The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-05-07
TIE sEGXS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 1875.
THE NEWS.

David Sinton, wealthy citizen of Gin
cinnati, has given $4,000 to the city to erect
u colossal statue of Cincinnatus.
"A fire at Oshkosh, Wis, last week, de-
stroyed property valued at $2,500000, and
rendered three hundred families homeless.
"A terrible explosion occurred last Friday
in colliery in SlafIordshirc, England, while
the miners were at work. Thirty Or forty
were taken out dead.
"A quarrel lately occurred between two
boys of IA years, in New York, when one of
them stabbed the other in the abdomen with
knife, intlicting q fatal wound.
The grand jury at New Orleans has in
dicted five persons, charged with brbing
members of the Louisiana Legislature with
intent to influence their votes.
Miss Ida Greeley, eldest daughter of the
late Horace Greeley was married in New
York, last Saturday, to Col. Nicholas
Smith, of Kentucky.
Three men confined in Jail at Abingdon,
Va, on the charge of Illicit distilling, were
released by a crowd of twenty-five men, who
forcibly entered the Jail at night.
In Estella county, Ky, the house of AL
bert Long was burned during the temporary
absence of Mr.. Long and wife. Their two
were DuTuCu 10 uCutl.
In Milton county, Ga, Joe Howell col
ored, cut the throat of Gus Strickland, a
white boy II years old, over game of cards.
Strickland died instantly, and the negro
fled.
The library of the great naturalist, An
dubon, belonging to Mrs. Blackwell, his sister,
in-law, was destroyed by fire at Shelbyville,
KY, last Thursday. 1t comprised 500 vol
umes.
"A cargo of salt which recently arrived
in New York was found to be imprcgnated
with arsenic, several packages of the poison
having broken on the voyage and come in
contact with the salt
Judges Brooks and Dick recently, in
their respective charges to grand iuries in
North Carolina. declared the criminal feat
ures of the Civil Rights act unconstitutional,
as no law could say that men are socially
equal.
Professor William r. Crccry, for many
years Superintendent of the Public Schools
of Baltimore city, died on Saturday. He was
esteemed and respected wherever known, and
had labored faithfully and earnestly in the
cause of education.
-EX-Congrcssman Bowen has been arrest
cd at Charleston, S. c., on the charge of in
stigating murder eleven years ago. He
was released on 81 900 bail. For publishing
this charge, Bowen lately prosecuted the
Charleston NeacS for libel
Elizabeth Thomas, and Harriet Fisher,
colored, mother and daughter, were found in
their house at Detroit, murdered, their bod
les being horribly chopped and mutilated
with an axe. John Thomas, husband Of the
former, is suspected Of the crime.
John Andrew, n colored preacher who
murdered his wife at Georgetown, Del, last
Sunday week, was found the next Thursday
secreted in the attic ofthe church of which he
was pastor. From his hiding place he heard
his wife's funeral sermon.
AT Hartford, Conn., last week, u young
farmer named Reed Watson committed sui
eide by locking himself in room at hotel
and deliberately lighting a small charcoal
furnace, the fumes of which suffocatcd him.
The cause Of the suicide is unknown
On Friday night Montpelier, w. was
visited by a conf1ugralion which ragged for
four hours and destroyed some thirty stores
and dwellings, cntailing a loss of more than
hundred thousand dollars. 1t is believed
to haYe been the work Of an incendiary.
In New York while two boys were
carelessly playing with an old musket it &C
tiASHtIy heIt vi, kllilIlS one OF them. AN
inquest was held, the coroner committing
the lad in whose hands the musket was dis
charged, for the action OF the district attor-
ney.
in the municipal election at Raleigh, N.
c., OH Monday, the democrats carried eleven
out of seventeen aldermen, and elected the
mayor. This is the first time since the war
that Raleigh has gone democratic. The
democrats sweep Durham, Salisbury, Hills
borough Charlotte Henderson and Warren
ton, N. G., which are all the towns heard
from in the State.
A report from Lieut. Col Hatch COM
handing at Fort Sill, Indian Territory,
shows that the Indians are detrauded out of
the supplies of provisions issued to them by
the government, and have become so desti-
tute that they are killing their horses for
food General Pope, in endorsing the report
says it is idle to expect these Indians will re-
main peaceably upon their reservations with
the prospect of starvation in doing so.
Eight newspaper men lately assembled in
a balloon with Prof Donaldson, from Brook
Ign, n. " and after perilous ride for three
hours landing was effected at Walden, n
Y, 70 miles from the place of starting. The
whole distance accomplished was 1870 miles,
thus showing an average speed of40miles an
hour.