The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-13
THE NEWS.


on Matchetts plantation, Texas, has been for.
warded via New Orleans to New York, and
from thence goes direct to Liverpool
bishop McClasky, of New York, sailed on
Saturday last for Europe.-The various ac-
counts of the different observations of the
suns eclipse represent the same as having
been satisfactorily made. Des Moines, in
Iowa, was one of the principal points of oh.
servation.-Senters majority in Tennessee is
represented as being probably as high as
sixty-five thousand, but very few of the coun-
ties in the State going for Stokes. A large
majority of the newly elected members ofthe
legislature are claimed to be in favor of ex-
President Johnson for the United States Sen
ate, and his election is considered as certain
L. d. Harris, colored late candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, has entered
suit against the Baltimore steamer Kennebec
for being elected from her cabin.-General
Rosencranz has telegraphed Hon. A. G.. Thur
man, from San Francisco, declining the NOM
ination of the Democracy for governor of that
State, on occount of the impossibility of his
neglecting duties deemed sacred to his cred
itors and family, and which necessitated his
resignation from the army. Another dis
patch says that Gen. Rosecranz does not con.
slider himself citizen of Ohio.-The noted
Five Points buildings in New York City are
being demolished, as consequence of OPEN
ing Worth street from Centre to Chatham
England has ordered men.of-war ships to
Japan, in consequence Of the bad treatment
to which foreigners are subjected at Yoko-
hama and other Japanese ports.-A dispatch
from Boston to Pomeroy's Democrat, in New
York, says that Frederick Douglass, Jr., son
of Fred. Douglass led to the altar "the accom-
plished daughter ofProfessor A. Molyncux
Heat, of Harvard University" and that
there was grand reception in the evening.
The Connecticut seed leaf tobacco crop is
said to be beyond danger, except from grass
hoppers, these being noted as confirmed to-
bacco chewers.-Hon Isaac Toucey, lately
deceased, leaves an estate valued at $4,000.
"A law suit is in progress at Parl1ersburg,
Va, between i. B. Brown and d. J. Young,
involving the title to the government pro-
perty at Harper's Ferry, valued at several
million dollars. Chief Justice Chase pre-
sides-Sixteen persons were recently tram
pied to death in the Cathedral of Trant, Sicily,
on occasion of a great festival, by stampede
occasioned by the drapery in the building
catching on fire, besides whom large unm-
Der were badly bruiscd.-The Pacific Rail-
road has reduced the fare from San Francis
co to New York to $3.50, and to Boston $153.
The Laboring Men Convention at Virginia
City, Nevada, denounces Chinese immigration
as likely to produce another "irrepressible
conflict" Five thousand immigrants landed
at New York in the month of July, making
one hundred and sixty-eight thousand for
the year thus far.--About thirty thousand
barrels of whislley were destroyed by the
burning of the United States warehouse in
Philadelphia, ON last week, besides other
property to q large amount. The fire was
the largest that has occurred in that city for
many years.-President Grant is still tray
cling with his family through different sec
tions Of the Northern States, and is the recip-
lent Of many demonstrations on the route
Two parties named Cresswell, near relatives,
met and fought duel in Georgia, last week,
when one of them was killed outright and
the other morta1ly wounded. Herald
says that certain locomotive on the New
York Central Railroad has bloody record
Tt has killed three or four men during the
past year, and one day last week killed an
other man, two horses and MANNED boy