The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-11-26
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd, NOVEMBER 80, 1880.
Condensed News.

COnuenSeu NEWS.
Gen. and Mrs. Garfield have arrived in
Washington.
Six Alexander Cockburn lord chief justice
of the Queens Bench, died at London, Satur
day night.
Justice Clifford, of the Supreme Court con.
tinucs to improve, and is no longer thought 10
be dangerouslyil.
"A Coatesvlle, Pa, girl was challenged to
husk twenty-five shocks of corn in day. She
went to work, completed the task by O'Clock
and won $3.50.
-Ex-Gov. james d. Williams, of Indiana,
Familiarity known as "Blue Jeans William"
died at Indianapolis last Saturday, in'the I'D
year of his age.
Through the carelessness of the election Off
GERS Hancock elector was accidentally elected
in Indiana One of the Garfield electors was
also elected in California.
Elk President Mark Hopkins, of Williams
College, of which institution General Garfield
WAS graduate, probably will act as chaplain
at his former pupils Inauguration.
baroness Burdett- Coutts is warm friend
to the fisherman of Great Britain and Ireland.
She has just given them Sl4,25O to help them
start in business the coming season.
The freeze caught hundreds of canal boats
in the Erie canal. They were laden with grain
of various kinds, and the result was an advance
in the price of grain in New York and other
places.
Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, has been
presented by the grand jury, on charge of APP
pointing certain register of voters, and than
demanding from him portion of his salary,
which was paid him.
"A magnificent monument, that will cost
one million eight hundred thousand dollars, Is
to be erected by Italy to the memory of the late
King Victory Emmanuel, rs the founder and
first sovereign of united nation.
Charles Dean of Collector, Pa, went coon
ipr wit a fri bn ,,th A
was freed, and while his friend cut down the
tree Dean watched for the coon. The tree fell but
Dean did not succeed in getting out of the way
and was crushed to jelly by the trunk.
Franklin Baker, whose home was near
Coatesville, Pa, was killed on Saturday while
falling tree. lie had cut almost through the
butt without notiching his progress, and when
the tree began to fall he was unable to run fast
enough to get out of the way of the wide spread
ing limbs.
The house of colorcd man named Frisby,
near Church Hill, Queen Anne's county, Md,
took fire on Wednesday of last week, while
Frsby and his wife were away from home at
work, and their four children, aged six weeks
three five and seven years, respectively, were
burned to death.
During great snow storm, last Saturday
night, three vessels went ashore in Lake Erie.
The crews of two OF them got ashore during the
night, but the other vessel beat on the rocks all
night. The next morning the lifc-saving station
men shot line to the ship just as she caught
fire and rescued the crew of seven men and one
woman, almost frozen to death.
The bodies of two unknown men were
found last week on Cranberry beach, at the head
of Chesapeake bay, Cecil county, Md. One of
them was about 40 years of age, medium size,
light sandy mustache and bald head the other
about 35 years of age, rather stout, sandy com
plexion and no beard. Nothing was found on
either one Of them that would lead to identity.
nnp l. n,
residence of a coal dealer named Kercscy, early
on Saturday morning. The burglars, three men
with blackcned faces, entered the room of Mrs
Kercsey, who is partly paralyzcd and unable
to resist cbloroiormed her and riiGd bureau
drawer Of twelve hundred dollars in gold TWEEN
ty-dollar down to fvc.dollar pieces, and six
hundred dollars in tfty-dollars greenback notes
-Esoofally lliptala, a Bombay merchant
prince of immense wealth, arrived in New York
last Saturday, bringing his four wives with him
One OF them was only twelve years of are
They were dressed in true Oriental splendor-
Through their noses arc pierced holes from
which hang rings of diamonds, pearls and other
precious stones Their cars are almost hidden
by huge ornaments, and all of them wear around
their shoelcss feet bands ofsilver and gold inlaid
with precious stones. His visit is one of plea
sure merely.
Queen Victoria has presented to the United
States government massive writing table,
made from the oak timbers ofthe ship Resolute
belonging to Sir John Frankln's Arctic expcdi.
ton. Sir John Franklin sailed in 1851, and his
fate was never positively known. In 1865 Cap
tain Buddington of an American whaling YES
sci, found the Resolute abandoned and lowed
her to port. She was repaired and presented TO
Queen Victoria, who returns the compliment in
the manner above stated.
Hon. John Lee Chapman, cx-mayor of
baltimore, died in that city on the 18th, Instant
in the 69th year of his age. When 4 young
man he became a clerk in u drug store, and
afterwards opened drug store on his own ac-
count. Subsequently he engaged in the manu-
facture of glass ware. In politics he was first
an old-inc Wing, and became an active mem
Der of the Union party. Since the war he has
been Republican. In 1862 he was elected
mayor, and reelected in 1864. In 1866 he was
again elected, but went out of Office when the
new constitution of 1867 was adopted AT the
time of his death he was U. S. Storekceper.