The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-14
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, NOVEMBER IA, 1879.
Condensed News.

flowed where frequently there is ten feet.
"A farmer named Royal Dennison was foun
dead in the road near Buffalo on Tuesday, wit
two barrels of cider lying on his body and hi
neck broken.
The cattle pens of j. W. Golf IL Co., at Gin
cinnati, were burned on Saturday, and $50 hea
of cattle persisted. The total loss is estimates
at $4,000.
j l.. Ray, of Lewis and Clark county, MINI.
raised this wear l03 bushels of wheat on an acre
He received first premium for it at the Terri
torial Fair.
Marie Solomon, an old slave, at Baton Rouge
La, was set free by her master when she hat
reached her one hundredth year. That wa
twenty-five years ago She died in New Orlean
last Friday.
in Lancaster county, N c., Saturday night
Mrs. James Adams (white) cut the throats ofhe
five children, set fire to her own clothing ant
was burned to death. 1t is supposed that sh
was insane.
Almonds are gathered, hulled and sacked by
Cinnamon in California at two cents pound
The cultivators say that the almond will grow
at all points on the Atlantic coast where peach
trees thrive.
Elizabeth Kennedy died at Port Chester, Y
Y, last Monday, aged 104 years. She was
native of Ireland. Up to within few weeks o
her death she was able to knit, sew and ever
thread q needle without the aid of glasses
On election day, in the third district of Ann,
Arundel county, John f. Glass; peaceable ant
quiet young man, was struck on the head ant
killed by a colorcd man, supposed to be Pete
Simmons. The attack appears to have been un
provoked.
Tom Pratcr, q moonshiner was trapped upoI
sham bridge by government officers, in Elliot
county, KY, on Thursday night, and fell head
long over cliff siXty-iive feet high. He seiZe(
the branches of hemlock at the foot of the elf
and by thus breaking the fall saved his life.
The wife of Robert johnson, OF Pennington
rushed in front of down train on the Delaware
Railroad, above that place, and ran with uplfted
hands towards and into the locomotive. She
fatally injured, but was able to explain tC
by-standers that the devil told her to do it,.
On Tuesday afternoon on Light street, Bal
timore, while quietly walking along, coored
man named VIM. A. Robinson, aged 81 years
was shot and instantly killed by white man
named George Trust baker at the Baltimore city
Jail. The shooting is said to have been entirely
unprovokcd.
Mr. j. p. IInc, n merchant of West Lcban-
ON, Pa, was instantly killed on Saturday. A
team, which had been standing in front of his
store started to run off, and Mr.. Hine attempted
to catch the lines which were trailing on the
ground Just as he reached for them one of the
horses kicked him in the chest; he fell to the
ground and Immediately expired.
Mrs Margaret Eaton, the widow of General
John II. Eaton, Secretary of War under Presi-
dent jackson, died in Washington, on Saturday,
aged cighty-one years. After General Eatons
death she married an Italian dancing MASTER who
afterwards eloped with her granddaughter, TAX
ing good share Of her money.
Amos June was shot at Greenwich, Conn,
in the summer of 1878, the ball entering his left
breast and remaining in his body. He lived
tifty-fOur days. While working in the field on
the last day of August, 1878, he dropped dead
instantly. A post-mortem examination disclosed
the fact that the ball had lodged in his heart
The man who shot him has just been arrested.
james j. Norris, of bradley, Me-, was found,
last Saturday morning, near the path leading
from his mill to his boarding place. with his
throat cut and his head crushed in with an axe.
person, and the murderer had taken his keys
and robbed the safe in the mill. a Frenchman
named Boulcau has been arrested for the crime.
AS an express train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was running at full speed between
Kanawha and Walker Station, on Friday night,
little twO-year-Old son Of George w. Kidd, of
Siddcn Va, fell out at car window The train
was stopped and the Crazcd father ran back along
the track. The child was found alive and only
slightly hurt. 1t had fallen in a bush near the
track.
