The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-09-10
THE NEWS.

TWO hundred thousand pounds of COlora-
do silver ore have been shipped to the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad, by wagons, destined
for London, England 1t is believed that
when the road. is completed to Denver
an immense amount Of the rich ores of
Colorado will find their way east for smelt-
ing General Grants family were at Saratoga
at last advices.-The manager of the London
Imperial Insurance Company, on last week
paid $2506S0 of the loss by the whiskey fire
at Philadelphia leaving balance OF $64, 900
to be paid in few days. A boat-race be-
tween Miss Ward and q Miss Sumner, in
which the latter won, is the last sensation at
Martha's Vineyard. So many persons gath
cred on a floating wharf to witness the race
that it sunk under them, and sixteen men
and women were immersed to the neck-Of
the 1888 immigrants landed at New York
since list January last, 92,502 were Germans
A Boston paper says that drunkenness isjust
as common in the streets of that city as ever,
and that intoxicating liquors flow as freely
as when there was no law to restrain their
sale.-The health of Hon Alexander H. Ste
phens is very feeble, and he suffers very con-
siderably, not being able to move without
clutches. The army worm has made its
| appearance in the cotton fields of North Car
DINA, and also its antagonist, q bird similar
to the rice bird, which is doing service in rid
ding the farmers of this deadly enemy to the
cotton plant.-As the question whether the
recently elected members of the Virginia
Legislature are to be required to take the
test oath prescribed by the reconstruction act
of Congress, Attorney General Hoar hasgiven
an opinion, the effect of which is to permit
q meeting of the Legislature, and avoid the
whole matter of the test oath for the men,
bers, by defcrring all action on anything but
the Constitution till after the meeting of
Congress. The taking the oath is not neces-
sary for the preliminary work of submitting
the constitution to Congress, but they can
not meantime pass laws, the Legislature be-
ing only provisional body, till the constitu-
ton and action of that body on it are APP
proved by Congress, when the constitution
will supersede the requirements of ther recon-
struction acts and fix the qualifications of the
members of the Legisature.-T grand
Lodge |. o. o. f. of the United States meets
in annual session in the city of San Francisco,
California, on the Goth of September. Gen.
James L, Ridgely, Hon. Joshua Vansant and
other prominent Marylanders left Baltimore
on last week to attend its session.-A gener-
al Industrial Exhibition will be opened in
St. Petersburg, Russia, on 18th ofnext May.
The French Senate, by vote of 113 to 8,
rejected the amendment TO the senatu8 consul
tum, proposing liberal reforms in the constitu-
ton of the Senate. The Amendment was
supported by Prince Napoleon hun
dred and four deaths occurred in New
York city on last week.-It is said that an
other change will be shortly made in postage
stamps, on account Of dissatisfaction express
ed in regard to the present stamps.-A col
ored man named Joseph J. Wilson, says the
Norfolk Journal, has been APP ointcd guager
of liquors for the second election district, and
qualified by giving the requisite bonds in the
sum of 100000, for the performance of the
dutics'of his ofiice.-About twenty millions
Of dollars are employed in the hide and lea
ther business in Boston.-Gen John A. Raw
Inns, Secretary of War, died at Washington
City, on Monday afternoon last. The cause
of his death was an attack of hemorrhage of
the lungs. Gen. Rawlins has been in delicate
health ever 81 nee the termination of the war,
and has had to exercise extreme caution to
preserve his health sufficient to attend to
business all that time but he finally succumbed
to the recent attack which resulted in his
dcath.-A coal mine at Plymouth, about
twenty miles south of Scranton, Pa, took fire
on Sunday last from the ventilating furnace
at the bottom of the shaft, three hundred and
twenty-seven fee t below the surface, and the
flames ran up to the engine room at the top,
and the large buildings covering the top of
the shaft were consumed, choking up the en-
trance of the mine, in which at the time were
two hundred and one men and boys. Up to
the latest accounts these had not been reach
ed, and it is feared they are smothered to
DEATH The greatest CONSERVATION and gloom
peryades the entire community in that section
on account of the sad affair.-Ex- Governor
Worth, of North Carolina, died at Raleigh,
in that State, on Saturday last-Arrange-
ments arc being made in New York for a
grand reception of the Harvard Crew, who
rowed the Oxfords of England, recently, on
their return to that city, which is expected
to be on the 11th.-According to the report
of the Board of Health of New York city,
more than two-thirds of the milk brought to
that city is diluted with substances so injuri-
GUS as to cause the death, in the opinion of
physicians, of numbers of children fed upon
it.-Twenty car loads Of butter recently went
| through Cheyenne for California, the con-