The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
THE sEEZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1877.
THE NEWS.

cess by surrounding Mars anu ueIhanulnS Hs
surrender.
The MoiIet Bell punch candidates were
nominated for the Legislature in Richmond
on Tuesday.
Mrs Jefferson Davis has just returned
TO this country leaving her daughters at
school in Germany.
"A woman, Go years old, in Manchester,
N. H., jumped into a well and was not found
until five days afterwards.
"A San Francisco firm offer to supply
Chicago with strawberries next month, if
the demand justilies shipments by the car
load
The wife of W c. Gilman, the insurance
scrip broker of New York has gone crazy
since her husband has been sent to the peni.
Tertiary.
The Democrats of Wisconsin boast that
they will carry the State Ey ten thousand ma
jority, and wipe out hard times with their
platform.
"A cattle disease of very malignant type
has broken out in Russia in the neighborhood
of Odessa. There is scarcely an OK or a cow
left in some villages.
AT Reading, Pa, on Monday, the leading
bridge burners in the late railroad riots there
were sentenced to five years Imprisonment
and fine of 81 900.
Accounts received nj Washington from
all parts of the United States show that the
wheat crop this year is the largest that has
ever been produced in this country.
In the Episcopal general convention at
Boston, on Saturday, propositions for changes
in the prayer book and for change in the
name of the church were voted down,
Charles E. Cuttings, colored, employed at
Streets stables, Baltimore, was shot and ia
tally wounded last Saturday night, by an I'M
known white man, while entering saloon.
MIR. and Mrs. J. B. Corley and three
children were made very sick, last week, at
Port Jervis, N. Y, from being poisoned by
arsenic which some unknown fend put into
their well.
Sitting Bull has rejected the offers of
peace proposed by the commission recently
sent to interview him, and the commission
ers have therefore turned their faces home
ward.
"A coliery explosion occurred near Glas-
gov, Scotland, on Monday. Two hundred
and twenty-threc men descended into the
mines in the morning, of whom very few
were rescued alive.
John s. Morton, late President of the
Market street Passenger Railway, of Phila.
delphia, has been held to bail on the charge
of perjury, for swearing falsely TO the annual
reports of the company.
"A complete list of members elect of the
Ohio Legislature, shows that the Senate will
stand Democrats, 25; Republicans, TO- The
House will stand: Democrats, II Rcpubli-
cans, 36; Independent, ..
Last Saturday morning, at ST. john n
b., two hundred houses were burned and
1000 persons turned out of house and home.
Loss $500 900. The fire is supposed TO be of
incendiary origin.
The yearly meeting Of Orthodox Friends,
representing Maryland, Virginia and parts
of Pennsylvania, began last Saturday at the
Meeting House. corner of Monument and
and Eutaw streets, Baltimore.
Rev. VIM. +. Munscy, D. D., of the NJ
f. Church South, died suddenly Tuesday
morning, at Joncsboro, Tenn at Ae age of
40. He was an eloquent pulpit orator, and
was formerly pastor of church in Bati-
more.
Gov. Carroll has appointed Friday, No
vember 23d, for the hanging of James r.
Hawkins, who was recently convicted in
Howard county of brutal outrage on
young white girl, Ida Schaetler, near the
Relay House, last April.
John w. Warren, of Newton Highlands
Mass, set his house on fire for the purpose
as he alleged, of frightening his sick wife
She raised an alarm, and Warren put out the
fire before the nrighbors came. lie was
arrested. 1t is believed his intention was to
burn his wife to death.
"A Richmond, Ind.) dispatch says John
Eddy Motlltt, aged years, who was adopt
ed by wealthy Quaker three years ago, was
kidnapped Wednesday afternoon by two gip
sies, but was recovered. His abductors claim
that the boy is Charlie Ross, while others
scout the story.
AS Edwin II. Ober, cashier of shoe
factory at Albany, N. Y, was on his way to
the factory with box containing several
Thousand dollars to pay off the hands, he
was attacked by two men who threw cayenne
pepper in his eyes and endeavorcd to secure
the money, He resisted and the robbers fled,
leaving the box in his possession.
"A fendish attempt was made on Sunday
night to wreck passenger train, near Noble,
Illinois. A rail was elevated foot high and
kept in position by jack-screw, and the OPP
posite rail was turned. The object was to
throw the cars into two cattle guards close
by. They took the other direction, FORUM
ately, and plunged into soft ground and no
one was hurt.
in Woonsocket, r. l., about o'clock
Monday morning, two robbers entered the
house of j. W. Smith, in the rear Of his shoe
store. Smith was absent, and his wife was
taken from bed and placed in a small closet,
where she was found insensible when her hus-
band returned. The burglars secured nearly
$1,000 from box under the bed, and
some goods from the store.
On Wednesday of last week a collier at
Scranton, Pa. entered with lighted lamp n
portion ola coal mine that contained gas. The
gas ignited, set fire to the coal and a terrible
fire is now raging there, 400 feet below the
surface of the earth. 1t is feared that the
mine will have to be flooded 10 put out the
fire. In that event four months would elapse
before tn mine could be worked again.
Last Saturday evening Frank Frey en-
tered the laundry of the National House, at
York Pa, and drawing revolver shot
young girl employed there named Graybell
and q woman named Reilly both in the
breast. Leaving there he fired at n man
named Nicely, without injuring him, and next
shot Thomas Craig, a Colored man, in the
breast, He then shot at Joseph Erney, the ball
grazing his body. Entering cigar store he
fired shot there, but without injury to any
one. He was finally captured, after strug
gle during which he shot himselfin the hand.
He was crazy from drink.
John Harris came very drunk to his
home in Sheffield, England, on Sunday night,
October 7, and found his wife asleep in bed
To amuse himself, he instantly dragged her
out of bed. Then he had another bright
idea. He would bake her; there was the
oven invitingly hot. He stripped her naked
and attempted TO put her into the ovcn.-
Failing in this attempt, he held her close to
the fire, now and then turning her around
"like piece of beef" as she subsequently
described the scene. The wOman's cries of
agony brought policeman into the house,
who arrested Harris. The next day the
brute was brought before the police magis-
trate. And sentenced 10 five wears, imnris-