The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-07-25
The Egis and Intelligencer
BEL AIR, Nd, JULY %, 1879.
Condensed News.

An effort is being made to form local OPP.
tion party in Carroll county.
"A Louisville lunatic, believing himself a po
liceman, nearly killed with club the first person
whom he met in the street
The Auxiliary Sanitary Association of New
Orleans says there has not been case of yellow
fever in that city this season.
Eight persons were drowned by the capsizng
of pleasure yacht at Point aux Trembles, near
Quebec, on Friday evening.
Frank Smith shot dead by an unknown
assassin at q ''barn Dance" in Keysburg, Todd
county, Ky, on Saturday night
A circus tent and gospel tent were pitched
side by side at Hoyoke, Mass, and the voices OF
clown and preacher were mingled.
An eight-year old boy has been sent to the
House of Refuge in New York for stealing a
horse and trying to sell it for S25.
William Currens, farmer, committed sui
eide near Gettysburg, Pa, ON Saturday night
lie had suffered from severe illness.
81 guess the only cure for incompetence is
arsenic" wrote James BLY,, a Memphis drunkard,
before taking Il fatal dose of the poison.
Hon. B. 5. Ford, State Senator from Queen
Anne's county, was drowned, ON Sunday after
noon while bathing in front of the Atlantic Ho-
tel, at Ocean City, Md
The roof of new round house of the Erie
Railway Company, fell in with terrible crash
on Saturday, seriously mjuring twelve men en-
SuScu Ill us clcctloH
Last Saturday Mr. Robert Bonner drove his
horse Edwin Forrest one mile in 2.154, being
the fastest mile that has ever been made to wa
gon. Mr. Bonner weighs $50 lbs.
George Pintler died at White Lake, N. Y,
July 9th, ut the ripe age of 109 years and
months. He voted for Washington in 1892, and
has voted at every Presidential election since.
On the return of q couple to Simsbury
Conn, from their wedding tour, party of girls
met them ut the train, put them into n carriage,
took hold of the shafts, and drew them to their
new home.
1t is said that in Watertown, Conn.,, on a
very hot day, woman rubbed blue paint off the
leg of Banums tattoocd Greek with her hand
kerchief, and that he abruptly withdrew from
the platform.
Three American locomotives were shipped
to Australia some time ago, and orders have
lately been received for more. They are found
to be superior to those imported from England,
and to require less fuel.
The Treasury Department has suspended
the order forbidding the importation of neat
cattle into the United States from European
countries, but quarantine has been established
for imported cattle.
In game of cards between James Deadman
and Louis Bazel, in saloon three miles south
of Coyington, Ky., Sunday night q DISPUTE
arose, and Bazel stabbed Deadman twice in the
neck and breast, killing him instantly.
The county commissioners of Dorchester
county have cut down the levy forp public schools
by $1,000 less than last year. They will proba-
bly, be obliged to close the schools at the end of
the winter term.
AT Owcnton, KY, on Wednesday, Col.
Thomas Buford who shot and killed Judge Eli
OFT, because he decided adversely to him in
case in court, was convicted of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to Imprisonment for
life.
-Atcrrilic thunder storm occurred on Sunday
in the vicinity of Portadown, Ireland, demolish-
ing the crops and causing much general damage.
Thousands of acres of corn, potatoes and hay
were destroyed The rain formed lake extend
ing fifteen miles from Portadown Bridge.
Napoleon Bonaparte, colored, was hanged at
Sardis, Miss, on Friday in the presence of 5000
persons for the murder of another colored man,
named Butler, on the 9th of August last. The
doomed man made a few remarks admitting the
justice of his punishment, but asserting that he
was "the happiest man in Sardis."
A negro called Marcellus Floyd outraged
young lady near Walkers Station, San Antonio,
Texas, last Friday night He was arrested but
made his escape while the mob was attempting
to take him from the officers. Nothing more
was heard from him, but passengers on train
report seeing his body swinging from Il beam
near the scene of the crime.
George w. Human, aged ~ years, we'll
known resident. of Newark, N. j., committed
suicide Sunday morning by hanging himself to
beam in the garnet of his house, No. % Liberty
street. He had been very respondent since the
death of his wife last May, and was suffering
from a canccrous disease in the stomach and for
some time from alteration of the mind.
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