davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
Land Occupied BY Fences.

Mr.. J. Harris, in the american fig
riculturist, thus speaks of land lost by
fences:
"How much land does all old.fashioned
fence occupy, have always thought it
took up great deal of land, but never
had the curiosity to measure. But this
summer we have been building a stone
wall along he whole west side of the
farm, and after it was completed and the
old fence removed. was surprised at the
quantity Of land we had gained. The
ground, of course, might have been plowed
closer TO the fence, but taking the case as
it actually was, the old rail fence, with
stones, weeds, rubbish, ETC., occupied a
strip of one rod wide. A field, thirty-one
rods long and thirty-one rods wide, con-
tains about six acres. If surrounded by
such fence, it would occupy little over
three. quarters of an acre OF land. A farm
of one hundred and sixty acres so fenced
would have twenty acres of land taken
up in this worse than useless manner -
Not only is the use Of the land lost, but
i, is, in the majority of cases, nursery
Of weeds, an |, in blowing much time is
los, in turning, and the headlsnds and
corners are seldom properly cultivated"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

BUTTER BI scUIrs.-Dissolve half
pound of butterin half pint of warm
milk, and with four pounds of -four make
uPa smooth stiff paste; roll it out very
thin, and cut with atm or the top of a
tumbler into shape, prick the biscuits
over with q fork, and bake on tins in a
quick oven. ., ssS5iEs ia 4 .ss.tl1i $50
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
NEW BOUNTIES.
United States Bounties
State of Maryland Bounties

A S it is confidently expected that both Con-
N gresS and the State Legislature will, at their
present sessions, enact laws providing Bounty
for those Soldiers and Sailors who have never
yet received any, it is important that those in
tercststed should have their claims in the hands
of some one who will look to their interests and
see that their claims are put upon file early and
in due form for prompt payment.
| shall be glad 10 receive the papers OF any
such who desire to avail themselves of my eX-
perience and facilities in tue collection of all
Just claims.
All papers will be promptly acknowledged,
and while in my hands will be kept in fire and
burglar proof vault specially built for the pre-
seryation of tie increasing number of valuable
papers in my possession
WIN. B. HILL,
Attorney at Law,
N. L. cor. Fayette and st. Paul SITS.
janl7 Baltimore, Md.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Nd, Letters of Admin
istration on the personal estate of
JNO. SCARFF of John,
late of Hartford county, decd. All persons hav-
ing claims against said deceased are hereby mott
fed to exhibit the same, with the legal vouchers
thereof, on or before the
4M day Of March, 1862
or they may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate.
All persons indebted TO said estate are request
ed to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal, this 4th day
OF March, 1858.
GEORGE R. SCABRF,
mr6 Administrator.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
=agrifultnral
The Art Of Grinding Tools.


More than one-half Of all the wear and
; tear, and breaksge and bother Of dull tools
comes from lack of proper knowledge
and practice in grinding. All steel, how
ever refined, is composed of individual
fbres laid lengthwise in the bars, held
firmly by cohesion; and in almostai farm
implements of the cutting kind, the steel
portion which forms the edge, if from
the sections of a bar, is laid in and welded
to the iron longitudinally, so that it is the
side of the bundle of fibres hammered and
ground down that forms the edge.
Hence by holding on the grindstone all
edge-tools, as axes, drawing-knives, knives
ofreapers, knives ofstraw- cutters, scythes,
etc., in such manner that the action OF
the stone is at right angles with the plane
of the edge; or, in palmer words, by hold
ing the edge of the tools square across the
stone, the directions of the fbres will be
changed so as TO present the ends instead
of the side as cutting edge.
By grinding in this manner finer and
smoother edge is set, the tool is ground
in less time, holds an edge a great deal
longer and is less liable 10 "nick OUT
and break - Germantown TELEGRAPH.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
FAMILY GROCERY.
IJARyS & HUI T G FL [ N 5 ,
Gay and High Streets, Baltimore,

