The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-11
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY II, 1877.
TILE NEWS.

-"Popof' is the suggestive name ola new
Russian monitor
Gen. Bradley Il. johnson, of Richmond
Va, intends to remove to Baltimore shortly
Russia has succeeded in borrowing $50,
100000 in Paris from French, German ant
Dutch bankers.
Gov Robinson, of New York, has vetoed
the bill allowing women to hold office Oh
school boards in that State
The Bonanza firm of California haye re-
Gently been obliged to pay back taxes and
costs amounting to the nice little sum OF
$500, 900.
The stronghold of Kars has been be.
sieged by the Russians, who have twenty.
four heavy siege guns banging at it day and
night.
Richard Conrad died in Montgomery
county, Pa, last Saturday, at the remarkable
age of 100. He was native of Ireland.
john Spencer farm laborer, twenty
three years of age committed suicide at
Catskill, N. Y, Sunday morning, by hanging.
Herbert Hudspeth, New York school
boy, 10 years of age, committed suicide on
Monday by shooting himself in the head
with pistol.
Thomas Walsh, aged 16, was on trial in
Jersey City, N. j., this week, for killing an
other boy, by striking him on the head with
brick, last January.
Last Saturday carrier pigeon flew
from North East, Cecil county, to Philadel-
phia, distance of SO miles, in one hour and
thirty-three minutes.
The Department of Buildings in New
York city has ordered changes in twenty-one
hotels in that city for the more ready escape
of inmates in case of fire.
The English government has quietly
annexed the Trans aai Dutch colony in
South Africa. John Bull ought not, hereaf-
ter, object to Russian aggressions upon
Turkey.
In the great dog show at New York
there are many valued at from $4,000 TO
$4,000 each, and three worth $4,000 each,
while there are 900 cheap dogs, worth only
from 5000 to $1,000 each
One day last week, Willie Terrell, three
years old, son of j. p. Terrell, proprietor
of the Swan Hotel, Baltimore swallowed
about two ounces of carbolc acid, which
caused the poor little fellows DEATH
Louisiana is already beginning to feel
the effects OF peace and quiet. There has
been large increase of immigration, and in
New Orleans largely increased demand for
building material has sprung up.
Anxious search is being made for little
Mary Masterson, who was stolen from her
home in Philadelphia. about month ago,
and has not been heard of since The
Quaker city is not q safe place in which TO
rear children.
On Sunday night, four ruffans entered
the house OF Edward Balliott, in Wilkesbarre
Pa, and attacked and terribly outraged Mrs.
Ballot, her niece, Miss Franz, aud a servant
girl Three of the mon Wnrn nrrect nl ha
next morning.
The series of engagements fought in
Asiatic Turkey last week, were heavy and
bloody, and resulted in favor ofthe Russians
The Russians are slowly advancing, and
there is little doubt that their objective point
is Constantinople.
Mr.. VIM. F. Ritclie, eldest brother of
Mrs. John S. Cuttings, Of Baltimore died at
his home, on the James River, Va, on Tues
day of last week, aged 81 years. Mr.. Richie
was the husband of Anna Cora Mowatt, the
distinguished aulhofess and actress.
AN Indian band, numbering / 300 souls
under Crazy Horse, Little Hawk, He Dog
and Little Big Man, surrendered on Sunday
at Camp Robinson, Neb, to General Crook
Their ponies, 500 in number, were included
in the surrender.
The family Of Mrs. McAlpine, in Prin-
cess Anne county, Va, consisting of five
ladies and one gentleman, were poisoned by
strychnine, but none have thus far died. 1t
is not known whether the poisoning was in
territorial or accidental.
"A man calling himself ]. II. Milton, of
Philadelphia, was arrested in st. Louis on
Tuesday iorattempting to pass bogus draft
for $4,000 on Philadelphia bank in pay
ment for aplaning mill which he had pur-
chased.
-ExPresident Grant, on his arrival in
London, it is announced, will have n special
audience with Queen Vic oria, and be the
guest of Mr.. Dsrael and other eminent men,
1t is said that in Difference to the high office
lie has filled the Queen will pay him visit
The steamer Nurnberg, of the Baltimore
and Bremen line, on her way up the Chesa-
peake bay, ran into and sank the Norwegian
bark Azow, before daylight on Tuesday
morning, off Back River Point. Four men
belonging to the bark were lost
On Sunday night, near Berbank, N. Y,
a boy named Geo. Bail was watching near
barn for rats Seeing one come out he
reached for his gun, and carelessly drew it
towards him. The hammer caught in some
obstruction, and the gun was discharged,
killing the boy instantly.
Nicholas Mccoy, cattle dealer, arrived
at New York last Saturday from the West,
with $1,000, intending to proceed to Austria,
but was simple enough TO inform travelling
companion what he had, the result being that
confidence man swindled him out of all his
money.
The body of John T. DAILY, prominent
citizen of New York, who was missing for
some days, was found last Sunday hanging
in deserted house on Long Island, with
bullet through the temple. The deceased
evidently committed suicide, while suffering
under temporary insanity.
The board of army officers appointed to
examine the foundation of Washington's
Monument at Washington, have decided that
the substratum of sand and clay upon which
the monument rests will not support the
great weight of the shaft. The unfinished
pile will probably be abandoned and torn
down.
George G.. Caldwell, of Baltimore, has
invented a steamboat without paddle wheels
or propellers, which is projected by the re.
pelant power of streams of water, forced
through pipes. A trial trip on Tuesday
proved the invention a success. tits intend
ed especially for use on canals, as it will not
wash the banks.
Judge Minor of the United States Court
at Trenton, N. j., announced on Tuesday
with surcaslcal" gravity that the failure
to call special session of Congress in June
would compel the court to dispense with
the June term, as the court cannot be ex-
pected to be run at the expense of the Off
GERS"
"A negro named Ike Berry was arrested
in Buncombe county, N. c., last January,
for the murder of his wife, in Lenoir county,
ten years ago. After the murder the negro
escaped and was not heard from until Janu-
airy, when man stopping at an out-of-the-
way place to get a drink of water, recognized
in the negro who brought it the lost murder.