The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-05-22
THE NEWS.

1hE NEWS.
"A negro has been nominated for Congress
in the I'd district of North Carolina.
The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Com
pany, of Scranton, Pa, has suspended work,
thus throwing about 700 men out of employ
mcnt.
Two hundred acres Of land were recent.
ly sold in Florida at five cents an acre. 1t
was probably of the same character as the
Frcnchmans water lots.
"A number of American Roman Catho-
lie pilgrims for Lourdes, France, sailed from
New York last Saturday. The party EN-.
braces about one hundred persons.
AT Cumberland Md, on Monday, VIM,
r. McCulley, Republican, was elected mayor,
Six Democrats and six Republican city con-
cilmcn were elected.
Last Friday, near Marion, seven miles
n from Crisfeld, Md II. j. johnson fired at
and instantly killed George W. Hall. The
shooting is said to have been in selfdefen sc.
President Grant has issued proclama-
ton declaring Elisha Baxter the lawful Gov
crnor of the State of Arkansas, and comman-
ding those opposed TO him to disperse. The
event, it is said caused great rejoicing at
Little Rock.
Hon. james c. Clarke, formerly Prcsi-
dent of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Com
pany, has resigned the Third Vice Presiden,
cy of the Erie Railroad Company, and &C
cepted the position of General Manager Of
the same road.
The grand jury of 0rangcburg county,
S. c., have indicted Governor Moses, of
that State, for breach of trust and grand lar
ccpy. Moses first refused to be arrested, but
afterwards submitted, and gave heavy bonds
for his appearance to answer the charge.
Forty three praying temperance women
were arrested in front of a saloon in Cincin-
natl on Saturday, by the police, and taken TO
station house, from which they were releas,
ed on parole to appear at the Police Court
Several of them were the wives ofclcrgymen
~ = Weston, the great pedestrian, who under
took, last week, to walk 500 miles in six con-
secutve days, did not quite accomplish the
feat, having finished 430 miles in the allotted
time Even this is an unparalleled feat and
must have required the most astonishing
powers of endurance.
"A new and beautiful charity has been
organized in Baltimore city. 1t is called the
"Flower Mission" and is in charge of kind
hearted ladies of the city, who receive con-
tributions of flowers, which are taken to the
hospitals, orphan asylums, the sick bedsides
of the poor, &c. refreshing by their presence
the lonely and suffering, and encouraging
them to believe that they are thought of and
cared for by those more fortunate in the pos
session of health and wealth.
BY the breaking of three large reservoirs
above Williamsburg, Mass, on last Saturday
morning, an immense food of water swept
down upon the manufacturing Villages of
Williamsburg, Haydcnvile Leeds and Flor,
ence, carrying away factories mills and tene-
ment houses and drowning one hundred and
fifty men, women and children Two mil
lion dollars worth ofproperiy was destroyed.
The cause of the disaster was the weakness
of the wall of one of the reservoirs.
Three prisoners broke out of Towson-
town Jail early Sunday morning They were
James Ii. Harker, the notorious hcn-roost
robber, VIM. II. Ashton, indicted for stealing
horses and Jack Hamilton, indicted for
check raising. They were captured on the
cars between Perrymansvlle and Havre de
Grace, on Sunday evening, having gotten on
at the former place, whittier they had walk
ed after their cscape-a distance of nearly
fifty miles They were taken back to Tow
sontown.
Hon. STEVENSON ARCuER.-Our Ffreside
Friend, published at Chicago, Illinois, pub
fishes sketch of the Hon. Stevenson Archer,
of this county, from which the following
extracts are taken:
Among the Democrats of the House,
Hon. Stevenson Archer, of Maryland is very
greatly esteemed by all familiar with Con-
gress, and all who have the pleasure of know
ing him personally. y He is a
very quiet man, and is less known to the
country than many members that make much
more noise and do far less service to their
constituents or the nation. He is srnan of
very decided convictions, and lz1ows how to
advocate them with power, and at the same
time with courtesy to his opponents. Mr.
Archer is a member of the Committee on
Naval Affairs, and is thoroughly acquainted
with our navy and with the dire necessities
of our commercial marine. A report recent
ly made to the House by sub committee, of
which Mr.. Archer was member, upon the
subject of the rehabilitation of American
shipping, was the most valuable and instruc-
tive document which has been submitted to
the Forty.Third Congress.
Mr.. Archer is q pleasing speaker, at most
times deliberate, rather slow in utterance,
but subject to bursts of more animated, some
times even vehement expression. He is,
however, never rude or ungcntlemanly"