The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-06-18


apprehensivc of war with this country
Great agitation prevailed in Paris on the
night of June 10th, consequent on the elec-
tions. Cavalry paraded the streets all night,
and after midnight tue crowd broke through
the lines of the police and formed barricade,
but were dispersed and pursued in all direc-
tions by the troops. Later ACCOUNTS repre-
sent that quiet has been restored but many
arrests have been made-The sale Of the
Mount Vernon estate in lots has taken place
i'll Alexandria. The attendance was good and
prices obtained in excess ofthe appraisement.
Fighting still goes on in Cuba, and the in
surgent General Marmol is reported killed.
with conflicting accounts of the success of
both parties.-The Peace Jubilee is going on
in Boston, with President Grant and many
other distinguished persons in attendance,
Government wagons and contents to the val
ue OF $4,000, were captured by the Indians
in Arizona lately, and also a large herd of
cattle belonging to individual partes.-IIon.
A G. Cdrtin, Minister to Russia, was the re-
cipiant of Il farewell banquet Of great magni-
ficence in Philadelphia, on the evening of 18th
June.-A party of Japanese have purchased
land in California for the production Of tea
and silk-The City Council of Washington
have passed an ordinance compelling licensed
places of amusement to admit persons with
out distinction of color to all parts OF the
house, if price of admission is paid under
penalty OF fine for refusal.-Tie editor Of
Spanish paper published in New York
and Cuban went over to Canada from that
city on Sunday last and fought a duel, which
resulted in the Cuban being severely woUn-
ded.-A correspondent of the New York
Times, who has recently visited the Sea ISL
ands, on the coast of South Carolina, reports
the condition of the negroes settled there as
one OF extreme poverty and restitution
Those who started with land of their own
to till have in most cases become day laborers
for Others abandoning their families to want
The cotton crop in Georgia is diminishing
from want of cultivation, the freedmen refus-
ingto work, and Chinese labor is advocated-
A drunken man named Fred RENTER at Gov
linton, Kentucky, recently shot and killed an
aged widow lady with whom he boarded,
MORALLY wounded another lady named Miss
Beckelheim, and snapped pistol at two
men as he ran away from the scene of his
outrages.-The massacre of English families
and friendly natives is reported from New
zealand-A grand demonstration of Knights
Templar took place in Philadelphia on Tues
, day, which was attended by several comman-
deries from Baltimore.-Co Correspondents from
Washington represent that the blghting eff
tects OF negro rule are already felt in that
city. Untenanted houses are becoming COM
mon, with other real estate offered for sale at
deprecated prices.--Jesse Edwards, negro
who outraged and murdered young lady
near Lexington Va, was hung by lynch law
recently, after his confession of the crime
The greatest excitement continues to pre-
vail in England over the Irish Church bill
pending in the House of Lords.-Two lead
ing radicals, Hon. 7. W. Fry and Hon John
l.. Miller, INDUCED in a fight at Indianapolis,
on Thursday last, about politics, one of them
backing his opponents eye.-On the Pacific
railroad, dining as well as sleeping cars are
used. The dining cars will seat forty-eight
at table at one time.--At recent sale of
the personal effects of Gen. Scott, a hat worn
by Gen. La Vega at the time of his capture
in the Mexican war was purchased by Col.
Fay for fifty cents. Relics of the war of
1912 also sold at mere trifes.-It is said that
twenty thousand more bushels of wheat
will be raised in Iowa this year than last
Lhirty-ivc thousand dollars was contribu-
ted by the city of Cumberland, Md, towards
the rolling mill erected at that place-The
radical majority in Washington city, at the
late municipal election, was three thousand-
The sum of one hundred thousand dollars
was awarded the plaintiff in the breach of
promise case Of Miss Amanda j. Craig ys.
e.. @. Sprague. at Wheaton, Illinois.-The
wheat crop throughout all sections of the
State is reported as looking remarkably well.
The workmen at many Of the coal mines of
pennsylvania are on strike-Mr. Wash
burn, minister to France has been taken ill
at Paris and will go to Hamburg.-Richard
ID. Dana has withdrawn suit brought by
him against the city of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, for emitting his name from the
list of voters last year, ard says he does SO
because he doubts whether the case will be
OF public value in the shape in which it may
present itself-The railroads of New jersey,
Delaware and Maryland have made arrange
ments with the Fruit Growers Association,
by which satisfactory rate of transportation
has been agreed upon by the parties interest
ed-The sixty thousand dollar telegraph
bill against the State Department has been
paid by the government, through the Earrings.
Two-thirds of this sum was due on cable
kilograms concerning the Alaska purchase
Five thousand two hundred voters less than
last year were registered in Washington, D.
C.-The captain of the ship National Eagle,
arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong,
reports having passed volcanic island in
violent eruption in lat. 31.1S north, longi-
iude 23950.-Washington College, at Lex
ington, Va, Of which Gen. r. E. Lee is presi-
dent, has nearly three hundred and fifty stu
dents-1t is said that Judge Black, of Penn
sylvania, will have his arm amputated, by
reason of an accident on the cars near Louis