The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-12
THE sEGZg.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, FEB. 18th, 1875.
THE NEWS.

ted Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Illinois
"A distressing famine prevails in Turkey
In one village As persons have died of star
walton.
The festival Of mariigras was celebrated
in an unusually eXuberant and magnifcen
manner at Memphis, Tenn, on Tuesday
Senator Buckingham of Connecticut, il
dead. Hon. W. w. Eaton, the Senate
elect, has been appointed to fill out his I'm
expired term.
The young King of Spain is fighting the
Carlists for his crown. Several severe bat
ties have taken place, the advantage appear
ing to rest with the kings army.
On Sunday twenty persons were injured
by the wrecking of a train on the Western
Pacific railroad, 115 miles from st. Louis.
Cause, q broken rail.
Henry M. Staylor, member of the city
council from the 9th and 9th wards of Balti.
more, has been expelled for receiving q bride
of $50 to procure certain legislation.
Two counterfeiters confined in the St.
Louis Jail bound two of the keepers, released
several of their prisoners, and with them
made their escape.
On last Thursday, in Quebec, Canada an
avalanche of snow fell upon small wooden
house, crushing in the roof and burying and
killing the whole family, seven in number.
1t is stated that the yirginius difficulty
has been adjusted with Spain, and that q
money indemnity will be made by Spain to
the representatives of the men who were
executed.
During the storm of Wednesday of last
week, in Minnesota, VIM. Gridley, while on
his way to his farm, was frozen to death, and
his companion so badly frozen that he will
probably die.
"A reciprocity treaty between the United
States and the Hawaiian Islands has been
signed and transmitted by the President to
the Senate. The reciprocity treaty with
Canada has been rejected by the Senate.
On Sunday morning last Sallie Walker,
colored woman, living near Charlottesville,
Va, committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with pistol, causing i'm
mediate death. Iii treatment from her hus-
band caused the act.
On the Goth of January, at Charlotte
vile, Va, two men engaged in stable curry
ing mules, quarrelled, when one ofthem WIN.
Hooper, struck the other, VIM. H. Hays. on
the temple with curry comb, causing his
death.
The Emperor Of China died few days
ago, and the Empress, overcome with grief,
committed suicide A son Of the seventh
prince, child three years old, has been pro-
claimed Emperor, and the Empress's mother
is again regent.
The senatorial contest in the legislature
of Wisconsin ended in the defeat of Matt
Carpenter, and the election of Angus Came
ron, who is an independent Republican, for
hard money, revenue tariff and no military
interference i'll civil affairs.
Mrs. John Graback, of Kearney iunc.
tion Nebraska killed herlittle step-daughter,
aged four or five years, it is alleged, by kick
ing the child down and jumping upon her
in q fit of anger. 1t is stated that the woman
attempted recently to poison the child but
failed.
In Kansas, last week, several persons
were frozen TO DEATH and in Iowa a train
containing 30 passengers was showed in,
with the thermometer ranging from 81 to &c
degrees below zero. The passengers were
without food or fuel, until a relief train came
s., 10 their assistance.
a "A case of alleged poisoning has occurred
4near Annapolis. A German named Bets
chart, in the employ of Owen Cecil, died un-
gder suspicious circumstances. Another Ger
Imam, named Kamer, also in the employ of Mr.
Cecil, and the wife of Bctschart, have been
arrested for the crime.
Captain James Iredell Waddell, of North
Carolina, who was the commander of the
Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, has recent
~ received the appointment as commander
of one of the Pacific Mail steamers, plying
between San Francisco and the ports of
China and Japan.
The Presbyterian mission church at AGA
pulco, Mexico, was attacked by mob, on
the 26th of January. The missionary, Rev.
NJ. M. Hutchinson, took refuge on u L. s.
man-of war. The commandment of the castle
ordered out his troops and dispersed tho mob,
four MeXicans and one American having
been killed, and eleven others wounded
AT Princeton, Ill.,, on Thursday of last
week, Henry I. Reed was shot and instantly
killed by his brother, Samuel Reed. a feud
has existed between the brothers for several
years, and some time ago Henry managed to
get the old man to sign over the farm, worth
some $4,000, to him, which embittered the
other brothers more than ever against him.
By the washing away Of u railroad en-
bankmcnt on Long Island, one night last
week, a locomotive and passenger car were
precipitated into stream. When the boiler
touched the water it exploded, killing the
engineer, the fireman, and road master. A
brakeman lost his hold of the car and was
drowned. The other persons on the train,
two in number, crawlcd out upon the bank,
and were saved.
--Ex-Postmaster VIM. S. King, who has
been elected to the 44th Congress from Min
nesota, has been called upon by the Legisla-
ture OF his State to appear before the House
Committee and explain his connection with
the Pacific Mail subsidy bribery, or else re-
sign. He has evidently been placed on the
horns of a dilemma. He has recently turn
ed up in Canada, and subpoena to appear
before the Committee served upon him.
The city of Philadelphia seems to have
been thrown into quicker on the subject Of
petroleum, because THAT naughty little Bal
timore, sister city almost in her teens, has
devised some subterranean scheme by which
the asphaltic fluid of Western Pennsylvania
is to be conveyed first to Pittsburg, and, that
city being nearer the Patapsco than the Del
aware, thence, and cheaply 100, to Baltimore.
1t is to be done by gigantic oil pipe"
During the absence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Daniels, of Lynn, Conn, from home
one night last week, their house was burned,
taking fire from the explosion of q kerosene
lamp. Their children, seven in number, the
Oldest being seventeen years, were obliged
to flee half dressed. The next morning one
of them, little boy eight years old, was
found on neighbours door step nearly dead
The rest had taken refuge in clump of cedar
bushes, and when relief came the next morn.
ing, were found almost frozen to death
The ways and means committee of the
House of Representatives have prepared &
tariff and tax bill, which proposes to raise
$3000000 1t provides that the ten pei
cent taken from the duties by the act of 1872
will be restored. Tea and coffee will remain
free, but the tax on sugar, whisky and tobac.
co will be increased whisky ten cents more
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