The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-07-28


living in New York, was found astride of q
clothes line suspended between two houses
five stories from the pavement BY means
of stone q rope was thrown oyer the clothes
line, by which he descended to the ground
He explained that the night before he had
gone to sleep upon the roof and found him.
self suddenly struggling to save himself from
being dashed to pieces by clinging to the
clothes line.
During q storm on the 18th inst, Lizzie
M. Clapp, a telegraph operator at Rcadville,
near Boston, was killed by lightning. The
bolt entered her office and flew from the wire,
striking her on the left side of the neck, leav-
ing black mark, which subsequently ex.
tended down her breast. She arose to her
feet after being struck, gave one piercing
scream and sank to the floor lifeless. A
string of gold beads, and her ear drops were
melted by the electricity.
james E. Pannell on Friday night last at
Lancaster, Pa, murdered his wife, Mrs. An
mic Pannell, by shooting her twice with q
pistol. His wife had refused to live with
him, on account of his brutal treatment of
of her, when he drew four-barrelled pistol
and fired at her, the ball entering the left
check. He then deliberately reloaded the
pistol, as she was sinking to the floor, and
fired again, the ball entering behind the right
ear, and penetrating to the brain.
AWOrd to RefOrmcrs.
The Republican leaders in Maryland
are moving Heaven and earth to carry the
State for Hayes and Wheeler. Their only
hope of success lies in obtaining the assist
ance and support of those members of the
Democratic party who took part in the
Reform movement last Fall. If they can
get the Reform Democrats to join them,
they feel quite certain of success, and the
Republican leaders, and some of the rank
and file of that party, too, seem to imagine
that it will be very easy thing to induce
the Democratic Reformers to do this.
We do not believe that more than one
Reformer out of every thousand can be
fuid either in the city of Baltimore or
the State of Maryland who will not support
the Democratic nominees. The Reformers
in this city and State who intend to vote
for Hayes and Wheeler are not enough to
change the vote of n single precinct. If
the Republican party in Maryland relies
upon Reform votes to change the political
position of affairs next Fall, it will find
itself sadly and wofully mistaken and dis
appointed when election time comes. In
deed we cannot see how any Democrat who
participated in the Reform movement in
this State last Fall could, without the
grossest Inconsistency, support Hayes and
Wheeler i'll the present campaign. The
Reformers, to be consistent must support
the Democratic nominees, because those
nominees represent the same principles
and the same ideas for which Reformers
battled last fall. The same struggle is
now going on, only the battle field is much
wider and the conflict much more impor-
tant.
Last Fall the Reformers were striving
to purify the corrupt local government Of
one single State. Now, if they would be
consistent they must join that party which
is fighting hard to crush and destroy that
immense and terrible Ring in the national
government, which is exercising the most
baneful influence not over one small
State only, but over the whole length and
breadth of this vast country. For this
reason, if for no other, true Relormcrs
must vote for Tilden and Hendricks. They
are the opponents of reform in national
affairs now, just as the nominees of the
Reform party in Maryland in the last State
campaign were considered and claimed to
be the special opponents OF reform here.
Last Fall one ofthe most frequent argu-
ments used by the Reform party against
sustaining the nominees of the Democratic
Ring in this State was, that no matter how
unobjectionable any particular candidate
on that side might bc personally, yet he
was nominated by the corrupt Ring and
would bemore.or less under its influence, if
elected.
The same argument now applies to
Hayes and Wheeler However unobjec-
tionablc personally they may be, they are
the nominees of a corrupt national Ring
whose servants they are, and whose bid
dings they will do, should they be elected.
For these reasons, Reformers, who wish to
act consistently, must support the Demo
cratic nominees, and those who imagine
that they will side with the national Ring
in the present canvass do great justice to
the intelligent and honest purpose of the
Reformcrs of this Baltimorean.
LET SHERIDAN AvENGE CUsTER-When
Early was beating back the Federal forces
in the Valley, and Gordon had won most
brilliant victory when destruction and utter
ruin stared the Federal forces in the face,
Sheridan was on his way to Washington A
telegram reached him telling him of the
position of affairs in his army. He came
from Harper's Ferry to Winchester by train
and there mounted his horse, and as our
Northern brethren were so fond of saying,
"snatched victory from defeat" BY all
means let the old rider go to the front again
Sitting Bull has routed our army, and it is
reserved for Sheridan to revenge the gallant
Custer. II, perchance he should fall, we
guarantee monument to his memory in adj
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