The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-07
THE sgGZ.S.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JUNE Z, 1873.
THE NEWS.

Tile NEWS.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is going to
California to deliver ten lectures for $4,000.
The steamship Idaho went ashore in the
fog, on the coast of Ireland, last Saturday
night. All on board were saved.
Aaron Smith, of Cenlrevle Md, four
brothers and three sisters, have fallen heir to
an estate in Australia valued two millions of
dollars.
John II. Pierce, colored, who attempted
to kill his wife and himself at Hagerstown,
several weeks ago, died in Jail last Sunday
morning, from his wounds and grief.
AT Bowling Green, Ky, last Friday,
Henry Robinson, colored, was hanged for
numbering Eliza Ray, also colored, because
she refused to marry him.
"A terrible cyclone passed over Rich
mond, Mo, last Saturday. Over one hun.
dred houses were totally destroyed and the
loss will reach quarter. OF million dol
lars. Fifteen persons are known 10 have
been killed.
On Sunday tie wife of Major John W.
Mcdonald chief clerk of the Senate died
suddenly at Washington, from grief, upon
being told that her husband, who was i'll,
could not recover. Major Mcdonald died on
Wednesday.
Constable e. ID. Whittle and Dennis
Fenton, II contractor on the Gunpowder
Water Works, had a lively pistol practice at
each other in Towsontown, last Sunday
morning. Several shots were fired, but neith-
er was hurt. Both were arrested and released
on bail.
EARLY Monday morning, young colored
girl in Philadelphia saw burglar enter a
neighboring house through II window, and
went to alarm the family. The burglar
started to run, but she grasped his coat-tail
and held him until an officer came and az
rested the fellow.
AT Alama, Fountain county, Ind, last
Thursday night, while serenade was being
given to newly married couple named Sow
ers, the bride was shot and instantly killed by
apaper wad fired from musket in the hands
ofone of the serenaders. Several of the party
have been arrested.
"A man named Caldwell, on Monday last
killed his wife, three of his children and his
wile's sister at his home near Americas, Geor-
gia. He made three attempts at suicide before
etfecting his object by throwing himself from
the roof of the gin house. A smaller child
ran under the house to escape injury.
The German iron clad Grand Elector
was sunk by collision with the Kaiser Will
helm, in the British channel, last Friday
morning. She sank in five minutes after she
was struck, and her boilers exploded as she
went down. Her officers and crew number
ed 500 men, of whom 300 were lost. The
weather was bright and the sea calm when
the. accident occurred.
On Sunday morning, Elijah Gore, resid
ing near Pikesville, Baltimore county, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head with double barreed shot gun. He
was in his SD year, in good circumstances,
and leaves wife and three children. 1t is
supposed his mind became impaired through
disappointment at not being able to purchase
portion of the farm on which he was ten
ant.
A probably fatal encounter occurred on
Sunday night at what is known as the ''All- |
Night Church" in. Delaware, between two
married colored women. The two women
in open meeting carried on most terrible
struggle for short time, until Mrs. Thomas,
whipping out razor, gashed the face, head,
and neck of her opponent, inflicting wounds
that will probably cause her death. The
cause of the fight was jealousy.
1t is reported that the Philadelphia, Will |
mington & Baltimore Railroad Company
have purchased the property known as the
"Happy Valley picnic grounds" near Port
Deposit, where large dancing pavilion had
been erected by the late Col, j. j. Heckart,
and which, for many summers, had been a
notable place of resort for the devotees of
Terpschore. 1T is the intention of the COM
pany to remodel the building and embellish
and improve the grounds, and make it in
every way u very attractive place to which
excursions from Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Wilmington and other places can resort to
spend u pleasant day during the summer
months-Ceca Wing.
The body of John Scott Harrison, a son
Of the late President Harrison, was stolen
from the family vault at North Bend, Ind,
and afterwards found by his grieving rela-
tives hung by the neck in n pit in a medical
college at Cincinnati, Ohio. The faculty of
the college state that they were ignorant of
the robbing of the grave. His son, Gen,
Benjamin Harrison, publishes card in which |
he states that the body had laid on the dis
secling table; that his fathers long white
beard had been shorn from his face, and an
incision made in his neck. Gen Harrison
was the Republican candidate for Governor
of Indiana, against Blue Jeans Williams, in
1876. The story is a horrible one.
Last Friday night two men came to the |
house of Mrs. Brecky Baldwin, near Taze-
well Court House. Va, and asked her to give
them some silver in change FOR notes. She |
complied and they left, but returned, broke
open her bed room door and demanded her
pocket book. She deliberately took it from
her dress pocket and threw it in the fire.
One of the men stopped to pick it up and as
he did so she dashed out his brains with an
axe. The other tramp then drew n knife and
stabbed her in the breast, but not before she
nearly severed his right arm from the should
er with the axe. He fled, and his dead body
was found the next morning two miles from
the place. A young white man came the
next morning and found Mrs. Baldwin dying.
She told her story and died in two hours.