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

Five m lions of people are said 10 u,
stsrving in India, with little prospect of re
| liei.
Hon. Alexander II Stephens, of Georgia
is very i'll in Washington, and it is feared he
can not recover.
Three children persisted on Wednesday
night of last week, in the burning of a
farmers house at st. Flavia, Canada.
Another of the Packard legislators,
| Gaudel, of Lafourche, Joined the Democrat,
c Legislature of Louisiana on Saturday.
Mrs Mary Drexel, mother of five small
children, died in New York on Sunday of
burns received the day before. Her clothes
caught fire from stove.
The Charlotte IN c. Observer states
that the report of II sanguinary duel recently
in that State between two celored men Is q
hoax, nothing of the kind having occurred
AT Lawrence, Mass. on Sunday Col
VIM b. Coan committed suicide by taking
audanum. The cause is attributed TO de-
preston arising from business embarrass
menls.
The Grand Duke Alexis and his brother
Constantine, of Russia, are with the Russian
fleet at Norfolk, Va. They have been enjoy
ing themselves quail-shoOting and fox hunt
ing,
Tile Supreme Court of ouh Carolina
have render cd d, cision in the quo 9carTdntO
proceedings against the Hayes electors, dis
missing the case on the grounds of q techni-
cal flaw.
WIN. r. Messick Democratic sheriff
elect of Avoyelles parish, Louisiana, was
shot and killed recently by policeman, who
clums he only tried to brighten, not to injure
the de" ased,
Pre- sident Grant has prcpered a special
mess -, 20 congress embodying his views
On immediate resumption of specie pay
mPnts, ard recommending the necessary
!, : Station to bring it about.
In the case of Morris Springfield, in
Philadelphia, charged with the murder OF
his sist,r Alice i'll a house of i'll repule, the
Jury Saturday returned n verdict of murder
in the second degree. Sentence deferred.
Charles p. Wetmore, aged 2G, died last
Sunday morning at Cincinnati, of hydrophO
bia He was bitten last summer twice by
one dog and once by another. The symp-
toms were first developed the Thursday be-
fore he died.
"A peddler who was allowed to stay all
night at the house OF s. ). Challant, near
Thornvillr, Ohio, last Friday, chlorotormed
5000 N M; ney and $35 900 in drafts
"A special committee ofeleven, with Fer
nnndo Wood, of New York. as chairman,
was list week appointed by the speaker, to
investigate the action of the President in
sending troops to The Soutl ern States at the
time OF The election,
john Achey, of Acheys Corner Leban-
on county Pa attended his sisters funeral
ar In rf Ian Nul lt,,u IA,
start home, fell back in his sleigh as if dead
He was taken into a house near by where he
breathed heavily two or three times and
expired
The report of the Senate committee who
went to Florida to investigate the election
returns, has been submitted to the Senate
1t is just what might have been expected
from the thick and thin partisans who COM
posed the committee. 1t susrains the re-
tuning board, and presents arguments eVi
denrly intended to fit the Oregon case.
The corpse of Mr.. McCourt, which was
made such by .alling into lime-kiln in Bal
t.more county, WAS walked" by several
laborers on the permanent supply water
works. During the performances much
firrwa percDlnted among the vigil watch
ers-and there was consequent fight. The
coffin was knocked from Its position and the
corpse rolled out on the hoor-but was not
further walked"
The grand jury of the criminal court
Baltimore city have found presenlments
against Mrs. Mary E. Ashton for forgery of
a check drawn by Stonehurner 81 Richards,
of Baltimore, on Hayemyer & Elder, of New
York, for $2,557.4l They also presented E.
L. Ii. Walker rs accessory to the forgery for
having advised with Mrs. Ashton rs to the
disposition Of the cheek.
"A little three year old son of Conrad
Muller No. II North Chapel street, Buti-
more, on Thursday morning of last week,
was left alone in q room with an infant ten
months old when he set his clothing on fire
with burning stick, which he had poked
in The fire. His mother found him on the
floor in a blaze and put out the fire. The
child was SO badly burned that he died
few hours afterwards.
In New York, q few days ago, a man
named Hem wanted 10 raise q sum of money
on $4,000 set of diamonds. He applied
to n broker, who took the coniding Hem
to IL hotel, and under pretence of showing
the diamonds to an expert was allowed to
take them away. The broker, who was
doubtless himself the expert, cooly walked
out rear door and never returned, leaving
decettulness of human nature.
Circuit Judge Carpenter, of South Caro-
lima, has decided in the habeas corpus case
in relation TO the release of prisoner from
the penitentary, that neither Chamberlain
nor Hayes were legally inaugurated Gov
ernor, and under the constitution Chamber
lain holds over as Governor until Hampton
can legally qualify. The decision is not i'm
pOi tant rs u similar case is pending before
the Supreme Couit, whose decision will be
final.
On Monday night diabolca attempt
was made 10 wreck lightning express train
on the Erie railway, near Waverly, N. Y, by
fastening logs on the track with heavy
chains. The night Waterman discovered The
obstruc ion and signaled the train, which
stopped IL w feet from the obstruction
The logs were removed and the train started
on, but a switch some distance ahead had
been turned wrong and six cars ran off the
track. The passengers were badly Tighten
ed hut no one was hurt.
-Presid ent Grant was in Baltimore, Sat
urday, to attend u reception of invited
guests at the residence of Mr.. Samuel NJ
Shoemaker. The President was accompa-
MED by his son, Col. Fred Grant, who has
II striking and soldierly appearance; Hon.
J. ID. Cameron, Secretary of War; Hon.
George NJ. Robson, Secretary of the Navy;
Hon. Zachariah Chandler, Secrt tary of the
Interior; Hon. j. $. Tyner, Postmaster Gen =
eral, and Col Edward Mcpherson, formerly
clerk Of the House of Representatives.
About 500 guests were present.