The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-02-04
THE NEWS.

Inc price OF coal NJ the monthly auction
sales of that article in New York has mate
rally declined the mild wintcrand the large
supply-havc an influence in that direction
which ca mot be resisted, despite attempts to
keep up the high prices.-Deputations from
many parts of the country have arrived or
are on their way to attend the Peabody OBJ
| scquies at the town of Peabody, Massachu-
sets. Maryland is represented by q commit
tee of the Legislature and also q committee
of tho City Council and the Mayor of Ralti-
more.-Admiral Buchanan, of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, is about to take up his
residence in Alabama.-Rev. Geo. Francis
Train contemplates revolution oftho Chris
tian religion, and announces tn at he is pre-
pairing new edition of the Bible--A Swe-
! dish bark, the Gustav Adolf, arrived at Bal
timore last week with cargo of sugar and
coffee direct from the West In dies, being the
first arrival direct from the hitter place to
this port during the last twenty three years,
and is another striking evidence of the grow
ing Importance of Baltimore as great COM
mercial marta Mrs. Harold, of Illinois, re-
Gently became insane whilst laboring under
religious excitement, and persistently at
tempted suicide by cutting her throat, which
she finally accomplished.-Th colored peo-
pie of Fredericksburg Va, have sent petit
| ton to Congress to remove all disabilities
| from white people.-A rumor of the death of
the Pope gained considerable circulation last
week, but was without any foundation in
| fact.-Mr Abel r. Corbin, the Presidents
brother-in- law, has been examined by the
congressional investigating committee on
the gold panic of last September, but with
small success so far as eliciting any new fact
in the matter.-A survey for a ship canal
across the lsthmus Of Darien has just been
completed by French engineer for a'Paris
company. The cost of the work is estima-
ted at seventy millions of dollars, and the
time required for its completion at from
three to five years. An effort is to be imme-
diately made to raise money from American
and European capitalists for the completion of
the enterprise. Sir De Lacy Evans,
who commanded the raiding party that
sacked and burned the city of Washington,
in 1914, died recently in London.-The land
belonging to the estate of the late George
Peabody, in England, which was recently
seized by officers of the crown, has been re-
leased by order Of the government-Neg
tiations on the Alabama claims questions
have been suspended-The administration,
it is said, are moving to reduce the extrava-
giant estimates so fully exposed by Mr.. Dawes
OF Massachusetts, in his late speech in Con-
gress. Five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed in Philadelphia, and twenty thousand
| guaranteed in New York, towards memo
rial chapel to Stonewall jackson, at the Vir-
| glnia Military lnstitutc.-Gen. Candy issued
an order on Friday last, turning over the adj
ministration of the State of Virginia to the
civil authorities-The women of Boston in
convention assembled recently passed resolu-
tons in favor ola 10th amenment to the con-
stitution, guaranteeing to them the rights of
suffrage.-The cold weather on the plains in
the Northwest is represented as fearful, the
the thermometer at Fort Abercrombic on the
10th JAM stood at forty five degrees below
zero.-A bill has been introduced into Con-
gress to provide for territorial government
for the district of Columbia municipal
government Of Washington, since it has been
administered under negro suffrage rule, does
not appear to work tremendously or to the
advantage of residents and tax payers
Mrs. Bassett Rawlings a most estimable la
dy of Brunswick county, Virginia, was re-
Gently fired at through window and killed
| by an assassin while surrounded by her chill
dren.-Professor n r. Smith has resigned
his chair as u professor in the University of
Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore
"A celorcd man named J. J. Wright has
been elected as Supreme Judge, by the Leg
islature of South Carolina.-A MI Garrison
of the State of New York, aged seventy
years, and possessed of q fortune of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, recently COM
mitted suicide.-The final obsequies of
George Peabody will take place at the town
of Danvers, (now called Peabody on Tuesday
next.-All the representatives of Virginia in
the Congress of the United States have been
sworn in, except representative Segar
the delegate elected at large-Many hands
are begging work, it is said, in South Car
olina, at so to 60 cts. per day, as field hands,
and find themselves.-Olvc Logan express
es her opinion of Prince Arthur in way
that is not very complimentary to that scion
of the royal family, pronouncing him to be
"a little English snob."-It is said that St.
Louis has gone ahead of her rival Chicago
in trade in wheat and flour, and the grain
trade generally.-The matter of the inmlli-
bility of the Pope is the question of greatest
interest now pending before the Ecumenical
Council at Rome.-Cel. Coleman, an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Carroll county
Tennessee, was recently foully murdered by
five negroes, who were captured and lynched
for the crime. Prior to their execution they
confessed several other atrocious crimes in
addition to the one for which they suffered.
Legislative Proceedings.
A petition was presented in the
Senate on Friday last, by Mr.. Stephenson,
from citizens of Hartford, for protection of