The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-05-12

An Omaha man, in danger of losing his
house by the foreclosure of n mortgage sold
his wife to her admirer for the 500 needed to
satisfy the claim. That was two years ago at
which time the proceedings caused considerable
comment. The new couple lived amicably TO-
gether until lately when the original husband,
having prospered during his period of bachelor
hood. bought back the woman at an advance
of $50.
Mr.. and Mrs Lord sat up one night, at
Mount Ida, Ark, TO watch for a panther that
had killed some hens. They loaded gun and
waited at an open window for the beast to come
into the yard. Toward morning they fell asleep.
Soon Mrs. Lord awoke and went into the ward.
That aroused Lord. Seeing her head moving
along the line of the fence and installing it in
the dim light for the panther, he fired and killed
her
Snow fell in several of the Northern States
about the middle of April. On the 14th of that
month ripe apples were found upon trees at
Jacksonville, Florida. Peaches and other kinds
of fruit also were plucked on that day. Snow.
halling in May was pastme for the boys Of
the Schuylkill Valley last Friday, and a Geor-
gia paper of Friday mentions the nuisance Of
small boys swimming near public road.
Michael Kane was bitten by dog in Phia.
delpha at the same time that drunkenness had
brought him to the verge of delrium tremens,
lie mlstook the vagaries of his mind for
symptoms of hydrophohia and nobody could
convince him that he did not have the latter
disease He died after five DAYS of this
delusion, partly from alcoholism, but chiefly
from fright.
Five children were deserted by their parents
at Newcomerstown, Ohio. The oldest was 10 and
the youngest baby. The only food in the
house was some corn meal, and they ate 1t as
long as it lasted. Then they were two DAYS
without mouthful of anything but water
II was not until the infant died that they in.
formed the neighbors of their plight.
Last Saturday, near Leona, Kansas, an old
German farmer, named Robert Bechter. was
shot and killed by his wife, who then killed her.
self with the same pistol. She left letter, saw
ing that she had killed her husband because
he wished to disnherlt their son. and had shot
herself because she wished the son to enjoy The
property undisturbed.
d. Il. Vanmeter, of Oroville, California. was
moving hive of bees and it is supposed that
bee flew into his throat singing him SO that his
throat closed. He entered the house uttering,
lne words "Dees" and went Immediately into
commissions, dying in a short time.
Thirty thousand deer have been killed in the
vicinity Of jacksonville Oregon, during The
past year by hunters for their skins alone, This
does not include the number killed by the act
tiers of the locality mentioned.
The land on which the Drexel bank buIld.
Ing, In New York, stands. cost its present own
ers at the rate of S14 600 900 per acre A frao.
tion of an acre of such land would be fortune
sufficiently large for almost any one
Major William T. Twining of the United
States Engineer Corps, one ofthe Commissioners
Of the District of Columbia, died last Friday in
Washington.
Moody and Sankey will probably postpone
their visit to London until the autumn of 1888,
using next winterin the smaller cities and towns
of Great Britain.
The drugstore of VIM H. Harper al Upper
Marlboro. Md. was destroyed by fire, on Mon
day. Cause unknown
Merchant steamers laden with Chinese con.
tinue to leave Hong Kong for American ports
on the Pacific.