The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-06-06
The Egis and Intelligencer
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 6, 1879.
Condensed News.

The debt statement shows an increase IN u
public debt for May amounting to ST., S6O.2O
On Saturday last torpedo factory in We'
Chester county, near fremont, blew up.
man, boy and girl were killed.
Mrs. Edward Mccain dropped dead troi
heart disease as she was entering church
Worcester, Mass, Sunday night.
Mr. Kimmells bill to appropriate $500, OC
for the purchase of a site for the new Baltlmol
postoflice building passed the House on Monday
1t is reported that Miss Mildred Lee, daugl
Ter of Gen. Robert L. Lee, will soon be marie
TO II prominent English merchant oil birmlhg
ham.
AT Salt Lake, Utah, John Miles, a polygam
list, has been convicted and sentenced to pay $40
fine and be confined in the Nebraska penitentiar
five years.
Alexander Tarentinc, colorcd, was killed b.
the bursting of soda fountain which he wa
charging in Il store in Charlotte, N g., on satur
day morning.
The volcano at Mount Etna is in full erup
ton, and several villages are threatened with de
struction from the streams ottawa flowing dow
the western slope.
john Reuch, said to be the leader of the la
Dor riots at Cumbcrland, Md, in 1871 returned
to that place for the first time, last Thursday
and was arrested.
"A committee has been appointed from the
Washington County Agricultural Society to wait
at llagerstown next fall.
General James Shields, United States Scna
tor from Missouri, and gallant soldier in the
Mexican war and in the late civil war, died al
Ottumwa, Iowa, on Sunday night.
Saturday morning an explosion of c-damp
occurred in the Glcndon Collicry, Mahanoy City,
PENNSYLVANIA, instantly killing u boy named Jos.
Noalics and severely burning five Others.
--Easton, Md, was visited by a severe storm
on Wednesday last. The lightning struck Will
lOughby Fountains home near 1rappe, tearing
down his mantel piece and stunning himself and
wife.
-Ichabod Freeman, II farmer of Southport,
Chemung county, aged lifty-livcyears, committed
suicide Saturday by shooting himself through
the head. Ills mind was unsettled by an acct.
dent.
Carlos Belts, the son of q farmer living near
Mt. Clemens, Mich, took loaded revolver to
show a friend how another man killed himself.
His illustration led to funeral rs he shot him
self through the head.
Albert Dunn, aged Is, was drowned in Black
rivcrat Port Huron, Michigan. lie had Just saved
his youngest brother from n watcry grave, but
in getting out the brave little fellow lost his foot
ing and was himself drowned.
Joseph A Forrio, of New York, and his
wife Ellen, were poisoned Monday night by eat
ing lettuce upon which Paris green had been
sprinlled for the destruction of bugs. Timely
Thomas Barrett, while on his way home, was
badly beaten, by Thomas Callahan at Boone Hill,
near Scranton, Pa, on Saturday night. Barrett
after reaching home, got revolver, went back
and shot Callahan dead. The murderer is in Gus
tody.
jacob Slcimc, of Plattskill, Ulster county,
N Y, was crushed to death Friday, by a heavily
loaded stone wagon, whilcapplyng the brake as
the vehicle was going down asteep grade. He
was thrown to the ground, the front wheel pass
ing over his waist.
The salaries of the teachers of the public
schools of Queen Annc's county have just been
reduced Is per cent If the Queen Anne's peo
pie do not look out they will cripple their sys-
TEN, and secure third-ratc set of teachers
ChestcrtOrn Transcript.
p. p. Perry was killed by lightning at Ste
phcntown last Saturday night. During heavy
thunderstorm at Mechanicsvilc, Sunday after
noon, VIM. Pretnam, Il canal driver, was killed
by lightning. man named Collins was serious
ly injured by lightning at Castleton, n. Y, the
same afternoon.
In Bell county, Texas, on Saturday, Thomas
Loggins was shot dead by his cousin, Daniel Nor
ris, owing to family fcud. On Thursday, n man
named Graham, was assassinated in Cameron, and
his body was dragged eight miles to a thicket.-
William Hurby, the supposed assassin, is being
pursued by posse.
The body of an old man, dccomposcd beyond
identification, was found in the woods near Bal
timore ON Friday afternoon. An empty laudanum
vial lay beside the body. From articles found in
the pockets, the dead man was recognized as Cap
tain w. W. huntington, who disappeared from
Baltimore on the 18th of May.
The farmers of Rockingham county, n. H.,
are complaining bitterly Of the ravages of new
grub worm about two inches long and onethird
of an inch in diameter. On single farm in
Stratham millions have been uncarthcd in plow
ing having destroyed all kinds of vegetation,
leaving the land Il barren waste.
"A dangerous maniac named Corbctt was ar
rested in New Orleans on Thursday, because lie
threatened to take the lives of some of the prn-
cipal digntarics of the Roman Catholic Church
lie claims to he the brother of an insane man
who suffered deathin Australia for attempting to
take the life of the Duke of Edinburgh.
"A reciprocal tickling took place in Jersey
City on Monday As Patrick Sheridan was
amusing himself by tickling the hind legs of u
mule the animal playiully rccprocated atten-
tions by kicking his playmate behind the left
ear, breaking his jaw bone and sending five of
his teeth skipping across the stable.
In the Maryland Episcopal Convention,
which met last week, canon TO prevent ritual
ism not authorized by the prayer book and
rubrics was discussed at length. A motion to
submit the new canon To II special committee of
four clcrgymcn and three laymcn, to report at
the next diocesan convention, was defeated, on
Friday, by vote of 81 TO 80, the clergy alone
voting. After the transaction of routine bust
ness the convention adjourned until next year.
"A family offouradults in Northbrdgc, Mass
have drank enormously of cider since last fall
the quantity being estimated at forty to fifty
barrels They had been unable to sell it at a fair
price, and so they used it themselves. During
the spring and latter part of the winter it was
very hard and the drinkers were intoxicated
much of the time. Six weeks ago the mother
died in fit, and later one of the sons died in a
similar way, while the father has the dclirum
trcmens.
Edward Alexander Guy, of Cincinnati, was
in 1862 posscssor of $40, 600. He was well cdu-
Gated, intelligent young man, and particularly
pious Convinced that the Scriptural text, "Sel
all ye have and give aims, was binding injunc-
ton, he began TO dispose ofhis property and give
the money to the poor He bestowed the gifts
slowly and carefully, and it was not until 1870
that the last dollar was gone. He is now re-
ligious missionary in Cincinnati, penniless, but
completely absorbed in his work.
Terrible storms of wind and rain visited Dor
tions of Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri on Fri
day afternoon and night, doing immense damage
topropcrty and causing serious loss of life The
town of Irving, in Southern Nebraska, was al
most entirely demolished; Is of its inhabitants
were killed and 80 or 40 injured. Near Manhat-
tan, Kansas, woman and her child were killed.
Near Lees Summit, Mo-, several dwellings were
demolished and man named Harris, his wife
and one child, were killed. Near Dclphos, Kan
sas, 10 dead bodies have been found.
TIE POPULAR SCIENCE MoNTHLY.-Tho June
number of The PO1,Laf Science Monthly has tempt
ing table of contents which thoroughly sustains
its well-established character. The claim of this
magazine to the attention of intelligent readers is
unique among American periodicals, as it repre-
sents not so much the technicalities of pure sci