The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-09-10
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd, sEPTFMBERl1O, 1880.
Condensed News.

1t Is stated that Postmaster General Maynard
will investigate the Star Route contracts.
The Democrats of Arkansas carried the
State election, on Monday, by 10000 majority.
"A floating tank on the Volga, containing
kerosene oil, has exploded killing thirty per-
sons. ..t,..
Vermont has gone for the Republicans again
by On increased majority Ephraim in Joined to
his idols.
-Four persons were overcome and two
died from the effects of heat in Baltimore,
on Sunday.
"A woman was stoned to death in Providence
by boys with whom she demonstrated for abus-
ing their mother.
SO abundant is the apple crop this year that
the total yield is estimated at not much less
than two hundred millions of bushels.
"A police officer was murdered in San Fran
cisco by a man he was arresting, who was also
killed by the officer. Two other murders occur
cd, both about a waiter girl in saloon.
The steamer Vera Cruz on her way from
New York to Mexico, by way of Havana, found
cred at sea last week, in terrible cyclone
which swept over the Gulf of Mexico and the
adjacent waters. Gen. A. T. A. Torbert, of
Delaware was among the the passengers, nearly
all OF whom, with the officers and crew, perish
ed.
The steam boiler of the saw, planning and
grist mill of l.. j. Traitor, at Petersburg, Va,
exploded, last Saturday. The buildings were
wrecked. Wiley Bats and Edward White
hurst, employees, we're blown distance of
forty yards by the force of the explosion. The
latter was fatally injured and the former seri-
ously SO.
A LIE WELL STUCK To-The newspapers
which copied and keep standing at the head of
their columns the forged extracts from Wade
Hampton's Staunton.speech prefer to continue to
utter the counterfeits, although Senator Hamp-
ton has exposed the fraud and put them in pos
session of the genuine article. "a lie well stuck
to Is as good as the TRUTH" is their MOTTO
Wade Hampton now writes another denial, and
adds in a despairing tone: "What good to deny
this story to instantly be confronted with
more desperate fabrication? Is my whole re-
cord since the close of the and all my efforts
for better understanding between the sections
broad and downreaching tor the union--to be
frittered away by the forgeries of an obscure
newspaper writerY | neither used the words at
trlbuted to me nor anything approaching them
In meaning. am perpleXed and almost discour-
aged" What good, indeed! Senator Hamp-
ton fairly appeals to his record in this matter
He was the first man of prominence in the South
to call his emancipated negroes together and
advise them as to their political responsibilities
He was among the first to accept negro suffrage
and in South Carolin and throughout the
South he has been the most foremost advocate
of q cordial acceptance of all the results of the
war and the most scrupuous regard for the
civil and political rights of the colored men,
He has done more by precept and example to-
wards a restoration of the Union sentiment than
oil OF the Longstreets and Mosbys, upon whom
the bounty of the government has been shower
ed, put together. But 1t il considered the fair
thing in politics to represent him as still
blatant REBEL fighting the war over and plan
ming new rebellion, and he will have to get
used to 1t.