The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-09-14
THE sGGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEPT. IA, 1877;
THE NEWS.

di, began last Friday evening.
"A mule that can trot mile in $50 is til
present boast of Lafayette Ind. r#-
The Canadian harvest is the larges
gathered in the Dominion for fifteen years.
Returning Board Anderson has been ap
pointed Deputy Collector of the port of New
Orleans.
Dom Pedro and his wife, Emperor ant
Empress of Brazil, have sailed from Londol
for Rio Janeiro.
Rev. John McEroy. the Oldest Roman
Catholic priest In America, died at Frederick
Md, on Wednesday, aged 90 years.
George w. Andrews, of the well-knowI
drug firm of Thompson & Andrew, died il
Baltimore on Wednesday.
The designations of the officers of the
Sixth Regiment, nj. N. g., have been accept
ed and the command is dissolved.
"A Columbia, Pa, dispatch says that vgi
lants are organizing against the tramps, who
are bold, numerous and troublesome.
Ludwig Fromm, a German aged fifty
three, of Fremont Schuylkill county, Pa.
hung himself on the 9Th. He was out o.
work.
The British ships Avalanche and Forest
colided in the English Channel, a few days
ago, and both foundered Over 100 lives
were lost.
Some of the principal Indian agitators
in the disturbed regions of the West are to
be arrested and placed in confinement in
Florida.
u james johnson and Capt. John Avis, OF
Charleston, West Virginia, had difficulty at
Orkney Springs, Va, last Friday. johnson
was MORALLY wounded
john Taylor, senior apostle and acting
President of the twelve apostles, as they are
called, has been chosen to succeed Brigham
Young as head of the Mormons
The Russians have been bombarding
Plevna since Friday last, and it was reported
on Wednesday that they had gained impor-
tant advantages in the struggle.
Elmer Myers boy of twelve, at Sidons-
burg, York county, was dragged over the
road and kicked by q runaway mule, on the
9th, until life was extinct.
BY the premature explosion of q blast in
aquarry, at Mortified, Mass, last.Friday, one
man was killed and another badly injured
The latter has since died
Andrew Richards, negro arrested for
outraging Mrs. John Smith, near Winchester,
Illinois, last Sunday was taken by mob
from the Jail Tuesday and hanged.
"A dreadful explosion of gas took place,
on Thursday evening of last week in the
Phoenix Park coal mine, near Minersville,
Pa, by which eight miuers were seriously
burned
-Feramoza and Don Carlos Young, sons
of the late Brigham Young, have returned to
Troy, New York. and have resumed their
studies in the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
tute.
On Monday morning an earthquake
shock ratified dishes, shook windows and
threw pots and kettles off of stoves in different
houses in'Trenton, N. j. 1t lasted only few
seconds.
Crazy Horse, a NOTED and desperate Indian
chief died at Fort Robinson, Neb., on
Wednesday night of last week. from wounds
received during an attempt to escape from
the authorities.
The latest news from Sitting Bull is to
the effeat that he has no intention of going
Oh the war path, and is determined to remain
in the British possessions.
Last Sunday morning, Jofn Vanliew, a
farmer, was found dead near his home, thr, J
miles from Bloomsbury, Pa. He had been
shot, and his skull had been crushed as ifwith
stick
The Republicans carried Maine, on Mon
day, as usual, but with decreased majority.
so reduced. The vote was sma'l and there
was no enthusiasm at all.
Senator Morton has as many lives as q
cat. A few days ago he was at deaths door.
Now it is announced that he expects to be in
his place in the Senate during the extra ses-
sion of Congress.
George nj. Anderson, of Montgomery
comfy, was the successful candidate at Con-
gresham Walsh's competitive examination
at Cumberland, on Wednesday, for appoint
ment as a cadet at West Point
On Sunday afternoon II. G. Karr, clerk
at the American Hotel, corner Franklin and
Calvert streets, received fatal injuries by be-
ing thrown from buggy at Lower Canton,
Baltimore county
In Centre Groton, Conn, on Monday
evening, Edwin J. Buddington, in his own
house, shot and killed VIM Thompson. The
cause was alleged intimacy between Mrs
Buddington and Thompson.
IT he troubles with Mexico appear to be
assuming serious aspect. Fifteen hundred
Mexican troops have been sent from the city
of Mexico to the Rio Grande border, for the
alleged purpose of enforcing the extradition
treaty.
-Forty-two head of Canadian Short Horn
cattle were sold in England last week, at an
average price of So 900 per head-an average
not realized before in England or on this
continent, and which las only been exceeded
once in Australia.
On Monday evening, in Baltimore
Henry III. Barlage shot and instantly kill d
his brother, John Barlage, with revolver, it
is alleged, during fit of insanity. The frat
ricide then shot himself, inflicling wound
which will probably prove fatal.
Frank Leslie, of New York the well
known publisher of newspapers and perodi-
calls, has failed, his liabilities amounting to
$3.50, 900. His publications will be continued
as heretofore, and he hopes to pay his credi-
tors every cent he owes them as he did after
his failure in 1867.
Thomas Wilisns, who was stabbed at
Cockcysville, Baltimore county, on the night
of the LIST instant, and who has been report
ed dead is still living, but his condition is
considered critical by his attending physi-
clans. His alleged assailant, Charles Murray,
is in Jail at Towsontown.
AT st. Elmo, Illinois, on Monday, burglar
was arrested but escaped and hid in a corn
field. Nearly the entire population of the
town turned out to hunt him. and when
brought to bay he shot and instantly killed
two of his pursuers and MORALLY wounded
another He was not recaptured.
"A coal oil lamp exploded in frame
house in Philadelphia Tuesday evening"
Three children were asleep in the second
story. The flames set the house on fire and
it was destroyed Two of the children were
rescued by policeman, but one, Tillie De-
burlow, aged fourteen years. was burned TO
death. .ftt'
One night last week at Wapakoreta, the
county treasurer, on his way home was seized
bya gang of robbers, who bound and gagged
him. They then took him to the court house
and placing fire between his feet as he lay
upon the floor, tortured him into divulging
the combination of the safe containing the
comfy fuuds of which thav tooIx about