The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-25
THE sRGZS.
BEL AIR. FRIDAY. MAY %, 1877.
THE NEWS.


"A Philadelphia firm has sent large
order of bul-frogs to Germany.
AT the Pmlico races on Tuesday, the
winners were Explosion, Idal'a, Outcast and
Holbrook.
The Permit Bureau at the New York
Mayors office has received $11 900 from dog
licenses under the new ordinance.
The town of Creswell, near Plymouth,
NC, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday
night last The greatest distress prevails.
The Russians have captured Ardahan, q
Turkish fortified camp, with sixty guns and
immense stores of ammunition and provi-
sions.
Dunn, Ex-Attorney General and mem
Der of the Returning Board of South Caro-
lima, has been appointed Collector of Internal
Revenue of that State.
A little boy five years old, an interested
spectator of Il street fight in New York last
Sunday, was accidentally struck on the head
with brick and seriously injured
Texas beef is sold for fourteen cents
pound in London, but in Galveston it is ft-
teen cents. 1t is cheaper for Texans to go
to London to buy their Texas beef.
During the whit Monday amusements at
Hull England, balloon which was about to
ascend, was blown against gas jet and ex-
ploded. Eighty-siX of the spectators were
injured.
Robert Baskin, grain dealer was at
tackled by footpads, near Harrisburg, last
Saturday afternoon, knocked on the head
with an iron instrument until rendered I'M
conscious, and then robbed of $50.
p. T. Barnum offers $4,000 for the re-
covery of Charley Ross, and the boys parents
unite with the Snowman in pledge to aban-
don all attempts to punish any person con-
nected with his abduction or concealment.
The barn of Charles Talbot, at Bladens-
burg, Md, was struck by lightning on Mon
day, and totally destroyed by fire. 1t was
one of the finest barns in the State. The loss
will be $4,000 or $1,000. It was half filled
with hay.
Olive Logan writes from London that
the Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, formerly
Secretary of State of TIE Confederate States,
earns matter of one hundred thousand DOL
lars every year, and could earn more il he
could put legal extension on the "a hours'
On last Saturday, a man named Gesie
BECKER, who resided in York county, Pa,
lust above Hanover Junction, near the rail.
road, committed suicide by hanging, in pine
grove near Sticks store. He was German,
and widower with one child, an adult son
-Thirly.five thousand Philadelphans have
enlisted in Mr.. Murphy's cold water army.
This is the work of few weeks. IL Is GER
tanly the most successful temperance move
ment on record, yet reports from other parts
of the country indicate that it has hardly be-
gun.
Secretary Sherman las rendered the APP
pointment of Solicitor of the Treasury TO
r, m. .ln,,, 80 ,,nf a
He has declined it, on account of more adj
vantageous professional engagements. One
by one the men who made Hayes President
are rewarded.
The New York Tribune has information
leading to the belief that the Russian war
vessels are watching along the cost for the
purpose of intercepting vessels having on
board munitions of war for Turkey, A
steamer with such cargo has just sailed or
is about to sail from New Haven.
Last Saturday night, party of disguised
Unen took from the Jail at Blandville, KY,
negro who attempted to assault and murder
the wife of his employer. The next day the
dead body Of the negro was found hanging
to tree in the woods, with several bullet
holes in it and the clothing burned off.
On last Tuesday afternoon, as Antoine
George, Henry Knauss, Charles Rhul and
Albert Frankenburg were engaged trescoing
the ceiling of the Catholic Church ofthe Holy
Cross, Baltimore, the scaffold gave way and
they fell sixty feet to the floor. Knauss was
killed and the others severely but not fatally
injured.
Judge Brown, of Baltimore. having
charged the grand jury that pool selling was
in violation of the laws CT the State against
gambling, the sporting fraternity who are &C
customed to lay wagers upon the fastest
horse, were obliged to do so at Pimlico, in
stead of in the city. 1t is understood the
law will be tested.
On Tuesday, man, supposed to be in
sane, sprang upon an unattended engine OF
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, at Philadelphia, and started it at
full speed towards the river. Two freight
cars which were attached to the engine,
struck the bumpers at the wharf, throwing
the engine from the track and the cars into
the river. The stranger was drowned.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, one day last week,
John Donovan quarrelled with his wife and
struck her. Mrs. Donovan then took her
two children, one n girl two years old and
the other boy of six months, and going to
the river threw herself in, with q child in
each arm. A neighbor who followed and
tried to prevent the deed, saw her rise with
her babes and then sink to the bottom.
The Chicago Times thinks the wheat
crop of Southern, Central and Eastern Hi
nois will be very large this year-fully 40
per cent. beyond that of 1876, and equal to
the great yield of 1874. Cold weather and
rains have retarded corn planting, and in the
sections named the crop will be 35 per cent
below the average. In Northern Indiana
Wisconsin and Minnesota the crop prospects
are excellent, and altogether prospect for an
abundant harvest in the Northwest is quite
promising