The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-08-01
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, AUGUST 1, 1879.
Condensed News.

home.
1t is rather singular that while we should BE-
suffering from drouth the English farmers should
be praying for clear weather.
MARYLAND holds the tomato -canning cham
pionship, having put up 6,S4OOOO cans III 1878.
New Jersey stands second.
A young girl tainted at Georgetown, Del,
the other day during the marriage ceremony, but
in a short time she recovered sufficiently to have
The knot tied.
"A passenger train ran OIL the track at Havana,
Ohio, on Sunday, killing the engineer and lire
man, and slightly injurng tramp who was
stealing ride.
Mrs. George Hutton and child were struck
by lightning near Brockville, Ontario, last Sun
day. The mother was fatally injured and the
child instantly killed.
One death from yellow fever occurred at New
Orleans on Monday, and there were several sus-
picious cases. AS consequence there has been
sudden exodus from the place.
"A colored man killed-a rattlesnake recently
on the farm of Mr.. Joshua Hawkins, in the sec
ond district, Anne Arundel county. The snake
measured six feet and had four rattles.
The other day three tramps broke into a
freight warehouse at Litiz, Lancaster county, and
stole u keg of beer. They were caught, stripped
ndthrashed soundly with stout switches. Their
cries for mercy were pitiful.
AT Dover Tenn, ON Saturday, William Bur-
chel, recently married to q widow Yates, shot
his wife and stepdaughter, inticting fatal
wounds, and then committed suicide Its sup
posed he was insane.
The members of the family of Captain Daniel
Dodson, i'll Petersburg, Va, in number, were
made seriously ill Saturday evening, by eating
ice cream. 1t is supposed the cream was tainted
by n brass vessel in which it was prepared.
The Cambridge News states that it is said
Major VIM. E. Stewart, of Easton, will be an in
dependent candidate for States Attorney of Tai
bot county His brother Alfred is an independ-
cnt candidate for States Attorney in Dorchester
county.
Thomas Fields, fourth son of Hon. Daniel
Fields, of Caroline county, was recently thrown
from vehicle by his horse running away. He
suffered fracture of both bones of the forearm,
Il dislOcation of the left shoulder and other in
juries.
"A spark from steam threshcr last week
ignited some loose straw on the farm of Mr..
Robert Ditfenderfer, on the Trappc road Talbot
county, and both the thresher and 125 bushels of
wheat were consumed before the flames were ex-
tingushed.
A telegram from Petersburg, Va, says the
corn and tobacco crops of that section which
threatened to become total failure from drouth,
have been greatly refreshed by cOpious showers.
The forest fires have also been cXtmguished by
the rain.
An eager couple, who had neglected to get II
license applied to Il clergyman at Rising Sun,
Cecil county, to be married, last week, and the
reverend gentleman crossed over the State line
with them and performed the ceremony in Penn
sylvania by the roadside.
AT Salisbury, on the goth inst, colored
girls clothing caught fire from the explosion of
coal oil-lamp, but she ran nimbly to the river,
plunged in and cXtinguishcd the flames. But
she made narrow escape from drowning, and
was also severely burned.
EARLY Monday morning Mrs Louisa Jones,
of Annapolis, attempted to eXtingush coal oil
lamp by blowing down the chimney, when it eX
ploded, setting her clothing on fire. Her hus-
band was also severely burned in endeayoring to
put out the flames. Mrs. Jones is not expected
to recover.
"A malignant type of malarial fever has made
its appearance at Wilbur just outside of the
limits of Kingston, N. Y. After few days it
seems to go to the brain, when death occurs in n
short time Two cases have already proved fatal.
The disease is rapidly spreading, there being now
about a dozen cases.
On Saturday afternoon II large barn on the
farm of Charles Dougherty, near Abortion fac
tory, Baltimore county, was struck by lightning,
set on fire and destroyed with its contents
These consisted of 1000 bushels of wheat so
tons of hay, a steam threshcr, two cows, Il ,rness
wagons, and farming implements.
AT Hughesville, Charles county, Md, last
Saturday. John s. Acton deliberately shot and
killed John ii. Dixon, with q gun. Acton was
tenant on DiXon's farm and is said to have been
worthy Woodworking man. His daughter, it
is alleged, had been seduced by Dixon Both
Last Saturday, at Gainesville, Baltimore
county, the house Of VIM. Roussey, opposite st.
Tmothy's church, was struck by lightning
The house was not set on fire but daughter of
Mr.. Roussey was rendered insensible from the
shock. She afterwards recovered. A small
frame kitchen in the rear of the house was de-
molshed.
Last Sunday near Orleans Cross Roads, West
Virginia, humber of persons were walking on
the railroad track, on their way to church. In
cndcavoring to avoid q train they did not notice
one coming from the opposite direction, and
were run over. Mr.. Frederick Linburg was kill
ed, and his wife and q little girl were seriously
injured.
-Grasshoppers ale ravaging the crops on
Howland's Island, Cayuga County, N. Y Three
hundred tons of hay, worth about $1,000, have
been destroyed on Mr.. Tyler's farm, and the in
sects have attacked all grains and field crops and
gardens. There is prospect that the grasshop-
per plague will atiict this country badly as it
has the West.
Conrad Houser, farmer of Suffolk county,
Long Island, had quarrel on Friday with Henry
Luchner, one of his farm hands. A fight ensued,
when Houser attempted to drive Luchner off
his place with pitchfork. Luchner hurled o
stone at Houser, which fractured his skull, caus
ing death. Houser leaves a wife and several
children.
-Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, the authors of
Pinaforc, propose to give the exclusive control
of their new opera in this country to Mr.. John
Il. Ford, of Baltimore. OF all the operatic
managers in this country who made money by
exhibiting Pinafore, Mr.. Ford was the only one
who paid the authors anything, having volunta
rily sent them $780,
"A destructive flood in the Allegheny river
swept over part of Butler and Allegheny coun-
Ties, Pa, ON Saturday morning A great MANY
houses and $50 900 worth ofpropcrty weredestroy
ed at Harms City, and at Pctroia fifty houses,
principally in the business, quarter of the town
were swept away. Many narrow escapes for life
were made, and few lives were lost.
In Baltimore, about halfpast one o'clock
Wednesday morning. Miss Laura M. Raymond,
an old lady 81 years of age, fell from third
story window to the pavement below, and was
killed. She was subject to attacks of nervous
ness and it is not known whether she sprang up
in her sleep and jumped from the window, or
whether she lost her balance while standnd at
the window for air or leaning out
The clause in the new Massachusetts, LIQUOR
law requiring every liquor dealerto get the writ
ten consent of the owner of the premises is n
source of great trouble in the trade because
many real estate owners, while willing to take
the money of such tenants refuse to commit
themselves on paper. Some of the most pros
porous places in Boston are to be closed.
On Thursday, July oath, the large saw and
planning mill of +. e. jackson u Co., at Sails
bury, Nd, caught fire and was destroyed, togcth-
or with the granary, containing 1000 bushels of
wheat and other grain. A large quantity of
shingles, 100000 feet of dressed flooring and
other lumber were also destroyed. The entire
town would probably have been destroyed, but
for a change in the direction of the wind.
Daniel Leahy, aged seventeen years, a brake
man on the Morris and Essex Railroad, died at
St. Mary's Hospital, IIoboken, on Monday, from
injuries received on Saturday He tried to Jump
on platform car as it was passing the station,
but slipped and fell under the wheels of the car,
which cut off both his legs at the knee. Leahy,
his legs and thrust it inside leg of his pam
falcons
Last Saturday morning James Defoor and
his wife, an aged couple living near Atlanta, Ca,