The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-07-11
The Egis and Intelligeicer.
BEL AIR, Md, JULY II, 1873.
Condensed News.


~ acres.
Joseph A. Blair, who shot and tilled his
coachman near Newark N. D., has bee admitted
to bail in $4,000.
1T is said that Hon. William L. lamiton's
wheat crop will yield him 5000 buhels, or III
average of about 80 bushels to the age.
The negro who outraged Miss Ej1ards, neal
Lindale, Texas, Wednesday of last week, was
captured last Friday, and literally hacked to
pieces by mob.
-Nimrod Spattenhuber, convicted of murder
ing John Ivison in saloon in Lebhon, Pa, ON
the night OF December 10th 1878, WIS hanged on
Thursday of last week
Isaac ii. Wright, of Dorchester county, had
his entire crop of straw and one hlpdred bushels
of wheat destroyed by fire last week, communi-
Gated from a steam thresher.
"A thirty mile race for $3.50 side is to be
sailed from Oswego, N Y, July ID, by the Cana
dian yacht Katie Gray 90 tonsl and the yacht
Ella, of Oswego, GO tons.)
The residence and barn Of Adam Martin,
Mechanicsville, New Jersey, were destroyed by
fire Sunday night Mrs. Hill, an elderly lady, Il
neghbor of Martins, died from fright.
The marriage of loving couple in Germany
is being deferred because the bride cannot prove
that she was born her existence seeming not to
answer German legal requirements as to proof.
Capt. Thomas Summers, of the barge Echo,
lying IN East river, New York, died last Satur-
day morning, suffering from hydrophobia, the
result, it is said Of cat bite inflicted last March
"A boy named Kalb, aged about 10 years, was
killed in an ore bank in the 18th district, Balti-
more county, about three miles from Baltimore,
Wednesday of lastWeek, Dyf large mass OF earth
and ore caving in upon hinf
The paymasters train on the Delaware,
Lackawana and Western rail- Dad ran into the
rear of coal train, near the Water Gap, Satur-
day evening, killing James o. Brown, conduc-
tor of the coal train and slightly injurlng two
Others
Andrew Darter, of Vermillion Parish, La,
who was released ON bail for the murder OF his
brother after first shooting himself through the
breast with one pistol, took the same pistol with
which he had killed his brother and blew out his
own brains.
"A ladlc of molten steel upset in the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company's mill, at Scranton,
Pa on Wednesday of last week, pouring a
showcrof liquid fire over James Hurley and Henry
Long. The former was fatally and the latter
seriously burned
-Cleopatra's Needle had scarcely been set up
in London before it became necessary to preserve
it in some way from disintegration. This, it is
said, has been secured by the use of a solution,
probably silicate, which has greatly improved
the appearance Of the monolith.
Mrs Margaret Fisher, an aged lady, II native
of Germany, living at the Union Works, Balti-
more county, was stricken with paralysis Mon
day morning of last week, and died at noon
She was 70 years old, and leaves thirty fourg grand
children, the progeny of eight even SONS and
daughters.
Miss Jessie Dunbar, aged twenty-one years
was walking in the street at Matteawan, N. Y,
on Saturday afternoon, when some boys behind
her threw fire cracker under her skirts and her
clothing took fire. She was burned in a horrible
MANNER and died in the evening.
John Scottish and Isaac Dayton, married
men, and Thomas Conroy, Edward Henley, DR.,
Joseph Mcfarland and John Mooney single, left
Colbourne, Ont, in small sailing boat to at
tend the celebration of the fourth of July at
Buffalo. Nothing has been heard of them since,
and it is feared all have been lost.
"A dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland, states
that fearful collicry explosion occurred on
Thursday Of last week in High Bantyre, near
the market town of Hamilton, eight miles south
east of Glasgow. There were thirty-onc persons
in the pit at the time of the explosion. Twenty
three bodies have been recovered. Four of the
victims We're burned alive.
Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, of Mississippi, died
last week, and left will, bequeathing her whole
estate to Jefferson Davis The legacy consists
OF two large plantations in the upper part of the
State, and an elegant villa at Beauvor on the sea
coast. This legacy will make the circumstances
of Mr.. Davis quite easy and comfortable.
-Robinson's wagon factory, on Central avenue,
Cincinnati, caught fire early Tuesday morning
The back buildings were completely burned, and
the front building Quilted 1t is attributed to
spontaneous combustion. The loss on the build
ing and wagons is S150,000, well insured. The
burning building fell with crash carrying six
tircmcn down, but no one was seriously injur-
ed
Mother hard case has just come to light on
the shores Of Cayuga Lake, New York. Some
laborerS have succeeded in eXhuming, ut the
depth of three feet from the surface Of Il mound
pctritaction, which on examination is pronoun
ccd to be type of the same family as the Cardiff
Giant. Scientists have not yet favored the pub
lie with the genealogical tree from which have
sprung those scions of wondrous growth.
AT East Farnham, Quebec, there is a boy who
says his name is Charley Ross, and he answers the
description of the missing boy very well. He says
he was brought from New York by two men n
long time ago. He is with man who cannot
speak English, and who is paid to keep him,
drafts being sent from New York after every six
months. The drafts are signed Edward Person
Mr.. Ross is expected to investigate the affair. q
The Tile Club, an association of New York
artists, knows how to take vacation. Friday
last it started out for its summcring, embarking
on sumptuously appointed canal boat, with
commissary stores and everything else sufficient
for three weeks voyage. Its route is up the
Hudson, thence it will seek Lake Champlain by
way of the canals. No heat, no dust, no sea
sickness, no haste.
An incendiary fire at Amherst, on Saturday.
caused damage to the extent of $4,000 to $780,
600. The property destroyed is the Amherst
House, the postoifiee, the Savings Bank, town
Offices, the Public Library, one of the largest lv
cry stables in Western Massachusetts, two col
legc secret society lodge rooms, and the stores
ofanumbcr of mercantile firms The fire started
at the stairway leading to the loft of one of the
sheds, and was evidently helped by kerosene pour
ed ON the stairs. Most of the property burned
was insured, and the net loss will be small.
Saturday afternoon Prof s. w. Colgroye, ac-
companied by Miss Emma Allison, made bal
loon ascension from San Francisco, and came
down in the bay, on account of rent in the bag
The balloon dragged two miles through the
water in the same number of minutes, struck
the piles of an old wharf opposite San Francis
co, threw out both occupants, who were some
what cut and bruised, but not seriously injured,
and rose again and sailed away, coming down at
Lathrop, forty miles. Colgrove and Miss ALI
son, after wading through marsh, made their
way to San Francisco.