The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-04-04
The News.

The growing wheat in Virginia is said to
look badly.
Office seekers at Washington are as thick
as Egyptian locusts.
The abolition of slavery in Porto Rico is
said to meet with the approval of the people
generally.
Under the new coinage act there is to be
anew silver dollar and the two cent pieces are
to be abolished.
The negroes are clamoring at Washing
ton to be placed upon juries in the United
States Courts of Maryland.
Rev. DR.. Daniel Zacharias, distinguish
ed divine ofthe Evangelical Reformed Church,
died at Frederick City on Monday.
The instruction in Cuba still goes on.
Some of the Spanish troops with their officers
have revolted and joined the Cuban forces.
Boss Tweed has resigned his seat in the
State Senate of New York, but the proceed
ings against him are still being carried on.
"A rumored secession of the Canary
Islands from Spain is threatened 1t is said
that they will ask for a British protectorate
Rear Admiral John B. Montgomery died
at Carlisle, Pa, on the 25th ofMarch. He was
in the battle of Lake Erie, in 1914, and had
rl-nc active naval duty for 3S years
Professor Edward Warren, of Baltimore
and Gen. r. E. Colston, of North Carolina
sailed.for Europe on Wednesday, en- route for
Egypt, to enter the service of the Khcdive.
-Advices from New Orleans report that
everything is now calm and quiet The citi-
zens adhere steadfastly to their determination
to pay no taxes to the Kellogg government.
The Virginia Senate is considering bill
giving juries who find verdict ofmurder the
discretion to say whether the penalty shall be
hanging or Imprisonment for life It's pas
sage is not expected.
General Fremont has been condemned in
c0ntnanacidm in the Paris courts, to five years
Imprisonment, for his connection with the
Memphis and Ell Paso railroad case. We
suppose he will scarcely go over to Paris to
see about the matter
"A terrible railroad accident occurred
Sunday night in Vermont. The track had
been undermined by water, and train pass
ing over it sank and was precipitated down
an embankment forty feet deep. An engineer
and fireman were killed, and every one of the
passengers more or less injured.
In the Criminal Court of Baltimore city
an Indictment against John F. Green, charg-
ed with embezzlement and larceny, was
quashed, on the ground that the word fraud
ulently," was spelled ''t,uudentIy" The case
was removed one from Baltimore county
Another example of the necessity of correct
spelling.
The leading railroad companies, whichre-
fused to run postal cars on their lines after
the 1st of April, without increased compensa-
ton, have agreed to withdraw from their po-
sition and continue to run them until the
Senate committee appointed for the subject
shall examine into and make arrangements to
adjust the difficulty.
The city authorities of Baltimore have
peSH uitSi Will
a sharp stick. Quite number of the gay
CHANDELIERS have been arrested, some ofwhom
have removed their cases to adjoining coun-
ties. The wonder is that none but spasmodic
efforts have been made heretofore to break up
the pernicious practice of gambling
About a year ago man named Curry,
emigrated from Massachusetts to Georgia,
with about one hundred followers, who
bought land, lived in tents and held property
in common. Curry pretended to be the apos-
tie and prophet of a new dispensation, but
finally took to himself too many wives, and
the colony became so demoralized and lcen- |
tious that Curry and his queen paramour
were indicted by the grand jury, tried and con-
victed. They havenot yet been sentenced, and
will probably be allowed to depart and seek
a land of Canaan elsewhere.
IMPERIALIsM.-The promotion of Lieuten.