The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-09-06
THE &GZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1873.
Condensed News.

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The Republicans elected their candidate
for Governor, in Vermont, on Tuesday.
Last Sunday morning, in Queen Anne's
county, in drunken quarrel, colored man
named Richard Lang, shot and killed his wife
with pistol.
"A four-year old child of Henry Yokel
Anne Arundel county, being left alone in bed
obtained some matches, set fire to its clothing
and was burned to death.
AT the municipal election in Whining
ton, Del, on Tuesday, the Democrats car
ried the day, electing John p. Almond may
or and six out of the ten councilmen.
The excursion steamer Princess Alice,
with 800 persons on board, was run down
in the river Thames, England on Tuesday
evening" and 400 or 500 persons were drown
ed
David E. Foutz, who was well-known in
connection with Foutzs horse powders, died
in North Carolina, and was buried in Balti-
more on Sunday. He was a native of Carroll
county.
Last Friday night Charles Dashiel. deaf
mute, of Hagerstown, Md, cut his throat
with razor, from eur to ear. A physician
scwed up the wound and he is still living
No cause for the act has been assigned.
Mr.. Lambert Cuttings will be candidate
for nomination, together with Robert NJ
McLanc, Henry Clay Dallam, James A.
Buchanan and John V. l.. Findlay, for Con-
gress in the Fourth Congressional district.
Some young men and boys quarrcled, last
Friday evening, at York, Pa, about the own
ership ola paper balloon they discovered in
the air and captured, when VIM. Matson
stabbed Erastus ID, King, causing his death
the next day.
The town of Miskolcz capital of the
Circle of Bersod, in Hungary, was almost en-
tircly laid waste on Friday night by n storm
A thousand houses were destroyed by the
rainfall and one hundred persons were killed.
The population of the place was estimated
at about 100000
"A terrible accident occurred between
Margate and London, England, last Saturday,
by II crowded excursion train colliding with
freight train, as the latter was being switch
ed off. Eight persons were killed and thirty
wounded. The locomotive and some of the
cars were smashed to pieces.
"A little boy about seven years of age was
found, last Thursday morning, in the Missis-
sippi river, 80 miles below ST. Louis, floating
on the trunk of huge tree. He was in n
high fever and presented the appearance of
having been without food for five or six days.
He was taken ashore and kindly cared for.
He could not tell where he came from.
Another terrible tragedy occurred in
Cumberland, Nd, last Friday, in which
Thomas Cook Hughey, n lawyer aged AZ
years, shot and killed A. IIooten Blackiston,
another lawyer. aged 49, Blackiston is a
son-in-law of Judge Pearre, with whom
Hughey had n difficulty short time ago.
On Friday Blackiston entered IIugheys Of
flee, and accused him of lying in n report
filed in an equity case, and also struck him
with his fist several times. Two other law
yers who were present separated the parties
and while both were being held back Hugh
ey drew pistol and told Blackison if he adj.
vanccd on him he would shoot him. Black
iston replied that he did not care for the pis-
tol, and breaking away from the person who
held him rushed upon Elughey. The latter
fired and the men clinched and fell together,
Blackiston on top. The latter pummcled
IIughey, who succeeded in extracting himself.
IIugheys shot, however, had struck his an
tagonist, who died in n quarter of an hour.
Blnckiston was a native of Queen Anne's
county, and leaves n wife and one child.
Hughey was from Kent county and also has
family. The coroner's jury rendered n YER
dict of "sclf-deience"