The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-01-20
Current News.

| -NOrGai Bcfklry, amerchant OF Bolivar, Pa,
was fatally shot, last Sunday night, while enter
| lug his store, by robbers concealed inside.
Sarah 7 Whittier, of Alfred, Maine, has
been sentenced TO prison for life for causing he
death OF her infant child by drowning it in a
river
The total exports of domestic breadstufls
| from the United States during 1881 were valued
at 1924 $50, against S215, 936, $50 in the pre-
eeding year
Fifty leather straps, each foot long, two
| inches wide and very thin have been purchased
by the Port Huron (Mich) Board of Education
for use in furnishing pupils in the schools.
| Premier Gladstone OF England is said to be
endeayoring TO persuade the Pope to send secret
agents to Ireland 10 pacity the country and to
direct the influence of the clergy to that end.
The Washington Republican of Tuesday an
nounces as if by authority that Sargent is to
succesed Krkwood as Secretary of the Interior
and that the latter is to ITO Berlin or Vienna.
During a bull fight at Matanzas, Cuba, last
Sunday, part of the scatfolding supporting The
seats gave way, and nearly 300 persons were
| precpitatcd into he stables below. One person
| was killed and Others injured.
| In Wilmington, Ohio, few days ago a
| child died of what was supposed TO be chicken
| pox, and its funeral was largely attended Since
then SO cases of viru ent smallpox have develop
| ed in the town.
| "A ul-pdlCu lToHl hlcutHGnu, lnululla says
/ Mrs Smith, widow OF the man whose murdered
| body was found in well there, has confessed
| that she and her sous planned the deed and that
her son Daniel put 1t in execution.
| Last Thursday two men in Chester county
in cleaning out drain dug out seventeen water
| and garter snakes, from SIX inches to three feet
| in length AT least Il correspondent of the Ok
| ford Press saysso.
The House of Delegates of Virginia, proposes
,rit npa ar h, IN IN finn
commOdations for the General Assembly can he
| found at Norfork, Lynchburg, or Alexandria. -
A smallpox scare in Richmond is the reason.
-Ephraim Aston, colored man IN North
Carolina, while splitting up the butt of II tree
Into rails, found twenty-siX gold pieces in an
| augur.hole, over which the tree had grown ST. as
| to conceal the opening. 1t is supposed the coins
were placed there about 1912.
John A. Donaldson, "the old sergeant"
who for many years has beer the keeper of Fort
Carroll, Ba timore died at Fort McHenry on
Monday. He was born in 1916 and served in the
| army about forty wears. He was a man of re.
markaby fine appearance and gre It wit
Mrs. Geo. Messenger widow aged seventy
five, living alone near Easton, Pa, was found
dead in bed on Sunday morning. Her son went
to vsi her and finding the house locked became
alarmed, and on bursting open door discover
ed his mother dead,
I'm the accident at Lansing, Iowa, on Mon
day to he ST. Louis express on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad The two
wrecked cars were set on fire by GOALS from the
stoves. Tweny.thIee persons were injured
baby has since died, and three persons are not
expected to live,
Two Cincinnati rogues advertised a charity
concert, obtained the services of the best musi.
clans in the city, used the names of vel known
benevolent persons freely, sold 81, 500 worth of
tickets and escaped with the money before the
entertainment was over
An Arkansas man. n reputable and prosper.
GUS farmer, says that the actual inconvenience
of being hanged is very slight. Robbers SUBJ
jected him to the process once, and after slight
choking sensation he became insensible, and so
remained until he was taken down and resusc-
tated The regaining of consciousness, how
ever, was rather unpleasant.
Willis Cass, of Mansfield, Pa, who was mar
ried on last Christmas day, few days ago took
a rifle and went into the yard to shoot chicken.
The chickens were huddled together, and he
laid down the gun and tossed stone among
them TO scatter them He then picked up the
rifle by the muzzle and drew it toward him.
The motion discharged the gun and the hall
went crashing through his head. His young
bride who stood at the window saw the occur
renee