The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-03-19
The he lMgiss and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Nd, MARCH 10, 1880.
Condensed News.


Secretary Sherman has publicly announced
that he is a candidate for the Presidency.
Gen. Henry A. Thompson, President of the
National Bank of Baltimore, died at his home
in that city, last Friday, in the S0th year of his
age.
dennis Kcarncy, the Sand Lot orator. was
arrested in San Francisco, one day last week, fol
using blasphemous and incendiary language ina
public speech.
DIR. Luther X. Dickinson, editor of the Rich.
mond Planter anil Farmer, has absconded, after
committing forgeres on his brother and broth
ersin-law amounting to S2S,O
The steamship Montana, which left New
York March I'd, ran ashore in fog, while on
her way from Queenstown to Liverpool. The
passengers and mails were saved.
Charles Cathcart Taylor, city editor of the
Philadelphia Times committed suicide, on Sun
day, by shooting himself with pistol, while
suffering from mental alteration, produced by
i'll health.
Mrs Elizabeth Muller, IL years of age, wife
of Andrew Muller, saloon keeper living on
North Paca street, Baltimore, committed sui
eide, on Saturday, by swallowing Il dose of ar
scnic.
The cold is SO extreme in British Columbia
that it is expected nearly all the live stock will
perish before spring. The loss is roughly esti-
mated at 81 100000. The snow lies from three
to five feet in depth.
The fastest time ever made by freight train
between st. Louis and Texas has Just been ac-
complishcd There were twenty cars, with
thousand kegs of lager beer Galveston and
other Texas cities had run out of beer and were
thirsty; Hence the hurry.
An old-fashioncd wood chopping took place
near Milton, Del, the other day under the SUI
pervsion of Peter j. Hart and Charles Burton.
There were ninety-two choppers in the party,
and they cut $50 cords of wood in four and a-half
hours
"A story comes from Howell County, Mo-, of
the murder OF two young girls by their uncle,
who strangled them in order to steal some pen
sion money which their father had left them
A stranger, who had obtained lodging in the
house, discovered the murderer and shot him.
Eleven Masonic lodges of the Scottish Rite
in France, in consequence of disagreement
with the Supreme Council, have formed them
selves into a separate organization, headed by
Scottish Symbolic Grand Lodge. There were
previously but two Masonic bodies, viz, the Su-
preme Council and the Grand Orient.
Miss Florence Seymark of Elizabeth City,
N. C., had arranged to elope with Jonathan Ivy,
young lawyer Her father got wind of the af,
fair and went to 1vy's office and shot him in the
shoulder. servant informed Miss Scymark of
the affair." and she fled from her room in her night
clothes and joined her lover and in this gNrb
was married before her father discovered her
absence.
On Tuesday Judge Brown, of the Supreme
bench of Baltimore city delivered the decision
of the Court in the case of the Concorda club for
selling liquor on Sunday to a member of the
club. The court held that clubs have no more
right to sell liquors on Sunday, even to their
own members, than private individuals have
The motion foI a new trial was overrued, but
the case will probably be reviewedby the Court
of Appeals,
Nathan F. Pratt treasurer of the Reading
Savings Bank, of Massachusetts, was convicted
last Friday of embezzling the funds of the bank,
amounting to $4,000. When the verdict of
guilty was rendered, his counsel presented pa
per containing full confession by Sidney P.
Pratt, son of the convicted man, taking upon
himself the entire responsibility of the defalca-
ton for which his father had been convicted
Pratt's father had no knowledge of his sons pc
culation. The son has left for parts unknown
Seven women and one man, calling themselves
the advance guard of the 'Army of Salvation"
lately arrived in New York. from England
They wear uniform and carry banner having
Il red ground and blue border, on which is an |
American flag and sun, hearing the words
BLOOD and Fire" Their professed purpose is |
To wage war against Satan and his followers |
The society is said to be numerous in England |
several hundred ministers, missionaries, Bible |
women, &c, being actively engaged Their
work, il is said, conforms very nearly To that of
The early Methodists.