The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-27
THE AGZS.
BEL AIR. FRIDAY, OCT. q, 1876.
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Toy. Hayes is in Philadelphia, visiting
the exposition.
"A famine is threatened in India, on ac-
count of the failure of crops for want of rain.
-Rcv. DIR. Richard Fuller, pastor of the
Seventh Baptist church, of Baltimore, died
last Friday.
Gen. VIM II. Hayward, well.known
justice of the peace of Baltimore city, died
there on Tuesday.
Rev Dir. John p. Durbin, for many years
II leading Methodist minister, died in New
York on the 10Th inst.
The war cloud in Europe is said to be
dissolying. Asa consequence, there has been
a steady advance in stocks abroad.
Eight coOrcd men were arrested ut Will
mington, Dell on the charge of attempted
fraud at the recent elections in that city.
John Preston, of West Troy, N. Y, was
taken with hydrophobia, recently, from the
bite ola rabd dog, received fourteen years
ago.
Two persons in Washington-a woman
and church seXton-were seriously burned
on Thursday, while attempting TO kindle
fires with coal oil.
--DrBuckler Jones, Baltimore physician,
has been arrested and lodged in Jail on the
charge of causing the death of Miss Matte
Roberts by producing abortion.
Edward s. Stokes who shot James Fisk,
Jr., is to be discharged from Auburn State
prison, N. Y on the 2Sh inst He has been
in prison more than four years.
One section of centennial excursion
train on the New York Midland railroad ran
into another Monday night, causing tine
death of one passenger and the wounding OF
six others.
"A locomotive on the Western Maryland
railroad exploded at Union Bridge, on Tues.
day, killing the engineer, John W. Rumspert,
and severely wounding the fireman, George
Carr both of Baltimore.
The bands of Red Cloud, the noted In
dian chief having shown hostile Intentions
were surrounded and dsarmed by Colonel
Mckenzie. Gen. Crook then deposed Red
Cloud and made Spotted Tail chief
John Berry, white man, was arrested
at Norfolk, Va, last Saturday, charged with
poisoning his wife and three children. One
of the children has since died, and the moth
err and other two are dangerously i'll,
A crazy colored woman at Glenlock,
Pa, last Friday, killed three of her children,
aged respectively two, four and six years, by
beating them over the head with club.
She placed her infant under feather bed,
but it was rescued alive.
AT Paterson, N j., last week, Patrick
Carr who kicked his wife to death last sum-
mer, was convicted of murder in the second
degree. The penalty is 80 years imprison-
ment Carr is 70 years of age, and lived with
his wife 40 years. The plea of insanity was
raised in his trial.
The village of Mount Pleasant, opposite
Charleston, S. c., was taken possession of
Saturday night, by riotous negroes armed
with State muskets, who held the place in
sort of reign of terror all night. Application
for military protection has been made to the
federal general, Ruger.
The Indians at Red Cloud agency have
abandoned the agency, and are sending
squaws and few bucks in to draw their "a
tions. They have been informed that unless
they returned the rations would be stopped.
Red Cloud himself refused to receive rations,
and it is feared these Indians are brewing
mischief.
Leonard Amblam, Belgian, charged
with murder, who was being taken from Os-
tend to Brussels, in compartment car, last
Friday, murdered the officer, threw his body
out of the window and managed to escape.
1t is conjectured that the murderer watched
an opportunity to attack the officer over the
head with his wrist irons, and beat him to
death, after which lie unlocked the manaclcs
and escaped.
"A couple named Swanson, at Williams
burgh, n, Y, quarrelled last Saturday even