The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-18
THE sEGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY Is, 1879.
THE NEWS.

IhE NEHos
philadelphia has one drinking house to
every twenty-five adult males.
The Russian fleet at New York is pre-
pairing to leave that port under sealed orders.
AT Nockamxon, Bucks county Pa, q
risky groom Of rs courted and welded q
comely maid of Is summers.
Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, has vetoed
the local option liquor bill, on the ground
that the present law has not been sufficiently
tested.
A lioness, escaped from circus, is be.
lieved to be at large in Hanover county, Va.
Much CONSERVATION prevails among the in
habitants.
"A Turkish monitor with its crew and
200 soldiers, was sunk in the Danube river,
last Friday by the fire from Russian shore
batteries.
kilograms have been received in Liver
pool and London saying that the town of
1quique, in Peru, was destroyed by an earth
quake on Thursday.
"A bronze statue of Fitz Green Halleck,
the poet author of MARCO Bozzaris," was
unveiled at New York ON Tuesday, by Pres
ident Hayes,
"A fire broke out last Sunday in Camp
bell " Thayers siX-story oil works, New
yin. IL luSbSu ull udy anu uCSJIOJGu
100000 worth Of property.
Secretary Sherman thinks he can bring
about specie resumption without disarrang
ing the business interests of the country, if
the next Congress will let him.
"A short time ago some one poisoned
fine herd of thirty Attorney cattle belonging
to Mrs. Gregg, at Brady's mills, Allegheny
county, by feeding them with salt mixed with
strychnine
Frederick Turnt, Bohemian AZ years
old committed suicide in Baltimore, on
Tuesday, by taking laudanum. He had be-
come respondent because he could not get
work. lie leaves wife and five children.
Through laundering by the architects
and builders, the court house of Winnebago
county, Illinois, which was in progress of
erection, fell down last Thursday, killing
ten or twelve workmen and injuring others.
The sentimental stories concerning fill
clustering expeditions with view to annex
to the United States portion of Mexico,
have been exploded. No one with any CAPT
tai was disposed to embark in the enterprise.
Gen. Burriel, who executed the Virginus
prisoners and was afterwards promoted and
appointed Governor of Bilbao, is at last un-
dergoing trial at Madrid, in accordance with
the promise made by Spain to the United
States more than three years ago.
The coal mines at Streator, ILL.,, having
struck their places were filled by new men;
whercupon some of the strikers put poison
in the dinner buckets of the new men, Many
of them recovered under medical treatment,
but others are still in n precurieus cond-
ton.
Friday evening, on lonely road about
fifteen miles from Charleston, s. g., j. Evans
Edings, young white man, carrying 81 200
to pay the hands at the phosphate works,
was assassnated and robbed Two negroes,
arrested with the money in their possession,
have confessed
-PoindeXter Edmondson, who was to be
hanged last Tuesday at Bloomfield, Mo, has
been respited until July 10 He was con
yicted on circumstantal evidence, and it is
said dying man has confessed that he COM
mited the murder for which Edmondson was
convicted.
"A heavy battle occurred last Thursday,
at Batoum, between the Russian and Turkish
forces, in which the Russians were defeated,
with loss of 1000 killed and wounded, The
Turks were effectively entrenchcd and as
the Russians charged, the Turks opened
terrible cannonade, which moved their enc
mics down by hundreds.
Furious forest fires have been raging this
week in Northern New York. At Clinton
Mills every house was destroyed, So families
being burned out of house and home At
Cannon's Corner all the houses were also
burned. about GO houses, II wharves and
two schoeners were also destroyed by fire at
st. Stephens, N B. Extensive forest fires
have also prevailed in the Moosic mountains,
near Scranton, Pa.
The Turks crossed the Danube at
Cichanesch and stole IL 900 sheep, killing u
shepherd and some cattle. A great flood has
overwhelmed both banks of the Tigris, the
river having thrown out new branch above
Bagdad, blocking that city and sweeping
away two hundred houses of an outlying
village. The flood is unprecedented The
Russian and Turkish troops are in peril CT
the cholera.
early Monday morning burglar enter
ed the premises of John Gunner keeper of
beer saloon at Williamsburg, New York.
Gunner was awakened by his wife when the
burglar seized an air-gun hanging above the
fire place, and shot Gunner through the breast,
killing him. The burglar after threatening
the wife, knocked her senselcss and gathering
up all the vauables he could carry took his
departure.
Ida Shafer, the little white girl who was
so brutally outraged by negro named Jim
Hawkins, near the Relay House, Baltimore
county, several weeks ago, is in very pre-
carious condition and fears are entertained
that she may not recover. 1t will be remem
bered that the villain spit tobacco juice in
the eyes of his victim and this has caused the
loss of the sight of one of them, and the very
serious injury OF the other. Hawkins is in
Towsontown Jail.