The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-05-10
TIE sEGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1873.
THE NEWS.

General Grant and his party have left
Turin for Dion and Paris.
There are rumors of trouble to Russia
from new quarter-China.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
a call for So, 900, 900 Of five-twenty bonds for
redemption.
Thomas Shields was killed last Friday by
fall of sand ut the quarries near Doc Kun
village, in Chester county, Pa,
-O'Brien, the bonanza king, who recent
ly died in California is said TO have been
worth twenty millions Of dollars.
-Ex-Judge Geeson, of Baltimore, who
was nearly suffOcated, last week, by gas es-
Gaping in his room, continues to improve.
bennington, the famous race horse and
sire of some of the leading horses now on the
turf, died at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, on
Monday.
The smallpox is epidemic at London,
and there are eight hundred cases i'll the
asyums at present, about the same number
as year ago.
Lancaster Hodges, colored, died at
Bronsfield, Maine, last week, aged l07 years.
He was blind and deaf and idiotic, and didn't
fight in the Revolution.
Ann Delany Thompson, colored woman
102 years old, and who says that she halls
from Perryville, Nd, was committed TO Bay
view for sixty days recently.
The New York Coaching Club made a
trip in four-horse coach on Saturday, from
New York to Philadelphia, 80 miles in IL
hours, returning ON Monday.
Mary Davis, who was buried in New
York on Monday, had been sixty-one years
a resident of that city, and had passed her
10Th Yoor Sbp Iin6 from old
James Durkn and Patrick Steele of
Phenixville, Pa. while stealing ride on the
top of box car on the Reading RAILROAD,
Saturday. were struck by bridge and kill
ed.
C. Leindreker's barn, near Muscatine,
Iowa, was burned Saturday night, together
with the contents, including six horses and
five fine Jersey bulls. Loss $2OOOO no in
surance.
On Sunday evening, at Hagerstown,
John w. Pierce, colored, shot his wife Mary,
probably fatally woundng her, and then at
tempted to kill himself with the same pistol,
but failed.
Hon. Michael Bannon, State Senator
from Anne Arundel county, has taken pas
sage by the Allan line for a trip to Europe,
to leave July 1st He will be accompanied by
his daughter.
Two of the inmates of the institution on
Blackwell's Island New York, are reported
dead and another i'll from the effects of drink
ing a mixture of ale and chloroform surrep-
titiously secured.
Reports from the Pennsylvania mining
regions state that new crop OF secret socle-
ties has sprung up in those sections, and
that politicians are considerably interested in
their movements.
Five men have been arrested in Saratoga,
N. Y, supposed to have been engaged in
masked burglary at Bennington, VT, last
month. Revolvers, masks and gags were
found in their possession.
1t is stated that the Philadelphia, Will
mngton and Baltimore Railroad which now
owns the Delaware road, is about to take
possession of the Eastern Shore extension
from Delmar to Crisfeld
The African NJ. E. Church Conference,
of Baltimore, have passed resolutions de-
nouncing the School Commissioners of Bal
timore city for not appointing colored teach
ers to teach the colored schools.
"A vigilance committee has been formed
at Omaha, Neb TO put stop to burglaries,
which have been numerous of late i'll and
around that CITY, An unusual number of
tramps have been there for some days.
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Brockvile, Ont, was entered by burglars
Friday night, and on his refusing to give
them money they tied him and beat him to
death. All the money they obtained was 81.
Buffalo On. " citizens are organizing
for the construction of pipe line from the
oil regions of Pennsylvania, with capital
stock of $330,000. Right Of way has been
purchased in Pennsylvania and New York.
On Tuesday afternoon, in Baltimore,
George Henry Spinks, colored, stabbed Matil-
da Richards, also colored, with an old table
knife, causing her death. They were both
employed rs servants in Mrs. Barker's board
ing house, North Charles street.
Last Friday night in Oxford, Pa, Saun
ders Mccullough, being awakened by the
springng of burglar alarm in his house,
arose and in the excitement and darkness
shot his wife, who was also cropping about
the room. The lady is not expected to re-
cover.
The German steamship Cimbria, which
recently appeared on the coast OF Maine, has
excited great curiosity. British agents are
especially anxious to know her business
here. She has full complement OF Russian
officers and seamen, and is supposed to be
privateer.
Francisco Peralto, the Mexican mustang
rider, on Saturday at the Prospect Fair
Grounds near Brooklyn, N. Y, undertook to
ride 305 miles in 10 hours. de failed by III
minutes Peralto accomplished his first 100
miles in hours and 90 minutes; average per
mile minutes and 40 seconds; fastest mile
2 minutes and IL seconds.
Walter Cherry, Robert Thompson and
Harris Atkinson, all colored, were convicted
at Goldsboro, N c., on Saturday, for the
murder of James Morley, a farmer, and his
wife, near that place, on the 18th OF Februa-
ry last. They were at once sentenced to be
hung on the 14th of June next.
Chicago has just had narrow escape
from the disgrace of lynching. An Italian
ragpicker stole bundle of paper boxes from
in front of store, and shot the boy who de-
tec,ed him through the heart. A large mum.
Der of persons saw the wanton murder, and
tried to get the murderer away from the po-
lice to hang him.
The municipal elections in North Caro-
lima on Monday resulted generally IN favor
of the Democrats AT Weldon, usually DEM
ocratic the Republicans were successful, but
contest will be made on the ground of fraud.
A riot was one of the features of the day at
Weldon, in which the leader Of a colored as
saulting party was killed and others on both
sides were wounded
John Travers was seventy years old and
wanted wife He was the wealthiest man
in Carroll county, Va, and that fact induced
woman of twenty to marry him. She al
most Immediately repented the sale of her
self, and on the fifth night after the wedding
stabbed her husband to death as he lay asleep.
She also attempted suicide.
The total loss by the explosion and fire
at Minneapolis will exceed 81 100000. In
ouiry confirms the first theory that the cause