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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29

1t was supposed that the clergymen, Sun
day, would fire in platoons at the sin ant
folly of speculation, but they didn't. /
may be that not q few of them took turn
in the street. During my Investigations
on Saturday l thought l saw the Elder
Tying trying SO get "put" on Daniel Drew
but may be mistaken-it may have been
Vanderbilt. Rev. Mr.. Winkler preached
from very appropriate text, though the
sermon had nothing to do with the late
corner in gold and decline in stocks. "Buy
the truth and sell it not" NV eve, though
wouldn't they go 'short" of it in Wall
street! 1t seems to me that an ingenious
clergyman might have made very inter-
esting discourse from that episode in the
life OF Elijah, or at least have drawn a
clever parallel, comparing gold to the
Bald=head, and the bulls to the boys who
cried "Go up, go up" until at last the
bears came out and gobbled them.
You may complain that this is all nom
sense. Very well. can't afford to write
sense at the price you pay me. But 1 will
finish up with o solid chunk or two of wis
dom.
The present fall in stocks ought to have
been foreseen by any one with half an eye.
For months past they've been bulling up
far beyond their value. Where could stocks
go to, if this thing could be continued .toreper ?
A let-down must always come, sooner or
later. Even at the present prices stocks,
almost without exception, are higher than
they were year ago. Why are they
worth any morea Certainly the earnings
of the roads are less. On any sound princi-
pie, can an eight or ten per cent. paying
stock be safe for investment at more than
par2 The trade of the road is always sub
ject to such contingencies as crops and
travel. The fact of the matter is stocks
were put up too far beyond their value by
the cliques, and the community gradually
became educated to dealing in them at
the inflated prices, never once stopping to
ask themselves what was the intrinsic val
ue, nor how they got boosted where they
were. A few months since the same stocks
were selling for from 30 to 80 per cent less.
Why were they worth any more ten days
ago than then2 That's the conundrum.
It's all very well to trade in stocks at
these inflated prices, but it seems to me l
had sooner let the sun go down on my
wrath than on any of them in my possession.
And the moment the break came, how
quick I'd get from under. I had lit
tie experience with nitro glycerine in San
Francisco, and don't want to travel with
any oft about my person in New York.
JOHN PAUL.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29

800, 900 FOR HoRsE.-The New
York Sun says:
Mr.. Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, offers one hundred thousand dollars
for horse that will equal the recent per-
Torrance of Dexter-a mile to heavy
wagon in 2:214. A hundred thousand
dollars seems fabulous price for a
horse; but there is no doubt that Mr.. Bon
ner would draw his check for that sum, any
day, for the peer of Dexter. There is no
telling what speed may be shown hereafter;
but the opinion seems almost as universal
and fixed among horsemen that Dexter never
will be equalled, as it is that he never has
been.
We saw Mr. Bonner drive him, few days
ago at Prospect Park, where he evidently
did not do his best, in 2:1Sf. The only
horseman we know of who expresses any
expectation of ever owning rival to DeE-
ter's time, is President Grant but we APP
prehend that be will become less hopeful
after the experiments in breeding trotters
shall have progressed further. The most
promising young horse in the country to
day probably, is colt, as yet unnamed,
but, we believe, to be Edward Everett,
which is also owned by Mr.. Bonner, and is
now in training in the country. He has
made the fastest time ever made by a FIVE
year.old. This colt is of the same stock
with Dexter, and is said to have finer
way Of going-in the opinion of the most
skilful and practiced horsemen-than was
ever before shown by colt. ...
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29

WoMAN's RIeHTs-A middle aged WON
an of Suncoo k, N. H., named Mrs. Lindsey
has for some time past refused to pay her
highway tax. She was not actuated by
any inconvenience in the payment of her
rates, for she is worth considerable proper
ty, but she expressed dislike to the prin-
ciple of the tax. She was told by the sur
veyor that she must pay her tax in money
or work it out on the roads. Her reply
was that she would work it out Accor-
dinghy, on Monday morning last, she
bought new hoe, joined the gang of men
who were working on the highway, and lab
ored until sundown, doing good days
work. She said that she should be on
hand the next day and continue her work.
The affair caused considerable of SEN
sation in Suncook, and Mrs. Lindsey is
pronounced to be pretty plucky and apt
illustration of woman's rights.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29
Valuable Emigration.

