The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-04
The Egis and Intelligencer;
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 4, 1880.
Condensed News.

About 81, 600 Texas cattle are about to b
started to market. .
DIR. Robert Fulton, well-known physician
of Baltimore city, died on Saturday, aged z
years.
john Murphy, the ell-known publisher ant
bookseller, of Baltimore, died on the 9th o
May, after short illness.
"A prize fight between Jack Fleet and George
Turnbull, at McKeesport Pa, on Monday re
suited in a victory for Turnbull after sixty-siS
rounds.
The first new wheat of the season was re
ceived at st. Louis Saturday from Fort Worth
Texas, and sold at auction on Change for 81. 621
per bushel.
The "Gem Puzzle" has reached Germany
Bismarck has tried it, and in the German Reich
stag one day recently almost every member was
working at it.
-Davy Crockett is said by Mrs. HANG, the
sole survivor of the Fort Alamo massacre, to
have cared only for fiddling, swearing and fight
ing the Mexcans
Steinbach, on Baltimore street, near Light, Bal
tmore, was destroyed by fire, last Saturday
morning. Loss Sl7,000-fully insured.
George Washington Brown, colored, was
run over and instantly killed, Friday evening,
while walking on the track ofthe Northern Cen
trail Railway at Texas, Baltimore county.
The court of inquiry in the case of Whitta-
ker, the colored cadet, has sustained the opinion
of the recorder that the outrage was perpetrated
by Whitaker himself General schofeld has
Ralph Sanders, aged 10 years, was MORALLY
wounded in Harrisburg, Pa, on Sunday, by a
boy while loading revolver, the hammer hay
ing slipped out of the latter's hand. Sanders
lived fifteen minutes after the shooting.
Three families in Marietta-Fish, Fried and
Myers-bought quantity of pressed beef from
a butcher. Having partaken of the beefat vari-
GUS meals every member of the families became
ill., several suffering intensely
Three female inmates of the institution in
New York known as the Holy Family have been
arrested, charged with arson. One of them
pleads guilty to having. set the place on fire in
order to give them an opportunity to escape.
One colored man was killed and several
wounded in terrible riot growing out of col
lision between county policemen and colored
people after the Decoration Day ceremonies at
Laurel Cemetery, Baltimore county, on Monday.
"A telegram was received at the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue, on Monday, announcing arrest
of the noted Illicit distiller Berong, his three
sons and ten Others, engaged in Illicit distilation
in Northeast Georgia Deputy Collector Davis
recently made the arrests.
The town of Savoy, Texas, on the Texas Pa
ciflc railroad, was totally destroyed by cyclone
last Friday night. Nine persons were killed,
and sixty wounded; nineteen business houses, n
depot and twenty dwellings were destroyed
Only five houses in the place were not damaged
Last Friday night, near st. John, N. b.,
John Drury, deaf and dumb, aged 60 years, shot
and killed one of his brothers, and also shot and
wounded another. He then went out and
set fire to the outhouses and finished by blowing
out his own brains. dispute about property
led to the crime.
Distressing accounts are received of the out
RACES of Indians in New Mexico; $50 persons
have been killed, and great dissatisfaction is felt
at the conduct of the campaign by General Hatch
Outrages are also reported at North Park, Wy.
Ter, and near Bismarck, where several mail
coaches have been robbed.
Frank letter, carpenter of Willlamsport
Pa, after retiring to bed on Sunday was seized
with hemorrhage of the lungs. He rushed to an
open window and the sill being low fell out, and
struck the ground two stories below. He was
dead when picked up, though no bones were
broken, nor was his skull crushed.
AS Francis Thomas, of Sandy Springs, Md,
was asleep In his wagon while driving home from
Washington an audacious thief stole one OF his
horses. He discovered his loss when he awoke,
and mounting the other horse rode back to
Washington and recovered the stolen animal
from a bazaar. The rogue was also arrested.
Owing to O misplaced SWITCH freight train
No. 81, on the Great Western Road, ran off the
track short distance west of Smcoe, Ont. The
engine and twelve cars rolling down the twenty
foot embankment and catching fire, were soon
reduced to ashes. The engineer, Frederick Chill
colt, was killed, and his body was afterwards
found burned almost to q cinder.
"A boy named Peter Crowl, of Beaver county,
Pa, being cruelty treated by his step-fathcr,
Jared Williams, on Sunday morning committed
suicide by shooting himself through the heart
Three years ago his sister, girl of 16years, was
driven from her home by the same cruel step
parent, and drowned herself in stream near by.
The annual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal churches of the diocese of Maryland,
which includes the city of Washington, was in
session in st. Peters Church, Baltimore, from
Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon of
last week. Bishop Pinkney presided. The
opening sermon was preached by Rev. Mr.. Cor
don, of Prince Georges county.
"A Crackersport cat lost u litter of kittens
through the agency of the wicked small boys of
Crackersport. A few days ago she gave birth to
better protection than their little dead brothers
and sisters she made a nest for them in hollow
tree on the farm of David Stephen. The en-
trance to the trunk was fifteen feet from the
ground, and having thus rcctified her frontier
the cat is now enjoying life.
George Thompson, colorcd seaman on the
Baltimore schooner Mignonette, while on the
way from Georgetown to Richmond killed the
captain, MiltonB. Frank, of Baltimore, the cook,
VIM Gage, and severely wounded the mate
William W. Selby, of Wicomico county, Md
Thompson then left the vessel and is supposed
to be hiding in the woods in Mathews county
Va. The murderer is said to be giant in size
and strength.
Mrs. Mary Hood, aged thirty-fvc years, wife
of Mr.. Ephraim Hood living at Plane No. 4, n
station on the main line of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, in Frederick county, committed
suicide between 4and o'clock Monday morning
by hanging herself She arose from her bed
washed and dressed herself about 4 o'clock, and
went into the meat or smoke-house and deliber
ately hung herself with an improvsed rope, made
from bed-tick cut into strips Her husband
was in bed fast asleep at the time she committed
the act. He can assign no cause for his wife's
deed, as they have always lived very happily
together. 1t is generally believed that she must
have been laboring under q temporary alteration