The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-09-26
The Egis and Intelligencer.
Condensed News.


The yellow fever is on the decrease in Mem
phis. F
More than three million dollars in gold ar
rived at New York, on Tuesday, from Europe,
Fred Douglas, the colorcd orator, is an
nouncCd to speak in CentrcYille, Md, on the I'd
of October,
During the year ending June So 1879, 1876
postotlices were established and 1919 discontin-
ued. The total number of postoilices is 0,S72.
The money drawer in the store of j. w. Lee
~ Co., at Towsontown, was robbed of small
amount of cash, before daylight Saturday morn
ing.
An urgent call upon the Treasury clerks for
contributions to help the Republicans out In
Ohio is circulated by Secretary Sherman's per-
mission.
-Rowell, Weston and ten other pedestrians
are engaged in a walking race at New York.
Rewell was ahead Mt last accounts, and will pro-
badly win the race.
Edward Meredith, a son of Judge Meredith,
of Richmond, Va, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at Kansas City Saturday. Financial
troubles and sickness caused the act.
Lille Crer, colored, died in Baltimore on
Monday, at the age of 1902 years Jane Gilbert
also coored has been discovered by reporter
living and in fair health, at the age of 1902 years.
The safe of Mr.. Bundle, in his store at MARI
boro Nd, was blown open by burglars, on Sun
postage stamps placed there by the postmaster
for sate-keeping
Cohen and Conway, the Boston detectives
who conspired to rob and fire railroad depot
tor the purpose of shifting the crime on some
one else, and other delivish schemes, have been
sent to prison for four years each.
Tuesday, September 23d, was the anniversa-
ry of the great naval victory, one hundred years
ago, gained by Admiral Paul Jones with the
Bon Homme Richard, over the British ship Ser
apis, off Marlborough Head.
Another outbreak has occurred in Cuba and
some fighting has taken place. A new feature is
an instruction among the slaves. A number of
slave owners have set their slaves free, in prefer
ence to running the risk of being murdered by
them.
Daniel Drew, the wcll-known financier, of
New York. who began life without education, as
a cattle drover, and became q railway magnatc
and millionaire, died on the 18th Instant
Through a series of stock complications his vast
wealth melted rapidly away and he died bank
rupt.
AT Porter Rock, Wis, on Wednesday, George
Barringarten, a farm hand, murdered the five
year old son of his employer, Alexander White,
and fled on horse belonging to Mr.. White. The
little fellow body was found under manger
in the sheep barn with his throat cut from ear
to ear He was entirely disemboweed, his arms
tied behind him and feet bound.
The Cheyenne Leader says that the question
of dividing Dakota into two or three territories
is being agitated with degree of vim and per-
sistency that promises success. Several plans of
division are suggested. Dakota at present con-
tans an area as large as three times that of the
State of Iowa, and no region of country is filling
up or developing more rapidly.
John Seigle was driving home from Salem
MINI. highwayman jumped into the wagon
from the rear, pointed pistol, and said: Cup
withyour arms" Segle held up his arms obed-
tlu hpt inn 1N lyal xryit oil
his might hitting the robber in the stomach, and
and tumbling him heels over head to the ground,
where he lay inscnsiblc until the farmer escaped.
AT Enterprise, w. Va, on the 10Th, a negro
named Thompson, and white man named Joe
Moore, quarrcled while drinking. Moore threw
the negro to the ground and began beating him,
when the negro stabbed Moore with pocket
knife, causing death in twenty minutes. Thomp-
son escaped, but was captured by mob and
hanged. He is said to have been a desperate out
law.
AT Stratford, Conn, Wednesday morning,
Rev. ID. l.. Lounsbury, an Episcopal clergyman,
was shot by his wife with pistol us he lay asleep
and instantly killed. Their relations were en-
ccptionally pleasant but Mrs Lounsbury was
subject to attacks of rush of blood to the head.
She says she remembers having one of them in
the night and that her husband arose and got her
drink of water, but she remembers nothing
more.
"A negro who died recently at Oxford, N. c.,
was famous for his great strength. lie could
lift barrel containing thirty or forty gallons
and drink from the bung, could throw an ordi-
nary anvil twenty-five yards, and could pull four
men with handspike at one time. He once
killed a deer with rock, overlook and de-
spatchcd bear with an axe, and caught and
hamstrung fcrocious bull.
--Britton Dunn was shot dead by four bullets
while pursuing horse thieves near Johnson's
Junction, Ky. Eleven out of twelve prisoners
in the Chillicothe (Ohio) Jail escaped Monday
night. The other one said he did not want to 90.
They sawed through corridor during the day,
aud at night, when the jailor went to sec if they
had retired to their cells, knocked him down and
escaped through the hole. Six have been recap
turcd.
ing with powder, at Birmingham, Pa. One of
them Seymour Stewart, aged IL years, had a
quarter of pound ofpowder in his pocket In
lighting some which he had placed on stump,
he held his pocket over the blaze of q match,
and poured the powder out in Il stream. An OK
plOson followed, which set fire to his clothing.
He started to run home, and when he reached it,
sank down naked mass of burned and charred
flesh. He cannot recover.
Abraham Ireland, q negro 8S years old, who
has worked for 40 years in q tan yard at West
minister, Md, has been turning white for the last
% years, and his entire face and head, his body
to the waist, his arms, hands and feet are white,
with the exception of q few dark spots or
treckles on his face, Some physicians think 1t
a species of erysipelas. Other persons think the
change has been caused by the use of acids in
the tan yard. His children are as black as char
coal, and show no signs of turning white.