The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-08

BEL AIR, FRIDAY, NOV. s, 1873.
Condensed News.

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day night.
"A fire last Friday destroyed a portion of
Maynooth College, county Kildare, Ireland.
Loss $4,000, AIS.
President Scott, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, has sailed for Europe, with his
family, for the benefit of his health.
The dipththeria is ravaging Western Vir
ginia for distance of forty miles along the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Dean Stanley took breakfast with the
New York Century Club and spoke very
highly of his treatment in this country.
Last Saturday night at Martinsburg, Va,
anotorious colored thief, in attempting to es-
cape from police officer, was shot and kill
ed.
"A terrible earthquake occurred in Sal
vador, October Goth, destroying the town
of Jucapa, and burying many families in it's
ruins.
"A Chetopah (Kansas) farmer, named
Theodore Munsterman, killed another farmer
and MORALLY wounded his wife He was ar
rested.
"A freight train of the Hannibal and st.
Joseph railroad was wrecked Sunday. Fiji
teen cars were ditched, and a number of pas
sengers in the caboose were bruised, but none
badly hurt.
John Ling, Chinese laundryman, at
Quincy, Ill., was found literally cut to pieces.
His Chinese employee was arrested and final
ly confessed that "John had liquor and me
kilee him"
Forty nine Indian children from the
Missouri River agencies of the average of fif-
teen years have been SENT under the charge of
Captain Pratt, of the regular army, to Hamp.
ton, Va, to be educated.
"A colorei farmer, James Bundy, about
sixty years of age, and of considerable wealth,
was shot and killed on Saturday evening in
a dispute, near his farm, four miles from
Terre Haute, Indiana.
One hundred tramps captured railroad
train at Cairo, Miss, last week, and ran it
nearly to Fulton, KY, where they surrender
ed it to the citizens who came out with their
shot guns and threatened to fire.
"A slight frost has occurred at New Or
leans, betokening the end of the epidemic,
though new cases are still occurring there
The quarantine has been raised, and all
the railroads have resumed their regular
trains.
Last Friday the stage from Laramie City
to Deadwood, was stopped by five masked
men, who took from the custody of officers
having them is charge two alleged stage rob.
bers, named Mclaughlin and Mansfield,
whom they hanged.
1t is reported in the commercial news
that the whole continent of Europe is in tri-
bulation over "glutted markets and low
prices" and the reason for all this trouble in
trade is believed to he mot oveTproduction
but political uncertainty"
"A complimentary farewell dinner was
given last week at Rennerts by Mr.. A. s.
Abel in honor of the departure for Europe
of Hon. John Merryman. A small but Sc
lect number of gentlemen sat down to the en-
tertainment
Thomas G.. Cockrell, nephew of U. s.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, was found
murdered last Friday morning, in a store at
Ridge Prairie, Mo. He was clerk in the
store and slept there. The store had been
robbed.
"A six-year-old daughter of Francis Gan
non, living in Cumberland, lit match and
then threw it into a wardrobe, in order to
save herself from being burned. Some $i2
worth of clothing was destroyed, and the
wardrobe, worth $25, was ruined.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell, of Houston, Texas,
liked an orphan girl so well that they decided
legally to adopt her as their daughter; but
just as the papers were ready for signing,
WI. lolIcH liiutlc up HiS I1luu IudL ne WOulu
prefer her as wife. And he eloped with
her.
"A Texan family attended the circus at
Sherman the other day. The husband sold
load of wood for 81, and the wife jar of
butter for $125, then they were rs cents
short but the father pawned his boots and
barefoot led the way to the splendors of the
arena.
"A colored child six years of age, whilst
at school, in Baltimore on Monday, approach
ed n stove, when its clothing took fire. She
ran screaming into the street, where gen.
tleman passing extinguished the flames. The
child was so severely burned that she died
the same evening
"A child named Ella Youngman, while
playing around a bonfire which some boys
had kindled, near Arlington, N j., last Sat-
urday, approached too near, when her dress
caught fire. She ran screaming in the direc-
ton of her home, but was fatally burned be.
fore she got there.
Patrick Hart drew a revolver to shoot
Hugh Towey in saloon in San Patricio,
Texas. The barkeeper requested him not TO
fire, because the mirror might be BROKEN
So the pair considerably retired to the street,
where they shot at each other, duel fashion,
until Towey was killed.
George Washington, a negro, who out
ragged little white girl, in Kentucky, two
weeks ago, and escaped to Ohio, was pursued
by bands of armed citizens, who repeatedly
fired at him, wounding him five times, but
he was not captured until the fifth day. An
effort was made to lynch him, but he was
protected from the mob by the police and
military.
The long-pending case of Ex-Governor
Bowie, of Maryland, against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, for damages to the racing
mare Australian and another horse while be-
ing placed upon the cars, was finally decided
by the United States Supreme Court affirm
ing the judgment of the Court below. The
verdict was for ten thousand dollars dam
ages, with costs.
Two men were surprised in the act of
robbing q grave in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Detroit, Mich, Wednesday night last. They
were after the body of Miranda Harlow, o
handsome woman of i'll repute, and had just
exhumed it, The robbers escaped, but their
wagon and team, which proved to be the
property of a well known undertaken, were
captured. The undertaken says they were
stolen.
On Tuesday morning, October 31st, the
barn of VIM. III. Hoffman, near Phoenix, Bal.
timore county, rented by Joshua Evans, was
burned, with its contents, consisting of 300
bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of oats, 100
bushels of rye, 80 tons of hay, two horses,
harness, farming implements, &c. Three
other horses were badly injured. The barn
was insured in the Baltimore county compa-
ny for $500. Mr.. Evans had no insurance on
his property, his loss being about 81 200.
Chin Lam Pin, the Chinese ambassador,
and his suite, paid visit to Baltimore, on
Monday. They were received at the City
Hall by Mayor Latrobe, Collector Thomas,
j. III. b. Latrobe, F. s. Hoblitzell and others.
A dinner was given TO them at the Carrollton