The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-11-26
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
A farmer named John Perghtal his wife
and son, residing near Pleasant Grove, in
Pennsylvania, were murdered on Friday last
between the hours of six and seven o'clock
in the evening, whilst seated at the supper
table. Several thousand dollars were taken
from the house, which was also fired and at
tempted to be burned, with the bodies of the
murdered inmates. The fire attracted the
attention of some persons passing by, and
led to the discovery of the crime before oblit
Grating the traces of the foul deed. Two
men named Oliver Badenbergh and Gilbert
Bohrer, alias Charles Moore, were subse-
quently arrested, and part ofthemoney found
upon the person ofone of them Badenbergh
made partial confession, but without this
the evidence Of their guilt is said to be suffi-
Gent to convict them. Intense excitement
prevails in the surrounding country, at this
triple murder-The Mormons of New York
city, of whom there are said to be consid-
cradle number openly protesting their pecu-
liar doctrines, contemplate erecting temple
at q cost of 100000 in that city.-There has
been considerable excitement lately at one of
the Philadelphia schools ofmedicine, between
the male and the female students, the latter
being Kissed by the former.-Lieutenan w.
w. Dougherty of the regular army, on fur
Tough and visiting his parents at Kokomo,
Indiana, last week shot and killed Joseph
Van Horn, at the Sherman House in that
town. Van Horn, it is alleged, circulated
slanderous reports concerning the sisters of
Lieut.. Dougherty, which he refused to re-
tract, and hence the shooting AT recent half
yearly meeting of the general council of the
University of Edinburg, the question of the
admission of females to the study ofmedicine,
after thorough discussion of the subject,
was decided in the affirmative-The insur-
gents in Cuba have already and are continu-
ing to burn many plantations Much dam
age to the sugar crops is the result.-Later
efforts have been made to induce the Govern
or of Pennsylvania to pardon Dr. Paul
Schoeppe, convicted of the murder of Miss
Stinnicke, of Baltimore. The Governor re-
terred the matter to the attorney general,
and reserves his decision.-One of the latest
cases of suicide reported is that of boy eigh-
teen years of age named Stanley Clark who
blew his brains out with pistol, at Fannelton,
Indiana, because of the refusal Of his mother
to give him money to attend the Greensboro
fair.-Thursday of last week was observed as
Thanksgiving Day by a general suspension
of business in most all sections of the coun-
try,-The Columbia Herald says that Robert
Crane, Esq, of that borough, is engaged in
purchasing the right of way for the Column
bia and Port Deposit railroad, between that
place and Turkey Hill, and that the road will
be completed at no distant day, by which
rich farming country will be opened to mar
let facilities. Another verdict was rendered
against a railroad company, on Friday last,
in Baltimore city. Bridget Trainor, widow,
and her three children, recovered in the court
of common pleas the sum of five thousand
dollars from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
for the death of John Trainor by an accident
on that road.-Gen Sherman has been cleo
ted President of the Society Of the Army of
the Tenncssee-The front of new. building
in ST. Louis fell last week, burying some ten
or twelve men in the ruins.-Many ILL
cit distilleries have been discovered by the
revenue officers in Tennessee and the noun
tains of Virginia and, broken up.-There was
storm at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Wednesday
of last week, of such violence as to umoof
houses and scatter trees, signs and fences
about promiscuously. ladies are hold
ing fair at the Maryland Institute, in Balti-
more, for the benefit of the Maryland Inebri
ate Asylum.-A meeting was held in New
York on Monday evening last, to raise a fund
for the erection of q suitable monument to
the memory of George Peabody, in Central
Park in that city, and six hundred subscrib-
ers to the fund were at once obtained.-Gen.
B. F. Butler ON Tuesday last gave bail in
$4,000, upon the charge Of misappropriating
the Twiggs' swords and certain plate.-1t is
proposed to establish q national gallery of art
in New Y orll, and q meeting was held to take
the initiatory steps on Monday evening last
over which William Cullen Bryant presided,
and a committee of fifty was appointed to
ouG piC l.
patrick, of Alabama, died at Montgomery, in
that State on the first of this week.-An i'm
mensc system of frauds upon the government
by means of bogus drawbacks" claims, as they
are called, has been discovered and the guilty
parties OF number of them, arc being pros
ecuted. 1t seems that the tax on manufac-
tured articles, if exported, is refunded, upon
certain certificates to the effect of proving
their expectation, &c, being presented at the
Treasury Department. Parties have presen-
ted false certificates of this character and re-
ceivel large sums upon them.-lt seems to be
at last definitely ascertained that Dr. Living
stone, the great African explorer, is alive and
well, he having been heard from as late as
May last. Notwithstanding previous reports
| to the same effect many persons have hitherto
doubted his safety.-The great Suez Canal
was formally opened last week, the Empress
Eugene of France leading train of vessels
through the entire length ofthe work. Most
of the nations of Europe were represented on
the occasion, which was marked by splen
did and brilliant festivities. This govern
ment was not officially represented. The en-
| terprise is said to be complete success, or