The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-07-11
To correspondents.
THE NEWS.


"A Farmers Grange has been organized
in Berks county, Pa.
Captain Jack and his Modoc braves are
to be tried by military commission.
Distinct earthquake shocks were felt at
Buffalo, N. Y, last Sunday morning.
"A new comet has been discovered by OBJ
servers at Vienna, Austria.
Rev. Father Kelley, a Catholic priest,
died of apoplexy, while bathing in the surf at
Atlantic City, N. j., last week.
The execution of Levin Palmer, convic-
ted of rape, will take place at Towsontown,
on the same day.
james West, a colored man under SEN
tencc of death in Baltimore city Jail, for the
murder of his mistress, ANNA Gbson on the
18th of last March, is to be hanged on the 22d
ofAugust.
Young Walworth, the mice young man"
who murdered his father, has been convicted
of murder in the second degree and sentenced
to Imprisonment for life.
The steamer City of Washington, from
Liverpool for New York, went ashore seven
ty miles west of Cape Sambro. Saturday after
noon in bog, and will prove total loss
The passengers and crew were saved.
"A party, consisting of a man, a woman
and child who ventured on the river in boat
near Niagara Falls on Sunday afternoon, are
supposed to have been swept over the Falls
aut4zlost, The young man and girl were to
have been married, the child being her broth
or.
The New York Daily Graphic company
have appropriated $4,000 to build NAM
moth balloon, in which Profs. Wise and Don
aldson expect to make a trip to Europe
They expect to be only three days in making
the voyage. The Graphic is 10 be furnished
with the exclusive account of the trip. lfit
should be success, it will probably inaugu
rate new era in aerial navigation.
On Friday and Saturday of last week a
succession ofterrific storms swept over large
portion of the West, causing serious loss of
life and great destruction of property. Trees
We're uprooted, houses unroofed telegraph
poles Frustrated, and thousands of acres of
corn f1attened down and dirt washed on it so
that it cannot rise. In many places railroad
track S wsslNaYqshed up, and serious loss caused
by freshets. The storm extended over por-
tons of Indiana, Ohio, Missori, Iowa and
Wisconsin.
Recently near Adamstown, Pa, two men
were at work in q field moving, when one
of them suddenly raised his scythe and ran it
through and through the body of his compan.
ion. The wounded man deliberately drew
the scythc out and fell down in faint. He
died in short time. The murderer remark
cd, as his victim fell 81 knew I'd do it.
The devil was in me and had to come out"
The man who committed the deed has been
subject to crazy fits all his life, and imagined
that he was possessed of a devil.
On Friday afternoon violent tlmnde
storm swept over portion of Massachusetts,
the lightning striking church at Andover,
where an Grafton was being delivered stun
ming the speaker and another person, both of
whom recovered in few minutes. At Tuf-
tenboro, N. H., the house of Mrs. Drew was
struck by lightning and the lady instantly
killed At Kingston, N. Y, man and his
son at work in field were struck by light
ming, and the young man also instantly killed.
At Long Branch and other points the storm
was unusually severe.
"A terrible domestictragedy occurred about
seven miles from Winchester, Va, on Satur-
day morning last, at the residence of Frank
lin Little, in which six brothers were involved.
1t seems that they had been at variance for
some time, and on the morning i'll question
two Of them, Oscar and Lycurgus, entered the
breakfast room where their mother and four
brothers were seated at breakfast, and locked
the door, one of them putting the key in his
pocket. Taking seats they told their brother
Clinton, not to interfere with what they were
about TO do, and upon his starting up, they
drew their reviewers and fired at the party at
the table, severely wounding their mother
and Clinton. The fight then became general
all the brothers, except one, being wounded,
The two men who started the ARRAY manag-
ed to get out of the house, but were fired at
by those in the house and Oscar wounded
captured and lodged in Jail. Clinton died in
few hours from the wound inflicted by his
bother Lycurgus The mother is also in a
cri teal condition.