The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-30

:. out in 1868, and probably the largest ever
given to one advertising firm at one time, is
that of the proprietors of Plantation Bitters
to Geo. P. Rowell q Co., Advertising Agents,
No, 40 Park Row,New York, on the 18th of
Sept, for S43,776 26.rsqa 4sdso I'd bios1u o.
.y Messrs. P. H. Drake &C. Co. have for years
been among the largest, if not the largest, ad-
ryertisers in America, snd the contract men
toned above is but a small part of their ex-
penditure in this way for the present year.
~ 1t is only those who have tried printers ink
most extensively that are so firmly convinced
of its eff1cacacy. a ''4'ig@ytl
The Advertising Agency which is sending
out this order is another example. 1t com
menced business less than five years since,
and the fact that it now controls q greater
advertising patronage than any similar estab-
iishment, is without doubt to be attributed to
their having expended more money in adver-.
Using themselves and their facilities within
that time than all other advertising firms put
together, since the establishment Of the$fr
agency quarter ola century since.
The volcano of Istacihualt, the third high
est peak of Mexico, SO long quiet and silent,
81 not many days ago created disnay and con-
sternation among the people living on Its low
est declivities and in Surrounding valleys bv
the indulgence of an eruption, that formerly
lasted little more than forty-eight hours.
Large rocks were thrown from the crater
mouth, with loud laundering detonations,
which falling along its declivities, destroyed
trees, some of gigantic proportions, the
grooming, excited monster belched out also
vast quantity of smoke and hot water, the lat
ter Of a dark color and Of a sulphurous SMELL
This made its way in torrentiaf streams, along
one of the sides Of the mountain, sweeping
everything before it, until finally it added its
vast volume TO thlt Of theriyer Aleecea, that
lows near the peaks base. Three men were
oyertaken by the heated stroam in its down.
ward course, and destroyed. AT the latest
dates the volcano was quiet, but the people
living in its proximity were apprchensiye of
another eruption EO1 DIS t1@ts $9
Tho snow problem on the Central Pacific
road is not yet solved. The company last
winter built sheds for the protection of their
tracks over the Sierra Nevada They were,
however, crushed by snow. The company
are now engaged in Constructing new sheds;
with frame work of heavy timber and point
ed roofs About forty miles Of track will re-
quife to be covered, and it is stated that
twenty-two saw mills, most of them worked
-, by steam, arerunning night and day, employ
ing nearly ten thousand men, and six more
are building. tits estimated that it will re
aaire eight hundred thousand feet of timber
10 the mile for the sheds. ss-ssg. .-0aI sdiio
Revenue duties on the following necessities
u5eu III eSefY idIully' LII. DcLuoClhtlc stnncS
coffee, free tea, free; sugar, cent per pound;
salt / cent pound inolasses, 2 cents per
galIan. Republican times, cofee,Y5 cents
gold; tea, % cents, gold; sugar, 8 to cents,
gold; salt ID to 20cents per bushcl; molasses
seems per gallon. 7"Let us have peace"
Lynn shipped 80, 800 cases Of. shoes. during
the past three months, slightly in excess of
of last years shipment. The total number
of pairsein this immense pile would be about
2,14S,0oa and the aggregate value $S864 900.
Foolscap paper is SO called because the
English Parliament in Cremwell's time
substituted cap and bells,as the mark or
that kiee of paper for the Kings arms
which itAad previously borne. The mark
went into -4aasuse in short time, although
the papenstiE retains the name - .5a
REVENGE FRAUDs.--General u. b Brown,
United States Pension Agent sat6t Iouis
has been indicted for conspiracy TO defraud
the Governments and Ills brother, DR. Brown