The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-03
THE NEWS.

State, to whom the case had been referred,
has refused the pardon of DR.. Paul Schoeppe,
and on last week signed the warrant for his
execution on the 22d of December
L. Smith, pilot engineer Of special train on
| the New York Central Railroad, brought an
action for damages against that company, in
the Supreme Court at Utica, for injuries sus-
tanned by collision about year ago, and
recovered $4,000 damages.-The tax on to-
bacco made in North Carolina this year will
| be increased by about five hundred per cent.
| over 186S.-Now that the Suez Canal is
| opened, it is anticipated that the trouble be-
tween the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy
| of Egypt will break out afresh-the former
| insisting on strict acknowledgements by the
| latter of his superior authority. They had
| the good sense suspend their difficulties dur
| ing the presence ofth distinguished foreign
ers who assisted at the opening of that great
| work.-1thas been decided at the Vatican THAT
| Pere Hyacinthe shall not be admitted to state
his case and expose his ideas before the Gcu-
menical Council Ifhe presents himself he will
be ordered back to the Pontifcal froptiers.-
Fifty -four miles of the Denver Pacific Rail
road have been completed, and the laying of
the track progresses at the rate of mile and
| a-half day.-On last week in the Tennessee
Legislature on bill incorporating the Mis-
sissippi Valley Importation Company, an
amendment forbidding the importation of
Chinese into Tennessee was adopted by fifty
three yeas to fifteen nays.-President Grant
last week received the Haytien minister,
General Tate, dark mulatto, and made q
speech in answer to his address, favorable to
the equal rights of his race and color.-In
the Alabama Legislature, last week, q Dem
ocrGtic member from Mobile, Magee, was ex-
PEELED on the ground that before the war he
had been county commissioner.-The win
ter quarters of Forepaugh's Menagerie, at
Connersville, Indiana, were set on fire recent
ly, it is supposed by an incendiary, when by
order of the superintendent the animals were
let loose, and whilst at large q lion killed
several sheep on the Fair grounds, and had
an encounter with bull, which he also final
ly killed. All the wild animals were subse.
quently recaptured and safely caged.-Thc
heirs of William Winchester, of Baltimore,
have brought suit in the Chancery Court at
Memphis for over 100000 worth of pro-
perty.-The sailing of her majesty's steam
ship Monarch, with the remains of George
Peabody, has been postponed to December
2d.-Connected with the japanese embassy
to the Hawaiian Kingdom, which recently
arrived at San Francisco, are two princes of
the blood royal, who are to proceed at once
to New York.-A national women's suffrage
convention was in session at Cleveland Ohio,
last week. Speeches in favor ofthe sixteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States were made.-About $1,200,000 have
been subscribed for the purpose of an inter
national fair at Washington, d. c., in 1871
Albert d. Richardson, formerly war CORES.
pondent and long an attachc of the New
York Tribune, was shot and fatally wounded
at the office of that journal last week, by
Daniel Mcfarland, q lawyer of that city
There was an old unsettled difficulty between
the parties, growing out of improper intima-
cy on the part of Richardson with McFarland's
wife. Many prominent citizens were friends
of both parties, and the affair has created an
intense excitement in the city.-The Empress
Eugene is expected home in France on the
I'd of December from the Eass.-In Allega-
ny county, Nd, the people of the mountain
GUS regions have been enjoying good sleigh
ing, and the mail coach on the Somerset
route beyond Wellcrsburg is now carried on
runners.-There are in this country 1926
miles of rail road built, at cost of about 49,
0O0,O0O,0Oo. In England there are $4,000
miles ofrailread, costing $2,500000, 900. Our
roads earned last year about twice as much
per mile as the English roads did-It is said
that President Grant has completed his mes
sage to Congress, and read it in cabinet meeting
on Friday last.-Many members of Congress
had already arrived in Washington last week.
The grand jury of Columbus, Ohio, raised
an excitement recently by indicting one of
| its own members and two of the county COM
missioners.-About $4,000 had been realized
up to Friday last, at the fair for the benefit OF
the Inebriate Asylum of Baltimore.-Thc
| State Convention of the Republican party in
Richmond, Virginia, had split-somc of the
| members seeding, and the severance of the
party there is said to be complete The ma
joritY designate the Walker victory of July
last as q Confederate triumph.-The Balti-
more San says that it is estimated that in the
Schuylkill coal region of Pennsylvania, three
lives are lost for every one hundred thous-
and tons produced, and that the annual sup
ply for the United States costs four hundred
and forty-two lives every year, besides two
| hundred and eighty-scgen severe injuries
A vigorous protest against Christianity is be-
ing circulated in Japan, signed by num-
Der of Bouzes or Buddhist bishops.-A man
named Bailey was recently sentenced to the
Penitentiary for one year in Queen Anne's
county, Nd, for stealing nine ears of corn
valued at nine cents.-Albert d. Richardson
who was shot by Mr. Daniel Mcfarland
in New York, the other day, is still in pre-.
carious condition. He was married, on Tues
day evening, to the recent Mrs. Mcfarland
wife of the man by whom he was shot.-A
Major McCurdy shot and almost instantly
| killed his con Thomas McCurdv Mt CarClinp.