The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-15
THE RGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEP. IL, 1875.
THE NEWS.


mously nominated fer Congress BY the Demo
Gratis of Georgia. ~ "a
A boy named Doan was choked TO deaf
at Cherry Ridge, Wayne county, Pa, by
bean which lodged in his throat.
Gen. N p Banks is the republican can
ddale for Congress from the fifth Massachl
sets district
Moses rilden, an elder brother of Gov
Tilden, to whom he was tcnderly attached
died on Saturday last.
-Four Indians were hanged at Fort Smith
Arkansas. last Friday, for crimes committee
in the Indian Territory.
The celebrated trotting horse Ethan AL
len, died on Sunday mt II Kansas CITY, MO.
stock farm, aged ~ years.
-Ex-Gov. Henry A: Wise, of Virginia
died at Richmond, on Tuesday, in the I0ll
year OF his age.
"A little girl in New York died from
strangulation caused by swallowing small
piece OF an ivory fan handle.
One span of the railroad bridge, $50 feet
long, over the Tennessee river at London
Tenn, was blown down on Monday.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore railroad company have made reduc'
ton of from So to $15 in the wages of flag
men and track hands in their employ
Jacob Croft almost so years old, com
mitted suicide by hanging, at his home be-
tween New Providence and Quarryvillc, Pa
n few days ago.
"A barn with ten valuable horses and
other contents belonging to Alderman Don
molly, of New Haven, Conn. was burned last
Friday night.
10 otn A Il; tpo tr,, In,, Nd /
erpool, was struck by an iceberg on the 23d
of August, and foundered in twenty minutes.
The captain and crew were saved.
The Denton Journal states that a party of
Seven-days Adventists have settled in the
neighborhood of Hog Creek Caroline county.
Saturday is observed by them as Sunday.
Samuel Bggs, son ofJoseph Biggs, Esq,
of the First district of Cecil county, has re-
ceived an appointment as cadet at the Uni
ted States Naval Academy at Annapolis
The inaugural exercises of the Johns
Hopkins University, at Baltimore, took place
Tuesday morning. The address was by
Professor Huxley, the famous scientist, OF
England.
II. T. Hclmbold, the buchu man, who
has again escaped from lunatic asylum,
and has received certificates from two New
sense insane.
While the Republicans of Lancaster,
Ohio, were raising a $50 foot pole, on Satur-
day morning, it fell and killed Charles Dun
kle, George Fink and Charles Huffman.
Several others were injured
"A freight engine on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad exploded on Monday after
noon, near Frederick Junction, killing the
fireman, named Cook, and seriously injurng
the engineer, Augustus Schaetlcr.
Three Children aged respectively 8, 0
and IA years, performing in circus at
Poughkeepsie, were rescued on Saturday by
officers of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children and taken to New \ Ork.
"A fire occurred last Saturday on Elm
avenue, near Main exhibition building, Phila
delphia, destroying n number Of frame struc-
lures, used rs hotels, &c. Great fright was
caused among the visitors in the exhibition
building.
Mrs Binger, Il young married woman,
wife of Il farmer residing near Upper Mari
boro, Md, was burned to death by her cloth
ing taking fire on Monday. She was in the
act of placing lighted coal oil lamp on the
kitchen table, and missing the table the lamp
dropped on the floor, exploded, and scattered
the burning oil on her clothing.
AT Wilmington, Conn, last Thursday,
two girls, Rosie Green and Miss Shurtlcil, IA
and II years old respectively, took strychnine
for the purpose of committing suicide. Miss
Green died in four hours, but the other girl
was alive on Sunday just before Miss
Green died she said she was tired of life and
no one cared for her.
"A Baltimore man few nights ago I'M
dertook to smoke out mosquitoes with tobac-
co and gunpowder. He got shovel full of
Goals, placed some tobacco on them, and
then commenced to pour gunpowder from a
glass bottle over the tobacco and Goals. An
instantaneous explosion and badly cut wrist
was the result. He is supposed to be related
to the woman who lights her fire with kcro-
sene.
"A riot occurred at Republican meeting
in South Baltimore, last Friday night, in
which G. living Ditty was struck on the head
with billy, and James Calk and VIM. Hen
ny shot with pistols, but not seriously injur-
ed The riot and breaking up the meeting
are CONDEMNED as strongly by Democrats as
by Republicans, and the parties arrested,
James Hagan, Thomas Hogan and Richard
Willing, will no doubt receive severe but
merited punishment.
The negroes of Abbevillc S. c., are
openly threatening to burn the houses of
Democrats. The town is guarded every
night. A white man and two negroes, on
Sunday night, attempted to assassnate G. w.
Cromer. He was called to his door, and re-
fusing to open it, was fired upon through the
windows. The door was then broken down,
and the assailants fred upon him again He
returned the fire, and they fled.
On the 9Th instant, in Wyoming Terri
tory Harvey Besor was fired on by three
Indians ut short range, one ofthe balls passing
through his chest. He ran TO the ranch q
short distance, got his gun, and returned the
fire The Indians taking refuge in wash.
out, drove him back to the ranch, where he
sat eighteen hours with his gun across his
knees and cartridges in REACH determined to
sell his life dearly if again attacked. A party
has gone to bring him in.
About two months ago Miss Emma Lee
daughter of Rev. w. w. Lee, respectable
clergyman in bingham county, Ga, discoy
cred some negro thieves in the house, and
selling shot gun fired at them. A few days
afterwards she was waylaid near the house
by the same negroes beaten until it was sup
posed She was dead, and thrown into pond
The water revived her and she managed tC
make her way home. Afterwards the house
was attacked with stones by negroes, and TIL,
life of one of Mr.. Lees younger children
endangered by missile. One morning re
Gently Miss Lee had occasion to leave HON,
unattended, having only partially recovered
from her injuries. An hour or two later sh,
was found short distance from the house
with her clothing torn from her person, he
mouth gagged, her hands tied, and her body
terribly bruised. She recovered sufficiently
to tel that on her way from home she wa
seized by four negro men, who knocked he
down. She remembered nothing more unit
she found herself in secluded place, gage,
and bound She heard the sound of horse
hoofs near by, when the negroes left, saying
they would return and finish her. There i
no doubt she was outraged