The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-10
THE sEGE,g.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1878.
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Vice President Wilson's property viii
not exceed, it is thought $4,000 i'll value
n strong proof of his official honesty.
The condition OF Charles O'Conor The
eminent lawyer of New York, is decidedly
worse, and his death may be BOXED for al
any time.
w. O. Avery another member of the
Washington and st. Louis whisky ring, has
been convicted, in the latter city, of cunspi-
racy to delraud the government.
OF the 176 new members 1872 are law.
yers; 81 are engaged in mercantile pursuits,
4 are physicians 3 are bankers, . are editors
are farmers, and . are college professors.
The new House of Representatives con,
tains three colOrLd members, viz: ,Jcre. Hur-
Alison, of Alabama Charles T.. Phelps, of
Louisiana, ana Josiah L. Walls, of Florida.
Isaiah Rec WAS caught in the water
wheel of Il saw mill near Cumberland, on
Monday, and 50 terribly crushed that he died
the next day.
Five MeXicans were taken from the au-
thorities at San Diego recently by the citi
zcns and hanged. Their crime was robbery
and murder.
The steamship Deutschland, from Bre-
men for New York, went ashore few miles
off the mouth of the Thames, on Monday
morning. Fifty persons, mostly German
emigrants TO the United States, were lost.
Ralph Vrceland and his wife have been
arrested at Boardville, n. j., Oh suspicion of
killing Vrceand's son, II child aged six years.
The stepmother is charged as the principal
in the crime and the father as accessory.
Charles Weston, negro condemned to
be hung at New York on the 17th inst, was
Inv MAJ in1 - hin Ill ton
raine Guy, a white woman. John Dolan,
another condemned murderer stood up with
the bridegroom.
AT the recent term of the Circuit Court
for Dorchester county, held in Cambridge, it
is said that twelve indictments were found
against one individual for violations of the
local option law The Court fined him 500
in each case, making total fines 81 200.
Father Murphy, editor OF the Montreal
(Canada) True Witness, and Father Lynch,
talented young priest, were burned to death
in Lcjounesse's Hotel, near Montreal, Satur-
day night. Madame Champagne who lodg-
ed ill the same hotel also persisted in the
flames.
On Thursday evening of last week, in
Boston, n young lady named Wihemina
Townsend fell dead while WALKING at a
dancing party Another of the dancers,
named Sarah Pollard, was so affected by the
event that she swooncd, and lay in death
like stupor for two hours.
AT the sale of short horns, draft horses
and Cotswold sheep at Toronto, Canada,
Friday, the three highest prices paid were
$4,000 for seventeenth Duke of Airlric, 81
900 for Kirkleighton Duchess Eighteenth
and $4,000 for Oneida Rose. The total sum
realized was $4,000
"A few nights since four disguised men
went to the house of Russell Allison, in Put
nam county, Tenn, and shot him dead An
officer and posse, in which was brother of
the deceased, arrested two brothers named
BrossWelI, one OF whom shot and killed J. j.
Allison, the brother of the murdered man.
Col Edward Wilkins has notified the
Hon. Levin Wooford that he intends to con-
test the election of the latter to the Office of
Comptroller. The candidates for the Legis.
laturc returned from Baltimore city have also
been notified by the Reformers of an intcn-
ton to contest their election.
Near Rutland N. Y, one day last week,
school girl, ii years Old, named Sarah
Conklin, while returning home through
piece OF woods was murdered. \ boy of
SIXTEEN named Rutter, has been arrested on
the charge of having first tried to outrage
the girl, and iuilng in that murdered her
with small hammer.
William Alden, an Englishman living at
Cleveland, Ohio, quarrellcd with his wife last
Saturday, and seized an axe severed her head
from her body. He then went to where his
step daughter boarded, and muiIated her ter
ribly and it is thought fatally with an axe
and hammer The lady of the house, Mrs.
Barton, intertercd and was also seriously
and perhaps fatally injured.
Throo nr;,ono,, ;,, tn,...,:
escaped Saturday, after desperate assault
on the keeper, one with knife, one with a
red hot poker, while the third used his hands.
The jaler escaped the knife, but caught the
poker in his hands and was badly burned.
lie was then telled with it to the floor Two
OF the fugtives were rccapurcd, but, the
third, named Francis Dunton, is still at large.