The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-12-07
THE AEZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. z, 1877.
THE NEWS.

Thursday by the accidental dlscharSe Oh ID
gun, while bunting.
The grand Jury at Norfolk, Va, has in
dicted thirty liquor sellers for violation q
the Mofiet bell punch law.
e. L. Talbot, of Enfield, Mass, died on
Tuesday from the effects of Il cat bite he re
ceived last September.
--Strines livery stable, at Columbia Pa, wa
burned on Friday morning The horses an'
all the contents were lost.
The debt statement issued on Saturday
shows decrease of the public debt during The
month of 81, 1928, 633.63.
Congressman Smalls, of South Carolina
has been released on 10000 bail pending his
appeal TO the Supreme Court
Two families were poisoned at Utica, N
Y, last Saturday by butchers head cheese
Three of the victims are seriously i'll
They say that Cape May City will issue
no liquor licenses for 1878, and that consc'
ouenty it will be dry watering place next
summer.
Charles r. McGi cabinet maker, 81
years old, shot and killed his mistress, Mary
Kelly, in house OF i'll fame at Cleveland
Ohio, on Sunday Cause, jealousy
Joseph Thompson late the Labor candi-
date for Mayor of Baltimore, is turning
his experience to good account by lecturng
on the 'Humors of Political Campaign"
AT Utica, N. Y, last Sunday morning,
at 3 O'Clock, the thermometer indicated
--asgF=4ss- sEssssasslasloW zero. At Montgomery,
Ala, the same morning it registered 20 de-
grees above zero.
Sitting Bull has waxed fat upon Cana.
dian provender, and having been joined by
sixty lodges of Sioux, is about to kick against
the Canadian government for prescribing
where he shall hunt buffalo.
Clara Williams, a nurse in the Philadel-
phia Hospital has been committed for the
action of the grand jury, for administering
bv mistake, poison to patient named Rachel
Hibbs, causing her death.
An oil well recently sunk near Millers-
town, Pa, yields oil of greenish color,
which is said to be as pure as the best refined
article. The oil burns with steady bril-
liant flame, which emits no odor.
The store of Nathan Cornwall, near Bar
low, Georgia, was burned last Friday night
Cornwall's charred remains were found i'll the
ruins. 1t is thought he was murdered, and
the store burnt by the robbers.
Benjamin Godfrey, aged nineteen, shot
and instantly killed Miss Mollie E. Winning
der, aged seventeen. Godfrey then shot him
self through the left breast, and will probably
die Jealous was the cause of the shoot
ing.
Nearly all the bodies of those lost on the
Inflated Huron have been recovered, and are
buried along the beach near the scene OF the
disaster. Ensign LOOMS, who was drowned,
was a Marylander, being native of Cam
bridge.
james johnson and S. L. Stewart were
standing for deer, one lay last week, in
Highland county, Va, and johnson seeing
the leather shot-bag on Stewards person
through the bushes, thought it was deer
and fired fatally wounding Stewart
Charles Robinson, Il Jersey City boy,
aged &c. became infatuated with girl, aged
IA, who scorned his love. Last Saturday he
took her book mark as II token Of his love.
She refused to accept it, whereupon he went
out into the yard and hanged himself with
clothes line. He was cut down in time to
save his life.
Last Sunday, at Montg omery, Ala, the
bodies of Antonio Nicrosi and Aurelia Sharp
were found in II cemetery, with pis ol-ball
hole in the head of each, 1t is supposed he
first shot her and then killed himself They
were deeply in love, and Il note left by Nj
crosi indicated that they were willing to die
together
Henry Blackman, living near Beaming
ham, Mich, killed his mother and sister and set
fire to the house and barn. The property had
been decided to him by his father two years
before on condition that he would support
his parents and sister. Failing to do this,
his ia her had started for Pontiac TO have the
deed revoked. During his absence the aw
full tragedy was pelpetraed by the son, He
is in jail.
In the House bill was unanimously
passed appropriating $1,000 to each OF the
surviving officers Of the Huron, 800 to each
of the surviving scamen, and to the widows
and children of those who had been lost an
allowance equal to one years pay of thsir
respective relatives. 1t also contains pro
vision for the case of Captain Guthrie and his
crew, who were lost in endeavorlng to save
life from the wreck of the Huron
One of the American girls who have
lately found distinguished husbands abroad
is Emily Louise, daughter of the late John
Biddle Chapman, of Philadelphia, who was
married ut the parish church of Biarriz,
Basses Pyrcnees, on the 9Th of November, to
the Prince Joseph Pignatelli dAngon, sec
ond son ofthe Comte de Fuentes ct d'Egmont,
Grandee of Spain. The above mentioned
lady is sister to the wife of the Marquis de
Potestast, who was formerly connected with
the Spanish Embassy at Washington, and Il
gentleman well and tuvorably known in that
city and in this State.
The suicidal mania appears to be very
strong just now. On Monday d. A. Bald
win, formerly President of the West Wiscon-
sin railway, hanged himself in his barn. while
temporarily insane from brooding over n set
Element with the company which was unsat-
isfactory to him. An unknown woman kill
ed herself with laudanum at a hotel in New
York on Saturday. William Bierne, of Pas
sale City, N. j., formerly an industrious farm
er, took TO drinking and ended his life with
strychnine on Saturday. An unknown man
shot and killed himselfin Westchester, N. Y,
on Monday. On the same day Peter Jung
haus, finding himself $4,000 short as Treas
urer of the German Evangelical Protestant
church, of Pittsburg drowned himself in the
Monongahela river. VIM. Thompson, a mer-
chant OF Hartford, Conn, stabbed himself in
the abdomen and was found dead on the
highway on Monday. His brother commit.
ted suicide in Providence two weeks ago.
Tho RpnuhIiran Senator's IN IOuiSiapo