The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-08-11
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BEL AIR, FRIDAY, AUG. IL, 1875.
THE NEWS.


The Emperor and Empress of Brazil are
travelling in Europe.
"A couple of sports opened up game
called 'banko In Philadelphia few days ago,
but were arrested, indicted convicted and
sentenced to Jail in less than two days
On Sunday night two unsuccessful at
tempts were made to fire The Concordia
Opera House, Baltimore. Henry Wust, n
discharged private Waterman, has been ar
rested on suspicion of being the guilty party.
The Most Rov. Samuel Butcher, protes-
tant Episcopal bishop of Ireland, committed
suicide last Saturday by cutting his throat
with razor, whilst laboring under temporary
insanity. caused by congestion of the lungs
and bronchitis
"A San Antonio, Texas. dispatch received
at Gen Sherdan's headquarters in Chicago,
says: "a small command under Lieut..
Bulls found the Kickapoo and Lipan camp
in Texas, and attacked it, killing two and
capturing four Indians and one hundred
horses"
The most appalling accounts of the fe--
rocity of the Turks in their warfare with
the Servians are published. At Batok 1000
bodies have been lying since May 12, rotting
in the sun From an investigation into the
recent atrocities it appears that sixty villages
have been burned and $4,000 persons killed.
Two negroes supposed to DC The parties
who murdered j. w. Everett, tho clerk
in Mr. Warnings store, at Pomonky, Charles
county, Md, on July 10, were arrested and
while awaiting transportation to Jail escap-
cd from the hotel where they were confined
Rewards of 81 $50 were offered for their cap
turo. They have been re-arrested.
AT Oxley, Ohio, few miles from Cincin-
natl, Sunday, Burrcll Dudley, Il colorcd man,
shot and killed his son aged Is, while the
latter was protecting his mother from
abuse by his father. Another son, Joseph,
aged II, interfering, was beaten over the
head with the gun in his fathers hands, and
left for dead.
Prof. King, accompanied by his daugh-
ther, Mrs. Susan j.. Nelson, and a party of
eight journalists, started for the Rocky
Mountains from the centennial grounds, last
Friday, in the mammoth balloon Buffalo,
The balloon landed opposite Rossville, in N.
j., Saturday morning, to land some of the
party, but could not rise again, so the bal
loon was packed and all started back to
Philadelphia.
"A negro, named Chris Porter, ut Spring
Hill, Arkansas, went to the residence of a
widow and her daughter on Saturday night,
and, after knocking down the daughter,
dragged her into field outraged her, and
left her almost lifccss. The next day Por-
ter was arrested and, when near Hope, wRs
met by n crowd of men, who took him from
the officers and hanged him 10 tree The
girl is not expected TO recover
"A servant girl in New York lately nc
cused herself of poisoning little boy whom
the doctors certified died of scarlet fever
The girl signed circumstantial statement de-
claring that she had given tho child acid in
milk to drink. Tho chld's body was cxhu-
med and post norton examination made. |
No traces of poison could be detected, and
the physicians believe the girl was acting
under hallucination Of mind, not unknown
to the medical science. The child's mother
believes and probably always will TINT the
girl poisoned her boy.
DR.. Flint, q protested spirit-mcdium,
who had dupcd hundreds Of persons, was ar
rested in New York last week. AS soon as
he was lodged safely in Jail, his wife, with
whom a divorce suit is pending, took posses
sion of his books which disclosed his whole
plan of operations and contained the names
answer, by the agency of spirits, letters ad-
dressed to friends or acuuaintanccs In the
other world. His charge was So. The let
tiers were returned to the writers apparently
unopened, but the apparatus for opening
them, In the shape of tea kettle over n gas
burner, was found in the room where Flint
said he communicated with the spirits
Among his customers, strange to say, appears
tho name of Edwards Picrrepont, U. s. min
lister to England, whose letter to Dear Lady
Mary" in the other world, was copied in full
in Flints book. He sought information In
regard to his English ancestors.