The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-02-06
The Egis and Intelligencer,
BEL AIR, Md, JANUARY 80, 1880.
Condensed News.


More deaths from starvation are reported i
Ireland.
The Legislature adjourned last Friday unit
Tuesday.
yellow fever has broken out at scvcra
places in Brazil.
-Elkton has petitoned Congress to appropri
ate $40, 200 for improving the Elk.
William Hopes saw what he swears was
wild cat near Red Hill, Cecil, the other day.
A heavy wind-storm at Albany on Monda,
unroofed a number of business houses and dwell
ings.
Ripe strawberries from Charleston hay,
been received in Baltimore, and green peas ant
tomatoes were expected this week.
"A carriage containing three persons was
struck by n locomotive at Chester, Pa, on Mon
day and two of the passengers received fatal in
juries.
Congress has granted charter to the Amcri
can Agricultural Association, which was organ
zed in New York last December, John Merry
man ofthe Hayfelds, President
General Boynton, of Cincinnati, has pre-
ferred to the Secretary of War formal charges
against General Sherman of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman, and asks that he
be court martialed and tried.
The house of James F. Scott, a wealthy far
mer of Nottingham, VT, was entered by masked
burglars, last Friday night who compelled him
which they took and escaped.
"A son of Henry Loeb and son of Henry A.
Hoh of Reading, Pa, two boys who are between
the ages of twelve and fifteen years, banded
epithcts with each other, Sunday night. The re-
suit was that HoH MORALLY stabbed Loeb in the
back.
"A soldier of the ROYAL Artillery at Halifax,
n. s., disappeared recently, and was supposed to
have deserted On Sunday fellow soldier, while
in fit of deierium tremens, confessed that he
killed his comrtde with q sword and threw his
body in the river.
The Indians in Nevada were selling great
quantities of jack rabbits at very low prices and
it was wondered how they captured them. AT
last it was discovered that thousands of them
had frozen to death and the Indians merely
picked them up and sold them
The treasurer of the Irish relief fund, of
Dublin, acknowledges the receipt OF s25,55O
from the Parncll meetings, NC, of this country
Over $4,000 is now stated to be in the hands of
treasurers in various cities, which amount will
be transmitted without delay.
While Mrs Mary Young and her daughter
Linda, aged 20, were building fire in the public
school building at Middletown, N. Y, on Mon
day the lattcrs clothes caught fire and she was
burned TO crisp. Her mother was also badly
burned in her efforts to save her daughters life
"A house on the farm of Il. A. Snoufier, near
Adamstown, Frederick county, occupied by a
family, was burned on Friday night A child
ten years Ola was Durllcu 10 ucutH anu
was seriously injured. Mr.. Snouifer received
several burns while attempting to save the in
mates and subdue the fire.
"A man was supposed to have died in Ottawa,
Canada, OF small poS. When the grave digger
began to throw the earth on the coffin, he heard
u usty shuffing and kicking within it, and
opening the coffin found the man alive. 1t was
a case Of suspended animation and the man is
likely TO recover
AT, Allentown, Pa, one day last week there
was Il curious procession through the Streets
1t was occasioned by the simultaneous delivery
of eighty mowers and reapers to Lehigh county
farmers. One hundred and fifty ofthe yeomanry
partook Of dinner togetherat a hotel before
starting on their homeward drive.
AT Ottawa, Canada, drunken husband,
last week, went home and quarreled with his
wife, striking her She procured an axe, and
needless of the appeals of her terrified children
dealt him two blows on the back of his head
She then dragged him to the bed and refraned
from calling Il physician until ii was too late.
Near Walton, KY, last Saturday, two broth
ers, VIM. l.. and Benjamin Vest, quarrclcd over
the division of property by their father. The
lie was given, knives were drawn and they began
cutting one another, in the presence of their
father, who vainly tried to stop them. Benja-
min was stabbed twice in the back and mortal
ly wounded. William was only slightly hurt.
Covert D. Bennett and Mrs. Jennie r. Smith,
who were Jointly charged with killing Mrs.
onlltl husband, were acquitted Ut Jersey Clty
Saturday night. Smith was murdered in his
bed, his wife claiming that she slept through it
all. Bennett was Mrs. Smiths paIamour, and
they both wished Smith dead. 1t could not be
proved, however, that either of them struck the
fatal blows
"A colorcd man entered the chamber of
young lady, at Stockton, Worcester county, Md,
one night last week, but was frightened off by
the young lady giving vigorous ALARM few
evenings afterwards he was captured by body
of disguised men, and after confessing that he
intended an outrage, was taken to the woods,
tied up and severely horsewhipped. He was
then ordered to leave the county.