The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-04-03

was prosecuting divorce suit for Tyrrelrs
wife.
The new bounty bill passed by the Senate
gives nothing to soldiers who enlisted in
1861 for two years and received 800 after
their discharge. 1t benefits only those who
have not drawn any bounty
AT Blackshear, Ga, q young merchant
named Cole, was murdered by his uncle, the
postmaster of the village, named Carpenter
The latter owed Cole $3.50, and also expected
to administer upon his estate.
An effort is being made in New York to
raise funds for undertaking the recovery of
treasure said to have been sunk in Spanish
galleons in the harbor Vigo, Spain, in 1902,
by the combined English and Dutch fleets.
Col. Joseph Mayo, State Treasurer of
Virginia, has been arrested on the charge Of
embezzling $4,000 of the public funds. This
amount looks small in comparison with the
gigantic frauds pcrpetrated at Washington.
The Massachusetts Legislative convention
have ballotted number of times for U. S.
Senator to take the place of the late Sena-
tor Sumner, but a choice has not yet been
made. Dawes seems to be ahead followed
closely by IToar and Curtis
The mayor Of Cincinnati has prohibited
the temperance crusaders from obstructing
the sidewalks, although his proclamation
does not prohibit their assembling in the pub
lie squares and in saloons, with the consent
of the proprietors.
-Chappell Bros Chemical and Fertilizer
Works, at Baltimore, were destroyed by fire
on Friday night Of last week, involving loss
of 100000, but insured for $104,250. This
was the second fire that has occurred on the
same spot within the past four years.
Another victim from coal oil is reported
in Baltimore A colored girl, eight years old,
undertook to expedite the kinding of fire
bypouring coal oilupon the wood and flames.
The result was an explosion of the oil can,
the injury and subsequent death of the girl.
AT Poughkoepsie, N. Y, on Sunday
Martin McCue with his wife and baby was
driving on board ferry boat, when the horse
backed until all went overheard Mrs. Nc
Cue was struck by the horse and killed the
babe was drowned, and Mr. McCue was with
difficulty rescued.
News comes from Havana that inccndi-
AIRY fires are raging all over the island Many
lives and much property have been destroyed,
and all the efforts ofthe Government to de.
tect aud arrest the perpetrators who are sup.
posed to be insurgents, have thus far been
unsuccessful
Horace Greeley's estate will prove much
more valuable than has been supposed In
stead of being worth but $4,000 or $4,000,
as was thought a short time after his death,
it probably represents value Of about $685.
000-quite enough TO render his daughters
comfortablc.--,St. Louis Democrat
In Labette county, Kansas, Il man named
Pierce accused his fathcr-u-law, Anthony
Amen, of having circulated n report that he
Pierce) had tried to smother his own child,
and then drew Il revolver and shot Amen
dead Pierce was arrested, when about one
hundred men assembled, took him to tree
by the roadside and hanged him
The workmen on the Erie railroad at
Susquehanna depot, Pa, have struck for their
pay. On Saturday last they had possession
of the entire works and tracks The sheriff
with posse of forty men was powerlcss to
dislodge them, and travel was suspended on
the road. In this emergency, the sheriff tel
egraphed to the Governor for 1900 military,
and Sunday 500 State troops arrived on the
scene. A compromise was arranged between
the strikers and the company, by which the
former were to get the money due them, and
allow the trains to run.
"A large delegation of butchers and 9TH
ers visited Annapolis on Monday, to protest
against the passage by the Legislature Oft
bill known as the "Abattoir hilI," This was
grand scheme that if it had been allowed to
pass, would have created one of the greatest
mouopolics Baltimore city has ever known.
1t provided for q public slaughter house,
where all the meat consumed in the city was
to be slaughtered; and also where all the cat
tie, horses, &c, were to be sold. The project
was brilliant one, indeed for its inventors,
but the Legislature snuiled it out.
THE RAILROAD BIII4-In the State Sen
ate on Monday the House bill authorizing
the Commissioners of Hartford county to
subscribe toa certain railroad passing through
the county, was reported favorably, in an
amended form, and passed. Instead of II
county subscription in money, directly, the
bill now provides for the endorsement of the
bonds by the county to the amount of $780,
000 to be first secured to the satisfaction of
the county commissioners, by first mortgage
on the road. On account Of the amendment
the bill must Of course go back to the House
for its action. The adjournment of the Legis
lalule is 50 near at hand that it is doubtful lift
can be pushed through, amid the the mass OF
unfinished business accumulated at the close
OF the session. Even if it should pass both
Houses and receive the approval of the Gov.
ernor, it must first lie ratified by the next
Legislatures and after such ratification, tho
matter is still left entirely in the hands Of the
County Commissioners, who can subscribe
to the proposed railroad or not, as they may
deem proper. Considerable feeling exists in
regard to the matter in the county, The citi
zens Of the districts through which the road
would pass being generally in favor of the
county subscription, while those who are re-
mote from the proposed line are strongly OPP,
posed to it. If the bill passes, the question
will doubtless enter largely into the elements
of the political campaign for the genera
election in 1875.
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