The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-02
Condensed News,


Condensed News.
The people of Talbot county have sent $500
TO the Irish sufferers.
The King of Siam is about to pay visit
to the United States.
-0vcrwork and want of exercise are said to
be telling dsastrously on the health ofthc Pope.
The Catholic Church at Port Deposit, Md,
recently contributed $685. to the Irish Relief
fund.
The French Government have ordered the
Jesuits to leave France. Some of them will 80
to Spain.
General Grant arrived in New Orleans
on Wednesday. Preparations were made to
receive him.
John w. Davis President of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections, has sent his resignation
to Governor Hamilton.
Senator Thurman while making speech
on Tuesday was overcome with an attack ofyer-
tigo and had to leave the Senate.
The frigate Constellation sailed from New
York last Saturday with cargo of food and
clothing for the starving people of Ireland.
The manufacturers of pine and ash furnitm c
met at Worcester, Mass, on Tuesday and decid-
ed to advance prices Is per cent. from date.
-752 immigrants from Germany, Austria, Swe-
den and Norway arrived in Baltimore, from Brc-
mem by the steamer Herman on Sunday even
ing.
-Advices from Madeira announce the arrival
there of the ex-Empress Eugene and party on
board the steamer German, en- route to South
Africa
james Hessler, q carpenter, fell from der
rick Mt Bordell, Pa, on Tuesday, and was in
stantly killed. He was resident of Williams
port Pa.
Burt Lane, boy of II, was fatally wounded
on Saturday, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, by the dis
charge of a pistol that he had in his pocket while
nj work in barn.
Gen. Henry Peasants died at Pottsville, Pa,
last Friday. He was the protector of the Peters
burg mine, which was exploded in July, 1864,
destroying large number of colored troops.
Diplomatic relations are interrupted be-
tween Russia and France on account of the re-
fusal of France to surrender Hartmann, the
Nihist refugee who had been concerned in sew
cral attempts to murder the Gar
Five thousand operatives at the Harmony
wooden mills, Cohoes, N. Y. quilted work on
Monday. SiXty-two hundred looms are thereby
standing idle, and the city mcurs a loss of 1885,
600 week.
Mr. Parnell was not received with any great
amount of enthusiasm in this country, but he
has received less honor in his own At EnniscOr
thy, county Wexford, he was mohbed when he
tried to make speech.
Bertha Buhrman, domestic in the family Of
Col. }. r. Rouzer, of MechanicstOwn, Frederick
county, Nd, was probably fatally burned by
n lamp falling from mantcl piece upon
her as She was making q fire in the stove, early
Tuesday morning.
Judge Edwin Pcndleton prominent citi-
zen of Virginia, died in Winchester last Friday.
He was learned lawyer and an accomplished
gentleman. Judge Pendlcton married Miss
Robinson, of Baltimore, a sister of the late Dr.
Alexander Robinson.
-Upshur Johnston, of the firm of Colds
borough u Johnston, of Baltimore, committed
suicide at his residence, on Sunday morning by
shooting himself through the heart with pistol
No cause is ascribed for the act save that he had
been depressed for some time. He was 81 years
of age.
George Mitchell, painter of San Francisco, |
was arrested at his place Of business on charge
of insanity, preferred by his employer He be-
came insane over the Is, Is, 14puzzle, and cover
ed the floor and walls with figures in attempts |
to solve it.
Coy. Wilt, of Louisiana, has dispatched
two companies of State troops to suppress col |
orcd labor strike in st. John Baptiste. They
are now receiving 10 cents per day and demand |
Sl0O. Hence the strike. The troops are order
cd to prevent disorderly demonstrations.
During gale in New York on Tuesday
Peter Smith, aged so, and Patrick Cantwell, aged
33, tinsmiths engaged on the roof of the Seventh
Regiment Armory, were blown off to the street
below. Smith was instantly killed, his skull be.
ing crushed, and Cantwcll was fatally injured
internally.
-Four foreign steamships have arrived at
New York since Saturday with :, 442 cluigrants |
The City of Berlin alone brought 1,1S4. The
passengers were mostly Of the agricultural class
and were provided with railroad tickets paid
through to the Western States
William II. Kemble, ex-treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania, who failed to appear in Harrisburg on
Monday to receive sentence for bribery left New
York Tuesday. He stated that he was going
home. The other fugitiyes from justice are sup.
posed to be in Canada.
John B. OsseioG artist, has been arrested
in Boston, on suspicion of numbering his wife,
whose body with the throat cut, was found in
their room Saturday morning Osselotf says she
was subject to fits of insanity and that she pos
sessed herselfof his razor and committed suicide
The medical examiner comedies with this view
AT Greensburg, Pa, Saturday night, man
named Chiselm, whose wife had ordered Mac
Dixon, saloon keeper not to sell him liquor
called at the saloon, ordered drinks and on being
refused, quarreled with Dixon, who knocked
him down twice. In the last fail Chiselm struck
on his head and broke his neck Dixon was ar.
rested.
A cyclone struck Waynesburg, Green coun-
ty Pa. last Saturday afternoon. The court house
and other buildings were unroofed eight negroes
were completely buried under wrecked build
ing, woman and child were lifted from their
feet and carried 25 feet along the streets, and
all movable articles We're whired away For
tunately no lives were lost.
Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, of Preston, Caro-.
line county, Nd, while engaged IN sewing last
Saturday night, trimmed the lamp with pair
of scissors, and accidentally dropped piece of
the lighted wick among some clothes on the
floor. They caught fire immediately and set her
wearing apparel on fire. No was in the
house except some children, who were unable to
assist her, and in few moments every particle
of clothing she wore was burned to ashes. She
suffered terribly for two hours when death came
IN harr of