The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-07-21
TO BE CONTINUED. |
THE NEWS.

The tax levy for Worcester county is 60
cents in the 500 for county purposes
The scarcity Of small change will soon
he relieved by the issue of $40 900 600 Of sill
yer coin.
EX-Spcakcr Kerr is slowly hut suhstan-
TALLY improving i'll health at Rock Alum
Springs, Va
-Margarct Wolf, a farmers wife, near
Trenton, Mass, was burned to death on the
i"lh INST, by the explosion of gasoline
lamp.
A new disease, called pink eye prosln-
llon, has broken ont among the horses in
Washington city No remedy has been dis
covered for it,
Two girls, named Kate Wclch and Anna
Mahoney, aged fifteen and eighteen years re-
spccllycly, were drowned while bathing at
Providence, X. l., on the 10th inst
John Ryan, mn insane man, went into
the Eagle Paper Mill, near Boston, on Thurs
day afternoon, and jumped head foremost
into red hot furnace. lie was Immediately
pulled out, but cannot recover.
The most horrible atrocities bv the
Turks continue to be reported. In Bosnia
it is stated, they are cutting women and chill.
drcn to pieces, throwing them in the air and
catching them on their bayoncts.
DR.. Richard S. Stuart, a wei. known uhv.
scian of Baltimore died in that citv on
Thursday in the 10Th year of his are, lie
was for Il long time Superintendent Of the
Maryland Hospital for the insane.
The entire western portion of Demos.
vile, ny, was burned Tuesday morning.
The hre is supposed to have been the work
OF two roughs, named Clark and Stephens,
who had threatened to burn the place.
"A telegram from Boston says that VIM.
Emerson Baker, "thc eccentric millionaire"
on Friday gave cX Governor CASTOR and four
other trustees u farm of 80 acres and 500
OO0 Tor the foundation OF u college of cookcry.
Haywood Grant was hanged on Friday
at home, Ga, for arson. He confessed that
nc had murdered four men, one of them the
Confederate General IIindman, who was MS.
sasslnaled ut Helena, Ark, Il few days ago.
Arthur Morse, aged 81, son of the late
Prof. 5. f. b. Morse, was killed on Monday
near New Orleans, by being thrown from The
platform OF u car, the wheels passing over
his neck, nearly scvcring his head from his
body.
-Fears were entertained Of the safety of
General CROOKS command, which is getting
ready for operations against the Sioux In
dams. Recent dispatches, however, saw TIM,
his command is safe and in fine fighting con-
dition.
The Worcester and Somerset railroad
will be Immediately extended on from New
town TO Nashville, on the seaside, and from
thence on down through Eastern Virginia
to Chcrrystone, the southern extremity of
the peninsula,
Secretary Bristow having declined to
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| committee, relating to what occurred in n
| Cabinet meeting, President Grant has writ
| ten letter, relieving him from all obligation
of secrecy on the subject,
| -Thomas Edgerly, a flftccn-years' con.
Wet, while being conveyed with 40 compan-
ions from Sing Sing TO Auburn, N. Y, re-
Gently, leaped through the car window while
| the train was running at the rate of forty
miles an hour, and was instantly killed
Last Friday night thirty tramps made
an attempt TO take possession of a freieht
train on the Bolyidcrc railroad, N. J. Their
arrangements were overheard, and the train
was boarded by the police. The gang of men
were on hand, but all fled when the notice
appeared, except five, who were arrested
"A. II, Stump, President of the Merchants
National Bank of Baltimore, and of The
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Conpanv
sustained n paralytic stroke on Monday
His left side was affected but consciousness
and the mental faculties were unimpaired.-
His condition was improved the following
day.
"A Washington colorod man, The Other
night, dressed Tor ball, and loaded pistol
to take with him. Some visitors called 10
see his mother, who was asleep. To awaken
her he fired the pistol across the bed. She
awoke very suddenly when Two pistol balls
pierced her in the groin The gay youth
was drunk.
-Wisner and Spencer Murray. brothers,
last Thursday at Goshen, N Y, horse
whipped Robert ii. Berlell New Yor,
broker, who drew n pistol and fatally wound.
ell Wisner Murray. The difficulty occurred
about some letters written by Berdell, who
was defendant in divorce suit The iniur
ed man married sister Of Berdelfs divorced
wife, and figured in the trial