The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-12
THE NEWS.

Professor Agassiz is very i'll at Boston.
Bishop Armiagc, of Wisconsin, died in
New York on Sunday.
The Secretary of the Navy wants an APP
preparation of $4000,000 for his department.
"A Farmers Grange has been organized
at Bel Air, Kent county, Nd.
The Gar of Russia seems to be placing
his army on war footing, but for what pur-
pose is not stated.
Mr.. James Lucas, of the well known
firm of James Lucas & Son, job printers, of
Baltimore, died on Tuesday afternoon.
Seth Adams, the first manufacturer of
the celebrated Adams printing press, died at
Newton, Mass, on Sunday.
Judge Underwood, who las made HIM
self so obnoxious in Virginia since the war
as Judge Of one of the U. s. Courts, died
suddenly in Washington on Sunday.
The imports of dry goods at New York,
from January to November 80 1873, were
twenty millions of dollars less than during
the same period of last year.
The Ship Loeb Earn, which ran into
and sank the Vile du Havre, was so much
injured by the collision that she had 10 be
abandoned by her crew, who We're brought
into port by another vessel
General Sicklcs has had his feelings hurt
by the Spanish negotiations being carried on
through the Spanis.l minister in this country,
instead ofthIough him, as is the usual Gus.
tom. 1t is stated that he will resign, in con.
sequence.
The House of Representatives has passed
the general amnesty bill, repeating the test
oaths of 1862. If it passes the Senate and
become n law it will re-instatc to all the
rights of citizenship all those in the South
who have since the war been deprived of
their votes or the right to hold Office.
-Pinchback, the colored agitator of Louis
sana, claims to have been elected to the Sen
ate and also to the House His seat in each
has been contested, and he has chosen to take
his chances of getting into the Senate BE
tween two stools man falls to the ground,
and we hope this may he Pinchback's case
The Cuban insurgents have taken SAN
culinary revenge upon the Spaniards for the
murder of the Virginus crew. On learning
of their execution Maxine Gomez attacked
number of Spanish fortified camps, captur-
ing over 200 prisoners, whom he shot in full
view of the Spanish Notifications at Santiago
The butcher Burrell Immediately left for
Havana.
General N B. Forrest, of Confederate
fame, offers his services to the United States,
in the event of war with Spain--pledging
himself to raise from one to five thousand
men. General Sherman has sent his letter to
the War Department, with an endorsement,
in which he says: regard N. b. Forrest as
one Of the most extraordinary men develop
ed by our civil war, and were it left to me in
the event of war requiring cavalry, would
unhesitatingly accept his services and give
him prominent place. 81 believe now lie
would fight against our national enemies rs
vchemently as he did against us, and that is
saying enough"
The appointment by President Grant of
Mr.. George II. Williams as Chief Justice does
not meet with the approval of the press of
either party. The universal outcry is that
he is unfit in every particular for the place,
and even his honesty is doubted In the
Senate the nomination was referred to the
committee on judiciary, n majority of whom
are said TO be unfavorable to his confrma-
ton, but it is scarcely possible that they will
have moral courage enough to brave the
Presidents anger by turning down one of his
pets.
"A fight took place in the court house at
Harrodsburg, Kentucky with pistols between
FIVE men named Davies and four men named
Thompson in which two of the Dayiess par
ty were killed and one wounded The Da
viess were the aggressors. The fight origi-
mated about the trial of law suit, in which
c question of veracity was raised The court
room was crowded when the battle com
menced, hut none but the participants we've
hurt