The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-09
Condensed News.


Rev Barnes Sears, of staunton, Va, died al
Saratoga on Tuesday.
AT a San Francisco fire six fireman were
burned to death.
The population of Chicago by the complet-
ed census is sol, 979.
The explosion of fire eXtinguisher at 81,
Louis killed fireman on Tuesday.
The explosion of q threshing machine in
Ohio killed seven and wounded eight men,
Col. Edward Lloyd of Talbot, had fine
yoke of oxen killed by lightning last Thursday
night.
From 70 bushels of wheat seeded, George
Moore, of Caroline county, threshed ], 700 bush
els
In duel between Coils. Cash and Shannon
of South Carolina, Monday, Col Shannon, aSGd
sixty, was killed.
AT sea off the coast of Florida, recently, two
columns of fire, 500 feet high, were seen burning
steadily all night.
While firing q salute at Fort Ringgold, N.
Y, Monday, a man had his arm blown off and
was fatally wounded.
Miss Cora Walker, of New York, visiting
Poughkeepsie, had fit in bath-tub and was
scalded to death on Monday.
james Harris and George Zastrow have been
arrested ON the charge of shooting and killing
Michael Connolly, on the North Point road, six
miles from Baltimore, on Monday afternoon.
I'm some parts of the west and south Of Ire
land there has been a decided outbreak of the
dreadful and malignant famine typhus fever
Surely poor Ireland is grievously afflicted
-Arad A. Pearsall, while firing salute on
Monday morning at Brookvillc, Pa, received
the charge in his thigh, causing death in Il few
hours He leaves wife and four little children.
Revenue officers who were assaulted in Camp
bell county, Ca June 2Sd, and in the atfray killed
one man, have been arrested by theState authori-
ties for murder. They will be taken into the
United States Court by habeas corpus.
AT Shelbyville, H., on Saturday night an af-
fray occurred between Elisha Reed and q man
named Freel. The formerflred at Freel, missing
him, and killing his son, only two years old
Reed was arrested.
Mrs. NJ. E. Brevitz Supposed to be a fictiti-
Gus name) shot herself through the head in the
Pennsylvania railroad depot, Jersey City, inflict-
ing fatal wound. The woman is said to reside
in New York, but no clue to her identity has
been found.
Hudson Vanetten committed suicide Mon
day night by shooting himself through the head
with pistol at his farm, four miles from Port
Jervis, N Y, in Montague township, Sussex
county, N. Y. Financial endorsements were
the cause.
"A convict at Jefferson City, Mo-, failed in an
attempt to escape on Monday, He got fellew
convict to nail him up in box in the shoe shop
while engaged in packing up shoes for shipment
His pal was unfaithful, and exposed the plot af
ter mailing up the box.
The new law permitting persons to deal in
tobacco to the extent of Is, 600 pounds year by
paying special tax of five dollars instead of
twenty five dollars, will go into effect at once
Internal revenue officers say it will not affect the
revenue materially, which never exceeds S100, 900
from this class Of Dealers but 1t will aid as part
of the machinery of the department in carrying
into effect revenue regulations. 1t is believed
that the new law will cause material increase
in the production of tobacco for the market, as
there will be greater number of small dealers.