The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
THE sREZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, NOV. "a, 1876.
THE NEWS.

10 denlSd.
"A mulatto boy four years old was burned
to death while playing with matches last
week, at hotel in Salisbury, Wicomco
county
"A little daughter of Lewis Matthias liv
ing near Franklinville, Frederick county,
recently had hand cut off by her brother,
who was chopping wood.
Official returns from 101 counties in
Kentucky give Tiden 81 100 majority. The
16 counties to be heard from are not expect
ed to materially change these figures.
Thomas II, Handy, formerly of Somer.
set county, Md, is elected sheriff of New
Orleans, the most profitable office in the
State, and the returning board cannot count
him out.
"A child aged three years, son of George
w. Nokes of Washington, d. G., was burned
to death on Monday, by his clothes taking
fire from stove, while left alone in the
room.
The furniture of both chambers of Con-
gress has been replaced, and necessary re-
pairs have been made, SO that they are now
ready for occupancy in anticipation of the
sessions.
"A flour barrel containing the dead body
Ola young woman was brought from Sorrel
TO Montreal on q steamer, on Saturday morn
ing. The man having charge of the strange
freight was arrested.
The Vermont House on Saturday passed
the bill for filling a vacancy in the electoral
college-129 to 10. The act is specially de-
signed to meet the case of II. N. Sollace, said
to be ineligible.
"A singular accident has happened to
man in London. He was smoking clay
pipe in the street, and was run against by
another man. The pipe was thrust into his
jaw and could not be extracted.
The oldest inhabitant of Washington
county, Md, Mrs. Schnebley, died at her res
idence, near Hagerstown, Friday evening"
aged one hundred and three years, nine
months and two days.
In the case of the recent great cyclone
IN Eastern Bengal, the aggregate of destruc-
ton has augmented since the publication of
the first reports, and now the number of lives
reported lost is placed at the astounding fig
IRE of 10000.
VIM. Mckee, who was convicted of com.
plclty in the st. Louis whisky frauds, was
released from Jail on Saturday on telegraph
lc order from Attorney General Taft, his
pardon having been signed by the President
A wealthy Texas widow, aged So was
married in Newark, N. j., the other day to
cattle drover aged 90, who had saved her life
from an Infatuated steer, by selling the ami
NAL by the horns and holding it until the
lady escaped.
During a church entertainments Per-
ryville, n. Y, last Friday evening, the floor
gave way, precipitating over fifty ladies and
children to the floor beneath. A number of
them were severely injured, some of whom
can scarcely recover.
The Italian 100-ton gun is a good deal
more than large enough to take man in
whole. To ascertain if it is damaged, man
lies down on gigantic marrow spoon with
candle in his hand and is pushed slowly
down the bore, examining it rs he goes along
The New York Herald thinks that if
Hayes is elected by the patent process of the
Louisiana returning board, he will be known
as "kellogg-Hayes." We would also sug-
gest His Fraudulency" as on appropriate
title.-Gazette.
The Centennial Exhibition Melted from
$15O0,00O TO So 900 900 after paying all ex-
penses. The question now ccclrs whether
out of this surplus the loan of 81 100000
from the government is to be repaid CT the
entire amount divided amongst the stock.
holders
In bar room fight about politics, in
New York, on the 9th inst, Richard O'Keefe
poked John Fitzsimmons in the eye with an
umbrella with such force as 10 leave the
ferule imbedded in the muscles of the orbit.
Fitzsmmons died from inflammation of the
brain few days ago.
Joseph Jorgcnson, congressman elect from
the fourth district of Virginia, has instiiu cd
suit for $4,000 damages against the Rich
mond Dispatch for alleged libel. The suit is
based on an assertion of the newspaper
charging Jorgenson with the cmbezzlement
fpublic money while postmaster of Peters
burg,
The Atlantic coast was covered with
millions of dead fish last week On Cobb's Is
land strip of the beach two miles long and
seventy-five feet wide was covered with them
to depth of from three to six feet. Vessels
have been laden with them, for transporta-
ton to farmers of Accomac, who are using
them as manure for their lands.
Last Saturday night, VIM. H. Hosford,
deputy collector of Wyoming, was fired upon
twice by Charles Lightner, of Omaha, Meth
er shot taking effect. Hosford then drew
revolver and shot Lightner, killing him in
stantly. Lightner was in oxicated and had
forced his way into Captain Hazrodt's resi-
dence, from which Hosford elected him.
On Tuesday night after the election, at
Somerset, Ky, party of negro outlaws took
negro man named Charles West and hung
him to q tree, just below town. A white
man came along just in time to cut him down
and save his life. West had voted the Dem
ocratic ticket, and these Radical negroes had
determined to kill him for it,
"A paper balloon, 10 feet long and 10
feet in diameter, and stoutly corded. fell at
noon on the nth inst, in Sykes & Simpsons
stone quarry, mile and n half from Frank
lin ON the New Jersey Midland Railroad,
N. j., marked as follows: "Sent up by r.
.. Brown & Co., 1876 Cheapside street, Lon
don, K. g. The finder will please commune
cate at cnce with the above firm"
"A man in New York, after three unsuc-
cessful attempts to commit suicide by
drowning having been rescued every time
was arrested and fined S. for endeavoring to
take his own life Hereafter would-be sui
cides had better see that they have five
dollar bill about them, before making the at-
tempt to shuttle off the mortal coil, otherwise
they may find themselves in prison instead
of in the other country.
"A wagon containing 3G persons ei, route
from Cincinnati, Ohio, last Saturday night,
to attend a wedding, were accidentally driv.
en- over the side of q bridge, and fell twenty.
five feet to the rocks beneath Louis Bran
lage, aged e. had his spine fractured and
will probably die; Joseph Meyers had his
scull fractured; Mary Klienburg, aged 10,
conclusion of the brain, supposed fatally in
jured. Nine or ten others were more or less
severely injured
The noted highwaymen and robbers, the
Younger brothers, Cole, James and Robert