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

The missing steamer City of Berlin has
arrived at Liverpool. Her delay was caused
by the breaking of n shaft and strong head
winds.
On Sunday afternoon, an express ran at
full speed into freight train at Shelby juno.
ton, Ohio. Two cars were smashed into
splinters, but strange to say, the passengers
escaped.
The police of New York have recently
engaged in a crusade against unlicensed
liquor sellers. Hundreds of them were ar
rested, and applications for license have been
numerous.
The cattle-raisers of Moorefield valley,
West Virginia, having lost nearly all their
provender by the recent flood, have been
obliged to send their cattle to the eastern
markets for want of food to keep them
through the winter.
On Monday evening in Brooklyn, N. Y +,
James Donlan, aged II, attempted to save an
old lady from being run over by the cars
As he caught hold Of her the locomotive
struck both of them. The lady was instant
ly killed and the young man fatally injured.
p. p. Pendleton, a native of Winchester,
Va but for many years Il prominent mer
chant of Baltimore city, died at the latter place
last Sunday, in his 62d year. Mr.. Pendeton
was President of second branch city council
and President of the Valley railroad, at the
time OF his death.
The summer residence of F. L. BaTreda,
of New York, at Drum Point, on the Chesa-
pcake bay Calvert county, Md, was robbed
on Thursday night of articles valued at
about 81 600. Several oystermen were ar
rested charged with the robbery and nearly
all the property has been recovered.
The baby show mania has reached Balti-
more, but the exhibition failed to create as
much enthusiasm as was expected. Only so
or 40 infants were on exhibition on Monday,
and among them were no triplets, twins or
monstrosities. The visitors were few in
number, and the speculation may hardly be
considered a success
The London Times correspondent at
Rome telegraphs that although newspaper
reports concerning the Pope's health are
more favorable, private advices indicate that
his condition is growing worse. He lies
helpless and, although his mind is clear, he
endures great suffering, from which he is ex-
pecting and even hoping for speedy release.
Last Saturday, at noon, John Oothout,
proprietor of an iron foundry at Jersey City,
N. j., returned from the bank with $500 to
pay his hands. While alone in his office,
counting the money, some one crept behind
him, struck his head with an iron bar, snatch
ed the money and fled. He has been uncon-
scious every since and no clue can be found
to the robber
DIR. Albert T. Bedsoe, editor of the
Southern Recieao, distinguished minister
and formerly professor in the University of
Virginia and other colleges, and at one time
editor of the Episcopal Methodist, published
in Baltimore, but latterly editor of the ,SOutA-
ern Reyi62r, died at Alexandria, Va, Satur-
day night, of paralysis, in the sixty-ninth
year ofhis age.
In reply to letter from the Post Office
Department making inquiry as to the legal
status of the old copper one-cent piece of
ante belum days, the United States Treas
urer states that the coin named is not and
never was n legal tender for any amount
whatsoever, and that consequently postmas-
tiers are not required by law to receive it in
payment of postal dues.
France, after a long indifference to In.
dian corn, is now awakening to its value as
food for horses, in lieu ofthe expensive wheat
and barley. Several horse railway companies
in Havre feed their animals on corn, coarsely
ground aud mingled with chopped straw and
hay, and small proportion ofroots. Livery
stables have also adopted the feed. One sta
bic proprietor, who controls $50 horses, states
that he saved 80, 900 francs $4,000 last year
by using lndian corn. The example of Havre
is gradually being followed elsewhere Euro
peans are slow to change their customs.