The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-03
BEL AIR, ERIDAY, JAN. 8, 1879.
Condensed News.

.t4asN Tic
he first cargo of American wheat ha
at Barcelona, Spain. 1t brough
1876 q bushel.
srty thousand persons are said tc
I'D of small pox in Brazil, during thu
bf November.
scarlet fever is said to be raging il
brk There were 1870 deaths from i
TX aud 100 the week previous.
=, Logan, aged 70, native of Yorl
& died suddenly at Shawneetown
18th of December
.e on his way TO Marion, one day
PIX, a young man killed with ont
( .<sssS ]. OF two tirds but seven rabbits.
Gov. Carroll did not receive callers OIL
New Years day, i'm consequence of thu
death of MIR. r. b. Bayard, a near relative.
AT La Sale, Illinois, James Young, {
boy IA years DID, fell a distance $50 feet in
Union coal shaft on Tuesday, and was killed
Three men at work in dynamite man
ulactory, near White Hall, N. j., were blown
to atoms by an explosion of nitro-glycerine
last Saturday.
An infant child of Mr.. John Peel, of Bay
onne, N. j., died from the effects of scalds re
ceived on Monday by falling into tub o
boiling water.
Andrew Woods, notorious outlaw, wa:
shot and killed near Florence, s, c., Satur'
day, whilst attempting to escape from party
who had him under arrest.
- Blaine Republicans say that the proba
bilities areyfhat Garcelon, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, will be elected by
the Legislature.
Burglars entered the dwelling of Mr.. and
Mrs. Luke Fleet, of Mineola, l.. l.. chloro.
formed them aud stole $4,000 worth Of
jewery.
w. S. McCauley, Adjutaut-G General OIL
the State of Delaware, and a prominent
member of the bar, died at his home in VIII.
mington, on Monday evening.
On Christmas eve, an infant daughter OF
Uriah Carr, living near Randallstown, Balli-
more county, fell into the fire and Was SO
severely burned that she died the next day
james A. Roseberry, an eX-County Com
missioner of Kent, died near Chesiertowu on
Sunday He was IL friend and neighbor oil
Col. Wilkins. His age was sixty-iour years,
Thomas Crossley, n shoemaker, residing
in Howard street, San Francisco, on Monday
night shot and fatally wounded his wife, and
then cut his own throat, causing install
death.
Gov. Carroll has appointed Messrs. John
w. Davis and Findloy IL. Burns supervisors
of elections for Baltimore city, in place Of
James A. Bruce aud William F. StilIcy, re.
signed.
Last Saturday Mrs. Amanda b. Tay lor
of New York, while walking hastily across
her room slipped and fell through glass
door, cutting the carotid artery and causing
her DEATH
Millions of ducks are reported on some
of the rivers empty ing into the upper Chesa-
peake, hut comparatively few have been kill.
ed on account OF the fowl flying too high fol
effective shooting.
The breeding of Maltese cats for the mar
ket is business of considerable profit in
Harrisburg, one dealer selling as many as 90
cats in year, for which he receives prices
ranging from $3.50 to 81.
On the morning after Christmas, Mrs
Grow, of Grafton, W. Va, was found sitting
in q chair in her house, dead. a bullet-hole
in the inner corner of her right eye told SC
much only of the tale rs the cause of hel
death,
-Boonesboro (Ky.) men say that the best
the State was on the land cleared ITO years
ago by Daniel Boone. 1t averaged more
than barrel to shock
-
Press Company, at Charleston, s. O., was
maliciously set on fire, early New Years
morning, and destroyed together with sew
eral frame buildings in the neighborhood
The entire loss is $575,0OO.
Henry Cole, of Newburgh, N. Y, aged
\ about sixty-five, accidentally shot and killed
himself while hunting on Monday. He
stumbled and fell, when the gun was dis
sharged, the shot entering his heart
AMary Weldon, o modest looking young
Woman, has been arrested at Boston for shop
Hing, and about 81 400 worth of goods, va,
Wing from the cheapest wooden toy to cost
jewelry, have been recovered in her
,0om.
"A twenty mile running match, for $500,
tGilmore's Garden, Wednesday afternoon,
Tween Thomas Taylor, of Massachusetts,
ID Abe Sprague, of Illinois, was won by the
inner. Sprague gave out after going five
lies.
BY premature explosion OF sand blast,
nTuesday near larry Town, N. Y, two
uarrymen, Edmonds and Merritt, lost their
!yes. The head of one was severed from his
oody, and the body of the other was impaled
on the broken limb of tree.
rAlice Duer, the young woman who caus-
lthe death of Miss Hearn, at Pocomoke
Hill paper She is at her fathers house in
Pocomoke City, in her right mind and in
kgood health.
4 in Cincinnati, Christmas night, hoy
named Brinker swallowed piece of hickory
nut, which lodged in his windpipe A physi-
clan made an incision in his throat and re-
moved the obstruction, The boy is recover
ing
The steamship Emily B. Souder, bound
from New York for San Domingo, foundered
on the 10th OF December She carried n
crew of 36 men aud 8 p. ssengers, all of whom
were lost except two seamen, who were res.
cued from n raft.
An insane woman named Siorcher jump
ed from the Canada southern train Sunday
night, some forty miles west of Buffalo The
cars were Mt the lime running forty seven
miles a. hour, and strange to say she was
picked up uninjured.
L. T. Dukes, of Caroline county. has AN
apple Tree that bore this sea on "a bushels
of apples by actual measurement, besides
supplying his family and neighbors with up
Piles for family Use Tor some time before the
frui was picked and measured.
"A school-teacher in Pulaski, Kentucky,
declined to treat at Christmas, when the little
or to speak more accurately, the big ones
tied him hand and foot, carried him to u
pond and gave him five minutes to decide
whether to treat or drown.
"A wealthy gentleman named Schultz, re-
siding at ROTOR Hill, near Norwalk, Conn,
was murdered Friday evening by tramps,
who supposed he had large amount of
money in the house. Schulte's servant,
Burkhotz, was attacked at the same time.
On Monday night Mr.. Caldwell, re-
spectable farmer residing at South BAYFIELD,