The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-01-21

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Hon. j. B. Beck, of Kentucky, it is re-
ported, will he substituted for Hon. VIM. A.
Graham, deceased, on the Maryland and Vir-
ginia Boundary Commission.
Edwin Starr and Theodore Bumgarten,
ten and sixteen years of age respectively,
were drowned, on Saturday, while skating
on Colgate's creek near Baltimore.
1t is believed that Austria and Russia
are about 10 establish Il joint protectorate
Over Turkey, and that ultimately they will
share the Christian provinces between them.
In the recent opening of bids at Wash
inglon for furnishing scales to the Posto flee
Department the award was made to the Fair
banks Company.
james Murphy, aged thirty, was shot
and killed by james Merrimon, colored,
aged sixty, in New Orleans Saturday, du-
ring quarrel.
AT Lowell, Mass, on Thursday last three
little boys were drowned by the wind carry
ing the sled on which they were riding into
the swift water
The dry goods store of A. G. Broadbcnt,
No IL North Charles street, Baltimore, was
robbed, on Thursday night of last week, of
between $4,000 and $4,000 worth of silks.
Gen. Beauregard has applied to Congress
for the removal of his political disabilities, so
that he may serve the State of Louisiana as
one of the levee board of commissioners.
-Four negroes, confessed cotton gin and
house burners, were taken forcibly from the
Coahoma county (MississppD Jail, on Satur-
dry night, by masked mob and shot dead.
The widow of the late cX-Presidcnt AN
drew johnson died at the residence Of her
daughter, Mrs Patterson, near Grecnvle,
Tenn, at II o'clock Saturday night.
The contribution 10 the centennial
fair from the Viceroy of Egypt comprises g.,
600 articles, and will be one of the finest and
most interesting national displays in the cx.
hibition.
Seventeen Illicit distillcrcs, with large
quantities of mash and spirits, were captur-
ed recently by revenue officers in Grcenvie
county, s. &. Five of the distilers were ar
rested.
The farm buildings with farming i'm
plemcnts, hay and some stock, of s. f. Shell
cross, near Middletown, Del, were destroy
ed by fire last Saturday Loss $4,000 to
$4,000
Samuel Abrahams, supposed to he from
Alexandria, Va, was killed, early on Sun
day morning, while riding on top of car,
by his head coming in contact with n hri dye
near Baltimore.
"A Christian convention, to be conducted
by Revs. Moody and Sankcy, is to be held in
Philadelphia, on the 10Th and Goth inst. One
thousand ministers, from different parts of
the country, are expected TO be present.
The body of Michael Conway, "a years
OF age, was found on Monday floating in the
water near Locust Point, Baltimore Con-
way had been U. s. soldier, but deserted
from Fort McHcnry two years ago.
AT Massillon, Ohio, on Sunday, Edward
Richardson was shot and instantly killed by
his wife. She say s the net was in self.defencc
rs he WINS approaching her with razor to
cut her throat. 1t is suspected Ivy some TO
have been prcmcditaled murder.
The Centennial bill appropraiing large
amount to perfect arrangements tor the eX-
hibitiop, is gaining ground in Congress, it is
stated. Senators Bayard and Gordon both
favor it, believing it will tend to restore good
will among all sections of the country
DIR. A. B. Mott, an eminent physician of
New York, last Sunday night heard burglars
in his house. Taking his revolver he eau.
tiously descended the stairs in the dark, but
accidentally falling, his pistol was discharged,
planting ball in his leg The burglars es-
capped.
AT 10 o'clock Sunday, Mr.. Samuel NJ.
Whaley, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was garroted
and robbed while passing through Water
street, in that city, by two ruflians, one OF
whom held him by the throat while the other
rit1ed his pockets of II watch and ten dollars
in currency. Both escaped.
"A report from Kansas city is that Il band
of Otoe Indians had been massacrcd by the
Sioux Indians near Bloomington, only six
escaping out of ffly.three. The settlers in
Ia,
to leave should the Sioux make their APP
pearance.
Albert A. Slocum who went away from
Providence, II. l., a year ago, leaving notes
purporting to bear his fathers name, the in
dorsemenls on which the father testifes were
forged, was brought back there on Saturday
night by a detective, who found the fugitive
keeping country store in South Carolina.
Congressman Joyce, of Vermont, n cold
water or hardcider man, sent up bill on
Monday to prohibit the sale of intoxicating
and spirituous liquors within the centennial
grounds during the exposition. 1t was re.
terred TO where the woodbne twineth. The
average congressman is seldom n letotaller
I'm the House of Representatives, on Mon.
day the amnesty bill was again slaughtered
Mr.. White of Kentucky, asked that the rules
might be suspended but two.thirds would
not agree. Gen. Banks offered bill of tho
same tenor as the one embodying his amend
ment and reported from the Judiciary com
mittee.
Miss Susan Roles, an old lady living
in Fairfax county, who had been twice para
lyZed, was burned on Monday. She was left
alone in the house, and when her brother re
turned he found her room filled with smoke
and ON going in to discover the cause stun
bled over her body lying in the middle of tho
floor quite dead, with all the clothing burnct
off
Capt. Josiah Briggs of Coxsackic, hi:
wife and two children, were drowned in thu
Hudson, near COXsackie on Wednesda,
night They were returning from church
the mother and children on q hand sled which
the Captain was pushing across the river OF
the ice, when they all disappeared through
an air hole. The bodies have not been re
covered.
Last Friday afternoon young English
man, go years Of age, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head aud breast will
pistol. To make a sure thing of it, he bat
selected spot near Rockland, on the North
ern Central Railroad, and his dead body wa
discovered lying on the track, by the engi
neer of train.
I'm Baltimore, last Saturday, coloret
infant child, seven days old, was burned t,
death, by its crib taking fire from some stray
of q bed on the floor, which ignited from al
open fireplace. The mother was temporari
ly absent, having left the infant and anothe
child alone in the room. The fire was dis
covered in Time to save the older child iron
suffocation, but the infant died the next day