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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27
ne Egis & Intelligencer.
Public Local Laws
F0l. Hartford County.
[PuBL1sMEp AuTHoRITY.l
Passed by the General Assembly of Mary
land at the January Session, 1870
CHAPTER 800.
AN ACT

To authorize the County Commissioners of
Hartford county, to sell part of the Poor
House Farm and to erect suitable build
ings for the use ofthe paupers of said coun-
ty, and to levy q sum Of money for that
purpose
SEC l. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That the County Com
mssioners of Hartford county, be, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered in
their discretion, to sell, either at private or
public sale, either in the whole or in lots or
parcels, as they in their judgemnt may deem
best for the interest of the county, and upon
such terms as they may deem most expedicnt,
nil that part of the land or farm situated in
Hartford county, called or known as the
Aims House or Poor House Farm of Hartford
County, which lies on the northern side of
the public road leading from Walters Mill,
to the Hartford Turnpike and the said Coun-
ty Commissioners are empowered, upon the
payment of the purchase money, to convey
by deed to the purchaser or purchasers of
said land, the entire interest of Hartford
county in and TO the same; provided that
nothing in this act contained shall be con-
strued to compel the said County Commits
sioners to sell the land they are herein au-
thorized and empowered to sell, but they are
TO sell only in their discretion.
IOES. Alu NC IL CuuCtCNi, INV tllC Suiu
County Commissioners are also authorized
and empowered TO expend in judicious
manner the proceeds of the sales of he land
which they are herein authorized and en-
powered to sell, in the erection of suitable
buildings on or near the present site of the
Aims House of Hartford county, for the use
and accommodation of the paupers of said
county, and in their discretion to levy at
their next annual levy, twenty-five hundred
dollars on the assessabe property of Hartford
county, t3be expended by said Commission.
ers, in addition to the proceeds Of the sales OF
the land they are herein authorized and en-
powered to sell, in the erection of said Aims
House buildings.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said
County Commissioners are hereby authorized
to enter into any contracts ard enforce the
same that may be necessary TO carry out the
purposes Of this act.
SEC And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect and be in force from the date
of its passage.
Approved 4th April, 1870.
ODEN BOWIE,
G0cfTH0r.
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THE OLD LINES o.

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The undersigned takes this method of informing his
ires and the travelling public that lac continues to
he old aud well established lines OF Mail Stages be-
twec Bel Air and Baltimore, and Bel Air, Magnolia and
Edgewood Stations The Stage direct for Baltimore via
Harorl Turnpike, Mrs Asltons Hotel every Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday morning, ut O'clock arriv-
ing in Baltimore at O'Clock, p. NJ Returning, leaves
Browns Hotel, High street, Baltimore every Tue day,
Thursday and Saturday morning at o'clock irving
in Bel Air at q. NJ
TO BALTIMORE VIA EDGEW0oD.
N".1 leaves Bel Air at A. NJ connecting at Edgewood
with Port Del sit Accommodation Train for Baltimore.
at 80 Returning, leaves Edgewood at d, p M.
rival of Port Deposit accommodation train from Bati
more, arriving in Bel Aira s. PM
TO BALTIMORE VIA MAGNOLIA.
M. leaves Bel Air Mt Is A. NJ connecting at Mag
noa with Fla Z. NJ train for Baltimore. Returning,
leaves Magnolia at 20 r. NJ arrival of 225 PM train
from Baltimore.
Passengers procure tickets for Abingdon, En-
morton aud Bel Air by either line at the President
Street depot.
Way passengers will he accommodated ut any point OH
ntler route. Intending devote careful and constant
attention to the wants and convenience % travellers and
To permit these well known lines of Stas lose
81 their former popularity. Snlicit continuance &C
the very liberal patronage heretofore generally
tended to its former PruprieturS
WM. ANDERSON,
june5 Proprietor
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CHAPTER AT.
AN ACT

