The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-07
Condensed News,

Last week was one of the stormiest ever
known on the Atlantic ocean.
Colonel Pearson, the Jersey vine grower, is
shipping grapeseed to Spain.
The coming session of Congress, it is prom
ised, will be strictly business one.
John c. Calhoun's late residence in Pckens
county, South Carolina, will soon be sold by the
sheriff.
On Sunday Chauncey Barnes New York
sailmaker, fatally shot himself to escape q
threatened attack of paralysis.
"A frightful explosion of fire damp occurred
in a coal mine at Mill Creek, Pa, Sunday morn
ing. Five men were killed.
Tho Protestant Episcopal convention of
Northern New Jersey last week elected Dr.
Thomas a. Starkey, of Paterson, bishop.
Plus Memorial Roman Catholic Church, in
the northwestern section of Baltimore, was ded-
icated last Sunday Bishop Gross, of Savannah,
preached.
Mrs. William Brownell, one of the promi-
nent ladies of Newport, was found dead in her
bed Saturday night. ApoplcXy was the proba-
Bile cause of her death.
Gen. Joseph Hooker, one of the famous
generals of the war, died at Garden City, N Y,
last Friday, of paralysis aged 81 years. He was
graduate of West Point
Jennie Lyon, a little girl of Morristown, N.
j., was so badly injured on Sunday by burns that
she died in few hours. Her clothing had
taken fire at bonfire of dry leaves.
Senator Lamars mother venerable wo
man of seventy-seven years, died at her home in
Vineville, Ga, few days ago. Her intellectual
attainments were of the highest order
On Sunday night quarrel took place in a
bowling saloon, in Petersburg, Va, between
George Hinton and James NJ Young when
Young drew pistol and fatally shot Hinton.
Cyrus Seaver of Waterbury, Vt, was pos
scsscd by the idea that he must set fire to build
ing every Wednesday or die. Heburned dwellings
on three successive Wednesdays before he was
detected.
Senator Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan,
was found dead in his bed at hotel in Chicago,
Sunday morning. A coroner's inquest found
that his death was caused by cerebral hemorr-
hage.
The gratifying announcement is made to
the creditors of Jay Cooke IL Co. that the estate
will pay 81, 1928 on every 1000. The failure
occurred in 1878, and at the time startled the
whole country.
"A locomotive, tender and one passenger
coach, plunged through the IIackensack draw
bridge, on the Greenwood Lake Railroad N. j.,
Tuesday morning. One man was killed and six
wounded.
Mrs. Donahoe, well authenticated centen-
arian, died in New York last week. aged 112
years. She was born in Ireland in 1867, and
leaves large posterity Her grandfather is said
to have lived to the age of 120 years.
st Julian, trottng horse, with running
mate, trottcd mile, for the amusement of Gen
eral Grant and others, at San Francisco, in
2.12S, being the fastest time on record. Rarus's
time was 2.1314
John Gallagher, engineer, and David Sasse
and Harry Meredith, brakesmen, were killed by
a collision of their freight train with some cars
temporarily left on the track on the Delaware
Railroad, Sunday night. --.-
"A difficulty occurred at Frederick City, Md,
on Tuesday, growing out of an attempt of a col
ored man to vote the Democratic ticket Stones
nietpls frpn1 mead aud I,,, 4
Charles Esley was shot in the leg
The Ohio river is lower than at any previous
time in 20 years. At hundreds of places between
Cincinnati and Pittsburg the river is easily for
ded, and at Pittsburg 100000 bushels Of coal
are awaiting rise in the river to get to mar
ket.
Senator Emerson, of New Jersey, has gath
cred $500 bushels from his cranberry boys this
year. In the same county 5000 boxes from
thirteen acres were gathered by Miller Howard
Inc yield throughout other sections of Jersey
has been abundant.
Paul Mackworth, of Cincinnati quarrclled
with his wife, on Sunday. After she went out
he got rope and intended to Brighten his wife
by pretending to hang himself His pretencc
proved reality, for on his wife's return she
found him strangled
Mr. Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledqer,
sold eighty-seven of his horses, at public sale
in New York, on the Goth of October They
brought S33, 600. One trotter, Keene jim, was
purchased by Cnarles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, for 81 600.
Tom Edwards, employed in one of the iron
mills at Wheeling, while quarreling with his
wife on Sunday, attempted to strike her with q
chair. He lost his balance and fell out of the
second story window and was picked up corpse,
having broken his neck.
"A terrible fight between two stations occur
red on o farm near Pottsville, Pa, one day last
week. They bit, kicked and paved one another
until they were literally covered with blood
After fighting an hour they were finally lassoed
and separated Both were badly wounded.
"A young student at the University in Lex
ington, Va, named Johnston was killed ON Sat
urday by another student named Koiner from
Augusta, va, They were playing croquet,
when dispute occurred about the rules gov
erning the game, and Koner struck Johnston
with mallet, causing death in few hours.
AS the sheriff entered the Jail at vincennes,
IND, Monday night, two prisoners, who where
sccrcted behind the door, made break for lib
erty, refusing to stop at the demand of the sher-
lt He thereupon fired, and the ball passed
through the back of one of them named Movies
with fatal effect. The other prisoner surren-
dered.
Under the stimulus of money prize offered
by the York County (Mc) Agricultural Society,
thirty-two boys have raised upon ne-eighth of an
acre of land over 200 pounds of corn, six over
LOO pounds, five over 200 pounds, one over
1900, and one over !, 400, the champion being
Moses s. Milliken, Jr,, of Biddeford, with pro,
duct of ,404 pounds.
An insane man named futile jumped upon
train at Jacksons switch, near Parkersburg on
the Marietta railroad, Monday night, and pulling
the throttle valve open, started the iron monster
at terrible speed along the road After run
ming number of miles the engine collided with
freight train, causing fearful wreck futile
and the employees of the other train escaped in
jury.
-Prof. lice says we are to have, on the night
No I'm hall
display ever seen since 1888 when. to all intents
and purposes, the sky literally rained fire. The
display for this year will not commence until
about O'Clock in the morning, but the professor
says that the magnificence of the display will
more than compensate for the Inconvenience of
the vigil.
The wife of Michael Kelly, of Orange, N j.,
was found in the yard of her house on Sunday,
bleeding from wound in her head. She said
her husband had shot her. He had ordered his
fourteen-year-old son to go for beer, and the boy
refusing, Kelly heated poker to a red heat and
attempted to thrust it into the lads eyes. The
boy ran out of the house and his father fol-
lowed him and attempted to burn his back with
the poker. Mrs Kelly interfered when he seiz-
ed revolver and discharged it at her, inhicting
scalp wound. Kelly was arrested.
john f. Meyer, a German shoemaker, OF
New York, became so tired of life, in conse-
quence ola disagreement with his wife, that on
Saturday night he decided on suicide. He first
shot himself, as he supposed, through the heart
An hour later, finding that he did not die, he
again shot himself through the right temple
The next morning he awoke and found himself
still alive. He then cut his throat with a razor
and after lying an hour was discovered alive
by the neighbors. His recovery is deemed pos
sible. He must have as many lives as cat.
Buy pr; Bulls Cough Syrup. Itcures. To b'
had at all Druggists for rs cents.
Chew Jaclfsons Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.