The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-04-17
THE NEWS.

"A llttle girl IN New York jumped the
rope 300 times in succession, and was found
dead in her bed the next morning
Evil Lowenstein, German barber, of
New York. was hanged at Albany, on the
7th instant, for the murder Of Il man named
Weston, whom he robbed
w lilam Grace, an aged citizen, who re-
sided in Elk Neck, fell into Carrots Cove,
an inlet of the North East river near Red
Point, on the 7th instant, and was drowned
MIR. Hugh Bolton, senior member of the
firm ofHugh Bolton * Co., dealers in glass
oils and paints, del on the 9th in the 10Th
year of his age, at his late residence, in Bal
timore. He sustained high character in ali
the relations of life
Julius Spero, of jersey City, cpnvic'rd
of receiving stolen goods, was sentenced in
the Hudson county c'uIt, lately, tn fifly-two
years imprisonment in the the State prison
Spero tainted when the sentence was pro-
nouncCd.
Jean Luie and Capt. Brown, witnesses
for the impostcr Norton, in the great Itch
borne trial, at London, have been tried and
convicted Of perjury, and sentenced to five
and seven years penal servitude respectively.
The steamer Tigress, of the Polaris ex-
petition, while seal fishing. exploded her
boiler, killing two engineers and twenty of
her crew. A number of the men were lying
on top of the boiler for warmth when it ex-
ploded, hurrying them into eternity.
j II. Breckenridge, student at the law
school of Nashville, Tenn, and son of the
late Dr. J. II. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
was shot and killed by Young man named
Anderson, last week. The difficulty origina-
ted about some tritling matter Both parties
had been drinking during the day
The House of Representatives on Mon
day passed the bill for the restoration of free
circulation of newspaper exchanges, and for
the free circulation of papers in the counties
where published. This is thought to lie IL
step towards the restoration of the franking
privilege.
The steamship Hbtrnan, which arrived
at Baltimore ON Monday from Liverpool, re.
ports that the ice bcrgs met were larger and
more numerous than were ever before seen
by the Oh 'si s'i o!S, and they have also been
| found sev"Ta! hrDartd miles farther cast
than has ever been known before. This
may account for the recent cold weather.
In Baltimore, on Monday, during II cir
Gus procession, number Of boys were teas
ing lion and lioncss by pokng sticks through
the bars Of their cage. Finally one of them
pushed II boy not engaged in their sport
against the cage, when the liont IS Sprang at
him and caught his head with her DAVIS,
tearing the scalp from his head and inllcing
dangerous wound.
A curious story comes from California
about II great number of wild geese having
been killed by lightning during a terrible
thunder storm that passed over the locality.
The geese were feeding at the time in shall
low ponds ofwater. They were found with
their heads torn, bills split TO fragments, the
feathers Of their backs crispcd and burnt, and
their bodies burst open.
"A saloon keeper in Boston was visited
by band Of praying ladies, and ON hearing
the scriptures read relating to the anger OF
the Lord with drunkards and those who sell
liquor, the proprietor turned pale, lrembletl
Violently and clutched the counter for sup
port. On being led into another room he
cried several times, 20 Lord have mercy on
my SOUL and died in a short time.
Tho benevolent Mr.. Bergh, in New
York, last week rescued from u pair of mon.
sters i'll human form, Il little girl, seven or
eight years old, when the man and woman
had taken To raise. The Treatment the
frlcndlcss little waif received was worse than
that given TO II dog She was beaten with Il
cowhide, starved, allowed to go half naked
and brutally treated in every way. The
lnhuman pair were arrested and will be tried
for their crime.
| AT Mount Vernon, Illinois, Mrs. Wilson
accompanied by her sister, went to a drug
store where her husband drank his bittcls
under prescription from n doctor, and de-
manded the prescription from the clerk. lie
refused to surrender it, whrreupon Mrs
Wilson pointed Il revolver at his head and
threatened 10 blow his brains out The
clerk advised her TO go for the doctor, which
she did, and under the persuasion of the
loaded revolver, he revoked the prescription
In New York DR.. Ernest UIing has been
arrested on The charge of cntleavoiing to de
fraud life INSURANCE company. 1t appear,
that in June, 1873, Uiing and Miss Germs
procured joint lie insurance policy for
$4,000, payable in lhe event Of death, to the
survivor Lat,l, Uling certified that Miss
Germs had died, and claimed The insurance.
The company suspected something was
wrong, and had the supposed body cxhumed,
when tie coffin was found to contain lot of
bricks. uling was arrested, and the police
are after his accomplice.
The French steamer Europe, from Hay
II for New York, was abandoned at sea, on
the I'd of April, the officers crew and passen.
gers being taken On board the steamer Greece,
fr' m Liverpool for New York. The captain
OF The French sicantrierorltd that his vessel
was in sinking condition, but boats crew
tiom the other vessel saw no cause for aban-
doning the ship, and the captain of the
Liverpool steamer accordingly put crew on
board to save the vessel, his own ship carry
ing the officers, crew and passengers of tie
Europe.
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How Sweden Solves the Liquor Problem.
The only sensible attempt to solve the prob
lem of The liquor traffic that we know of is
the Swedish one. Till recently every fumi-
| lY In Sweden could distill their own brandy