The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-26

| Two SCUM Carolina negroes. one q
| Democrat and the other Republican, re-
Gently fought duel at Pine Bluff, North
Carolina. -Four shots were exchanged. One
of the men was struck three times and dan
gerously hurt. The other was wound,d IN
tic arm. The quarrel WAS about politics.
Joseph Roberts and Frank Rals,on of
Spring City. Chester county, Pa, went
sleighng and drank freely during the ride
On their return Ralslon seemed to be insen
sib,y drunk and was laid on a lounge TO
sleep off The effects of the liquor. An hour
later he was found to be dead.
-CrtSfeld Ledger: The local option law
in Princess Anne District has only been in
operation about two weeks, and Ell il is said
that countless numbers of boxes, marked
merchandise" are finding their way TO that
town, addressed 10 those who were formerly
engaged in the liquor traffic.
The German Protestant Orphan Asy lum,
near ST. Louis, was burned ON Thursday
night, and II boy of IA years persisted in the
flames. The fur and straw hat Glory of
William Heath, in Brooklyn, N. Y, was de-
sroyed by fire last Friday vening, and
several adjoining dwellings were damaged.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Michael Owens, of Philadelphia, hid
50 900 III lot of cad lining taken from lea
boxes. Another family lived in the same
house. and when II rag man came along they
sold him the lead. without knowing about
the money. Mr.. Owens is making active
search Tor that rug man.
In Crsfcld, Md, eating saloon, the
other night, Il party OF negroes quarrelled
about the political situation, and one of
them, a DemocIat, WIS beaten hy the R'pub-
licans. He retired to his lodgings, procured
gun, returned and fired through the window
of the saloon, seriously wounding one OF
the inmates and slightly wounding two
others.
CHARLES Collins, the chief engineer of
the Lake Shore railroad, committed suicide
ut his ONE in Cleveland, on Saturday, by
shooting himself with II revolver. Ever
since The terrible railroad accident, by the
Iumbline down of the Ashlabula bridge, lie
suffered much mental depression and anxiety,
.,.lring that blame would rest upon him and
his mind became unsettled
Mrs Anna r. Baker died very suddenly
at her residence in Enstun, Md, last Sunday
week, of npoplexy. She was sitting n the
window looking at the people passing from
church, when she suddenly exclaimed Il
feel very strange" fell over, and died before
physician could reach her. Mis- BAKER
was the widow of Mr.. John Baker, and was
in the 9th year OF her age.-EastDn Ledger
Andrew Ludwig, a welldigger ut Sing
Sing, buried Il can of nitro gly ctrine in his
garden, for &te keeping In digging it up
last Thursday, his pick struck the can and
il exploded, tearing him into Il thousand
pieces. Houses were shaken and windows
shattered A hole was torn in The ground
five feet deep and ten feet wide He leaves
a wife and children
Last Thursday three masked men enter
ed an express car ut Burlington Crossing,
Chicago, overpowered the express messenger
and baggage man ard broke open the safe
which contained $25, 900 worth of valuablcs.
In their haste they dropped package con
tanning SIT 900 in currency, and only got
SAB and some drafts Tor collection. Three
men Were afterwards arrested for the rob-
berry.
Mrs. Mary E Ashton, formerly Of IIar-
ford county, is i'll the custody of the Balti-
more police authorities, for having in her
possession check for So 500, surrepliliously
Obtained, with forged endorsement which she
presented for payment at the Baltimore Ma
WIS drawn b, Baltimore firm in favor of IL
finn in New York and he envelope contain
ing it dropped in n street letter box. Two
days afterwards Mrs Ashton presented it at
The band, demanding payment. Suspicion
was aroused and she was told to call The next
day, and inquiries having in the mean-
time been made, when she came again she
she Was arrested. She has told conflicting
stories, one being that Il man in New York
who owed her some money, being i'll sent
for her. paid her the check with other money
and died 1t is thought that Mrs. Ashton
ahetracted The letter in question from the let
ter-box, and it is stated that she tried to get
the check cashed in New York, before max
ing the effort in Baltimore In default OF
$1,000 bail she was committed for the grand