The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-10-25
THE EGZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER s5, 1873
Condensed News.

England procures nearly half her whea
in this country.
All the officers of the exploded bank o
Glasgow have been arrested
Mccormick self binder received a gran,
prize at the Paris Exposition.
The Virginia bell-punch yielded the Stat
last year revenue of $S50,000
Augustus Schel has been nominated fo
Mayor of New York by Tammany.
1t is estimated that there have been 30,
600 cases of yellow fever in the South anC
10000 deaths,
Emperor William of germany has given
$500 to the relief the yellow fever sufferers
of the South.
The official election returns from Ohio
show the election of eleven Democrats and
nine Republican Congressman
Second growth straw berries, from Ulster
county, N. Y. have been selling in New York
city markets for 81 to $3.50 quart.
President Hayes was entertained on Sun.
day Ivy Mr.. Samuel M. Shoemaker. at his
country residence, in Baltimore county
Adam G. Erdman, n wel-known gar
dener, living on the Bel Air road, near Balti
more city, died on Saturday, in his list year.
Jefferson Davis, Jr., son of ex-President
Davis of the Southern Confederacy died of
yellow fever, at Memphis, one day last week
AN old man named Schafer, and his two
sons were shot and killed by Indians while
herding their cattle in Nebraska, last Satur-
day.
On Thursday last, in Bryan county, Ca,
Houston Demere shot and killed negro who
was under arrest for attempting to outrage
his wife,
FIyt
The breeding and training stables of G.
w. Ferguson at Marshalltown, Iowa. were
burned last Saturday night, with 90 trotting
horses, including the celebrated stallion, Ed
win Forrest.
"A man named Reuter- was fatally burned
at Cincinnati, while rescuing his little
daughter from the second story of his burn
ing house. The child was burned about the
head and face.
In a railway collision at Pontypridd
England, on Sunday, twelve persons were
killed and over twenty seriously wounded
Several have had limbs amputated, and more
are expected to die.
Three Kansas sherffs with large posse
attacked the rendezvous of a gang of train
robbers 200 miles west of Kansas city, Satur-
day morning, capturing Mike Rourke, the
chief, and dispensing the gang.
Last Saturday night George r. Collins,
AZ years old, produce dealer, committed
suicide at his residence in Cough street, Bal
timore, by hanging himself in his wood shed.
1t is believed he was temporarily insane.
AT the wedding feast oil Willis Peele and
Alice Burdge at Azalia, Ind on Thursday
night ten of the party were poisoned by par
taking of food in which strychnine had been
placed. Several of the party came near dy-
ing.
-Fifty-seven faithful pastors of churches
in-the South, who remained to minister con-
ISOLATION to the sick and dying, have fallen vic.
Tins to the yellow fever. OF these twenty
five were Catholics, thirty-one were Protes.
tants, and one Jewish rabbi
Two Centrevile families named Glow
and Hayes, are raising money with which to
pay the expenses of a lawyer, whom they
will send to England that he may hunt up
fortune supposed to have been left lying
around loose by their ancestors there.
The venerable Admiral Pauding died on
Sunday, at Huntington, Long Island, in the
eighty-frst year of his age. He was the son
ofJohn Pauldng, one of the captors of Ma.
!jor Andre, and the last surviving officer that
participated in the battle of Lake Cham
plain.
A panic created by false alarm of fire
ensued in crowded colored Baptist church,
in Lynchburg, Va, one night last week, and
in the efforts of the congregation to escape
eight or ten We're killed outright four others
fatally injured, besides large number
wounded many of whom will die
On the 1st inst, II negro instruction
broke out on the Danish West India Island
of st. CroiX. The town of West End and
nearly sixty valuable estates were burned
The rioters killed and horribly mutiated
several persons. They were charged upon by
the soldiers and upwards of 200 of them kill.
ed. The trouble was brought about by OPP
pressye labor acts.
George T. Nelson, of Kent county, was
instantly killed by the accidental discharge
Of his gun, while climbing over a fence to
shoot at a hawk. His remains were taken
to his parents residence, and his mother, af
ter taking look ut his lteless form, said
she felt sick and would go and lie down.
She did so, and in ten minutes was also q
corpse. The sudden shock was too great for
her 10 bear.
A number of Americans have received
the decoration of the Legion of Honor
Among them were VIM, W. Story, the sculp-
tor; Thomas A. Edison, inventor of the
phonograph; Elisha Gray, inventor of the
telephone; Charles A. Tiffany, manufacturer
of silver-ware; J. A. Bridgman, artist. and
others. Cyrus II. Mccormick and Walter
A. Wood, the reaper and mower manufactur-
ers, were also made officers in the legion.
Last Sunday morning Mrs Fenton, who
lives with her son on a farm near Elkton,
discovered John Cooper, colored man,
secreted in her wardrobe. She gave the
alarm and the fellow was captured. He con-
fessed that his object was plumber, and hand.
cd over a small sum of money he had taken
from MIR. Fentons vest pocket. He also
confessed having started \ fire in some straw
near the barn, which fortunately did no dam
age.
If you cannot take the baby to the country