The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-22

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

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England is about to engage in wal
with Afghanstan.
On the 18th inst, a fire at Atlantic City
N. j., destroyed $4,000 worth of property
&C. w. Barr, twenty years old and mar
ried, was recently fined $40 for kissing Mrs
Juliet Schragle, aged 20.
Five acres in the town of Bradford, Pa
including two hotels, numerous machine
shops, lumber yards, oil wells, &c, were
burned last Friday.
In shooting at rabbit, near Mount Joy
Pa, last Friday week, Mr.. Lowe accidental,
ly shot his companion John CARRIER in the
head, instantly killing him.
Judge Hilton has offered $4,000 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the five per-
sons supposed to have heen engaged in steal
the remains of A. 7. Stewart,
Mrs Mary Pardo Sanchez, of Malaga:
Spain, died, Wednesday morning, at the res
idence of her daughter, in Brooklyn, N Y,
aged ITO years, months and 16 days.
Miss Cora johnson, who lives near Sa-
gers Bridge, in Chester county, Pa while
driving to her home from the railroad was
stopped by hghwaymen and robbed.
General Grant w&s the guest of Lord
Napier, at Gibraltar on Saturday. He wit
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sham battle, gotten up in honor of his visit
MIR. VIM. 3. Hill, the well-known lawyer
and real estate agent, died last Saturday, in
Baltimore. He was SO years Of age, and had
an enviabe reputation for official and per-
sonal integrity.
-Darke county, Ohio, and Randolph
county, Indiana, are tcrrorized over by bands
OF regulators. The law is powerless, and the
desperadoes, even when they are known, can
not be brought to justice.
The Marquis of Salisbury has written to
Secretary Evarts, saying that England ex-
poets the payment of the Halifax awards,
$5,500,000, on the 23d of November, as agreed
upon by the arbitrators
Henry Buchter, of New Haven, Conn.,,
was arrested for selling liquor without IL
cense. When his wife, an excellent woman,
% years old, heard of it, she fell into faint
ing fit, and never recovered, dying of fright.
John Clare of Baltimore, who was tried
and acquitted, at Towsontown, in 1866
of the charge of numbering Henry B. Grove
photographer, in Baltimore, is believed to
have had hand in the Stewart grave rob-
berry.
JOHN DAWSON, an old engineer of the
Pennsylvania railroad, residing at Cherry
Hill, Cecil county, being in trouble, ended it
by shooting himself, in Woodlands ceme-
tary, Philadelphia, on Wednesday. He was
% years old
On Saturday night, Michael Rossiter, of
New York, went home dunk. His wife
Jane not having supper ready he threw
lighted coal oil lamp at her. Her clothes
caught fire and she received burns from
which she died on Sunday.
On the night of the 18th inst, passen.
ger car on the New Brunswick railway tum.
bled over an embankment and caught fire
Four passengers were killed or burned to
death, and several were injured before they
could escape.
A Norwegian named William Buder,
claiming to be survivor of the Huron
disaster, which occurred about year ago,
has turned up. He says he was picked forty
miles from land, clinging to a spar. He is
believed to be an impostor.
"A terrible story is told from Trenton of
an old watercress gatherer who got into
mud hole from which he was unable to extri-
cate himself and where he remained twenty
hours. He was at last rescued, but only to
die subsequently of exhaustion.
"A New York newspaper SAYS a project
is on foot by Jay Gould and other prominent
capitalists to establish telegraph company
in opposition to the Western Union. The
capital will be $4,000, 900, and the lines will
be in operation all over the country in twelve
months.
Two men, Hank Whalen and William
Burke, were arrested in New York, last
week, on the charge of being concerned in
the dissertation of A. II. Stewards grave
The body has not been recovered yet or if
it has, its whereabouts is kept secret by Mr.
Stewards friends.
AN interview with Alexander II. Ste
phens is published, in which he expresses his
approval of the Presidents Southern policy,
in which he did not understand that there
was going to be any change, and his dsap-
proval of Senator Hills letter crticizing the
Presidents course.
"A Pullman palace car on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, took fire, last Saturday
night, near Cumberland, Md, from the
explosion of coal oil lamp, and was con-
sumed, with all the personal effects of the
passengers, who made an almost miraculous
escape from being burned alive.
EARLY last Friday morning, n fire broke
out in the Virginia penitentiary, at Rich
mond, and destroyed large building, which
with its contents was valued at $70000.-
The inmates were much excited but the
prison guard, police and citizen soldiers, pre-
oOifOu oitici anu picNtHtcu any prisoners
from escaping.
Robert Mitchell, a wealthy farmer, who
lives north of Springfield, Ohio was recently
riding favorite black horse. While cross
ing bridge the horse became frightened at
some loose planks, reared and threw his rider
on his head, breaking his neck. The horse
returned to his masters home and by his
conduct alarmed the family, who followed
him to where Mr.. Mitchell lay dead
On Sunday as King Humbert, of Italy,
was entering Naples, in carriage, q poorly
dressed man made q savage attack upon him
with poniard. The King drew his sword
and struck the assassin, who was Immediate
ly secured. Signor Cairola. who was with
the king, was wounded in the thigh by the
assassin. The assassin is 30 years old, and
gave rs his reason that he was poor and
hated the king.
Mrs. Malinda White, widow living at
Elmira, N. Y, became disguised with things
terrestrial, and resolved to end them by
drowning herself in a well. The well was
narrow and Mrs. White was fat. She went
down, down, to within few inches of the
water, and there she stuck. She could
neither get down nor up, and was suspended,
so to speak, between wind and water. Her
cries brought her neighbors to her assistance
They charitaby allowed her to stay where
she was until she repented of her rash reso-
luton. when they drew her up with rope
and windlaaa