The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-11-27
THE NEWS.

Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, is spoken
OF as speaker of the next House of Represent
tatives.
President Jewctt of the Erie railroad,
gets $4,000 year for ten years. A good
position truly.
Twenty four men were killed by an cx-
plosion in Warren Vale coal mine, Yorkshire,
England, last week.
"A New York school teacher has been
held to bail in $500, on the charge of severe
ly Furnishing one of his scholars.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are
now running passenger and freight trains
through from Baltimore to Chicago.
-Twenty-seven hundred barrels of whis-
key were burned at Frankfort KY, last Fri
day night. 1t was insured for 100000
Tom. Hood, the only son of the author
of the "Song of the Shirt" is lead. He had
been editor of Fun" for considerable
time.
"A special train on the Morris and Essex
Railroad, n. D., recently ran IS miles in an
hour and twenty minutes including three
stops.
The whirligig of time brings its revenges.
Hon. G. p. Thompson, the gentleman who
laid Beast Butler in his political grave, is q
native OF Baltimore.
The Philadelphia blanket weavers are
on n strike, refusing to submit to q reduction
of 20 per cent. on their wages. They say
they will stand 10 per cent.
Shade Westmorcland was hung at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, last Friday, for the murder
of William Emberling in 1871. Five thous-
and persons witnessed the execution.
Five colored men have been elected to
the next Congress- Two are from South
Carolina, one from North Carolina, one from
Alabama and one from Louisiana One of
the South Carolnians is Democrat
G. T. Dusenberry, Treasurer of the State
Grange of Missouri, who used $50 900 of the
| Changers money in speculation, from which
he is unable to realize has, it is said, pledged
property to the grange ample to meet the
deficit.
The Frederick (Maryland) Union says
that the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line
Railroad will shortly pass into the hands OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
that the extension of the road to Washington
will ere long become fixed fact
The residence of the American mission
aries in Latakia, Syria, having been violated
by an armed force, the L. S. minister at Con.
stantinople had long interview with the
Turkish authorities, who promised full and
complete satisfaction if wrong had been
done.
MIR. Mullett, Supervising Architect Of
the Treasury Department at Washington has
resigned. He claimed to have charge of O
contingent fund" Of 100000, and said he
would sooner resign than not control its ex.
penditure. The Secretary of the Treasury
let him resign.
On Monday afternoon the city of Balti
more was visited by severe storm of wind
and hail, amounting TO perfect tornado
Many houses were unroofed, some half-built
structures demolished, and several persons
were injured. The greatest damage was in
the western and northwestern sections of the
city. The hurricane seems to have extended
over large area FROM the Lakes to the
Southern States. AT Tuscumba, Alabama
it was so severe as TO nearly lay the whole
city in ruins. Twelve lives were lost and q
number of persons injured. So many fami
lies have been left destitute that the mayor
of the city has appealed to the charity of the
public in behalf of the unfortunate.