The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-08-24
THE 8GZN.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, AUGUST "a, 1877.
THE NEWS.


Miss Sophia c. Kemper of Easton, Pa,
was one hundred years old last Wednesday
week. t.E
Two thousand Free Thinkers held a
convention lasting three days, at Rochester,
N. Y, this week.
President and Mrs. Hayes, with members
the cabinet, are viewing the world from the
White Mountains.
The Georgia Constitutional Convention
propose TO give the Legislature the right 10
regulate railroad tariffs.
There are no less than five tickets in the
field in Ohio this. year. "You:: pays your
money and your takes your choice"
Prof Hall, of the naval observatory,
Washington, has made the important dis
covery that the planet Mars has one satellite
and probably two.
The Atlantic and Pacific telegraph COM
pany has been absorbed by the Western
Union thereby making that immense mono
poly stronger than ever.
From $4,000 to 10000 coal miners are
still on strike in the Scranton coal region
of Pennsylvania. 1t is estimated that the
sale of 100000 tons of coal has been lost to
this region since this strike began.
1t is stated that there are II families in
w lhtsDdiIc, oO III lNOlllStOWu, on III >'utotCi
and Wilmington, 81 in Baltimore, and 5000
persons in Philadelphia, anxious to seek
homes and support in the West.
Hon. Raleigh r. Daniel, attorney gen.
eral of Virginia, died at Richmond on the
10Th inst, aged 70. He was recently renom-
mated by the Democrats for the same posi-
ton.
Capt, Rhetps First Maryland Artillery
Company were discharged last Saturday,
The forty -four horses of the company were
sold at an average of $l03 each. They cost
an average of$110.
All the mining companies in Western
Maryland have resumed work at the old
rate Of miners wages. They are shipping
the coal by rail, no settlement of the canal
freight question having been made.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, who married
Ida Greeley, has been arrested at Chappaqua
for horse whipping young gentleman named
Warren Bliss, because they disagreed about
the right of way. Mr.. Bliss was thrown into
an epileptic it,
The Windsor Savings Bank at Windsor,
VT, was robbed of $4,000 ON Saturday after
noon. The thieves climbed into the window
of the back room, and took the money from
the drawer, while the bank people were
looking at the Presidential procession.
Last Saturday morning, in New York,
Thomas Harding, aged 40, shot his house
keeper, Mrs Wood, age 26, inhicting severe
wounds, and then shot and killed himself
Harding had been separated from his wife,
and cross dvoce suits were pending.
"A contemporary notes with qualification
the return of the slipper to the feet of the
ladies, supplanting the closely-buttoned boot,
as indicating new hope for the manners and
morals OIL rising UenpratiOn tho slippar
being handy thing to have in household.
Returns of the late election for capitol
site in West Virginia have been received and
show the following result: Charleston, 3d.
95S, Clarksburg, 30,49S Martinsburg, $780,
majority for Charleston 1924. 1t is believed
the official returns will not materially change
this.
The suicide of A D. Schaeffer, cashier
ofthe Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
of Westminster, on the 18th inst, was caused
by the discovery that he had taken endorsed
paper 10 the amount of several thousand dol
lars beyond the one-tenth Of the banks CAPT
tai allowed by law.
On Monday. in Philadelphia, VIM.
Hoffman and VIM. A. Bernhard quarreled
with Patrick Donahue, a bartender who re-
fused 10 supply them with liquor, and an
alteration ensued, which resulted in Dona-
hue hurting beer glass at Bernhard, which
struck him in the head and killed him.
AT West Hoboken, N. j., on Friday
morning, John Ackert, a silk weaver, re-
turned home from drunken debauch, and
after quarrelling with his wife, seized and
threw her through window to the pave
ment beneath, a distance of thirty feet. The
woman received fatal injuries and died in
half an hour.
In New York, on Saturday Miss Della
Fox quarrelled with Ann Kenny, servant.
A fight ensued in which the servant lifted
Miss Fox in her arms and threw her out of
the third-story window. She would doubt
less have been dashed to death, but fell on an
awning. AS it was her left arm was broken
and she was otherwise severely injured.
"A reporter of the Philadelphia Times, in
the character OF plumber, investigated the
spiritualistic manifestations of the Bliss
family in that city and saw all the machinery
and apparatus by which they were enabled
to make the so-called spirits appear and disap
pear Having found out every thing he laid
the humbug bare through the columns of
his paper.
General ]. B. Robertson, immigration
agent for a Texas railroad, and formerly su-
perintendent ofthe Texas bureau of immigra-
ton, proposes to settle the labor trouble by
having all the four millions of people said to
be out of work in the United States come to
Texas and live. He says land of good quality
can be bought there at from fifty cents to five
dollars an acre, and that thousands of acres