William H. Harrington, recently elected
county commissioner of Wicomco county, was
shot and instantly killed on Tuesday, by j.
Wesley Turpin, during quarrel. Both of them
were farmers residing near Quantico, about nine
miles from Salisbury. There is said to have
yet been arrested.
"A drunken man named Adams was riding
through the country, near Fairburn, Ga, on
Friday night, with his infant son, when he drove
his horse into ditch. The wagon fell on the
man and boy, key of nails striking the man on
the head and killing him. The child remained
imprisoned under the wagon for twelve hours
with his dead father and when discovered he was
almost dead with fright and cold.
-Four large three-Story brick buildings in
Kansas City, Mo-, occupied as candy and crack
CT mandatory, tumbled down on Saturday and
were destroyed by fire. One hundred and seven
persons, mostly boys and girls, were at work in
the factory at the time seven of whom were
killed. The accident is supposed to have been
caused by an explosion of the fine starch dust
with which the air had become filled.
Louis Mclzac, Frenchman living near Mid
land, Mich, was killed early Sunday by Moses
B. Marsh. Melzac quarrellcd with his wife, who
called on Marsh for protection, Melzac turned
on Marsh and chased him to his house. where he
stabbed Mrs. Legrcw eight times. Marsh
went to her assistance and was also stabbed by
the Frenchman. He then struck Melzac on the
head with an axe, killing him instantly. Both
Marsh's and Mrs. Legrews injuries are fatal.
The Cathedral of Baltimore city, which has
been undergoing repairs and additions for several
months, was re-opened on Sunday morning.
Archbishop Gibbons was the celcbrant of the
high pontiiical mass and the sermon was preach
Nu ny DlSIlOp Vi 81 LOUIS. bishops Lynch,
of Charleston; Gross, of Savannah; Keane of
Richmond; Moore, of st. Augustine Kahn, of
Wheeling; Mcmahon, of Hartford, and Becker,
of Wilmington, were present, occupying seats
within the altar.
Disasters at Seattle steamer Falcon, from
Baltimore for Charleston, on Saturday night,
near Cove Point in the Chesapeake Bay, colldcd
with the schooner S. G. Tryon, from Maine for
Baltimore, and sank in ten minutes. No lives
were lost, The steamship Champion, which left
New York for Charleston, on Thursday of last
week, collldcd with the ship Lady Octavia, be-
tween 80 and 40 miles from Cape May N j.
The steamer sank in four minutes and there was
Il terrible panic Thirty persons were lost, in
Guiding The mate of the steamer and twelve
passengers. Only one woman was saved and
that was the stcwardcss. The whaling schooner
Petrol, Capt. Fisher, was capsZed in a squall in
the Atlantic Ocean, on the Goth of October,
and ID persons were lost, including the captain.
The survivors, chung to the wreck, suffering
terribly from cold and starvation the waves
breaking over them, until the Sd of November,
when they were pickedup by an Austrian vessel
A number of other disasters are rcportt d, by the
gale Of the Both Of October.
Railroad accidents have been numerous OF
late freight train on the Pennsylvania rail
road broke in two on Friday morning, while
coming down the mountain about eight miles
west OF Altoona. The detached portion of the
train ran down hill at the rate of mile minute
until 1t overlook and ran into the first part
lwenty-iour cars were completely wrecked, and
the freight was scattered in all directions JAS
a. Mcdowell, a brakeman, was instantly killed
and D. &. Cook, another brakeman, was seriously
injured. No other persons were hurt. At Ian
caster, Pa, the same morning two freight trains
collided, wrecking two oil tanks. The oil
caught fire and one of the tanks eXplod
ed with terrific force. Prof. Lippott who
was struck on the hand with piece of iron
was the only person injured The flames could
not be extingushed and the fire burned itscli
out On the 9th the three rear cars of an OK
press train from Poughkeepsie to New Yorl
jumped the track between New Hamburg ant
Low Point, one of them being thrown into tn,
river number of passengers were injured bu