The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-02-18
THE NEWS.


nounced failure, and the large companies
are stocking their houses with ice cut on
Lake Champaign New York, on Sunday,
young man, named Halloran aged twenty,
threw his father down stairs, and finished by
cutting his throat, so that he is likely to die.
Dispatches by the Atlantic Cable represent
the weather as being extremely cold through
out Europe on Saturday last. At Paris the
thermometer indicated thirty degrees below
the freezing point.-A large number of per.
sons have been arrested in Paris, on suspi-
cion of completely in the alleged plot against
the state and the life of the Emperor Napo-
leon.-Rev Peter Cartwright, having served
60 years as Methodist minister, and for so
consecutive years as presiding elder, is now
devoting his time to lecturing on THE Rise
and Progress of Methodism in the Vest
MIR. w. S. Sprigg, of Baltimore, has been ap-
pointed assistant assessor of the second
Maryland district, of which Mr.. Samuel M.
Evans is collector and Mr.. VIM. Galloway
assessor.-The Mormon Legislature has
passed the woman suffrage bill, and the Act
ing Governor has signed it.-Farmers in
need of money in Iowa are borrowing at 20
per cent.-It is reported that Governor Geary,
of Pennsylvania, has refused to approve the
bill passed last week directing the Supreme
Court to review the evidence and decide cap
ital cases on their merits 1t was passed to
cover the case of Dr. Schoeppe, now under
&
Maggie Hays, from New Orleans for Pitts
burg, exploded near Helena, on Thursday
last, killing the captain, second engineer and
eight deck hands. The Missouri House of
Delegates has passed bill against discrmi-
nation in the matter of pay to public school
teachers on account of seX.-Fresh strawber-
ries, grown in the open air, are selling in
Mobile at So per quart.-Mr. Joseph Wesley
Harper, one of the firm of Harper Brothers,
publishers of New York, died in that city
on Monday morning.-A duel with broad
swords was fought in New York on Monday
morning, between young Cuban and a
young Englishman-the Cuban having been
wounded slightly and the Englishman seri-
ously.=-O'Donovan Rosa, the Fenian who was
recently elected member of the English Par
lament from Tipperary, has not been allowed
to take his seat.-Two men were suffocated
with coal-gas in house in Gloucester, N. j.,
on Saturday night, by leaving the damper
of their stove shut and the door open-Con-
siderable excitement prevails in Harrison
county, Ind, over the reported discovery of
gold and silver mines-Samuel l.. Clemens,
cMark Twain, y was recently married to q
beauty of Emira, New York, on which &C.
casion the happy couple were presented by
the brides parents with handsomely fur
nished house, valued at ,0O0.-Scnator
Sherman, has offered resolution in the U.
s. Senate to accord beligerent rights to the
Cuban insurgents. 1t was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs.-A new dis.
ease, called the relapsing fever, is rapidly in
fccting the lower and filthy districts of the
city of New York. A large number of deaths
have occurred, and at the Bellevue Hospital
the nurses and physicians have been attack
ell by the contagion.-St. Valentines Day
was not observed to so great an extent this
year us formerly-there having been but a
small increase in the size of the U. S. mails
on Monday.-The Judiciary Committee OF
the U. S. Senate has reported favrrably upon
the nomination of Judge Pearre, U. S. Cir.
cult Court judge for the districts of Maryland
Virginia, &c.-The Pennsylvania Senate has
passed the bill allowing writs of error to the
Supreme Court in criminal cases, over the
Governors veto.