The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-01-23
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, JANUARY go, 1880.
Condensed News,

Eliza Nelson, colored 100 years old, died al
the Baltimore City Hospital on Monday
DR.. Joseph w. Taylor, q wellknown ortho.
dox Friend, died near Burlington, N. j., Sunday,
aged 70 years
The price of quininc has advanced and it is
reported that an effort will be made in Congress
to rc-impose the duty upon this indispensable
drug.
In Boston, Monday, Margaret Anderson
stabbed and killed her sister Lizzie Anderson, in
a quarrel about lover. Both were of bad re-
pute.
One hundred lives were lost, miles of ground
were laid waste, 10, 600 homes destroyed and 30,
600 persons rendered destitute by fire in Toxic,
Japan on the Goth of December.
Mrs Maria L. Grew, aged 2S years, was felon-
iousy assaulted and murdered during her hus-
bands absence, in their farm house. ut Groton
Ridge, Mass, on Saturday afternoon. tramp
is suspected of the crime.
Arthur Jordan, negro, was lynched at
Warrenton, Va, Sunday night, by 70 masked
men, for having seduced and abducted a half
witted white girl Jordan was taken from the
Jail, dragged to cemetery and hanged
John Richmond an eccentric old man of 70
years. living near Lynn, Susquehanna county,
Pa, shot and killed Eugene Hawlcy who with
his brother, was in the habit of going to Rich
mond's house, and tormenting him
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, will
leave this country after Easter for nine months
pilgrimage TO Rome. He will go in compliance
with the requirement of the Church that all pre-
lates shall visit Rome once in ten years.
The Eastern Vvyinian says Charles Drum
mond, colored, IL years of age, of Accomac
county, Va, is feet high and has feet 16 inches
long His weight is 215 pounds, and he con-
sumes regularly pounds of meat per day.
AT the county Jail in Frederick, Md, Tues
day morning, tramp named John Riley aged
Sc years, and native of Dublin, Ireland at
tempted self-dcstruction by cutting his throat
with an ordinary three-inch blade pocket knife.
Richard g. Alexander, an estimable young
man of Delaware City, Del, was attacked with
hydrophobia last Friday, the result of a mad
dogs bite received just forty days before. His
sutlerings were terrible until they ended in
death.
The trial of Rev. Ii. ii. Hayden, at Rock
vile, Conn, for the murder of Mary Stannard,
lasted fifty-five days and terminated on Monday,
in disagreement of the jury, eleven of whom
were for acquittal and one for murder in the
second degree.
Rear Admiral Cornelius X. Stribing of the
United States Navy, died in Martnsburg, West
Virginia. on Sunday. Admiral Stribling, who
was about 81 years of age, entered the navy in
1912, served under Decatur in the Algcrine War
and in almost every American squadron in all
the waters of the globe.
In New York, Monday, Mr. Robert Simpson,
proprietor of flshingtackle store, fired at raj
with q revolver, but the ball passed through
the floor into the cel lar and struck Charles II.
Mnrtangh, shipping clerk, in the back, in
flicting wound which the physicians say will
probably prove fatal.
President Hayes has made some changes in
the foreign appointments. james Russell Low
ell has been transferred from the Spanish to
the English Mission; John w. Foster from Mex
leo to Russia; Lucus Fairchild from the con-
sulgeneralship at Paris to the Spanish Mission.
The only new appointment is that of Philip ii.
Morgan, of Louisiana, as minister to Mexico
He is said to have been appointed on recommen-
dation of Kellogg.
Lieutenant Gorringe has found under the
pedestal of the obelisR that is coming to this
country several Masonic emblems of great histor-
ical value. A perfect Masonic altar, Masonic
apron, and so on, are represented on blocks of
hewn Syenite granite General Roome, the Grand
Master OF Masons in New York State, says that
the discovery will be great thing for Masonry.
1t is claimed by many Masons that the soccy
sprang from the Essences, who wore the arc of
three secret societer among the Jews.