The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-07-31

. tain IS that the Swiss Charge fAffairs at
Vienna, M. Tschudi, applied to the Federal
Council to put a stop to this traffic, which is
carried on principally in the eantons of Fri
burg, Vaud and Neufchatel; that body has
certainly given orders to the local authorities
of those cantons not TO allow such proceed
ings in future, ragH as.s q 7>jr ifs sdr
+, GREAT WALKING MATCH. The Harris
burg Park has been secured fora grand walk
ing match to come off some day next week,
Z between the great English champion, Mr..
George Topley, and one of our great Ameri-
can pedestrians, whose name we have not
yet learned. Mr.. .Topley the English cham
pion has made his seven and a half miles in
one hour We learn wager has, been made
that he cannot walk twenty one miles inside
of three hours, and in all probability that
match will come off at the Harrisburg Park,
which has been selected from among a num-
Der of Others as the best track in Pennsylva-
nia.-Harrsbury Patriot, y. trcr 80
1t is not generally known that the debt of
the United States has actually increased since
the close of the war. On the LIST of June, 1865,
it amounted to 81, 1886, 205, 753, and on the list
of June, 1868, 1t was 81, 648, 1886, accord
ing to the report of Secretary McCulloch,
showing an increase of $13,547,813 At this
rate of payment when will the debt be extin-
guished? Who can answer In these last
three years hundreds of millions, that should
have been applied to the payment of tile ma
tional debt, have been wasted in the freed
mems Bureau, large standing army, and
many, other ways. If economy had been
practiced the debt might have been reduced
several hundred millions in the last three
years. Whether this extravaganza and in
crease of the public debt continues will de-
pend on the way the people vote next No
vember. ~ ~ ~ 4 Il ~ - Il =
A monstrous snake was shot recently in
Tennessee, by several young men who went
in pursuit of it, 1t had created great corister-
nation for some time previous The monster
was skinned and the skin blown up with a
bellows ready for exhibition It is twenty
nine and half feet long, thirty inches in
girth, has terrible head twenty inches broad,
and a tail ridged like an alligator. Il is sun,
posed to be boa constructor that escaped
some thirty years ago from a menagerie but
no boa constructor ever exhibited in this coun-
q try had tail like an alligator 1t is perhaps
the largest snake ever seen In this country. L
The new Southern Governors" elected
under the carpet-bag dispensatinn, are nearly
all Northern adventurers. Gov. Bullock, Of
Georgia, is from New York; Gov. CLAYTON,
of Arkansas, is from Pennsylvania; Gov.
Reed, of Florida, Is from Wisconsin; Gov.
Marmouln oII,Lonlsiana,. is from Illinois /;
G9Y. scots, q S2ntn ! carolina 1s ls ffom Penn
Eggleston} proposed for, Mississippisis from
ID from Micb;gsn 'oDS s''''ao ~ ti sihia'
while we ara ,,o,,t;,,, !, ,,,.hi.ba.. as.,
n vessel arrives t.o,,. E Will n .s scarcely
tantaI;ae No via, ,s,,out " INA. does NOT
some Of them Of immense size a on t5e coast %,
Steamships Borussia, s City Of Boston and
Minnesota. all had Observations of tiat kind
The latter at one time was in close Acompan-
ionship. with several very ugly customers,
and hadto make q long detour to get out of
tnelr way. -a'2'a ~
Pennsylvania makes two thirds of all glass
manufactured in the United States, In Pitts
purg tnere sixty-elght glass works devoted
IN mar. ABOUT equal proportions 70 bottle, window
glass and fiint-glass work. Their annual
boras sov 'T Soo oo..es eoyOo
ware worth ~ the a~aonoto ,oms =, LASS
mare, wor,n in inc aggegate' nearly seven
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1OISc uitS arc UNUSUALLY numerous IN the