The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-29
THE ~ EZN.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEP. 20, 1876.
THE NEWS.

Gov. Swann's opponent for Congress il
the fourth district of Maryland is DIR. j. II
Butler, Republican nominee.
-Paymaster Breeze, who was missing an,
supposed to have been robbed and murdered
has turned up at the Centennial.
Hon. J. Morrison Harris, who has beer
nominated for Congress by the Republican
of the I'd district, has signified his acceptance
"A distinct earthquake shock was felt q
New Bedford and other places in Massachu
sets, last Thursday night
Governor Tilden's reception at the Cen
tennial Exhibition, on the 21st inst, was al
informal but immense affair. One hundred
thousand persons passed through the gates
The Oregon Legislature has elected Gov
ernor Grover to the U. S. Senate. He is
Democrat, and succeeds James X. Kelly
Democrat.
-Maryland's Day in the centenary cele
bration will be October 10, which is the an
niversary of the Peggy Stewart tea burn
ing" at Annapolis, in Maryland, and of the
"A st. Louis hotel proprietor has put in
claim for 200 damages against the estate
of a man who committed suicide at his hotel
He alleges that his business suffered by
reason of the suicide in his house.
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mass meeting of 10, 900 persons, at Columbus
Ohio, last Friday. The Germans of Ohio are
enthusiastic for Tilden, Hendricks and Re
form.
The next State election before the i'm.
portant October elections in Ohio and In.
diana will take place in Georgia, where State
offices and q Legislature will be chosen on
the 4th of October.
AS an Offset to the Republican "Boys
in Blue" the Democratic soldiers and sailors
who fought IN the late war are being organ
lied. Gen. Joe Hooker is the head of the
national conservative organization.
The meeting of the Boys in Blue at In
dianpolis, is said to have been composed OF
very few veterans-those who saw the CLEAN
of steel and smelt gunpowder in the war
The majority of them were negroes and
young men belonging to the local clubs.
"A passenger train on the Pan Handle rail
road jumped the track at Black Lick station,
Ohio, last Friday morning, and four cars
rolled down an embankment twenty-five or
thirty feet high. Several persons were killed
and forty wounded.
"A strange disease, causing much alarm,
has broken out among the cattle in Wayne
county, Pa. An insect like q tick bores
deeply into the animals flesh, causing in.
lahihiapioi, dHN, III a low HOulS, uCuln-
Thirty deaths have occurred from it ut Haw-
ley's in that county.
On Thursday of last week, by the swell
ing of mountain streams in Forest county,
Pa, the cabins of two lumbermen, George
Parks and Daniel Cooper, were washed
away, early in the morning before the occu-
pants were awake, and every member of
both families sixteen in number, were drown
ed.
Frank b. Smith, private secretary to the
Secretary of the Navy, drowned himself by
jumping overheard from the steamer New
port, just after leaving New York, one day
last week. Grief for the death of a sister
and the refusal of young lady to reciprocate
his affections, it is supposed led to the act.
"A hot air balloon, in which George Win
throp assembled at Paxton, Illinois, last Sat-
urday, burst with a loud report, when at an
altitude of 500 feet, and the unfortunate
aeronant shot earthwards so rapidly that his
legs were driven into the ground up to his
knees. His forehead was cut open and his
nose broken by the basket falling on him.
lie was alive at last accounts.
The commissioners have concluded a
treaty with the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arrap.
ahoe Indians, at the Red Cloud Agency
The condition of the treatyis that they shall
abandon the Black Hills and go to the In.
dian Territory. Sitting Bull took part in
the negotiations The Indians who signed
the treaty were Red Cloud, Young Man
Afraid-of-his Horses, Red Dog, Little Wound
American Horses, Afraid-of- the. Bear, Three
Bears, Fire Hunter, Quick Bear, Red Leaf
Fire-Eyes Man, White Cow, Good Bull, Sor-
rel Horse, Weasel Bear, Two Lances, Bad
Wound, High Bear, He-Takes- the Evening
Soldier, Slow Bull, High Wolf and Big Foot
The furniture factory of Rosendale g.
Co., and the lumber yard of Peter e. Brcn-
man, adjoining, On North Frederick street.
Baltimore, were destroyed by fire, early last
Saturday morning Damage $4,000. AT
the same time a serious fire took place in a
warehouse on West Baltimore street, occu-
pied by Burgunder & Grcenbaum, wholesale
clothiers, and Henry Grunebaum, gents fur.
nishng goods. The building belongs to
Stein Bros, and was damaged to the amount
of $4,000 or $4,000. Henry Grunebaum's
stock is insured for $4,000. Burgunder g.
Greenbaum's stock is damaged to the amount
of $4,000, but is insured for $32 900.
Three hundred recruits have been order.
ed to be forwarded to the department of the
South for distribution as follows: $50 fol
the Second Infantry, at Atlanta, Georgia sc
for the Third Infantry, at Holly Springs
Miss, and 100 for the Sixteenth Infantry, III
Huntsville, Ala
Henry Hilgert, attorney at law was
found dead in a bath tub, at Guys hotel Bal
timore, on Monday evening last. Verdict
OF the coroner's jury was that deceased came
to his death by causes unknown. Supposed
suicide.