The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-05-13
The Egis and Intelligencer
Current News.

current NEWS.
jay Cooke. on Friday last, repurchas ed h
magnificent home "OgontZ," near Philadelphia
for $ll3,5
In quarrel over calfnear Dayton, Mlnneso
ta last Saturday, Herman Fransch stabbed AM
killed man named Hoffman.
Jennie Jewell, of Oakdale, Is years of age
drank bedbug poison for water on Saturda,
evening, from the effects of which she died.
AT the locomotive works at Providence,
l., John Donavan, aged 20, was stabbed with
file by Frederick Glover, and died almost i'm
medlately.
Michael Nees committed suicide in New
York last Saturday by taking poison He lief
property valued at $4,000 No motive for thu
deed is known.
In the Fulton county (Ga.) superior court
Monday, j. c. Barton, young lawyer of At
lanta, was sentenced to four years imprison
ment for perjury.
A woman named Mason, whe had been sup
ported by charity for long time, died at Rome
N Y, when it was found that she owned a con.
siderable amount ofproperty.
The Senate Judiciary committee reported
adversely on the nomination of Hon. Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio, as associate justice of the
supreme court, and his nomination, it Ii
thought win be rejected.
B. +. Benson, of Baltimore, has invented q
steam-plow, which, at recent trial, plowed a
field at the rate of Is acres day. 1t can be run
over soft ground, AS il lays down and takes up
track for itself 1t requires three men TO
run il.
A negro boy, aged Is, who admitted that he
had outraged an eight year old negro girl and
afterwards murdered her in the most cruel man.
ner, was taken from Bienyille parish jail at
Sparta La, on Sunday night, and shot to death
BY party of fifty men, mostly colored.
1t is thought that Mrs Mary Patterson, the
hril w n m II ted snioila 10
the Girard avenue bridge, in Philadelphia was
prompted to the act by seeing the posters ad-
vertisng a story paper, in which girl is de-
pcted as falling from the bridge between New
York and Brooklyn.
Mrs. Sarah Henderson, a woman aged ~, in
New York, was the sufferer on Sunday from an
attack by her married daughter, who while in
toXicateG struck her with a wash-board, break
ing both arms and inflictng severe cash on
her head The injured woman wandered into
the street to seek for aid, and was taken To the
hospital.
SHAp MATCHING on THE CHEsAPEAKE.-The
Wilmington Morning AeteS Las an interesting de-
scription of a visit TO the government fish hatch
ing establishment ON Spesutia Island, in the
Chesapeake, four miles below iiavrc de Grace,
aud the Fishhawk, vessel built to facilitate
the labors OF the commission. Near the light
house on the island basin has been construct
ed, which in the future will be used to cOntnc
the shad caught in seines, until they prepared
for spawning. The Matching at present is ac-
complished on scow, the spawn and melt
being taken from shad caught by fishcrmen.-
The eggs and melt are then mixed together,
and the Matching is completed in from four to
eight days, according to the temperature of the
water used in the cones in which the eggs are
placed. Three million eggs have been taken,
which will be increased to fifty millions before
the close of the season. The young shad are
either liberated in the Chesapeake or sent in
cans to be set free in some river where shad
have been hitherto unknown. The extraordi-
nary glut of shad in the Susquehanna and
Chesapeake is credited to the aborof the Fish
Commission during the last seven years. The
young shad Matching out in the Chesapeake have
been set free iu the rivers of Mississippi, Nilsson
ri, Kansas, Minnesota, and of nearly all the
states along the Ohio and Mississippi, and mil
lions of shad have returned to the streams from
which the eggs were taken, and also to the riv
ers stocked with the young shad.