The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-03-29
THE NEWS.

out England, last Sunday.
II. N. jackson, of Clarksburg, West Va.
las been sent to Jail for having five wives.
Hon. Jesse X. Hines has been re-appoint
ed Insurance Commissioner for Maryland fol
four years.
Hon John Allison, Register ofthe United
States Treasury, died suddenly at Washing
ton, on Sunday, OF apoplexy.
AT the election in Hagerstown, Md, OF
Monday, the Republicans elected the mayor
and the Democrats the councilmen.
Hon. John l.. Vance, late member o.
Congress from Ohio, has mysteriously disap
peared, and it is believed he has been muir
dered.
"A fire which broke out ON Fourth street
Philadelphia, Monday night, destroyed forty
stores and dwellings, involving loss OF
100000.
Joseph Pinder, farmer Of Troy, Ont,
eloped last week with his mother-in-law, Mrs
Hawley, leaving behind him his wife and
three small children.
Last Saturday, near Cicero, N. Y, q wom-
an named Edden quarrelled with and murder
ed her own mother, aged 70, by stabing her
in the back with knife.
Died at Palmerston, Ont, q few days
ago, one Mr.. Dickson, who probably was
112 years old. He was native of Armagh
ireland, and served under Nelson.
The British naval training ship Eurydice,
with 300 persons on board, was capsized near
the Isle of Wight, during terrible gale last
Sunday and all but five persons persisted.
The cold snap of Sunday night is said
to have killed all the advanced strawberries,
peaches and other fruit, and played havoc
generally with early vegetables about Nor.
folk, Va.
Augusta, the home of Senator Blaine,
went Democratic the other day for the first
time in ten years. The inhabitants of that
city evidently don't believe in platform
built of stolen timber.
Rev. John Miller Dckey, d. D., of Ok.
ford Chester county, Pa, died in Philadel-
phia, on Thursday last, aged 70 years. DR..
Dickey was an active and efficient minister
in the Presbyterian Church for nearly so
years.
II George Leicht, formerly butcher and
cattle dealer, committed suicid at the York
county Almshouse, on Thursday last. He
once owned considerable property, but had
become very poor and was an inmate of the
almshouse.
Daniel O'Leary, of Chicago, has proved
world, having, on Saturday last in England
completed walk of $50 miles IN 139 hours
and 10 minutes. He had 16 competitors, and
received the champion belt and $4,000.
james Zeis the thirteen year-old son OF
Springfield Qnd } farmer, was reprimanded
by clerk for trying to steal lead-pencil in
the store to which he was sent, and took the
reproof so much to heart that he went home
and hanged himself,
Two negroes were hanged at New Castle
Del, last Friday, for outraging white
woman, last August. The same day three
negro brothers were hanged at Abbeville
Ala, for the murder of a poor white woman
with whom they had some dispute abou
land.
Patrick Hester, Patrick FULLY and Pete
McHugh, three Mollie Maguires, convicted
of the murder of Alexander Rea, mining
superintendent, in 1868, were hanged q
Bloomsbury, Pa, on Monday. The principa
witness against them was one Kelly, himsel
one of the murderers, who turned States
evidence.
Last Sunday morning in Brooklyn, N
Y, John Connolly put lighted pipe into
the mouth OF his baby, aged IA months,.t
stop its crying. The little thing was stran
gled by the tobacco smoke and died ON IL
1athers lap in few minutes. Inc man ha'
frequently given the child Whit of smok
before.
john Myan, q well-to-do young trades
man, entered stable in Wheeling, W. Va
last saturday night being, as is supposed
intoxicated at the time. He probably lait
down on the hay in the loft and attempted t.
light cigar, for in few moments tn
building was in flames, and nothing was lei
of Mylan save part of one leg and q few CHAR
red bones.
On Sunday, at Littleton, West Va,
party of fifteen men entered the building il
which murderer, named John Wallace, wa
confined, and placing rope around his necl
dragged him down stairs and about mil
below the town, where they left him hang
ing to an apple tree. Wallace had murdere,
his brothers wife, beat her child's brains GU
and killed young woman staying in tn
house.