The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-07-19
THE ~ EZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1879.
THE NEWS.

L ot'SNliC, VI a. biSbiNV'
Andrew Boas, of Easton, Pa while tenn
porarily insane, hanged himself in the loft o.
his stable, on Monday.
Little Fellow" Stanton (Va.) horse
valued at $4,000, died from sunstroke, al
Carlisle, Pa, last week.
Thomas G. A. Sphinx, n farmer of Quia.
nesset, Il. l., II years old, fell from load of
hay on Monday breaking his neck
john Loewe, forty-fivc years old, n Ger.
man Cabinetmaker of Cincinnati, committed
suicide on Tuesday, by hanging himselfin his
cellar.
In Massachusetts large numbers of birds
are found dead in potato fields, killed by
Paris green scattered for the destruction of
potato bugs.
Two miners, John Myers and John
Lynch, were killed last week mt Elk Creek,
Montana 1t is believed the deed was COM
mitted by Indians.
Sarah j. Page, colored, charged with
robbing the mail at Vineland, N. j., hns been
found guilty by the United States District
Court at Trenton
Lieutenant Rucker was drowned near
Camp Supply, Arizona, on Friday evening,
while trying to rescue Lieutenant Henry
from death. Both bodies were recovered
Charles Williams, noted thief, has been
captured at Boston. lie was sentenced for
eighteen years in the New Jersey State pris-
on, but escaped after serving eight months.
Alex B. Sayrcs, who shot his wife in the
Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia, No
vember 18th last, was sentenced to death on
Saturday, motion for new trial being over
ruled.
"A tramp, who severed small artery
while bathing in the Connecticut at Hartford
last week, roundly abused the physician who
attended him because he was not allowed to
bleed to death.
The New Zealand Government, accord
ing to recent despatch, has lately offered
the sum of S25,000 or $50 Il ton for the first
500 tons of beetroot sugar produced in either
OF the two large islands.
Ida Black, the colored girl who was shot
by companion named Rose Stewart, on n
berry farm in Anne Arundel county last
week. died on Friday night, at Bayyiew Asy-
lum, from her injuries.
DR. w. 7. Carver, of San Francisco, nc.
complished the wonderful feat of breaking
with rifle $500 glass balls thown from
hand ut q distance of from ten to twenty feet
in eight hours nine and a-half minutes.
Virginia has set up the whipping post.
1t is II much more economical mode of pun
ishment for small crimes than confinement
in Jail, and we have no doubt will be more OF
a terror to the majority of eyil-doers.
Henry Wise. young white man, was
hanged at WATERFORD S. c., for the murder
of Mercer b. White who was his rival in n
love affair. The hanging was private, only
the witnesses provided by law being present.
Philip Goodhear, German butcher, iv-
inc IN mil Wi In lvip I'M
drunken sleep on the Spring Grove avenue
street Cartrack Tuesday morning, was run
over and killed. He leaves a wife and three
children
Robert Lowe, q white man, with fifteen
others in disguise, were on Monday engaged
in breaking down the door of Calvin Amber
sons house, near Bellbucklc, Tennessee, and
Anderson fired and killed Lowe Anderson
is a colored man.
On Friday, the 18th inst, Hiram Foolis,
colored, was hanged at Princess Anne Md,
for the murder of Il colorcd boy named Jack
Tyler, last October. The same day Mike
Shaw was hanged at Milledgcvillc, Ga, for
the murder OF his wife.
In some lines business has been very nc
tive ut New York for some days. Within
the las! three days of last week the sales of
corn amounted to $500, 600 bushels, of which
100000 were sold on Friday. and the sales
of wheat reached about 100000 bushels.
j. Milton Turner, colorcd, the present
United States minister to Liberia, now in ST.
Louis on a visit to his old home, has an
nounced himself candidate for nomination
before the Republican Convention of the
Third Missouri Congressional district in that
city.
The other day Mrs. Simon Rciss, Of
Lower Saucon, Lehigh county, Pa, aged 105
years went out into the harvest field, bound
ten sheavcs, and then retired, not exhausted
Mrs. Reiss is in good health, and expects TO
attend the Lehigh County Fair at Allentown
this fall
"A dispatch from Bismarck, d. r., says ::
Last Friday party of Standing Rock In
dams caught the Indian agent, Major
Hughes, dragged him down to the Missouri
river, and tried to drown him. The com.
handing officer, General Carlin, succeeded
in rescung him.
"A number of frightened negroes from
Kentucky have brought report into Cairo
Ill.,, that they had been ordered to leave the
State by band of Ku. KluX. 1t is explained
that the scare was occasioned by drunken
trolic of some boys, one of whom fired pis-
tol at negro, woundng him in the arm.
On Tuesday morning James H. johnson,
colored waiter, while on n spree, went into
u drinking saloon on Water street. Balt-
more, armed with huge butcher knife. The
proprietor endeavored to take it away, and
johnson, in attempting to cut him, plunged
the blade into the left thigh of John Cornish,
colored.
On Tuesday evening last Mr. Joseph
Rasin, residing near Truppc, Talbot county,
Md, lost twenty head of sheep by lightning.
They were huddled together in an open field
and were all killed by the same stroke OF
electricity Mr. Rasn was in the field at
the time, aud felt the shock very sensibly, be-
ing but short distance off
In Chicago on Sunday morning jeremiah
Kennedy, a laborer, shot his wife, Mary
twice, killing her instantly. He then put q
ball into his own body in the vicinity of the
heart from the effects of which he was eX.
pected to die last night. Several causes com
bined led to the deed, among which are pov
crty, hypochondria and discord.
Garland, Northern Texas, is u town or
wheels Its one thousand citizens are deter
mined to locate permanently at the terminus
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, ant
whenever new section of the road is finish
ed the Garlanders pull their houses down ant
move on. Since the town was founded, one
year ago, there have been six deaths only
one man died from old age, one was hung by
the vigilance committee and four were sho
dead in saloons.
james Bradley, Is years old, of Belfast
ireland, hid himself on bark bound fo
Baltimore, and when found the vessel was a
sea- He found employment at Locust Pon
herding cows but firing of the work. las
Saturday he was at the Southern police sta
tion and wanted to return home. His cas-,
was brought to the attention of the Hiber
nian society, who sent him back to Ireland
He ran away from his parents, because the,
chastised him for keeping company witt
bad boys.