The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-07-08
THE NEWS.


The treaty for the annexation of the island
of San Domingo to the United States was re-
jected by the Senate on Thursday of 'ast week
by a vote of % to %, being ten less than the
required vote of thirds to secure its rat
ification. President Grant expressed himself
as disappointed at this result. 1t is thought
that measures will be at once taken to nego-
tiate a new and more acceptable treaty.
A terrible fire, occasoned by stroke of
lightning, occurred at Pittsburg, Pa, last
week, by which four oil refneries were con-
sumed and one man persisted in the flames
and number narrowly escaped.
OF the forty-eight nominees for cadetships
at West Point who were rejected recently by
the board of examination, at least half of
those have arrived in Washington to see the
members who appointed them. A majority
of those rejected were from the South, and
include the three colored nominations.
Daniel w. VOORHEES, was nominated for
Congress without opposition by the sixth
district democratic congressional convention
in Indiana, on June 30th
The expedition sent ont under Commander
Selfridge to examine the Isthmus of Panama
for route for ship canal, has returned after
six months absence and reports that nu-
merous routes were examined, all of which
are entirely impracticable owing to the great
elevation of the mountain ranges So ends
the Panama canal project.
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cities of New York and Brooklyn, in conse-
quence of the rise of the price of ice in those
cities, after July 1st, from 81 to $3.50 per
hundred pounds.
Mr. Sumner, from the committee on foreign
relations, to create Cyrus W. Field and 9TH
ers body polite and corporate, by the name
of the Pacific Submarine Telegraph Com
pany," to facilitate telegraphic communica-
ton between America and Asia. The propo-
sition made by Mr. Field in the Pacific Subma-
rine Telegraph is to lay down an ocean cable
from the United States to Japan and China
by the way of the Hawaiian or other islands,
the government to have priority of transmit
ting annually over this line messages on gov
eminent business, amounting to $500, 000
and for this right the United States shall pay
annually the sum of 100000 for twenty
years, commencing from the day on which,
such telegraph shall have been actually laid
and opened TO the public, and further, the
United States to have the right to purchase
this line by fair appraisement, the line to be
completed within five years from the passage
of the act. The estimated capital to estab
fish the line is from ten to fourteen millions
of dollars
Miss Elizabeth Garrett was received as
doctor at the Ecole de Medecin, Paris. She
had taken as her thesis the subject of Head
ace"-not very interesting question-bu
she treated it so brilliantly that the board al
once gave her the diploma.
Representative Morrissey had an interview
with the President and Secretary of thu
Treasury last week, the result which is thai
letter has been addressed to the collector a
Burlington, directing him not to exact dutie:
on horses coming from Canada to run at thu
races at Saratoga and Long Branch. The
races will commence at the former place OF
the 18th of July and at the latter on the 30tl
of the same month.
The U. s. Senate, on Friday night last tc
the surprise apparently even of itself, restor
ed the income tax by fixing the rate at two
and half per cent, to continue for two year:
longer, with two thousand dollars to be ex
empted. This action leaves the matter il
such shape that in the disagreement between
the two houses conference committee viii
be obliged to retain this tax at the same rate
General Grant went to Connecticut to spenC
his fourth of July.
Steamboat racing on the Mississippi rive
has revived, and a very exciting race be
tween the steamers Natchez and Lee came of
last week, betting to the amount of between
one and two hundred thousand dollars OIL
the result having taken place
The total population Of Elkton, by the
census mans count, is 1897 that of Por
Deposit 1910; thus the two towns o
Cecil county have population nearly iden
teal, there being but thirteen in favor o
Port Deposit