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

A murderess having been convicted in
Massachusetts,, the New York Tribune says
"Mrs. Nancy B. MADAM has been found gull
ty of murder in the first degree, at Ded-
ham, Mass. Exceptions have been taken,
but ifthese are overruled, what is the State
of Massachusetts to do with this woman
Hang herr Certainly not. The moral
feeling of the Commonwealth would not
bear it." The "moral feeling" of Massa-
chusetts bore very well the hanging OF
Mrs. Surratt, lady, for crime of which
every one now believes her as the innocent
as the child unborn. What delicate SEN
sibilites, to be sure Statesman.
In reading his notices last Sunday the
Rev. Mr.. Beecher observed, in relation to
an announcement of an entertainment for
the. benefit of the Cuban insurrectionists,
that if any people were justified in throw
ing off a government the people of Cuba
were in releasing themselves from the yoke
of Spain, and if any people deserved free
dom it was the Cubans If they did fail
he would still say that they ought to have
striven; ought to have succeeded. If they
succeeded, many of the newspapers SO
blatant about the insurectionists would
turn round and adulate them for their he
roism and self-denial. Such were the
chances contingent upon the success or the
failure even of good cause.
White men cannot vote in Rhode Island
unless they are possessed of one hundred
and thirty -faur dollars worth of real estate,
yet at the next session of the Legislature the
Radicals will adopt the XVIII Amendment,
by which all the worthless negroes in the
State can put their vote in the ballot box.
They like negroes, but despise "poor white
tlash."
A man in Holyoke armed two of his
neighbors with a mallet and club to hunt
burglar the other night. They went
around the house in opposite directions,
and meeting in the darkness behind it,
proceeded to pound and whack each 9TH
er in manner that would have been ter
ribly effective, if either had been the bur
'glar.
A traveller in Pennsylvania asked the
landlord if they had any cases of sunstroke
in that town, mo, sir" said the landlord
"if man gets drunk here we say he is
drunk, and never call it by any other
name"
The government of Peru has recognized
the Cuban patriots as belligerent, and has
decided to grant them all of the privileges
attendant on that character. The exam
pie of Peru, it is said, will be Immediate
ly followed by the remainder of the allied
republics of the Pacific.
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio
will meet at Columbus on the 18th of July
next. The officers to be elected are a
governor, lieutenant governor, judge of the
Supreme Court, attorney general, State trea-
surer, and members of the board of public
works.
George Frrncis Train sold recently, in
Omaha, is lots for $4,000, and still owns
five thousand just like them, which are
now worth $4,OO0000, and are rapidly
rising in value.
Punch says Reverdy Johnson, as the rep
resentative of America, has gotten all the
dinners, and now Motley is coming after
her deserts.
i' ew A chap recently tried to open 0
bomb-shell with red hot poker. The last
seen of him he was looking for o place tn
hang his hat, in the milky way