The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-04
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1877.
THE NEWS.


-Four hundred and eighty deaths in New
York last week.
Italy has declared her neutrality in thu
-Turco-Rus sian war.
The admiral of the Turkish navy is al
Englishman, called Hobart Pasha.
Judge John E. King has been appointed
Collector of the port OF New Orleans.
The tax levy of Baltimore'county undel
the new assessment has been reduced Il
cents on the 500.
An English steamer entering the harbol
of Kertch, on the sea of Azof, was totally de
stroyed by n torpedo.
"A portion of the pOsl-oflice roof at New
York fell on Tuesday, killing thrt men ant
wounding two more.
Russia, at the reques Of Roumania, has
declared the navigation Of the Danube re-
opened, subject to certain restrictions
Gen. and Mrs. Grant and their youngest
son, Jesse, will sail for Europe from Phila.
delpha on the 18th of May.
The population of Turkey, exclusive Of
Servia and Roumania, is S,39S000. Of these
nearly one-half are Christians
Flour has gone up $27 per ton in Ireland
in three weeks. The Porte claims the right
of searching suspected neutral vessels
The cashier of the Union banking com.
pany of Philadelphia, recently overdIew his
account $4,000, swapping the institution.
"A Nebraska paper says that tree liant.
ing has become a mania among the people OF
that State There is method in that madness
Richard Ten Brock, the noted Ken
lucky lurfman, has just been married, al
though he is over go, to Il wealthy widow
aged "a.
The Russians have possession of the
Danube from its mouth, extending up fifty
miles, Austria protests against the closing
of the river.
Hon. Alex. III. Stephens argued n case
in the Supreme Courv of the United States
on Monday. 1t was his first argument in
Court for many years.
Robert Green fatally shot Carl Hansen, u
Swedish sailor, in New York, Monday morn
ing. Hansen had been drinking freely and
Green attempted TO rob him.
Philip Harris, of Pennsylvania, cured
his blindness by rubbing his eye with the
cut edges of sour apple, or else the Penn
sylvania papers are not to be believed.
The Emperor Alexander, Of Russia, was
fifty-nine years old last Sunday. 1t is re-
markahle fact that no member of his family
has ever reached his or her Goth birthday.
Ex-Governor Noyes worked for Hayes
nomination. Ex-Governor Noyes will be
made Minister to France. Moral: There
is not much Sunday school politics in that.
Nearly one-half of the village of Cana
joharie, New York, was destroyed by fire
early last Sunday morning, involving a loss
of 100000. The burnt district comprised
eight acres
1t is believed that the coming peach
crop of Maryland and Delaware will be the
largest ever raised The prospect for an
abundant crop of apples, pears and other
fruit, is also good.
In suit for divorce, in New York, Mrs,
Mary s. Rowe, wife of VIM. Rowe, testified
that her husband struck her because, in nm
swer to an inquiry, she expressed the opin-
ion that /" Gen. Grant drank too much
Jeanette Wilson, a colored woman liv.
ing near Suffolk, Va, murdered her husband
while lie was asleep, by cutting his head off
with an axe. She then fled with paramour,
but was arrested and made full confession.
The Georgia Commissioner of Agricul.
ture has issued circular urging the farm
ers to produce their own food supplies, and
it is likely that more grain and meat will be
raised in the cotton States this year than
i'll any year since 1865.
Queen Victoria has issued proclama-
tion announcing the neutrality of England
in the war between Russia and Turkey. In
order to be ready for any emergency which
may arise, $4,000 English troops are to be
sent to Egypt.
Robert w. Mahoney, colored waiter
in Baltimore, committed suicide, on Tuesday
morning, by hanging himself with rope,
fastened to the transom of door. He had
been out of work for some time and had
grown respondent.
A terrible railroad accident occurred
near Chicago, Monday. The track settled
beneath the weight of the cars, and the en-.
CINE was hurled from the track into the
ditch. Five men were killed and several
badly injured.
Last winter Levi Hooker, farmer liv-
ing near Harrisburg, Pa, disappeared from
home, and on Saturday, two fishermen
discovered his corpse in Swatara creek, near
Middletown. 1t is supposed he drowned
himself on account of domestic trouble.
james Hurd, living at North Wade, New
Hampshire, last Sunday left his insane wife
ut home in charge OF their son, aged 10 years,
and some time dur ng his absence she killed
the boy with TN axe, nearly severng the head
from the trunk, and hanged herself in an out
house.
WIN. G. Brownlow, the fighting parson
OF tennessee, noted as one of the most vtu-
perative men of the age, died at Knoxville,
Tenn, last Sunday, at the age of72. Parson
Brownlow travelled about with q pistol in
one hand and the tible in the other, and was
always ready either TO preach or to fight.
Detectives have arrested at Pennington,
N. H., Charles Cook, who has confessed to
numbering Miss Hanson, of Broc kfeld, two
years since. He says lie was hired by Joseph
BuZZell to kill her, and received $780, Buz-
zell was tried for the murder and acquitted
He will be re-arrested and also an accom-
plice, named Jonathan Sanborn.
John Leggett, waiter in a house in
New York gave a chambermaid, named
Rosa Wyse, a glass of liquor which he
told her was claret, causing her death in
few minutes. Leggett was arrested and
said he had found the bottle in q closet,
and supposed it was claret. 1t turned out
however, to be prussc acid.
Master Alfred Cox, of West Bowdoin,
Me- aged fourteen had his ears boxed by his
father for his misbehavior in church, where
upon he went home, got out the family shot
gun and went cunning for parents, bagging
balf-brace of father. Probably because lie
was an orphan the courts have let Master
Cox off with six years. If he had kept q
saloon ms cad of only killing his father he
would have been severely punished.
"A man named Anderson, living at Mag.
nolia, Del. had been in the habit Of beating
his mother and compelling her TO give him
money. On Friday he beat her and she ran
out of the house, when clergyman protect.
ed her and made the brute desist. On Mon
day the clergyman in passing the house heard
cries issuing therefrom, and going in discov
cred the unnatural son in the act of hanging
his mother. He had one end of a rope
around her neck and the other over rafter
and was attempting to draw her up wher
the minister appeared and compelled him L