The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-05-20
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, Md, MAY 90, 1881.
Current News,

Robert Stewart of Clearield county, Pa
was born on Good Friday, 1871. He is conse
quently now over 100 years old, and few days
ago took his first ride on the steam cars.
Emory Grove, the we'll known camp-meet
ing resort, on the Western Maryland Railroad
is to be sold at trustees sale, on mortgages
amounting to over $12 000 that are past due.
Postmaster General James has stopped Star
route stealings to the amount of nearly half q
million dollars in less than three months, with
out interfering with the "celerity, certainty and
security" of the mails.
Some Texas farmers will try the experiment
of importing the Lubbock beetles from Russia.
These beetles are very voracious, and live on
grasshoppers, locusts, cotton worms and every
thing else that destroys crops
Darwin Starkweather, being drunk, quar-
relied with his family, in Phelps, New York, ON
Thursday night, and was knocked down by a
blow on the head In q struggle with his son.
When lifted up he was found to be dead.
Several persons having been sickened by
water from well near Merchantyille New Jer.
sey, an examination was made, on Thursday,
which resulted in the finding of an infant S
body, in an advanced stage of decomposition in
the well.
In Atchison, Kansas, Sunday, Chas. Gwin,
cook at the Atlantic House, met his wife Louise,
who had abandoned him for drunkenness and i'll.
treatment, shot her through the head with a
pistol, and then blew out his own brains.
VIM. c. Robinson, IA years of age was
drowned in the Susquehanna river, at Pittston,
Pa, Saturday. He went out fishing and his
line caught fast. He went into the water to
loosen it and was seized with cramps and
drowned.
AT Batesville, Ark, Friday, w B. Marshall
and James York, young men, got into Difficult
ty, when York stabbed Marshall in the shout
der. Smarting under the wound Marshall
plunged knife into Yorks side and the latter
died in four hours. Marshall gave himself
up.
The body of young German girl about 10
years of age was found lying among some bushes
near Jersey City, N, j., Friday evening. The
skull was fractured, and near the body were
found two large stones covered with blood,
showing that the girl had been murdered
The Rev. DR.. Hastings, of New York, who is
leaving the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church
for the professors chairin the Union Theolog-
cal Seminary, has been made happy by gift
of Sl6,500 from the congregation of which he
has been pastor for many years.
"A cloud swept over the tree tops and houses
of Bedford, Ind, Saturday, with the roar of
hurricane, and disappeared within 81 seconds
The sky was clear at the time and the sun shin
ing. The mercury fell Is degrees after the pas
sage of the cloud The same phenomenon oc-
CURED at Bloomfield, Ind.
Mrs. Jane Burke was found in New York, ON
Saturday, suffering from Paris green poisoning
istered for the purpose of numbering her Two
women, fellow tenants of Mrs Burke, We're
found, who had seen Mrs. Burke mix the poison
herself The husband was arrested.
Rev. l.. w. Bates, ID. D., of the NJ. p
Church of Lynchburg, Va, was poisoned by
negro woman, servant in the house, and ne
gro man called DIR. Bates. The woman, under
the direction ofthe man, administered poison to
the whole family. The Rev. DR.. and his family
have recovered from the poison, although they
suffered severely and were seriously ill.
The newspapers of Oregon amuse their
readers frequently by the publication of the
names of the citizens who take out license 10
drink at public bar. Uuder recent law it is
penal of1ense for saloon keeper to sell LIQUOR
to a man who has not provided himself with
proper license the price of which is fixed at
five dollars
On Thursday afternoon of last week num-
Der OF Italian workmen were repairing the track
near the Manhattan Beach hotel, N. Y, when
few drops of rain fell attended with single
flash of lightning. The men at the time were
walking along with their shovels over their
shoulders. AT the flash the last one in the line
fell dead, and the one in advance shriekcd with
fear and rolled over. He was scorched and
stunned, but not seriously hurt.
The farmers living along the shore of the
Chesapeake bay are astounded at the large num-
Der of potato hugs that waited across the
bay on the water from the Eastern Shore. They
shore prepared to devour every green thing
All efforts to check their advance are futile
Though myriads are destroyed, rs many more
are continuously advancing, tireless, ravenous
horde resembling in their work of destruction
one OF the plaques of Egypt.
The knife and pistol were freely used in
Baltimore, last Sunday. In the afternoon while
number of men were drinking carousing and
playing cards in u beer saloon on Fell's Point,
Dennis Landers was stabbed and killed by
Edward Lucas. The same evening James
Carr was accused by Patrick Young of robbing
him. Carr was arrested by Policeman Camp
bel, whom he assaulted and then ran The
Policeman drew his pistol and fired The ball
struck the fugitive, intlicting serious wound
Later in the evening an ARRAY took place among
a party of men, mostly Italians, in which Henry
Tapkins was stabbed below the heart and pro
badly fatally wounded. On Sunday night OIL.
Ger Wardell arrested Martin Kelly for disorder
ly conduct, whereupon crowd set upon him,
took the prisoner away and used the officer
roughly. He fired his pistol for assistance, and
private Waterman Jamison coming, the crowd
ran. Jamison fired twice at the retreatng crowd,
accidentally wounding II. l.. Cleaveland and Ste
phenfiestry, neither of whom was in the crowd.