The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-03-12
THE NEWS.


THE NEWS.
The fishing season has commenced on
the Potomac river.
The new revenue act imposes % per cent
additional duty on sugar
One of Mrs. Hahn's quartette of babies,
recently born in Baltimore, died on Tues
day.
The Baltimore Fifth Regiment are about
10 make arrangements for their annual eX-
cursion to Cape May next summer.
The young king Alphonso, of Spain, is
tired of his crown, and wants to abdcate in
favor of the Duke of Montpensier
The Louisiana Legislature has adjourn
ed sine die, and the members are now wait
ing the result of arbitration.
Mrs. Col. Carry and her daughter were
drowned, last week near Fort Monroe, Va,
by the upsetting of a small boat.
Edward A. Nussbckel of Baltimore,
fell down his ice-covered steps on Sunday
and died from his injuries the next day.
Bradley Davis, bright mulatto about
20 years of age, has been arrested in Balti-
more for assaulting ladies and school girls.
"A Mrs. Gilmore, who lives near Gran.
berry, in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, re-
Gently gave birth TO four children-two boys
and two girls. All doing we'll.
Three colored men were selected and
sworn in on the grand jury of the United
States district court at Baltimore on Mon
day.
A disreputable white woman, at Nor
folk, Va, was dangerously shot last week by
a jealous negro with whom she had been
living as his mistress.
Armed Mexican bandits to the number
of SO have crossed the Rio Grande into Tex
as and there is said to be great excitement
along the lower river.
Two persons over one hundred years
old, died in Baltimore city last week. One
of them was Mrs Mary Smith, aged III
years the other Susan Carr, colored, aged
105 years.
Hon. john G. Schumacher, who gained
such unenviable notoriety in the Pacific
Mail business, left for Europe just in time to
prevent legal summons from being served
upon him by the Company.
"A distressing famine exists in Asia Mi
nor. In a district which contained $4,000
persons, nearly onehalf have died of starva-
ton since the commencement of the FAM
inc.
Mrs. Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith, wild
urday, at Peterboro, n. Y, in her list year.
Mrs. Smith was born ut Hagerstown, Md,
and was the daughter of William Fitzhugh.
The New York Sun is informed that the
quarrel between the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroad companies is in the
way of settlement, and that q compromise
will probably be agreed upon in a few days.
The returns from New Hampshire in
dictate the election on Tuesday of the Repub-
lican State ticket. The Congressional repre-
sentation is unchanged. The Democrats
gain one district and lose one.
The standing committee of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in Maryland, have
refused to give their consent to the conse-
Grafton of Rev. DR.. De Koven as Bishop Of
Illinois, and Rev. DIR. Jaeger, as Bishop of
Ohio.
Mrs. VIM. Harvey, of Garrett county,
while walking on the railroad track, near
Deer Park, was struck by locomotive and
instantly killed. The engineer blew the
whistle, but the old lady became confused
and remained on the track until the engine
struck her.
"A drinking saloon keeper in Chicago
was found murdered in his saloon early Sun
day morning, with deep gashes in his skull
and face, evidently inflicted with Ratchet
that lay beside him. He had expected to
receive 81 500 the night before, and the MUIR
derer doubtless expected to get it.
Recently, at Manchester, near Richmo nd,
Va, colored woman went from home, leav-
ing no one in the building but her two chill
drcn-a girl eight years Of age and boy of
six, with fire burning on the hearth and
lighted lamp on the table. Shortly after
wards flames were seen issuing from the
windows, and made such rapid Roadway that
The house was destroyed and the children
burned to death.
"A bill has been introduce ed in the Virginia
Legislature imposing penalties upon parties
causing disturbances at places of public
amusement also providing that persons
who create disturbances at hotels after the
proprietor has declined to entertain them
for want of room or other reasonable causes,
shall be punished by fine and Imprisonment.
Similar provisions are also made in the bill
in regard to public conveyances
benjamin NJ Upham, q young man OF
Boston, by whose testimony two men were
recently sent to the State prison, was way.
laid, beaten, stabbed and thrown in the river,
by men supposed to be "pals" of the men
who were sent to the State prison. He crawl
ed on cake of floating ice, from which he
was rescued. He is not expected to rccov
er.
One day last week, near Highland,
Middletown Valley, Md, during her mo-
theirs absence, little girl five years old took
coal oil can and poured the oil on the fire.
The oil ignited, bursting the can and throw
ing the burning fluid over her clothes, set
tign them ON fire. The little creature ran
out and falling in the slush the fire was ex-
tingushed. She was terribly burned not
outstanding and soon died.
On Monday morning, in Baltimore, while
young woman named Mary Manning, was
employed in hanging up clothes in the yard
of Mr.. r. T. Baldwin, the pavement caved
in and she disappeared from view The
alarm was given and after considerable ex-
ertion she was gotten out alive, but very
badly injured by the bricks falling upon her.
1t appears that waste pipe from the house
TO q well had become disconnected, and the
water had washed the sandy soil into the
well, leaving large cave, into which the girl
sank, reaching the bottom at depth of 25
feet