The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-03-07

Washington county, Md, is TO have new
SIS, 600 almshouse.
Nebraska farmers have been blowing and
sowing for three weeks.
When a Piuc Indian doctor has failed to
cure five patients he is put to death.
-Cristicld, where local option is supposed to
prevail, has six liquor saloons in full blast.
The President sent to the Senate last Thurs
day, the nomination of Sarah Feast as postmis-
tress of Towsontown.
AT Lynchburg, Va, one day last week,
girl 10 years old fell into well 60 feet deep, and
yet escaped without serious injury.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad paws only
twenty-five cents apiece for railroad ties, and
some of them are being hauled distance of fif-
teen miles.
The Marlborough Gazette says that the
wheat crop in Prince Georges county looks bad
ly, that much of the wheat has been winterkill-
cd and a short crop will be the result.
Two men quarrclled in Pine Bluff Ark,
while playing faro, and one fired pistol at the
other, who would have been killed if the bullet
had not been stopped by the ivory chips that he
had thrust into his waistcoat pocket.
In Norway horse can help himselfto water
as he does to hay, from trough kept full of it,
and accordingly drinks like human being at
meals-a sip, then some hay, and so on. Brok-
cn-windcd horses are almost unknown in Nor
way.
james DAILY, of Marathon, Mich, told his
wife to go out and cut some wood. She refused.
lie tried to whip her. but failed ignoby She
threw him down, tied his hands behind him, and
drove him before her to Justices court, three
miles away.
Ira Cook was to have been married in Nor
Hampton, Mass, at the age of sixty-six. He
started for the town clerks office to get IL
ecnse, and doubtless was excited and nervous, for
he fell while climbing over fence, caught one
foot between the pickets and HING head down
ward until he was dead.
Miss Chloe Lanllton, of New Hartford,
Conn, has just completed the collection of one
million cancelled postage stamps. She began in
October last, gentleman in Philadelphia hay
ing offered her 500 if she would get the stamps
for him, the money to be used in getting for her
a life residence in a home for the friendess.
C. G. Curtis, clerk in a shoe store at Rich
mond, Va, was shot and killed, last Monday, by
John E. Poindexter, for an alleged insult to a
young lady to whom Poindexer was engaged to
be married Poindexter first horse-whipped
Curtis, who was unarmed, and when the latter
subsequently demanded an apology for the beat
ing, PoindeXter killed him.
Monticello, Va, the home of Thomas JEFF
ferson is to be sold at public auction the Goth
of March. The tomb of Jefferson is in a small
burial ground within q few yards of the house.
of Capt Levy of New York. During the war il
was confiscated by the Confederates. 1t has
been in litigation ever since, and is to be sold by
order of court.
With alum in his bread, colorng matter in
his butter sand in his sugar, and poison in his
liquor, the average man has hard work in get.
ting food and drink that will not make him O
skeleton nor kill him. Now comes the adulter
alton of coffee with date stones, which has beer
discovered in England. Several tons of 'melilo
tine coffee" compound of coffee, chiccory, ant
date stones, were seized in Manchester recently