The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-12-14
THE GGZ&.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. IA, 1877.
THE NEWS.

-Sela Nutter, a colOred woman living a
Nanticoke, Somerset county, is known to b
113 years old.
Mr.. Tilden of San Francisco fed his bah
on farina and strychnine that his wife hat
mixed for rats.
"A colored baby show is to be held in New
York next week. The managers advertis
for 1000 little pickaninnies.
"A Chicago bank clerk had the cashie
sign a check for $40, raised the amount tt
$4,000, obtained the money, and fled.
john Riehm, 70 years cd, was thrown
from his carriage near Mount Zion, Lebanor
county, Pa on Friday night, and killed.
1t is reported from Berlin that disagree
ments have arisen between the Emperor anC
Prince Bismarck, and the latter wishes to re
sign
Charles Mutrch, of Grand Tower, Ill.
shot and killed his wife and then blew hi:
own brains out Family difficulties was The
cause.
On Monday little son of Mr.. Cornean
of Montreal, Canada, was burned to death by
his clothes catching fire while playing with
matches.
The temperance folk of Yarmouth, N
s., few days ago. attended sale at the
Custom House, bought up all the liquor and
clnptlcu IL lntO lnc ScNclS.
Edward McCabe, Philadelphia lawyer
had defective eyesight; and being further
blinded by storm a few nights ago. he walk
ed off an embankment and was killed.
The telegraph brings the news of the
burning of 5000 barrels or about 100000
drinks of whiskey in Louisville, KY, Satur-
day night. Good for temperance but bad for
the topers.
tan rnluatip, IN 4 bo
of miners went into effect ON Monday at the
mines of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company. The men have accepted the stu
alton.
Wallace Williamson, n Salt Lake muir.
derer, chose shooting as the mode ofhis death,
and suggested that a sufficient delay might
be granted to enable his friends at q distance
to attend.
The eX-Confederate General Benjamin
Huger died in Charleston, S. c., last Friday.
Gen. Huger was in command of the Confede-
rate forces at Norfolk when it was evacuated
in May 1862.
The Temperance movement is said to be
exceedingly active in Baltimore city. From
twelve to fifteen thousand persons have sign
ed the pledge of total abstinence during the
past few weeks
Rev. John j. Keane, of Washington d.
c., has been appointed Bishop of the Catho-
lie Diocese of Richmond, Va, to succeed the
Rev. James Gibbons recently made Arch
bishop Of Baltimore.
-Gustave Nepper of Cincinnati bet the
drinks with party of barroom companions
that they would never see him again. He
won by going out and killing himself But
how is he to get the stakes =?
The jury in the case of Gardiner and
Grove, the two men indicted for the murder
of Rev. Mr. Friday near Hagerstown, on
Saturday, at the conclusion of the trial,
brought in verdict of not guilty.
Mary Ann Collins, employed in paper
mill in Verona, on the Allegheny Valley Rail
road, fell through hatchway of the mill into
vat of boiling water and vitriol on Satur-
day. She died almost Immediately.
"A family feud of long standing between
Joshua p, and Freeman Drake, of Northamp-
ton, New Hampshire, led to fight on Tues
day last, during which Freeman was fatally
beaten by Joshua and his two sons.
The superintendent of a factory in Can
ada which manufactures paper from wood
says that the process is now so much mprov-
ed that the paper can be made ready for use
in six hours from the cutting of the tree
VIM. II. Devlin's wife and infant child
were found dead Monday morning in Low
oil, Mass. They had died from violence and
the husband is suspected of the double muir
der, as he was heard beating her on Sunday
evening.
"A woman named Catharino Fitzpatrick,
said to be over 100 years old, was on Monday
found lying sick and destitute in Il shanty in
the upper part of New York city. she was
removed to hospital, but died few hours
later from exhaustion.
Within two hours after the recent re-
ccipt of the news of the death of Captain
Guthrie, of the Life Saving Service, at the
scene OF the Huron wreck, half Il dozen APP
plicatons for his position were received at
the Treasury Department.
1t is rumored in Washington that Sena-
tor Conkling is making great efforts to renew
his connection of last winter with certain
Eastern Democrats, and that he hopes with
the aid of two or three Senators to renew his
warfare against Mr. Evarts.
"A serious fire occurred at Louisville,
caused by Henry Croomes. colored, throw
ing coal oil lamp at his mistress She was
in bed with their child. He saved the child,
but the woman persisted in the flames, which
destroyed the house, and several others.
Edward Kimbal, of Chicago, who makes
q business of soliciting subscriptions for
churches in pccuniary difficulties, on Sunday
freed the Shepard Memorial Church, in Cam
bridge, Mass, from its membranes, over
$4,000 being subscribed in eight hours.
Senator Chrstiancy has introduced into
the Senate bills aimed at the extirpation of
polygamy in Utah. The first bill prohibits
poygamists from voting and the second from
serving on jurics when the trial of questions
under the anti-polygamy law is involved
Nicholas Brown and three other tramps
were waiting at Monocacy Junction, Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, last Saturday, to
steal ride on an approaching train, when
another train on the opposite track came
upon them, killing Brown. The Others cs.
capped.
king Alfonso of Spain is about to marry
the Duke of Montpcnsier's daughter. Some
OF his ministers demonstrated that her father
was very unpopular, whereupon the young
king replied that that made no difference as
he intended to marry the daughter, not the
father
The barn of Peter r. Alderman, on the
Hackensack river, in New Jersey, was burn
ed ON Sunday, with the stallion Hyperion, a
brood mare, six other valuable horses and one
blooded bull. The loss is heavy, Hyperion
alone being valued at $4,000, and there was
no insurance.
In Philadelphia Monday afternoon two
men, aged each about As years old, named
James McClosky and Lewis Burk, became
engaged in a fight in which knives were
freely used Both men were dangerously
stabbed in the breast and otherwise stabbed
about the bodies.
Robert Smalls, the colored congressman
from South Carolina, who was convicted and
sentenced to three years in the Pententiary
at hard labor, turned up quite Unexpectedly
in his old seat in the House on Monday, hay
inU hnnn admitted To hnil for Tho ,nrncnnt IL