The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-07-12
THE sEGZS.
EEL AIR, FRIDAY, JULY 70, 1873.
THE NEWS.

George S. Appleton, of the publishing
house ofAppleton & Co., died ct Riverdale,
N. Y, on Sunday, at the age of 81.
Captain jerks, husband of Mrs. jerks,
will probably be called upon TO answer TO a
charge of pergury in the courts of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Thomas p Mulhern, barkeeper in Chas.
X. Hamilton's restaurant, Light street, Bal
timore, committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum, on Monday.
The rate of taxation for county purposes,
as fixed this year for Charles Co., Md, is 9S
cents on the $780, and for the State 1S4 cents
on the 800, making taxation of Sligo on
the 800.
Last Friday, at Franklin, on the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad, Emmanuel Wick, n
jealous colorcd man, with an old flint lock
pistol shot and killed his sweetheart, come
ly young negro girl.
The Columbia College boys on the 4th
and 9th, at Henley, in England, won the only
h0at race ever gained by an American crew
on British waters. The Showaecaemettes,
the Western crew, were defeated
"A woman named Ryan, so years old,
escaped from jamestown On. " poorhouse,
Thursday at midnight, and, while seeking
refuge at a farmhouse, was mistaken for
burglar and fatally shot through the head.
james Moss, of Lancaster county, while
cutting wheat with reaper was thrown from
his seat and under the cutter bar. He was
cut and mangled in a terrible manner, but
may recover The physicians sewed up over
fifty wounds.
Last Saturday night. Maggie Hamilton,
proprletress of a house on Low street, Balti-
more, made savage assault with pair of
scissors, on Maggie Addison and Annie
Howard, inmates of rival house on Jose
phine street. She stabbed the girls again and
again in the head, face and hands and tried
to throw one of them opt of third-sto
window.
Gen. Howard attacked the Bannock In
dams on Monday, driving them from their
fortified position. He followed them to a
second and third position, dslodging them
from each. The Indians abandoned horses,
provisions, ammunition and camp material.
Gen. Howard reports five of men wounded
and twenty horses killed. The Indian loss is
not known.
Bishop q r. Ames, Of the M. E. Church,
has been quite i'll in Baltimore, of diabetes.
His physicians say he can never entirely
shake off the disease, but his life is not in
immediate danger. He is ~ years DID,
Thomas Kelso, q well-known business man.
of Baltimore, is also very i'll. He is 90 years
old. City Comptroller Vansant has also
been confined to his house by sickness
"A Fence election was recently held in
Georgia. the voters of each county being Civ
ell chance to decide for the next two years
whether to continue the present law in force
under which cattle and other stock are suf |
tered to run at large, or change il SO that |
stock will have 10 be kept up and planters
can do away with fences. The present law |
was generally sustained by large majorities
During the storm, on Monday evening,
the house of VIM. Constantine, at Hampden,
Baltimore county, was struck by lightning.
His daughter Agnes, aged IS, was Just enter.
ing the door with bucket of milk, when the |
lightning tore the door TO pieces before her
eyes, and teled her senseless to the ground |
Her condition was critical at last accounts |
There were five or six people in the room at
the time, all of whom were more or less |
stunned. The COW, about 30 yards from the
house. was knocked down but not killed.
"A terrible storm struck the Allegheny
Valley, above Pittsburg, on the afternoon of
the 4th. Hail fell as large as chestnuts. A
large tree was uprooted and fell on pic mic |
party who had fled TO it for shelter, instantly
killing seven and seriously injuring sixteen, |
four or five of whom will probably die The
storm also did great damage at Pittsburg.-
The house of Abner Conner, at Sandy Creek,
containing himself, wife and child, Ira Long
and a man named Boyd, and stranger who |
had stopped during the storm, was carried |
away and all were drowned.
Last Sunday morning Mrs. Norman,
wife of Joseph Norman, living on East Mon
ument street, Baltimore, went to neighbours
house for few minutes, directing her daugh-
ter Virginia, 12 years old, to keep the fire up. |
The little girl poured some coal oil from n
tin can on the wood to revive the fire, and |
the oil in the can exploded, setting the girls |
clothing on fire and also the clothing of her
infant brother, who was sitting on the floor
Mr.. Norman, who was up stairs, ran down
and in endeavOring to extinguish the flames
was terribly burned. A neighbor, who
heard the noise came and dashed tub full |
OF water over the girl and her father Vir-
glnla died i'll the afternoon, and the infant on
Tuesday. Tine father will recover
The Fourth of July brought with it the
customary train of murders, accidents, &c.
At Port Deposit, VIM. McGil shot and killed
James Armstrong, wounded Thomas Arm
strong and then killed himself with the same
pistol. AT Cincinnati, Miss Ida Hutton,
while sitting on the porch of her home, sud
denly fell dead. Upon examination it was
found that bullet had entered her chest and |
passed through her body. In Baltimore,
hi"iceilus Meme, III years old, son OF LAW
renee Keene, was severely cut in his right |
thigh by falling upon and breaking powder
bottle which he was carrying in his pocket
lie bled to death in twenty minutes. Amer
Thompson touched n lighted cigar to key
containing powder The key burst into frag-
ments, one of which struck him in the fore
head, Factoring the frontal bone three
year old son of George V. Helfrich was burn
ed to death by his clothes catching fire from
fire works. Joseph Knarkl, aged II years,
and Frank O'Neal, 8 years, were both burned
by the explosion of powder with which they
were playing. Thomas Hawkins, aged 12
years, shot himself while playing with
cartridge pistol. The wound is supposed to
be fatal. Another boy, named John Hahn,
also shot himself in the hand and side with
pistol.
High living cannot be INDUCED in without