The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-20
utilization with the negro, we beg to refer
them to the above, as showing how utterly
mistaken. theyarein entertaining any, such.
THE NEWS.
notion.

A terrible railroad ACCIDENT 0ecnrred on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, near Eureka,
twenty eight miles from st. Louis, on Thurs
day of last week. The night express colided
with an extra freight train going west, at the
point above named, when both trains were
badly smashed up and sixteen persons killed
outright and twenty wounded, two of whom
will die.
Another battle is reported from Cuba, in
which the Spanish forces defeated their cne-
mics, capturing three cannon and killing
ninety of their advcrsaries, with a loss of two
wounded.
The Fenians are reported as on the move
in large numbers and fully armed toward the
Red River, to join the insurgents there
against Canada.
Mrs Mcfarland Richardson publishes a de-
tailed statement under oath, of her domestic
nfclicity with Daniel Mcfarland and the
causes which led to their separation.
The recent election in France was held on
Sunday, "a day which it suits the conscience
of France devote to purposes of politics or
pleasure, and which is particularly convent
ent tor the rural population, always the EN-
perors main political dependence"
1t is stated that the President and Cabinet
arc considering the invitation from the
British government to cooperate to prevent
the atrocities of the Spaniards in Cuba
Major John Strother Calvert, at one time
State Treasurer of Virginia, and also mem
nffl L I
the Richmond calamity, died of his injuries
| last week.
Mrs. Cutler, the lady who made speech
on board the steamship Ohio, at Baltimore,
on occasion of the visit of the Ohio Legisla-
ture to that city recently, is in attendance on
the American Women's Suffrage Assoca-
ton, now in session at New York city.
A Congressional committee refuse to re-
store to Mrs. Mary Gusts Lee certain relics
of Washington, now in the Patent Office.
A most disastrous fire occurred at Fincas-
tie, Virginia, recently, destroying nearly sixty
stores and dwellings, or more than half of
the town, which contains about 1 200 inhabi-
tants. The fire originated in q livery stable
attached to the Western Hotel
Gov. Yarmouth has appointed Gen. Long
street Adjutant General of the Louisiana,
State Militia. Gen. Longstreet acted as Mar
shal at the late celebration in New Orleans
by the negroes of the adoption of the Fiji
teenth Amendment
The House of Delegates of Virginia have
voted to retain the word white" in the tax
bill
John Deal was executed at Reading, Pa,
last week. for murder, making full confcs-
sion of his guilt on the scaffold.
by the steamship Japan, which arrived at
San Francisco last week, 300 Chinese have
been added to the population of California.
| A most terrible crime, the authors of which
met with swift punishment, occurred in the
the town ofLodore, Kansas, recently. Seven
men, strangers, after drinking about the town
| all day, went to the house of ]. M. Roach,
and being refused admission, knocked him
sensless and outraged and otherwise abused
his two young daughters, aged 12 and IA
years. During their riot one Of the party shot
and killed a companion and the rest took to
the woods, one of them carrying off the
youngest girl. The citizens pursued them,
on the alarm being given, and all were cap
tured and Immediately hanged, except one,
who is in custody.
Senator Rcvcls (colorcdD of Mississippi,
was in New York last week, lecturing to
mixed audiences on the tendency four age
and the spirit of caste"
The famous trotting mare, Flora Temple,
for some time past the property OLA. Welch,
Esq, of Chestnut Hill, has been purchased
by Daniel Mace, Esq, ofNew York city, for
100000, The mare is fourteen years old.