Sixty Swedish Emigrants arrived, one
day last month, at Lynchburg, Va, direct
from Sweden. They were only nineteen
days on their passage. Their destination is
Water Vally, Miss, and they have emigra-
ted under the guidance of Mr. G.. Bergland,
a Swede himself, who has been residing in
this country for number of years, and has
possessions in Water Valley. He will fur
nish employment for portion of these of
his countrymen. Mr.. Bergland was only
two weeks in his native land in collecting
this party. He says that any number Of
valuable emigrants can be secured for the
South by sending over agents to make pro-
per representations to them. They know
but little about the South, and need infor-
nation. But when they arrive at New
York, without previous arrangements, it is
almost impossible to divert them from the
great current going Westward.
Emigrants can be introduced into the
South in great numbers in just this way
al dat PRESENT. in othor; but it would be
well worth the labor and cost for each of the
Southern States to employ reliable agents
to introduce such class of settlers. They
would be far better than Chinese, for they
enrich the State which they make their
home, instead of taking money away from it,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29
VOL. XIII.---NO. 43.

any way 1t turns out, he has the excitement
Oh raising the hog any how, whether he
gets inc worth ofhim or not. His straw
berries would be comfortable success if
the robins would eat turnips, but they
WON'T and hence the difficulties in his far
ming operations come of the close resem-
blance OF different sorts Of seeds and plants
10 each other Two years ago his farsight-
edness warned him that there was going
to he great scarcity of watermelons, and
therefore he put in crop of twenty-seven
acres OF fruit. But when they came up
they turned out to be pumpkins, and a
dead loss was the consequence. Sometimes
a portion OF his crop goes into the ground
the most promising sweet potatoes, and
comes up the most infernalist carrots
though never have heard him express it
Just IN that way. When he bought his
farm he found one egg in every hens nest
on the place. He said that here was lust
the reason why so many farmers failed
they scatter their forces too much-con-
centration was the idea. So he gathered
those eggs together and put them all under
one experienced old hen. That hen roost-
ed over that contract night and day for
eleven weeks under the anxious personal
supervision of Mr.. Beecher himself but she
could not phase" those eggs. WHY p
Because they were those infamous porce-
lain things which are used by ingenious
and fraudulent farmers as anest eggs"
But, perhaps, Mr. Beechers most disastrous
experience was the time he tried to raise an
immense crop of dried apples. He planted
fifteen hundred dollars worth, but never a
one of them sprouted. He has never been
able to understand, to this day, what was
the matter with those apples Mr.. Beech
ers farm is not triumph. 1t would be
easier on him if he worked it on shares
with some one; but he cannot find any,
body who is willing to stand half the ex.
pense, and not many that are able. Still,
persistence in any cause is bound to sue
coed. He was very inferior farmer when
he first begun, but prolonged and un-
fiinching assault upon his agricultural diff
ficulties has had its effect at last, and he
is now fast rising from affluence to power
ty.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29
4 Hard Winter impending.

