The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
THE NEWS.
More outrages are reported in Cuba.

Six thousand men are out of employ
ment in Patterson, N. j.
The fee for registered letters, now 10
cents, is to he reduced to 8 cents in january.
twenty-five Indian chiefs, in full paint
and feather passed through Baltimore last
Saturday, en- route for Washington They
were from Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory.
AT Atlanta Ga, last Thursday night
Milton Malone, who was condemned TO be
hanged the next day, took morphine, and
died at 4 O'Clock, Friday, thus cheating the
gallows.
Judge Davis, who presided at the late
Tweed trial in New York, has fined Tweed's
counsel for contempt of court in presenting a
petition urging that he Davis was disquali-
fed from sitting in the case.
In the municipal election ut Mobile
Tuesday the entire Democratic ticket was
elected by from to 200 to 800 majority. Last
year the Republicans carried the city by
1000 out ola voting population of7,000.
The New York He1uM thinks that one
ofthc things we ought to he thankful for, is
the pleasant fact that Secretary Fish has
been prevented by public opinion from max
ing an apology to Spain in the Vrgnius af-
fair"
Another supposed case ofsuicide in Bal
timore last week was that ola German named
julius Schrche who was found dead in the
room of his lodging house, with bottle con.
tanning small quantity Of lau;lanum by his
side
There are forly-cight iron-cads in the
United States Navy, and it is said that not one
of them is ready for active service. 1t is
some consolation, however, to know, sug-
gests the Boston Past, that they have all got
war-likc names.
James II. ngcrsoll and John d. Earring
ton, Jr, two of Boss Twccd's ring" partners,
have been convicted and sentenced, the for
mer to five years Imprisonment at Sing Sing,
with hard labor, the latter to eighteen months
Imprisonment at the same place.
john Robinsons circus was attacked at
jacksonville Texas, ON the 23d of November,
and bloody fight took place in which three
Texans We're killed and seven wounded. A
number of the circus men were also wounded
by pistols and knives.
An effort will doubtless be made in
Congress to repeal the back pay bill. 1t is
not likely, however, to succeed but Il com
promise will perhaps be made by which the
members will be allowed to retain the back
pay, with some increase in the future over
their old salary of $4,000.
The immense railroad tunnel under
Church Hill, at Richmond, Va, has been
finished, and the trains of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad commenced running through
it on Monday. 1t Is said to be the largest and
longest tunnel i'll this country.
The Spanish warsteamer, ArapleS, re-
Gently undergoing repairs at New York, is
ready to receive her guns, and in few days
more will take her departure, Work upon
her was FASTENED through fear that the L. $
government would seize her i'll CAS-. the Vir.
giniua is not given up.
A young man named Charles W. Gross
salesman in the establishment of Oakturd
& Co, provision dealers Baltimore, commit
ted suicide last Saturday morning, by taking
strychnine. He had embe2zled about 81 ,00C
ofhi3 employers funds and was about TO be
arrested when he poisoned himself.
LII Montreal, Canada, man stole n bot
Tie from sleigh, aupposing il to be IL bottle
OF sherry, and treated the occupants nT til,
tenement house where he lived. 1t PROVED
to be wine Of colchicum, and caused the deall
of the man himself and seven other persons
and at last accounts five more Were in II pre-
carious condition from drinking it.
Still mothcr--On Saturday afternoon
Panl c. F. Shaeer, the keeper ola lager beer
saloon ON North Eutaw street, asked his wifi
to go out of the room for some purpose, ant
she had hardly left the apartment when SIN
heard pistol shot. fastening back she loun,
her husband had shot himself in the lief
temple with II revolver. The deceased hat
Uccll suffering ITtill CbHSuIl1llo lDT StNtI:l
years, and when in n Responding mood Ia,
frequently threatened to kill himself
On the morning Of the 23d of November
the steamship Vile du lIavrc, from Ncy
York for IIavrc, France, was run into by tn
British steamship Loeb Earn, and sunk il
twelve minutes. Out of 313 persons ON board
22G found watery grave The Loeb Ear
struck the steamer amidships making chasn
- feet deep and from % 10 80 feet wide
Both vessels are said to have been command
ed by competent officers, and no reason 70
the collision has been assigned except heav,
sea that prevailed at the time. After the col
lsion the Loeb Earn lowered her boats ant
picked up eighty of the unfortunat
survivors of the wreck The Loeb Earn wa
also so badly damaged that she was obligc,
to put back, having first transferred the res
cued persons to another steamer.
ASSEMBLING OF CONGREss.-T first Sos
sion of the Foriy-lhird Congress commence,
at Washington, ON Monday. Very few o