The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-07-13
THE NEWS.

The report of the death of the Pope is
pronounced untrue.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad Company propose building
branch to the Delaware division from Do
yer to Milford and Lewes
"A colored delegation from Maryland on
Monday called on the President to urge the
appointment OF prominent members of their
race to office in Maryland
"A Missouri farmer has invented q ma
chine which combines seed sower, corn
planter, sulky pillow, hay rake, roller, two
one-horse plows, hoe, meadow splitter, corn
marker
-Alphonso Thayer and William Perry,
of Rochester, were drowned in PenobscOt
Bay last Thursday. Their boat was capsized
by q sword fish they were endeavoring to
capture.
Six persons were poisoned at Upton,
Mo-, by drinking milk at breakfast in which
poison had been placed. At last accounts
they were in critical condition, without
hope of relief. A negro woman has been ar
rested on suspicion.
"A general uprising of Indians in Idaho,
under Chief Joseph, is threatened. On the
4th Col Perry, with pack train and an es
cort OF thirty men, was attacked. Ten SOL
diers and two citizens were killed. Settlers
in the Spokane county have been obliged to
flee from their houses.
Jack Thompson, colored, was hanged at
La Grange, Ga, last Friday, for killing two
negro children, aged two and eight years
respectively, last winter. He blew off the
head of the oldest with a gun and crushed in
the head ofthe other with stick, and cut her
throat from ear to ear with case knife.
Last Friday a number of young ladies at
Mott Haven went in the river for bath, and
on repairing to the shore found that their
clothing had been stolen. They were ac-
cordingly obliged to march through the
streets to their homes in their bathing cos
tunes, which somewhat resembled the fash
on set by Eve in the Garden of Paradise
throwing crops are now taxed in Califor-
mia, but the granger element is aroused
in opposition. In some counties, says the
San Francisco Bulletin, crops have been as
sessed as high rs So or So to the acre In
others the assess ment has been placed at a
mere nominal figure, while in some few the
order of the State board has been disregard
ed.
"A tornado swept everything before it in
Wisconsin, last Saturday night. Eight per-
sons were killed by the destruction ola hotel
at Pensaukee Station. The place was totally
depot from its foundations and threw it across
the track At WestGeld, Macs, also, on
Monday tornado demolished houses an d
barns.
Rev. A. j. Myers, formerly agent of the
Maryland Life Insurance Company, was ar
rested in Baltimore, last Saturday, on n re-
QUESTION from the Governor of New York,
upon charge of swindling, made by bank
ing house in Medina, N. Y. 1t is charged
that Myers, some months ago, then an asso-
cate Of the firm of #. p. Eigelberner & Co.,
obtained goods from the Ives Manufacturing
Company, giving his personal security there
for. The property upon which the security
was given he subsequently swore was the
property of his sons.
The celebrated "Asht on" case is
again before the public in Baltimore
city. L. T. Ii. Walter, who was arrested on
the charge OF being an accomplice with Mrs
Mary E. Ashton, in the matter of the forged
endorsement to check, has sued the propri
etors of theBaltimore american, ella aiming
$4,000 damages for certain publications con
corning him alleged to be libelous. Tho
grand jury ignored the presentme mt against
Walter, who claims that his business as
collector of claims has been damaged by The
american to the amount stated.