The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-12-14
News and Other Items.

The Russians took Kars in 1928, 1884,
1865, and now again in 1877.
Greenland has no cats. Imagine cats
in country where the nights arc six months
long.
Mr. John w. Garrett has been reelected
President of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road
The highest income tax in Germany was
last year paid by krubb; this year by n
Rothschild.
If you don't want to be robbed of your
good name, do not have it painted on your
umbrella.
The Russians claim to have captured
10000 Turkish prisoners at Plevna 90, 900 of
whom were wounded.
Ninety bodies have been recovered from
the wreck of the Huron and all except
eleven of them identified.
-Conkling has secured The rejection by the
Senate of r osevelt and Prince, nominated
by the Presd mt for collector and naval Off
Ger at New York. The plot thckens,
Many people are fond of the company of
their physician, because he is the only person
with whom they dare talk continually with
out interruption, contradiction or censure.
MIR. Eustis has been admitted to the SEN
ate by vote of to /, 1t will now be in
order for the majority to explain why Sen
atnr with so clear II title to a seat has been
kept out Of it so long.-N \. Tribune.
-Pinchback's Parthian shot was not so
badly aimed after all, but he does not recog-
nize the fact that Kellogg's case became q
very strong one ms soon as Republican sena-
tors found how sorely they were in need of
his vote.
Henry Norfolk, condemned to be execu-
ted at Annapolis on the 21st inst, for the MUIR
der of his wife, in May last, has made a full
confession. He did not state his reason for
killing his wife, but it is currently understood
that he did it TO enable him to marry another
woman
Mr.. Baughman, of the Frederick Citizen,
with two of his friends Messrs Derr and
Smith, were out on hunting expedition last
week to Morgan county, W. ", and return
ed with eleven turkeys, one opossom, four
bushels of RABBITS, two bushels of pheasants
and the same number of partridges.
Mrs. Klingenberger, of Baltimore, went
away from home on Tuesday, attending to
some washing, leaving two children, three
and five years old, in room by themselves.
The children amused themselves by lighting
pieces of paper in the stove, when the young
est, little girl, set fire to her clothes and was
so burned that death will doubtless ensue.
There is much uneasiness in Paris. Or
ders have been given to close up the gun
stores, though there is no outward symptom
of agitation making such precaution necessa-
ry. The troops are kept within their quar-
tiers. Some foreigners have left Paris on ac-
count of their fears that trouble is brewing
The Cabinet crisis is as far from settlement
| as ever.
"A young man named Casper Kerchner,
of Shrewsbury, York county, Pa, was dan
gerously wounded by being shot in the hip
while in the act of pulling loaded gun
through fence. The COCK catching on q
rail was thrown back far enough to discharge
the gun, the contents of which entered
Kerchner's hip. He lies in an almost hope
less condition.
"A tramp went to a house at Perryville, a
few days ago, with brick in his hand, and
asked the lady if she would be kind enough
to put some butter on it. The request excit.
ed her curiosity, and she asked: "Why do
you want to put butter on brick ?" He
told her lie was going to eat it. Surely she
said, you are not so hungry as to eat a but.
tered brick. Come into the house and will
give you food" 1t is needless to say that the
artful scamp bagged a good square meal by
his skillfully.set trap.