Philadelphia will pass within a convenient
distance to thirty towns. Each, it is estima-
ted, will require more than $4,000 worth of
merchandise annually. The operations of
the mills on the route will also be largely in
creased by the improved facilities of sending
their produce to market.--Ldn6ertoal6 Bed-
con. 80. -r-..rf ,rgF--rs IL = -T7fF17
DR.. Livingstone, the celebrated African ex-
plorer, about whose safety so many fears
were entertained, has just written q letter to
England, from Zanzibar, stating that he is in
good health that his explorations have been
successful, and that he will soon return home
Eleven persons were killed and three
others injured by the explosion of the boiler
of the propeller Gov. Cushman, at Buffalo
The killed were principally ofthe crew. The
steamer was owned in Cleveland. and valued
at $4,000. She was blown to pieces, the
shock shaking buildings several squares from
the scene Of disaster
The California democrats have elected dele
gates to the National Convention, represent
ing both wings of the party, among them ex-
Gov. Bigler. ,....sl
CB- Elections were held last year in TWEEN
ty States represented in Congress. The ag-
gregate vote in these States was as follows
Democratic 1922 ,973; Republican 1857 1855;
Democratic majority 55085. ' 0-N