The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-01
THE RGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY. SEP. 1. 1870.
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
-Ex-Gov, E. d. Morgan has been nomin.
ated by the New York Republicans for Gov,
ernor.
"A valuable pair of horses belonging to
DIR. Webb, of Boonton, N j., were recently
stung by Il swarm of bees and died.
Five Molly Mcguire prisoners, convicted
of the murder of policeman Yost, were on
Monday sentenced to death at PottsVill, Pa,
Hon. VIM. Pinkney Whyie made the
opening argument for Maryland before the
Virginia and Maryland boundary arbitration
last Saturday. He spoke for over four hours.
The campaign against the Indians is near.
ly at an end, and the troops are preparing
to go into winter quarters. Aggressive OPP
erations will be resumed early in the spring.
C. d. Schalk proprietor of Touring
mill Mt Anderson, Ind, was killed few days
ago by the bursting of large burr stone
which had been incautously permitted to
rcvolve too rapidly.
james Murray, aged 10, was hanged last
Friday at Dayton, Ohio, for the murder of
VIM. Dawson, in August of last year. A
few hours before his execution he confessed
his guilt.
The new grain elevator of the Northern
Central Railway, at Canton, Baltimore, is
completed 1t has capacity of half mil
lion bushels, and grain is received and deliv-
cred at the same time.
DR. Crawford, q notorious character, con.
fined in Jail at Berkeley Springs, Va, for
poisoning his father-in-law and for other
crimes, was taken from prison by q mob, one
day last week, and hanged.
Eight hundred ounces of gold dust from
the Black Hills have arrived in Cheyenne
On Thursday a solid piece Of quartz, weigh
ing 20 pounds, and estimated to contain 500
in gold, was consigned to the Pacific Compa-
ny for exhibition.
The discovery of the source of the river
Nile, in 1868, by Captain Spoke, secret that
for 1000 years has puzzled the brains of
mankind, has recently been verified by an
Egyptian expedition. The Victoria Nyanza
is found to be the head reservoir from which
the Nile derives its water,
Jane Gusey, while walking along street
in New York on Thursday afternoon, was
stabbed in the abdomen with sword cane,
by stranger. Mrs. Gusey gave her assail-
ant no provocation. The police believe he
mistook her for another person for whom he
was lying i'll wait.
Detectives have successfully tracked and
arrested George Adams, n young man whose
iavorite pursuit was TO throw railroad trains
off the track. He confessed that he alone
misplaced the switch which threw the train
from the track on the Lake Shore railroad,
on the 18th of August He has also confess
cd other exploits of similar character.
-Thos. McGrath, a laboring man at Jersey
City, on Thursday found his wife drunk, and
expostulated with her and she retortcd, and
the two got into desperate fight which end.
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of the fourth-slory window, causing his
death. The woman's arm was broken and
her head mass of bruises
-Thos. CLANCY, aged 10 years, of Annap
oils, has been committed to Jail on the charge
of killing his cousin, Thomas CLANCY, aged
II years, by shooting him with gun. They
had previously quarrelled, and meeting on
Tuesday the quarrel was renewed, when the
boy ran into the house, and securing q gun
came out and shot his cousin, who was
standing about ten feet from him.
The Methodist Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South are about
to be united on the basis of an address issued
by commissioners appointed from both bodies
The legitimacy of the M. f. Church South is
acknowledged, and congregations in posses
sion of church property are to remain unds-
turbed rs far rs possible.
VIM Hemphil Jones, for 25 years an
officer of the Treasury Department at Wash
ington, has been requested TO resign by the
President, because he is not in accord with
the administration. Mr. Jones retained the
place so long on account of his integrity and
thorough knowledge of the important duties
of his position. He was not n partisan, but
happened to be personal friend of Hon.
Samuel j. Randall, which was enough to lose
him his place.
The negro Robert Williams, who attempt
ed to outrage Mrs. Bridges, near Augusta,
Ga, on Tuesday, and inflicted injuries from
which she will probably die, was taken from
Jail Saturday by n party of men and shot
dead. The body was badly mutilated. The
gates leading to the Jail were broken down
with axes. The mob was composed of men
from the county. Williams was about
twenty years old, and Mrs Bridges, whom
he assaulted and attempted 10 rape, is n mar
ried woman, aged nineteen