The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-09-03
TIE KGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1876
THE NEWS.

ol Boston, ana Lee, NhcptIu ~ i,liIlnghan
Of New York, have failed. Their lahlitic
arc about half a million
-Josephus Sooy, State Treasurer of Ncy
Jersey, has been arrested ON the charge q
embczzling funds of the State 10 the amour
ofat least 100000.
The trial of the negroes charged will
participation in plot to attack and murde
the whites in Burke county, Georgia, com
menced on Monday at Augusta, before judge
lIerschell Y. johnson.
james Dunn, Catholic and Robert Coul
ter Protestant had II heated religious discus.
sion on Sunday, at Chicago, resulting ii
Coulter shooting Dunn in the side and thcr
escaping. The wound will probably prove
fatal
On Sunday night burglar entered the
room of VIM. Young, managing editor OF
the N. y. Sun, and administered chlorofornl
to him for the purpose ofrobbery. Mr.. Young
recovered and gave the alarm The burglar
only secured $50.
"A sail boat in which were two men, cap
sized in Newport lower harbor the other
day. Ida Lewis, the heroine Of Newport,
put off from her light house home and res.
cucd one of them. The other was saved by
parties who put of from shore.
On Saturday night last at Cumberland,
Md, n horrible outrage was committed by
three men on Ann Oliver, aged So years, n
cook on board canal boat. John Fright
and Harry Davis, two boatmen, were arrest
ed for the crime. The third man has not
been caught
AT Waco, Texas, on Saturday night, two
men fought duel in the dark. The distance
was four feet, and the weapons used were
six shooters Three shots were fired and
one of the men, named Turner, was killed.
The affair arose out of quarrel on some
trivial matter.
Near Doncastcr, England a balloonist
assembled just before n terrific storm burst
over the district. He was carried into the
storm cloud and the lightning struck his
balloon, tearing it to pieces. The venture
some acronaut fell from n considerable height
and was seriously but not fatally injured.
The firm of Stirling, Ahrems & Co., cX-
tcnsivc importers and rctincrs of sugar and
molasses, in Baltimore city, has suspended
payment. Their liabilities are between 3d.
100000 and So 5000 They held large
stock of sugar and molasses, the shrinkage
in the value of which caused all immense
loss, which compelled them to suspend,
On Monday at IIopkinton, Mass, boy
named Morris Ryan, aged 16 years, started
down stairs with loaded gun intending to
shoot cat, when his sister Mary, aged -
years who desired to save the cats life caught
her brother by the shoulders to pull him back,
at the same moment two other younger sis
tiers came to the head of the stairs. In the
scuile between Morris and Mary the gun
went off, killing Mary andone ofthe other sis
tiers. The third sister was wounded in the
arm and Morris was wounded in the leg.
"A Captain Webb has successfully achicv-
ed the remarkable physical feat of swimming
across the English Channel, from Dover to
Calais. The distance is twenty miles, and
he accomplished it in twenty hours and forty
minutes, thus beating BOyton's time by
about two hours. Webb was not clad in any
kind of swimming apparatus but had to de-
pend entirely upon his own eXcrtions. A
small skill accompanied him, from which
brandy, &c, was administered to him, from
time to time, during his prolonged stay in the
water.
"A financial panic exists in California. -
On Thursday last the Bank of California, at
San Francisco suspended business. They
were followed by the National Gold Bank
and Trust Company and the Merchants En-
change Bank, both ofwhich institutions have
closed. The difficulty is said to bca scarcity
of coin. Intense excitement prevailed for Il
time, and business in San Francisco was al
most entirely suspended On Friday Mr.. Raj
ston, President OF the Bank of California;
committed suicide by drowning. He had
been requested to resign rs President and
Director
On Tuesday of last week during u heavy
shower woman with three small children,
took refuge in an old saw mill near Delhi, N.
y. The waters undermined the founda-
tions and the building suddenly fell into the
water Two cataracts, one 30 and the other
An fact in Lnirlt wv hnlny IN mill Sirnp rp
to say the woman's husband saw the mill
plungng over the cataracts not knowing
that it contained his wife and children. AS
he watched it d0shins to pieces to his horror
he saw his wife and children clnging TO a
beam. Struggling with the current they were
carried down TO narrow part of the stream,
where he succeeded in rescuing three of them.
His third child never came to the surface
Its dead body was found about n mile below.