The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-20
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, AUGUST 20, 1850.
Condensed News

COnuenSeu NEWS
AT Rochester, New York, or 18th instant,
st Julien and Maud s. each trotted lmile in2.1 "a
being the fastest time ever recorded.
--Herschel V. johnson, who was a candidate
for Vice President upon the ticket with Stephen
A Douglas, in 1860, died in Jefferson county,
Ga, Monday night.
Capt. Sherwood died at Whitby Ont, on Sun
day, from the effects of morphine given by a
druggists clerk in mistake for quininc, called
for by prescription.
"A girl named Moore II years old, living at
Logansport, Armstrong county, Pa, has lasted
for four weeks and has been reduced to about
fifteen pounds weight.
Hon. D. Proctor Knott is reported to have
been shot and MORALLY wounded near Louisville,
Ky, on Monday, by j. W. Lewis, the Grecnback
candidate for Congress
Five persons who were sleeping in fish
house, at New London Harbor, p E. Island re-
Gently, were stunned by lightning and one of
them was instantly killed
Mrs. Lum Wright of Richmond, was dread
fully burned on Friday morning by attempting
to light fire with kerosene oil. No hopes are
entertained of her recovery
On the day the Cincinnati convention nomi-
mated Hancock, Mrs. Margaret Perry of New
Orleans, gave birth to triplets-two boys and II
girl, who have been named Hancock, English
and America
Edward Parkhurst shot his wife, Fanny
Howell, at Bath, N. Y, on Saturday. They had
been married six years but had never lived
together, their parents having separated them
Immediately after the marriage
"A colored farm laborer named Gill jackson
was bitten by a copperhead Mt Weverton, Wash
ington county, the other day and for time il
was thought he would die. Copious internal
applications of whiskey, however, brought him
all right.
The great corner in wheat organized by JAS.
Inth mil lin,, nirnc ilatn
than year ago, has collapsed, and the partici-
pants have lost several millions of dollars. At
one time the syndicate bought lG 600, 900 bushels
of wheat.
The Rev. Father John Henry Walters, who
died recently in Wheeling, w. Va, was a native
of Montgomery county, Md At the time of his
death he was chaplain at Mount dc Chantal, the
celebrated Catholic educational establishment
in West Virginia.
Much alarm is felt about the disease which
is injecting cattle at Eric Pa. veterinary sur
geon calls it splenis or Texas fever, or more
properly, anthrax. 1t is very contagious and
the breaking out is due to the number of Texas
cattle imported and unlOaded in Erie
John Porte an old resident of Mount Savage
died there on Monday. He had 10 children, 80
grand children and 81 grandchildren, max
ing 100 descendants in ALL One of his daughters
has had II children and another II. One of his
sons has no children Mr.. Porter was "A years
ofage.
Edward Short, the son of farmer of Hart
land, Vermont went on Goat Island on Monday
for the purpose ofcommitting suicide at the Falls
of Niagara, but the sight of the great cataract de-
TERED him and he used pistol instead. He
lodged a ball in his brain, inflicting u fatal
wound.
Throughout many miles in the midland
counties of England the crops are reported,
from the effect of destructive storms, to be
lying rs flat as if large armies had marched over
thn,n ic tal TO hn hn,, hat
the harvest in that country will be any better
than that of 1879.
A little son of &. A Bucham, of Kaufman,
Texas, lost his foot by having it caught in u
mower and the little daughter ofMr. Mennehcn,
of Erin, Wis, had her feet sawed off by the sickle
of reaper. She came up on the wrong side of
the driver to hand him drink. When he laid
down the lines the team started.
Peter Deysher, of Berks county, Pa, recent
ly sold ten tons of hay that had been stored in
his barn titty-four years, being part of the first
rophoused after the barn was built. Had the
foolish man sold his hay and put the money ont
at interest, the principal by this time would
have enabled him to builds new barn.
Mr. Schocrlabor, a farmer near Nauvoo, ILL.,,
was repairing his reaper in the field on Saturday
when his four little children came up and stood
in front of it. lie called loudly to them to 70
away which startled the horses, and they ran
away, moving down two girls, aged five and
eight years. The leg of one had to be amputat-
ed, and both are in II critical condition.
The eight survivors of the Old Defenders
Association met in Baltimore, on Monday, to
make arrangements for celebrating the annivcr-
sary of the battle of North Point. All of them
were present. They consisted Of w. IL. Dan
ekcr, 81 years old; Asbury Jarrett 3d. Nathaniel
Watts, S.; W. Bachelor, 93; George Boss, 81;
Samual Jennings, So; Henry Lightncr, 50, and
ex-Mayor Elijah Stansbury, 80.
w. II. o. Billmirc, the sexton of Mount
Vernon NJ Z. Church, who disappeared last Oc-
tober with several thousand dollars which he
collected from the pew renters, arrived home on
Monday. He tells a strange story of being kid
mapped, robbed and set adrtt at sea in an open
boat. lie says he was picked up by vessel and
carried to China and from thence to British
Columbia. lie made his way from there home
"A well-sprng of pleasure is healthy baby;
keep your baby in good health by using DR. Bulls