The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-04-16
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, APRIL 10th, 1875.
THE NEWS.

New OK on Saturday.
Bismarck is going to England for the
benefit Of his health.
Dan. Bryant, the well known minstrel
performer, is dead
The Democratic majority in the Con-
ncctiCut election last week was 6,661.
Gross frauds and forgeries, in connection
with mail contracts have been discovered in
the Postoffic Department at Washington.
The municipal election at Hagerstown,
Md, on Monday resulted in the success OF
the Democratic ticket by q majority OF 1877.
BY an explosion of giant powder in San
Francisco, Cal, a warehouse was shattered
and burned, four persons killed and many
others injured.
George j. Cleland, aged 25, a timer by
trade, committed suicide in Baltimore, on
Sunday, by taking laudanum. Temporary
insanity the alleged cause.
Frederick Maxwell and Miss Cornne
Dunwoody were drowned in mill-pond on
Saturday near Augusta, Ga, by the capsiz-
ing of boat caused by striking snag. The
bodies were recovered.
On Sunday night seven prisoners escap-
ed from the penitentiary, on Blackwell
Island, by means OF false keys. Six of them
were soon recaptured The seventh man is
still at large.
In Brooklyn, N. j., last week Matthew
Toby quarrelled with his wife, who abused
him to such degree that he was driven to
desperation, and went out and hanged him
self to cherry tree.
ALL freight for the West from Philadel-
phia by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is
now sent by the Ericsson steamers to Balti-
more, in consequence of the p, w. IL b.
railroad refusing to pro rate with the Balti-
more and Ohio road.
Mr. John w. Davis, who has for some
time occupied the position of agent and pay
master with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company, has been appointed local agent for
Baltimore in the service of the Northern
Central road.
The Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County have fixed the rate of taxation for the
current year at ninetysiX cents and three
mills on the one hundred dollars, being q
reduction of twelve cents from the taxes Of
the present year.
Paul Boynton, the inventor of an india
rubber life-saving suit, started to cross the
English channel, from Dover to Boulognc,
distance of 81 miles, in his patent suit. He
was picked up eight miles from Boulogne by
steamer, but could have accomplished the
entire distance in safety.
"A severe fight occurred at the Cheyenne
agency, Indian Territory, on the 9th inst,
between large band of Indians and United
States soldiers in which three Indians were
killed, a number wounded and 80 captured
four horses killed
"A colored woman in Delaware put her
child to sleep in cradle and went out of
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cries. she shortly afterwards returned and
found the place alive with rats, which had
bitten the child severely in eight or ten pla-
Ces.
In the Circuit Court for Caroline coun-
ty, the Grand Jury has found true bills against
almost all the old liquor dealers and hotel
keepers, who have continued to sell liquor
secretly Notwithstanding the prevalence of
Local Option. Some twelve or fifteen per-
sons will be arraigned in ALL
An unknown man was run over by the
cars and killed, at Muirkirk Station, Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, on Monday. He
was walking on one track, and stepped on
the other to avoid train, when he was
struck by the locomotive of q train which
came up behind him, the whistle Of which
he did not hear.
An old man and his daughter persisted
in the flames of burning house at Clinton,
Mass, ON Monday. The same day at Vine
yard Haven, Mass, Mrs. Clifford, who was
helpless from sickness and therefore unable
to escape, was burned TO death in her resi-
dence. Arthur Reid, a farmer residing near
Fulton, Ont, was also burned to death in
his house, on the same day.
One night last week five robbers were
discovered in a warehouse at Chicot, Ark.