The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-07-14
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
New Texas cotton has brcn received in
Galveston.
Nearly forty deaths occurred III New
York last Monday from the horrible heat.
The Catholic church ut Mortified, VT
was struck by lightning and entirely de
Stroycd, last Sunday
Samuel MaCubbin, comptroller of Bati
more city, died suddenly Sunday night in the
9Th year of his age.
"A regiment of 200 men have offered to
volunteer in Utah for the determination Of
the Sioux Indians.
Forty two persons were killed ana for
ty-seVCn wounded by u recent cOllirry OK
pl0sion in France
Mrs Wayne was run over and killed by
freight train on FRIDAY, on the Delaware
railrond near Scaiord.
The President has Withdrawn the nnmi.
nation of George II, Fisher AS United States
Attorney for Delaware
The mill proprctors of Scotland have
announced reduction of warca Much dis
trcss will thereby be caused.
The wheat crop of California this year
is said to be enormous 1t will require mt
least three months to gather it in.
Victor Emmanuel of Italy sends his CEN
tcnnial congratulations TO his very dear and
good friend" the President of the United
States.
-Reintolccmcnts have been ordered to
Generals Terry and Cook, for operations
against the Sioux Indians and when the
proper moment arrives the onset will he
made.
commissioner Pratt has also been walk
ed out of the Treasury Department for aid
ing cX.SeCretaIy Bristow to capture and
punish the whisky ring
MIR. Morrill, has entered upon his duties
rs Secretary of the Treasury, in place of
Bristow, and cX-Spcakcr Blaine has been of
icred Morrll's place in the Senate.
The monument to the Confederate dead
ut Point Lookout, st. Marys county, Md,
was unveiled with interesting and appropri-
ate ceremonies on the Fourth of July.
AT Camp Bcdle, N. j., last Saturday, 200
State troops were Frustrated, many falling
unconscious. The encampment had to be
broken up and the men sent TO their homes
-Twenty.sevcn lives were lost, by the
burning of the propeller st. Clair, on Lake
Superior, last Sunday All the passengers
but one persisted, and ten of the fourteen men
composing the crew.
The thunder storm of Tuesday evening
was very severe Mt Scranton, Pa, where sevc-
raj buildings were struck and n young wo.
man, named Mary Jordan, instantly killed
by lightning.
On Wednesday of last week near Wash.
ington, Gcorgiana Turpin kill her husband
during quarrel, by striking him on the head
with an axe. She afterwards cut up the
body and sccretcd it in an ash.pilc.
DR.. IIcmbold, the Buchu man, escaped
from n Philadelphia lunatic asylum and
went to Long Branch, but was captured es-
capped again, and was rccapturcd and conlin.
ed where he could not get out.
Last Sunday, Miss Edna Henderson, of
New York, made two deliberate attempts at
suicide, at Long Branch by throwing herself
in the ocean. She was rescued and brought
safely ashore by Charles Fisher.
One day last week n little daughter OF
John G. Beachy, of Garrett county, Md
while out in the woods hunting cows, pass
cd near n place where man was telling trees
and unperceivcd by him was killed a falling
tree.
The tax for county expenses in Kent
county, Md, for 1876 has been laid at 90
cents, making the total tax 1904 cents ON the
800. In Charles county the rate is ia
cents for county expenses, the total being
1914 cents on the 500
The store of Mr.. Warning, about three
miles from Glymont wharf on Potomac river
was robbed, and the clerk, William Everett
murdered Monday night. The murdcrcr
are unknown, but suspicion has been attached
to two strange negroes.
AT Ncwburg, N. Y, EIiza Armour
wrapped herself in garments saturated Will
coal oil rs n cure for rheumatism, and hcl
clothing took fire from Il lamp, roasting hci
alive. Her daughter was fatally burned at
tempting To save her
Two little girls, aged four and sever
years, daughters of Mrs. John Snyder o
Baltimore, were fatally poisoned, on Tues
day, by drinking roach poison, which hat
been left in n cupboard to which they llat
access during their mothers absence.
-Four masked men visited the farm hous,
of w, g.. Handy, near Crslicld, Md, OF
Monday morning, gagged Mr. Handy ant
his sister, and compelled the former to opcr
his safe, from which they took $1 900 an(
left. Ten years ago Mr. Handy was robbed
in similar manner
in one of the trotling races at Detroit
Mich, on Saturday. Mr.. Brownwclrs stall
lion, George, from Peru, Ind, gave ont an,
died. lie was valued Mt $4,000 On Mon
day Gilt Edge, owned by VIM. w. Alcxan
der. of Chicago, who also took part in race
and valued at $4,000 died
AT pic nic near Eldred, Pa, last S5atur
day, VIM. Bream, his BRIDE her sister
Friend Vance and Maggie Saunders went il
I'M old watcr-soaked boat for II row on
pond The bottom of the boat broke through
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bream and Vance wcr
drowned. The others were rescued.
On Tuesday in Baltimore w +. Cornell
photographer, fell from the third story
window of Samuel Child d Cos building, oil
North Charles street, u distance of forty feet
and was so severely injured that he died il
about an hour afterwards. lie had com
planned of being overcome by the heat an,
went to the third story to get some mir.
"A captain of tho Marine Guards at Pen
sacoa recently undertook conflict with
large shark, which he discovered in pursui
of n school of fish near the shore, by wadin
into the water yearly waist deep and attack
ing him with pocket knife. The weapo
proved insufficient to more than enrage Til
creature with its pricks when fortunately
piece of drift wood iloated within reacl
which the valiant captain seized and with
stunned the shark by a blow on the head an
then dragged it on shore, 1t measured fiy