The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-29
The Egis and Intelligencer.
BEL AIR. Md. APRIL 20, 1881.
Current News.

Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine, lectured in West
minister, on Saturday and Sunday last.
Germany has now eight thousand miles of
telegraph wire under ground.
james T. Fields the well-known author,
publisher and lecturer, died in Philadelphia, last
Monday afternoon.
The New York Central is running 100
trains per day, which is the full capacity of the
road, as they run but nine minutes apart.
MIR. Frederick II. Caspar, who was poisoned
in Baltimore city, by accidentally taking dose
of carbolic acid, died last Saturday evening.
1t is said that spectators have bought up
the whole Jersey coast, from Cape May to Long
Branch, with the expectation OF making water
Ing places.
Margaret Pryor, pert, vicious colored girl,
has been sentenced TO four years imprisonment
for attempting to poison the family Oft. L.Wil-
Hanson, of Rockingham county, Va.
There are now 200 entries for the dog show
in New York next week. Almost every breed
of dogs known will be on exhibition, including
many very valuable animals from abroad.
Lewis Whitaker, colored charged with the
murder of NJ G. Jenkins white, was taken from
Jail by masked men at Gadsden, Ala, on Satur-
day night and hanged to an oak tree.
The Methodist Episcopal Church Confer
ence of Vermont has unanimously adopted a
resolution not to marry divorced parties, where
the cause is adultery, except the innocent
one.
Last Friday, near Ozer, New Mexico, a pas
sengcr car jumped the track and rolled down an
embankment $50 feet, killing seven males and
one female, and injuring all of the other passen
gers.
Isaac Vanmeter, of Lexington, XIV, Satur-
day sold the we'll -known trotter, Won Arnim, to
Commodore Kinsett, of the St. Paul Mirror, for
$4,000. Won Arnim ia seven years old, and has
record of222.
A vessel recently arrived from the Rio
Plata landed in London nineteen thousand car
casses OF sheep In frozen state. Their average
weight was thirty-six pounds each, and they
were sold off rapidly at 4Ad. pei pound
Last Sunday was the first Sunday in nine
years that all the Cincinnati theatres were clos
ed. Late on Sunday night the managers all
agreed to comply with the Mayors orders that
no performances should be given.
Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Watkins preached his
farewell sermon at Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church, Baltimore, last Sunday night. He has
accepted call to the rectorship of Holy Trinity
Church. New York.
On Thursday young man named George
Clark was crushed to death by wagon loaded
with wood, fitting over near Edgemont, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, and catching him
between the wheels and bank at the side of the
road.
A desperate attempt was made TO destroy
the town of Shamokin, Pa, by sprinking the
roofs of number of houses in the centre of the
city with coal oil, and then setting them on
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
"A splerd did statue modelled by Mrs Winnie
Ream Hoxie, in memory of Rear Admiral Far
ragut, was unveiled at Washington, with i'm
posing ceremonies, on Monday. Addresses were
delivered by President Garfield, Hon. Mr.. May
nard and Senator Voorhees,.
Mrs. Mutt, of Dallas county, Ark, during
the absence of her husband threw hei five chill
dren into the well, and to make sure of their
drowning, lowered herself in the bucket and
Epn rnsh md In ttatn tntnl ~
was extinct The woman was insane.
Edward Crcn, for many years the leading
architect and builder in Wheeling, W. Va,
died in that city last week, aged 81 years. He
was born near llayre de Grace, marched to the
defence of Baltimore In 1914, and has been draw
ing pension under the act of Congress grant
ing pensions to the veterans of the war of 1872
5. G. Wilson, auctoneer, sold on Monday
last on the premises, the farm of John s. Hutch
ms. situated on My Lady's manor, Is miles from
baltimore and miles from Monkton, N. G. r.
H., containing 100 acres and improved by q
comfortable dwelling, &C.; purchased by Thos
Elliott for So 515.
"A farmer living near town, heard noise
In his sheep pen one night last week. A dog
was in the act of killing eve. Seeing the
farmer approaching he left the eve, and Selling
lamb, started off with it. In attempting TO
jump fence he with the lamb still in his
mouth) fell into a well and both dog and lamb
were drowned.-,SnoW HW Messenger
"A despatch from Little Rock says: "Isaac
n. Dement, emigrating from West Virginia to
louisiana with his wife and four children in two
wagons, encamped on mountain in Stone
county, and while himself and his two boys
were fishing at the foot of the mountain, forest
fire surrounded the camp, destroying one wagon,
all the household effects and burning his wife
and two children to death.
Harriet Hitchcock, maiden lady, with no
companion but q young nephew, died at Corn
wallville, Greene county, N. Y, a few days ago
She would have no doctor, and supposing that
she was an object of charity, her neghbors gave
her food and furnished nurses when she became
too sick to help herself. After her DEATH s., 900
in bank notes and some 5000 in specie was dis
covered hidden away in her dwelling: also one
hundred dresses many of them valuable, forty
shawls, silver spoons, etc. Two nephews are
her sole heirs.
The Calvert Journal reports: 1t will doubt
less interest the growers of Maryland tobacco
to know that the French contract for tobacco
for the coming season will be for 10, 900 hogs
heads Maryland and 1900 hogsheads Ohio. The
Maryland crop for this season, II is estimated
will not exceed 10000 hogsheads, and the re-
quirements for France, 1t will be seen, will be
fully so per cent of the entire crop, which is a
very large proportion to be taken by single
purchaser The contracts for France are expect
ed to be awarded in few weeks
John Gyumpher, q Hungarian, who has
been asleep at the Allentown, Pa, poorhouse for
seventy-two days, awakened for the first time,
last Saturday, and while left alone, arose, bolted
the door and jumped out of the window, injur-
ing himself fatally, it is supposed. Since he
has been asleep he has been subjected to all
manner of experiments by the doctors. Needles
were run into his flesh, he was shaken up by
means of electrical batteries, &C., but nothing
could arouse him. All the time he ate and
drank, with closed eyes, whenever food was
presented to him, and was apparently in good
health His case excited the greatest interest
among physicians
SHE SHALL HAVE PUFF-Miss Beckie
Clemson, of Salisbury, Pa, writes as follows