The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-12-13

BEL AIR, FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1873.
Condensed News,

Ills utdlln.
1t is rumored that Turkey is about t,
cede to England the port of Alexandretta, il
Northern Syria.
Prof Thomas A. Edison has received
patent for his electric light, which is intended
to supersede gas.
One man was killed and several person.
were seriously injured on Monday by the de
rangement of train near Romeo, Mich.
The grand duchess Of Hesse, formerly
Princess Alice, second daughter of Queer
Victoria of England, is seriously i'll of diph
liberia.
Robert Heller, the great magician who
died recently, in his will directs that the de
vices with which he performed his tricks
shall be destroyed.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, having been
defeated by the British troops has apologized
to the British government and expresses his
willingness to submit.
Philip johnson, colored, was arrested in
Baltimore on Tuesday night on the charge
of numbering Annie Hopkins, colored, by
choking her TO death.
The fair held in New York City for the
completion of the Catholic Cathedral closed
on the Goth ult, after being held one month.
The gross receipts amounted to $4,000.
Benjamin Long, well-to.do farmer of
Washington county, Nd, committed suicide
was awaiting trial on the charge of barn.
burning.
Frederick o. Prince, Secretary of the
Democratic National Committee, has been
elected Mayor of Boston. In LYNN Mass,
the entire Workingman's city ticket was
elected
"A rumor has been current in Washing
ton for some days that Attorney General
Devens is anxious to leave the Cabinet and
take the United States Circuit Judgeship in
Massachusetts,.
"A mob broke into the Jail at Bainbrdge
Ca, on Monday night, and shot and killed
William Cooper, who was confined there for
the atrocious murder of John McGaughey, n
prominent citizen.
H. P. Gage, president of the Hancock
county savings bank, Ohio, specialized with
the securities of the bank, lost everywhere,
and on Monday shot himselfin the head. He
was go years Old
Governor Hampton's wounded leg
was amputated about six inches below the
knee on Monday. The same day the Legis.
lature of South Carolina elected him to
the United States Senate.
The administration at Washington has
invited general Grant to take trip to India,
China and Japan, in the United States steam
er Richmond and he has accepted This trip
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AT Hamilton, Ohio. an Sunday, H. Weigh,
the proprietor of beer garden, shot his wife
through the head and then shot himself
Both died instantly. Financial and family
difficulties are said to have been the cause.
Rather ancient nuptals are reported from
Richmond, Staten Island, where on Friday
last Ambrose G. Taylor, aged rs years. mar
ried Mrs. Malard, aged 70. The brides
great-grand-daughter witnessed the cere-
mony.
Fifteen years ago the children of VIM.
Gebris, of Hereford, Berks county, Pa, five
in number, died of diphtheria. OF six CHI
dren since born five have recently died of the
same disease, the last two being inferred in
one grave Saturday.
Senator Ben. Hill, Of Georgia, now in
New York city, in an interview on Saturday,
said the stories about ntimidating and harsh
ly treating colared voters in the South, at the
last election, were untrue and only being used
for political effect
Samuel SherIar is on trial in North
ampton county, Va, on the charge of q MUIR
der committed in Accomac county sixteen
years ago. After the murder he disappeared
and remained away until he supposed the af-
fair had blown over
Samuel r. Ludlam, proprietor of the
Ocean House at Cape May, N. j., is under
hotel, thereby causing the fire which destroy
ed nearly the entire town. 1t is alleged that
his object was to defraud the insurance COM
panies.
The steamer Matilda was sunk, in the
Rappahannock river, 5 miles below Freder-
icksburg, Va, last Saturday night. The few
passengers on board and the crew got off
safely. 1t is thought she struck one of the
distractions placed in the river by the Con-
federates during the war.
The neighborhood feud in Breathitt
county, KY, is still in progress. In COLI
sion last Wednesday four men were killed
and six wounded The town of Jackson has
been deserted, and the two parties are en-
camped and fortified each side of the town.
The officers of the law are unable to quell
the disturbance.
On Friday evening, near Hillside sta
ton, on the Pennsylvania railroad, James
Hotham returned home from the depot, but
in going into the house was mistaken for
burglar by his sister, who fired rifle at him,
killing him instantly. The horror-stricken
woman, upon discovering that che had killed
her brother, lost her reason.
In Chesterfield county, Va, on Monday,
negro girl retired precipitately from dinner
at which rabbit pie was served, and when
found shortly after in an adjoining room che
WAS utdu. I1cT uedI0 was AT uTSL attrlDuteQ
to heart disease, but it was discovered that
her throat had been cut by sharp rabbit
bone, which protruded clear through the
skin.
Hon. VIM. J. Leib, member of the Leg
islature from Frederick county, was walking
across railroad bridge over the Monocacy
river, at Frederick Junction, last Saturday,
when train came laundering along. To
escape almost certain death he Jumped into
the river, from height of thirty feet, and
strange to say, sustained few bruises only
His escape was miraculous.
Harley G. Brown, who threw train of
the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad off the track, last June, by which
four men were killed, has been found guilty
of manslaughter, at New Castle, DEL
Browns statement was that he placed the
obstruction on the track and intended to stop
the train, thereby to secure the gratitude
of the company and position on the road
His plan failed by the train coming sooner
than he expected.
The body of Miss Christiana Herman,
aged 33 years, daughter of Frederick Her.
man, of York county, Pa, was found near
home, on Sunday morning, with the skull
crushed in. The day before she walked to
Hanover, distance of six miles, to do some
shopping, and ON her way home called at
friends house, three-fourths of a mile from
her home. Here she remained until o'clock,
when she started for home, but was murdered
on the way. A tramp named Alexander
Osborne has been arrested on suspicion.