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

OF the Gentleman EXnlplllOn AT Illiladelphla
next year.
The Boston Rubber Shoe Factory was
destroyed by fire on Monday morning. in
volving loss of 100000, and throwing 800
persons out of work.
Elijah +. Cr0ut, Il prominent member of
the Westminster bar, dropped dead on FRI
day last, while pleading a case in court He
was SO years Of age.
Charles O'Conor, the eminent lawyer, of
New York, is extremely i'll, with little proba-
bility of his recovery. His disease is thought
TO be paralysis of the stomach
Mcdonald the Baltimore policeman
who shot the colorod man Daniel Brown, in
his own house, during n cake walk" one
night in July last, has been convicted of
manslaughter.
Five condemned murderers are in the
Tombs at New York, awaiting their eXecu-
ton. Two of them, both white men, will
he hanged on the 10Th, and the others, three
negroes, on the 18th of December.
The remains Of the late Vice President
Wilson laid in state at Boston on Monday
In the afternoon they were conveyed to Ma
tick, where they laid in State until Wcdnes-
day, when they were buried.
Charles Atkinson, colorcd, aged twenty
was taken by citizens from Jail at Franklin,
La, on Saturday, and hanged to q tree in
front of the court house, for committing an
outrage upon a white child FIVE years of age
Moody aud Sankey have awakened as
much interest in Philadelphia as in Brooklyn.
On Sunday afternoon their audience consist.
ed of 10000 women, while 5000 or 5000
more vainly struggled at the door for admis.
sion.
News from Spain states that King Alton.
so will take the field in person on the 9th of
December and participate in the operations
against the Carlists. The latter are report
ed to be utterly demoralized and rapidly de-
creased in numbers.
The Prince of Wales lately took part in
grand Masonic demonstration at Bombay,
India. 1t is said that the order has rapidly
become popular among the natives, there
being Parsee, Hindoo and Mahomedan
lodges as well as English.
The commission appointed to examine
two routes to connect the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans by a ship canal, recommended
the Nicaragua route. They say it will only
cost sixty million dollars-a mere triflc, when
money can be made by machinery
Gov. Ingersoll, of Connecticut, has APP
pointed Ex-Governor James L. English to be
United States senator from that State in the
place of the late o. S. Ferry, deceased He
is Democrat, and has been Governor of
Connecticut three terms.
"A hunter in the neighborhood of Mon
terey Springs, Washington county, Md, per-
formed the Putnam-like feat of entering,
with torch and rifle a cave in which thirty
five pound wild cat had taken refuge, and
planting bullet between the savage animals
glazing eyes.
The late VIM. B. Astor, of New York,
left property estimated TO be worth two hun
dred millions of dollars. He owned 1000
houses in the city Of New York lie paid
half million dollars yearly in taxes. He
leaves one son, John Jacob Astor, and two
married daughters.
William Kaleeses, aged eight years, re-
siding in the northern part of Philadelphia,
was bitten by mad dog on November 9Th
On Sunday last hydrophobia set in. The boy
suffered terribly until six o'clock Tuesday
evening, when he died from the effects The
same dog bit two other children of the man
who owned the dog
"A memorial portrait of the late Thomas
ID. Baird, LII. D., former President of the
Baltimore City College, was unveiled with
interesting ceremonies at the College, on
Thursday evening of last week. The memo
rial address was by Rev. j. j. G. Webster,
pastor of Jackson Square NJ. E. Church. The
portrait was the gift to the College of former
pupils of Professor Baird.
"A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, re-
ceived in London Monday morning, states
that news has been received there of q terri
BILE massacre of Egyptian troops in Abyssn-
il. An Egyptian force, occupying one of
the districts lately taken, was surprised bya
large force of Abyssnians, and twelve hun
dred soldiers were murdered, including
number of officers.
"A woman aged forty, named Wilhelmine
Wcik, has been arrested in Buffalo, n. Y,
charged with numbering her step son, aged
fourteen, whose body was found in an old
well on the premises in a nude state except
shirt, with chains and other weights attach
ed to his neck. Property belonging to the
murdered boy, and rcvcrtng to her own
child in case of his death, is the supposed
cause.
AT the execution of a colorcd man and
woman last Friday, at Monroe, La, for the
murder of the lattcr's husband, a horrible
scene was enacted. The woman died with
but slight struggle, but the man by some
means succeeded in freeing his arms of the
cords by which they were pinioned and
grasped the rope above his head and one of
the supports Of the gallows, when the Sher-
i'll and jaior seized his arms and held them
down until death put an end to his struggles.
"A duel occurred near Edgemoor, Del,
on Monday between II. w. Baylor of Nor.
folk, Va, one of Mosby's men during the late
war, and Col. James f. Keegan, formerly an
officer in the United States Army. The quar-
rel originated last Saturday evening in Phila-
delphia, during which blows were exchanged,
resulting in challenge from the latter At
the first fire Baylor received flesh wound
in the left side, when the friends of both of
the combatans interfered and prevented
any further bloodshed.
-On Monday afternoon, Deputy Sheriff
Knight was conveying four prisoners, three
white men and negro, in hack from the
Baltimore city Jail to Towsontown. When
near Waverly, they managed to slip their
handouts, overpowered and disarmed the Of
ficer and jumped out of the vehicle. They
then threatened to shoot Knight if he left
the carriage, and ordered the driver to drive
of, fastening his pace by three shots from q
revolver, all of which missed him. They
separated and fled to the woods. The car.
riage was soon stopped the aid of citizens
procured and the woods secured. One oil
the rogues, named David Peyton, was caught
after an exciting chase. The others, who
are still at large, are James Sanford, Albert
Stevens and David Pinkney, colored.
A Coop SUGGEsTIoN.-Thc Towsontown
journal says:
In view of the immense frauds now being
unearthed in New York State, in reference