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

A colony of five hundred Philadelphians is
preparing to emigrate to Kansas.
A new planet of the twelfth magnitude has
been discovered by the astronomer Coggia, OF
Marseilles France.
The bill granting large subsidy to John
Roach for Il steamship line to Brazil was defeat
ed in the House last Friday.
The Senate reconSiderCd the vote which
placed the veterans of the Mexican war on foot
ing with the pensioners of 1872
The anniversary of Robert Emmett, the Irish
patriot, celebrated in various parts of the
country on Tuesday, March 4th.
Richard Gresham Cox, formerly of Kent
county, an old defender, died in Baltimore, last
Thursday. lie was "a years old.
s. A. Fry's livery stable East SD street,
New York, was burned TO the ground last Thurs
day Fifty good horses persisted.
John PoindeXter, of Pittsylvania county,
Va, was kicked on the temple bya horse last
week and almost instantly killed.
One day last week james Twomly, work
man in a saw mill at Gait, Ont, fell ON n circu-
lar saw, which severed his head from his body.
Out of torty-nnc persons on the British ship
Adriatic, which stranded near Dunkirk, Scotland,
February IL, only seven are known to be saved.
Within one hour five fires occurred on Sat
urday night in Columbus .. IL is thought des-
pcrate ucendiarics are at work for the purpose
of plumber.
-lne Atlantic Delalnc company $ mills, AT
Providence, X. L., are about TO be started again.
They will give employment TO many hundred
operatives.
On Sunday morning, in Chicago, Michael
O'lIare, a saloon keeper, was hit in the temple by
billiard ball thrown by Augustus Barron, and
fatally injured.
-Twenty-three Spanish sailors, on their way
from Ferrol to spend the carnival in their native
villages have been drowned. Their boat was
capsZed by squall.
About fifty persons, including some of the
most prominent and wealthy citizens, have been
arrested at Pekn and Peoria, Illinois, for com
plicity in whisky frauds
The mayor of Sheffield England, stated last
week at meeting that there are four thousand
persons destitute and four hundred families ac-
tually starving in that city
Anna Stoggins, little girl, fell from the
bridge into the Red Clay creek, at Miles MILL
near Kennett, Chester county, Pa, on Thursday
afternoon, and was drowned.
The grocery store of G. Rockaway, Chicago
was entered Saturday night by masked men, who
robbed the store, shot and killed the proprietor
while endeayoring to protect his property.
BY collision between passenger and freight
trains Saturday at Valparaiso, Ind, one fireman
and one engineer were scalded to death by escap-
ing steam, and two others seriously injured.
Edward o Kelley, the last of the Fenian pris-
oners has arrived from Marselles, in New York,
pltIiutulclN uSCu anu DIOhcn uONH ny Inc TlSDTS
of protracted imprisonment under brutalizcd
keepers.
The citizens of Centreville, Md, are making
preparation for the entertainment of the minis
tiers and delegates of the Maryland Annual Con
ference, NJ. Z. Church, which meets in their
town, March II.
Last Friday the house of j. NJ. Lunsford, at
Nesonville, Ohio, was burned to the ground
Mr. Lunstord and six of his children, who were
asleep, were smothered or burned to DEATH
Only the wife and one child escaped.
A span ITO feet long, of the iron railroad
bridge at Wilmington, ILL.,, gave way, a few days
ago as train OF empty cars were passing over
it, and three cars fell into the river 1t is sup
posed that the frost affected the heavy castings.
In the case of Wells, Casenave and Kenner,
the Supreme District Court, at New Orleans,
Saturday, decided that the decision of the Su-
preme Court in the Anderson case was binding,
and the accused were discharged. This ends the
returning board case.
Five acres Of land oyera coal mine at Pitts
ton, Pa, caved in, last Thursday. A large brick
school house near the mine was totally wrecked
No lives were lost. The same day George Bur
rette, a miner, was instantly killed, in coal
mine near Homecoming, Md, by the tumbling in
of Il roof of coal
On Thursday evening the wife of j. r. Coul-
son, of Coalvile, Webster county, Iowa. locked
her three children, whose ages ranged between
three and nine years, i'll the house while she Wis
tied neighbor During her absence the house
was burned to the ground and the children per-
ished in the flames,
The sale of the personal property of the late
Col. Edward wilkins, of Kent county, which
commenced ON Wednesday last, was not con
cudcd until Friday, Most of the property, cs-
pccially the liquors, brought good prices. II is
estimated that from 900 to 1000 persons were
in attendance the first day.
Sheriff Carlton, of CAME Texas with a
attacked n marty n Mpyirnn la Io