The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-04-30
THE sEGZG.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, APRIL sOth, 1876
THE NEWS.

BEL AK, FRlDAl, APKIL 3Oth, 1919
THE NEWS.
1t is reported that Attorney General
Williams is to be succeeded by Benjamin F
Butler.
Snow storms are reported at Oswego
Buffalo and other points in New York on
Saturday.
The business portion of the town OF
liermon, n. Y, was burned on Tuesday -
Loss 100000 insurance $4,000.
Last Friday three steamers were burn
ed in New Orleans harbor. Many lives
were lost by drowning and otherwise.
John Harper, the senior member of the
firm of the publishing house Harper Broth
ers, New York, died last week. in his 10Th
year.
Parker, ex State Treasurer of South
Carolina, has been arrested for fraud and
embezzlement, and committed to Jail in de-
fault of $250,0 bail.
"A plague worse than the potato bug,
called the buffalo gnat, has within the last
ten days killed 100000 worth of mules,
horses and cattle in the southwest.
AT Orange, N. j., a mschievous youth
named Patrick Walsh, was struck on the
head and killed with cane, by blind man
WnOm he was tormentlng.
Clinton, State Auditor of Louisiana, has
been impeached for high crimes and misde-
meanors. His trial was commenced in the
Louisiana Senate on Thursday of last week.
"A collision occurred on the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad, near Washington, on
Monday afternoon, by which eight or ten
persons were severely injured and both
trains wrecked.
The body of an unknown woman was
recently found in q packing box at the Erie
depot, New York, addressed to some person
in Ohio. No clue has been obtained to the
shippers of the boz.
Two colored men, Sam Ashby and James
Smith, in Loudoun county, Va, quarreled,
when Ashby struck Smith over the head
with wagon stretcher, causing his DEATH
Ashby was committed to Jail.
In the British House of Commons DR.
kenaly made an effort for the appointment
ola royal commission TO reopen the famous
Tichborne case. The motion was rejected
by vote of 433 yeas to 1 nay.
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on Saturday. But few reform mea-
sures were passed The bill approprating
$4,000 for expenses of the extra session
went through all right, however.
NuP'' a. i w. ooHu, VI TIE
Peoples Line of steamboats,, running on the
Hudson river, New York, committed sui
eide last week by shooting himself in the
head with pistol. He leaves property valu-
ed at $2,OOO,00O. Temporary insanity.
On Sunday evening John Caldwell
young married man, of twenty-five years of
age, committed suicide by hanging himself
with the rope ola swing in the back yard of
his residence, No. 10 Front street, Baltimore.
A disordered mind the supposed cause.
The five members of the Louisiana Leg
islature who were elected by Gen. dc Tro-
BRAND, have brought suits for damages
against that officer and General Sheridan,
laying the damages at 100000. The case
will go to the Supreme Court for final adu.
dication.
In New York, on Monday, Thomas Boy
Ian, blacksmith, threw red hot horse shoe
at John Blake, striking him behind the ear,
and causing almost instant death. They had
quarrelled because Blake had complained
that his horse had not been shod according
to directions. Boylan fled and escaped.
May Clay. a Georgia school girl, climb.
ed maple tree after blossoms, when her foot
slipped and she fell, her body coming in con-
tact with sharp snag, which penetrated
her breast. Without assistance she eXtri-
N"'Su uSiSSllJ hdhtN " lSN Steps anu lell
down dead.
The ceremony of comforting the beretta
or scarlet cape of the cardnalate upon Cardi-
nal NcCloskey, took place in New York on
Tuesday, Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore,
performing the service, as delegated by the
Pope. Thousands ofspectators were present,
including n large number of Roman Catholic
prelatcs from all parts of the country.
"A sanguinary battle took place last Sat
urday, between the U. S. troops under Lieut.
Austin Henley, and 200 Cheyenne Indians,
$50 miles west of Kansas City, Mo. Lieut.
uenley's demand for surrender was answer
ed by volley. In the fight that ensued 81
of the Indians were killed the rest escaped
One hundred and twenty-five ponies were
captured from the Indians. Two of the
troops only were killed.
On Saturday night last an unknown
tramp took refuge on top of lime kiln near
the Calverton Hotel, Baltimore, and went to
sleep. His clothing took fire, and starting
to run he fell headlong down the kiln en-
bankment, striking on the stones 10 feet be.
low. One leg and one arm were broken, but
he ran on, then nearly naked, and jumping
over an embankment 30 feet high nearly
every member of his body was crushed. He
managed, however, to crawl q few steps,
evidently making for small stream of wa
ter, and then died. No one knew him.