Gay and High Streets, Baltimore,
HszN Inform their old friends and G5#A
u1SGGhkh customers, and the public gene saasssA
rally, that they keep on hand WINES AND
LIQUORS, in wood and glass for medicinal and
other purposes superior sugar cured HAMS;
the choicest brands of FAMILY FLOUR; Inn
perial, Gunpowder, Young Hyson and Black
Teas Java, Laguira and Rio Coffee; Loaf,
Crushed, Pul7erized, Clarified and Brown Su-
gar; Broma, Cocoa Chocolate Farna, Rice
Flour, Sage, Yeast Powders Sardines,
Sauces Pickles, Extracts, Salad Oil, Pure Spices,
Figs, Rasins, Almonds, Crackers, Cheese, fine
and coarse Salt, Table and Dairy do, Syrups,
New Orleans and Sugar House Molasses, Kero-
sene Lubricatng and Lard Oil, Tobacco, Dr.
points Superior Canister Powder, Shot, Gun
Caps nc. All of which tn y will sell at the
most reasonable prices.
Also, tn now have corrected with their
Grocery Store, adjoining it on High street, q
store for the sale ofGUANOS,
PHOSPHATES OF ALL KINDS,
BONE, POUDl ETTE,
LIME, GROUND PLASTER,
CEMENT, &c, &c.
GRAIN and FEED ofall kinds, Baled HAY
and STRAW, Field SEEDS, and Country Pro-
duce of all kinds.
The highest cash price at all times paid for
Oats Corn Potatoes, Eggs, and all other coun-
try produce.
With determination to keep the best of goods
and sell on reasonable terms, they hope to merit
continued evidence of public favor.
ALFRED IJAMS
ie2I J. ALFRED HUTCHINS.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

JAPAN CLovER.--The Aiken Press Ga.
gives an account of the plant, Japan clo-
yer, which has found its way mysteriously
into the middle regions Of Georgia and
South Carolina. 1t is ascertaned to be a
native Of China and Japan, but by wha,
means it was conveyed to the region in
question is yet unexplained. The Press
is of the opinion that this clover will
prove of vast importance to the planter:
of the South, in the renovation OF the sol
SO much exhausted by continuous cotton
cropping. The plant is perennial, and
supplies excellent pasturage for stock, and
rich mass for turning under on cultivated
ground.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
EXECUTORS NOTICE.


THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ
scriber has obtained from the Register OF
Wills OF Hartford county, Nd, Letters Testament
tary on the personal estate Of
ELISHA LEWIS,
late of Hartford county, decd. All persons hay
ing claims against said deceased are hereby mott
fed to exhibit the same with the legal vouchers
thereof, on or before the
3lSt day Of January, 1869,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are request
ed 10 make immediate payment.
Given under our hand and seals this 3lst day
of January, 1868.
HANNAH S. LEWIS,
CHAS. 3. HITCHCOCK,
ieb7 Executors.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

Is the most perfect vegetable compound Of altera.
tYes tOncs diuretics and daphOretcs making it the
most effective, invigorating, renevatng and blood
cleansing cordial known to the world
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

SHEEP SKINS FOR MATs.-Steep the
skins in water, and wash them well till
they are soft and clean; they are then
scraped and ,hinned on the flesh side with
the, feshing knife, and laid in fermentcd
bran FOR few days, after which they are
taken out and washed; solution of sal,
and alum is then made, and the flesh side
repeatedly and we'll rubbed with it until
it appears well bleached; after which
make paste 10 the consistency Of honey
Of the alum and salt solution, by adding
wheaton -four and the yolks Of eggs, and
spread this paste on the flesh side; after
this they are stretched and dried, and when
dry, rubbed with pumice-stone.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

In the matter of the personal In the Orphans.
deceased. county.
ORDERED by the Court the Sd day of March,
" 1868, that the administrator of John Lee
Webster, deceased, by publication of this order
once in each of three successive weeks before the
4th day ofApril next in some newspaper print
ed and published in Hartford county, give notice
to all persons interested in the distribution
of said estate, that Monday the 4th day of
May, 1868, has been appointed to make distrbu-
ton of said estate under the direction of said
court. GEORGE G. DAVIS,
Chief Justice Orphans Court.
True copy, Test,
mrG ]. R. ELY, R. W. H. Co.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