Without claiming to be especially wea-
therwise ourselves, although we have SOME
views of our own, on the subject of
the seasons, deduced from observation,
experience and study, we cannot but
attach sufficient credit to the signs and
tokens which old hunters and woodmen
on this Continent, and scientific calcula-
tors in Europe, are adducing to sustain the
prediction that we are to have an early
and severe winter throughout the North
ern Hemisphere.
The beavers and prairie dogs in the
West and the Northwest ofAmerica, along
with many other animals that house them
selves away in the cold season, have great
ly advanced their preparations for the frost
this year, and on the Atlantic coast, the
Storm King sends us no equivocal or in
frequent warning.
In Europe, no less important an organ
of learned opinion than the Bulletin de
association ScientJque, bulletin of the
Scientific Society, announces that the win
ter of 1s69-70 will be exceptionally severe
on the Eastern Hemisphere. 1t reminds
its readers of the fact that the Winter of
1S68-69 was very remarkable for its mild
ness, its mean temperature not having ex-
ceeded deg. 65m. The three most mod
crate preceding winters of the century had
been those of 1922, 1928, and 1884, when
the mean temperatures were. 6 deg, 6 deg,
and 6 deg. 27m., respectively. ~.
Previous to our century, the only win
ter among those Of which the temperature
was calculated that approached 1868-69 in
mildness, was 1897. The severe cold snap
that came in January last was another
point of resemblance between those two
seasons, for there was 70 such lowering of
the temperature in the mild winters that
we have mentioned. The other singular
Accomplishments of this similarity will at
tract the notice of any close observer.
M. Renou, writing in the Bulletin above
mentioned, tells the world that since the
atmospheric perturbations of 1S59-60, the
years have been warmer, clearer and dryer,
and barometer pressure lighter than before.
These anomalies, he thinks, cannot fail to
find their compensation ere long, the win
ter before last closely corresponding with
that of 1868, and everything betokening
that about 1870 we shall have great win
ter like that of 1829-30.
The servants are not Invariably right but
there is accumulated evidence in their IA
vor to show that on general indications, and
by careful comparisons kept up for years
past, they can make some fair predictions
concerning the year to come. At all events
thrift and wise precaution never do any
harm, and should the phenomenally severe
season thus predicted ensue, our friends
may not blame us for having given them
this hint in good time.-N. Y. Mercantile
Journal. .. ....., ..... ..
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29

JOHN PAUL IN WALL STREET.

HOW HE BROKE THE CORNER IN GoLD-THE
EFFECT UPON HIMSELF AND OTHERS
WITH SOME MORAL REFLECTIONS.
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gaetifal.

" A BIRD SONG.
little bonnie bird / know,
with breast more soft than eider-down;
dress she wears Of dappled brow VIII,
Aud sings with sweet4r tone trow-
All sweeter far this birdie sings
Than all the birds the summer brings;
And yet her song is only this:
Il love you papa y then--a kits.
Not tenderest song Of nightingale,
Nor sparkling trill and gurgIirg gush
Vi joy from velvet-throated thrush,
Nor brilliant pipe of notified quail,
Nor tuneful plant of whippoorwill,
The measure Of her song can fill;
And yet her song Is only this
II love you, papar tken-a kiss.
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gY- 1t is curious fact in the grammar
of politics, that when statesmen get into
place, they often become oblivious oftheir
antecedents, but are seldom forgetful of
their relatives.
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Sir Walter Scott, in one of his novels,
gives expression to the height of high
lander's happiness" twenty four bag pipe
players assembled together in small
room, all playing at the same time differ
ent tunes!"
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a.Y@The Chinese in California are learn
ing civilization. The other day aslot of
railroad laborers struck, throwing down
their picks and rolling on the grass, crying:
1--WE sabee white mans dodge"
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ed a detected porter. at only needs
lightning-rod to be mistaken for board
ing house.
The New York herald., 1869-01-11


LUSArIC was found parading Washington street
yesterday afternoon, acting In u most strange man
ner, and looking for her husband who she pretended
WAS at the end OF the world. She was sent to tho
alnshouse for protection.
ANOTHER THIEF ARREsTRD-A man named Mar
tin Bttner was arraigned before Recorder Pope yes
terday on . charge preferred BY Louis Buck, OF
stealing butter, pork and other eatabes from hin
store at Secapcus. He pleaded guilty and was sent
70 prison for month.
THE BREMEN DOCK RoBBERy.-No discovery has
yet been made in regard to the six bales or silk
stolen from one OF the Bremen vessels on FRIDAY
night. Three bales we've marked with the letters
"A. A. L.n being owned BY A. A. Lowe 4 Brother.
The others were marked with the initials OF Messrs
Brown Shipley Co. The bales were valued al
81, 900 each.
CAPTURE or AN ALLEGED SNEAK THrEF-Iate on
Saturday night young man named william Eichan-
bach was arrested In Centre Market, in accordance
with warrant which had been issued charging
him with the larceny or pair OF shoes from livery
stable keeper named Jacob Holly, OF No. Shipman
street, and o silver watch from Sig5mund Lew, Of
No. IS Richmond street. Yesterday William was
committed Tor trial.
ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--About eight O'Clock
last evening decently attired woman named Sarah
Anderson appeared at the police station and stated
to the ocer in charge that about dusk she was set
upon by several rufYlans In River street, dragged
into stone yard and robbed OF Sl1 in greenbackx
The poor creature had passed several lights In tho
iodgery room OF the station hou3e as she says with
ployment Efforts are being made to capture tho
mlScreauta.
The New York herald., 1869-01-11
FLORIDA.

