The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-05-02
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, MAY 2, 1879.
Condensed News.

Bishop Z. R. Ames, of the NJ. E. Church,
died in Baltimore last Friday. He was greatly
beloved by all who knew him well.
Great schools of fish are reported to have
gone up the Delaware river, last Sunday night.
Some of the gillers at Chester caught as high as
2S0 shad.
AT Richmond, last week, the jury in the case
of John Z. Poindexter, indicted for killing Z. u
Curtis, brought in q verdict OF voluntary man
slaughter and fixed his punishment at two years
in the penitentiary.
VIM. j. Quigey, aged II, was killed, last
Thursday, by falling over the stair railway from
the second story of the american building, Balti-
more. The unfortunate boy fell while sliding
down the railing, from the third story.
George Einsig, convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing his wife, committed suicide
in his cell in York JAIL last Sunday morning, by
cutting his throat with q razor and then hanging
himself with towel and piece of rope.
"A fire near Howell's, N. Y, on the Erie Rail
way, on Saturday afternoon destroyed eight car
loads of oil and six carloads of wheat, also
frame building belonging to G. st. Otis. The
damage is estimated at $4,000 Alarge number
of delayed freight trains passed over the road on
Sunday.
AT Phenixville, Pa, on Sunday, Officer
Webster March ordered two young roughs, JAS
McClosky and Frank Devlin, who were creating
n disturbance on the street to move along. They
refused and began throwing bricks and stones,
badly woundng March, who drew his revolver
and fired two shots, one of which struck Devlin
in the head, killing him instantly. The other
took effect in McCloskey's back, but he managed
to make good his escape. March fell to the
ground and was carried to hotel.
The jury in the case of Peter E. Stevens, on
trial at Chicago for killing his wife, returned a
verdict of manslaughter on Sunday, and fixed
the penalty at fourteen years in the peniteniary
AS the prisoner was being taken from the court
room to his cell, Mrs. Young, his mother-in-law,
stepped up quickly behind him, put pistol to
his head and pulled the trigger. Fortunately for
the prisoner o handkerchief in which the pistol
had been concealed interviewed between the ham,
mcr and cap and caused thepistol to miss fire.
Col. VIM. NJ. Lowe, Greenback member of
Congress from Alabama challenged Gen. John
A. Logan, Senator from Illinois, to fight duel |
but the gallant General very prudently declined
the offer The difficulty arose from statement
made by reporter that Col. Lowe had asserted |
that Logan raised and sent to the Confederate |
army three regiments of Illinois soldiers. Logan
branded the statement as false and slanderous, |
and disdained to reply to a courteous note from
Lowe in reference to the matter. Hence the |
challenge. Logan's sympathy with the South |
at the beginning of the war, was .wellknown,
and Col. Lowe asserted that he. had talked with |
men who had been enlisted in Illinois for the |
Confederate army, to form part of Gen. Logan's |
command. The general changed his mind about
going South, however, and entered the Federal
army.