The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-09-25
THE NEWS,

! THE NEWS.
About one-fourth of the business part of
cambridge, Georgia, was burnt on Sunday.
Charles III. Billiard, charged with rob.
bling n Boston bank of 100000 belonging To
depostors, has been arrested He has con-
fessed his crime, which was committed in
1859.
"A stage coach between Malvern and Hot
Springs, Arkansas, was stopped by four high
waymen, one night last week, and the pas
sangers robbed The robbers got about So
900 and several watches.
Many Alabama negroes, living fifty miles
from the district overlooked last spring, are
drawing the government rations appropriated
for the relief of the sufferers. The whites are
| not drawing, but are leaving it all for the ne
groes.
To avoid collision with the U. S. troops
Liieut. Governor Penn, at New Orleans, has
surrendered to General Emory, commanding
the government troops, all the property cap.
tured from the Kellogg party. Kellogg and
his horGe of plundercrs are to he reinstated
by President Grant.
-Tilton has made n second statement, and
prints some letters from Mrs. Morse, his
mother-in.law, which, if what they purport
to be, are as damaging to the theory OF
Beecher's innocence rs anything that has vet
appeared.
"A heavy wind on Sunday blew the can
vas off of Barnum's Hippodrome, at Balti
more, and lodged it in the trees near by. 1t
was soon replaced, and the show went on as
usual Monday afternoon.
While General Butler was making a DO
ltical speech at Essex, Mass, recently, a
spoon was lowered from the ceiling by a
string, and suspended in mid air. The audi.
encc roared with laughter, and for once But
the bold remark that there must he some op
position in that town.
Prof Donaldson made balloon asccn.
sion last Friday afternoon from Barnum's
Hippodrome, taking with him three repre-
sentatives of the Baltimore press The bal
loon is fifty feet in diameter and can carry n
ton in weight. 1t made three desccnts on
Friday, the final one being 81 miles from
Baltimore. near the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad. The reporters expressed themselves
as greatly delighted with the novel and dan
gerous trip Another ascension was made
on Tuesday, the balloon landing near Monk
ton. on the Northern Central r. Il.
"A terrible fire in wooden mill Mt Fall
River, Mass, last Saturday morning. caused
the loss of % lives and the wouniing of &c
persons, principally young girls employed in
the mill. The fire originated in the fourth
story, from some unexplained cause, and
spread so rapidly as 10 shut off all means OF
escape from those employed in the upper
stories. The poor girls were so frightened
that many Of them jumped from the upper
windows and were instantly killed, while
others persisted in the flames. The pccuni.
AIRY loss was 1887, goo.
In Baltimore, on Monday, John Kelly, Il
boy OF sixteen years, was stabbed to the
the heart and killed by another lad named
| William Mitchell, fourteen years old. Kelly
while carrying home a tin bucket full of beef
to his mother, met crowd of boys, and pre-.
| tending TO be intoxicated ran against and
jostled the lad Mitchell. The latter remon.
strated, and it is said that Kelly struck him
whcreupon Mitchell drew n small pocket
knife, and stabbed Kelly to the very heart
causing his death before he could be carried
home. The affair occurred on the corner of
Monument and Caroline streets.
HARPER's NAGAzINE.-Harper's Magazine fol-
October is rs magnificent Number for its illus
trations, and as rich in the variety and interes
OF its reading matter as was ever published.
This number, containing eighty illustrations
of unusual beauty, opens with "The Emigrant',
Story" by j. 7. Trowbridge-a poem of charac
teristic force and pathos, illustrated by Sol
Eytinge.
The first of an admirable series of illustrated
papers on decorative Art and Architecture il
England" is contributed by Moncure d. Conway
| T. b. Aldrich contributes graceful and ex
| ceedingly interesting paper, protuscly and beau
tifully illustrated, on Portsmouth, entitled "Ar
Old Town by the Sea-" Happily supplement
! ing this article Is one "Tic Isles of Shoals y
| by John w. Chadwick. beautifully illustrated
| Under the title of'The Huntsmem of the Sea- ;
is given curious and thrilling chapter of Amer
lean whaling adventure with graphic and etlcc
tive illustrations.
One of the most characteristic illustrated pa
| pers OF the Number is ''Some Talk of an Astron
omer," contributed by Prof. Simon Newcomb
of the United States Observatory Mt Washington
The admirable serial story, Grape of tn,
Camp" is continued, with two of Mr.. Fredcr
ick's brilliant illustrations and II. II. Stoddart
contributes an excellent poem, which is illus
tratcd, entitled "The Two Anchors"
Three stories of unusual power, poems by JOIN
G. Sake and Margaret +. Sangester, and the tiv,
editorial departments make up, with the othc
articles which we have noticed, an ideally per
feet Number.