The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-07-03


as the Spanish General NORM is about to
abandon certain interior towns, being unable
to protect them.
In an engagement on Sunday before Es-
tella, in Spain, between the Republican forces
and the Carlists General Concha the leader
of the Republican troops was killed. The
Republicans lost 1 500 killed and wounded
john E. Osborne was blown to atoms
last Friday near Parker city, Pa, by the eX-
plosion of Il hundred pound can of nitro. gly-
cerine, which he was transporting in n wagon.
The horse and wagon were annihilated.
AT Baden, Pa, on Friday, at barn
raising, about twenty men at work on a
scatfold were prccipitated to the ground by
the giving way of the supports They fell
about thirty feet. One man was killed. and
eleven Others were seriously injured
The japanese Government has prohibit
ted the expectation of rice and wheat beyond
seas after the list of August. The Chinese
Government has issued an edict against coun
tcrfeiting and adulterating of silk in bales or
manufactured for export.
SO great quantity of hail fell in the
great hail storm near Strasburg, Va, Il few
weeks ago that, according to q correspondent
of the Sun, banks of it laid on the ground for
two weeks, and was used by the people in
the ncighborhood who carried it away by
the basket full.
Near London, Canada, last Thursday, n
train of cars was thrown from the track by
the displacement of the rails and smashed in
Il terrible way. The object is supposed to
have been robbery. One train man was
killed, and several injured. The passengers
all escaped without injury.
On Saturday Gov. Groomc signed the
death warrants of Ernest Smith, colored,
convicted of an outrage in Talbot county,
and Chas. Henry Jones, colored, convicted
of the murder OF Edward Berry, eolored, in
February last in Baltimore. The executions
will take place on the It'll of August.
The New Jersey Midland Railroad hay-
ing been robbed lately of quantities offrcight
and metal, q special officer, guided by one of
the gang, went TO the rendezvous of the rob.
bers but was shot at by John Anderson, the
leader of the gang, and killed. Three of the
gang were lodged in Jail.
Three notorious burglars were arraetoa
last week while trying to break into the
Eighth Avenue Savings Bank in New York.
They had cut through brick wall and a
large slab of granite, and had n small steam
engine erected so rs to use steam drill to
bore through the iron walls of the safe.
A member of Congress, from Alabama,
named J. II. Sloss, on Sunday stood at his
window and shot George Il. Long, man
whom he had forbidden to visit his daughter,
and who had subsequently assailed the lady's
character, asserting that he had been on terms
of too great intimacy with her Long is not
expected to survive, and Sloss is in custody
of the sheriff.
In New York little over u month ago
a man named Mccormick was bitten by n
small dog. The dog was not known to be
mad, but Was taken to the pound and killed.
Last week MIR. Mccormick was taken with
pains in his limbs and had peculiar creeping
sensation coming up his back and spreading
over his shoulders and the back of his neck
His suffcrings increased and he finally died
in the most terrible paroXysms, his jaws
swapping and froth running out of his mouth
This is the second case of hydrophobia re-
ported in New York this summer
Justice is sometimes swift in Oregon,
even when administered according to law
A brawlng fellow named Gibbens fired a pis.
toll at a woman in Portland. An officer in.
terfrrcd, and Gibbons killed the officer The
next day, Monday, an inquest was held and
on Tuesday Gibbons was committed for trial
On Wednesday he was indicted, on Thursday
he was arraigDed, on Friday he was found
guilty, and on Saturday he was sentenced to
be hanged. 1t is almost needless to add that
he hadn't any money.
Another horrible case of death from Inv.
drophobia is reported at Flatbush, MY. A
printer named Van Guilder had q pet terrier
subject to fits. One day while the dog was
in paroxysm he took it up in his arms t.
soothe it, when the little creature recognized
him and licked his face, touching his lips
The dog died in his arms, but without any
signs OF hydrophobia. Half an hour after.
wards Van Glilder was seized with slight
CONFUSION, while washing his hands, and
within an hour and a-half was suffering from
thcworst symptoms ofhydrophobia. lie was
taken TO n hospital, but his paroxysms became
so terrible that physician and nurses fled
from the room, and locked the door. Fol
two hours, the account says, they remained
outside listening to the shrieks OF the dying
man. Then all was still, and when they
ventured TO open the door and look in the
floor was Uttered with broken glass and
shattered furniture, and in the midst of the
debris lay the lifelcss body of Van Guilder
his clenched hands and distorted features
bearing unmistakable evidence of the agony
in which he died.