The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-02-06
To correspondents.
THE NEWS.

The death of DR.. David Livingstone
in the interior of Africa has been officially
confirmed.
Noah Walker, the well-known clothicl
of Baltimore city, died on Tuesday morning
in the 10th year of his age.
A project is again on foot to build rail,
j road from Philadelphia to New York, in CD.
!. position to the Pennsylvania Central This
would give it is avelred, TO the Baltimore
and Ohio an independent connection with
New York.
Society chat in Washington has for a
leading topic the approaching marriage of
Miss Nellie Grant, daughter of the President,
to Mr.. Sartoris. The wedding will come
of il; the spring Lieut.. Fred Grant, it is
also said, will at the same time be married to
Miss Kitty Cooke, neice of Jay Cooke.
"A railroad train on the Iron Mountain
Railroad, 1870 miles below st. Louis, was
stopped last Saturday by five heavily armed
and masked men, who placed the engineer,
fireman and other train men under guard,
and proceeded to rob the passengers and the
express car. The robbers secured over SEQ
600, after which they left and allowed the
train to proceed
The San Francisco CH1oniclo publishes
an account of horrible scene that transpir-
Ell at Matanzas, on the 23d of January, at
the execution of an cd man named Marshall
Martin, convicted of murder. When the
Ipnn foil tbn hply- oF 10
shot downward with so much force that the
head was entirely severed from the body, and
rolled away Like a foot ball The headlcss
body fell to the ground like u lump of lead,
death being instantaneous. The details of
the spectacle are revolving in the extreme.
The New York Tribune claims to have
come into possession Of documents gravely
affecting high officials. II proposes to make
thorough Investigation, and if tic facts al
legged are true will proceed to lay them bare.
The Cuban patriots are in high spirits
over the news of defeats and disasters to the
Spanish troops, and acccssions to the patriot
forces. The Cubans having captured the
town of Manzanillo, a Spanish man-ofwal
has gone thither to lombard it,
In the L. S. Senate Senator Carpenter
has made great speech on the Louisiana
question He takes the ground that neither
Kellogg nor McEnery were legally elected
and urges new election. President Gran
-- A4ir44fpeafsto have changed base in the affair
and is now, it is asserted, in favor of Sena
tors Carpenters remedy-a new election
Grant evidently has q desire to make friend
with the Southern people, if he can. Wheth
er this is for the purpose of attaining his owl
selfish ends or as q matter Of t tyer4Es ia9sstive
time will determine.
A mass meeting was held at the Concor
dia Opera House, Baltimore, on Thursday
night OF last week, TO give expression to The
sentiment of Maryland in fuvorofthc ccnten
NAL celebration of American independence
at Philadelphia in 1876. Governor Whytt
was chosen President, with II large list o
vlcc-presidcnts, including Hon. Stevenson
Archer of Hartford county. Resolutions wer,
adopted pledging the aid of Maryland in til,
object proposed, Speeches were made b,
General Hawley, of Connecticut, Senate
Bayard, of Delaware, cX-Gov. Bigler, of Penn
sykania, Hon. \. r. Botclcr, of Va, and OK
major Vaux, of Philadelphia. The attend
ancc was large and the enthusiasm great.