The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-22
TIE NEWS.

~ occurred in South Carolina.
A disastrous incendiary fire, involving
IL .oss of 5000, 600, occurred ut Bolivar, Tenn,
| last Friday.
More troops are being ordered from the
frontier to Washington and other points not
far distant from that city.
! John Morton, a son of Senator Morton,
has been appointed government commission
CT Of seal fisheries in Alaska.
The mayor OF Philadelphia, in a message,
recommends that the capital Of the State be
removed from Harrisburg to Philadelphia.
~ Colorado woman has collected fifty
| bushels ofgrasshOppers and sCalded and dried
! them for wintOr chicken feed.
President Grant, after he leaves the
White House will sail for Havana, where he
will spend a few weeks, and then take trip
! to Europe.
John Hahn, of Baltimore, was terribly
sion OF II coal oil lamp which dropped from
| his hand and broke on table,
Nicholas PARKWAY, colorcd died on the
Slh inst, at Westminster. "Old Mex as
he was called, went of in the full nick of
Lime-being 10 years old,
The Academy of Music in Baltimore was
| sold at auction last Thursday and purchased
by James A. Gary for $1G5, 900. Ii is under.
stood that the purchase was made for the
| bondhoders.
Mary Kelly, aged II, was shot and per
haps fatally wounded, by Eugene Crist, in
New ! ork, last week. She refused to marry
Crisl, who las been out Of employment for
some time.
Two men charged with murder, were
liberated from Jail AZ Baldslon, KY, on the
18th, by ten masked men, who opened the
cells after gaining admission into the Jail on
the pretcnse of drsir NJ to incarcerae pris-
oner just arrested
Lust Friday, while force of policemen
at New Orleans were taking a negro to the
! station house for shooting TWO other negroes,
they were attacked by mob OF negroes, and
III the battle that ensued, ten Or twenty ne.
| groe, and three or four whites were wounded.
An excursion train, consisting of an en-
CINE and one coach, ran over thirty foot
cmbar kment near Lafayette, Ind, last Fri
day. No one was killed, but the passengers
were all more or less bruised. The accident
occurred from the breaking of n driving
wheel 0f Tic engine.
Last Saturday night the house Of Mrs.
james Hennc scy, on Long Island, N. Y &,
! was destroyed by fire and her child persisted
! in the flames. The fire was Caus ID by the
! ignition OF the childs clothing at the stove
while Mrs. HCnncssey was absent on an er-
rand
The revolution in Mexico is still in prog.
ross. President Lerdo has been captured
and Gen. DiaZ has taken the city of Mexico
! The latter has proclaimed himself provision.
al. President, land the struggle is now between
the rival prelcnders, Daz and Iglesias.
-Elkanah ingalls, and his wife, living in
| Providence, r. were suffOcated Sunday
morning. llappears they left lighted lamp
on bureau on going to bed. When the
police, attracted hy ne smoke, entered the
house, the top of the bureau WAS found to
| have been burned.
Daniel BOwly committed suicide, last
Sunday, by jumping overheard from a ferry
boat. Six monlhs ago he was man ofmcans
and had an immense income; but losing his
money in the tiuctuntins of business, he be-
came Respondent and to avoid the ills he
knew, fed to others that he knew not Of
"A sanguinaTy encounter occurred last
Friday at the Ebbitt House, Washington, be
tween Col. }. w. Fairfax, of Va, and +. NJ
Schell, of Indiana. Knives were freely used,
Fairfax receiving three cuts and Schell one.
Neither was seriously hurt The dispute
was entirely Of personal nature and had no
reference to politics,
John ]. Long, a Republican, who was
counted in by the Returning Board as a
member Of the Louisiana Legislature, has
written a letter declining to take the posi-
ton, knowing he says, that he was clearly
defeated. He boldly denOunces the frauds
perpetrated by Kellogg's returning board,
and says there was no intimidation on the
day Of election.
Last Saturday evening two desperadocs,
John Flemming and Edward Skiverlol at
tucked the dwelling of Jacob Simmit. at
Beaver Dale, Northumberland Co., Pa, and
tried to break open the door, at the same
time using threatening language Simmit
fired at them through Il window, lodging the
contents Of a shot gun in Skiverton's stom.
ach, killing him.
j McKlm Marriott member of leading
real estate firm of Baltimore, committed sui.
eide, last Friday night, by jumping overheard
from the Norfolk steamer, George Leary.
He attempted suicide two weeks ago by cut
ting his wrists with razor. His friends
give as a reason for his acts, paralysis of the
brain He was well connected, and leaves n
young wife, to whom he had been married
but few weeks.
The banking house of William NJ. Ream
in Somerset, Ohio, was entered 10y four mask.
ed men, and robbed Of $4,000 on Wednes.
day night of last week. Part of the bank
building was occupied as IL dwelling by
Ream's family. The robbers overpowered
The occupant: and compelled Ream to open
) the safe. They took paper money only leav.
ing the coin. Ream remained bound and
gagged until neor'y daylight, his wife fearing
to be kilieG if she gave an alarm.
-Duiing the closing hours of ball in Bal
timore last week, n political discussion arose
which ended in the discharge of firearms, ant
Councilman, named Mulligan, received
: fatal wound, Thomas j. Hogan, one of the
rioters at Cross Street Market in September
, last, was arrested for the shooting The
quarrel was renewed in n saloon Tuesday
night, VIII james Buscy and James Hogan
were severely wouuded-Ihc former with q
bullet the latter with knife.
' Last week coored man, employed il
hauling ice for Mr.. Erdman, on the Hartford
t road, was shot and narrowly escaped will
l.. his life. He was driving along the Hartford
i rond when two men cal:ie by in buggy
: BY some means the buggy ard wagon collid
= ed, Hot words ensued betw The men il
the buggy and the colored man, when one O
the former drew pistol and fired two shot
, at the co ored MN One of the balls tool
r. effect in his arm and the other in his bach
? near the spine but the wound Was not npcpf