The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-05-31
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BEL AIR, FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1873.
THE NEWS.

"A collection of 112 oil paintings were re
Gently sold in Paris for 1911 1926.
Thirteen houses at st. Augustine, Fla.
were destroyed by fire last Saturday.
The steamers California and Columbus
purchased by Russian agents, are being rapid
ly fitted for cruisers.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has announ
ced himself as candidate for reelection tC
Congress. Few die and none resign.
Mrs. Falls and two children were burned
to death on Saturday in Merriwe Gather coun.
ty, Ga, by the explosion of n kerosene lamp
Jury trials are to be abolished in Russia
in cases of attempted assassinatons for poit-
ical motives and acts of violence against Off
cials.
Fifteen hundred striking miners and
their families, at Belleville ILL.,, are on the
verge of starvation. They refuse to work at
the prices offered them.
David Carson, well-known citizen of
Baltimore, died on Monday morning, in the
5Sth year of his age. He was the Reform
candidate for mayor in 1878.
john p Balderston, Il minister of the
Society of Friends, died at his home near
Colora Cecil county, Nd, on Monday, in the
list year of his age.
affirmed The decision of the lower Court in
the case of Blasius Pistorius, under sentence
of death for murder.
-Advices from China report fearful tor
nado over the suburbs of Canton, entailing
great DIES ruction of life and property 1t is
said that thousands of lives were lost
AT the Pimico races, on Thursday of last
week, G.. L. Lorillard's three-year old colt
Danger ran mile in 424 on slow track,
being the fastest time ever made atPimlico
The county tax rate in Calvert county,
Md, for 1878, has been fixed at " cents on
the 500, (ncluding II county school tax of
~ cents) against so cents on the 500 in
1877.
On Sunday evening" at South Sanford,
Maine, Benjamin Pierce, aged sixty, shot
his son-in-aw, Huston, intlicting q serious
wound in the breast. Both had been drink
ing.
On Sunday afternoon, near Cumberland,
Nd, n car loaded with kerosene jumped the
track and was wrecked The oil ignited and
burned up four other cars, in all $50 barrels
of oil.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the well-known
Washington banker, has presented to the
State OF Virginia his superb painting, by the
eminent artist, Laml, of the Storming of
Yorktown.
VIM. Brown, brakeman on the Lake
Shore railroad, was shot and instantly killed
at Jefferson, Ohio, Saturday by boy named
Gibbs, aged IA, in quarrel at the house of
Gibbs.
AS a woman's hotel "Stewart's Home"
in New York, has proved complete failure,
and it is quite probable the establishment
will be opened as public resort, including a
bar for the sale of liquors
Last Friday, at Hodges Park, H., Miss
Edwards, aged sixteen years, was shot and
instantly killed by an unknown negro, who
was caught trying 10 escape. 1t seems to
have been a deliberate murder.
George w. Bishop, lately judge of the
Orphans Court of Baltimore city, has been
arrested on the charge of forging an endorse
ment on bond by the city to Frederick
Ketchum, Jr., and negotiating the same.
VIM. Day, a boy employed in the family
of Mr. Hamilton, near Taylorsville, H.,
murdered Mrs. Hamilton with an axe while
she was lying upon a sofa asleep. He COM
mitted the deed in revenge for chastisement
she had given him.
Gov. Colqutt, of Georgia, has committed
the death sentence of Mrs. Kate Southern, of
Pickens county, to Imprisonment in the pen
itentiary for ten years. Mrs. Southern killed
Narcissa Cowart, her rival, at a dance in
Pickens county.
George Watson and Alfred Rankin, who
lodged ut Germans Hotel, New York, Satur-
day night, arose Sunday morning, and both
drank by mistake from a bottle of carbolic
acid. One of them died soon afterward, and
the other is not expected to recover.
The health of Pope Leo declines daily,
but unless the physicians insist upon his de-
parture it will be difficult to induce him to
go to the country. The FanfuIa says "the
Pope will before long leave the Vatican for
other than political reasons"
james G. Taylor, well-to-do farmer, of
Clarksburg, W. Va, has been arrested for
outraging his daughter, beautiful girl of II,
the girl and his wife both testifying against
him. He was arrested and is now in Jail UNI
der heavy guard, as the people threaten to
lynch him.
Henry Roberts, colored, was hanged last
Friday at Shelby, N, c., for the murder of
day Jesse Walker, colored, was hanged at
Farmerville, Ls., for the murder of Violet
Simmons, February 49, Both men protested
their innocence on the scaffold.
Miss Eta Smith, of Fremont Ohio, has
merous attempts to poison the Slime family
father, mother and ten-year-old son-in that
place, by means of arsenic. She was a teach
er in one of he public schools, and is said to
have been recently madly infatuated with
Mr.. Slime.
The sum OF $50, 900 has been received by
the treasurer of the Presbyterian Home for the
Aged, In New York, from some unknown
DencfactOr, who wishes the money to be APP
piled for the benefit of that institution The
same person is believed to have given
short time since large sum of money to the
Presbyterian Hospital.
Two miners named Davis and Summer
field, while at work in a coal mine at Charles
ton, West Virginia, quarrelled about piece
of chalk, and presently Summerfield threw
stone at the other man, when Davis drew
large knife and hurled it at Summerfeld.-
1t struck him in the head and buried itself
deep in the brain, killing him instantly.
On Sunday morning in Philadelphia,
James Smullen, living with his son William,
who is married, went home intoxicated An
alteration ensued between father and son,
when the former drew penknife and stabbed
his son in the abdomen, inflicting wound
which will result fatally. The father gave
himself into the custody of the police author
ities
On Sunday at Arlington, near Mendoza,
ILL.,, Sam Carney, in revenge for refusal of
his attentions to Miss Cullenbine, made his
way into her room and cut her throat with
razor and shot her with q revolver. In leav-
ing the house he encountered the father and
mother, both of whom he dangerously
wounded. He then cut his own throat. The
young lady lived but few moments, and the
assassin did not long survive
The bill introduced into Congress for the
purpose of regulating the transportation of
cattle, and over which there has been SO much
agitation at this session, has been reported