The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-24
THE NEWS.

Samuel Nankeevis, an English preacher,
was convicted at Pottsville, Pa, recently
of murder in the first degree, for killing his
infant child.--A contribution of nine dollars
TO the conscience fund was lately received
from Baltimore by Secretary Boutwell.-At-
lorncy General Hoar has been nominated by
the President rs an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.-A bill
granting the right of suffrage to women has
passed the Wyoming Territorial Legislature
and signed by the Goyernor-Th officers OF
the Maryland National Guard gave grand
complimentary banquet to Gov Bowie last
week, at the Gilmore House in Baltimore, at
of the Legislature. Speeches were delivered
by the Governor, Mayor Banks, Gen. Brooks,
commandant ut Fort McHcnry, Gen. f. c.
Latrobe, Gen. Frank A. Bond and others
Gov. Stevenson, Of Kentucky, has been cleo
ted United States Senator from that State
Mr. Turnbull has introduced into Congress a
bill ito relieve members ofCongress from i'm
porunity, and to preserve the independence OF
the several departments Of the government
by making it misdemeanor punishable by
fine for any member of Congress to re-
commend any person for appointment to
office, unless requested by the President or
heads of acknowledgements has been
giving considerable attention to the recon-
struction of Georgia since its session COM
menced.-The Maryland Agricultural College
is represented to be in a fiourishing condition
and has now seventy-nine matriculates with
every prospect of a large increase of the num-
bcr.--A letter from Rome to the New York
'WorM mentions the probability of the crea-
ton of two American cardinals The pre-
ates to be honored are Archbishops McClos-
key of New York, and Spalding ofBaltimore.
Some fifteen million tons of coal have been
mined and marketed from Allegany county,
from 1912 to 1860, and it is estimated that
there is an ample supply for the next ten
generations.-JudgeG rier, of the U. S. Su-
preme Court has resigned his position on
account of age and infrmity, which has been
accepted by the President, to take effect on
the list of February next.-There have been
nearly dozen failures Of large houses in
New York, principally dry goods, within a
week; also the dry goods house of Howard,
Cole u Co., an old established one in Balti-
more, has failed, with liabilities amounting to
$780, 00-Gen. Is. f. Butler and Horace
Greedy are engaged in q newspaper contro-
versy about the removal Of political disabil-
tiles from the people of the Southern States,
Greedy advocating such removal and Butler
opposed to 1.-THE South Carolina Legisla-
ture adjourned the other day, upon the arri-
val of Robinson's Circus in town, to 90 to the
show.-The Empress of the French instruc-
ted her Chamberlain to meet Pere Hyacinthe
at Havre, and dissuade him from preaching
in Paris Geo. Francis Train is to lecture in
Baltimore shortly on the Impeachment of
General Grant "-Small&px has made its APP
pearancc in Washington city.-Hon Richard
Vaux, G. NJ, with his officers, dedicated a
new masonic hall at Shrewsbury, Pa, last
week.-Two patients at the Cincinnati hos
pital had fight last week, in which one OF
them stabbed the other to the heart, killing
him almost nstantly.-A meeting was held
at Elkton, Cecil county last week, to further
the project of building railroad from that
place to Massay's, in Kent county, About
$4,000 has been subscribed alrcady.-Fiye
hundred people in New York city earn a