STAGGERs IN iloRsEs-eta, gers is a
general term applied to several diseases of
horses Mad and sleepy staggers IS inaam-
nation of the brain. fatal complaint,
mark d by ii Ugh fever, staggering gait,
violent, convulsive struggling, usually
terminating in stupor, treated by bleeding,
full doses of physic, and cold water to the
head Grass or stomach staggers is acute
indigestion, usually occasioned by over
loading the stomach and bowels with
tough had grass vetches, or clover, or
full meal Of wheat, or other indigestible
food. 1t is most common in summer and
autumn indicated by impaired appetite,
distended abdomen, dull aspect, unsteady
gait, and is remedied by full doses Of
pu-gative medicine, such as six drachms
of aloes and drachm of calomel rubbed
down Together aud given in quart of boiled
Cruel, Fg,qucnt clysters, with hard rub
bling and hot water to the belly, are like
wise useful. When the dullness increases,
stimulan,s should readily be given
British Agriculturist.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that thirty
~ days after the first publication of
this notice, application will be made to
the Coupty Commissioners of Hartford
county, to lay out and extend the public
road leading from the Dublin and Bel AR
road, passing Tabernacle Church, and run
ming through the lands of Isaac Morris,
porth of the residence of said Morris, to
intersect the York and Stafford road.
feb7
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE.

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ
scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Nd, Letters Testamen-
tary on the pesonal estate of
WASHINGTON N. SLADE,
late of Hartford county, decd. All persons hav-
ing claims against said deceased are hereby noti-
fed TO exhibit the same, with the legal vouchers
thereof, on or before the
10th day Of January, 1859,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are request
cd to make Immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal this Goth day
of January, 1868.
MARTHA SLADE,
jan-3l ExccutrX.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01
MISSISSIPPI.

Mr.. Turner Wesson, OF Pontotoc
county, was fatally injured a short time
since by being caught in the machinery
of thrasher.
-MilligaD, Of the Corinth Nelcs, pro-
poses disposing Of one-third interest ia
his office, giving the purchaser q" a great
bargain"
We ind the following, signed by r
W. Crump, Secretary, in the Pamela Star
of saturday: Owing to the sickness pre-
vailiog on the north side OF the river, the
barbecue and ratification meeting at Sar-
dis Is indefinitely postponed.
MIR. Paxton, near Matches, has culti-
waited this season, forty acres of castor
beans. The product is 1000 to 1900 BUSH
els at 81 50 per bGshel, and the work was
done by himself, with the assistance of
one negro man, cultivating also fifteen
acres 10 corn and six In cotton. 90
"A negro boy connected with recent
robberies at VIcksburg, was arrested by a
cOlored man the other day and brought
to town, but bafore he could be turned
over to an officer, a riotous gang of
negroes crowded around him and enabled
him to escape.
The boil worm Is fast destroying the.
cotton oropi in several paris Of the county.
But for this the prospect is better for q
good yield than at any time since the
war, as 1t is the crop will be small. Corn,
that was not too far gone when the sea-
son set in, is good. Farmers will make
plenty, If not some to spare, to do them
another year. The potatoe crop is thought
by some to be good.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01
Periodic Harvest Failures


/ Prepared for the Association Of Science by Gee
a. Leakin, of Baltimore.l
The periodic law, supposed peculiar to
the planetary system or to the intermit-
ting of disease hes bean found much
more extensive, and gives reason to be-
lieve that on further investigation it may
be as comprehensive ss grsvitation Itself.
During some years / have had opp0rtu-
mites of verifying its various phases, and
have been led to suspect it's universality.
This principle, deduced from number
of facts, threw increased light on the
facts themselves; just as the ascending
dew on the mountain descends to clarity
the very lake whence 1t emensted "a
cycle for ages unEnoEn), or as the law OF
gravitstion, applied to the planets, re-
vealed more exact system Of longitude,
thus giving increased security to COM
meree.
The Paris COnstitutiOHneI gave q list
of periods of scarcity In France for three
hundred years, deducing therefrom q
septennisl recurrence, and concluding
thus: at is plainly owing to some law
of nature, yet undiscovered, that these
unfruitful seasons seem at comparative
ly regular periods"
This undiscovered law was the very
one then engaging my attention, and l
soon found similar facts, viz: four
drouths in Montgomery county, Nd, at
Intervals OF sixteen years in parts
OF Illinois q similar recurrence
in seven years; in Delaware a
q change in the peach crop In twenty
years, and in Texas 3 general expecta-
tion Of abundance among the early set
tlers every twenty years.
A farmer In San Joaquin Valley writes
to the Farmers Club of New York,
"that in that region there are periodical
seasons of drouth, not of months, but OF
years; and his experience of California
goes to show that the seasons of fertility
and sterility come by periods of years.
further learned that there was sep
tennial failure in the East India cotton
crop, and that our own Sea Island cotton
was septennially devastated by the cater
piller, q fact parslleled by our seventeen
year locusts. 1 might further suggest
that the septennial fallow of the Jewish
law may have been this periodicity
written ages previously on the ground
itself. .. ... .t
The Department Of Agriculture at
Washington published these facts, call
ing the attention of American farmers to
seasons remarkable for drougths or rain,
scanty or abundant harvests, and adding
that il such law be Rseertsined, ga val
liable saving of time, labor Rad crops
would result to the farmers and the
nation" -r1s1s -a.al-al
In Italy and England, societies have
been formed for the partial insurance OF
crops, thus showing that scientific re-
searches will lead to valuable results not
anticipated, and that in time dull mete-
geological tables will aot only reflect the
epest, but foTsshadow the future, and
nsble US, by their monitions, to avail our
elves of the benigDity or guard against
the rSvage Of the coming day."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01

