The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-20

The property clerk of the dead letter office
is now arranging in show cases, for public ex-
hibition, upwards of thousand articles of
value and interest which have from time to
time been received and yet remain unclaim-
ed. Among the articles and fragments an
deliberately wrought collar, evidently the
property of lady, to which is attached
note with the inscription Burnt in the cars
between Fort Wayne and Chicago, ILL.,, Feb.
5, 1868" There is also square ofgun caps,
found with fifty other squares, quilted in a
ladys skirt, on the occasion of Sherman's
march to the sea. The cartes de visite and
photographs of soldiers in the dead letter of
flee, numbering about $4,000, are being placed
in portfolios for exhibition and public identi-
fication.
lad IN Ohio, recently found in a potato
mound what he supposed to be a large ball
of string, which he carried into the house
and laid on a baby's cradle, near the stove
into mass of squirming snakes, which were
seeking the warmth of the infants body, and
one of them actually entered the baby's
mouth and drew itself down the child's
throat, the mother trying in vain to extricate
it. The child seemed unhurt by its singular
accident but its mother declares that its APP
petite is much increased, and that in its sleep
it frequently Kisses loudly
A thoughtless girl living in Western city
answered personal advertisement" in q
city paper, just for the fun of the thing The
first note led to three more, thus throwing
herself into the hands of a scoundrel Her
father was surprised by the appearance of the
villain at his store who demanded 81 500 for
the four notes, and the father was forced to
accede to his demands rather than have the
notes written "just for fun" shown to all his
friends and relations. This should be a les
son to every girl in the land.
In Jasper, Iowa. couple of weeks since,
Robert Sprague said to be ordinarily quiet
man, was engaged in reading the bible, when
his mother, seventy years of age, asked him
a question. Seized with a sudden frenzy, he
sprang upon the old lady and choked her to
death. He then asked his wife to send for q
neighbor to tie him, and exhorted her and
the children to get out of the way as soon as
possible They took his advice, and the crazy
matricide was soon after arrested.
The loss by fire in the United States dur
ing February, 1865 caused by conflagratons
the loss at each of which was over $4,000,
amounted in the aggregate to $4329, 000-
During January the losses by fire were So
100000 and during December $4,274,000, a
total for the three winter months of $14052,-
600, as compared with $15,0S3,000 for the
winter of 1867 a decrease of 81, 031 900.
The Democratic nominee for President
will, per force of circumstances, be the poor
mans friend, because that every measure adj
vocated by the Democratic party calls for re-
duction of taxation in twenty-siX States, and
for bringing on the tax duplicate the proper
ty of ten States now in condition of desc
lation, paying little or no taxes.
A York county (Penna) newspaper states
hat ctr p,t, - 4 "a
appearance among the cattle in that county
and that many farmers have lost some OF
their valuable COWS. The people are afraid
it is the rinderpest.
The trial of Jefferson Davis, which was to
have taken place on the fourth Wednesday
in March, has been postponed until the 18th
of April next.
A negro named CORDOBA has been nomi-
mated for Secretary of State by the South
Carolina Republican Convention Onc-half
of the delegates chosen to the Chicago Con-
ventin are negroes.
A man in Auburn, Me-, put his two hun
dred hens into hot house, and the unsus-
pecting fowls, deluded into the belief that il
is warm weather, and the season for business
literally overflow with eggs
Samuel and Benjamin Miller, of Strasbure
township, killed few days ago, five hogs
weighing respectively 549 5214, 421 412 and
459 pounds.
The first shad of the season from the Polo-
mac fisheries was brought to Washington
last Friday and in a few days the scines will
commence their work.
NAPLES, March 14--The eruption OF
Mount Vcsuvious is increasing in power and
grandeur. The volcano is throwing up vast
qantitics of fire and but little lava The de-
donations are very loud and frequent
New counterfeit five dollar notes have
made Their appearance in Baltimore.
Attorney General Stanbcny has resigned
his position in order to take part as counsel
for the President in the impeachment trial
William Henry Augustus Bissell, rector Of
Trinity Church, Geneva, N. Y, has been
unanimously elected Bishop of Vermont
No wonder that Weston is a good walker
Ii turns out that he used to be collector for Il
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