The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-22
THE NEWS.

succeeds at the war Departmental Miss
Dooley, of Washington City, a beautiful and
and intelligent young lady, who had been
teaching school for some time past in Prince
Georges county, Nd, was brutally outraged
by negro man near Mrs Scarff's dwelling,
in that county, where she was at the time
boarding, on Monday of last week, and in
jured to such an extent that her recovery is
doubtful. The negro, who was n married
man, was on the same day arrested, and q G
proof of his guilt being beyond any doubt,
he was started from Piscataway to Upper
Marlborough, in custody of two constables,
to be committed to the county Jail. When
on the road about twenty men, disguised,
stopped the wagon in which he was, over
powered the officers and hung the negro to
the nearest tree.-The Republican Conven-
ton which assembled in Baltimore city last
week, nominated Col VIM. A. McKelip,
of Carroll county, as their candidate for
Comptrollcr.-An entire family, consisting of
Owen Fceny his wife and two children, were
burned to death ON Tuesday of last week,
in the signal tower of the Mine Hill railroad,
in Pennsylvania, by the burning of that struc-
ture Three hundred and fifty Mormons,
principally from England, arrived at Omaha,
recently, and left on the following day for
Utah.-Fathcr Hyacinthe was lately the re-
cipient of a letter from the Bishop of Orleans,
France, adjuring him to renounce his errors
and return to the bosom of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, which he replied to, refusing to
recede from the position he has taken.-A
letter from DR.. Livingstone, the celebrated
African explorer, as late as July, 1868, has
been received, in which he says that he be-
lieves he has discovered the sources of the
river Nile, at a point situated between ten
and twelve degrees south. Dir. Livingstone
was on his way to the coast when last heard
trom.-Tbe Sultan of Turkcy will go to Egypt,
to preside at the Inauguration of the Suez
Canal-The condition Of affairs in Spain is
unsettled in the extreme Government and
insurgent troops are in the field and fight
ing is imminent at several points-Govern-
or Walker of Virginia made speech lately
at the State fair at Danville, in which he said
he felt nothing but pity for the opposition
party in the late canvass, the leaders ofwhom
he styled as carpet baggers, with nothing at
stake but their own selfish interests Wild
pigeons are reported as very plenty in Ale
gany county, Md.-By cable we learn the
murder of an entire family named Kin
ckle, at Panton, in France. A mother and
five small children were butchered and it is
believed also the father and son, who are
missing. The object was plumber to the
amount of eighty thousand francs, and man
named Tranpmann has been arrested, and
there seems to be little doubt of his guilt. The
whole of France is deeply agitatcd at the
news of the terrible affair.-The agricultural
fair at Frederick, Md, was very successful
one and closed on Friday oflast week. Dur
ing its continuance President Grant, Gen.
Dent and other distinguished visitors from
Washington were present, and were received
and handsomely entertained by the managers
of the fair. During his visit Gen. Grant
went as far as the battlc-ti field of Antietam
and other places Of interest in that vicinity.
One firm in Montreal has sold this year
more than two million glass jars TO hold pre-
served fruits.-The Maryland Institute fair
in Baltimore is in progress.-Daniel o.
Donoghue, member of parliament from Ire
land, writes to a committee at Dublin that
the English government commisserate the
Fenian prisoners, and are anxious to liberate
them if it can be consistently done.-Admi-
raj Farragut lies very ill at Chicago, and fears
were entertained that he would not recover.
Col. W. w. Bowie, of Prince Georges
county, will deliver the address before the
State Agricultural Association, at its celebra-
ton i'll Baltimore, on the Goth inst.-The
gold excitement in Montgomery county, Md,
still continues and many parties are making
arrangements for prospecting for the precious
metal.-The body Of an unknown woman, ap-
parentlY about thirty years of age, with the
corpse of her child about four years old,
tightly clasped in her arms, was discovered
floating on the surface of North river, New
York, last week. 1t was supposed the I'M
fortunate woman was driven by want and
dcstitution to commit suicide.-On and after
the nineteenth inst, the time by railway be-
tween San Francisco and New York, Phila-
adelphia and Washington will be reduced
from seven to six days Another reduction
of from twelve to twenty. four hours, can be
easily made whenever expedient.-It is pro-
posed to build masonic temple in the city
of Rchmond.-In the Commercial Conven-
ton at Louisville, Kentucky, ON Wednesday
of last week; resolutions of coincidence with
the family of the late Ex-President Pierce
were adopted, and the sympathies ofthe Con.
vention and the whole American people ex-
tended to them.-There will be an agricultu-
raj fair held at Cumberland, Md, commenc-
ing on the 9th November next, under the
auspices of the Agricultural Society of ALE
gany county, Western Virginia and Pennsyl-
vana-Father Hyacinthe arrived in New
York city, on Monday last, and is stopping
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He proposes to
spend two months in this country, and at the
expiration Of that time proceed to Rome and
seek admission to the Ecumenical Council
John Sevanson, proprietor of the cotton fac
tory in Sweden, has purchased 1880 acres
of land in Dunklin and Stoddard counties,
Missouri where he will establish n COLONY of