Tom Lee, negro, late representative
from Perry, is dead.
The Picdyale has been elected City
Printer of Montgomery.
The Chambers Tribune of the 18th
ult., says not more than half crop OF
corn will be made in that county, and
thst the cotton crop is promising, but
the weed is small.
A horse thief named Maxwell was
pursued from Georgia and captured last
week near Eiyton. Attempting to es-
cape from his captors, he was shot and
instantly killed. .H.
-Lenox Calhoun, negro, Of Newbern,
is doing good work. A few days sgo he
organized colored Seymour aud Blair
Club, OF tiity-two members, at Concord
Church, in this county. Since then he
has been at work ia Hale county.
The Greensboro Beacon says: We
are hearing Of more sickness now than
we have heard of during the summer.
The principal disease seems to be chills
snd fever, and nearly every other man
We meet about town has "just had q
chill" We had couple of the pesky 4"
things this week; and feel anything but
comfortable from the effects.
"A clerk in. store at Newbern, some
nights ago hearing some suspicious talk
among negroes outside, went out to re-
cODGOi,re, when he was attacked by one
Of them with club, and retrested. The
negroes, who are identified, evidently
intended to murder him and plunder the
store.
For the past week, says the Bisrion
Eagle CT the 18Th, we have had some
beautiful weather for fodder pulling, etc.
Cotton is doing very we'll at present,
with the exception of the river lands,
where the caterpillar is reported as doing
some harm. From ali accounts, we sup
pose there has been corn enough made
in the county to supply the wants OF the
people.
"A youth by the name OF Tillmsn,
living at Perote, Bullock county, on the
18th ult returning home from hunting,
placed his gun in the yard againsta tree.
Mrs. Tillman, who was sitting In the
porch OF the house with little infant in
her arms, called to her little boy to
bring the gun in. Fhe little fellow, in
attempting to let the hammer of the gun
down, let the gun fall, which wounded
the mother and child seriously. The
child cannot live and the mother is in q
dangerous condition.
The Livingston journal says of
weather snd crops: We have no encour-
agiUg news to give respecting either this
week. While the weather has been fa-
vorable to the growth of cotton, 1t has
also been such as the worm delights in,
and the indications are that 1t will great
ly assist that pest in its rsvsges. As yet
the injury done by the worm is not very
serious, but great apprehension Is felt
the next crop, or generation,
which Will appear in from ten days TO
two weeks.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01

