The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-05-09
The Egis and Intelligencer,
BEL AIR, Nd, MAY 8, 1879.
Condensed News.
General Grant is in China.

General Grant Is in China
MIR. II. j. Jewett, President of the Erie rail
way, receives an annual salary OF S4O,OOO.
"A very sensible movement is on foot among
Southern members of Congress to repeal the duty
on quinine.
The Talbot county agricultural society's an
nual exhibition will be held ON the 10th, llth
and 18th of September.
The local option law went into effect in Kent
county May l.. The people generally take 1t
kindly, and express desire to give 1alr trlal
1t reported from Southeastern Kansas that
1000 men have gone into the Indian Territory
within a week. that rich silver mines have been
discovered just south of the Kansas line.
Dogs slaughtered a dozen sheep and wound
ed several more belonging TO Nathan Castell
Garrett county, last week. Mr.. Castell has lost
$500 worth of sheep by dogs in few years.
AS the congregation were leaving the Meth
odst Church at Hampstead, Texas, Sunday, Col.
j. +. Kirby shot and killed j. Steel, who in q
quarrel fourteen years ago killed Kirby's father,
Lewis Coons, of Taghkanick, n. Y, in q fit
of jealousy, cut his wites throat, killing her,
and then cut his own, but not fatally. They
were but young Coons and but recently married.
The rowing match between Edward Hanlan,
of Toronto, and John Hawdon, of England, came
Off on the river Tyne near Newcastle, England,
on Tuesday, and resulted in victory for Han
Ian.
"A new tramp law has just gone into opera
tion in Connecticut which makes vagrancy pun
ishable by Imprisonment at hard labor, and enti-
ties everybody who arrests tramp to reward
of five dollars.
The people of Des Moines, Iowa, voted in
favor of liquor license by 500 majority the LIST
instant. 1t is significant however, that the
women cast $50 votes, and only three of them
were for license.
In Philadelphia, on Sunday Il desperate old
man, named Edward Parr, 60 years of age, killed
his daughter, Susan Irwin, aged 30, by stabbing
her in the left breast and temple. The murder
grew out of an old family feud.
AT New Preston Hill, Conn, on Monday,
morning, Eghert Cogswell, aged50 while drunk,
shot with gun and instantly killed his wife
aged 4G. He then cut his own throat with Il
knife, expiring almost Immediately.
"A car load of dynamite exploded at STRAIT
ford, Ont, on Monday. The town was shaken
as by an earthquake, Two men were blown in
to fragments, several buildings were destroyed
and long lines of freight cars were utterly wreck
ed.
Two children of Benz Wallace, of Knights
Corner, Cecil county, were left alone on Thurs
day last, and while playing with an old gun, one
took up the piece, Playfully aiming at the other,
fired, shooting the little fellow in the abdomen
Death ensued in few minutes
In the Kent county court the Jury in the case
of the children of DR.. Grice VS.. the County Com
missioners, of Cecil County, being an action for
$4,000 damages for the drowning of DR.. Grice,
by falling from temporary bridge over Elk river
rendered verdict for the defendants
On Friday oflast week, Capt. James Mclean,
II conductor on the Port Deposit and Columbia
Railroad, while switching cars at McCalrs Ferry,
in passing from one car to another lost his foot
ing and fell under car, which passed over him.
He was 81 years ofagc and leaves wife and one
child.
Five prisoners escaped from the county Jail
at Harrisburg before daylight Monday, by cutting
holes through dividing wall and the ceiling
One of them, named Douglass, fell and broke his
legs, and was otherwise injured in such manner
that his recovery is doubtful His brother who
was one of the escaping convcts, remained with
him and both were recaptured. Two of the
Others were subsequently taken.