The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-04-17

A st. Louis young lady walked in her sleep
the other night, and was just about to kill her
sister with a common table-knife, when her
hand was caught by servant. For weeks
before this occurrence the general appearance
of things in the morning-open doors, dis
placed furniture, etc., led the family to believe
that some one wandered around the house
during the night. A watch was consequently
kept, and the servants on guard the first night
fortunately awake, and prevented horrible
tragedy. The somnambulist is romantic
novel-reading young lady, and entertains no
ill-will whatever against her sister. She had
but recently returned from boarding school,
and it is believed her attempt to murder dur
ing her sleep was caused by the effect upon
her mind of the relation of some such deed
in o novel, and that she has been somnam-
bulist for many weeks admits of no doubt.
CHICAGO, observs Cincinnati observer, is
always titillating itself with large ideas. Its
last conception is the widening of State Street
to the extent of thirty feet, making its new
width one hundred and ten feet Whole
blocks are to be raised and ''slid back to the
new sites, and less than dozen existing
structures need to be cut away and destroyed"
The wooden shanties twill be rolled back as
easily as q childrens bedstead"
Two Negroes in Texas, falling in love with
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fight duel, she having promised to reward
with her hand and heart the conquerer. A
squad ofidle soldiers constituted themselves
as seconds took the two lovers into the woods,
armed them with muskets, and put them
twenty PAGES apart. 1t seems that one ofthe
principals had loaded his musket with an I'M
mense lodd of powder and a handful ofmusket
balls When his gun fired everything fell
before him. He killed his adversary, woun-
ded four of his seconds, and had his own
breastworks severely injured.
A marriage ceremony recently came to
rather abrupt termination, in Providence,
Rhode Island, in consequence of the to-be
bride putting in stipulation that the to-be
bridegroom should thenceforth eschew his
cigar. The young man very sensibly replied
that he could get along very much more COM
fortably without a wife than he could with
out his weed, and consequently the proposed
marriage ended in smoke.
The Fenians of California are active in
keeping up the organization and collecting
funds, and the State Head Centre is about to
start on tour of inspection of the various
Fenian organizations in the interior 1t is
said that the organization is to be placed on
a war footing here, with view of joining in
an intended movement with practical results.
The Sacramento Union says that some por
tions of Her Majesty's dominions constitute
an objective point.
Several of the judges of the election held in
Frederick county, Md, in 1866, have been
fined $50, each for refusing to receive the
votes of certain parties who presented their
ballots on the day of election
William Donavon was executed in York
recently for the murder of the Squibb fami-
y He died protesting his innocence of the
crime.
The New York Express thinks the young
ladies have suddenly become musical, as each
carries a brass band on her head.
Texas is reported to have five million head
of cattle at present. and to be perfectly will
ing to supply the entire country with beef and
hides
A pipe recently sunk to the depth of forty
feet, near the levee, in New Orleans, has since
been constantly emitting gas.
There is to be a grand base ball tournament
at Niagara Falls in May.
A Scotchman sent dispatch TO the Presi-
dent recently, from Edinburgh, advising him
to resign. He had the polteness to pay for
his message. 1t cost him over $100
A Radical writer calls Butler "slver-
tongued," Wonder if there is any covert al
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