The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-02-20
The Egis and Inttelllige1loer.
BEL AIR, Md, FEBRUARY go, 1880
Condensed News.


The price of coal has advanced 25 cents ton
Pigeon shooting has been prohibited a
Newport, II. |.
The Pope has written an encycical Letter
against divorce.
The funeral of Mr.. T. W. Bennett the we'll
known auctioncer, took place in Baltimore or
Tuesday.
AT the Pennsylvania local elections, on
Tuesday the Democrats carried York, Lancaster
and Allentown.
"A tramp who stole an overcoat and lady's
cloak from q store at Dongala, ILL.,, was pursued
by seven men, who overlook, shot and killed
him.
Herman p. Allen, q respected citizen of
Sandwich, ILL.,, was murdered by burglars who
entered his room and shot him as he arose in
his bed and addressed them
The wife of Adam Murray, living near New
Glasgow recently gave birth to five children,
three girls and two boys. They are finely dcvcl-
oped and at latest accounts were doing well.
james jackson was killed on Tuesday night,
on Light street, Baltimore while endcayoring
to get on the front platform of Il street car. lie
was thrown beneath the wheels and killed
In a fight during dance at st. Benedict,
Charles county, on the 9th instant, james Z.
Butler stabbed and killed George Blake Both
men were colored and whisky was at the bottom
of the affair.
"A railway train earring n Spanish Govern
ment treasure chest was stopped by sixteen brig
ands. They werc however, repulscd by Mar
shall Serrano, who was passengerand took COM
mand of the five train-guards.
j. p. Hartman, of the well known firm of
j. p. Hartman Il Son dealers in gentlemen's fur
nishing goods, of Baltimore, died on Monday, af-
ter short illness The business will be contin-
ued by his son, Wilton H. Hartman.
No tidings have been heard of Mr. John Al
len, the missing Baltimore merchant His ac-
counts were all correct, but it is believed that
lie went away voluntarily on account of other
than pccunary trouble. His wife thinks he
must have been insane when he left her
Sidney Shores, Somerset county farmer,
who married his young step daughter, n child Of
IL years, has been arrested, together with Rev
Iachariah Brown, who is said TO have performed
the ceremony. The law provides that no man
shall marry his step daughter under penalty of
$500 fine.
Page Wallace colorcd p years of age, who
committed an outrage on Mary Marmon, 40 wears
of age, as she was returning from Point of
Rocks to her home in Loudoun county, Va,
while being conveyed from Hager8town jail to
Leesburg, for trial. was taken from the officers
by crowd of masked men, on Monday, and
hanged.
The Duchess of Marlborough says the dan
ger ofan Irish famine appears to be over, but
that the committee must spend 5000, 900 week
for six weeks longer in order TO close their
labor successfully. The Dublin Mansion House
committee have returned thanks to Mr. James
Gordon Bennett for his gift of 100000 to the
New York Relief Committee
Louis Marburg, of the firm of Marburg
Bros, manufacturers of tobacco, OF Baltimore,
committed suicide in llomewood Park on Tues.
day, by shooting himself with pistol. In one
uf his pockets was found an aHGc!ionatc letter
to his brother, stating that while surrounded
with everything to make him happy and com
Portable, yet owing to his unhappy condition and