The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-05-07

seriously injured by the late Storm is not TO-
tally destroyed, as was at first feared. This
remark applies to Worcester, Somerset, Wi
comico and Dorchester, in Maryland; and
Sussex in Delaware. In the tier of counties
further north, in which is included Talbot
Caroline Kent and Queen Anne's in Mary
land; and Kent in Delaware, the damage is
much lighter, and probably halfa crop will
be made A correspondent writes the I'i-
bune thus: Sat the southern terminus OF
the Delaware Railroad, about Crisfeld and
MORTON stations, and wherever the proxim-
ity of large bodies of salt water neutralizes
the frost, the buds are sound and healthy
The Newark Courier says: The New Jersey
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to animals
is SO enterprising in its movements and so
severe in its measures, that it will be dan
gerous for cook to beat an egg. Yoke
hama adyices state that another rebellion
against the Mikado was threatened in Japan.
A fire at Linganore on the 18th of February
destroyed 100000 worth of property, inclu.
ding the Oriental Bank building. The new
minister TO Austria, John Jay, has received
his Instructions, and will shortly sail for Eu-
rope. The London journals are very much
excited about the Cuban question. Some OF
them say that President Grant has run mad
on the subject and that he "longs for for.
eign war" The Italian government has dis
covered another formidable Mazzinian con-
spiracy In Milan. Papers which were con-
cealed by the revolutiGnists, and which give
details of'the organization, have been I'M
earthed and seized, together with large
amount of arms, AMI is wider spread than
was at first supposed. The Darien Canal
will be thirty miles long, and has tunnel of
seven miles in length. The estimated cost
of the work is sixty.ive million dollars. A
aides club has been formed in Indiana for
redemption of young men from the vices of
the age. Alexandria advices state that q
conspiracy to assassinate the Viceroy of
Egypt has been discovered. An explosive
machine connected with the gas pipe was
found under his box at the Cairo Theatre
Several arrests have been made A Califor-
mia paper gives an interesting description of
mountain of salt in Nevada. 1t is said to
be five miles long and six hundred feet high,
and of unknown depth. 1t is pure, and
like rock, it requires blasting from the
mine, whence 1t is taken in large blocks,
as transparent as glass. 1t is believed
that there is but one other place
in the world whore salt exists in such a
state OF puri;.' ~ TO be quarried like marble,
and that is Cracrow, Poland The farmers
Of Camden and vicinity estimate that 6,000,-
900 ofbaskets will be required for the tomato
trade during the coming season. There are
four ca ming establishments in four of the
lower counties of New Jersey, and the d.
mand will be large, apart from the market
supply. Another meeting Of the Cortes of
Spain was held on the 21st Of April, to nomi-
nate candidate for the throne. So great
was the diversity of opinion that the meeting
brokeup Marshal Serrano declared that the
choice of Montpensier for King or the declar-
alton of a republic were the only possible al
ternatives. Madrid dates to the 26th state
that the CONSUMPTION has been completed
throughout Spain. There was no rioting or
disorder, except at Avile, small town about
fifty miles from Madrid, where the conscrip.
ton was postponed for time ON account of
the opposition of the people. The steamer
Uselda struck on snag in ti,s Missouri Riv-
er, on Saturday morning, causing the ex-
plosion of her boiler, and fearful loss
Of life. She had on board number of dis.
charged soldiers from the various posts along
the river. The work on the elevated street
railway from the Battery, via Greenwich
street and 9th avenue to Both street, New
York city is gong on, and cars it is bald, will
be running next August. Four stationary
engines, below the pavement, at the junction
of Greenwich street with Cortland, Franklin
and Bethune streets, and of 9th Avenue with
22d street, will propel the cars. Mails from
Rio Janeiro contain details the war in Para
quay. The partisans of Lopez were numer-
GUS and active in the Cerroleon and Legoa
districts, where they were pursuing guerilla
warfare The allies sent gunboat expedi-
tionup the Parana river, which had returned
and reported that no Notifications had been
discovered on the banks. Three thousand
men were on the eve of marching for Villa
RIGA, which was still in possession ofthe Para
guayans. A heavy gale on Friday night swept
away the galleries ofthe light house and keep
er's dwelling, at the mouth of the Mississip-
piriver, and at the Southwest Pass below New
Orleans, inundated the light house there, des-
troyed the boats and caused the building to
settle one foot, besides damaging the rigging
of vessels in the Pass. The Chestertown
Transcript stetas that Mrs. James M. Page,
near Evansville, has in her yard goose
known to be sevepty-fve years DID, and that
it has been in the Miller family for fifty
years. A report got into circulation at Har-
risburg, Pa. on Friday last, to the effect that
white and black children would be admitted
to the same public schools. The mere rumol
created SO much excitement that public
denial was made by the board of directors Of
the public schools. Four negroes went to
rob smoke house in a Virginia village, q
few nights since. The door was locked, but
two Of them pried up the house on one side
with levers, while the others crept in. just
then the owner Of the property came out
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