The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-05
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BEL AIR, FRIDAY, FEB. 9TH, 1875
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died last week.
The Legislature of Illinois has passc,
resolutions denouncing the military usurpa
lion in Louisiana.
"A heifer, for which the owner Hon. T
Megibben, of Kentucky, paid $4,000, il
1873, died recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, President Grant
son-in-law and daughter, have arrived il
Washington from England
Mrs, Phoebe Thomas died on the 10Th o
January, at Wilmington, Del, aged 10
years months and days.
Several mysterious fires have recently
occurred at the Navy Department Washing
ton. They have doubtless been the work Of
an incendiary.
The Ohio House of Representatives has
passed resolutions requesting Congress &c
grant no more subsidies to railway and
steamship lines
The Quartermastcr General and Com.
missary General of Subsistence report the ex.
penses of the Modoc war to their respective
departments alone, Mt SAIL ,000
The steamer Lady of the Lake, running
between Norfolk and Washington, was burn.
cd to the waters edge while lying at her
wharf at Norfolk last Thursday.
u,
posed to have been insane, hanged herself
with an old handkerchief at the southern
police station, one day last week
Last week Michael Brady, an inmate of
the Kings county, N. Y, Lunatic Asylum,
killed another inmate named Bennett, by
crushing in his skull with hatchet.
"A bill has passed the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington, appropriating
$l50,OOO to purchase seeds for sufferers by
the grasshopper plague in the West.
The Queen of Madagascar has liberated
all slaves imported into her kingdom since
1865 This has been done in pursuance of n
treaty with the English government.
AN unreasonable and severe drought ex-
ISIS IN New Hampshire. The streams, too,
are lce-Dound, and farmers are obliged to
melt snow to get water for their cattle.
-RoDert Gilmore, ST., of Baltimore, died on
saturday afternoon last, in his 9th year. He
was the father of Judge Robert Gilmore, and
OF COL Harry Gilmore, police commissioner.
The Rev Thomas L. Dudley, d. D.,
rector of Christ Church, Baltimore, was con-
secrated last week as Assistant Bishop of
Kentucky, in the place of Dr. Cummins. de-
posed.
Last week VIM. w. Steele, of Lancaster
county, Pa, while seated at the tea table with
his family, fell from his chair to the floor and
immediately expired. His disease was apo
pleXy
Near Mauch Chunk, Pa, last week, n
little boy two and a-half years old, son OF
Martin Fahey, was burned to death in the
kitchen while his mother was out drawing q
pail of water.
". q. Campbell, book keeper in Smiths
insurance Agency, at Wilkesbarre Pa, hay
ing been arrested on the charge of embez.
zling $4,000, shot himself. 1t is thought he
will not recover.
AT Beverly, n. j., three burglars who
were attempting TO enter the house of Joseph
Parker, were fired at by Mr.. Parker's son,
one OF the burglars having been struck but
was carried off by his companions.
The magnificent new structure on North
Howard street, Baltimore, erected for the
purposes of the Baltimore City College, was
formally inaugurated on Monday night.
The building cost 100000.
Charles Williams, newspaper, reporter,
has been convicted of wilfully libelling the
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
West Chester, Pa, by publishing an article
charging him with gross immortality.
"A number of foreign governments, in
Guiding England, France and Germany have
accepted the invitation to participate in the
grand Exposition of arts and manufactures
ut the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia
in 1876.
"A servant girl in the family of c. F.
Fogg, at East Orange, New York, had a
desperate fight with burglar, whom she
attacked with fire poker so vigorously and
ctiectually as to make him drop his plumber
and escape to save his life
james r. IIowison, an eminent and
highly respected lawyer of Annapolis Nd,
lied recently, and an examination of his ac-
counts showed that he had appropriated to
his own use large sums Of money entrusted
to him for investment
A man named Fouks, condemned to
death for the murder of The Herndon family
in Prince William county, Va, and in jail
there, recently escaped by burning n hole
through the cell wall. The jailer's wife tried
to arrest him, but he broke away from her
DR.. Ricardo, who was tried at Paterson
n. j., 70" assault with intent to kill by adj
ministering excessive doses of morphine to a
little boy, to conceal bungling surgical ope
ration, has been found guilty and sentenced
to pay fine of $500 and two years impris
onment.
"A New York school teacher, for tri
fling breach of school discipline, took a boy
eight years old, and laying him across {
chair beat him with n rattan until the lad al
most tainted with pain. The boy was taker
home by two of his school mates and ha.
since been confined to his bed The teacher
was arrested.
The khedive of Egypt has presented
magnificent diamond necklace and eardrop,
TO Mrs. Fitch, the daughter of General Sher
man, as recognition of valuable suggestion.
made by General Sherman in regard to til,
organization OF the Egyptian army. The en-
tire set is appraised at from 100000 t.
100000.
In New York DR.. Gilman. while walk
ing along the street with an umbrella in hi
hand slipped and fell. One of the ribs o
the umbrella ran in his eye and penetrated
the brain. When the steel was drawn GU
OF the wound the ivory tip came off and re
manned in the brain. He has since died from
the effect of the wound.
Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina
has issued u proclamation disbanding all mil
itary organizations in Edgefeld county, in
Guiding the pestilent negro militia companies
whose high-handed outrages have caused s.
much trouble there. This course is most Judi
cious, and will have the effect of producin
quiet in that hitherto turbulent region.
Near Boston, last week, q locomotiv
with train ofpassenger cars attached, iumr
ed the track, when ON an embankment 80 t
40 feet high. The engineer signalled dow
brakes and chung to the throttle valve, til
train being stopped in about 40 rods TIL
escape of the train from being hurled dow
the embankment was singuarly fortunate.
Thomas Miles and Nancy Scott, tw
convicts whose term for burglary has recen
ly expired in the Ohio penitentiary, wei