The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-14
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BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JUNE IA, 1873.
THE NEWS.

The Gar of Russia is seriously i'll o
fever.
The Emperor William, of Germany, il
recovering from his wounds.
Colgate e Cos soap factory, Jersey City
was destroyed by fire, on the 9th inst. Loss
100000
Bradley Davis, colored, was arrested fol
attempting TO outrage young White girl In
Baltimore, Saturday night.
"A general Indian war appears to be i'm.
minent. The hostiles arc becoming very bold
and aggressive several white men have been
killed and troops have been attacked.
Last Sunday morning, at Burkevile, Va,
Jennie Miller, colored, nearly beheaded her
husband with an axe, while at the breakfast
table. The motive for the act is not stated
William Cullen Bryant, the venerable
editor and poet died in New York on We'd
nesday, of paralysis, the result of an accident
received several weeks before. He was in his
84th year.
Rev. DR.. Geo. F. Seymour, lately Dean
of the Protestant Episcopal General Theolog-
ical Seminary, was consecrated Bishop OF
Springfield, Ill, at Trinity Church, N Y, on
Tuesday
The jury in the case of Alexander B.
Sayres, charged with having shot and killed
his wife in a church in Philadelphia in No
vember last, have rendered a verdict of muir
der in the first degree.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe, of Atlantic, Iowa,
agreed to separate, but neither would con-
sent that the other should retain their baby.
They settled the question by selling the in
FAINT TO neighbor for $50.
Mrs. Sarah Wilson, widow, and her
i'll 90 oil sNfn
were found murdered thirteen miles east of
Greenfield, Indiana, on Saturday. There is
no clue as to the cause or the perpetrators of
the deed.
Alexander H. Stephens has written a
letter to the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of his district, in which he announces his
intention to be an independent candidate for
Congress in the event of his not receiving a
denomination.
Dennis Donnelly was hanged at Potts
vile, Pa, on Tuesday, for being accessory to
the murder of Thomas Sanger, n mine boss,
in 1875. Donnelly was the fifteenth Molle
Mcguire who suffered the extreme penalty of
the law for murder.
john Church, aged rs years, of Wash
ington, deliberately laid down across the track
of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, near
Wilson's Station, Prince Georges county,
last Friday night, and was torn to pieces by
n passing train.
The New York State Grand Lodge of
Free Masons has passed the following resolu-
ton: THAT we refuse TO recognize as a Free
Mason any person initiated, passed or raised
in a body where the existence of a Supreme
Being is denied or ignored"
"A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs with
tar to rid them of fleas, and turned them
loose in the woods. At night they did not
return to the pen as usual, and in the morn
ing he found them stuck together, the tar
making them adhere in a mass They might
have gone home, nevertheless, by concert of
action, but it isn't in hog to harmonze.
Last Saturday night, in Philadelphia,
Mrs. Ann Gestich, her son and daughter,
were found in their house smothered to
death by chloroform. The woman's hus-
band was missing, and from letter sent by
him to physician, it was at first thought he
had committed suicide but it is suspected
order to live with Il woman to whom he had
been so attentive as to make his wife jealous.
"A horrible accident occurred to Gen.
Buford's horse "McWhirter," on race
course at st. Louis, a few days ago. While
in the midst Of it one leg gave way but the
gallant horse kept on until the other fore-leg
also gave way. He still plunged ahead, ev-
cry jump tearing muscles, tendons, flesh and
skim until he finally sank to the earth with
the bones of both fore legs torn from the
sockets of the ankle joint and protruding six
inches through the hide and flesh. He was
mercifully shot and killed. The owner had
refused $4,000 for him.