The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-25
THE EEXS.
EEL AIR, FRIDAY, FEB. so, 1876.
THE NEWS.

Texas.
Immense crowds attend the reviya
meetings of Moody and Sanky, at the Hip
podrome, New York.
Ohio farmers report that up to the pres
ent time fruit OF all kinds is uninjured, and
there is every prospect of a fine crop.
"A man named Keith has been sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the Maine peni'
Tertiary, for poisoning neighbours well.
"A bill abolshing the death penalty has
passed the Maine Legislature, and imprison-
ment at hard labor for life is substituted
therefor.
Charlotte eastman, the celebrated TRACE
dienne, died at Boston last Friday, in her 62d
year. Her last appearance on the stage was
in New York on Nov. 7th, 1874.
The wife of Joseph Walker, the Vine.
gar Bitters man, has applied for divorce,
and asks for $4,000 q year. She testified
that Walkers income is over 100000 a year.
The large tin ware factory of the Lalance
and Grosjean Company was destroyed by
fire on Monday, causing loss of 100000,
and throwing $50 persons out of employ
ment.
j. F. Bauer, a wealthy baker of Brook
lyn, N. Y, while in q photograph gallery
drank quantity of cyanide Of potassium, a
colorless liquid, in mistake for water, and
died from its effects.
The historic old elm tree on Boston
Common was blown down by the gale on
Tuesday night of last week. 1t is supposed
to have been over two hundred years old,
and was called the Liberty Tree in 1884.
Rabbits are such plague to Neyade
farmers that their determination is desirable
A short time ago ten hunters in four days
slaughtered $3.50 of them. One hundred
pounds of shot were fire during the crusade
Last week the bodies of six negroes,
tied with ropes and with their Threats cut
were found on Wattss Island, in the Chesa.
peake Bay, but no clue to the perpetrators
of the deed or its motive has yet been dis
covered.
While the cashier of the Kern Valley
Bank, California, was working at his ac-
counts on Thursday night of last week, bur-
glars entered the bank They knocked him
down, chloroformed him and robbed the bank
of $4,000.
The barn of William Hunter, near Ross
vile, Wicomico county, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire on Thursday, the loss
reaching about $4,000. A colored boy NAM
ed Robert Brown has been arrested on sus-
picion OF committing the deed
The bingham House, Effingham, ILL.,,
had cook whose whole mind was in his
profession. On Friday last his pies did not
rise well, and the conscientious artist went
out and shot himself through the lungs. He
is still alive, but will die.
"A temperance society on a novel plan
has been organized in Chicago. The mem
bers are pledged, if they wish to drink, in no
case to exceed three drinks day and re-
serve the right to drink half.bottlc of claret
or ale at each meal.
The news from Spain is that the Carlists
have been beaten on every side, and their
strongholds, Enderlaza, Las Taola and the
heights around Vera have been taken by the
Kings army. AS soon rs the war is over
10000 troops will be sent TO Cuba.
Mrs. Polhamus an eccentric New York
widow, drew all her money, $4,000 from the
savings bank and kept it in work box in
the kitchen which she occupied. On Satur.
day afternoon she went out for walk and
on her return the money was gone.
"A recent raid of Internal Revenue Off
GERS in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, result
cd in the seizure and destruction of ten illicit
distilleries, and $4,000 gallons of mash and
beer Twenty one persons, including Unit
cd States Commissioner, were brought in.
Mrs Duchaslov, died in Baltimore ON
Sunday, from q coal oil accident which hap
pened week before While carrying a
lighted lamp she stumbled and fell, drop
ping the lamp, and the burning fluid set fire
TO her clothing, burning her in dreadful
manner.
1T is stated that General Schenck will
soon retire from the English mission. His
disgraceiul connection with the Emma Mine
swindle has rendered him very unpopular in
England, and his work on Poker Playing has
not added to his reputation as statesman or
diplomatist.
"A mad dog is the occasion of considcra-
BILE excitement in Sussex county, New Jer-
sey. A few days ago, before his condition
was known, he bit Mr.. John Sammins, his
owner, and his two children. He then broke
loose and ran several miles before being kill
ed, biting several dogs.
Last week, near Wigan, Somerset coun-
ty, a little girl named Mary Evans, years
of age, met with fatal accident. She was
carrying lighted candle, when she fell and
the candle dropped into basin containing
powder, which exploded and shc was so bad,
ly injured that death followed.
-Uri Milton, aged fourteen, pupil in the
Morristown, N. Y, public school, assaulted
his teacher, Miss Ida Jones, one day last
"SSns cunning hNl VII tuC nCuNt W ltii tIuD,
and infiicting injuries from which it is hardly
possible that she can recover. Milton has
been placed in Mount Holly Jail to await the
result of the lady's injuries.
1t is thought Pnchbacl's case will not
be taken up in the Senate for some time
probably not during the session-which is
construed rs an admission that votes enough
can not be had to seat him. If the surmisc
is correct it will be the last of him, for q new
Legislature will be elected in Louisiana who
would not he for Pinch
The Pension Con mltec of the House
has made some startling revelations as to the
large amount OF money wasted in this de-
partment. Great frauds have been sysle-
malically perpetrated, and a bill has been
introduced to transfer the pension business
to the War Department. 1t is believed that
million of dollars year will thus be saved.
The Beecher Advisory Council is still in
session. A letter from Francis D. Moulton
is published which was sent to the Council
but not read, in which he offers TO prove
Beecher guilty of all the crimes imputed to
him if offered an opportunity. Mr.. Bowen
has also sent communication in which lie
unhesitatingly questions Beecher's veracity
Two families returning from church
near Indanola, Iowa, on Saturday night, be.
came involved IN quarrel growing out OF
an old feud. George and John Harvey
brothers, were stabbed and instantly killed
Their father and James Groom were fatally
stabbed. The attacking party were Benja.
min and Levi Westfall with four other men
all of whom were arrested
"A few days ago, at Salt Lake City, a
grand daughter of Brigham Young married
asgentile, contrary to the wishes of her pa.
rents On Sunday she visited her mother
and when her husband called for her she
could not be found. A writ of habeas corpus
found her, however, but her attorney show
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