The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-03-19
THE EGXS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MARCH 10Th, 1875.
THE NEWS.

Mary, one of the Baltimore quartette OF
babies died on Thursday of last week. Jen.
ME died the Tuesday before.
Twenty thousand persons assembled in
Barnums Hppodrome, New York, on Sun
day night, for religious worship.
Brigham Young has returned home from
the penitentiary at Salt Lake. where he had
been sent for contempt of court.
A hotel at Gloucester, Mass WAS burn
ed early Sunday morning. Two Of the board
ere and two servant girls persisted .in the
flames.
The house in which Benedict Arnold
was married and lived, Mt New Haven, Conn,
has been torn down. 1t was built about the
year 1850.
"A ten thousand barrel tank of coal oil
and 500 barrels of benZine, together with two
cars were struck by lightning at Piltsburg,
Pa, on Sunday, and destroyed.
j. Osborn Dugan, proprietor OF n we'll
known dry goods store on Gay street, Balti-
more, died last week in his 49th year He
was native of Chestertown.
Tho Pope of Rome has appointed Arch
bishop McCloskey, of New York, TO the
office of cardinal He is the first prelatc ever
elevated to that position in this country.
Five men, Peter King, Buck Mcclure, G..
g. Hazlett, John Thackery and Huge Swope,
were drowned on Sunday in New River,
West Virginia, by the upsetting of q sllitT.
1t is rumored that Landaulct Williams
Is to succeed Gen. Schenck rs minister to
England, and that General B. f. Butler is to
take Williams place ut the head of the De-
partment OF Justice.
Two American revivalists, Rev. Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, are preaching in London
TO immense crowds. On Monday night
over 10000 people were present. and. thou
sands were turned away from the hall.
Another delegation of Republican poll
ticians from Baltimore visited Washington
on Monday to urge the removal of Collector
Booth from the Baltimore Custom House.
Grant again declined to be interviewed on
he subject
"A dispatch from St John, n. F., says
that the bodies of more than forty persons
who have died there this winter have been
temporarily inferred in the snow, which
lies so deep in the cemeteries rs to prevent
the opening Of graves.
An attempt was made to test the Civil
Rights law in Trenton, N. j., on Monday
A colored barber went into the Trenton
House billiard saloon and was refused game
ofbilliards, and thereupon obtained warrant
for the arrest of the proprietor.
The Spanish soldiers in Cuba must be
bloodthirsty set of rutfians. 4 report has
reached New York that twenty two young
men of Cuban birth, residents of CienfuegoS,
have been arrested in their homes by the
volunteers, and without even the farce of
trial were shot outside the walls.
AT St. Louis, on Monday, as boy was
being tried in court on the charge of having
killed another boy by striking him with
brick, u brother Of the boy who was killed
stepped up to the prisoner, and said: You
killed my brother; will kill YOU" and
plunged butcher knife into his abdomen,
inflicting dreadful wound
"A severe hail storm ragged in Michi-
gan on Sunday. 1t lasted for fifteen minutes,
demolishing everything that came in its way.
The dispatch says that "twenty-four hours
after it fell, stones were found, measuring
twel We inches in circumference" We are
anxious to know whether the writer means
hailslones or the ordinary kind.
One night last week at Montgomery,
Alabama, four negroes applied at the ticket
office OF theatre to purchase tickets of adj
mission to the parquette, and We're refused.
The negroes had the proprietor arrested at
once, and at the examination before the U.
S. Commissioner, he quashed the complaint,
but gave no opinion in the matter. The ne
groes are noted politicians, and their pur-
pose was evidently TO raise disturbance.
The prisoners in Hackensack, N. j., Jail |
have been frightened at the appearance of
tie ghost of John w Avery, who was hang
ed for murder there in 1872. They say the |
ghost appeared at midnight, pulled the cloth
cs off the prisoners, opened and entered |
Avery's old cell and made itself generally !
comfortable for some time. There ia great
CONSERVATION among the prisoners, several
ofwhom verify the story. All the prisoners
are anxious to get out, in consequence.
"A New Ell Dorado has been discovered
in the Black Hills, Wyoming Territory
-Four men, who recently arrived at Fort La.
ramie from there, give glowing descriptions
of abundance of gold, silver, plumbago, lead,
copper, tin and gypsum to be found there.
The government has prohibited parties from
going there, as it is an Indian reservation,
hut they will rO Notwithstanding