The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-05
THE NEWS.
MIR. John Morrissey's only son died at
.ratoga last Sunday Of pneumonia.

Two brothers nainpd Weinhnrdt, were
Killed by fail uf coai in mine nj Deeyllie
ILL.,, on Thursday
The accident to the Montreal express
Mas caused by some villain removing a rail
from the track. No lives were lost.
In glove fight at Boston, between p
j. McDermott and d. Davidson, the latter
received fatal injuries and died in the hall.
Welcome Harrington, aged fifty years
was found dead on the highway in SmithtieId
r. E., last Saturday, having fallen while
drunk
Governor Robinson, of New York, and
Cove nor Vance of North Carolina, were
inaugurated in their respective States on
Monday.
Jeremiah Fletcher, an old resident of
Biddeford, Marie, committed suicide by talk
ing poison one night last week. Cause, do
nestle trouble.
Nellie Minis, an orphan eighteen years
-~ela, committed suicide at Worcester Mass. .,
recently, by taking Gil of cedar. Cause, want
Of work and disappointing mt in love.
Thirty five mariners, the crews of three
vessels which were recently wrecked on an
island south OF Cuba, had TO suhsst on al
gator meat until relief came to them.
"a -Aifew days ago Simon Waltz a German
TX 81 years old, hung himself to II rnfter in the
garnet where he lived in Brooklyn, N. Y
He had been out Of work for som time
4aA George Holender, a clot' ing dealer of
va Worcester Mass, 65 years of age, was shot
. Sthrough the head ard killed by the acciden
e tai discharge of revolver he was Gaming.
3N Two men were killed by a snow slide in
IN Aittle Cottonwood canon, Utah, on Friday,
everal hundred feet of the snow shoes on the
Pacific Railroad were demolished by the
anne ava anche.
,3g-A memorial 10 Congress, like the one
sent from New York and Philadelphia, in
N regard to the count of the electoral vote is
receiving the sigma ures OF the leading h3si
ness men OF Boston.
a The accounts of the disastrous failure of
the herring fishery on the western coast OF
Newfoundland are confirmed by the latest adj
gices. Many of the inhabitants of the west
h brn coast are already in absolute destilution.
s David Milligan (colored), aged twenty
ysix, was shot and killed last Wednesday
night week, at Canton, Baltimore, by his
cousin, VIM. Milligan, aged twenty one
80 The :nurdcfer surrendered himself to the
authorities.
The poultry and dog show at Baltimore
was very interesting, The largest exhibitor
was Mr.. George Cotton, of Annapolis, Md.
who displayed 116 coops of chickens aud
and ducks, and carried off large number
Of premiums.
r. The snow ste rm of Friday night block
ed nearly all the railroads in western and
northern New York, Vermont Massachusetl,
and New Hampshire, The furious wind
blew the snow into drifts, which, in some
places, were seven feet deep.
There have been several snow slides in
Little Cottonwood Canon, Utah, carrying
away several hundr, d feet of snow sheds
over the Union Pacific railway. Two French
nlen were buried with their cabin by snow
slide near Alta, California, Friday.
The Montreal express train, composed
of an engine and three cars, ran off the track
n VI. last Friday night, and
it Il s rccpitated the structure
81 ice below, resulting in
Fortunately no lives were
/. y. + M * \ announced that the Turk
rs AZ II 5 X b been prolonged 10 March
& & III ~ fdeclines to accept the pro
, ). DIVERS. and submits counter
The English feet has been
81 ~ turkish waters There is still
of pacific settlement, how
n ssas siish steamer Circassian went
~ sse Tag Island on the nth of De
~ Z ~ = plain ami crew OF wreck
y = H in removing the cargo,
" sss d. Last Friday night
,se the vessel went to
pieces and OF tlfc&J9 men on board only 5
reached shore alive.
On Wednesday last the Indians made
dash on Spearfish Run, Dakota, and STAMPED.
ed herd of horses VIM Smith, who wit
messed the affair." we nm alarm, and num-
Der of mounted men started in pursuit of the
Indians and recaptured all but twenty of the
e hcrses ,The Indians, about fifteen in num-
Der, es@ M
-H pmes w. Nye, of Nevada,
died T. ~, at White Plains, N
* t14-4 5fst1 He was born in the
u State OF New, YVES prominent as a
politician there, and in 1861 was appointed
Governor of the territory OF Nevada. Upon
its admission rs u State he was elected to the
United Stat"o Senate, and served two erms.
--Ad from Red Cloud Agency state
that. W couriers, a mail carrier and wood
chopper, who left Sage Creek on Christmas
morning. were attacked by 30 " friendly"
Indians, who killed the couriers and wound
ed the other two, the carrier MORALLY. The
survivors heard firing in their rear an hour
after the Indians left and supposed othei
PARTIES were attacked.
"A meeting of about 1000 persons of
both sexes was he'll in Lincoln Hall, in
Washington, last Sunday, "to strengthen
the newspaper attacks upon the gambling
houses" After speeches by several clergy
;. men and aymen, n committee of seven was
appointed to direct the attention of the
grand jury to the evil One of the speakers
said there was too much mbling at church
fairs and there ought to be reform in that
direction.
Three burglars robbing pearl button
in iuht
caught in the act, the alarm having been given
by means of electricity. The tables on which
the buttons were placed in boxes were go ar
ranged that single ounce of goods added
to or withdrawn from the table operated the
alarm, through wires connected with the
under side Of the tables and through the
~ legs, connecting under the floor with wires
leading to station outside.
n The American steamboat John Scott,
with specie belonging to American mer.
b Achlns in Mexico, while on her way from
Y &io Grande City to Brownsville, Texas, was
Aaered to stop under the guns Of Mexican
The steamer stopped, but on the
Texas side, and TINS no doubt escaped being
plundered. IL is believed that Revueltas,
the Mexican commandant on the Rio Grade,
will make further move upon the Scott on
her return trip and otherwise impair the free
navigation of the Rio Grande.
HAYES OR TIE EN.-The triumph of Rad.
ical knavery would confirm the policy of
the past, net only in the South, but over the
whole country Instead of frightening
horizon, the fraudulent counting in of Mr.
Hayes would present vista of wretchednrss