The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-02-11
THE NEWS.

toned off the coast of Africa, DR.. David Liv-
ingstone, the celebrated African traveller, has
been burned as wizard, by q chief in the
interior-Thirteen cargoes of wheat were
exported from the port of San Francisco,
California, during the month of January
twelve of them consigned to Liverpool
The Georgia Legislature has ratified the
Fifteenth Amendment, which makes the re-
quisite number of twenty. eight States that
have given it their sanction.-It has become
necessary to appoint clerk in the Alabama
Legislature 10 put all bills in readable and
grammatical sbape.-The Archduchess Eli
zabeth of Austria, owing to domestic infeli-
cities, has fled from that country to America,
having embarked at Hamburg Since the
assembling of the Gcumcnical Council at
Rome, seven of its members have died, and
our have left the cty.-The Canadian gov
eminent is preparing to open an active cam
nsurrectionists.-It is said that Prince Ar
thur has sfgnified his intention of visiting
Wheatland, Pennsylvania, the home of the
late James Buchanan, and that Mrs. Harriet
Lame Johnson, the late Presidents noice, will
receive him with all the honors.-Late re-
ports from Cuba bring details Of the great
est victory yet achieved by the Cubans, UNI
der command ofGen. Jordan, over the Span
ish forces led by Pueblo. The fight took
place near Guaimaro, and it is claimed that
the entire Spanish force, numbering from
$500 to 5000 men, would have been ami
Inflated by being drawn into an ambush, but
for information conveyed by negro to its
commander. AS it was they were repulsed
with heavy loss and driven to the coast
Three children of Joseph Wyblc, of Passaic
county, New Jersey, recently mysteriously
disappeared and after lapse of several weeks
were fround dead within two miles of their
fathers residence, having evidently from
the appearance ofthe bodies, starved to death.
1t seems the surrounding country to the res
idence of Wyble is wilderness, through
which the little sufferers had wandered, till
death terminated their sufferings-The
House of Representatives committee on ter
ritories have nearly perfected bill for the
abolition of polygamy in Utah.-The nomi-
nation of Attorney General Hoar, as associ-
ate justice of the Supreme Court, has been
rejected i'll the Senate.-A Philadelphia mer-
chant named Rogers recently visited McFar-
land, now confined in the Tombs in New
York for the murder of Richardson, and on
leaving rendered him five hundred dollars to
assist in his defence.-Mr. Merryman, re-
Gently elected Treasurer of this State, has
signiied to the committee appointed by the
Legislature to officially notify him of the
fact, his acceptance of the position.-The
Senate Committee on the District of Column
bia seriously discussed last week the ques-
ton of legalizing female suffrage in that dis
trict, but it did not meet with much favor.
"A committee of the Legislature of Florida
have reported to that body resolutions favor
ing the impeachment of Gov. Reed of that
State for alleged wrongful acts in office.-The
lower II ouse of the Ohio Legislature by the
admission Of Republican member whose
seat was contested, now stands fifty seven Re-
publican and fifty-fve Democratic.-The
coinage at the branch mint at San Francis
co, California, during the month of January
amounted to $1,Gs0 600, all of which was
in double eagles-The Mormon missionaries
on Long Island have established q church
there, and the spread of the faith is begin
ming to be alarming.-Henri Rochefort, the
irrepressble French agitator, was arrested
on Monday evening last, by the authorities,
at his residence, when an immense throng of
his friends and admirers congregated in the
vicinity, and during the night, according to
Paris mob usage, commenced to throw up
barricades in the streets Fears were enter
tanned of bloodshed and riot, but the military
coming to the rescue Of the police, quiet was
eventually restored.-The final obscquies of
George Peabody took place at Peabody,
Mass, on Tuesday last, and were largely at
tended.-Prince Arthur, Admiral Farragut
and other distinguished persons were present
"A sensation story of an attempt by Feni-
ans to assassinate Prince Arthur in New
York, last week, gained considerable curren-
cy, but no evidence of the existence of such
design can be procured, although several
suspicious parties were arrested.-Gov. Peter
L. Washburn, of Vermont died on Monday
last, aged fifty-fve ycars.-Four bears were
killed in Allegnny county, Maryland, recent
ly, by party of hunters near Swagers Mills.
An American, named Greenwald, was re-
Gently assassinated in Havana-Thc thick
ness of the ice on Fresh Pond, Boston, is
from five to six inches. More continued
cold weather is needed to make the yield q
large one.-Hon. Truman H. Hoag, member
of Congress from Ohio, died recently, at
Westinghouse great outflow of negroes
from Virginia to the more Southern States
continues to exist.
Legislative Proceedings.