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

NiV's
The county tax in Talbot county, Md,
is G3 cents on the 800.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pre.ender, was
in New York last week.
Organized schools will hereafter he adj
mitted TO the Centennial Exhibition at %
cents per head.
Negotiations are in progress between
Great Britain and the United States for n
new eXtradition treaty.
-Four thousand acres of woodland, near
Breslau, l.. L., were recently burned over
The loss is estimated at 100000.
-Soliloquy by a tppler-Thc public al
ways notices you when you have been drink
ing and never when you are thirsty.
Mrs. Theodore Tlton refuses to accept
any assistance from her husband and sup
ports herself in Brooklyn by taking in sew
ing.
"A house in New York was set on fire
recently by spontaneous combustion taking
place in box containing n quantity of oily
rags.
Sarah GOodloe, young lady of Portage,
Pa, while picking blackbcrries was bitten on
the leg by n rattlcsnakc and died before she
could be taken home.
Last Wednesday, boy named Aaron
Stern, died in New York of paralysis result
ing from injury to his spinal cord, received
while playing leap frog
BY the capsizing of yacht in New
York bay, last Thursday, VIM. Il. Garner,
his wife, Frost Thorne, Miss Adele Hunter
and a cabin boy were drowned.
The Cincinnati Light Guard arrived in
Philadelphia on Monday, having marched
the entire distance, nearly 200 miles, in 30
days, or an average of "a miles day.
Last Saturday week six hundred men
were thrown out of employment by suspen-
sion of work at the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company's rolling mills at Cum
berland, Md
On Monday the arguments were COM
menced in the impeachment trial of w. w.
Belknap, late Secretary of War, Mr.. Jenkes
speaking for the prosecution and Judge Black
for the defense.
On Sunday night n cloud burst on the
Diamond range of mountains, which resulted
in the death of thirteen Chinese wood chop
pers and probably large number ofIndians
camped in the canon getting out timber.
On Sunday night, Patrick Ford, of Bos-
ron, actuated by Jealousy, killed his wife with
nh axe, and in attempting to escape arrest
jumped from the roof of the house, and re-.
ceivcd injuries from which he died in half
an hour.
The barn of Abner Rogers, in Cecil
county, near the Chester county line, was de-
stroyed by fire, last Sunday week, with all
the crops Of the farm except the oats. The
fire is supposed to have been the work Of an
incendiary
The report of the killing of Sitting Bull
in the fight with Custer is said to be con-
firmed by dispatches from Bismarck, Dako-
tab Territory. Crazy Moon and Black Horse
were also killed. The total loss of the In
dams will reach nearly four hundred.
On Monday morning of last week Mrs.
Lewis Fowler, of Wilmington, Del while
on visit to her mother, Mrs. Hyland, of
Elk Neck, Cecil county, Md, was seriously
and it is thought fatally burned while at.
tempting to kindle fire with kerosene.
The dead lock in Congress over the APP
preparation bills is virtually over. The joint
committee of conference have agreed upon
the Army bill The latter does not cut down
the pay nor reduce the size of the army but
cuts down its total expenses below last yeaI
nearly 1000, 900 So much for Democratic
economy,
james Cross, with party of five girls
was boating on the lake near st. Joseph, Mo.
on Sunday, when one of the girls reaching
to get water lily tipped the boat over and
before assistance could reach them the whole
party, except Cross were drowned. The
ages of the party ranged from to 10. They
were all Germans.
The Fifth Maryland regiment, with the
regmental band arrived at Cape May, N. j.
at 5 o'clock Saturday morning A CRANE
reception, ball and display of fire works was
given in their honor Saturday evening The
address of welcome was made by Genera
Bradley r. johnson, to which Col Loney
made brief response,
On Monday of last week, in field nea
Tollesboro, KY, Robert Ellis was shot dowr
in cold blood by G. w. Lee, n man of DIES
peratc character Lee claimed that Eli.
had admitted criminal intimacy with his wife
Lee gave himself up, and on "Wednesday
seventy-flve armed men took him from thu
jailor and hanged him TO tree.
"A man named Wiley, at Pemberton, Pa.
becoming crazed with jealousy, murdered
his wife with a hatchet and then killed him
self by cutting his throat with razor. III
had received number of anonymous letter
charging his wife with infidclty, and form
or wife of Pratt, from whom he had been di
vorced, was suspected of having writer
them.
Henry Miller, one of Napoleon Bona
parties old soldiers, died in Talbot county Of
the goth instant, aged "a years. He accom-
panied Napoleon when he invaded Russit
was in the retreat from Moscow and Tough
ut Waterloo. He was one of the Oldest Free
masons in the country, having Joined TIL
fraternity when young man in France
An old gentleman, farmer, name
Haines, residing in Chester county, Pa, wa
killed last week in a singular manner. Ser
ing storm approaching, he went to his bar
to close the large doors. just rs he reacl
ed the door, the wind struck it, hurting
against him with such force that he wa
knocked senselcss and died in short tim
from the effects of the blow.
"A great wrestling match for $500 sid
took place in Baltimore last Saturday nigh
between Thiebaud Bauer, Frenchman, an
VIM. Miller, an Englishman. After q strul
gle of nearly three hours, Miller was declare
the victor, having won two falls out of ihre
The Sun says it is surprising that SO man
find pleasure in such entertainments, an
thinks that the splendid muscle and phys
cal power spent in these contests might !
put TO much better practical service.