The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-11-02
THE NEWS.

died in Philadelphia on Monday of consump
ton.
The extra session of Congress, it is now
thought, win run close to the regular
session.
President Hayes and his cabinet went tc
Richmond on Tuesday, to attend the Virgin
ia State fair.
The cattle plague has broken out among
the herds of South Russia, and hundreds OF
thousands OF cattle have died.
p. Il, Barnum, the Snowman, has been
nominated as Republican candidate for the
Legislature, from Bridgeport, CT
Senator Morton is at the point of death
from paralysis. His physicians and friends
have abandoned all hope of his recovery.
Charles E. Daniels, child three years
old, fell out of n second story window in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on Monday, and was kill
ed.
Joseph Jefferson, the noted actor, has
returned from Europe and has already conf
menced his impersonations of Rip Van Win
kle
Hon Samuel j. Tilden arrived in New
York from his European trip on Thursday
of last week He was in fine health and
spirits.
Gen. N b. Forrest, the great Confeder-
ate cavalry officer, died at the residence of
his BROTHER in Memphis, Tennessee on Mon
day, at the age OF 90.
The master-masons of London intend to
prosecute the wOrkmcn who came from
America, under contract, if they persist in
acting with the strikers.
One day last week, John Brices barn
and contents, in Kent county, Md, were de-
stroyed by fire, which caught from steam
engine engaged in threshing wheat. Loss
$4,000.
Edward Costley has been convicted of
murder in the first degree in Frederick (Md)
Circuit Court, for the murder of his cousin,
Solomon Costey. Both the parties are
muattoes.
Herr John Ernest Luther, direct de-
scendant of Martin Luther q wise and valiant
theologian, has just died in Berlin. He was
an old man, whose whole life was occupied in
teaching.
Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice
have been making lint at Balmoral for the
wounded of the Eastern war, and the occu-
patton has, in fashionable circles driven out
fancy work.
Thomas Hoover, aged 81 years, brake
man on the Western Maryland railroad, &C
cidentally fell between the cars and was man
gled to death near Frederick Junction. last
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Margaret Hanley, a woman who sold
newspapers at the Fulton ferry, New York,
died on Sunday, leaving fortune of $75 900,
growing out flucky investments of her saw
ings in real estate.
The nail feeders at the Etna Iron Works,
New Castle, work from six in the morning till
nine at night The business in that dty is
said to be better now than it has been for the
past two or three years.
The charred remains of woman named
Mn(in 1lni1nl, md ,,,t I'M oI,iao Lou,
dwelling, which was burned at Erie, Pa, on
Sunday She was drunk and alone in the
house on the previous evening.
George w. Kimmel, cashier of the bank
ing house of j. o. Kmmel 81 Sons, of Som.
ersct, Pa. committed suicide last Friday af-
ternoon, by shooting himself in the head
with pistol, while delrious from illness.
Miss Jarrett, of MARLBORO, Ont, was so
overcome with sleep about five weeks ago
that she is still sleeping. She only wakes
for q few minutes now and then aud nothing
can be done TO thoroughly awaken her.
"A trotting match between Sadie Bell
the Eastern Shore trotter and Carroliton,
the property of r. J. Slater of Baltimore
came off at Herring Run on Monday. The
contest was won by Sadie Bell in three
straight heats, in 2,3G, 1894 and 1872
AT Pimlico last Friday the four-mile race
for the Bowie stakes was won by Ten Brock,
in two straight heats, in 7424 and TAO Barri-
cade second and Algerine and Ambush dis.
tanced. Ten Brock and Parole are to be
matched again in a two and a-lalf mile race
on the 3D. inst, at Jerome Park, N. Y.
Benjamin F. Muzzey was fatally injured
at Norwich Falls, Connecticut, early Sunday
morning, by being struck by a base ball bat
by Louisa A. Brown, a girl aged 90 years.
who discovered him in her sleeping ROOM
ri ri ca We thnnuht hn wnc Inn
Both she and the woman with whom she
lived have been arrested
The strange craft containing Cleopatra's
Needle, while being lowed from Alexandria
Egypt, to London, was cut adrft in the Bay
of Biscay, in the midst of Il terrible Storm
and disappeared 1t was subsequently re-
covered by II steamer and towed to Ferrol
where it will remain all winter, pending the
determination of the question of salvage in
the Admiralty Court.
On Saturday John Barrett, a merchant
of Brooklyn, N. Y, caused the arrest of his
daughter fine looking girl II years of age
on charge of being vagrant. At the hear
ing she surprised her father and Judge Riley
by producing marriage certificate, which
substantated the fact that she had married
very black and ugly negro named Payne
Ode Mr., Barrett abandoned his case and
retired home in disgust.
An unknown person entered the house
Of E, s. McVey, tollgate keeper on the Cir
cleville pike, six miles north of Chllicothe,
Ohio, Friday night, and shot McVey through
the heart, and his wife through the head,
killing both instantly. A little girl, the only
other occupant of the house. hearing the
shooting, jumped out of bed and escaped
The murderer, after ransscking the house
for punder, set fire to it, and escaped to the
woods
The Yearly Meeting CT the Hcksite
Friends commenced at Baltimore on Mon
day. Darlington Hopes, of Hartford coun-
ty, Md, and Levi X. Brown, of Lancaster
county, Pa were chosen clerks of the male
department, and Mary c. Cutler and Lydia
Q. Staber, clerks OF the women's meetng.-
About fifty delegates, representing the quar-
terly meetings, were present from Pennsyl-
vania Virginia and Maryland. Ministers
representing other yearly meetings were also
in attendance; among them Benjamin Kent,
Robert Hatton, Samuel j. Levick, David
Newport and VIM. E. Sharpless, Rachael
Hicks Rhoda o. Lamb, Elizabeth Plumber,
Lydia III. Price and Sarah A. E. Hutton.
Parents, mothers, nurses, do not fail ia