The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-06-12

Two powder mills near Newburg, N. Y,
containing 10000 pounds of powder, ex-
ploded on the morning of the 3D. Instant
Only one person, German named Adam
Schosser, was killed.
He was undoubtedly blown high in air,
some suppose 1000 feet. His head and
shoulders were found five hundred yards
from the spot where the explosion occurred,
mangled and torn beyond recognition. An
arm was found lodgedin the crotch of
tree, while for the distance'of quarter of
mile pieces of flesh and bone and parts of
his limbs were found stfewn along the
ground and hanging to limbs of trees. All
the parts found were collected and placed
in barrel and a coroner's inquest held over
about two-thirds of the body. The scene
is described as being fearfully grand.
Huge sticks of timber were thrown
through the air for quarter of mile, small
trees were uprooted and hurled long dis
lance, while larger and older trees were en-
tirely stripped of leaves and branches, and
their trunks blackened and charred. At
the foot of the trees numbers of dead birds
were found, having been instantly killed by
the powerful shock.
A few days ago white boy, about Is
years old, made his appearance in Kilbourn
City, Wisconsin, and said he had just es-
capped from a band of Indians who were
prowiing around that neighborhood. He
said his father, mother, brothers and sisters
were butchered at the time of the Indian
massacre in Minnesota in 1862, and that he
was taken prisoner and had been kept with
them ever since. He is unable to remem-
Der the names of any of his other relatives.
He says his family formerly lived in Oswc-
go County, New York.
A very subtle and terribly fatal disease is
now raging among the cattle in some por-
tions of Illinois. Over one hundred head
have fallen victims to it within the past
few days. 1t usually kills in few hours.
No premonitory warnings are given, and
although all the skill in possession of ordi-
nary practitioners has been brought to bear
upon it, it yields to no remedy or treatment,
and is fatal in every instance. Its name
and nature have not yet been determined.
When gold was worth $3.50 in green
backs Ben. Butler, military commander,
seized 100000 in New Orleans, sent it to
New York and undoubtedly sold it, realiz-
ing $17S,000 in greenbacks. The owner
of the gold sued Butler, got judgment, and
Butler, honest soul, paid the judgment in
greenbacks, making only hundred and
eight thousand dollars by the transaction.
Butler is an acknowledged leader of the
''party of moral ideas"
1t will be remembered that few weeks
since the Hon. Chas Dudley, member of the
Iowa General Assembly, lost three of his
children by being burned up in his house
A correspondent thus speaks of his afflic-
tions: ga few years ago his wife awoke
him in the night and told him she was dy-
ing, and before he could light lamp she
was dead about the same time one of his
sons was drowned; last October another
was killed by runaway team, and now
three promising boys have died horrible
deaths.
A woman in Boston not long since, while
sewing, pricked the thumb of her right
hand with the eye end of needle. She
thought nothing of it at first, but it soor
began to swell. A doctor was called, -and
after much poulticing and lancing, it was
hand, and this operation was consequently
performed. 81
On Wednesday the Philadelphia Pres
said the Democratic victory in Washington
was owing to the presence of returned reb
els On Thursday the same paper discov
ers that the Democrats were not victorious
but don't state what has become of those
terrible rebels.
.FoRNEY's REsIaNATIoN.-Thu thu
resignation of the notorious Forney as Sec
rotary of the U. s. Senate was accepted
and George G.. Gorham, of California, wa
elected in his place.