The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-08-02
THE sEGZ&.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1878.
Condensed News.

Condensed News.
The Marquis of Lorne has been appoint
ed Governor General of Canada to succeed
Lord Dufferin.
The eclipse of the sun on Monday was
witnessed with successful results in the West
Throughout the East old Sol was obscured by
clouds.
james Robinson, so years of age, was
found dead in his room on Monday, at the
Bowery Hotel New York. He hanged him
self with cord from the top of the window
sash.
AT Chester, Pa, Lizzie Files, girl of
nine years of age, was enticed away on Mon
day by n tramp whom, it is feared, outraged
and then killed her. No trace of the little
one can be found.
"A spark from the engine of II steam
thresher set fire to the stock yard OF w. ii.
H. Clark, near Delaware City, Del, on Sat-
urday, and destroyed 300 bushels of wheat
and 500 bushels of oats.
Last Saturday night thirty regulars visit
ed the house of John Dayton, n respectable
farmer in Robertson county, Ky, and killed
him. They also burned the house of the
town marshal, at Olivet.
Laura Linscott and Addie Welch, girls
about 1G years of age, were drowned at
Damariscotta, Maine, by the capsizing of a
boat on Friday. The accident was caused by
their rocking the boat.
George Hoff, ten years of age, on Satur-
day, asked q man near Brooklyn, i, l., if he
wanted to buy some berries. The latter said
no, and when the boy turned his back, DELHI
erately shot him in the arm with revolver
Two carrier pigeons, which were started
last Friday from Columbus Ohio, for race
to New York, failed to come home 1t is
supposed they were captured or shot The
winning bird was TO receive 800 and the
other $50
AT Baldwin station, near Harrisburg, on
Monday, the wife of VIM. Flowerfeld, while
assisting her husband in raising bucket from
newly-made well, "a feet deep, accidentally
fell in, and sustained injuries which will prob
ably result fatally.
"A despatch from Portland says Lorenzo
ID. Perkins and wife were attacked by Indians,
near Rattesnake Springs, on the Columbia
River Both the dead bodies were recovered
by party of citizens, who went on the trail
of the missing people.
"A daughter of Mr.. Moses Eberly, aged
sixteen years, residing at Mechanicsburg, Pa,
had her leg crushed last Friday between the
revolving wheels of threshing machine
Her limb was dreadfully mangled, and ampu-
of the unfortunate girl
john IIalam, of Barton county, Mo,
was bitten by u mad dog twelve years ago
The wound healed up and the occurrence
was nearly forgotten. Two weeks ago he
was taken with COMMISSIONS and his suffer
ings and death from hydrophobia were ter
riblc to witness.
1t is printed in Clarion county Pa.) paper
that one day last week man knocked at the
door of q wealthy mans house and wanted
something to eat The owner of the house
recognized in him former oil prince, whose
business capital was nearly 100000, and he
is reduced to beggary.
The second Pan-Anglican Conference,
composed of Protestant Episcopal bishops
from all parts of the world, which was in
session for several weeks at Lambeth Palace,
England, has adjourned Their meetings
were held with closed doors, so that nothing
is known of the result of their labers.
Col Forsyth with his cavalry, aided by
the friendly Umatilla Indians, on the 18th
inst. struck the camps of the hostile Ban
nocks, killing II warriors and capturing 20
women and children and GO head of stock
The Umatillas lost two ponies. They had
previously killed Eagan and ID warriors, and
captured $50 to 300 horses.
EARLY last Sunday morning, the barn of
Noah Engle, 02x64 feet, three miles from
Frederick city, was destroyed by fire, with
its contents. The latter consisted of 500
bushels of unthreshed wheat, so bushels clo-
verseed, rs tons of hay, rye, straw, threshed
wheat, agricultural implements sc. Loss
$4,000. No insurance. The fire is sup
posed to have originated from spontaneous
combustion.
About midnight, last Sunday night, Isaac
Hammi rode up to the farm house of John
Angels, near Jacksonville, ILL.,, and asked to
see his daughter. Angels refused and at the
same time called on his son, James Angels, Il
boy IA years ofage, telling him to shoot Ham
mil. The boy, obedient to his fathers orders,
took down an old shot gun, loaded with slugs,
him instantly