The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-05-14
THE sEGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 14th, 1875.
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
1t is proposed to erect a statue of Stone
wall Jackson.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge, of Kentucky
was dying at last accounts.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and flfteer
other Indian Chiefs are ON their way tc
Washington.
Judge E. M. Pitts, a prominent lawyer
of Norfolk, Va, died suddenly last Friday
while trying case in the court house.
WIN. E. Sturtevant, convicted of the
murder of Thomas and Simon Sturtevant
his uncle and brother, and an aged domestic
was hanged at Plymouth, Mass, on Friday
The crime was committed for money, and
was one of the most atrocious on record.
The Court of Appeals of Maryland has
filed its decision in the case Of Fell vs.. the
State, affirming the consttutionalty of the
local option law, as embraced in chapter
ed from the majority of the court.
AT Chillon, Wis, George Miller, one
armed soldier, shot John Namis, proprietor
of hotel, and Henry Kuehls, hoster, and
then proceeded to the cemetery and shot
himself. Of the three men only Kuehls can
possibly recover The cause of the tragedy
was quarrel over board bill.
The Kent Neacs says: "There seems to
be diversity of opinion in regard to the
effect in this county Of the recent cold snap
and frosts upon the peaches. A large ma
jority of those whom we have consulted,
however, are of the opinion that the buds
have not been seriously injured"
"A colored girl named Eliza Chambers,
10 years old, was left in charge of her moth
ers house, near Laurel Md, one day last
week. When the mother returned the girl
was found lying in the yard literally burnt
to a crisp, her clothing having caught fire in
some manner. She lived only five minutes
after being found and died in great agony.
AT Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Wyatt
Flowers, colored, had n misunderstanding
with his aunt, and shot at her with pistol,
and then with a razor cut her terribly. He
then reloaded the pistol and shot himself in
the head. Flowers died from the wound
shortly afterwards. The woman will also
probably die.
Major Ben Perley Poore, who has re-
Gently returned from Mexico, reports that the
border troubles are caused by lawless men
on both sides. The Mexican government is
in sympathy with our own for their suppress
sion, and it is not probable that the peace
between the two countries will be endan-
gered.
On Friday night last the ocean steam
ship Schiller, of the New York and Hamburg
line, which left New York on the 2Sth of
April, with 400 persons ON board, struck a
ledge of rocks projecting from the Sicily
Islands, on the southwest coast of England,
and was wrecked. Over three hundred
lives were lost. Mrs. Kirchmayer, of Balti-
more, is believed to be among those who
persisted on the i'll fate steamer
The Centennial celebration of the cap
ture of Ticonderoga took place on Monday
at the old fort with great eclat. A process
sion of some six thousand persons moved
along the line of march of Colonel Ethan AL
len in 1775, with music and many banners,
after which suitable patriotic addresses were
delivered by prominent gentlemen. The
celebration closed with music and salutes of
cannon and appears to have been success
altogether
"A masked robber last Friday entered an
express car on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago railroad and drawing q revolver
demanded the keys from the express agent
The latter seized his revolver and retreatcd
to the rear end of the car the robber firing
at him. Two balls struck him, inficting
slight wounds. Getting his pistol into posi-
ton, the agent fired at the robber, the ball
striking him full and fair in the forehead,
killing him instantly. He proved to be
former employee of the road.
The jewelry store of Robert L. Bald
win, at Oxford, Pa. was robbed, on the
night of April 30th, of large amount of gold
and plated jewelry, silverplated ware, etc,
and sixteen watches. The robbers effected
an entrance by breaking pane of thick
French plate glass in the front door, The
crash was heard by several persons but no
one suspected the cause of it. The thieves,
two boys, named Charles Deveny and w.
w. Doase, were arrested at Baltimore.
Major A. M. Hancock, U. S. Consul at
Malaga, Spain, has written to the Baltimore
San that 1.-THE government of Spain has Or
dered that vessels arriving from American
ports with potatoes on board shall be sent TO
a foul lazaret for vigorous quarantine and
the burning of the potatoes. 1t will be to
the interest of vessels coming from the
United States to consume OF destroy all .po-
tatoes among the ships stores before enter
ing Spanish port.
The great whisky ring has at last come
to grief, through the eXerlions of Secretary
Bristow. About thirty distillerles in St.
Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee have been
seized for evading the revenue laws relating
to the manufacture of whisky. 1t is estmat-
ed that the government has annually been
defrauded OF more than $3,O00,000 a year,
through the ineflciency of the commissioner
of internal revenue and the corruption of his
subordinates.