The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-04-16


Twelve business houses in the centre of the |
town were entirely destroyed. The Chicago
Times says man shot down another day
or two since in Good blood, and then com.
So 3 sstsa nir,rrru win Ire Ismark that there
was no hanging for murder in Illinois. The
English papers state that the dispute be
tween Turkey and Persia, about the frontier
question is beginning to look threatening =
Midhat Pacha, one of the ablest and most
energetic of the Turkish government, has
been dispatched 10 Bagdad with full powers
and instructions 10 settle the difficulty, by
force Of arms if necessary. Numerous rein.
forcements Of troops and artillery have been
sent to the frontier, and 1t is said that the
Viceroy Of Egypt has promised to assist the
Sultan in case of war. George S. Twitchell,
Jr, who was to have been hanged in Phila-
delphia on the 9Th for the murder Of Mrs
Hill, was fund dead in his cell on the morn
ing of the day of the execution No doubt
exists that he committed suicide by poison
Jerry Eaton, convicted of the murder of
Timothy Heenan, and who was to be execu-
ted on the same day, suffered the extreme
penalty Of the law, but asserted his innocence
to the last. The Spanish revolution which
deprived Queen Isabelle of her throne APP
pears as being rapidly overlapped by new
revolutionary agitation which bids fair to
prevent the restoration of order. Three
public meetings were dispersed by armed force
on the eighth in Madrid. Rio Janeiro news
states that commission is en- route for Para
quay, with proposals for the termination of
the war, the main features of which are
the independence of Paraguay, free river navi-
CATION and the remuneration of Paraguayan
claims to a portion of the Gran Chaco and
Matte Crosse. The Gran Chaco is vast
desert, and disputed territory between the
Argentine Republic, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Matte Crosse is BRAZILIAN province, and is
only in dispute with reference to its southern
boundary line. A very formidable cxpedi-
ton TO aidthe Cuban insurgents is said to be
fitting out in New Orleans, but St. Louis
dispatches deny that Gen. Frank p Blair has
any thing to do with it, as has been repor-
ted. Chicago advices state that on the 9Th
two young men named Leach murdered
young man named Price, at singing school
in Liberty township, Adams county New
Orleans dates to the 9th state that the
steamer General Grant, lying at the wharf,
took fire on the night previous and was burnt
to the waters edge, with all her freight
San Francisco advices state that on the
morning of 9th the fire in the mines at Gold
Hill was still raging, having broken out afresh
in the drift of Grown Point Company. 1t is
stated that forty persons have persisted by
this awful calamity. Twenty eight bodies
have been taken from the mines, and present
a most frtghtful appearance. Much political
excitement exists in Madrid, and apprehen-
sions are entertained that the evaporation
of party feeling will result in an outbreak of
violence. The police and military are
taking every precaution to prevent disorder.
The Chicago Times has dispatch from St.
Paul giving an account of horrible murder
occurring about ten miles from that place
A farmer named Grey, in good circumstances,
in fit of insanity murdered his wife and
four children with an axe. Some of them
were nearly chopped to pieces. On being
arrested, he stated that he had killed them
that they might go at once to Heaven. Mon
treal adyices state that extra precautions are
being taken to watch the bank Of that city
in consequence of information that an organ
lied robbery was to be attempted. The va
rious banks through the country have been
warned to keep double guards at night
Dispatches from Key West report that the
Spanish ship Dolores, bound from Havana
for Hong Kong, with sixty return Coolies on
board, ran over at sea the English brig
Principally. The crew of the brig were all
saved. The New York 1smes Republcan)
saysthat Senator Sprague certainly show
ed as much bravery as any officer on the field
at Bull Run. But he has shown much more
of late in the Senate and with just about the
same result"