The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-01-25
THE GGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1873.
THE NEWS.

non, of Frederick, Nd, surveyor of customs
ut the port of Baltimore,
The Cherokee Indians have sent re-
monstrance to Congress against the bill en-.
abling Indians to become citizens.
The steamer Abyssinia sailed from Liv-
erpool last Saturday, with 81 ,000,0 900 in gold
eagles for New York
Robert Young was sutfocated by the
smoke, while trying to escape from the fourth
story of burning building in Boston, on
Sunday
The Moffett whisky register will yield
this year to the State OF Virginia over $780,
600, or more than double the amount Of rev.
enue under the license law
Owing to the trouble between Russia
and Turkey the leather merchants of New
York city are reaping rich and unexpected
harvest by the expectation of large shipments
of leather.
The latest Charley Ross was discovered
on the brig Potomac, which recently arrived
at Baltimore from Demerara. 1t was Under
stood that Mr.. Ross was about to take steps
to prove his identity.
Alfred from jumped out of the third.
story of his house in New York on Monday,
and was killed. He was u maker of fancy
beads, and being out of work for three
months, had taken to drink.
"A bill is to be submitted to Congress
making the basis of salary of postmasters
who receive lessthan $l,000a year dependent
upon the value of stamps cancelled instead of
the value of stamps sold.
Mrs Fasina, an Italian, 40 years of age,
mother of two children, living on Plowman
street, Baltimore, was shockingly burned, on
Tuesday night, by the explosion of lighted
coal oil lamp which she was filling.
Hon. E. K Wilson, of Worcester coun-
ty, formerly member of Congress, has been
appointed by Governor Carroll to the vacan-
cy occasioned by the death of Judge Frank
lin, of the 1st Judicial Circuit of the State.
The committee appointed by the recent
Tramp Convention, at Baltimore, visited An
napolis ON Wednesday, for the purpose of
procuring the passage of law for the sup
preston of the tramp nuisance in Maryland.
"A little son of Martin Hoke, of Mount
Pleasant, Frederick county, was jolted from
his seat on heavy wagon and falling to the
ground one of the wheels passed over his
head, crushing his skull in horrible man
her.
john Kane and Michael Bergan, Mollie
Magures were arrested, on Saturday night,
near Pottsville, Pa, for the murder of Patrick
Burns, in 1870 Bergan proved to be not
the man that was wanted and was discharg
ed
Last August Mr. T. W. williamson, of
McConnesville, o., while boring for oil
struck vein of gas at depth OF 500 feet. He
has fitted pipes to it and heats his house, does
his cooking and runs pump at another well
with the gas.
Captain Grape and his wife, who sailed |
from New-Bedford to London last summer
in n schooner thirty-five feet long, returned |
to New York, Sunday in the steamship
Canada. They brought their boat back with
them as freight.
Capt. A. X Long, Commissary of Sub
sistence at Washington, committed suicide
on Tuesday, by shooting himself near the
heart with revolver. His accounts are re-
presented to have been correct, but he had |
been drinking heavily.
The Cleopatra obelisk, which got adrift |
in the Bay of Biscay, few months ago, and
being recovered was towed into Fcrrol, |
Spain, has at last been safely transported to
England, where it will henceforth form one
of the wonders of London.
On Sunday, James Hennessy, aged twelve
years, took loaded gum intending to fright |
en- some little girls, when it was discharged, |
instantly killing Rosa Farral aged six years,
and woundiug two younger girls, one severe
ly. Hennessy was taken TO the police sta
ton.
Commodore George N. Hollins, a well |
known officer in the United States and Con
federate navies, died in Baltimore, on last
Friday, aged 20 years. Since the war he has
lived in retirement in Baltimore, for several
years filling the position of crier of the City
Court.
Suit has been brought in the United
States Circuit Court, at Trenton, N. j., by
Christian Huber of Trenton against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company for 1876 900 dam
ages for the loss of his wife at the Milford
disaster on the BelvdeGe Delaware branch
this winter.
-Four thousand unemployed workingmen
assembled in Boston on Sunday and marched
to the City Hall, where they presented Sc
ries of resolutions to the mayor, asking for
work He replied that he had no authority
to offer employment, but that the city coun-
Gil would do what it could for them.
Last Sunday, at Birmingham, Conn,
Grove Camp, well-to-do citizen, cut his
throat with a razor, and after embracing his
wife, who had followed him to the barn,
where he did the deed, died in an hour. He
was worth $3O,000 but had grown despond-
ent because he could not collect his rents,
and feared he and his wife would be turned
out to starve.
"A young married couple named Bragdon,
living at Melrose, Mass, were so much alb.
sorbed in each others society, last Saturday
evening, that they failed to notice the escape
CT coal gas from the register. When the
room was entered by friends they found Mrs
Bragdon dead on the sofa, and her husband
unconscious on the floor, but alive
The Russians entered Adrianople on
Monday. The inhabitants, being ordered by
the Turks to vacate the place, fled towards
Constantnople. The sufferings OF the
wretched fugitives were horrible. Hundreds
of them persisted on the way from hunger
and cold, and mothers even threw their babies
away that they might not see them die in
their arms.
"A party of young people who noisly
serenaded newly married couple living
twenty miles north of Chicago, obtained an
order on Kember, a saloon-keeper, for key
of beer. They consumed the beer and de-
manded more. Kember refused, whereupon
they attacked him with stones, beat his wife
and children and tore his house to pieces
Kember was fatally injured,
In 1876 snakes and wild animals in India
killed 1928 persons and 54S30 head of cat
tie. There were slain 23,549 wild animals
and 1881 snakes, rewards to the amount
of $62, 2S7 being paid for their destruction.
There were killed by snakes 1896 persons,
by elephants SO, by tigers OF, by leopards
1856, by bears 1913, by wolves 1877 and by ny
enas 40. The animals destroyed were Ele-
plants, A; tigers l ,693; leopards, 3,769; bears,
1862; wolves, 5,976 and hyenas, 1885.
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THE PEACH BOTTOM RAILwAY-On
Monday, Jan, 18th, the stockholders of the
Peach Bottom Railway unanimously re-
alected tho old hoard nf oficarc M fojloua