The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-12-21
TIE gGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. 81, 1877.
THE NEWS.

Whitehaven, Pa, on Friday, by eating live
pudding which had been boiled IL copper
kettle, but all were expected to recover.
Samuel Holmes, theleader ola notorious
gang of robbers and murderers in Kentucky
has been captured Eighteen hundred dol
lars reward had been offered for his arrest.
On Sunday morning Mrs Louisa Weber
with a razor cut the throat of her infant
thirteen months old, and then cut her own
throat. The infant will die, but the mother
will probably recover.
john Riley, noted New York burglar
who shot and killed officer O'Bren, in 1864
and escaped, was arrested in New York on
Sunday night, after being fugitive from
justice nearly IA years.
Richard H. Snowden, brother of Sheriff
p. NJ. Snowden, of Baltimore, was shot last
Saturday by the accidental discharge of a
pistol he was cleaning, and died the same
day. He was about so years old
"A coal oil car at Paterson, N. j., took
fire Monday night. The tank burst, and the
flaming oil ran into and flooded the street,
communicating the flames to five or six
houses, some of them half a mile away.
Late news from the Pope represents him
better in health and rs cheerful in mind as
ever. lie chats, jokes, receives visitors in
his bedroom and is just now eagerly inter
ested in project for opening new school.
Philip F. Tyson, u prominent citizen of
Maryland, died in Baltimore on Sunday, in
his 18th year The deceased previous to the
war made geological survey of Maryland,
and was State chemist under Gov Bradford.
On Friday, in New York, a child had
some pennies given it for candy. The candy
was white, blue and green. Soon after eat
Il, IL pfn inl Gu,
day morning, with all the symptoms of poi
soning.
-Four fires occurred in Philadelphia Sat.
urday night, and three OF them were burning
at the same time. A stable was burned, with
seven horses, one being valued at one thous-
and dollars. The fires are attributed to in
cendarism.
DR.. Ninian Pinkncy, retired surgeon
ofth United States navy, died near Easton,
Talbot county, Md, last Saturday. He was
brother of Rev. DR.. Pinkney, assistant
Episcopal bishop of Maryland, and nephew
of the celebrated William Pinkney.
-Advces from San Domingo report that
the revolution has spread all over the coun-
try Carlos BaeZ, brother of the President
and Governor of Aqua, has been killed by
the insurgents General Mienciano has
been executed and the fall of Baez seems in
cvitable.
On the list of December the steamer
America, of the North German Lloyd line,
in mid-ocean ran into the Italian bark Utile,
cutting into her fully 90 feet. The bark sank
in five minutes Only eleven of her crew
were saved The steamer was also injured
and had to return to Southampton
"A hardware store in Nashville, Tenn,
was discovered to be on fire Monday morn
ing. When extinguished, it was found to
contain 110 pounds of powder in different
parts of the house. 1876 bales of cotton sat
urated with coal oil were scattered over the
house. The house had been ignited in four
places.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, of
Philadelphia, have received an order to build
and complete for Russia 40 locomotives in
three months. The Russian government has
taken possession of the railroad, and in the
meantime the largest crop of wheat ever
raised in Southern Russia is rotting for need
of transportation to seaports
In that paradise of Kentucky, the blue
grass region, famous for its racing horses,
its whisky, and its beautiful maidens, real es-
tate prices have touched hard pan. The Lex
ington Press says that at no time in twenty
five years has land been so cheap. Sixty dol
lars an acre is the price for farms really worth
from 500 to $3.50 an acre.
Judge Dean, of Hot Sulphur Springs,
Colorado, was assaulted by gang of men
on Friday while on the bench holding court.
They struck him over the head and fired re.
volvers at him, but he succeeded in locking
up the records and seal of the court. The
Judge went to Denver to obtain assistance
from the Governor to restore order
The Canadian tribes of Indians have be-
come jealous of the presence of Sitting Bull
and his Sioux Indians among them, on ac-
count of the scarcity of buffalo, and appear
very much inclined to drive them out of Can
ada. The Sioux do not feel able to go into
fight with other Indians, and it is said they
are thinking of returning to the United
States.
AT attempt was made Sunday morning
to wreck a freight train on the Hudson River
railroad at One Hundred and forty eighth
street, New York city. A number of tails
and boards were placed across the track, but
were discovered in time to prevent an acct
dent. Six tramps, who are supposed to be
the parties who placed the Instructions on
the track, were arrested.
1.-THE Continental Telegraph Company"
has been organized in New York, with a
capital of ten million dollars, for the purpose
of building and operating telegraph lines be-
tween New York and all important cities in
the United States. Contracts have already
been made to construct line from Boston to
Washington, passing through New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
An interesting phase of human nature
was illustrated in an event that occurred last
week in St. Louis. Elizabeth Gibson, aged
so years, starved to death in a crowded tene.
ment. Nothing had been done for her relief,
though she had tried to let people know that
she was in state of starvation After she
was dead, however, thirty dollars were sub
scribed for her funeral.
"A Texas paper says: "The beef we cat
in Mason county, Texas, is fat and juicy. 1t
is delicious, and is slaughtered upon the open
range in these mountain Businesses, and de-
livered at the door at five cents per pound
for nicely cut porterhouse and sirloin steaks
Wild turkeys, fine and fat, sell in Mason at
twenty-five cents per head. Venison hams
fifty cents apiece. Wild honey is abund-
ant"
"A man was arrested in Richmond, Va.
on Monday, on suspicion of being the muir.
derer of Charles Belden, of Gibson, ILL.,, while
the latter was pursuing him for burglary
The murderer of Belden also shot three
others of his pursuers The prisoner give:
the name of Richard Robinson. Belden is
the man who, it is said, was murdered by thu
notorious Frank Rande," and for that crime
which he confessed, he is now in Jail await
ing his trial.
On Saturday, at Elizabeth, N. j., a loco
motive which had just been cut loose from
coal train, was left standing upon the tract
while the engineer and fireman were engaged
in removing an obstruction. The coal trail
struck the locomotive, throwing the thrott
valve open, and the locomotive started dow
the track unattended at the rate of 40 mile
an hour. Shortly afterwards it collided will
another locomotive, wrecking both, and kill
ing a brakeman named Helppenny