The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-12

BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JAN. ~, 1877.
TILE NEWS.


The concentration of !, 5. troops al
Jacksonville, Ind, continues.
The Presbyterian church, at Portsmouth
Va, was burned last Sunday. Loss $4,000
Six Russian corvettrs and gunboats are
now at San Francisco, and five morenre que
there.
john Hendricks, youngest brother of
Gov. Hendricks, died at Delhi, ONO, on FIJI
day last.
The fire in the mines at Lykens, Pa, is
reported to be slowly but surely getting I'M
der control.
Sir Edward Thornton, British amhassa-
dor ut W ashingion has a salary OF S30,O0O
agar and house rent free
Thomas c. Mcclure, II well.known in
surance agent and former member OF The
city council, died in Baltimore on Saturday
aged 80.
Among the emigrants to this country an
increase of Russians has been noted ni late,
owing TO the prospects of war and DEGREES
making military duty obligatory.
The Governor Of Maryland has issued II
warrant for the execution OF two colored
murderers, named Butler and Wilson, OF
the 9th OF February.
"A Russian feet Of four vessels has ar
rived at Charleston, s. c., from whence they
will proceed to New York. The Gran"
Duke Alexis is in command OF one OF the
vessels.
Senator Gordon has written letter in
which he says he is convinced that Gov Ill
den was fairly and legally elected, and he is
almost ready to say that he will be peaceably
inaugurated.
WIN. orion, President of the Western
IT, a., n hna hp, N arr pSi led
for contempt of the House OF Representa-
tives, in falling 10 produce certain dispatches
relating to political troubles in the Southern
States
Last Saturday the heaviest snow for
wears fell in Western and Northern New
York. Tr vel on the railroad was interrupt
ed. In some places The snow was three ana
a-half feet deep and the roofs of many houses
at Elmira, N Y. were crushed in by the
weight of the snow.
Five negroes, who killed two respectable
Germans near Aiken, S. c., in November
last, have been found guilty of murder in
the first degree One of the prisoners Con
fessed the crime, and mentioned the names
of prominent citizens whom the gang to
which he belonged intended to murder.
During fire on Hanover street, Baltimore.
last Sunday night, an excited woman toss, d
her baby out of The second story window
and it was safely caught by some one in the
crowd. She then ju ped ont herself, and
strange to say alighted on the pavement
without receiving any injury.
-Znchariah Weber and wife were thrown
from wagon, in Baltimore, on Saturday
night, by q sudden jolt of the vehicle, and
Mrs. Weber fell on the back of her he I'd
sustaining conclusion of the brain, whc
ronon1 bar not h.fnro che pnp1l ha 70,
home. Her husband was only slightly bruis-
ed
Walter Lewis, aged 10 years, died from
the effects of ether administered by dentist,
in Railway, N J, on Friday evening He
expired in Is minutes after the inhalation.-
1t is supposed he had some rregularty OF
the heart, as it is said the ether given was
not enough to render him entirely uncon-
scious.
The Short Mountain and Lyken's Valley
coal mines have been nn3ire since the Is da,
of January. Efforts m ,de o food The burn
ing mines were only puItiaIs' successful
large engine house was burned with valuable
machinery. Between eighty or ninety mules
in the burning mines are supposed to have
been suffocaled. That no human lives were
los is attributed to the fact that the fire
broke out on a holiday, when the men were
Ut WIN. 1HC uiISiu VI lnC uIC 10 ull
known. One theory is that spark from
miners lamp started it, Another that the
heat from the pumping engines in the mine
was responsible.
Circuit Judge Cook, Republican, has
charged the grand jury in Abbeville S. c., to
inquire whether any facts existed to warrant
the repeated and formal allie cations of whole
sale crime and lawlessness made during the
campaign against the people of Abbevile
and other counties by d. H. Chamberlain,
and il such charges prove unfounded to pre-.
sen Chamberlain for SANDER and libel
against the people Of the county; also to
consider the propriety Of indcting the
Mickey Legislature md the niv lbers of the
Chamberlain government for treason in con-
spring to overthrow the lawful authority of
Gov. Hampton. Judge Cook says if a true
bill be found he will send posse to Column
bia to arrest Chamberlain md the rest.
Richard Bayby, prominent miller and
leading citizen of Petersburg, Va, has been
arrested on the charge of illusion with S,
II. Thorburn, one of the clerks of The Citizens
Bank whereby the firm of T. j. Gates & Co,
of which Bagby was member, was enabled
to fraudulently procure funds of the Bank
OF Petersburg, amounting to $4,000. The
funds of the last named bank were kept i'm
the vaults Of the Citizens bank, and after
bank hours Thorburn broke open the vault,
distracted the money for Bagby, who had
overdrawn his bank account and had been
notified that he must make it good. Thor
burn disappeared, but subsequently returned
and surrendered himself to the authorities,
denying that he knew of or had anything to
do with the robbery
Cornelius Vanderbilt the great railroad
and Steamboat king, of New York, died last
Thursday, in the SD year of his age. Mr.
Vanderbilt embarked in business at The age
of is on capital Of 800, with which lie
purchased SIN I'll sail boat, and traded be-
tween Staten Island and New York. He
made and saved money, investing it in sail.
ing boats, and at the age of "a bought
steamboat. From that time money poured
in to his Golfers, and he died the richest man
IN America, his wealth being estimated at from
for y To sixty millions. He lett wife, Two
sons and eight daughters, children by his
first wife. Previous To his second marriage,
he settled $500000 upon his wife, and by his
will beqneathed her property amounting
to 100000 more.
The Crime Against the People.
II NAV he oct down for cert,;n that Tho