The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-12-18
ded last Friday, kiiling William johnson


ded last Friday, killing William johnson
and mortally wopnding another employee
a woman hps been arrested ID Switzerland,
who has rnonomania for murder; she is q
nurse, and has been poisoning her patients
at the rate of nine in six months; she did it
merely for amusement gaining nothing by
their deaths, and having no grudge against
the victims. Previous to opening the Ellie
Canal, the tonnage crossing the Allegheny
Mountains, and fiom the Lakes to New ork,
did not exceed $4,000 tons; in 1864 the ton
mage On the Canal had reached 965, 993 tons ;
in 1867 the united through tonnage of the
| five great lines between the two sections the
Erie Canal, New York Central, Erie, Penn.
sylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads.
equalled 100000 tons, having q value Of
$1,sOO,0Oo,000 The history of the world
will be searched in vain for any development
similar to this. The Baltimore Commercial
says: We saw and felt at Canfield's jewelry
establishment a block of pure silver, contain
ing 364.50 ounces, assayed at Georgetown,
Colorado; also, another block weighing six
pounds and quarter, of rich ore from the
same locality, A meeting of the friends of
the Washington Valley Railroad, was held
at Texas, Baltimore county, on Friday last;
it was determined to vigorously prosecute the
project. This road is to intersect the North
ern Central at or near Texas Meetings have
been held in reference to it, ut Manchester,
Hampstead, and other places in Carroll coun-
ty. The number of pupils studying German
in the public schools of Chicago, is 995. In
his speech before the board of trade at Cincin-
natl, Gen, Hiram Walbridge stated that in
1851 the cost of the railroads then in opera
ton Q0. 600 miles, equalled $2OO,0OO,OO0-
In 1865 the cost of 80 900 miles equalled ST.
6OO,O0O,o00. 1t is estimated that there are co.
800 boilers in use in the United States, repre-
senting . power Of over 100000 Horses
These boilers are distributed as follows:-
Locomotives, 5000; steamboats,, 1O,500; sta.
tionary, $4,000. 1t is stated that the greatest
number of explosions takes place between
the list of September and the first of January.
The New York Herald denounccs the pro.
ceedings of Congress on the Presidents Mes
sage, as most disgraccful and fragrant, and
says, the scene altogether was of character
more worthy of barroom on Water street.
than the Lower House of Congress. The
outstanding circulation of legal tender notes
is nearly 100000, and the total amount
Of all kinds of outstanding circulation is
$565,OOO,0 900, Dispatches from Little Rock,
Arkansas, report a series of horrible negro
outrages in that State. The sheriff of Con-
way county, strong Republican, has advised
the citizens to organize and arm themselves;
he also sent a petition to the Governor, ask
ing that the militia may be disbanded. A
very hcavysgaic prevailed all over England,
on the eighth, and many disasters are repor-
ted. The shipping in the harbors sustained
heavy damage. Houses were blown down
and the damage from the storm is reported
to be very great. The meteoric display of
November the 18th, OF Mazatland was unusu-
ally brilliant A correspondent says that
little before one o'clock there appeared n
atransparent haziness in the heavens, form
| ing an immense band, with a soft shade on
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