The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-07-30
THE sEGZG.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JULY 3Oth, 1875.
THE NEWS,

The trial of Dame and Lee, the Nor
mon leaders in the Mountain Meadow massa'
ere, is in progress at Beaver City, Utah. -
The evidence against them is very conclu.
sive, and the greatest indignation exists.
Reports from the Black Hills state that
the prospect for gold is encouraging. Miners
are rapidly coming into the hills, and new
gulches, ravines and gullies are thickly set
tied.
1t is stated that an exploring party in
the Mammoth Cave Ky, one day last week
found female mummy, in a perfect state.
1t is supposed to belong to the mound bull
ders of that portion of the West.
Hugh Donahue, the pedestrian, on last
Friday night, at Mystic Park, Boston, com
pleted the feat of walking LOO miles in
/ 100 consecutive hours-one mile each hour.
He was in good condition at the close.
William Ison, of Glen Rock, York
county, Pa, was stabbed on Saturday eve
ming last, from the effects of which he died
shortly afterwards. VIM. Lynch, of Codo-
rus, is accused of committing the deed, He
made his escape.
Fast trains for transporting peaches and
other fruit from Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey will, about the 18th August, be
put upon the Baltimore and Ohio and Penn
SylVanu TullTouuS.
john II. Ship, married man, aged
about twenty years, was arrested and
imprisoned at Lebanon, Pa, on Monday, for
attempting to rape Lizzie Annie Dessinger,
nine wears of age, near Avon, in that county.
He has confessed his guilt.
john Noble, n highly respected farmer,
fifty years ofage, living near Millbury, Ohio,
killed his wife on Monday evening by beat
(, MI nI,,h on6 puftiOr bnr throat
Alleged cause, infdclity. He surrendered to
the authorities.
S. S. Bellows, II wool buyer from New
York CITY, was attacked by hghwaymen n
few days ago, ten miles from Steubcnvile,
Ohio, choked, gagged and robbed of $4,000
in money. The robbers told him they had
been following him up for q week.
BY chemical explosion at paper mill
at Iowa City, one night last week, five men
were killed, and more than halfthe mill utter
w destroyed. The bodies of three of the men
were blown across the street and oyer the
houses, q distance of 800 feet.
e. G. johnson, Deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue and member of the Florida
Legislature, was shot and killed on Wednes-
day night of last week at n stillhouse about
ten miles from Fernandina. The assassns
are unknown.
The National Bank of Winthrop, Maine,
and the Savings Bank, of the same place.
were robbed on last Friday morning, by
burglars, who blew open safe containing the
valuables of both institutions, and secured
about $4,000.
Continued floods are reported in Eng
land -Four thousand acres of grazing land
are flooded between Edrith and Denburgh,
and 5000 cattle are deprived of pasturage
The water is three and four feet deep on 1000
acres of land near Whttlesey. No such flood
has been seen in that section of the country
for so years.
Harry p. Haynes, 10 years of age resid-
ing with his parents in Boston, shot himself
through the head with a pistol few days
ago, the ball entering the back of his head
and coming out of his face. The wound will
prove fatal. He was very wild boy for his
wears, and was recently detected in the theft
and sale of his mothers gold watch and
chain
Andrew Keelan and John Graves, two
engineers, on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, became involved in quarrel at Gar.
rett City, q few days ago, when Graves dealt
Keelan n terrific blow on the head with
hatchet, burying the weapon in his skull, and
causing death in n few hours. Graves was
arrested and was with difficulty prevented
from being killed by a mob.
"A cargo of tobacco, loading at Richmond,
Va, for Liverpool was seized last Friday under
the State inspection laws. 1t is charged that
the tobacco was about to be exported with
out the inspectors brand. The tobacco sciz-
ed is valued at $4,000. The penalty for VIC
lation OF the law is 81 per pound, to be paid
by the owners of the tobacco, and $50 per
100 pounds, to be paid by the captain or ow
ncrs of the vessel.
AT Newark, Ohio, one night last week,
n test was to be made of a fire eXtinguisher,
and n building erected for the purpose was
saturated with gasoline and other inhamma-
BILE substances. During the preparations the
fluid ran in stream down gutter, and Sc
gar smoker having carelessly thrown burn
ing match into the gutter an explosion took
place, terribly burning the mayor and other
city officers, and some fifteen or twenty other
men and boys.
Frank Williams, plantation hand, was
murdered last week. in Arkansas, forty miles
above Memphis, by two colored men, whose
object was TO secure ten dollars which Will
liams had Just drawn from his employer
The murdcrers, John Randolph and John
Phillips, were arrested, and confessed the
murder, and also that they belonged TO q
band Of robbers, who had committed other
murders. Randolph was shot by the mob
but Phillips escaped.
On Wednesday of last week party of
young ladies and young men were in n row
boat, on Bear Creek, near Baltimore, when
several of them began to rock the boat vio-
lently. In attempting to turn, the rocking
caused the boat to upset and the party were
all thrown into the water. Assistance came
to them from the shore, and all of them were
nnI I,f =.
Mr. Henry Smith, n builder, of Baltimore.
On Monday of last week, Mr.. Musselman
while hauling bark near Shrewsbury, was
bitten very severely in the finger by large
rattlesnake. Mr.. NJ, at once went to where
he had left his axe and chopped his finger off
close to the hand. His comrades then bound
up the hand for him and took him, to town
where whiskcy in large quantities was admin
istcred to him which after repeated doses put
him to sleep. Mr.. M. is about again. York
True Democrat, 20M inst.
"A mysterious suicide occurred during
trip to Charleston on the steamer South Car
DINA, which left New York on Wednesday
of last week. An unknown passenger, who
had registered under the name of j Incogni-
to, when off Hatteras on Friday shot himself
three times with n revolver while lying in
his berth, and died almost instantly. He had
carefully destroyed every thing in his bag
gage by which his body could be identified.
He left letter to the Captain indicating
that he took passage with the intention Of
committing suicide.
One day last week Louis Chaaf, an aged
man, and his son, 10 years DID, were commit
ted to Jail on the charge of attempting to
shoot one Barbara Haas The next day upon
goingnto the cell they found that the elder
man had cut his sons throat with razor, and
before he could be restrained, in the presence
of the officers cut his own throat. Their
wounds were dressed and they will probably