The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-30
THE NEWS.

III LONDON, on frhlay last, WIN imposing
ceremonies, in the presence of vast con-
course, hy the Prince of Wales-Secretary
Boutwell, in a letter published in the State
Journal, says he regards the supporters of
Stokes as the true Republican party of Ten
nessee and condemns the Republican sup
porters of Senter, because they are allied
with the enemies of the Republican party
The removal of Mr.. Mackey. as collector of
customs at Charleston, South Carolina, has
created great excitement between two wings
of the Republican party at that place. Mack
ey forcibly elected Clark, the new appointee,
from the Office, and was with other custom
house officers arrested for assault and OBJ
structing Clark in the discharge of his official
duties, and bound over to answer before the
United States Commissioner. = President
Grant is sojourning at Long Bran CHI, N. j.
Gen. Jordan, an Confederate officer, has
formed camp of instruction in Cuba, and
is organizing force of 5000 men for active
service in the cause of the insurgents-Mr.
f. f. Jones, wealthy citizen of Liberty
Mills, Md, dropped dead in saloon at the
White Sulphur Springs, Va, last week, from
heart disease.-A man named Dougherty was
shot and instantly killed in Tennessee, re-
Gently, by q man named Stevens, because he
tried to prevent a fight between Stevens and
another party, about the digging of a
grave-Martial law has been revived and
put in force in Spain,-A palace car full o.
passengers left San Francisco and arrived in
New York, traversing the whole continent
in six days. Some of the passengers en-
barked the same day for Europe, which they
expect to reach in nine days-making the
entire journey from San Francisco to Liver
pool, distance Of nearly seven thousand
miles, in fifteen days-Governor Bowie and
Mayor Banks have received the thanks of the
Philadelphia German singers, for their kind
reception, on occasi on of the recent Senger.
fest at Baltimore.-It is designed by the gov
eminent to issue new United States notes of
the denomination of one dollar, upon which
the bust of Washington will be substituted
for the vignette of Chief Justice Chase
Henry Ward Beecher made speech in the
New York Gold Room on Saturday last
Fifteen hundred buildings are being erected
in Chicago, at cost of ten millions of dol
lars.-Another accident has occurred on the
Erie Railroad, being this time collision be-
tween freight and passenger train,s where
by two passengers were seriously hurt This
road is acquiring an unenviable notoriety on
account of ccidents.-Oliver Aimes and other
contractors of the Union Pacific Railroad
have been sued by James W. Davis and as
sociate subcontractors, for the sum of 1904
000-the amount claimed to be due for work
performed, money expended and breach of
contract of the defendants On the other
side it is alleged that claimants are overpaid
by $57,000-Miss Nellie Harland and an
other young lady have taken up farms for
themselves under the homestead law, in the
northwestern part of Iowa.-Hon. Albert
Long died at his residence in Terre Haute,
Ind, on Sunday last.-The Germans in San
Francisco have determined to celebrate the
centennial anniversary of the birth of Alex
ander Won Humboldt by grand concert and
festival-The royal assent was given to the
Irish Church Bill in the House of Lords on
Monday last, the announcement of which
event. was received by the Commons with
cheers.-The Spanish army in Cuba is stated
at thirty-two thousand regulars and volun-
teers; the force of the insurgents six thous-
and regulars, besides number of guerrilla
bands.-The deputy sheriff of Rensselaer, coun-
ty, New York, in attempting to levy on a
farmers property for non-payment of rent,
was resisted, with the force oftwenty men he
had summoned, by the farmer and his friends,
and the sheriff MORALLY wounded-Two
English steamers collided in the Baltic Sea
on Sunday night last, when one of them was
sunk, with loss of twenty -three passengers
and crew.-Postmaster General Cresswell
met with a severe accident at his home at
Elkton, on Saturday last, by which his left
arm was broken. The chair in which he
was seated being too near the edge of the
porch, fell off, throwing him violently upon
his arm. Midshipman Mason, of the Guer-
riere, was recently presented with q gold
medal by the Life Saving Benevolent Asso-
citation of New York, for having saved the
lives of two of the crew of that vessel in the
harbor of Rio Janeiro, in February last.
The presentation was made by Henry Ward
Beecher.-At the election precinct of Sleepy
Hollow, Barnwell county, S. c., ON occasion
of an election for local officers, fatal row
occurred between the friends of the contesting
parties, radicals and conservatives, in which
two men were killed and another fatally
wonnded.-A negro riot occurred at Charles
ton, S. c., on Monday last, on occasion of the
departure from that city of visiting base
ball club from Savannah. The band which
accompanied the club was composed of ne
groes, said to be Democrats, and hence the
attack upon them by their colored brethren
of Charleston. The military was called out
to suppress the disturbances.-A meeting of
Southerners was held at the White Sulphur
Springs, Va, and resolution adopted thank
ing George Peabody, and expressing the
gratitude of the Southern people to him for
his munifcant gifts to the cause of education
in the South.-The opening of the new
French cable was celebrated at Duxbury,
Mass, on Tuesday, according to the pro-