Proceedings In the observation-disclosures RE-
\ signaiion of Lieutenant Governor Gleason.
TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 10, 1902
n, Legislature adjourned saturday morning until
MosiAy.
In th sSenate Lieutenant Governor Gleason, In va
ealing IN. Presidents chair, called on Mr.. Meacham,
a coored /. ,ember, to I'LL II. Gleason then retired
ana sent IN is resignation President OF the SEN
ate, which wa accepted
The Lreutcnan Governor being state cfrcer, and
nv provlsion OF ,he constitution President OF the
senate, the procce rg Is deemed irregular and Of
value az the resianai. on should have gone through
the Executive Departm. mt 70 the senate; and the
question arises whether b, eau resign the functions
OF the ONCE alone.
The House transacted no business 81 importance.
The New York herald., 1869-01-11

The Fire Marshal has submitted to the Board Of
Metropolitan Police another very lengthy report. In
which are set forth the number or res losses dc in
the city OF New York from the 25th or May 1885, 70
October 81 1868. From May rs 10 May 81 there wero
eight dres; In the month OF june hfry-nine; In
July nfty-seven; In August nfty-three; in septem-
ber, fortysix; In October, sixty-eight. Total, 2si-
There were injured ana destroyed, IN all, 346 bud-
brick ana 50 frame. Tho losses were as follows:-
III, Loss !. on ~ LBuidings-May Sle, ne; June l2ls6;
smy; $4,000 August, $65. 25o: September, s5s6ii;
Loss on stock-May, sis7 sl5: June $685. o22; July.
c,SSs Sisossr .AggSst September
stock and buildings, si,41s,s11
.on Insurance ran On goidngs-May, $50 700; June slss
ocioSsT AasSs
800; July, ss2l:OaO; August ssss' 'oss; september.
vsSossS; ocsooeT PEI $ssSoo Total s2oss46 Total
the number q nres IN which theioss was in each
10000, 50; from $4,000 to $4,000 I; $4,000 to
100000 Il $4,000 to 100000 4; 100000 to $50 00O
Tns ss snS Ss n IN any sas month
Among the various causes OF the hres enumerated
% are reported to have resulted from kerosene IL
OF premises, from spontaneous combustion, &C.
Thirty fires occurred between the hours or nine and
N. and midnight In the M Fourteenth '' precinct the
largest number OF fires l25) occurred. involving .
loss OF e5,lo3. The smallest number (3 In the First
precinct. caused loss or x1a.50O. or the l5 most
disastrous fires that occurred within the period
covered BY the report q, more than onehalf took
place between the hours Of one and four o'clock
A. n.
The number Of incendiary nrcs was %. q large
proportion OF which were stables In II cases the
perpetrators have evaded detection. Bridget Muir
ray, domestic employed ct No. % v est Houston
street, was arrested on charge OF arson. June ls
convicted on her own confession and sent to the
House OF Refuge. Simon Strauss charged with
setting dre his store, NO. 250 South street. July
20, was admitted to bai in $4,000. Robert Jackson
charged with firing the store No. 308 West Twenty
fourth street. October Is, committed for trial.
Elizabeth MOriarty, servant, employed in Eighty
ninth street, between avenue A and FIRST avenue,
was arrested for setting re to the dwelling OF her
employer, October "a. and committed for trial.
Several hres In factories where wood il manufac-
tured have proved exceedingly destructive. owing
to the fact that the cnutes used TO convey shaw
ngs &C., from npDer stories OF the buildings. being
OF wooden construction. have acted combustibs
iues, carrying the IRE into every story or the build
ing. The elevator draughts and skyight areas in
warehouses have similar effect, and the Marshal
recommends appropriate legislation on the subject
enforcing the use OF iron trap doors, cnutes &c
In closing the Fire Marshal expresses his high ap
precia:Ion OF the services rendered to his depart
ment by Mr.. Joseph Strauss, interpreter to the
Board OF Metropolitan Police.
The New York herald., 1869-01-11
7rleGaApaIc NEWS ITEMS.

