The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-08-23
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 90, 1878,
Condensed News.

COnuellSeu news.
Mrs. Mary Magee, 95 years old, died in Bal.
timore last week.
-ExGov. Bowie's Maryland filly Oriole
won a mile dash at Saratoga, on Thursday OF
last week. Time 1.44a.
Col. w. II. Daingerleld, q prominent citizen
of Prince Georges county, Md, who lived
near the ferry opposite Alexandria, Va, died
on Wednesday of last week.
New Hampshire's tramp law is criticized
as too severe because it makes poverty q
crime and places poor people from other
States seeking work there in danger of ar
rest.
Charles D. Angel, secretary OF the Pull
man Palace Car Company at Chicago, is dis
covered to be a defaulter to the amount of
$4,000. He is believed to have gone to
Europe.
Col. Mckenzie and his troops, consisting
of cavalry and artillery, crossed the Rio
Grande into Mexico, Friday last, in search of
animals stolen from the American side two
days previously.
n "A disastrous fire broke out in the village
gof fremont, Pa, Sunday night, destroying
4 thirteen houses in the business portion Of the
place. The loss is $4,000. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
Mrs. Mary Siner, "a years of age, was
found hanging under the kitchen stairs at her
residence in Philadelphia, Sunday morning
She committed suicide while laboring under
morbid apprehensioas concerning her hus-
bands business affairs.
"A verdict of accidental death was given
by coroners jury on Sunday, in the case of
James Tobin, who died at Fort Hamlin, New
York, on Wednesday, from the effects of car
bolic acid, which he drank under the impress
sion that it was liquor.
"A little girl of three and half years old,
while playing at the top of an apartment
building in Chicago, got over the balusters
and tumbled down to the first floor, dis
lance of sixty feet, but broke no bones, and
indeed did not show an abrasion of the
skin.
Walter II. Shupe, editor and publisher of
Tile Advocate, New York, has gone into bank
ruptcy, liabilities $50, 5295S, assets $3.50. 1t
was published at so cents year, and had
number of subscribers in this county. 1t was
devoted to the Grange, Masonry, Odd Fellow
ship, and the Home.
"A thoughtful Chicagoan looked through
the books of the Comptroller of the city
found that that official had paid in ten years
$l15,S70 to Il certain charitable institution.
Then lie looked through the books of the in
stitution and found it had received from the
Comptroller during that period sri ,775
AT Jonas Beachey's farm, on Koyser's
Ridge. Garrett county, Md, last week, rat
tlcsnake pinned to the ground by one of the
men with forkcd stick, made n spring at
Robert Holman, who, in jumping back to es-
cape, fell against n sCythe, which cut cash
in his thigh, from which he bled to death.
Late Sunday afternoon, in New York,
~ l., Inl, Ma Will ln
intoxicated, attempted to murder his board
ing mistress, Fanny Clark. Being prevented
from carrying out his dosing by some of
the other boarders, he attempted suicide
by cutting the veins in his arm The knife
was finally taken from him and he was sent
to the hospital.
Last Saturday afternoon powder maya
zine at Pottsville, Pa, was struck by lightning
which exploded 100 kegs of powder The
flying fragments of the building made II gap
in the woods near by fifty feet wide A pic
mic party was assembled in the woods
by, and number of persons were badly in
jured. Cattle in the vicinity were injured and
had to be killed, and windows were broken
and ceilings thrown down in Pottsvile. Loss
$4,000.
-Hadii Lola, of Serajevo, who heads the
present instruction in Bosnia, is a tunatical
DefVlSn. lie is SAID 10 DC the talleSt man IN
Bosnia, and always walks about in fantastic
and tattered attire, harefooted and, during the
Ramazan, half naked. His practice is to beg
aims, with which he feeds dogs around the
mosques. While rapt in a holy trance he
has murdered many Christians, but has never
been brought TO book and punished for his
crimes and malefactions.
After the body of John Tenneyck, the
murderer, hanged at Pittsfield, Mass, reached
Chester, it was exhibited for several hours in
the freight house of the Boston and Albany
railroad, at ten cents admission fee. The re-
ceipts amounted to $15. Two colored men,
one of them the father, in-law of the deceased,
had the body in charge. They said they were
forced to exhibit it by clamors of the crowd.
The Sheriff went to Chester to stop the ex-
hbition, but arrived too late, the party having
started for Blandford.
Pretty nice work. Cleopatras Needle,
with the girders and iron jacket, weighs 202
tons. A fortnight ago they got it into posi-.
ton upon the girders by its trunnons and
poised it so exactly that with his single
strength Mr. John Dixon made the apex de-
scribe an arc ofseyeral inches. The pivot on
which the immense mass is balanced is 81
feet inches from the lower end of the mon
ument A calculation made before they be-
gan TO raise it placed the theoretical centre
of gravity at the height of 81 feet inches.