The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-08-29
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd. AUGUST 20, 1879.
Condensed News.

Mrs. Susan Martien aged 1903 years, save
one month and - days, died in Baltimore, last
Saturday.
"A sharp shock of an earthquake was felt at
Niagara and other points farther north early on
Thursday morning of last week.
Geo. Miller shot himself on Monday, at
Memphis ont of jealousy of his wife, who had
been too familiar with another man.
Edward p. Toilet shot in Rochester, Mon
day, John A. Barnum, who is living with Fol-
let's wife. Bamum's injuries are not serious.
John Rivers, travelling watch and clock
rcpairer, was killed Sunday morning in a drum
ken brawl in his brothers house at Theresa, N.
Y.
The Cambridge NcCs denies the statement
which first appeared in the Salisbury 4d0ertiSer
that boy had been killed in Dorchester county
by mosquitoes.
-Chas Atwcll killed negro in the suburbs
of Memphis on Monday who was trying to kill
him, so that the property he was watching would
be open to depreciation.
The French Academy has awarded a first
prize for virtue to sailor who saved nine lives
ut the risk of his own, and Il second prize to two
women for maintaining an orphanagc by their
own united labor.
AT Springport, Cayuga county, N. Y, Mary
Perry, aged ~, sat ut tea with some friends
They were relating funny incidents, and Mrs.
Perry became convusod with laughter, and fell
back in her chair, dead.
AT the farm Of j. A. Briggs, near Forest,
ONO, thirteen hands employed thrcshing wheat
were poisoned by biscuits in which strychnne
was accidentally used instead of soda. The
whole party are in a critical condition.
William Frey, Il baker, killed Jacob Jones,
AT the bakery of the latter in Cincinnati, Mon
day, by repeated blows upon his head with II
hatchct. Three dollars ofFrcy's wages had been
withheld to pay a debt he had incurred ut a gro
Gerry.
In Brooklyn, Sunday morning, Edward Ryan
struck Michael Kelly several blows with his list,
one of which Knocked him down, and from
which he died in a few minutes. Apos norton
examination determined the fact thai Kclys
skull was fractured by the blow
One evening last week, in Hanover York
county, while practicng archery, Miss A. Il.
Wortz accidentally shot Miss NJ j. Sprcnklc
who was standing not far from the target The
arrow took effect on the forehead of Miss Sprcn-
kle, glancing upward through the hat, carrying
portion of the hair with it.
AT camp meeting at Sinking Springs, near
Reading, Pa, last Thursday Mrs. Mary Deitzcl,
aged ID years, while reaching under the stove in
her tent To get some kindling wood, experienced
slight pain and thought she had been prickcd
on the finger by splinter, She paid no attcn-
ton to it and soon her hand and arm commenced
swelling, and she hccamca alarmed large cop
pcr-hcad snake, which was discovered under tic
stove and killed, undoubtedly inflicted the
wound Remedies were Immediately used to
counteract the poison and at last accounts Mrs
DeitZcl was still alive.
The Eastern Shore (Md.) newspapers con-
tinuc their complaints Of the mosquito plague
The Superintendent and train hands of the rail
road near Cambridge declare hat the mosquitoes
have been SO thick as to obscure the light of the
sun, and that lighted lamps have been necessary
at midday in the stores and counting rooms
From Iyaskin a newspaper correspondent de-
clarcs that ''nevcr in the history Tyasllin have
the mosquitoes been so thick as for the past
week. There is no rest night or day; our only
remedy is smoke! smoke! And we have smoked
SO much that our old woman, and young women,
too, look like dried beef on the hoofn
The Workngmen's party of San Francisco
nominated Rev. Isaac s. Kalloch for mayor. The
Chronicle, edited by Charles f. DcY Dung, oppos-
ed kalloch, and published some facts in his very
unsavory career Whcrupon Kaloch, in pub
lie speech, branded DE Young and his brother
in opprobrious terms. De Young accordingly
went to Kaloch's hotel, on Saturday morning,
and calling him out shot him twice. De Young
was seized by an excited crowd of Kalloch's par
tisans, and would have been killed but for the
intervention of the police. Great excitement
was caused and attempts are being made to ere
ate political capital for Dennis Kearncy's work
lngmen's party out the occurrence.