The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-11-28
THE NEWS.


The prices of iron have declined since
the panic.
-Udderzook's counsel at West Chester,
have made motion fora new trial.
-MacMahon has been made President Of
the French Republic for seven years.
The Fory-third Congress will commenoG
at Washington next Monday.
The effective Spanish force in Cuba is
officially announced at Madrid as number
ing $4,000 men.
Mrs. Charity Barnum, the wife OFF. T.
Barnum, the celebrated Snowman, died in
! New York last week, aged G5.
1t is stated that within thirty days there
will be in Cuban waters at least twenty OF
the most powerful vessels in the United
States service.
Eighteen inches of snow on the ground
and the thermometer ten degrees below zero
OH the 21st inst, is the refreshing news from
Mechanicsville, N. Y.
Robert Finncy, of Pittsburgh, Secretary
| OF inc EuIeha anu i'outHlcH lhSui uhSo
Companies, is dcfaulcr in one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars.
On the 10Th instant, furious mob made
hostile demonstration in front of the quar-
tors of the U S. minister Mt Madrid, it was
quickly quelled, however, by the authorities.
The Democrats gained a complete vic
tory at the municipal election at Chattanoo-
ga, Tennessee, on the 20th--the first Demo
cratic victory for city officers since the war.
The United States Consul reports, under
date of the 18th, that the total number of
persons executed from the Virginius is fifty
three. The report of additional executions
is erroneous.
The late Captain Fry, of the Virginius,
leaves widow and seven children-the old
est cripple-in New Orleans, in destitute
circumstances. A subscription is being talk
Ell up in their behalf by prominent citizens of
Mobile.
Hon Alexander II. Stephens character
lied the capture of the Virginus and the
shooting of the crew as the greatest outrage
of modern times, and thinks movement to
take possession of Cuba would bring about a
good feeling between the North and South.
AT New Canaan, Ct, on the 10Th, Mrs.
Joseph Sclleck, a widow owning and occu-
plying alone a small place in the town, was
murdered with an axe, her clothing saturat-
ed with kerosene and set on fire. Her body
was nearly consumed and the house was on
fire when it was discovered The motive
was doubtless plumber
"A Washington special says that in con-
sideration of the mpossibiity for Spain to get
all the facts connected with the outrage at
Santiago dc Cuba before the 9th inst, the
last day of grace fixed by the President, and
the President being satisfied that Spain will
make satisfactory rcparation, has decided
to grant the time asked some days ago
through Admiral Polo, namely, until the
Saturday following.
"A white woman named Kelley, in Wash
ington, employed 4 colored boy TO saw some
wood, promising TO pay him twenty cents
the next day. When lie called the woman
did not have the money, and asked him to
call later in the day. This enraged the negro,
who declared that if he did not get the money
then he would have satisfaction, and taking
out single barrelled pistol shot the woman
in the head, killing her.
Last Thursday night a steam tug with
seven men aboard sprang aleak, between the
Highlands and Sandy Hook, N. Y, and went
down, leaving nothing afloat but the roof
of the pilot house, which was seized by the
drowning men. This separated, leaving four
upon one part and three upon the other
| The latter were carried out to sea and lost
and the four were picked up by a passing
vessel, nearly dead with cold.
In Kansas, on the night of Nov. 1, boy
fourteen years old murdered his grandfather
by shooting him in the head with revolver,
while the old man was asleep, the boy
grandmother standing inside the bedroom
door and encouraging the boy to do the deed.
| The woman then held her finger around a
tree while the boy shot it, inflicting slight
wound. She next made him take butcher
knife and cut II slight cash in her ear The
object Of all this was TO ward off suspicion,
and induce the belief that there had been a
quarrel between her and the old man. The
boy told all.