The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-11-12

ment has been obliged TO secure some old
castles in which to accommodate the surplus
prisoners night last week, q German
woman, forty-eight years old, was burned to
death, in New York city, from ii,o explosion,
of d kerosene lamp-Chief Justice Chase has
rendered an opinion that contract made in
the Confederate States during the late war,
to be paid in Confederate notes, should be
paid in lawful money of the United States
according to the value of Confederate notes
at the date of the contract, when not made
in aid of the rebellion.-A dispatch from
Omaha says that while body of Sioux In
dians, with large number of squaws and
papooses, were encamped near Fort Rice, on
September 22d, the prairies contiguous to
their camp were set on fire, and before the
alarm could be given or measures be taken
to save their lives, about one hundred were
eonsumed.-Two soldiers while out hunting
recently, near Fort Fetterman, were killed
by the ADMINISTRATION Shepherd, Collector
of Internal Revenue was shot through the
heart by his son, at Okalona, Miss, recently
The vote for Governor is so close in Min
nessota that it will require an official can vass
to determine whether Otis, democrat, or
Austin, republican, is elected.-Charles j,
Folger has been appointed assistant United
States treasurer at New York, in the place of
Gen. Butterfeld.-L. G.. Estee, collector of
internal revenue of the second district of
North Carolina, has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling the government funds
to the amount of $780, 00.-Ex- Governor
Thomas G. Pratt, formerly United States
Senator from Maryland during q period of
eight years, died at his residence in Balti-
more on Tuesday, from disease of the heart.
He was in the Goth year of his age-A
young man from New Jersey, named Null
ford, had his watch and pocket book stolen
from him by a Handsome young widow
whom he met on the Southside train from
Patchogue, Long Island. The treacherous
young woman also left an artificial baby in
his arms, while she went out of the cars to
speak to her "uncle".-An explosion of fire
damp took place in coal mine in England,
on October 22d, by which thirteen men and
boys lost their liyes.-A young man named
Eubank, citizen of Amherst county, Va,
died recently from CHAMBERS, the disease hay
ing been communicated by horses ON his
plantation.-Sunday evening party of one
hundred men came to Richmond, KY, and
took out man named Suary, the author of
five murders, and hung him in the court
house yard, with a placard on his back not
to cut him down until seven o'clock on
Monday evening. The crowd then dis
persed.-It is stated that the English govern
eminent is prepared to reduce the postage
between this country and Great Britain to
three cents for u single prepaid letter-Gen.
Reynolds, commanding the Texas district,
has decided that the ordinances passed by the
late State Constitutional Convention were
not valid, and will not be made valid by the
peoples ratification of the constitution. He
has thereupon refused the Provisional Gov
ernor the authority to enforce the ordinance
The project of building an underground
railway in New York city is still agitated
AT recent meeting Of directors, it was
stated that the aggregate length of under
ground railways in London is about ten miles
One hundred and ten thousand passengers
ride daily, and trains are run every three
minutes during business hours.-The safe of
the Dorchester insurance company, at Ne
ponset Village, Mass, was broken open re-
Gently and some $4,000 stolen, mostly in
registered five-twcnty bonds.-A movement
is said to be on foot in Washington to pro-
cure renewal of the Canadian Reciprocity
Treaty. This is causing the tariff men con-
| siderable trouble-Therc is rumor in
Washington that the Secretary of the Trea-
sury contemplates preparing for four per
cent. loan, with view of recognizing the
national debt on that basis, and that an
agent has been sent to Europe to negotiate
for part of this loan.-Rear Admiral
Charles Stewart died at his residence, in Bor-
dentown, N. j., on Saturday.-A disastrous
inundation occurred in the vicinity of Meri-
da, Yucatan, completely destroying the town
of Iquilchae, and causing the loss of several
lives.-A private dispatch received by cable
says: On the 9th of October severe earth
quake occurred at Manila. All the houses
were shaken, portion of the city walls have
fallen, and there were many accidents, but no
Europeans were killed.
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