The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-07-16
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JULY 10th, 1875.
THE NEWS.

George r. Vickers, an old and esteemed
citizen of Baltimore, and highly successful
business man, died on the 9TH instant.
DR. Charles A. Leas has been elected
superintendent of the Maryland House OIL
Refuge, in place of VIM. A. Lincoln, resign.
ed.
The Grand Jury of July Term of the
Criminal Court Mt Chicago was impaneed
and consists of eight negroes and sixteen
white men,
John Wise, grandson of Professor Wise
the celebrated aeronaut, made successful
balloon voyage from Philadelphia, on Mon.
day, the 9Th.
Two little boys were hauled before the
Preston, Conn, police court, and fined one
cent each for the henous offence of calling
one William Armstrong "sun-hower."
Owing to wet weather in England the
crop prospect is reported us not over bright.
As consequence the prices of wheat in
English markets have advanced from one to
two shillngs.
On Friday last the boys of the Melon
OCH Farm School visited Greenmount Gene
terry, Baltimore, to strew flowers upon the
grave of John McDonogh, the founder of the
school.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Annie Partin
and her child were recently found in swamp
near Raleigh, N. c. The murderer is alleged
to be A. w. Partin, Jr., the husband and ia.
Their of the victims.
Terrible "northers" took place at valpa-
raise on the 25th of May last, by which many
lives were lost and vessels wrecked. Forty
boys belonging to training ship were
drowned.
james Malone, an employee in Flcisch.
mans yeast factory at Blissville, l.. l., fell
into q tank of boiling yeast on Tuesday, and
was scalded to death. He had n wife and
two children.
The steamer Scythia, which sailed from
Liverpool for New York on last Saturday,
came in contact with whale off Roche's
Point, and lost blade Other propeller She
was in consequence detained at Queens
town.
In Lossburg, N. j., on Sunday night
two young men quarrelled over some tri-
fling matter, when one of them, John Van
Wort, struck the other, John Barrett, over
the head with ball bat, fatally iniuring
him.
The Carists and Alfonsosts still keep
up q state of war in Spain. On Wednesday
of last week, battle lasting five hours took
place, in which the Carlists were defeated
with loss of 140 killed. many wounded and
number taken prisoners.
: Cornelius Dabney, coored, was arrested
i on Saturday last at Baltimore, on the steam
4, er Havana, of the Richmond and York River
line, charged with the shooting, on the 9th
inst, of his son, aged ten years, at Old
Church, Hanover county, Va.
Jacob Miller, we'll known citizen of
Baltimore, member of the firm of Miller
Hecht & Co., proprietors of the Bayvew
Brewery, was accidentally killed, on Friday
last, by falling into the cellar of the brewery
from one of the upper stories.
The United States Signal Office in
Washington has made arrangements to re-
port the movements of grasshoppers and
other pests, and taken action with regard to
furnishing detailed important information
, particularly for the benefit of cotton-raisers
I and dealers.
I AT Nyack, N j., last Friday, rabid dog
I entered the barnyard of Smith Lydeckcr and
bit four horses, three cows, a bull and three
dogs. Every precaution has been taken, and
rs yet the horses and cattle exhibit no signs
of hydrophobia. The rabid dog as well as
the three bitten were at once killed.
On Monday two well dressed men, pre-
tending TO be water tax collectors, entered
the house of Matthias M. Douser in New
York, and as soon as they entered, seizcd
gagged and bound Mrs. Douscr, and then
admitting five confederates, ransacked the
house, securing bonds and securities to the
amount of $4,000.
On Saturday last q train of cars near
Jacksonville, ILL.,, struck some cattle, which
threw the train from the track, upsetting the
engine and holding the fireman and engin-
Ger helpless beneath it, while the steam pour
ed over them. They were shockingly scald-
ed and not likely to recover. The passen-
gers were not seriously hurt
Mrs. Grove, wife of James II. Grove,
formerly of Washington county, Md, COM
mittcd suicide at her home in Jefferson coun-
ty, West Virginia, on the 9th inst, by hang
ing herself with n surcingle and scarf to the
limb of a tree. Her mind it is stated, had
become impaired. Previous TO her marriage
she was Miss Berry, of Hagerstown.
Tho Ledger says that the peach crop is
now fixed at from seven to eight millions of
baskets, double the number ever gathered in
Delaware and Maryland. The estimate is
based upon the fact that about one million OF
new trees are in bearing for the first time
and that the usual average of two baskets
generally gathered from tree will be incrcas-
ed this year TO three
The celebrated horse Cruiser" the most
vicious horse ever known, who was success.
fully tanned in England and brought to this
country by John S. Rarey, the great horse
trainer, died recently in Ohio, at the age o,
%. He had become so gentle that the peo.
pie about the farm could fondle him rs they
would kitten and his colts were noted fol
their kind disposition.
General T. p. Blair, Jr., died on III,
niOht Of thn 2tl, ~ of
He was brother of Montgomery Blair Of
this State, and a son of Francis p. Blair Sr
who still lives in Montgomery county. Md
The deceased was the Democratic candidate
for Vice President, in 1868, on the ticke
with Horatio Seymour for President. A,
the time of his death Mr.. Blair held the DO
sition of State Insurance Commissioner O
Missouri.
On Wednesday. 7th instant, two youne
ladies named Lena Hebb and Cecie Keibert
the former nineteen and the latter seventeen
years Of age, were instantly killed by light
ming, in st. Marys county, Maryland, abou
three miles from Piny Point. The lightning
struck q tree about eight or ten feet from
where the young ladies were sitting in tb,
door, and ct the trunk of which was n small
colored boy, who escaped uninjured Mis-!
Keibert was from Baltimore, on visit L
Miss Hebb.
"A daring attempt was made, last Thurs
day night, at Long Point, Illinois, on TIN
Vandalia railroad, to rob an express car
When thetrain stopped at water tank, tw,
men boarded the locomotive and ordered til
engineer to start. Fearing to disobey them
he started the engine, when they fired at him
killing him instantly. In the meantim
another of the gang detached the Adams ex
press car from the cars in the rear. The rob
bers then ran the train two miles up the roa
ana endeavored to force an entrance into til
express car. The express agent, however