The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-10-04
THE GGZN.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1878.
Condensed News.

Dell AIN, EhlDAlS VO1UDEh fs 1900
Condensed News.
Boys under sixteen caught smoking in
Coblentz are arrested.
Newspapers are used in many schools in
the West instead of reading books.
DIR. Petermann, the great geographer,
died in Germany, on the 9th of Septem-
her.
Two negro girls in Early, Ga, held a
playmate under water for fun until life was
extinct.
The deaths of several volunteer physi-
clans and nurses are reported from the yellow
fever districts.
-Lieuienant- Colonel Lewis, of the Thr-
teenth Infantry was killed on Friday night
in brush with the Indians
The Democrats of Massachusetts met at
Worcester, last Thursday, and nominated ex-
representative Abbott for Governor.
The British Consul in PekIn puts the
deaths from famine in China at 100000.
The province of Shansi alone lost 100000
Ten persons were killed and twenty were
hurt by the explosion of the boiler of the
Adelphi, Sound steamer, near South Nor
walk, Conn, on Saturday.
AT Easton, Md, on Monday, George A.
Eagles was almost instantly killed by the ac-
cidenla discharge of a gun which he was
taking from his wagon.
The reports of yellow fever at Louisville
are said to have been greatly exaggerated. A
few cases only originated there; and the dis
ease has entirely disappeared from the city,
Two persons were killed and others were
hurt by train on the Atlantic Avenue
(Brooklyn) Railroad which ran into one of
the carriages of n funeral procession last Sat
urday.
DIR. Thomas Mccullough and States At
toiney Henry NJ Aisquith, OF Annapolis, have
been arrested on the charge of being about to
fight a duel. They were each released on
$4,000 bail.
The widow of an alleged clairyoyant
swore in the Vanderbilt will case last Friday,
that VIM. II. Vanderbilt hired her husband
to cheat the Commodore by ghost stories in
to making his will as he did.
Dean Stanley preached in ST. James's
Episcopal Church. Philadelphia, on Sunday,
taking as his text the tenth verse of the sixth
chapter of Matthew He was the guest of
George w. Childs, proprietor of the Ledger.
Highway robbers stopped treasure
coach in Dakota, last week, overpowered and
killed ore ofthe guards, wounded two Others
and then robbed the coach of $25 900 in gold.
Two of the robbers were wounded in the
fight.
The barns of three resident physicians
near Ringoes, N. j., have been fired by incen-
diaries within three weeks. The last was
that of DR.. G. II. Rowland, ON Monday night.
The manner in which they were fired leaves
little doubt that it was the work of the same
persons in every case.
Thomas King. conductor on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, was accidentally
killed at Martinsburg, West Va, Sunday
morning. He got his right foot caught in
frog of the track, and being unable to with
draw it in time the cars backed against and
crushed him to DEATH
Last Friday three men at work on the
Elevated Railroad, in New York, trusted their
combined weight on defective piece of two
by four scantling, which broke and precipta.
ted them to the pavement below, q distance
of nearly forty feet. One of them was killed
and the Others terribly injured.
JEFF Dunlap, aged 10, stole a horse in
Clover Valley, Cal, rode bareback ten miles,
and then completed his outfit by taking a
saddle, bride, blanket, and revolver from
miners cabin. He had made up his mind TO
become n robber, but was arrested while w.
ing in wait for stage coach.
On Thursday of last week, at Bunker
Hill, Cecil county, colored woman named
Jane Tller, shot and killed an old colored
man named Robinson, who protested to be
conjurer. She was afraid Robinson meant to
do her harm, and fired the fatal shot TO break
the spell, declaring afterwards that she could
not help doing So
"A Lawrence priest came near marrying
the wrong couple. Arriving at the church, |
where wedding was to take place, he found |
young man and n young woman waiting
and, supposing that they were the persons to
be married. called them Gown to the altar,
and began the ceremony before their confu-
sion would let them object.
George b. Browning of Rutland, Vt,
was knocked down and robbed of watch |
and $37 in money, and was so much hurt that
he must die. William H. May, a young fell
low who was married on the next morning,
was found TO have sold Browning's watch
and bought the wedding ring with the pro.
ceeds has been arrested as the probable
murderer.
John Hunt, aged seventy years, a wealthy
farmer of FREEDOM, Sussex county, N. j., com
mtted suicide by cutting his throat with
razor. After dinner he and his son went to |
the stable to hitch up horse to take his
daughter to school. She was teaching. The
son after Harvesting the horse, in looking
around, saw his father fall He hastened to |
him to find he had cut his throat.
In East Bridgeport, Conn, last May,
Rufus, alias Suffering Jack" was murdered |
in an unoccupied carriage factory by Frank e.
Bassett, and his body put in barrel and taken
for sale to the Yale Medical School, at New |
Haven, where it was refused, Bassett being |
without n certificate from the proper aulhori-
ties. He then dumped it in the river. A
woman who lived with Bassett got mad with |
him the other day, told of the MURDER the
body was found and Basselt is now in jail
-"IIelcn's Babies. "rhis work is acknowledge |
ed TO be the best selling article in our bookstores.
Druggists however, say that DIR. Bulls Baby |
Syrup sells better than any other medicine. It |