The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-06
THE GGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1875.
THE NEWS.

HE NEWS.
"A negro tramp who was put off q rail
road train near Tilton, Ga, recently shot The
colorcd brakeman dead.
Reading railroad stock went down will
a rush. last week, from 60 to 24t, causing
great excitement in Philadelphia financial
circles.
Heavy frosts are reported all through the
Southern States. 1t will doubtless put al
end to the pestilence which prevails in some
portions of the South.
The clerks at the New York postotllce
have been subjected to another assessment
of2t per cent. on their salaries for Republican
campaign purposes.
Large numbers of negroes from
Kentucky are being colouized in Ohio and
Indiana, in order TO vote there for the Re
publicans at the coming elections.
Interesting experiments with noseless
steam engines for street cars have recently
been made in Baltimore. 1t is thought they
will be success and be generally adopted.
Philip Foster, aged 81, committed sui.
eide, in Baltimore, last Friday by taking
muriatic acid and laudanum. He was out of
employment and had become very despond.
cnt,
Frank Harrer's famous running horse,
Ten Brock, ran four miles, one day last week
in the astonishing time of seven minutes fif-
teen and three-quarter seconds-thc quickest
time on record.
AN Ohio farmer set two ferocious bull
dogs on man who was picking up apples
on his premises The beasts flew at the man
and tore him almost to pieces before his
friends could rescue him.
james Lick, the California millionaire
died on Sunday, 1t will be recollected that
some time ago he turned his property
amounting to $5,000,000, over to trustees for
various benevolent objects.
The great explosion at He'll Gate, New
York, is reported to have been perfect sue
cess. The entire reef is broken up, and it
only remains now to remove the pieces of
rock in order to make safe and deep chan
mel.
On Monday morning an alteration oc-
Cured at the oyster packing establishment
of Francis j. Ruth, at Canton, Baltimore,
which resulted in the shooting and instant
killing of John Camphor by VIM. Cornish.
Both parties are colored
The floor of three story brick building
in Springfield, Mass, fell last Friday, bury
ing seven men, three of whom escaped with
severe cuts and bruises, the other four re.
naming in the ruins, which caught fire and
were destroyed.
-Advices from northern and northwestern
Texas, report grasshopper invasion. In
some counties they are destroying vegetation.
Wheat sowing is delayed until it is ascertain
ed whether the hoppers will remain long
enough to deposit their eggs.
Professor Jules Blanc, blind music
teacher, in New York last Monday shot his
wife, his child and himself The father and
child died almost instantly, and the woman
is not expected to recover. Jealousy is the
cause imputed for the act.
The Rev. A, B. Pfennell, a Protestant
Episcopal Missionary, was shot dead near
the Cheyenne Indian agency. on the night of
the 9th Sept. He was very popular among
the Indians and it supposed was killed by
mistake for some other person.
In Westfeld, N. j., on Wednesday, Mrs
Pitcairn, aged 80 years, was married to
clergyman of about the same age. AS the
final words were pronounced in the cerc.
mony, the bride was seized with paralysis,
from which she is not expected to recover.
The Servians and Turks have had anolh-
or heavy battle at AleXinatz. The fire from
the Servian artillery ignited seven caissons
of gunpowder in the Turkish lines, the explo-
sion causing fearful havoc among the Turks.
The Servians were defeated.
Certain days have been set apart at the
Centennial for certain purposes. Knowing
this. the thieves of Philadelphia, who are
known TO the police have petitoned Mayor
Stokley to name a day when they may at
tend without fear of being nabbed by the
police and sent to prison.
"A twelve year old boy jumped into the
river at Roseburg, Oregon, to rescue young
CT brother. He was swimming toward the
shore with the little one when his mother,
who had in her excitement gone too near the
bank, slipped into the stream He instantly
let go his hold, and went to save the mother,
and all three were drowned.
Last Thursday afternoon George and
Walter Santcmyer, aged - and IA years,
were run over on the Baltimore aud Ohio
railroad track at Proctor's Bridge, near Oak
land, and George was so badly injured that he
died. The other boy was thrown nearly on
top of the engine and escaped without any
bones being broken.
Gen. Braxton Bragg dropped dead in
the street at Galveston, Texas on the 9th
September. Gen Bragg distinguished him
self in the Mexican war, and it was to him
the famous order was given at Buena Vista,
A little more grape, Captain Bragg" He
also served throughout the late war in the
army of the South.
E. B. Furry, while cunning last Monday
along the banks of Christiana Creek, near
Wilmington, Del, discovered three singular
looking birds wading in the marshes. He
succeeded in killing one of them, which
proved to be pelican, measuring 8 feet from
tip to tip of wings. 1t is supposed they
were driven there by the late storm or had
escaped from some menagerie.
John Billiard, a farmer, who resided in
Shrewsbury, Mass, was murdered in mys.
ferrous manner on Monday night He and
his brother were unmarried and lived alone.
The brother went to the store, and upon his
return John was lying upon the floor with
his head nearly severed from the body. The
object of the crime is supposed to have been
money.
The Sort of Negroes Taft Wants Shot.
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