The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-18
THE sEGXtS.
nEI LID lDInLY EEn 10 1osc
THE NEWS,

The NEWS.
1t is rumored that after the Babcocl,
trial is over a change will be made in Presi-
dent Grants cabinet
Only about 1000 tons of ice have been
gathered this winter on the Hudson river,
the average crop being over two million
tons.
Nelson briggs, Il noted counterfeiter, was
sentenced to fifteen yeats imprisonment at
Springfield, Illinois, on Friday and further
TO pay fine of five thousand dollars
The bill appropriating $1,500,000 to the
Centennial Exposition having passed both
Houses of Congress will doubtless be signed
by the President and become law.
On Saturday night last George Stroeber,
of Hampden, while on his way to Baltimore
city, was assaulted by three men. knocked
senseless with billy and robbed of $50.
john L;ghtncr, of Baltimore county
walked into the basin at the head Of Fredcr-,
ick street dock, Baltimore, one night last
week and would have been drowned but for
the police, who fished him out.
Deputy Sheriff Kast, of Las Animas,
Colorado, was called from his bed to auell
negro riot, when one of the negro roughs,
Charles Holland, shot him dead Holland
was arrested and placed in Jail.
The late Reverdy johnson leaves 10
children, about so grandchildren, and several
great grandchildren, nearly all of whom were
present at the anniversary of his golden
wedding on Nov. 10th, 1869.
Bill Smith, notorious outlaw and rob-
Der, who recently escaped from the Tennes-
see penitentiary, was captured about three
miles from Nashville. While resisting ar
rest lie was shot dead.
Mr.. George Whitney, of Boston, while
on his way to Baltimore last Friday evening,
by way OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad, had his pocket picked of
5000 while taking lunch at Wilmington.
"A strong probability is said to exist that
the Legislature of Louisiana will impeach
Governor Kellogg. The attitude of the col
political question, has imperilled the pros
poets of the Republican party in the South
Emily Anderson, homeless girl aged
II, attempted to commit suicide at New
York last Sunday, by jumping from ferry
boat Thomas Wells, of London, passen-
ger. jumped into the water TO rescue her, but
was seized with cramps and drowned The
girl was rescued by the deck hands,
One hundred and fifty men left Chey-
cnne few days ago for the Black Hills a
party arriving at Cheyenne from the Black
Hills reports that, during the eight days of
his trip from Gustav, he counted one hun
dred and eighty-five wagons en- route for the
hills.
-On Monday night H. f. Lewis, while
suffering under temporary alteration of mind
thought he wanted to commit suicide and
jumped into the Basin at Light street wharf,
Baltimore. The cold water, however, caused
him to change his mind, and crying Justify
for help policeman fished him out.
On last Sunday evening, in Philadelphia,
two boys, one 10 and the other 10 years old,
got into q quarrel on the steps of a church,
before church hours, when the younger drew
pocket knife, and with the small blade
stabbed the other boy to the heart killing
him almost instantly.
The Iowa Legislature, to protect the
large number Of its verdant citizens who are
constantly falling beneath the insidious wiles
of the three-card monte men, have passed a
law authorizing railroad conductors, station
agents and other persons to arrest these
nimble-fngered gentry, with or without n
warrant.
The U. s. Senate has passed bill pro-
vlding that no corporation shall transport
animals from one State to another, in rail-
road cars or other conveyances for a longer
period than twenty-four consecutive hours,
without unloading the same for rest, water
and feeding for II period of at least seven
consecutive hours.
Lands, the murderer of Carruth, the
Vineland, N. j., editor, was acquitted by the
jury on the ground Of insanity. Since then
witnesses have been examined by the court,
and the learned judge declared him sane
He has accordingly been released from GUS
tody. We had thought the insanity dodge
jures can still be deceived by it.
On Sunday night two men attempted 10
drown n colored woman at ST. Louis by
throwing her off the bridge into the river
The woman was rescued. She stated that
she had discovered that the men, whose
names are Wilson and Holland, were the
parties who robbed all express car near st.
Louis q short time ago. and they sought to
conceal their crime by numbering her.