The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-15
Current News.

"A heavy shock of earthquake was felt ON
Sunday morning in the central part Of Calfor-
mia.
Judge John CLANCY, who died near Column
bus, Ohio, on Sunday, was the oldest eX -member
of Congress in the United States, having been
born in Maryland in 1893.
The Russian Nihilsts, who were tried at
St. Petersburg, for the murder of the Car were
found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. They
consist of four men and one woman.
Two tramps intoduced the smallpox into
the Berks county, Pa, almshousc and insane
hospital. The disease has spread and last Fri
day and Saturday there were four deaths and
thirty new cases.
A young man near Chrstiana, Del, read al
manacs and other medical works, until he i'm.
agined himself affected with all manner of all
ments and while in this melancholy condition
committed suicide by cutting his throat with II
penknife.
Some idea of the vast extent of operations
in stock, at New York, may be gathered from
the fact that it is proposed to add six millions
of dollars to the revenue by imposing tax Of
one mill on every share of stock bought or sold
at the stock exchange.
Francis Bedell, Il destitute colored man,
hanged himself on Sunday in the cellar OF a
boarding house in Brooklyn, where he had been
sheltered out of charity by the butler. He was
sent into the cellar to get coal, but not return
ing, was sought out, and found suspended with
q chain, the end of which he had wrapped
around his neck.
Tobacco has become an important product
of Wisconsin. Formerly in inferior quality
was planted and sold to a small extent as low
as two to six cents n pound; but now that Il
finer grade known as wisconsin Havana" has
been substituted it has sprung into favor, and
the demand for it at twelve to fourteen cents Il
pound is rapidly increasing.
Nevada farmers are in quandary. When
those in Carson valley began to plough they
found they were turning up whole beds Of grass
hoppers. The Virginia Chronicle says that if
they cultivate the crops they will be eaten by
the grasshoppers, aud if they do not stir the
soil they will have no crops Farmers have
suspended ploughing to consider the matter
Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. John Sherman and other
Washington ladies have issued an appeal for
the sufferers by the recent terrible earthquake
on the island of Chic, in the Grecian Archipea-
go. Seven thousand persons were crushed and
bruised in the ruins of their houses, ten thous.
and more have been eXtrcated wounded and dy-
ing and forty thousand more are left home
less and impoverished.
Ross was the name of colored man who
met horrible death in the Lakes district Dor
chester, few days ago He was drunk and
WIS driving team of oxen towards home. His
head fell between the feloes of one of the wheels
and his neck was torn apart The first pinch of
pain evidently had sobered him, for the imprint
of his teeth in the solid oak of the telloes showed
that he had tried frantically 10 stop the wheel
But the oxen drew on and the mans brains
we've scattered in the rut.
One day while waiting for his carriage at
navre de Grace, Jacob Tome spoke rather i'm
patiently to the hostler, when the latter, de-
crepit, rum-smtten hangeron of the establish
ment, turned upon the rich man, saying -
"Look here, Jake Tome, you needn't be so fusty !;
knowed you when you was nothin' but ahost-
Ter yourself" THAT'S true" said the unrutlled
Tome, "but was good hostler."- Wiimiag-
ton NerS.