The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-12-03
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, DECEMBER 3, 1880.
Condensed News.


last, in the Goth year of his age
The Disciples of Christ, as the religion
body to which Gen. Garfield belongs is termed
are about to build handsome new church i
Washington.
Carrie Ilaines, aged 90, in fit of despon
dency caused by unrequited love, threw hersel
in front of a passenger train at Paramount, ILL.,
last Saturday, and was instantly killed
Marcus de Lafayette hawley, roior .s
was hanged at Salem, Va, last Friday, for tn
murder of Zacharah Hays last June. lie wa
married three days before his execution.
News has reached Dallas, Texas, from tn
Indian Territory, ofan encounter between ten GOV
boys and fifteen Indians, on the Comanch
reservation. Seven persons were Killed AM
wounded.
Andrew Gugel, of Dansville, N. Y, who at
tempted to kill his aged mother by tipping he
into cstern last Tuesday, committed snicid
two days later by shooting himself in the heat
with revolver.
Booth Winter, n wcll-known commercial
agent of Detroit, hacked his throat with small
knife, last night, and died. Mike Kuntz, of tn
same place drank pint ofwhiskryat adraught
on bet, and died the next day.
-Lucius Hotchkiss, wealthy and rctircI
merchant and banker, Of New Haven, Conn.
died suddenly on Monday morning. His wifi
being informed that he was dying, fell dead ol
the bed on which he was lying.
"A grain blockade, similart to that which wa
threatened at Baltimore, exists at Philadelphia
The elevators are full and q thousand cars load
ed with wheat are standing on the track, will
no means of moving the grain.
The body of Mrs. Lucia Noyes, wife of c
H. Noyes, lawyer of Warren, Pa, was crematet
ut DIR. lie Moync's furnace, on the 25th OF NoHem
Der. Mr.. and Mrs Noyes had pledged them
selves to crematc the one who died first.
Rev. A. j. Ryan, the Southern "poet-pricst,'
was in Baltimore this week. lie is the author o
number of popular poems, including "Ih'
Sword Of Lee" "Ihe Lost Cause" &c. On
Sunday he preached Mt the Cathedral, Baltimore
AT wedding feast in Tennessee the guests
became i'll and six Of them died. The host had
purchased quantity of arsenic to poison crows
and carelessly left ii in the kitchen. The cooh
mistook it for salt and used il Ia season tho
chickens.
Benjamin b. Roberts, an active and most
highly esteemed member olthe Friends society,
died Mt Sandy Spring, Md, on Sunday, of pncll-
mona lie was well known throughout the
State and was especially earnest in his efforts
in behalf of the Indians.
- On Thanksgiving day, at Long Branch, n.
j., the 17.year old daughter Of Vim. Jelrcys,
was attacked and horribly mutilated by a savage
dog, which tore piece out other arm and II cash
in her abdomen three inches long. A stout pair
Of corsets alone saved her life.
Lieut. Gov elect Geo. b. Robinson, OF
Colorado, was shot and probably fatally wound
ed, at mining camp, near lcadyillc, whittier
he had gone to settle Il dispute about the pos
session of mine. The guard at the mine claim
that the shooting was accidental.
"A stringent anti duclling bill has been in.
troduced in the South Carolina Legislature. 1t
provides the death penalty for any person who
Shall kill another in 4 duel or shall nllict n
wound from which any person shall die within
the space of six months from such wounding
j. b. Flynn, ofCampbcl, who was married
but Il few weeks ago, was sent to the lunaticasy
linn Thursday He had horse stolen from
him by gypsies, and going to their camp to
recover it was inveigled into drinking some
liquor, which was druggcd. The effect was to
overthrow his reason.
-Demetrio Dominguez II years old was
hanged at Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, for a
murder committeda year ago This is the first
legal execution that ever took place in the Ter
ritory, though four men have been lynchcd and
eleven other rough characters have suddenly
disappeared, and are supposed to have been
hanged.
"A few days ago, while Il party of hunters
were running fine buck through the lands of
William Arbaugh, in Greenbrier county, w.
Va, the animal came at bay near the house, and
Mrs. Arbaugh Selling her husbands rifle, shot
it dead 1t was one of the finest killed in the
mountains this season, and the bullet went
straight to the brain.
Mamie and Annie Aries, aged respectively
Z and years, were playing on the ice on the
canal at Jersey City, n. j., Sunday afternoon,
when the ice broke and they fell into the water
John Barton, a boy of IL years, ran to their as
sistance and succeeded in getting them out of
the water, but before he reached the shore
Annie, the youngest of the two died in his arms
The steamers Once Joseph and Ortgia COL
lided in the Mediterranean Sea, one night last
week. The Oncle Joseph sank soon after the
collision, 200 out of the 2G4 persons on board
perishing in the water The Ortigia was but
little injured. Much uneasiness is felt in this
ntry nd EnrnrNn ns is nod hat
number Of Americans and Englishmen were on
board.
The steamer Shirley caught fire at West
Point, near Richmond, on Sunday night and
was destroyed large quantity Of cotton and
other merchandise on the wharf was also de-
stroycd, together with several warehouses. The
wharves, sheds, &c, which were burned, covered
ten acres Of ground. The loss is nearly half a
million dollars, on which there is partial in
surance.
A steamship which arrived in New York
last Friday, brought forty-two Norman stations
The prevailing color is an iron gray, though a
number of them are black They have very
strong thick neck and shoulders, sloping hips,
large legs, well covered with hair, and full and
long names and tails. They weigh from 1,G00
to 2, 900 pounds, and stand II to Is hands in
height. The horses in this lot cost from 5000
to 81 900 each.
On Friday last Albert, seventeen year old
son of Hon. John Richie, Of Frederick, Nd,
while balancing himself on baluster on the up
per story of his fathers residence, over an area
which extends from the lower to the upper floor
of the house, lost his balance and fell distance
ofabout 20 feet His body turning in the descent,
struck the balustcr near the lower floor and
lodged on the stairway, breaking his colar-bonc
and receiving numerous bruises.
Herman Lehman, young man 25 years of
age, has been on trial this week at Westminster,
Md, on the charge of attempting to wreck n
freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, last July, by placing cross-tie on the
track. His discovery and arrest were made by
Michael j. Corcoran q detective in the employ
of the company, who disguised himself as n
tramp, and after two weeks search arrested
Lehman, after he had admitted placing the tie
on the track
The captain of the British steamship Sand.
bingham obtained permission to take his vessel
into the U. s. dock yard at Norfolk for repairs
On the way in he colided with schooner,
whereupon the British son of Neptune swore
like the army in Flanders at the "Yankec'' skip
per, as he termed him. Commodore Hughes, in
charge of the dock-yard, being determined to up
hold the honor of the starry flag and the universal
Yankee nation, ordered the profane Britisher to
take his vessel out at once. The Secretary of
the Navy has approved Commodore Hughes
course and the captain ofthe steamer. explains
when too late, that his words were only APP
plicable to the lubberly skipper of the schooner
and not to the entire U. s. navy.
BEET SUGAR-The new sugar mill of the Della
ware Beet Sugar Co., at Riverside, short dis
lance above Wilmington, commenced operations
last Monday, and is working up fifty tons OF
green beets per day. Last year the entire pro
duct of sugar beets in Delaware amounted &c
about 800 tons, but this season the company eX
pect to obtain from three to four thousand tons
of better beets than last year, the cultivation
having been better understood. The beets al