The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-02-25
THE NEWS.

1t is reported that the Spanish officials are
willing to enter into negotiations for the
sale of Cuba to the United States for sixty
millions of dollars in gold, but that public
sentiment in Spain is strong against the
measure.-EIon John b. Jones died in Mont
gomery county, Pa, n few days ago. AT one
time he was appointed consul to Tripoli, and
subsequently consul general to Egypt He
was present ut the famous bombardment of
Tripoli, at the beginning of the present cen
tury.-Cuifornia was visited by another
earthquake, which occurred on Thursday of
last week There was a general panic in
San Francisco, but no damage done to build
ings. The shock was felt in a number of
places,-Prince Pierre Bonapartc is to be
tried in Paris on the charge of homicide
through imprudence. "-Rochefort editor of
the Marseitaise newspaper, has been confined
in prison, and Fouvile, his coadjutor, SEN
fenced to prison for six months, and TO pay
a fine of five hundred francs, for violation of
the press lava man was arrested in WOr-
cester, Mass, last week, for attempting to
commit suicide, and ordered to give bond
for his appearance before the Supreme Court.
The action is taken under the common law
of England, as adopted by the Statc.-Ar-
rangements have been made in st. Domingo,
to take vote of the people on the question
Enumeration to the United States A large
majority for it is predicted Pennsyl-
vania Legislature has passed bill imposing
fine of 500 on baggage masters or Others
whose duty it is to handle baggage, who
shall willfully or recklessly injure OF destroy
such baggage-The Texas legislature has
finally passed the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments. Nebraska ratified
the latter on Thursday.-Mexico continues
shaken by revolution.-Latc advices repre-
sent the government forces under General
Escobedo as compelled to retire before the
combined revolutionary forces of Toledo and
MartineZ.-Bruner's wooden mill, in Phia-
delphia, one of the largest of the kind in the
Union, was partially destroyed by fire last
week, involving loss of 000-Three
vessels have been chartered in China to car
ny Cinnamon to New Orlcans.-Mr. Bing-
ham has introduced into the United States
Senate, by virtue of the Fifteenth Amend
ment, bill granting suffrage to every male
person above the age of twenty-one, without
regard to race or color The bill is general
in its character, applying to all States where,
by State laws, certain persons arc not allow
ed to exercise the elective franchise Fifteen
and a-half millions of dollars will be forwar-
ded to pension agents throug hout the coun-
try, before the 4th of March next, to pay the
semi-annual installmcnt of pensions falling
due at that date.-Commodore Stephen
Champlin died on last Saturday, at Buffalo,
n. Y. He was the last surviving officer of
the battle of Lake Eric, having commanded
the Scorpion in that engagement.--At Boards
town, Illinois, last week, man named Will
cox entered drinking saloon, and in u squa-
bic shot one of the proprietors dead AM
wounded another He was arrested, confined
in Jail, and subsequently mob of five hun
drcd men entered the Jail, and after ahooting
the murderer through the head, dragged his
body out of doors and hung it by the neck
to trec,-On Monday Governor Bowie, &C
companed by committees of the Legisla-
turc and others, paid visit to the British
war vessel Monarch, now anchored in An
napolis Roads. Their reception by the com
mander, Capt Commcrwell, was very cor
dial. The vessel is one of large size, and is
said to be Il remarkably fine specimen of ma
val architecture. After the official ceremo-
mics are over the vessel is to be opened to
the inspection of the public. Lid
dell, of Louisiana, an eX-Confedeinte officer,
was shot and killed by Col. Charles Jones
and his two sons, on II steamboat on Black
river, on the 18th inst. 1t appears that a
feud had existed between the parties for over
twenty years, and that innumerable quarrels
and conflicts have cnsued, in which several
lives have been sacrificed