The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-03
The Egis and Intelligence
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 8, 1881.
Current News.


An Arkansas girl refused to marry her love
unless he performed some heroic deed. ii
eloped with her mother.
j. E. Williams, of Petersburg, Va, wa
found dead on the public road, few miles fror
the city, on Thursday night last.
Charles X. Thompson, wcll-known Mary
lander, died of erysipelas, after few days i'll
ness, at Ration, New Mexico, on Saturday.
AT M. II. Sanfords stock farm, near Lexing
ton, KY, last week, eighteen yearling colt
Were sold for Sli,050, or an average of S9i7 pc
head.
"A 14-year old son of Jonathan Randolph, o
Hawlcy, Pa, was instantly killed last week b,
the discharge of a gun which he was carelessl,
handling.
On Sunday Edwaad Desendorf, composition
on the New York Sun, shot his wife Sarah ant
then shot aud killed himself His wife will re
cover. He was jealous of her.
Last Saturday, at Chicago, John Grscom, o
New York, began a forty-tivc days fast, in imi
tation of DIR. Tanner. During this period h,
proposesto exist entirely upon water.
The stallion Abdallah, Jr., brother to Gold
smith Maid, and horse of fine record as tIot
ter and sire, died of poison at the home of his
owner in Williamstown, Mo-, few days ago
Michael Ernst was struck In the head with
stone, ut Buffalo, N. Y, last week He had
partly recovered, but while smoking, on Friday
night, he set fire to his bed and was badly burn.
ed, causing his death.
An Easton, Pa, school teacher locked up
one of her girl pupils on Friday for refusing to
recite her lessons The girl jumped out of the
window and ran away The distance she jump.
ed was fully two stories, yet she sustained no
injuries
Nat Harris, q prisoner at Harrisburg, is try
ing hard to commit suicide. On Thursday last
he cut his throat on Friday he tore open the
wound, and on Saturday made an attempt to
hnn inns hiu nffnr harn han,
cessful, and now he is under strict surveillance.
Miss Mary Mathews, 20 years ofage, a daugh-
ter of Edward Mathews, of Woodbury., Bal
timore Co., was drowned from the yacht Queen
NAB, in the Delaware river off Racoon creek,
Saturday night. She was knocked over board
by the boom as the vessel was changing her
tack.
Eight houses near Mallow, County Cork
Ireland, belonging to farmers, have been burned
to the ground, il is supposed by an incendiary
An ARRAY, arising from process serving, has oc
cured near Carrick, in which several persons
were wounded, Two Of them are in preca
ri0us condition.
The laws of Kansas are very favorable to
the farmer and stock raiser in respect of exemp-
ton from execution and sale. lie is secure in
the possession of sixteen acres of land with all
improvements of whatever character, his impc
ments and machinery, two horses, two cows,
ten pigs, and the years crop.
HAT ID ptIltfeu 10 nave Deen misplaced
switch at Bear Swamp, four miles east of Tren-
ton, on the New York Division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, on Monday afternoon caused an
accident resulting in the killing of two persons
and the wounding, more or less seriously, OF
twenty more.
Mrs. Rosa Taylor, an aged widow, has been
arrested in Newark, N. j., on the charge of tro-
cious assault and battery. In a moment ofanger
she threw large paving stone ut ten-year-old
boy named Michael Mccarthy, striking him on
the head and fracturing his skull. The boy is
now in dying condition.
AT Indianapolis, on Monday, John Zurich, an
ex.policeman and ex-saloon keeper whose wife
had applied for divorce, shot her and her ia
ther and then shot himself. Zurich has since
died. Mrs. Eurich's condition is critical, but she
will probably recover. Her father was but
slightly wounded.
AT Little Rock, Ark, on Monday, two
young men, Trent and Strickland, qurrrelled
over some trivial matter, and then fought duel
with knives. Both were terribly cut and will
die. The flesh on Stricklands arm, was cut into
shreds, and large pieces of flesh were cut from
the legs and other portions of the body
Emma Agne, 26 years old, patient in the
Bloomingdale Asylum, N. Y, under treatment
for suicidal mania, was found hanging by sheet
to the closet door of her room early on Sunday
morning. She had been dead several hours
She had put a dummy in her bed so that her alb
sence from it would not be missed by the at
tendants.
Monday May 30th, was the day which is
annually set apart for the purpose of paying
tributes of respect to those who died in the I'm
lon cause during the late war. The day was
celebrated in an imposing manner everywhere
In the country, by the delivering of addresses
firing minute guns and strewing flowers on the
graves of Union Soldiers
On Monday at Coyles FERRY, on the Sus-
quehanna, opposite Marietta, Pa, John Coylc,
rad of ha h,t
killed Emily Myers, beautiful girl, aged 20, be-
cause she refused to marry him, and then at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting himself
His wounds which were slight were attended 10
and he was then taken to York and placed in
Jail.
Mr.. Adolphus e. Schacfer, aged So wears,
was found dead in his room, in Baltimore, Mon
day. On his bed was an empty Derringer pistol
and on the bureau, near by, was a bottle of lau-
danum, full and unopened. The body, which was
in state of decomposition, showed Mr.. Schaef-
er had been dead several days 1t is suppos-
ed that sickness had unsettled his mind and led
to suicide.
Mr.. Harlan Herbert of Howard county, is
having building erected on his place. few
miles from Baltimore, for he purpose of estab-
fishing fruit aud vegetable canning establish
ment. The building will be equipped with the
necessary machinery, and operations will be
commenced in u few weeks This will be the
county.
Steps were taken in Baltimore, on Tuesday,
for organizing and incorporating the "lndus-
trial Exposition and Musical Festival Assucia-
ton," for holding annually industrial, hort-
cultural and art exhibitions and musical iesti-
walls, for the purpose of making Baltimore city
more attractive to strangers Among those in
terested in the project are Mayor Latrobe A.
s. Abel, John w. Mccoy, Robert Garrett and
others.
The Opdyke wood, where the Nina Muller
murder took place, near Weehawken, N. j., is
the scene of another sensation. beast or
"wild man of the woods" is the occupant of
cave, into which he crawls on hands and feet
when disturbed. A hunter, thinking it was
in dismay, and crawled into the cave. A lock
of shaggy hair was cut from his head by the ball,
which fortunately missed his head,
Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Jemison, the
wife of a well-todo farmer, living near Newark,
Del, committed suicide by hanging herself to q
loist in the loft of her husbands house. She
was doubtless suffering from temporary nsani
ty.I Two years ago her father killed himself
while temporarily insane, in Bridgeton, N. j.
Her mother dropped dead at his funeral To
add to this strange list of horrors, her brother
shot Enthusiastically or while insane.
In Baltimore, on Monday, several little boys
were playing in q cellar capturing Indians with
an old army musket. One of the boys in order
to frighten some other boys who were on the
pavement placed common paper percussion
cap on the tube of the musket and pointing it
through the window, pulled the trigger. The
gun was discharged and the whole load, consist
ing Of ball and three buckshot, struck Charles
Freeburger aged nine years, blowing out his
brains. The gun had been loaded for eight or
ten years and caps had been frequently snapped
upon 1t without discharging it.
The anniversary exercises of the McDonogh
Farm School took place at the institution, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, near Baltimore,
last Saturday An excellent address was made
to the boys by Hon. VIM. Pinkney WHITE,
medals were given to Charles Sumwalt and
Charles d. Delphey for excellence in elocution,
and the alumni address was made by VIM. Irv-
inu Jouna of Washinptap Tho