The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-24
THE NEWS.

The Prince of Wales is returning from
India.
The Fifth Regiment of Baltimore is pre-
pairing 10 visit the centennial
The Pottsvillc. (Pa,) town hall was
burned on last Sunday morning Loss
$4,000.
The President, it is stated, has no inten-
tion of making any changes i'll the Federal
appointees for Maryland.
The trial of b. B. Ilalleck for completely
in the theft of $41 900 from the Treasury, in
Washington resulted in his conviction.
Henry A. Hammond has been arrested at
Rockville, Ind, for the alleged murder of
Peter Remy, at Jumet, Belgium, in 1873.
George E. Crozier, convicted of the MUIR
der of his wife, by poison, was sentenced at
Elmira, N Y, to be hanged on the 9th of
May.
President Grant sent n messenger to
Canada to assure Marsh of perfect immunity
if he will return and testify in the Belknap
case.
The Virginia House of Delegates in
striking contrast with our own, by decisive
vote rejected a proposition to tax church
property.
Maggie O'Brien, child years old,
living in Newark, n. j., while sitting by
stove on Monday, fell upon it and was burn
The snow fall on Monday was wide
spread and unprecedentedly heavy. In
North Carolina it is thought The peach crop
was destroyed by it.
On Tuesday in the South Carolina Sen
ale the notorious Judge Moses was found
guilty of high crimes and misdcmcanors and
formally dismissed.
Sunday morning the powder mill of
Thos. G. Brainard, three miles south of
York, Pa, exploded, destroying the entire
building. No loss of life is reported.
On Monday one of the most severe snow
storms ever known occurred in Scotland
The railroad lines near Aberdeen were
covered twenty feet deep. The cold was in
tense.
An eruption of Mount Vesuvius COM
menced on last Friday night. large col
umn of vapor rises from the summit and re-
fleets the fire beneath. The sight is mag
nificent.
Fourteen tons of silver coin, amounting
TO $500 900, are expected at the Treasury De-
partment from California, this week, in an
tcipation ofthe period for commencing the
circulation of silver.
General Schenck, cN-ministcr to Eng
land, has arrived at New York. Heis want
ed at Washington to tell n congressional
committee what he knows about bogus sill
yer mines, draw poker, &c.
The corruption of voters in the recent
New Hampshire election was carried to
amazing lengths. The Republican managers
sent $3.50 into the little town of South
Hampton, where there are only 140 voters.
AN engine and eight cars of freight
train ON the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
broke through bridge over the Meramee
river, on Wednesday week. The engineer
was killed, and the fireman badly burned.
james Little and VIM. O'Malley, two
boys aged respectively 1G and IS, were mr.
rested at St. Louis last Sunday, charged with
robbing a store in New Orleans. Four
thousand dollars were found in their posses
sion.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on the
Narrow Passage Bridge disaster, which oc-
CURED on the night of March 9th, was to the
effect that "the breaking of the bridge was
caused by the unsoundncss of the timbers in
the said bridge"
The special committee of the U. S. Sen
ate have made an adverse report on the nomi-
nation of r. H. Dana rs minister to England.
II has been shown that Dana was guilty of
literary piracy, in the publication ofhis work
on international law.
Five hundred persons are suffering from
absolute starvation on tie Westman Islands,
by i'll success of the fisheries last year. Com
munication with these islands is almost inn
possible during the winter season.
The Sewing Machine ring has been bro
ken by the refusal of the committee on pat
ents to report in favor of an extension of
patent on the -four feed motion" The cf-
feet of this action will be reduction in the
price of sewing machines.
"A disastrous fire occurred last Sunday at
Charleston, S. c., by which 100000 worth
of property was destroyed and hundreds of
people made homeless and penniless While
the fire ragged bands of negro robbers sack
ed every house in which they could gain adj
mittance.
"A severe wind storm from the West pre-
vailed ct Knoxville on the 10Th. Telegraphs
were levelled, houses were unroofed, and the
walls of new iron foundry were blown
down. There was also q severe storm at
r. Cincinnati and in the country around, &C.
companied by rain, hail and lightning. Many
houses were unroofcd.
An effort was made 10 blacken Secretary
Bristow's character, by u publication in n
New York paper charging him with having
received fee of $10,0 600 for collecting mule
claim against the government. The Secre-
tary indicated his character, and the at
tempt to injurc him will rccoil upon the
heads of his enemies.
A letter to the Baltimore Sun, from JEFF
ferson, Texas, encloscs newspaper slip an
nouncing the death near that city of Quaco
Walker, colored, whose age, it is claimed by
DIR. Walker, q prominent citizen, was 13i
years. He was born in North Carolina, in
1742, and his life was spent in that State,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. es
Fourteen bodies-all that arc missing
have been recovered from the ruins of the
burned Poor House, at Norwich, Conn. The
coroners jury on the victims returned a YER
dict declaring that everything possible had
been done to save the inmates, condemning
the construction OF the building.
The Senate of Mississippi, sitting as o
High Court of Impeachment, has granted
Governor Ames five days to answer. Lieu
tenant Governor Davis, Mississippi has re
signed, and his successor will be appointed
by Ames. The resignation of Cardozo
Superintendent Of Public Education, is ex
pected.