The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-23

The plurality in New Hampshire fol
Jones, Democrat, was As. The Republican.
elected the ether two representatives. The
new Congress will stand 140 Democrats tc
IA Republicans, provided the latter get the
members they claim from Louisiana, South
Carolina and Florida.
Attorney General Devens has been so
pestered by office seekers, thst he has declar-
ed himself TO be the biggest fool in America
Tor giving up a life position on the Supreme
Bench of Massachus,t it's for the precarisus
tenure of a cabinet officer, with all its attend.
ant annoyances and Inconvenience.
-Four negroes were hanged at Aiken, s.
| Z, last Friday, for the murder, last Novem-
Der of two quiet Germans, named Hauseman
and Porman, and robbing and burning their
house. Another negro engaged in the trans
action was respited by Gov Hampton for
thirty days. He did not hesitate to recog
nlze Gov. Hampton's authority
George Hickey, aged SO years, while
attempting to board an outgoing train near
Camden Station, Baltimore, on Saturday af-
ternoon. missed his footing and falling on
the track was run over. He died at 12
o'clock Sunday night, after suffering the
most eXcruciaiing pain. He leaves wife
and two children
VIM. O'Brien was murdered few days
ago, near Burckhead, Ga, by negro named
Edward Wells, who struck him on the head
with an axe. Wells then took O'Brien's
goods and peddlei them among the negroes
in the vicinity. The murderer was arrested,
and threats Of lynching were made by whites
and blacks.
1T is stated that Mrs. Mary e. Ashton,
who is under arrest in Baltimore, on the
ruQrpp IN nhpply
$4,000 with forged endorsements, will proba-
bly, be used as witness against another
party, who is said to have inspired the act.
The grand jury have not fourd true bill
againt her yet. She has expressed a desire
TO testify before them.
On the 18th inst, the store of Fielder
Magruder, near Benning's Station on the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, was de.
stroyed by fire. and the bodies of Ebenezer
Large and his son John, the latter clerk
for Mr.. Magruder both of whom slept in the
store, were discovered in the ruins. No
doubt they were both murdered and the
store robbed and then burned.
On Monday, at Cincinnati, the little
slx-year old daughter of Daniel Boote, was
feeding large English bulldog, when the
brute sprang at her and began literally to
tear her to pieces. He could not be torn off
I'LL bullet had been sent through his head,
and then sprang at the officer who shot him,
nearly throwing him down. The child's
mother was also severely bitten by the brute.
"A young German druggist of Baltimore
named Schraut, was married in 1879. His
mind became dsordered, and about week
after his marriage he disappeared, and search
for him proved unsuccessful. Mrs Schraut
became convinced that her husband was
dead and about ten months ago she married
again. Last week news came that
Schraut was in Cincinnati, having just been
discharged from the Indianapolis Insane
Asylum where he has been confined for five
years. Whether he will claim his wife again
or not remains to be seen.
"A jealous quarrel took place between
two young women, named Nellie Brown and
Mary Ann Rush, on board a schooner at
New York, last Friday night, when Nellie
Brown, being the stronger, threw her rival
into the water. A sailor sprang to her res
cue, and as he was conveying her to the deck,
the Cnraged woman above tore his hands
loose from the side of the vessel, and he sank
beneath the water with his burden. After
desperate ell, rts, however, he succeeded in
landing her on deck She was sent to the
hospital, Were she died. Her attempted
murderess will be arrested if the police can
fni her.