The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-04-10

The frost has been unusually severe at st.
Petersburg this winter. The mercury fell to
80 below zero. A great many hack drivers
were frozen on their boxes, gas everywhere
was frozen, dogs yelped as if the pavement
was burning their feet, horses ran away in
terror at the intensity Of the cold, the Grand
Dukes distributed tea in front of their palaces,
furnaces were kept burning in some of the
streets; the city seemed deserted; nobody who
could help it ventured out of doors and
eighteen persons died of cold in one night.
Thomas Hanlon, one of the Hanlon
Brothers, gymnasts, was arrested in Harris
burg last Friday, for drunkenness, but was
found to be insane, and discharged. Shortly
afterwards he was again arrested for attempt
ing to murder three boys accompanying
them, and was placed in the county prison,
where, this afternoon, he attempted to COM
init suicide by throwing his head violently
and repeatedly against an iron pipe in his
cell. Six men were required to secure him.
when he was bound down and his wounds
dressed.
Sergeant Bates, who has been travelling
through the Southern States, carrying
United States flag, as he laid a wager he
could do without molestation from the Mis-
sissippi to Washington, seems to have nearly
finished his task, having arrived safely at
Raleigh, North Carolina. Instead of being
assailed, or even annoyed, the old soldier has
received marked demonstrations of respect
courtesy and hospitality from the Southern
people all along the line of his extended
march.
A bold robbery took place at Scituate
Rhode Island, recently. -Four men went to
the house of the Scituate National Bank, en-
tered the bed chamber, and after binding the
cashier and his wife, went away. Finding
they could not open the vault, they returned
and forced the cashier to go back with them
to the bank and open the vault which they
robbed of twenty-five thousand dollars and
valuable papers, and returning to Providence
took the train for Boston.
At Scranton, Pa, Tuesday week, plat
form containing seventeen men was precipi-
tated to the bottom of coal shaft, distance
of one hundred and eighty-five feet Eleven
men, were instantly killed, one has since
died, and two others are fatally injured The
accident makes eleven widows and twenty
eight orphans.
An Englishman lately called at one of the
Paris postoffices to inquire how much it
would cost to send him home TO England by
mail. He was weighed, and the calculation
was S,638 francs The sum was counted out,
but the clerks objected to sending this new
species of parcel, the police being called, the
gentlemen was taken to his hotel as insane.
For the last three or four years the water
in Lake Erie has been gradually getting low
er, and now, at several points along the
shore the lake is at least six inches lower
than year ago Old inhabitants say that
the water in Lake Erie rises 70 seven years
and then falls seven years.
The latest gift enterprise scheme is one
just started the following is a copy of the
ticket "Rafle for the wife of Thoma Doyle,
at VOLTS Hall, Court St., on Monday, March
80, 1868. This woman is good housekeep-
er, and is willing to stay with any one who
may draw her. Tickets twenty-five cents"
Bogus lawyers of New York are, it is said
taking advantage of the general indignation
against gift enterprise swindlers to scatter cir
culars offering to collect claims against these
lottery men. Those who respond are twice
gulled
ly called on, before breakfast to marry four
couples. There is only one young man left
in the place, and he will doubtless soon be
caught
This is the year for the return of the seven
teen-year locusts. 1t is said that they can
now be found at the depth of four or five feet,
making their way steadily toward the surface
of the ground.
Vanderbilt is supposed to be worth S72,-
} 100000. A large proportion of his means are
invested in railroad stocks and securities.
Weston, the pedestrian, is again on the
track, and proposes to walk from Erie Pa,
to Buffalo, one hundred miles, in twenty -four
hours.
DR.. Beckwish, Protestant Episcopal Bish-
OPP elect of Georgia, was consecrated in Sa-
vannah on the I'd inst.
The Susquehanna River is now in fine con-
dition for rafting, end number of RATS have
left the upper timber region.
The Ku KluX Khan derives its name from
the click OF the gun. 1t means shoot on
sight.
Boston match manufacturer paid the
government last year 100000 for one cent
stamps.
A catfish was caught in the Mississippi
river, near Alton, the other cday weighing
1875 pounds
Louisville has trotting Baule which Is
said TO have made n mile in 2;2t.