The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-08

The .F'esUs.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce is oppos-
e to Congress granting any further subsidies
: railroads. 1t says that there are seventy
railroad bills before Congress, begging
5idfes; and that ito favor one, and to
iect others equally deserving ofpatronage,
aid be unjust and wrong. To grant them
would be ridiculous and criminal waste
ablic money and public lands, and would
pen the doors still wider for the schemes of
robbery and plumber, until at last the nation
would topple over that verge, Of bankruptcy
upon which even now it is trembling There
fore, say we, no more subsidies to railroads"
The storm which ushered in the new year,
we find ragged with fearful severity in New
York city, and extended generally through
out the East and West. Railroad trains on
many roads were delayed several hours
About one foot Of snow fell in Boston, and in
Buffalo there was drifting snow-stom for
twenty-four. hours. Albany, Springfield,
Concord, and Chicago were similarly visited
! In Philadelphia, as in Baltimore, sleet and
rain prevailed. Twitchell, who was on trial
IN Philadelphia, for the murder of his mother
in-law, Mrs. Hill, has been convicted ofmur-
der in the first degree. Three cases of small
pox are said to have occurred at Annapolis
last week; they were removed outside of the
city limits, and measures taken to prevent
the disease from spreading A little girl was
buried in the snow last week, near Graham
vile, Pa. She started home alone from
school, in the midst of terrible snow storm,
since which time nothing has been seen or
heard of her. Edward Fl. King an agent of
the Virginia Express Company, in Norfolk
was knocked on the head by two men, on
Thursday week, and while in a senseless con-
dition, robbed>of $4,000, with which the
thieves escaped. King has since been charged
with taking the money himself, and has been
sent to jail The "yeiocipede," which is now
attracting so much attention, issaid to be only
a new name for the same kind of invention,
which was used in England, fifty years ago.
1t was then called "dandy Morse" and was
extensively patronized by Fox, Sheridan,
md other notahes of the period. Some
On inc Eastern Shore papers consider it as
doubtful whether Bishop Lay will accept
the position of Bishop of the new Diocese of
Easton, to which he was recently elected
A German in st. Louis wrote letter IA
pages long, and then hanged himself. No
wonder. A man and his wife who have
thirty-one children, claim the championship"
in New York In Cincinnati, a man named
William Ashtack killed his wife by inficting
blows on her head with q Ratchet, and stab
bling her in the left side with butcher knife
He then shot himself through the head with
an Enfield rifle. Cause-jealousy. Senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island, has bought, for
5000, the extensive water power in South
Carolina, known as the Columbia Canal, and
proposes, it is said, to erect large manufacto-
ries there An old man named Henry Per-
kins, and his wife, living near Washington
were robbed and brutally beaten, in their
own house, on Christmas night, by gang of
colored desperadoes. The family dismember-
ment market, according to Chicago pagers,
wasvery brisk in that city the past year; 2S4
wives were divorced from as mary husbands,
and 176 husbands were lr,ased from the
terrors of the broolnstick. A tin box CON
lining U. S. bonds the amount of $50 900,
en- from the Office OF Bierwirth
nipping merchants, ofNew York,
ssdrday last. Jefferson Davis, Hons.
Jn M. Mason, A. Dudley Mann and other
Sx-C onfederates, now in Europe, are prepar-
ing to return to the United States; SO says
an Atlantic cable dispatch. In Massachusetts,
they propose to systematic their agricultu-
raj fairs, showing at county seats the choice
from each town, and at the State exhibition
the pick of all the county fairs. Five citizens
of Marion, Arkansas, it is reported, were ia
ken by band styling themselves militia,
tried by drum-head court martial, and car
ricd to the woods and shot.