The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-02
THE NEWS.

Secretary Morrill, has almost entirely re-
covered.
Governor Hampton's tax receipts now
amount to 100000.
The chances of n war between Russia
and Turkey are said to be growing less.
-Turnbull Brothers, booksellers, Balti-
more, have failed, their New York liabilities
amounting to $4,000.
Nearly whole block on Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, was burned down last Saturday
night. Total loss 100000
"A colored woman 112 years old was
baptised by immersion in Baptist chapel
at New York, last Sunday night
The great Corliss engine that supplied
power for all the machinery at the Centen
NAL has been sold to European firm.
Mrs. A. II. Stewart has given her brother,
Charles p Clnch, mansion in New York
worth $4,000, and an annuity of 10000
Kind sister.
George II. Miller, an engineer in the glue
and bone factory of John Bullock u Son,
WAS run over and killed near Mount Winans
by freight train Saturday morning.
On Tuesday last the Republicans of AL.
toona, Pa, voted in favor of making nomi
nations hereafter under the "Crawford coun
ty system" The majority in favor of the
change was 500.
Gen. Andrew Dennison, postmaster of
Baltimore, was found dead in his bed last
Saturday morning. His death is supposed
TO have been from apoplexy. He was AZ
years of age.
In consequence of the prevalence of rim
derpest in England, the United States Treas
ury Department has prohibited the importa-
ton of neat cattle or hides of neat cattle
until further orders.
President Grant has nominated Jehu b.
Askew, the present Assistant Postmaster at
Baltimore for the place of Postmaster, maze
vacant by the sudden death of Gen Andrew
w. Denison.
Hester, McHugh and Tully the Mollie
Maguires, ON trial at Bloomsbury, Pa, for
the murder of Alexander w. Rea, in 1869,
were on Saturday found guilty of murder
in the first degree
President Grant, in an interview on
Sunday, expressed the opinion that the State
governments which cannot sustain them
selves without the military should be allow
ed to 60 down.
On Thursday night of last week, in
Townsville, N. c., while William Thomas
and Miss Forney were before the altar tC
ceremony was concluded.
Mrs. Hiram Young, of Newark, vt.
last Saturday killed her two children, a boy
and girl, horribly mangling them with al
axe. Her husband had left her, and she be
came insane from trouble
AT Alexandria, La, on Friday night, {
, man named Cage, mailing from Wilkinson
county, Miss, was taken from Jail by IN
known parties and hanged. He had stoler
Major Watts's horse the night before,
! p. B. S. Pinchback has arriveda at Wash
l ipgton, direct from New Orleans. He repre-
sents everything in Louisiana as perfect.
quiet, and says that the Nichols government
is fully able to maintain itselfif let alone, an,
is acceptable to II large majority of the pee
pie.
!, The question of who is to be Governo
d of South Carolina has been finally submitte
@ TO the Supreme Court of that State for jud
v cial determination, and it is reported I'll
3 court will file decision this week. Frol
e the inquiries propounded by the judges du
v ing the argument it is highly probable the
II will recognize Hampton as the legally clecte
&c Governor.
The trial of James Pannell, indicted
Lancaster, Pa, for the murder OF his viii
has been in progress since last week. Anon
te the witnesses examined for the defence, q
he of whom testified TO their belief in the pr
It's oner's insanity, were VIM. f. Pannell, y
at VIM. Dallam, John ). Dallam and DR.. Sill
ce Silver. Mr.. VIM. Young, of Bel Air, W
associate counsel for the defence.