The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-09
The Wears.


glycerine, while being carried from the harbor
to the quarries at Caenaroon, Wales, on Ju-
ly 1st, exploded and killed fourmen outright
A railroad station near the scene was
torn in pieces and village quarter
of mile distant much damaged by the
shock.-There has been a difficulty experien-
ced in laying the French cable and operations
for the time checked.-The soldiers monu-
ment, at Gettysburg, was dedicated on the
first of July, and addresses delivered by
Hon. o. P. Morton, of Indiana, orator of
the day, General Meade and others. The
poem written for the occasion by Bayard
Taylor, and other pieces, were read.-The Re-
publicans of Washington are trying TO find
excuses for the removal of Toney, husband
of Annie Surratt, other than the zeal reason,
his marriage with the lady named-The Gu
ban expedition which sailed from New York
last week, has been captured and brought
back to that city and delivered over to the
us. authorities-Co Jas. R. Branch, q
prominent broker of Richmond, Virginia,
and candidate for the Senate, was killed by
the breaking down of a bridge leading to
Vauxhalrs Island, ON occasion of 2 barbecue
given to the negroes at that place and many
others fatally injured.-There is to be q
grand Saengerfest in Baltimore, from the
10th to the 18th of this month, at which
eighteen German singing societies of PAila-
delphia, comprising nearly five hundred
10 Tbo
sent that the wheat crop in all parts of the
State has been harvested and abundant yields
are anticipated eyerywhere.-Then news from
Cuba is of an important character. The
Spanish forces are said to be driven from
Los Innas and the Puerto del Padre country
with immense loss, and the Cubans claim to
be meeting with much success.-There were
immense floods in Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa last week, doing great injury to prop.
crty and destroying many human lives
Kaneas papers say that colony of Swedes
encamped on the Kaw river, in temporary
shanties, en- route for the back settlements,
were suddenly engulphed by the rising of
the river, and not being able 10 escape thir-
teen committed suicide and the remaining
twenty were submerged in the water. The
school children Of Philadelphia have erected
statue of Washington in front of 1ndepen-
dence Hall The statue is of white Italian
marble, standing on a pedestal of Virginia
granite.-George Peabody has made the mn-
nifcent additional donation of one million
dollars TO the Peabody Education Fund"
and expresses his satisfaction at The manner
in which the same has been managed. This
last gift makes his whole donation three and
o half million dollars.-Ex. President John
son has left Washington and returned again
to Tennessee. More Indian outrages pre-
reported daily from the plains.-E is said
that Gov. Wells, Gen. John A. Logan and
other leading radicals are members Of com
pany organized to import Cinnamon and Coo
lies into the west, southwest and south, to
supply those sections with labor.--Another
Spanish gunboat was launched at New York
on July 3d-Some negroes in Richmond,
Virginia, insulted the remains of Col. j. r..
Branch, who was recently killed by an acct
dent in that city, as they were carried into
his late residence.-The newspapers report
that the fourth of July was generally obser-
ye6 throughout the different Satisfactorily
Americans are reported killed in late en-
gagement between the Cubans and Spanish
tooops-Thc expedition known as the Pow
ell expedition, consisting of twenty one per-
sons, which started in the year 1867, from
Illinois, to explore the great canon of the
Colorado river, were all lost in crossing that
stream except one.-The property of the
young Duke of Newcastle, who is thirty- five
years of age, has been sold out under the
hammer His misfortunes were caused by
a career of extravaganza and dissipation that
has consumed his princely fortune and which
is scarcely paralleled in the annals of the
class TO which he belongs.-The Saepgerfest
in Baltimore next week, it is expected, will
be visited by the delegates from Europe, who
will take part in the musical exercises on
that occasion.-There was a large conven.
ton Of women belonging to the women
suffrage persuasion held at Buffalo, New
York, on 9th July.-Turner, the negro post
master at Macon, Georgia, has been arrested
on the charge of stealing money from the
government. Two negro women being de-
tected with money that was stolen from the
Treasury department at Washington, impli-
Gated Turner, and hence his arrest.--Great
excitement prevailed in Richmondon the eve
of the late election, superinduced by fears of
outbreaks between the opposing parties
The first case under the new liquor law of
Massachusetts was tried in that State last
week, when certain Adam Basser, for Civ
ing a man, who represented himslf us sick
some gin, was fined ten dollars and sentenced
to the House of Correction for twenty days,
from which decision he took an appeal to the
Superior Court-A soldiers wife in Chicago,
not having heard of her husband for q long
period after the close Of the war, concluded
she was q widow, and after a while married
second time, when the first husband lately
turned up again. Instead of there being
"muss in the family" the two, according to
the Chicago Euening Post, arranged the
matter SO that she continues. to be true to
both, and each. regards himself as her hus-
band.--The celebration of the fourth of July,