The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-10
THE NEWS.

Richardson who was shot in the Tribune
office in New York by Mcfarland, an ac-
count of which was given last week, has
since died of his wound.-From New Orleans
we learn that Sheriff g.. NJ. Stubinger was
shot dead recently at New Liberia by me-
gro, who was soon afterwards captured and
hung by the citizens.-The Mississippi cleo
ton has resulted in favor of the ultra radicals,
the negroes voting in body that way, and
Aleorn is elected Governor over Dent by a
large majority.--Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Earle has resigned, on account of the
inadequacy of the salary attached to the
office, and MIR. Marshall, of New Jersey, has
been appointed to the position.-At the mu-
nicipal election at Augusta, Georgia, last
week, J.V. Allen, democrat, was elected with
out opposition.-It is hoped that the treaty,
which was rejected by the Colombian Senate,
between that government and the United
States, for the construction of ship canal
across the Isthmus of Darien by the latter,
will be reconsidered, end it is stated that the
war vessel Nipsic, has been ordered to con-
voy an expedition to the Isthmus, having in
view explorations and surveys of, the pro-
posed routes for the canal. Its claimed that
if the work were accomplished it would rival
successfully the Suez canal even in the trade
of England and France with the East Indies.
"A Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press, in describing one of the doors
for the new capitol, on which is depicted
Washington's rebuke to General Lee at the
battle of Monmouth, attempts to have its
readers believe that the Gen. Lee referred to
was an ancestor of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Light Horse Harry" Lee, of revolutionary
fame, was Gen. r. E. Lees father, and the
Gen. Lee above mentioned was Gen. Charles
Lee, an Englishman, fighting ON the Ameri-
can side, and no ways related to Gen. r. E.
Lce.-There was another excitement in the
gold market, at New York, last week, caused
by the decline, this time, Of the price The
government, however, refused to accept bids
on the lowest rate, and things came to halt.
From all the great marts of the country the
reports are that the dulness in financial affairs
exceeds anything experienced for years
The ladies of Maryland, according to report
have petitioned Congress to "accord to strug-
Cling, suffering Cuba the right of q belliger-
empower, and at once recognize the indie
pendence of her long oppressed people-Dr.
Paul Scheppe, under sentenced of death at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has addressed an APP
peal to Gov. Geary, reviewing the facts of his
case and protesting his innocence-H is re-
ported that the Yiceroy of Egypt presented to
Empress Eugeniea diadem ofdiamonds valued
at six millions of francs.-Thc governments
of France and England are making great eff
forts to settle the matters at issue between
the Sublime Porte and the Viceroy of Egypt.
Federal troops are held in readiness at
New York to move, IL is supposed, to Utah,
as the Mormons are said to be in threaten
ing attitude toward the governmental
nation reached here on Monday, says the
Centregille Observer, that Mr.. Edward Hitch
ell, q citizen of Denton, Caroline county Md,
was murdered in that town on Saturday by a
negro, who was subsequently arrested and
lodged in jail.-Fiftecn thousand acres of coal
and mineral lands in Grant and Mineral
counties, West Virginia, have been sold to
Messrs. John l.. Crawford, James Boyce
and Samuel L. Maccubbin, of Baltimore, for
the sum Of 1926, 000.-Thc purchasers will
open coal mines upon the tract in short
time.-Hon. Thomas B. Bryan, awarded the
certificate of election as delegate from Du
Page county to the Illinois constitutional
convention, has refused to accept it, saying
his opponent was fairly elected, and that the
informalities which led to his rejection do
not alter the expressed wishes of the people.
Mr.. Bryan had better keep out of the way of
Barnum, or he will run risk ofbcing cxhib-
tied as a curiosity.-An immigration agent
reports that he has settled eighty families of
Danes near Okalona, Miss, and is confident
that within the next ten years he will have in
PRODUCED twenty thousand Scandinavian fam.
lilies into Mississippi and Alabama-Rev. o.
b. Frothingham's prayer on occasion of the
death-bed marriage of Richardson with Nc
Farland's divorced wife in New York, is Civ
en- in full in the New York. Tribune, and is
rather remarkable petition, considering the
surroundings of that disgracefu1 affair.-The
United States government took possession of
some Spanish gun boats in the harbor of New
York, in August last, on representation from
Peru that they were to be used against her, a
government at peace with us, in violation of
the neutrality laws. Others say that Cuba
is the point of their destination, and the ques-
ton of their detention is in some measure
mixed up with the recognition of the bellige-
rent rights of the latter. Meanwhile they
are somewhat of an elephant in the hands
of the administration:-A most disastrous
fire occurred in Galveston, Texas, last week,
by which four entire blocks of houses and
three-fourths of two others were DESTROYED.
Loss estimated at from one million to one
million five hundred thousand dollars-A
riot occurred in the liquor store of Thomas
Donohue, in New York, recently, in which
Florence Scannell, noted policeman, an d
candidate for Alderman, was shot and NOR
tally wounded.-An English paper says that
years residence in Chicago entities a mar
ried couple to divorce.
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