The Hon. George +. Pugh is one OF
the most conservative statesmen in the
country. His private character is with
out q blemish I; his public record the most
virnlent Radical cannot i'm peach. In q
recent speech this distinguished gentle
man saidg - - g
After they the RAdicsls) have COM
mitted every outrage possible, they say,
let US have peace 1Applause.1 81.
When you have restored the white
man and black man 70 their proper con-
ditlons 10 the Southern States, let the
white men vote to give the negro the
right OF suffrage, if they desire to do it,
but don't cram 1t down their throats in
this illegal and violent manner when
there is fair deal of the cards all around
the board, then let every man bet as he
thinks best [applsuseE and there can
not be any peace until that time. r1fs .
Nov am not a war man j am at an
age when Icould not be OOnscripted into
the militia. Therefore, am not
anxious for any war; but / tell
you this, gentlemen, that there
ahall be no peace until these. out
RACES are all set aside, and 1t shah make
no difference whether it Is in this cleo
tiOn or in any other election. III they
want me 70 go further, as to myself, I
will say that these outrages are so great,
their offense Is so rank and stibks to
heaven, il Icould not find means of beat
ing them pedoea6ly, I 10otad beat them
IN any HlanaeF possible. IGreat ap-
plause, But no such thing is neces-
eRry, = a-e --a ~
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01
Reslstration i'm Missouri.

By special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial Of date August 27tb, we
learn that in st. Louis the registration
business is progressing satisfactorily. 1t
Is generally conceded that IL the regis
tration list for the city. reaches $4,000,
the vote at the November election will
be In favor of the Democracy, as the Re-
publican vote of the city will not be far
In excess Of IL, 600. A large number
have been naturalized recently, and
these will, mainly, go for Seymour and
Blair.
The registrars have rejected several old
citizens one OF them, Judge Moody, an
intimate personal friend Of Gen. Grant,
with whom the General formerly stsid
during his visits. Judge Moody has ad-
dressed letter to Gen. Grant on the sub
ject, wherein he expresses q profound
contempt for the epuritanical villains who
are leading him sstrsy.
The Superintendent OF Registration
has removed two Radical registrars in
Jackson county, for incompetency, and
appointed ]. Dowd and Hon. NJ. J. Payne
Ia their stead. Both the latter are DEM
ocrats. Payne was temporary President
Of the late Democratic State ConYenf
ton.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01
Death Of W. II. c. King. Esq.

We record with regret the death of our
cO-lsborer in the journalistic profession,
Mr.. W. II. G.. King, head OF the Times
newspaper Of this city. This event took
place at Pass Christian, on Thursday
last, after q long and painful illness,
which, we are informed, he bore with
much patience. The disease by which
be was removed canceTous affection
although slow in its workings, is one of
the most certainly fatal affections by
which mankind is sf1i icted, and medical
science has been unable to discover 3
cure for it. Mr.. King was native of
Pennsylvania, and was about forty-6ve
years of age. He was printer by trade,
having been a. different times connected
with the newspaper offices here as a jour
neymaD, but his management OF the
Times has proved that he possessed abil
ities beyond the mere mechanical labor
Of the profession. That paper was estab
lished by him and others in 1864, aud we
may say that its slccess has been due in
great part to an energy and & tact which
were the distinguishing features of his
character as man OF business. He
leaves the Times in filurishing cOndi-
ton, exercising large influence in this
community, and doing its full share OF
most important work in this crisis OF the
country's history. As private individ-
uaI Mr.. King was noted for bis benevO-
lence and for has encouragement to all
worthy enterprises. He leaves a wife
and children, TO whom we offer our sim
eere sympsthies in their heavy SORROW.
" o. Ees g. 49, ~ &s "a - -
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01

From the Chicago Times. 18th. !


The white men Of the Southern States
have said to the negroes that, II they
should vote for the csrpet-baggers in the
coming elections they must look to the
carpet-baggers for employment. mother
words, that difference in political opIn-
ions, and sn expression Of it at the
ballot-box, would be held as a good reason
for refusing to give them work by their
old masters.
For this the planters have been severely
denounced by the Jacobin press. Such
tactics to control the votes of working
men cannot be Justified in an ordinary
state of society tits q matter for debate
whether the crimes of the reconstruction
infamy viii justify them. However this
may be, there are few questions bear
ing on this point VIII ch are respectfully
submitted to the black-and-tan party.
Did Edwin NJ. Stanton, when Secretary
Of War, furnish transportation to wound
ed Republican soldiers to return home
and vote, and did he refuse TRANSFORMATION
to wounded Democratic soldiers unless
they would pledge themselves to vote the
Republican ticket? Were the operatives
In New England mills, having contracts
with the government, threatened by
government agents with discharge un.
less they should vote the Republican
ticket? Did Jscobin newspapers at that
time protest against such prescription
and cruelty