The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19
THE NEWS.

Mrs Wilkins. wife of Col. Edward
Wilkins died nj her home near Chestertown,
on Thursday of last week.
-Thorburn, the Petersburg, Va, bank
rohber, has confessed his guilt and told where
the funds are deposited.
Martin Meyer, aged 60 years, n bone
picker, was frozen to death in Easton, Pa,
on Friday night.
A stage coach rnnning between Little
Rock and Pine Bluff. Arkansas, was robbed
by highwaymen on Friday last.
Commodore Vanderbilt left large sum
OF money to found an asylum for railroad
men broken down or disabled in service.
The ice was so thick at Crisfeld last
week that the steamboat men pushed ton
Of coal, in a sleigh, out to steamer, two
miles from the town.
Taxes in Mississippi have been reduced
100000, under Democratic rule, as compar-
ed with the carpei-bag administrator OF
Ames in 1875.
David Mundell, a shoemaker at Bryn
Mawr, Pa, was shot dead on Mond, ~, by Il
policeman who was endeavoring to arrest
him for drunkenness
The steamboat Alice, formerly used rs a
ferry boat on the Susquehanna liver, took
fire and was burned at Chincoteague, Va,
oi ShaJ HiBh' vi iaSe hSSh'
The bark America was wrecked 100
miles south of Cape Henry, on Christmas
eve, and the crew, composed of Is Italians,
were rescued by the crew OF L. 5. Life
Saving Station.
The libel suit of Rev. Stuart Robinson
of Louis, lille, against the proprietOrs of the
old ST. Louis Dem crat has terminated by
the defendants coIiessing judgment in the
sum of $4,000 and costs.
"A bloody battle was fought on the 18th
ult al Gal,ea, Ecuador, between the consti-
tuional and revolutionary armies, in which
400 men were killed and large number
wounded
Tine Delaware authorities have decided
that the Bennett, May duel was fought in
Maryland, and will therefore not send re-
QUESTION to the Governor of New York for
their arrest.
Lieut.. Baldwin and three companies
of infantry struck Sitting Bulls camp, on
the 18Th Of December, defeating him, scat
terng his braves, and capturing all I'll, prop
city in his camp, with so or 60 ponies.
On Monday night Mrs. Minnie Blasen,
wife of II carpenter living at Dayton, near
Covington, KY, while out of her mind, arose
from her bed, and taking her ten days old
infant, drowned herself and it in the river.
Three millions in twenty dollar gold
pieces ARR we'd in New York on Monday
from San Francisco. The weight of the
gold was six tons, it filled fourteen iron
safes, and il took seventeen men to guard it
on the way.
During The slcighing carnival at Pough
keepsie, N Y, Saturday, two trott ing horses,
owned by L, Holdridge and Charles Phelps,
collided, when the shafts OF each sleigh pene
trated The breasts of each horse and both
were instantly killed. Loss $4,000.
"A young lady in Omaha. recently, while
bathing her hair at night with bay rum, ac
cidentelly let some of her locks fall across
lamp, when b uish flame flashed over her
head, setting fire to her clothing and burning
her terribly,
The thaw caused the raising of the ice
blockade at Baltimore, and navigation is be-
ing resumed The steamer Virginia. of
Annapolis, was caught in the masses of
floating ice and cut through. The captain
and crew, six in number are thought to be
lost.
Major T. B. Ferguson, fish commission
err, Baltimore, has number OF eggs OF brook
trout Matching in apparatus ut Druid Hill
Park viii h during February will be given
to applicants, free of charge, to restock the
depleted waters of the Sta,e
"A United States mail bag was found in
the express Office at Montreal k ST week and
sent back to New York. 1t had been stolen
while in transit from Philadelphia to Boston,
and contained drafts and checks to the
an cunt of $44, 3Ol.
Several distilleries in Dearborn county,
Indiana, were seized on Friday for ucfieud
ing the revenue. One of the distilleries
seiZ"d belonged 10 John e. Singer, man
of considerable wealth and influence. Over
1000 gallons of illicit brandy were found in
the upper story of his house.
The Exchange Block in Scranton, Pa,
comprising valuable stores and q number
of law Offices, was burned on Saturday
morning. Loss 100000. A fire in the
business portion of Edinburgh, Clarion
county. Pa, on Saturday night, destroyed 90
buildings, causing loss estimated at $780,
900.
james G. Blaine has been elected United
States Senator from Mime for the short term
ending March 4, and for the long term end
ing in 1888 VIM. Window has been re-elect-
ed to the Senate from Minnesota, II. W.
Ferry from Michigan, while Governor Gar
land takes the place ofPowel Clayton from
Arkansas.
The Right Rev. Bishop Nottingham
of The Protestant Episcopal Church, was
stricken with paralysis, at his residence in
Baltimore, on Friday morning of las week
shortly after breakfast. By Sunday night he
had partially recovered the use Of his limbs
and vt last accounts was improving His
mind has continued clear throughout
Sergeant Bessey and an escort of the
Sixth Cavalry had fight with Is Indians
on the Elkhorn, 30 miles north of Fort
Laramie, ON the night of the Sd inst Bessey
and one of his companions were slightly
III ,,.,I NATL. h.inu
severely hurt. They also had horses killed
but compelled the Indians to retire. A com
pany IF cavalry left Folt Laramie next day
to intercept the Indians
"A Christmas tree ut the residence Of
Charles W. Tabler, OF Frederick, Md, caught
fire, last Thursday evening, and sci fire &c
the contents of tie room. Two of Mr.
Stablers children and daughter of JOSEPH
Tragedies, had locked themselves in the room
before lighting the :ree, and being too badly
frightened to escape, were severely aud it il
thought fatally burned.
"A cornner's jury at Middletown, r. /.
near Newport, have returned verdict tina
Charles s. Brown, son OF William Henry
Brown. knew OF the burning 1T his father
house, and that he mllicinusly and felonlnus
ly refused and neglected TO make any effor
TO put out The fire or to save his father
life. The whole community are appalled,
at The contemplation Of such crime
"A resolution has been offered in the Min
nesola Legislature inquiring into the eligbili
ty of A. X. Finsett, Republican presiden
tial elector in that State, who il is alleged i
not legally ciiIzcn of the United States
because he emigrued 10 the Unied State
when II or IL years OF age, and snpposinl
that his fathers naturalization naturalized hi
minor C lldren has no sufficient evidence o
his citizenship. The resolution has creates