The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-04-18
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, APRIL IS, 1879.
Condensed News.

Rev. DIR. Lay Episcopal bishop of Easton
is in st. Petersburg
"A chestnut tree was cut down near Rising
Sun, last week, measuring twenty-nine feet In
circumference.
Rev. Edward R. Ames, d. D., bishop OF
the NJ. E. Church, is seriously i'll at his residence
in Baltimore.
was elected mayor of Washington, N. j., by the
Democrats, on Tuesday
WIN. V. Cole farmer aged SIS years, living
in the town of Vantage, Sussex county, N j.,
hanged himself on tree on Friday night. FL
nancial embarrassment was the cause OF his sui
eide.
John H. Ford, 63 years of age, a resident of
Syracuse, N. Y, since 1929, committed suicide
by disemboweling himself with razor and then
cutting his throat. Cause, ill-health and de-
spondency
About the first of February last, Peter Smell,
of Milwaukee, allowed a small dog to lick
scratch on his nose. The man died Saturday
from what the doctors pronounce genuine by
drophoba.
Gen. Richard Taylor, the only son of Presi-
dent Zachary Taylor and brother-in-aw to JEFF
ferson Davis, died in New York, last week.
Gen. Taylor was a distinguished officer in the
Confederate army.
A cyclone struck Colinsville, Mo-, on Mon
day demolshing ten houses, running thirty
others and damaging seventy-tive residences and
business houses. little girl, Annie Reynolds,
was killed by falling house.
An attempt was made to assassnate the
Gar of Russia, on Monday. While taking his
walk, early in the morning, man named Skolotf
slipped from behind tree and fired at him four
times with revolver, without striking him.
The man was arrested, after wounding one of
his pursuers. .
james l.. humphrey, Reading (Vt.) hotel
keeper, on getting out of bed in the morning
10 hA4,,
his will, dressed himself as he desired to be bur-
led, and then reclined in an easy chair, with
pipe and bible, to prepare for death The as
tonishing part of the story is that he did die,
attack of heart disease carrying him Off
"A farmer named James Rector, residing near
Deep Creek Norfolk county, Va while plough
ing on Wednesday last in an old field that had
not been under cultivation for several years, I'M
earthed an iron chest containing several thous
and dollars in American gold coin of dates as far
back as 1890 The treasure is believed to have
been buried during the last war. Mr.. Rector is
a poor man, and the treasure is very acceptable.
On Wednesday, in Baltimore, Isaac D. James
was shot and killed In pistol encounter with
Denwood B. Kinds. Mr.. James daughter had
been wronged by young Kinds, and her brother,
VIM. X. NJ. James, last December, attacked
Kinds. Pistol shots were exchanged, both were
wounded but neither was seriously hurt Miss
James nervous system was so Frustrated by the
occurrence that she died in puerperal commissions.
Kinds left Baltimore, but recently returned
All this trouble and sorrow preyed upon the
mind of Miss Jamess father, who met Kinds and
young brother on the street, on Wednesday,
An encounter with pistols followed, in which
Mr.. James was struck with several balls, and
almost instantly killed, by Denwood Kinds, who
was wounded in the arm by Mr.. James. Kinds
young brother, Harry, who caught hold of Mr..
James, was also wounded by the accidental dis
charge of Mr.. James pistol Mr. James is about
80 years of age, and was an engineer on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad.