The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-25
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 20, 1880
Condensed News.

Condensed News.
Fifty persons recently persisted from flood
in Prussia.
The crops in France are reported to be bette
than last year. but full yield is not expected.
Henry Jones, n colored hod-carrier, VIII,
works at his trade in Baltimore city, claims t
be 1l2 years of age.
-Bantanti, a Richmond prisoner, killed fel
iow-prisoner named Fearneyhough, and tried tt
butt his OWL brains out.
Prof Gillespie, of Loyoa College, was
drowned, on Monday, while bathing near Canton
Baltimore. He was 81 years of age.
VIM Burke, in Richmond, Va, shot Pat
Harris through jealousy, and then Drained his
wife; he narrowly escaped lynching.
james Currie, who brutally murdered the
actor Porter has been acquitted at Marshall,
Texas, on the ground of insanity.
Arthur Lewis, nine years old, was drowned
at the foot of Chesapeake street, Baltimore, on
Tuesday His companion was rescued by n
colored girl.
$50 of Sitting Bulls hostile Sioux, having
been starved out in Canada, have come to Fort
keogh and surrendered, giving up their arms
and ponies.
AT Leadyille, j, p O'Brien fired at Tom
Hogan, missed him and killed VIM. Cunningham
when Doc Norton, who was present, fired at
O'Brien wounding HIM severely
Mrs. Holseman and her eighteen months old
child were run over by II train at Giant Park
Station Ills, on Tuesday. Mrs. Holseman was
fatally injured and her baby was instantly killed
completed balloon which is an exact copy ofthe
one in which his father made his last ascension
He will make his first ascension in it at Phn-
dclphiaon July 5th.
Mrs. Ursula Humphreyille of Mortified
Conn, who is more than 100 years old, recently
rode to an adjoining town, distant four miles, sat
four times for her photograph, made some calls
and returned home very little wearied.
John Donohue, the leader of gang of bur
glars, has been arrested at Pittsburg, Pa He
Is implicated in about twenty robberies at Read
ing and i'll that vicinity. In the house where he
was arrested two wagon loads of plumber were
recovered.
Patrick Kearney, an Oregon pioneer, who in
1852 threw into the sea a bag of gold, the hard
earnings OF many years, to rescue a little girl
from drowning is still hard at work in mine
on the Pacific coast. He says he does not regret
the loss of the gold
Owing to the scarcity ofharvcst hands near
Republic, Missouri, the wife of John L. Sumner
on Tuesday last undertook to drive the reaper in
the wheat field. BY accident she was thrown
from her scat, and falling in front of the knives
was horribly manglcd, causing death. She leaves
five children, one young infant.
During a storm late Monday evening Joseph
Foster was struck by lightning on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad near Trenton, N j., and was
instantly killed William Doub, of Pittsburg,
was killed on the same road by being run over
by a coal train. He had craw led under the cars
to keep out of the rain.
Father Marcelline, Catholic priest, at the
on Sunday last by stones thrown by two drunken
men while he was Cndeavoling TO prevent them
from destroying the property of a member his
congregation, who kept temperance hotel
Marcelline Is not expected to live.
Some of the farmers OF Camden county, New
Jersey, who on account of the army worm har-
vested their hay earlier than usual and stored II
away in their barns, have been forced TO empty
them on account of the sickeuing smell of the
worm, as it was found that large quantity of
dead worms were in the hay ltisreporcd that
other crops have suffered serious injury by the
worm.
Last Sunday night Rev. Mr.. Harcourt, of
Jersey City, n. D., preached upon The "Nurra-
gansett Slaughter" In his sermon he denounced
the officers and crew of the Narragansett ms COW.
ards. Capt Young, the commander Of the i'll
lated steamer who was present, Immediately
arose and called the preacher liar. The cap
tain was arrested but no complaint being made
he was discharged.
A little boy AZ years old, son of Albert
Wagner Of Baltimore, who had wandered away
from an excursion party Mt Avcndalc, near the
city, on Thursday of last week, was found last
Wednesday in marsh, up 10 his armspits in
mud and water. By careful nursing he will
probably recover He had been in the marsh
six days, and was bleeding from The scratches
OF briars and the biting Of ticks, with which he
WIS covered.
benjamin Fish, 81 years of age, died at Tren-
ton, y. j., on Tuesday, while eating his break
fast. He was known as the most active man for
his age in that State. He was the oldest rail
road man in New Jersey, having been one of the
original projectors of the Camden and Amboy
Railroad in 1882 He was the first man to intro
duce stove coal in Trenton, which he did in 1922
1t took him whole year to sell about load of
it-so little faith had the people in the article.
Gen. John A. Suffer, the discoverer of gold
in California, died in Washington last Friday
When the Mexican war ended he was the owner
of large tract of land given him by the Next
can government. Gold was discovered in mill
race leading to one of his saw mills in 1S4S His
farm was Immediately, overrun by go'ddiggers
and was finally nearly entirely cut up and sub
divided into claims. He was ruined. The State
of California made him an annual allowance and
n claim for $50, 900 was before Congress, but did
not pass before the adjournment. His failure to
get this broke his heart.