The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-22
THE EEZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEP. %, 1876.
THE NEWS,

note encouraging signs of general revivi
of business.
Watson Chambcrlain's paper mill, &
Loudville, Mass, was burned last Friday
loss, $4,000.
Gen. Grant intends to make Washingto
city his home when he lays aside the care
of office.
More than 5000 acres of land in tn
great Dismal Swamp have been burned ovel
and the fire is still in progress.
There was a Jail delivery at Belias
Maine, on Thursday night, three prisoner
escaping 10y overpowering the jailor.
William Browne, IL painter, working n
the third story of n house in Harrisburg, fel
to the ground on Saturday and was killed
The boiler of saw mill at MurfreesborC
Tennessee exploded on Saturday, KILN!
Samuel Stevens and William Harrison.
Recently compiled statistics show that
more grain is shipped from Baltimore thai
from both New York and Boston together.
"A man at Jamaica, Long Island, recentl
died horrible death, by being poisoned iron
drinking water out ola well in which wer,
n number of dead toads.
United States troops are beginning Il
make their appearance in various parts o
the South, more numcrously than elsewhere
in South Carolina.
The yellow fever is raging at Savannah
Ga. Much distress and suffering have beer
caused thereby, especially to the colored peo
pie, and appeals for aid hayc been sent to tht
principal cities,
"A horse was chased for long distance by
locomotive on the Staten Island railroad
N. Y, on Tuesday, and at length the animal
jumped from the track down an embank-
ment, and broke its neck.
The case of John d. Lee, the Mormon
indicted for the Mountain Meadow massacre
some years ago, in which men, women and
children were butchered by the Mormons
was given to the jury yesterday.
Two brothers named Wheeler have ar
rived at Fort Laramie from the Black Hills
bringing with them as the proceeds of seven
months work over 100000 and 1000 lbs. of
gold dust. They had a paid escort of twenty
armed men.
j. s. Mayberry,a revenue detective, was
shot while in his house by an assassin and in:
stantly killed. The murderer is supposed
to belong to gang of counterfeiters, one OF
whom is on trial and Mayberry was an i'm.
portant witness against him.
Three coloredm were shot and wound
ed near Monroe, La, on Saturday, by a
white men pursued and captured him, bring
ing him to the Jail. He was a stranger there
who had come on foot from Texas.
Assistant Paymaster John Breese, u S.
N, whilst journeying from st. Louis to New
port last month, with $4,000 to $4,000, mys-
teriously disappeared, and it is feared by the
officials at the Navy Department that he has
been robbed and murdered.
H. L. Whitelock & Cos store, at Rising
Sun, Cecil county, was robbed, last Saturday
night, of its most valuable stock consisting
of silks, gloves and Ievolvers. The thieves
then procured hand car on which they pro-
ceeded to Perryville, where they dumped the
car in the river and it is suppo d took q
train TO Baltimore.
The market for our farm products is wi
dening. Since last July American cattle have
been received at Glasgow to the number of
from 100 to $50 head per week. Meat has
also been imported there regularly, the aver
age quantity being $50 carcasses weekly
In time this transatlantic traffic may be cX-
pected to attain large proportions.
"A courier who left Gen. Crooks COM
mand September 10brings news of success
full attack by Col. Mills and $50 men, upon
large Sioux village. The Indians were taken
completely by surprise and scattered in all
quantity of provisions, savage spoils and
$40 ponies in the hands of the troops. One
soldier and private citizen were killed, and
several soldiers wounded
The N. Y. World has been made to be-
lieve that yellow fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Baltimore. Considerable
Geographic correspondence has taken place
between the editors of the San and the World
in reference to the Worlds dispatch The
report arose from several cases of typho-
malarial fever in East Baltimore, near the
Basin, but the disease disappeared upon the
application of disinfectants.
"A terrific explosion occurred at the coal
oil works of Merritt, Jones & Co., Canton
Baltimore, last Thursday, by which Roger
Shiels, workman engaged in repairing
large tank,and Robert j. McFadden, foreman
of the works, were blown almost to atoms
A building close by containing twelve tanks
full of oil was set on fire, rs was also an adj
joining building, and all completely destroy
ed. The loss is upwards of $30,000 on
which there is some insurance.
"A dispatch from Los Angeles, California.
narrates n tale of terrible suffering on the
Colorado desert. Henry Smith, from ST..
Louis, with one companion and pack train,
left Yuma for Los Angeles, and wandered
four days on the desert without water
Smith opened veins of his arms and drank
the blood, which clotted in his throat. He
then cut his windpipe to remove it, and died
in a few hours after. His companion reach
ed the station in the last stage of exhaus.
ton.
The display of fireworks at Philadelphia
on the 2Sth of September pennsylvania day.
promises to be the finest ever witnessed in
America. The centennial commissioners
have concluded contract with Il. c. Brock
IL Co., of London, famous artists, for this dis.
play. Among the attractions ofthis show will
be the simultaneous illumination of the entire
centennial grounds and buildings, and the
discharge of hundred colored signal rock
cts atthe same moment, the ascent of three
immense balloons bearing magnesium lights,
the ascent of one hundred Chinese tourbil-
Ions, portrait of Washington seventy-five
feet in length, done in fire, clouds of jewels,
amethysts, rubes and the like, and other nov-
ell devices.
Mrs. Harley, a respectable white woman,
living near Silverton, s. c., while alone in
her house with two children, was assaulted
by two negro men, who knocked her down
two or three times. Her screams alarmed
the negroes, who fled. Search was made
for them by the neighbors and one of the nc
groes was arrested and shot. The other es-
capped and when q constable with writ
made an effort to arrest him he was confront.
ed by at least 200 armed negroes who resisted
thenegro's capture. The whites also gathered
and armed themselves. The negroes agreeing
to deliver up the negro who committed the as
sault, the whites dispersed, but while retir-
ing to their homes several were ambushed and
killed. The Augusta and Port Royal road
is in the hands of the negroes, who tore up the
track, wrecking freight train. The U. S.
troops have been called upon for protection.
The lssUEs.-Thc issues upon us are not