The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-16
THE n EZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAR. Is, 1877.
TIE NEWS.

sonVllle, Fla.
Strawberries from Florida are appearing
in the Northern markets.
Hayes and Joe Bradley have been hun!
in effigy in Brooklyn, N Y,
1T is said an extra session of Congress
will be convened about June !.
An Egyptian man-of- war has been de
stroyed by fire Sixty of tie crew were lost
Washington Dill, while drunk, was
drowned in the Susquehanna, near Harris
burg
1t is worthy Of note that the President
Vice President and every member of the
Cabinet is lawyer.
COL Frederick W. Seward, son of The
late VIM. Il. Seward, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of State.
j M. Taylor's saleratus factory in
Brooklyn was burned early Sunday, The
total loss will reach over $4,000
The German Government has compelled
France to cease the construction of second
line of Notifications along its frontier.
-Chamberlain it is reported, has his
trunks packed and will very soon leave
South Carolina-a consummation devoutly
to be wished.
Eek Secretary of the Treasury Morrill,
has been appointed Collector Of Gust oms at
Portland, Maine, position paying $4,000 or
$4,000 year.
Hiram p. Bell, Democrat, has been cleo
ted to Congress from Georgia, to fill the va.
cancy caused by the election of Hon Benja-
min H. Hill to the Senate.
1t is doubtful if Kellogg's claims to
seat in the Senate will be pushed at this SEES
sion, although majority of the committee
on privileges and elections has reported in his
favor.
Charles Golfer, lunatic, leaped from
the third-story window of the BROOKLYN
City Hospital, where lie was patient last
Friday morning, and striking upon some
palngs, was almost instantlykilled.
1t is reported on trustw orthy authority
that the New Orleans National Bank, for
several years the fiscal agent of the Republ-
can State government, will lend Nichols
100000 to carry on his government
Stanley, the N. Y. Herald's African ex.
porer, has been heard from again, by letters
written in August, 1876. He reports com.
plete survey of Lake Tanganyika, and the
location of hitherto unknown lake
-Goteb Hillman, agei 80 years, while
stealing ride on freight train on the
Northern Central railroad, last Saturday
night fell from the carand had his legs crush
ed. He died short time afterwards.
General Crook has received information
that Crazy Horse, with 1870 lodges of hostile
Indians; were preparing to come inn and
surrender, and that 80 lodges of other hostile
Indians was on the way in by different
route.
"A. NJ. Messenger, q rich and wellto do
farmer living near Boston, was found i'm his
house on the evening of the Sth, tied hand
on1 fact and life aytinrt II 10 tlourb, lo
was choked to death by tramps. The house
had been robbed.
Last Saturday morning George r.
Powell, a freight conductor on the Philadel.
phia and Baltimore Central railroad, was
killed near Concord, Pa, while attempting
to pass from the engine TO a car He leaves
wife and seven children.
Three cars of freight train on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad were thrown from the track near
Wilmington Monday night, and smashed to
pieces. A tramp, who was stealing n ride
was killed by the accident
William F. Speakman was arrested in
Oakdale, Mass, while trying to kill his wife.
The dead body of his sister aged TO- was
found in wood she'd terribly hacked by an
axe. Speakman Was insane from drink, and
still drunk when the murder was committed
"A little girl, aged four years, daughter
of Michael Hanley, living at Jacksonville,
in Baltimore county, was accidentally burn
ed to death on Thursday last Her clothing
ignited at brush fire, and she was burned
to crisp. Mr.. Hanley in extnguishing the
flames had his right hand terribly burned.
Peter II. Penwell, aged G5, killed his
wife at Erin Centre N. Y, ON Saturday
night, by striking her on the head with an
hnt nly npG fnin int l,A
ing, with the intention of committing suicide,
but took an overdose. After Penwel killed
his wife he tried to cut his throat with q
razor.
In the crowded Catholic church of St.
Francis Xavier, in New York, on Thursday
of last week, woman had hysterical fit,
which caused considerable stir among the
congregation. At this juncture some one
raised cry OF fire, when panic ensued, and
in the rush from one of the galleries six wo-
men and one boy were trampled to death.
One white and six celored men arc to
be executed at Aiken, s. c., to-day. The
white man murdered James Gregg, a life
long friend, for some fancied wrong. The
negroes constituted band of robbers, MUIR
derers and house-burners, and were convict
ed of numbering two Germans named Haus-
man, and robbing and setting fire to their
houses.
The Senate in executive session on Sat-
urday confirmed the nomination of d. NJ.
Key to be Postmaster General, William NJ.
Evarts to be Secretary of State and Carl
Schurz to be Secretary of the Interior a vote
being taken in each case. G. w McCrry
was confirmed as Secretary of War and r.
w. Thompson as Secretary of the Navy
without division.
DR. Buckler Jones, a well.known ply.
stefan, of Baltimore, committed suicide last
Friday morning, by cutting his throat with
a knife. He was arrested and tried last fall
on the charge of having produced the death
of u young girl by causing abortion. He
was cleared, but his wife and son refused to
live with him any longer unless he would
consent to give up his special practice Ii
is supposed that his mind had become i'm,
paired.
"A strange tragedy recently occurred al
Coal Run, Ohio. During noon recess at Q
school house four young men retired to
secluded spot to rehearse a drama. The re
hearsal went on until the time came for
dagger thrust, which was part of the play
BY some means the breast plate worn by ont
of the characters named Stephen Mason
became misplaced and the weapon, in TIL,
hands of Frank Rumble, pierced Mason tt
the heart, killing him instantly The partie
were members of the same church, and fas
friends
"A fiendish attempt was made in New
York last Saturday morning to set tenc
ment house on fire, by means of segar-bo,
filed with mosquito netting saturated witt
kerosene and surrounded with split kindlin,
wood. Pinned to the side of the box wa
candle, arranged so rs to set fire to tn
netting. The apartment had been used as
liquor store, and above and around tn
barrels and shelves were drip ing with Goa
oil. The odor of the burning wood an
kerosene attracted the attention of q polio
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