The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-08-31
THE EGZN.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY. AUGUST 81, 1877.
THE NEWS.

FURTHER destruction ny earthquakes III
Chilli South America, is reported.
Senator Morton is reported to be recov-
ering from his severe illness.
President Hayes and party returned to
Washington last Friday evening
The wheat surplus of Minnesota from
this years crop is estimated at 30,0O0,O 100
bushels.
-Servia has determined to declare war
against Turkey. She can place 10000 men
in the field.
VIM Lindermann, aged 60, committed
suicide with arsenic on Monday because his
wife deserted him.
After the battle of Plevna the body of
famous Circassian chieftain, Prince RubaE-
inski was found on the field, with sabre of
solid gold, hilt and blade.
"A compromise has been made between
the Lehigh coal miners and the employers
and the men have gone to work amidst gen.
eral rejoicing.
Eight fat cattle, worth 500 head, were
stolen from the farm of Henry Carroll, Jr,
near Glencoe Baltimore county, last Fri
day night.
Charles Wilson, u colored youth of 10,
was stabbed TO death by Charles Pitts,
another colored youth of 20, in street
Philip Tilzie, aged 90, and Rita Brown,
aged SO, both colored, were united in matri
mony by Mayor Carpenter at Fayette, Miss,
on the 18th inst.
"A train on the Hudson river railroad,
last Sunday, made the remarkable time on
one stretch of 90 miles in % minutes, and on
another ran up hill II miles in 1Gi minutes.
e. Wyatt Blanchard, prominent mem
Der of the Baltimore bar, and noted for his
active work in the advancement of public
Improvement, died in Baltimore on Wednes-
day in the 10th year of his age.
Alexander Drummond ended quarrel
with his wife IN London, Ont on Saturday
night by shooting her in the breast, inflicting
a wound which is likely TO prove fatal. He
was arrested.
james F.. NIilliken, district attorney of
Blair county, Pa, has been arrested for in
citing riot by making an intlammatory
speech to the strikers at Altoona, on the 21st
ofJuly.
AT North Andovcr, Mass, on Friday,
John Butterworth, being trenzied by drink
and jealousy, beat and stabbed his wife, and
then attempted suicide. She died in half an
hour he is likely to recover.
G. w. Chlds, proprietor Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, gave dinner party at Long
DIduClI, uuy VI IWO uSO, tnC
wealth of the guests being one hundred mil
lion dollars.
The Army of Maryland has been paid
off and disbanded. The aggregate of salaries
of officers and men is between $4,000 and
$4,000, and the whole cost of the campaign
will reach nearly 100000.
Two spans of the Missouri river railroad
bridge at Council Bluff, Iowa, two hundred
and fifty feet each in length, were blown
down and almost wholly destroyed during a
violent wind and rain storm.
On Wednesday of last week, n heavy
hail storm destroyed corn fields and buck
wheat patches in portions of Cecil, Kent and
Queen Anne's counties, Md. AT Galena,
Kent county, the hail is said to have been
ankle deep.
On Sunday morning last, Elizabeth
Wender, who lived in Manayunk, Philadel-
phia was murdered by her husband, who
struck her, it is supposed, with hatchet.-
They had both been drinking and quarrel
ensued between them.
1t is rumored that John w. Garrett will
retire from the Presidency of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad in October, and that
Vice-Presdent Keyser will be chosen as his
successor. The latter is said to be popular
with all the employees of the road
organized a workngmen's party and adopted
a platform demanding financial reform and
industrial prosperity, opposing contraction
of the currency and the national banks, and
asking for taxation on mortgages.
AT Watertown, Nj, on Sunday, Steph-
en- Barber and his wife were shot by a tramp
whom they had previously fed. Mr.. Barber
is dead and Ills wife not expected to recover.
Robbery is supposed to have been the object
of the murder.
john Hearne farmer living near Ra-
leigh, N. c., gave dinner to q remarkably
polite tramp, who said he had been acquaint-
ed with family of the same name in Que
bee. This chance remark led to the union OF
two brothers who had been separated IS years
Robert Colby was shot dead by w. II.
Jackman near Windsor Mills, Ont, Sunday
morning. Both got drunk together at Jack
mans house on Saturday night, and Jack
man asserts that Colby returned to the house
and ATTEMPTED to assault Mrs. Jackman on
Sunday mornings hence the tragedy.
Chief Joseph and his Indian band lately
attacked two parties of whites, in Montana
killing 1G men and taking two women and
one man prisoners. They released the wom-
en-. Gen Howard appears to be utterly in
competent, and ought to be removed at once
Gen Sherman is at Helena.
"A man in Sweden wearied by pecuniary
difficulties, took his wife and two children
upon lake, ostensibly to spend few hours
in fishing, but after getting out into the mid
die of the lake, he applied match to guam
tity of explosive material, blowing the boat
and its occupants into fragments
Sitting Bull, with his warriors and their
families, 5000 persons in all, are said to be
anxious to come back to the United States
The commission to treat with them has
started for British America. Their instruc-
tions. it is said, contemplate the surrender of
the Indians as prisoners of war.
"A mad dog, not Spitz, ran into
school-house in Chelmsford, England, a few
days since, and despite the exertions of the
teachers was not driven out until four of the
scholars had been bitten. The animal was
pursued and killed, as also were several other
dogs with which it had been fighting. A
case of death from hydrophobia had occurred
in the town few days previously.
"A machine has been invented in New
York, mounted on wagon wheels, which is
intended for use on farms in the West. II
deluges tho ground behind it with smoke
from burning chips and birthstone, and holds
the smoke down long enough to suffocate
every potato bug, locust and other insect
that comes within its influence
AT Port Delaware, opposite Easton, Pa,
on Monday two boatmen from Newark were
playing with an old pair of pants Patrick
Kerrigan asked William Crane to stop,
Crane did not stop, and Kerrigan picked up
a heavy poker and struck Crane under the
left ear, killing him'instantly. Kerrigan was
at once arrested by theauthorities of Phillips.
burg, j. There was no previous quarrel.
Last Monday night small party of men
rode into the little town of Richmond, Madi-