The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-12
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd, DECEMBER ~, 1879.
Condensed News.

,.-Arrangements are in progress in st. Louis
Montreal and other cities to raise money for the
distressed peasants in Ireland
General Grant is expected to arrive in Phila-
delphia next Tuesday, and great preparations are
being made for his reception.
"A pavilion of the Bellevue Hospital, in New
York, was burned on Saturday night, and three
children persisted in the flames.
Hon. William Darlington, of Westchester,
Pa, prominent Republican politician, fell dead
in the corridor of the courthouse Saturday morn
ing.
The value Of land is SO depressed in Ireland
that on Nov. z, when seven estates were offered
for sale, but four were taken, while for two there
was no bid.
1t is reported that the body of Medford
Waters, colored, who was hung near Eliton, Md,
last Friday, was taken from the grave in which
it was buried the night after the execution.
Ira c. Garfield, one of the founders of the
Jewelry house of Garfield & Co., of Baltimore,
died suddenly, at his place of business last Sat
urday evening, of paralysis of the heart. He was
II years of age.
An unknown burglar, while trying to break
into shoe store, at Crestline, Ohio, on Thurs
day night, was shot dead by man named FoltZ,
who slept in the store. The burglar had two ac
completes, who fled.
The town poor house in Colchester, Conn,
was burned early Sunday morning. All the in
mates were got out safely, but one of them
feeble-mnded girl rushed back to the burning
building and persisted.
Lizzie Falk, laundry girl employed in the
Russell House, Detroit, was killed while descend
ing in the freight compartment of the hotel ele-
vator Friday, by her neck getting caught between
the elevator and projecting beam.
Charles Rose, dyer of st. Louis, in fit of
dependency was about to shoot himself through
the head with pistol, when his nine-yearold
daughter caught his arm, and the man escaped
with severe wound in his left hand.
AT the funeral of Basil NJ Yates, a worthy
citizen of Chatham, n. c., feather bed and pill
low were used 10 make the coffin nice and warm.
Boots were laid at the feet of the corpse, and
hat was slowed away in corner
MIR. Thompson hired store of Col Bruce,
at Conway, Ark, and put in stock ofgroceries.
The shelving broke down, running large guam
tlty OF goods. The tenant put pistol in his
pocket, hunted up the landlord, and shot him.
"A Mrs. Fisher, of Prince Georges county,
Md, died rather suddenly Monday. She was on
her way to church on Sunday, November 30 and
was taken sick near the residence of Mr.. j. l..
Schatf, whittier she was carried and where she
remained until her death. Her disease was par
alysis of the brain.
An italian bark, with cargo of statuary
MARBLE was wrecked near Manasquan, N. j., in
the winter of 1S4S Last week nearly rs tons of
marble, recovered from the wreck, were sent to
New York, the stone, after more than so years
immersion, looking pure and fresh as if just
quarricd.
Friday night ly-wheel, So feet in diameter
weighing 90 tons, in the Rensselaer, Rail Mill at
Troy, exploded, fatally injuring James Wallace
and Peter Rice. The fragments ofthe wheel were
thrown in all directions, one section weighing
five tons being hurled through the roof and com
ing down through the roofofa neighboring mill.
A fire at Troy, N. Y, early Sunday morning,
destroyed two boiler shops, a machine shop,
laundry, building occupied by five shirt and
collar manufacturing firms, six tenement houses
and Lutheran Church. The total loss is csti-
mated at S350,000. A fireman was injured by q
falling wall. Eighteen hundred persons were
thrown out of employment by this fire.
Raymond Knowles, time-k keeper at the This
tie cotton mill, Leicester, Nd, while ascending
from the lower floor to the top of the MILL by
hauling himself mp hand over hand with block
and tackle, lost his footing on the pulley block
and fell hcadong from the third floor to the
ground. He was fatally injured and died few
hours afterwards.
On Thursday of last week, as Engineer John
Madden was driving his locomotive down New
River, near Hinton, West Virginia, he saw
deer leap down upon the track from cliff so
feet above. Madden stopped his engine, and,
running ahead caught the buck without difficult
ty, US both of its fore legs had been broken by
the leap. The deer evidently had been frighten-
ed by the approach of the locomotive.
MIR. Potter, United States Consul at Stutt-
gard, Germany, in his report to the Department
vi Slatc says tHcIc arc o-J SuSdT-lnlllS In Ter
many, and during the year 1878 $4,000, 900
pounds of sugar were made. The total product
of beet sugar in all Europe is three thousand mil
lion pounds. Mr.. Potter says the territory in
the United States best suited to the beet is in
New England, in the vicinity of the great lakes
and in the same zone westward.
That the conlagration that is to consume the
world has begun is believed by many residents
of Reading, Pa. While some gentlemen where
shooting on the farm of Henry Miller, near that
city, one of the party killed a partridge, which
fell in an adjacent field. To the surprise of the
gentleman his dog refused to fetch the bird and
and he went for it HIMSELF but at the spot where
the bird had fallen he suddenly sank several feet
in bed of fire and ashes The burning track
is square in length and half square in width
Miller says the fire began burning about three
weeks ago, and travels several feet day. 1t
emits no smoke excepting now and then when
turf of grass is being consumed, or when trees
are burning, but the heat is intense. The fire has
extended into green wheat field, which is grad
ually being destroyed. The roots of oak trees
burn off, and some trees two feet and half in
diameter have fallen over.