The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-01
THE REZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1877.
THE NEWS.

Persia has announced her neutrality i
the war between Russia and Turkey.
Mrs. Mary La Bau, n daughter of Com
modore Vanderbilt, has filed objections t.
his will
"A large Turkish monitor on the Danub
was blown up on Saturday by Russian tor
pedoes.
An International Exhibition will TAX
place at Madrid, in 1887, under the auspicc
of the Spanish Government.
The national armories and work shops
will be closed after the list of July, for want
offunds 10 carry them on.
The county tax this year in Prime,
Georges county, Md, has been laid at IS
cents on the 800.
The Turks are said to be very much in
censel against the Christians and are treat
ing them with the greatest cruelty.
-Ex-President Grant and wife arrived al
Queenstown, Ireland, on Sunday They did
not land, but proceeded to Liverpool in the
steamer
Thursday morning, Mr.. VIM. w. Pyles
OF gainesville, Montgomery county, Md,
committed suicide by shooting himself in the
breast.
AT Louisville, last Thursday, Harper's
AASheuSh1 ltu DlOCCk, years Olu,
ran one mile in 1899, beating the best time
on record by IL full second and half
There are indications that Greece will
drift into war, and will take the side of Rus.
STA. She can send IA 900 men and IA war
vessels, including one iron-cad
EARLY last Sunday morning Anne Comfy,
employed at n restaurant, in Philadelphia,
was so badly burned by fat boiling over from
a pan, that she died few hours after
One of the greatest curiosities of the day
is Warner NJ. Bateman, an Ohio man, who
was offered the Office of solicitor of the
Treasury, and declined
AT Norfolk, Va, last Friday, the graves
of Confederate and Union soldiers were alike
decorated, and the United States soldiers
joined in the ceremonies.
The Mormons are said to be arming and
drilling, and Governor Emory, of Utah
Territory, experimenting trouble, has asked
that an increased force OF U. s. troops be
sent there.
The dwelling Of Henry Tower at North
Clarendon, Mass, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night, and two of his children,
boys, aged nine and eleven years respectively,
persisted.
Ten murdcrers-nine of them MOLLY
McGuires, or coal mners-are to be executed
in Pennsylvania on the 21st of June, and six
other persons are to be hanged in the same
State in July and August.
Fletcher Harper, the last of the four
brothers who for over forty years composed
the wel-known publishing firm of Harper g.
Brothers, New York, died on Tuesday at the
ageof7l. The firm is now composed of sons
of members of the old firm.
Gen. Miles surprised and attacked an
Indian camp at Tongue River, Montana, on
the 9TH of May, killing IA Indians and captur
ing so lodges and $50 ponies. Five soldiers
were killed and wounded
Six children of tue Hudson Bav Com.
pany's employees at Lower Fork, Manitoba
were frightfully burned, last Thursday, by
the explosion of key of damaged gunpow-
der. Two of the children are reported dead.
"A twelve-inch rifled gun, the first ever
made in the United States, is about to he
cast at Boston, for New York harbor. It
will weigh, when finished, 10000 pounds.
and will carry projcctile weighing 700
pounds.
Monday night, in New York, French
man, named Baptste Schwaezler, shot and
MORALLY wounded his wife. FRANCHISE, and
seriously injured Mrs Mary Isein, with
whom his wife was boarding He then at
tempted to shoot himself, but was prevented
by the arrival of police who arrested him.
"A London paper says that MANY North
American naval officers and engineers have
gone to Russia to serve in the Russian NAVY,
Passing through Germany, they stated that
many more are coming, and that steamer
with cargo of torpedoes is en- route from
New York to St. Petersburg.
Two young Russian engineers lately per-
formed deed of desperate valor. They
in mol hnn nt N..ul.N
torpedo across the bows ola Turkish mont
tor in the Danube. On their return to shore
they discharged the torpedo by means of an
electric battery, destroying the vessel
Mrs. Mary Gibson has been arrested in
New York for hanging her seven.year old
daughter to door by bed-quilt. In
corner OF the room lay the womans eldest
child covered with blood and apparently life
less The latter had also been cut in different
parts of the body with Ratchet. The woman
is believed to be insane.
The pastor of Presbyterian church at
Hamburg, N. Y, has improved upon church
fairs, He recently gave to each of the pupils
of his large Sunday school, twelve grains of
corn, to be planted in three hills. The bow
pupils are to cultivate and harvest the CROP
for themselves and sisters, and the corn is to
be brought to the church and sold, the pro
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john Duchoslav, a Bohemian tailor.
committed suicide in Baltimore, last Sunday,
by hanging himself with skein of black
thread. He had married widow, who kept
up aft her marriage her custom Ct decora-
ting her first husbands grave with flowers
On Sunday morning she prepared to visit
the cemetery for the purpose and invited
Duchoslav to accompany her He appeared
annoyed and declined, and when Mrs.
Duchoslav returned she found him hanging
by the thread to corner OF a wardrobe.
Last Friday morning three negroes fired
the fences of q. c. Chamblss, of Stewart
county, Ga, drawing him away from the
house. They then went to the house and
were met at the door by Mrs Chambliss, n
beautiful woman aged IS years, armed with
gun. Jerry Snead, one of the negro IS, took
the gun from her and lodged the contents in
her head. They then fired the corn house
and left. Being captured, Snead admitted
the deed and implicated his companions
Abram and William Boath. Three hundred
whites and blacks gathered, and taking the
murderers to Chambliss's house, hanged
them with trace chains.
Horrible Murder i'm Anne Arundel County,
A correspondent ut Friendship, post
village in the lower part of Anne Arunde
county, gives some particulars ofan atrociou.
murder in that vicinity last Saturday morn
ing. Mrs. Sarah Norfolk, wife of Henry
Moi Fn1l o, a