The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-01-22
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BEL AIR. FRIDAY, JAN. oad, 1875.
THE NEWS.

nc WV 4ldlilJ oiliit INtl'NljihLelIS ltsN
declared against Il third term.
business is utterly Frustrated at New
Orleans, and the greatest depression prevails
"A fearful snowstorm, with the thermo
meter 40 degrees below zero, was expert
cnced at Fort Laramie, on Monday.
Gen. f. NJ. Cockcrell has been nominal.
I'd by the Democrats of Missouri TO succeed
the Hon. Carl SChurZ in the l. S. Senate,
Hon. William a. Wallace, Democrat, has
been elected United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, and Hon. Joseph +. Melon,
aid, Democrat, from indiana
The Cubans in New York consider the
revolution in Spain as favorable to the sue
cess ofthe movement to lberatc Cuba from
the Spanish yoke.
AT Sparta, Va, last week, VIM. Henry
Robinson shot and killed Mary Il. Roy, be
cause she refused to marry him. Both par
tic, were colored. Robinson is i'll Jail.
Mrs. Susanna Bowling, wife of Richard
IL. Bowling, of Baltimore, was poisoned and
died last Saturday from the effects of Il
large dose of bella donna, sold by a druggist
in mistake for syrup Of SIENNA.
The Hon. Francis Herman has been nom.
mated by the Democrats Of the New York
Legislature rs their candidate for the United
perior ability and untarnished honor.
On Monday colored convict in the Ma
ryland Penitentiary made an assault with an
iron bar upon one of the officers, but was
quoted with three shots of a revolver, nei-
ther of which inflicted q serious wound
The city council of Baltimore have APP
pointed committee to confer with the board
of public works to induce them to change the
location of the House of Correction to some
point in the immediate ncighborhoOd Of the
city
"A large meeting was held in Fancul
Hall, Boston, on Friday night of last week,
to protest against Federal interference i'll
Louisiana. The meeting was composed of
ncn of both political parties, prominent in
politics and literature.
While three negroes were descending
into copper mine near TolersVile, Va, re-
Gently, the rope broke, ecipi'ating them to
the bottom, q distance of $50 feet. Two of
them were instantly killed and the third is
not expected TO recover.
The savagcs of Santa Cruz island, in the
South Pacific ocean, recently attacked the
British cutter Lapwing, overpowercd and
massacrcd the crew and burnt the vessel.
They afterwards attacked the British war ship
Sandhy, but were driven off.
An entire family named Bornm, living
in Mississippi. and consisting of man, his
wife, two little children and a negro boy,
were murdered and their bodies burned by
negro robbers Borum had Just received
500, which it is supposed the robbers took.
They have not been caught.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made
to blackmail Mr.. Ross, the father of the lost
boy Charley Ross, by man named Wiley,
who wrote to him, promising for $500 to give
him information concerning the Whereabouts
of the missing child. Guided by the police,
Mr.. Ross refused to send the man money.
Both Houses of the Legislature of Viz
ginia have passed concurrent rcsolutionscon-
lemning the recent conduct of federal Off
cials in Louisiana as gross and waIton
usurpation of power which cannot be allow
ed to pass without disapproval and remon
STRANGE, lest bad precedent be established
which would lead to the overthrow of our
republican institutions.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, was arrested in Washington
on Monday, at the instance of cX-GOy. Shep-
herd, on q charge of libel. The charge is
based upon an article in the Tribune charging
Gov. Shepherd with having bankrupted the
District of Columbia. Mr.. ". w. Corcoran
and other gentlemen offered themselves as
bail to any amount required.
Near Urbana, Ohio, last Sunday, Il man
named G. W. Ullery, who was charged with
committing rape on little girl, nine years
old, was hanged by mob of about forty
masked men, who went to the Jail, captured
and bound the guards, battered down the
door, took the prisoner out, and after giving
him few minutes to pray hanged him to a
tree i'll front Of the court house.
"A serious revolt occurred in the pcnitcn-
tiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, on Monday
Nearly 800 men quit work in the shoe shop
and having aimed themselves with hammers,
knives, &c, were for awhile masters of the
situation The officers summoned a large
body of citizens, and the prisoners seeing the
OvGrpowering numbers opposed TO them,
sullenly at the word OF command marched to
their cells.
"A daring and successful bank robbery was
perpctrated last Thursday, q few minutes
after noon, of the First National Bank of
Carbonate, Pa. The cashier, who was old
and feeble, was alone in the bank at the time,
and was assaulted, bound and gagged by two
men, who at once grabbed all the currency
they could iind-about 10000-and escaped.
Two persons We're aiterward arrested, who
are supposed to be the robbers
President Grant has signed the Finance
Gill, recently passed by Congress which
promises resumption Of specie payments in
1879. In his special message accompanying
the bill he recommends restoring the duty on
tea and coffee; also the immediate rcdemp-
ton of currency presented at the Treasury
in packages Of 800, or n multiple thereof, in
gold, at discount of 10 per cent said dis
count to be annually decreased % per cent,
until the currency will be receivable at par in
1879.
The large iron building, on the corner
of South and German streets, Baltimore, was
burnt on Saturday night last. The build
ing belonged to the Consolidated Real Es-
tate and Insurance Company, and was &C.
cupcd by insurance Offices, the Nayasso
Phosphate Company, Ryan & Ricketts,, type
founders and John Y. Slater, printer
Messrs. Ryan & Ricketts, loss viii reach
$4,000, on which there is $500 insurance
Mr. Skaters loss is entirely covered by insur
ance. The damage to the building is moi
great