The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-12-31
lis and Intelligencer.
Md, DECEMBER 81, 1880.
Condensed News.

Condensed News.
teys are retailing from the stores in
Va, at seven cents pound.
were hired for $40 an hour in Wash
londay. Rather costly luxury.
o. Howard has been appointed TO
ut West Point Military Academy,
Gen. Schofeld.
oseph White, an old steamboat cap
d Washington, on Sunday, after q
of pneumonia.
lal of Mr.. Parnell and other members
bid League, indicted for conspiracy,
Il at Dublinson Tuesday.
n 3Sihy Deiters, who belonged to Napo-
.,ss EGuard, and participated In the battles
atz and Waterloo, died at Wheeling,
Friday.
Y, Camden, N. Y, on Sunday, Henry
VI aged 20, shot and killed his brother
X, ~ 8ecause their little sister was fonder of
AN of him.
Il va. Talbot, 90 years old, printer, and
81 n the office of Every SATURDAY, ofBalti-
!. y. US stabbed and killed in beer saloon,
e. ~ mas eve, by William Calender.
4 & brothers named Mitchell, living in
N AsYl county, Va, got to drinking while
\. AtssA their Christmas purchases in Lynch
y 1tsta on their way home one of them perish
p Mary Wood, over 100 years of age,
4 ried In Philadelphia on Monday. She
4g5e to read without spectacles the day be-
32& death, and could thread a needle with
eculty.
taf,S John McCloskey, President of Mount
sly's College, died on Christmas Eve, after
Mess OF six weeks. He was noted for his
sstnis learning and his ability. His remains
fkfuried on Monday, Archbishop Gibbons
sing.
Stkfar Bethlehem, Pa, on Monday, Jacob
and his wife were murdered with an axe
vi eph Snyder, who believed that by killing
hll opposition to his marriage with their
ter would cease. Snyder was arrested by
s and hanged.
& Hast Saturday the schooner Emma o. Curtis
rocked in Chesapeake Bay The captain
1--WE men escaped to the shore in boat,
sFtag three men on the sinking vessel. The
\ were rescued by Captain Whittle, of the
fAer Carolina.
NV. I'll. Welde, aged 20 years, aconfectioner,
v Aisquith street, Baltimore, died last Friday
4, ing from the effects of arsenic, taken with
I fdal intent. Trouble in business is stated to
Ne cause of the act. Deceased leaves a wife
three children.
"a school boy in Eliot, Me-, aged IA years,
q% struck on the head with Il book by his
n her on Monday, 18th instant, and died on the
4 after being out of his senses for some time.
S alleged that the blow with the book rup-
I'd blood vessel in his head.
Tom Sullivan, of John Robinson's circus,
IN drunk Christmas day and undertook to
God" an elephant. The latter turned upon
ia and seizing him with his trunk, gave him
Syerful squeeze. Sullivan was sent TO the
apital, and it is feared is fatally injured.
'S-Edwin butcher, n colored boy 10 years of
81, was shot and instantly killed, near Mar
(hnrlng pOuntv
sStant, by young man named Aaron Jackson
'Aey lived in adjoining cabin and quarrelled.
bout some fire wood cut by one of them.
Hay is now selling in San Juan county, Col,
9r $500 per ton. That is pretty well up, but is
ILL far behind what was seen on the Comstock
early days. All old-timers will remember
hen hay sold at 25 cents per pound Green
rass was then retailed. at 10 cents per pound
The youngest telegraph operator in the
anGgcs the office at Williams Ranch, Texas.
nc end of her operating table is piled full of
ably dolls, which she dresses and undresses with
hildish delight. At the same time she under
lands and performs her business thoroughly.
Last Friday morning, at Bayview Asylum,
ear Baltimore, Sylvanus Griffin, an insane in
nate, became angry with Joseph Webster,
mother inmate, and seizing him cut his throat
nth clasp knife. Griffin then escaped from
he institution and has not been rccaptured.-
Vebster's wound is not considered dangerous.
Ed. Nissan, colorcd waiter, of Newark,
!. D., came home drunk, on Christmas day, and
murdered his wife by beating her with club
le then dragged the body up stairs, placed it in
ed and slept with the corpse all night. An
dopted son, ten years old, was witness of the
orrible affair, and made Unknown Kissam was
rrested.
On the 18th Of October, 1870, Mrs. Alfred
nrleOn. of HftlOE enpt hnfr littIa bo,,
&c Ii, on on errand. He never returned, and
Though search was made for him. he was
ever found. On Thursday last she sent her lit
10 girl, aged II, on another errand, and she
lso failed to return. 1t Ia thought both child
n were kidnap ped.
Reports of intensely cold weather were re-
eived Tuesday night fro N all parts of the coun-
y. In Chicago the thermometer went down to
s degrees below zero In the northern part of
exas there was heavy snow. Canada also has
cen visited by n severe snow storm, and in the
northwest the Thermometer was down Us low as
0 degrees below zero.
"A frightful railroad accident occurred on the
ir-Line railroad, nine miles from Charlotte, N.
:, on Monday. Fourteen cars of a freight
ain broke loose in ascending heavy grade,
Id freight train following ran into them. The
Irs were tesecoped and piled up in the greatest
Several cars caught fire and three
ersons who were killed by the collision, were
barred beyond recognition.
Two tramps, Barney Duffy and John Mahoney,
n Christmas evening, laid down on n cinder
I'd near an iron furnace, at Paterson, n. j.
utfy was overcome with gas from the smould-
ing heap and his companion procured aid and
Irried him TO a hospital. Mahoney then re-
lrned to the cinder heap and laid down He
as found on Sunday morning burned to
lisp, his toes being completely burned off