The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-31
THE sEGXS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. 81, 1875.
THE NEWS,


ing houses destroyed.
AT Boston, Wesley Thomas, colored
while STOPPING over, accidentally dropped
pistol, which was discharged, The ball enter
ing his left breast, killing him almost instant
".
BY the falling of the floor of schoo
house in the village of Hellikon, Canton OF
Aargau, Switzerland, on Saturday, during
the celebration of a Christmas festival, eighty
persons were killed and fifty injured.
BY an accident on the Vermont Central
railroad on Tuesday morning two Pullman
cars and one other passenger car went over
an embankmenl fifteen or twenty feet high
and number Of passengers were injured.
Charles Knowles, aged years, was
found dead Friday evening in the window
of school house in Guilford, New Hamp-
shire. He had attempted to climb in when
the window sash fell upon his neck, sutfucat-
ing him.
The Marx Lane Frprcs9 says that large
imports of grain have kept the English mar
ket down, business being dull and prices
barely maintained. The Continental markets
are from one shilling to one shilling and six
pence lower.
"A colorcd family, consisting of a man,
drowned, Christmas Eve, while endeavorng
to cross bridge near Washington, d. c.,
= by the horse backing overheard with the
wagon in which they were seated.
Moses A. Wood, of Cambridge Mass,
encountered two burglars in his house early
Sunday morning. He grasped one of them,
who stabbed him three times, and the other
shot him in the abdomen. They then made
their escape Mr.. Wood is fatally injured.
Mr., VIM. Bose, formerly of the firm of
Debbin, Murphy e. Bose, publishers of the
Baltimore AMERICAN and last survivor Of
the firm, died in Baltimore on the 22d inst.
He was connected with The 1meric0R for
forty years having relnquishcd business in
1853
AT Kingston, N. Y, on Sunday, Martini
Rite ECat his wife oyer the head with n
hammer, from the effects of which she died
He then cut his own throat with a razor
causing death in few moments afterwards
The parties were sadly il-mated, having had
frequent quarrcls about religion.
"A fearful tornado passed over the Bcr-
muda Islands, on the 18th inst. The house
of Capt Daniel A. Smith, at Tuck ertown,
was blown into the harbor with all its in
mates. Capt. Smith was hurled into Il cump
of trees and saved. His wife was carried
across the harbor and found clnging to
plank. She died from the effects of her in
jurics.
The New Jersey Court of Errors and
Appeals has recently affirmed the decision of
all the lower tribunals in favor of the suit of
a farmer against a firm of seedsmen, for
damages resulting TO the plaintiff from his
purchase and use of seed which the defend
ants sold as capable of producing good carly
turnips, but which produced a late and
worthless variety.
"A hopeful interest is again awakened in
tho case of the long-lost Charley Ross. A
boy, answering the description, who said he
was stolen away from Philadelphia while nj
play with his brother, and that his name WAS
Ross, but that lie had been forced to give
another name, has been found in charge of
some men on train for Montreal and taken
off at st, Adams, Vermont.
-Thcle has Just been received in Thila.
delphia formal acceptance by Pope Plus
1X, of an invitation by the Centennial au-
thorities, requesting his holiness 10 give his
recognition of the enterprise by contributing
to the Exposition works of art from the gal.
leries of the Vatican, or fICnl the workshops
over which he has control. The letters of
the Po,,t are couched in the warmcst terms
of friendship for the United States.
Extensive frauds on the revenue through
the illicit distillation of liquor have been dis.
covered in the mountain districts of Virginia
and North Carolina Several months ago
an expedition consisting of twelve picked
men, properly armed and equipped, under
Major Wagner, was sent out and succeeded
in raiding ID distilleries in North Carolina,
arrestng the owners, and capturing 10000
gallons of proof spirits.
On Thursday last, in Rockingham coun-
ty, Va as two young white girls, of respect.
able parents were on their way to school
they were stopped by mulatlO negro and
the elder, about fifteen years of age, despite
her cries, was dragged TO body of woods
near by and brutaly outraged. The young
er girl Immediately ran off to give the alarm,
but before assistance could be rendered the
wretch had accomplished his purpose and
escaped. At last accounts he had not been
arrested
On Wednesday night Of last week the
good citizens of Richmond, Lvnchburg, Pc.
tersburg and other points in Virginia, wore
considerably shaken up by an earthquake,
which lasted for n minute or two. People
were very much frightened, but no damage
was done. After the news of the event
reached Baltimore, several people remember
ed that they felt shock similar to that
caused by an earthquake, on the same nights
Shocks OF earthquake were also felt on The
Pacific slope on Thursday night of last
week.
Stamford, Conn, has n tramp house. On
Monday OF last week, the opening night fif.
teen stragglers presented themselves. They
were shown into warm room, and soon at.
Ter summoned TO substantial supper Then
they went back up stairs, and made them
selves comfortable around a hot stove. In
the morning they were strengthened with
bread and beef soup, and then given long
hanled hammers with which to demolsh two
loads of stone Before ten o'clock every
stone was reduced to fragments, and the
tramps departed, most of them expressing
themselves well satisfied.
The criminal record of Saturday and
Sunday last is an unusually large one. In
New York on Christmas day, John Nannery
beat his wife Alice about the face with
poker Subsequently he saturated the wo-
mans clothing with kerosene and set it on
fire, burning her in most sickening man.
ner. While burning the wretch dragged her
about the room by her hair, beating her with
broom handle. The police put Il stop to
the dreadful scene, by arresting the brute
-Four white men, standing at the bar of a 50.
loon in New Orleans, on Saturday afternoon
were fired upon by negroes, two of them be-
ing shot dead and the other two MORALLY
wounded.-On the same day. in New York
VIM. Johan shot and killed August Zourow
with whom he had quarreled about a pair OF
pigeons.-At Gretna, La, on Sunday, V
Weinegartner, while drunk, cut his wife's
throat.-At New Orleans the same day
Charles Adams, aged nine was killed by the
accidental discharge of pistol in the hand:
of a youth aged nineteen-At Boston, Dan
iel Sullivan died from the effects of beating
received the "Wednesday previous, in a figh