TO add the following sub-sections to Article
10 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
Hartford county, subtitle Sheriff, to come
in after section 1856.
SEB. l. BE it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That the following SUBJ
sections be added to Article ~ of the Code
of Public Local Laws, title Hartford county,
sub title Sheriff, TO come in after section 1856
SUC-SEC. 1. 1t shall be the duty of the
Sheriff of Hartford county, and he is hereby
authorized and empowered to employ COM
petent physician to attend the inmates of the
Jail in said county, whenever, in his judg-
ment, said inmates, by reason of sickness, or
otherwise, may require said attention.
SUISSE 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners of said county, to levy
annually upon the assessable property of
said county sum of money not exceeding
one hundred dollars to carry into effect the
provisions of the above sub-sectons.
SEC 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date Of its passage.
Approved 4th April, 1870.
ODEN BOWIE,
G0ccrnOr.
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CHAPTER 2G9.

AN ACT
To authorize John II. Stokes, of Hartford
county, surviving Trustee, to sell and con-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27
CHAPTER 41G.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To amend certain portions of the act, cnti-
tied an act to incorporate the Cecil and
Hartford Counties Boom Company, passed
at the January Session of 1867, Chapter
1876, and to require the said company to re-
move certain and all distractions placed
by them in the Susquehanna river, in VIC
lation of the aforesaid act.
Whereas The Cecil and Hartford Counties
Boom Company claim under their act of in
corporation, passed at the January Session
of 1867, Chapter 1876, the right and power to
condemn, generally, the shores and fisheries
of the Susquehanna river, and its neighbor-
ing streams; which claim, if allowed, will
give this, mere private corporation, the
monopoly and control of the shores and fish
cries aforesaid, to the great hurt and perma-
nent injury of the owners thereof and the
Whereas, 1t hath been shown by actual
survey and measurement, and substantiated
by the affidavits of certain citizens of Cecil
and Hartford counties of good standing and
repute, that the said Boom Company have
violated their corporate powers and fran
chiscs by building and erecting piers of
wood and stone, and by erecting their main
boom and auxiliary booms at forbidden
points on the Susquehanna river, by crossing
and obstructing divers channels thereof and
by preventing the exercise of the common
right to use the public waters of the State,
and preventing ingress and egress, from pub
lie landings on said river, therefore,
SEC. /. Be it enacted by the General AS.
sembly of Maryland, That SO much of the
Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Cecil
and Harfcrd Counties Boom Company,
passed at the January Session of 1867, Chap
tor 10h n,OpOwprc tho coi6 oon,popu e.,
condemn land and fisheries, and to place
piers and other distractions in fisheries be-
low the head of sloop navigation, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Cecil
and Hartford Counties Boom Company, in
corporated under the aforesaid act, are here
by directed and required to remove all piers,
booms, and other distractions placed by
them in the Susquehanna river, below the
head of sloop navigation, in violation of the
aforesaid act of incorporation
SEC 3. And be it enacted, That unless the
provisions of the second section of this act
shall be complied with by the first day of
October, 1870, then the aforesaid act Of i'll
corporation shall be vacated, null and void.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in case the
provisions of this act are not complied with
by the first day of October, 1870, as herein
before provided, then the prosecuting attor-
MES of Cecil and Hartford Counties shall in
sttute proceedings, forthwith, against the
Cecil and Hartford Counties Boom Company
and cause the said company to comply with
the requirements, conditions, and provisions
of this Act
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this ACT
shall take effect from the date of its passage
Approved 4th April, 1870.
ODEN BOWIE,
Governor.
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A FULL assortment of Plough Castings on
IA hand and for sale by /. AMOS,
Bel Air.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.
This Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the
L subscriber has obtained from the Regis
ter of Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters
Testamentary on the personal estate of
JAMES SPICER,
late Of Hartford county, decd. All persons
having claims against said deceased are here
by notified to exhibit the same, with the legal
vouchers thereof, on or before the
2SH day Of Mdrch, 1871,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal, this 2Sth
day of March, 1870.
JOHN T. SPICER,
ap1 Executor
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27

