The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-11-12
THE NEWS.

"A heavy earthquake shock is reported
i'll San Benito county, California, on Sunday.
The carpet-bag Republicans encountered
a Waterloo defeat in Mississippi. The State
is overwhelmingly Democratic.
The Hon. A. II. II. Stuart, elected to
the Virginia House of Delegates from Au-
gusta county, declines his seat He had re-
fused to be candidate.
In spite of all the talk about the safety of
railroad travelling in England, accidents hap.
pen there rs well as in our own country
The other day, near London, thirty persons
were injured by railroad smash-up.
In the New York election the counties
thai went Democratic increased the maiori-
Ties, while in those carried by the Republi.
cans fuller returns decrease the maiorities
Genesee county elects Democratic sheriff.
the first in fifty years.
james Raley, of st. Marys county, Md,
was thrown from q horse, while running a
race, last Friday, and his foot being caught
III the stlrrup he was dragged for some dis
lance. His body was fearfully laccrated, and
there are no hopes of his recovery
Christian Snyder, 30 years old, commit
ted suicide, on Monday right, at No. 6 Cas-
tie street, Baltimore, by swallowing four
ounces of laudanum. He was a carpenter by
trade but had been out of employment for
six months.
AT Salisbury, n. c., on Saturday, two
brothers, named Johnson, aged respectively
seven and nine years, had a fight, in which
the younger was stabbed, from which he died
on Sunday. The youthful murderer is now
in Jail.
Sadie Banks, a young married woman 10
years OF age, attempted to take her life, last
Sunday night, in Baltimore, by swallowing
halt an ounce of laudanum She had left her
husband about month ago, and was living
in house of i'll reputc
On Monday w. b. Lish, clerk for Lord
~ Robinson o! Baltimore, tried to commit
suicide, by jumping into the dock at the head
OF Light street wharf Baltimore. His cour.
age failed him, and shouting Justify for
help, he Was rescued by the police. Tempo
rary insanity.
"A distinct shock of earthquake, accom-
panied by rumbling noise, was felt at Man
haitian, Kansas, early Monday morning.
Buildings and their occupants were consid-
erably shaken up. A similar shock startled
the people of Kansas City, Mo.
At Stemmer's Run, on Monday, Frede-
rick Triumph, q German, attempted to kill
himself by placing the muzzle of revolver
"S5"iHol hio hCa'i anu lTlDg TWO SHOtS. one
OF the balls entered one of his eyes and the
other struck him near the same place. He
was taken to hospital in Baltimore, where
he was at last accounts in a precarious con-
dition.
james Marvin, Il young farmer living near
unionville, N. Y, fell in love with young
lady at n sociable last Thursday night
When the party broke up he offered 10 ac-
company the young woman home In n
Joking way she declined his company, saying
that she could find better. Marvin went
home, and going into the barn, tied three
halter straps together and hanged himself
from Il beam
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has signed
the death warrants of four murderers, who
are to be hanged on the goth inst. Toney
Nellum and Alice Harris killed the husband
OF the latter, Henry Harris with an axe on
the night of May 10Th, 1874 The body was
thrown in bayou, and discovered three DAYS
after the murder, ID. r. Henderson killed :.
woman named Alice johnson, April 10th,
1879, and VIM. Davis killed Alexander White
about the same time.