The dwelling house OF Mr. Hess at the railroad
briagc over the Ausabe river Illinois, caught nre
yesterday morning ana was entirely destroyed Mrs.
Hess and son, seven years old, perIshed In the
names
Hon. John Minor Bolts was buried on sunday
afternoon nom st. James church, Richmond. The
state of,cials and the members OF the Grant and
Colfax Association were In the procession. A very
large crowd OF freedmen followed the remains To the
cemetery.
In the Kentucky House Of REPRESENTATIVES, on sat
urdny joint resolution was introduced ordered to
be printed and referred to the COMMITTEES on Federal
Relations, respectfully requesting Congress 10 re-
move all political disabilities thai may have been At
tachedt0 any citizen OF Kentucky by virtue VI the
iourtee0th cQpotitRtiQnRl omondment.
The New York herald., 1869-01-11
wlsrcHssIta INTELLIGENCE.

THE NEw BOARD OF SING SING PRISON OrFrCrALs.-
The Board OF inspectors OF State Prisons held meet
ing at Sing sing Thursday last ut which the fol-
lowing appointments were made:-Clerk OF Sing Sing
Prison. Casper O. Chds, Jr., OF Yonkers, to take ef
feet February Il Rev. II. L. Schoonmaker OF Rotter-
dam, Schenectady county. was appointed chaplain;
DR.. Collins, OF sing Sing, physician; Mr. Hyland OF
Sing Sing storckeepcr The following Keepers were
appointed, viz.:-Joseph Moore Yonkers; Charles
stilbert Rye; Jonn van Tassel. Mount Pleasant:
Rober r. Strang Putnam: Michael lialblaub. Bufao,
A. W. jennings, Albany; Jackson johnson, Thomas
McLane, Thomas p. Croflf, John w. wooisey.
William H. Peek, Jr Lewis Hitchcock and Charles
Acker, Sing sing; Jackson 0dell, Yorktown; Jarvis
Eighmie. Dntchess; Lewis Van Hagen, Sc0harie.
Zal II. Avery, Cross River: Hugh Murpney, Chris
tian Newhart and Thomas Adams New York: john
Williams Newburg; Al0nz0 Humphrey, R0sendae.
The following are the names OF the guards ap-
DooIy, Daniel Luther, John w. Tndall. Richard Ter
hume, Ellis 0deli Peter Grlbney, Oscar Church,
James Heuston and Jacob snyder, Sing sing; James
Pratt, Harrison: Edmund Groves New Rochelle;
George Gregory, Pines Bridge; Philip kopp, Lloyd:
Abraham Conkiin. Peekskili; George I. Ferguson.
New York. Two assistant matrons Tor the female
prison at Sing sing were appointed.
Tie appointment OF an agent and warden OF Sing
Sing Prison was laid over, the Inspectors being
unable 10 agree. IL is understood that OF the
democratic inspectors was In favor OF Mr.. William
&. Rh0des the OTTER was In favor OF Henry G. Nell
son, late member OF Assembly. The man upon
whom, perhaps, both inspectors will unite Is Mr..
ana warden the last year The prison wa under
democratic control. and whose record an able and
efficient offlcer Is well known to all familiar with
The management OF the prison.