The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-23
THE NEWS.


of whom was John Dwyer, of Emmittsburg,
Md-There have been tremendous freshets
in Texas, recently, that ON the Guadalupe
river proving very disastrous, sweeping away
mills factories and crops-Mr. T. M. Squires,
residing in the suburbs of New York city, re-
turns the handsome income of 81 1860 -
The trial of the Yergher Habeas Corpus case
before Chief Justice Chase, has been brought
to a temporary suspension by an agreement
of counsel to put the question in such form
as the same may be considered and determin-
ed by the Supreme Court of sthe United
States in October next. Any finding or SEN
tence by the military commission before
which the prisoner is being tried, will in the
meanwhile, be stayed by order of President
Grant-The village of Bladensburg, near
Washington city, was recently visited by a
fearful rain storm which flooded the lower
stories of dwellings in about half the town.
The tone of the Spanish journals in Cuba
it is said, has become more respectful towards
the Cuban insurrectionists. This is owing
to an admonition of the Captain General who
doubts the policy of eXasperation.-Wes
ern journals are again discussing the ques-
ton of the removal of the capital.
Peabody Institute at Danvers, Massachu-
sets, was dedicated last week, and George
Peabody made an address upon the occasion.
"A terrible accident occurred on the Erie
railway, at Mast Hope station, in Pennsyl-
vania, on Wednesday of last week, by which
some ten or fifteen persons were killed or
mortally injured. The accident was caused
by an express train running into freight
train at the above named point.-The Demo
Gratis of Pennsylvania have nominated the
Hon. Asa Packer for Governof.-Wende
Philips is much exercised at the result of
the Virginia election, and threatens ITO dis.
trust Grants administration should more
States be allowed to "slip out of his
hands" 1t is thought that even this terrible
threat will not prevent recurrence of the
same thing in Mississippi and Texas, if Gen.
Grant would but afford the opportunity for
those States to express themselves at the
ballot box.-Rev Paul Bagley beseeches the
Earl Granville to discharge American citizens
held in Ireland on charges of Fenianisn.-
One of the most horrible tragedies ON record
occurred in the city of London recently.
A man named Duggan and his wife deliber-
ately poisoned to death their six children
with prussic acid, and then put an end to
their own lives as finale to the performance.
Extreme restitution, and the fear of the worst
evils of poverty, prompted the terrible deed.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker threatens to "print".
What she says will be racy reading in retalia-
tlonfor the want ofproper recognition of her
claims to an ofice.-Congressman Root, of
Arkansas, was lately at the summit of Grays
Peak, and encountered there severe snow
storm.-The Chinese are again taking more
active measures to prescribe foreigners
George B. Vashan, a negro lawyer, was last
week admitted to practice at the bar of
Judge Fishers Court, in Washington, d. G.
The mortality among the troops in Cuba,
on both sides, isrepresented as fearful fifteen
per cent per month being lost on both sides,
of the men in the field-Chicago men have
made contracts for the regular delivery in
that city Of fresh grapes from California, by
the Pacific railroad.-The overflow of the
Illinois river covers over 100000 acres of
bottom land.-From seventy to hundred
tons of rock have fallen in at Niagara Falls
in that part known as the Horse Shoe
Falls. 1t has not, however, injured the APP
pearance in the least--James McSherry,
author of "McSherry's History of Maryland"
died at his home in Frederick, Nd, on last
week.-The damage to new cut wheat by the
flood on Pattin river, in Jefferson county,
Missouri, is estimated at about $4,000
Lord Derby presented protest in the House
OF Lords against the Irish Church Bill, sign
ed by forty peers, on the ground that itlooks
to the severance of Church from State.-A
train of thirty cars laden with coal oil was
burned at the depot of the Erie and Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad, in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Thursday night last.-A vigilance
committee has been formed by the citizens at
Waterford, N. Y, to protect their proper
ty against burglars and incendiaries who in
fest their town.-There is another panic in
Wall street, N. Y, on account of six brokers
being arrested under charges of usury, for
which they have been indicted by the grand
jury-The John Allen prayer meetings in
Water street are again to be revived Under
the heading ola Remarkable Summer the N.
y, Herald says "This one, with its disastrous
storms, tornadoes, north, south, east and
west, and with its alterations from cold
rains to the heat of the African deserts, but
most remarkable and glorious in its astound.
ing crops and liberal promises of all fruits of
the earth in every section of the Union."-
There is considerable agitation in New Eng
land over the lager beer question, that arti-
Gle being interdicted by law in some of those
States-The Macon (Ga.,) telegraph has
been shown stalk of Persian clover eight
feet high and half an inch thick at the base.
1t is perrennial.-There has been so much
swindling in the income tax returns in New
Orleans that new assessment has been Or
dered.--At least $4,000 Americans are now
travelling in Europe for enjoyment and in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. persons were lost by
the burning ofthe British ship, Blue Jacket,
which occurred at sea in March last on the
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