The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-06-26

WHIsKEY FRAUDS. Pending the consid-
Grafton of Schenck's bill il the House of
Representatives, Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania
stated that it was not doubted there were 1907
100000 of gallons of whiskey distilled in the
country the previous year, and yet tax of
two dollars per gallon upon that whiskey
only yielded $13,000,000 One house in
Philadelphia, he said, sold more whiskey
than the government received tax for In the
whole State ofPennsylvania and vet New
York, in the extent Of whiskey frauds, over
Swallowed Philadelphia. Richmond Dispatch
California is likely to become the greatest
raisin producing country in the world. The
best grape for this purpose is one of the Ma
iaga varieties The process is to break the
stems of the principal punches and thus pre-
vent the flow of sap. The fruit then shrinks
in the sun, the watery portion is dried, and
the sugar concentration increased in proper
ton. Last year one farm yielded twenty-five
thousand pounds, and single Isabella vine
bore twenty-five hundred lunches
The new Austrian army scheme tells ter
rible story of the condition of Europe Eve
ny citizen from twenty to thirty four is liable
to five years service in the active army, five
in the reserve, and four more in the land
wehr. In levy en- nsasse, which may be Or
'dered in case of invasion or any similar ne
cessity, all males between eighteen and forty
:are liable to service. The entire able-bodied
population of the country is thus put under
farms. Neither exoneration or substitution
islpermitted France and Prussia are doing
substantially the same thing The prospect
of peace grows poor in the presence of such
ornaments as these.
The capacity of the great public halls in
London is greatly exaggerated. Exeter Hall
is often spoken of as able to accommodate g.
900 and Mr.. Spurgeons Tabernacle 1900, or
even 10000. A weekly paper of that city
makes q safer statement as to st. James
Hall, of which it is said that ut will accom-
modate less than 1000" We believe Exeter
Hall when crammed does not afford room for
1000, or Mr. Surgeons Tabernacle for 5000,
nr st. James Hall for 5000.
President Brigham Young is setting out
ene hundred and fifty acres in mulberry trees,
and the faithful are about to follow his exam
pile. The slopes and the hills of Central Utah
are particularly well adapted to silk growing,
and the characteristic energy of the Mormons
will soon make it large interest.
A call has been issued for a convention of
eolored Republicans of Maryland, Delaware,
West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, to
he held in Baltimore on the 4th of August,
for the purpose of organizing the colored
people 0f1hose States as q unit to agitate the
Nucbil0n ol soqutl f1BntS. Inc CnlCagO plGt-
form does net please these negroes.
Horace Greedy sums up as the result of q
number of years investigation and observa-
ti0n of spiritualism, that the thing itself is
eSplicable; that men and women have not
been made better by it on the contrary
have grown lax in their notions of marriage,
divorce, moral purity, and that the aggregate
ofiinsanity and suicide has been increased by
spiritualism. Agood many others will agree
with him.
0lfthe 80 ,000semigrants who arrived in this
city last month, 7SS42 signifed their intention
of remaining in this State 6,755 were for
warded ito Illinois 2,414 to Wisconsin g.
27toRennsylyania 1,483to Michigan 66S
to California
A Western widsw, handsome and learned,
manages % large farm and she raised last year
1000 bushels of wheat, 1900 of corn: has
large stock ef,hogs, sends fat cattle to the
New York market, has abundance of flowers,
apples, pears, strawberries and currants, keeps
up with current literature-does not want TO
marry.
The.ameunt ofg1ain stored in Chicago is
as follows; wheat, 100000 bushels; corn,
100000 bushels; oats, 33S,00O bushels rye,
20,sdaO bnshcls anti Of barley, 5000 bushels