The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-11-20
THE NEWS.

| Ill SAluUullltt Itul CSluJC IS llClll per CcHI
higher than before the election.
The Rev. T. U. Dudley, Jr., rector OF
Christ Episcopal Church, Baltimore, has been
elected assistant Bishop of Kentucky, tC
succeed Bishop Cummns.
1t is stated that the long-l0st Charley
Ross has been traced to st. GATHERINGS, Ont
where he was taken by woman and hel
daughter. The woman is under arrest, and
the police are searching for the daughter
Governor Baxter, of Arkansas having
resigned, the recently elected Governor
Garland-on Saturday entered upon his du-
ties. Smith, the Republican Lieutenant GOV,
ernor, claims that he is Governor, and has
appealed TO tho President to interfere in his
behalfand support him with military force
WIN. E. Undertook, convicted of the
murder Of w. S. Goss, near West Chester
Pa, on the 1st of July, 1873 was hung on
| Thursday of last week. He made no public
confession of his guilt, but upon one of his
| spiritual advisers saying to him, "UddcrZook
you are n guilty man," he did not deny it and
tactly admitted that he was.
Near Salisbury, n. c., last Friday, two
negroes entered The house of an old man to
rob it. He refused to give up his money
when one of the negroes fired, wounding the
gentleman, aged above 80 years, attacked the
negro with spade, and the first blow struck
him on the head, penetrated his brain and
killed him.
In Missouri, constable and posse OF
four men were taking james M. League, q
horse thief, to Jail, when they were attacked
by four masked men, who shot the horse thief
in The back, and taking him from the con-
stable they tied him to u horse, which took
fright and ran through the woods, followed
| by II mob, who kept up II rambling fire
Leagues clothes were torn from his body
and he was horribly mulilated by The brush,
| The constable rescued him alive, and his
! wounds are not considered fatal
AT Oxford, Pa, on Sunday, November
1st a little boy four years old, named Milf
fin Griffith, was crushed to death by dead
fall erected in the street on I1allow Eve night
by six boys. The trap consisted of the heavy
floor of n lime box, eight feet square, which
had been reared up on its end in the middle
of the street. OF course they did not intend
to kill any one with this trap; but they should
be punished sufficiently to deter them and
others from INDUCING in the future in such
dangerous and silly practices.
Rev John w. Gerdemann, formerly pas
tor of Roman Catholic church. in Philatlel-
phia, has been arrested in Baltim ,rc, on the
charge of embezzling funds of the church
For some time previous to his flight he had
engaged at times in buying and selling stocks
using, it is charged, money entrusted to his
hands by members Of his congregation. Fall.
| ing in love with young lady, he determin-
ed TO marry her and quit the priesthood. Ac.
cordingly they were married, and were on
the point of sailing for Europe when the ar,
rest was made.
The splendid steamer Louisiana, of the
old Bay line, running bciw cen Baltimore and
| Norfolk, was run into, on Saturday morning
last by the Charleston steamer Falcon, near
/ the mouth of tie Potomac river. The Lou
isana sank in about threc-quarers of an
hour after she was struck The passengers
fity.six in number, the officers, crew, &c, in
all 112 persons, together with the baggage
mails and some furniture and express freight
were safely transferred to the Falcon. The
most admirable discipline was preserved on
the Louisiana, the officer in charge, Captain
w. II. Mayo, being the last man to leave the
sinking vessel The only living creatures
that went down in her were Il horse and q
canary bird. The accident is supposed tC
have occurred from some misunderstanding
in relation 10 the signals, when the vessels
were about TO pass each other.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has delivered decision in favor of the Bal
| limore and Ohio Railroad Company in one o.
their suits against the State of Maryland
The case was originally brought to recover
the difference between the value ofthe currcn
rency paid by the company to the State on
account of the dividend due to the State un.
der its original subscription to the stock o.
the road under the act of 1885, chapter 800
and the gold which the State claimed it ought
to have received in payment of such dividend
In this case the judgment was in favor OF
the State in the Superior Court of this city
but it was reversed by our Court of Appeals
whose judgment has been now affirmed. The
court decided that inasmuch as no contract
had been made for the payment of the amour,
in gold, and Congress having made United
States legal tender notes receivable for all
debts, with certain exceptions, the debt claim
eddy Maryland does not come under these ex
ceptions and therefore payment in gold Can
not be exacted
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