The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-07-10
THE NEWS.

Hon Eugene Hale, of Maine, has declined
1iIrr ny fnG of PoStroastnr Gnnnrnl tnnhnrn,
Bishop Whelan, of The diocese of Wheel
ing, died at st. Agnes Hospital, Ba timore on
Tuesday.
The butter and cheese trade of the Uni
ted States and Canada reaches annually five
hundred millions of dollars.
AT Providence, r. l., ON Saturday night,
an elderly lady died offright while her broth.
er was being attacked by burglar who had
entered the house.
On Monday morning. on the Shore Line
Railroad, in Connecticut, train of cars
ran off bridge, breaking one mans neck
and wounding 7S persons,
Near Frederick Junction, last week,
sparks from locomotive set fire to wheat
field, causing the destruction of large guam
tity OF newly harvested wheat
AT Ripley, Ohio, last week John Coslett
and his son Taylor were shot, and the latter
killed, by Charles Swisher, who was visiting
Cosletts daughter against her fathers wish.
A man in New Brunswick N. j., flung
his three children into the canal and jumped
in after them. The eldest child was drowned,
but the other two, with the unnatural father,
were rescued.
Governor Groome has COMMITTED the sen
tencc of Charles Fl. Jones, the young colorcd
man, under sentence of death for murder, i'm
Baltimore, to Imprisonment in the peniten-
tary for twenty-onc years.
Mr. Jewell, U. S minister at st. Peters
burg, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent to succeed Mr.. 'Creswell as Postmaster
General, and has significd by cable, his nc
ceptance Of the position.
-Steerage excursion tickets from New
York to Liverpool and back are now sold at
from $25 to $50. Railroad fares have also
been reduced, so that man may travel from
Chicago to Liverpool for about $l7.
On Saturday, near Moundsvillc, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Il man was run
into by train of cars, and impalel on the
signal lamp holder in front ofthc boiler. He
was about fifty years of age, and unknown.
Hon. John Lee Carroll President of the
Maryland Senate, with his family, were
among the passengers for Liverpool by the
steamer Russia, from New York, on the LIST
Of July.
The Supreme Court of PENNSYLVANIA
has affirmed the sentence of VIM. L. Udder-
zook, convicted of the murder of Goss i'm
in Chester county, Pa, and he will therefore
be hung at such time as the Governor of
pennsylvania may appoint.
The narrow gauge railroad from York
to Peach Bottom is progressing. The track
has now been laid for four and a-half miles
from York, to the farm of Samuel Wagner,
in York township and the work is rapidly
progressing from day to day.
The farmers of the Pacific slope have
found a new source of wealth in breeding the
Angora goat, the fleece of which supplies the
mohair of commerce. 1t brings in market
from 90 cents to $l.25 per pound in its natu-
raj state.
Nan old man on Long Island, N. Y, had
an old pet dog which his wife wanted him TO
remove or kill. He promised to do so, but
told neighbor he would as soon kill himself
as The canine, which he accordingly did, by
taking strychnine prepared for the dog
Barnum, the great Snowman, has insti-
tuted series of balloon experiments, to settle
the question whether there is steady easterlv
current or not. Ifhe can establish ts.eyis-
tence he thinks the journey to Europe by
balloon will be easily and safely accomplished.
ON last Saturday morning at Enterprise,
Miss, a fiendish outrage was committed by n
negro upon white child i've years old.
The negro was put in prison, but the citi.
zens assembled, overpowered the Tailor, took
the negro to neighborng tree and hanged
him.
The Baltimore Gazette of last Friday
PUBLISHED map of the harbor of Baltimore
with the new ship channel, and a full &c.
count of the excursion down the channel to
make its formal opening TO commerce. The
account was full and complete, and will have
a beneficial effect in letting the world know
that the great ship channel, through which
vessels of the largest size can enter the port
of Baltimore, is now completed