The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-21

Din 1hITiS, tanuOlpn Harris ana Robert
Skidmore, three horse thieves, were caught
at Kosevllle, Ark, and placed in Jail, from
whence they were taken by the citizens and
hung to tree near the place. ~
-Marshal Bazaine is indebted for his es.
cape from the prison of st Marguerite to the
efforts Of his heroic Mexican wife. France,
1t is said, will not ask for The enforcement 81
the extradition laws in his case
In quarrel over game of base ball at
Peoria, ILL.,, last week, n lad named Andrew
Rem struck another named William Berry a
terrible blow on the head with bat, from
the effects of which he died the same night. '
"A farmer in Allegheny county, Pa, near
the town of Troy, named Hagaman, WAS
killed on the 10th by Longwell and his hired
man, because Hagaman had ordered the kin.
ing of a strange dog, which was a pet of
Longwelfs wife and daughter Longwell
was arrested, but the hired man fed TO the
woods.
-Hetty Bowers, u servant girl IA years
old, living in the family of Benjamin |. Mil
Ter, of New Garden township, Chester coun-
ty, Pa, put some arsenic in q dish of stewed
apples for the family of which all but she
partook. An emetic promptly administered
saved the lives of the sufferers The girl is
in Jail.
"A Lancaster county, Pa, farmer set fire
to bees nest, in an old fodder stack in his
barn yard, thinking to be able to keep the
flames from spreading, by having n bucket of
water ready when he commenced operations.
The flames got beyond his control, however,
and burnt not only the bees, but his barn,
wagon house, sheds, &c, his dwelling house
itself being saved with difficulty. lie has
gained wisdom by experience.
On Thursday night of last week a negro
named Talliaferro, under sentence of death
in the Jail al Marinsburg, West Virginia, for
the rape and murder of Annie Ross, last Oc-
tober, was taken out of Jail by crowd of
masked men and hanged. Talhaferro was TO
have been hung on the Both of July, but the
execution was delayed by the Court of APP
peals, and the hearing of the case postponed
tor year. This eXasperated the citizens
Talliaferro's counsel was notified to leave the
county.
Two negro factions, of Georgetown, s..
c., headed by Bowley and Jones, negro men,
beers of the Legislature, arei at loggerheads
and the prospect of some of them being hurt
is imminent. The leaders appear to be RIVALS,
each of them seeking to control the county,
in which the negroes have majority. The
white people do not interfere i'm the slightest
degree in this family jar, viewing it much as
the woman did the fight between her hus-
band and the bear
The National Sporismen's Convention
will hold convention at Niagara Falls, Sep
TENDER 9th, 1874, the object of which is to
form national organization with view of
procuring n concentration of interest and ef-
fort for the prevention ofthe wanton dcstruc-
ton of creatures used for the food or comfort
of man. The object sought TO be accom-.
plished appeals with force not only to the
amateur who delights in hunting and fishing,
but also to the statesman who sees the inn
portance of cheap food and raiment for the
people, whose interests are his charge.
AT Augusta, Ga, on Saturday, Capt. A.
7. Butler while assisting his wife off street
car, pushed q drunken negro, telling him to
get out of the way. Another negro, broth
er of the one obstructing the passage, pulled
out Il pistol and shot Captain Butler in the
head, from which he died the succeeding
night. The negroes were put in jail and on
Sunday morning several hundred citizens
took them out ofjail, and after an investiga-
ton that lasted three hours sent one of them
back to Jail and shot the other to death.
On Thursday, August 9th, Mr.. VIM II.
Humphrey, young man living in Prince
Georges county, left his home after break.
about eleven o'clock was found lying in one
corner OF the meadow, almost lifcless, his
skull having been fractured, as if he had been
beaten with some blunt instrument. He was
taken home but never regained his conscious.
ness, and died in short time. 1t is not
known that he had any enemies, and the
supposilion is that the murder was commit
ted by some vagrant whom he had ordered
off the place
On the 3lst of July the dead body of
Robert A. Mackey, a resident of Jennersvilc
Chester county, Pa, was found floating in
Drawyer's Creek, near Odessa, Del. No
marks of violence were found upon the body,
but it is believed that he was murdered by
man named Joseph Taylor, OF Lewisville,
Pa On the 9th of July, they were seen to.
gethcr in Mackey's buggy, near where the
body was found, Mackey being intoxicated
Subsequently Taylor sold the horse and bug
gy. and was seen wearing a coat which was
identified as the one which had been worn
by Mackey. The suppositon is that Taylor
threw Mackey into the creek, where he was
drowned.