The best and most popular Fertilizer in use.
1t permanently improves the SOIL and is quick an
active Peruvian Guano. The following certificate
from wel-known farmer of Hartford county, will attes
the value of this fertilizer:
HICKORY, Hartford Co., Nd, Stl mo lst, 1860
p. ZELL SoNs-Respected Friends: Seeing an ady
tisement where NJ. Maynadier offered 1000 lbs He's.
Phosphate to be applied by the side of any other ne
phate no charge to be made unless it surpassed Lels
Richardsod accepted the challenge, giving pem in
Phosphate upon the same terms. l appedorpasses
equal quantities upon potatoes. Zell's fay The size
Hewes ut this time, the vines being fully trop is har.
will be able to report more fullywhen thand Stable
vested also used Zell's by the side of he pnd 10
Manure, with the same results. 1 We experiments
have those interested and scSellent fer tiIiaer
for themselves. 1 consider Zes anGTON II0opES
Yours Respectfully, DAg r.oI zo,r, phos.
The following gentlemen have1ns Of its merits For
phate and speak In the highesefects see Circulars
their certificates in regard to ,,a,c.a;,
Alexander Norris, ,ho " Mocness
John George, A / Rogers
Lee Magness Z Jesse Unskins
NJ f. Pue, E,oncis Wnv
John Favour, mol Galloway
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27
CHAPTER TS.
AN ACT
Governor.

To change the time of paying the States
donation to the Hartford County and Oar.
lington Academies, from annual to semi
annual payments.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That Section three
of an Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act
to add a new Section to Article twelve" OF
the Code Of Local Laws of Hartford County
entitled Schools" relating to the Har-
ford County Academy and the Cokes-
burg or Abingdon Academy and re-enac-
ting the same with amendments, relating
to the State donation to the Hartford Coun-
ty Academy, passed January Session,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter
one hundred and eighty-threc, be and the
same is hereby repealed, amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said
five hundred dollars herein restored to the
Hartford County Academy and which was
heretofore paid annually, shall be paid to
the said Academy in semi-annual pay
ments of two hundred and fifty dollars
each out Of the Academy fund of Hartford
County; and the said sums of two hun
dred and fifty dollars and one hundred and
fifty dollars, mentioned in the second Sec
ton of this Act as belonging to the OAR
lington Academy, and making in the ag-
gregate four hundred dollars, and which
was also paid annually, shall be paid to
said Darlington Academy in semi annual
payments oftwo hundred dollars each, out
Of the said Academic fund, and the Treasu-
rer is hereby authorized and directed to
pay upon the warrants of the Comptroller
semi-annually to said Academies respect
lively the sums of money herein directed to
be paid to them, commencing on the first
day Of April, eighteen hundred and seven
ty.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
Approved March 2, 1870.
ODEN BOWIE,
Governor.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-13

reflection; and many of these men are
about to take policy in the Washington
Life Insurance Company of New York.
A LAWYER in Bangor, Me, who wanted
to get his Christmas turkey cheap, select
ed fine-looking one and Inquired Of the
gentleman from the rural districts if it was
young, and being answered in the at1irma-
tive, asked him if he would take his oath
of it. Nothing 10th, the poulterer assent
ed, and the oath was administered by the
sprig of the law, who then demanded a
dollar as his fee. ~ ,.t
During the delivery of Miss Olive
Logan's lecture on "Girls," the other
evening, the fair lecturer, in her confiden
tial talk with pretty girls said, "Shall
| tell you how l fell? Well, l never saw a
pretty girl in all my life, one upon whose
cheeks the roses were blooming, but that
| wanted to fold her in my arms and kiss
her" A person of the male persuasion,
who had not seen more than twenty -five
summers, forgetful of the dignity of the
occasion, gave evidence of fellow feel
ing, by in quite loud voice exclaming,
&C feel Just so, too. "-Butal0 Courier.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-13
Incidents and Accidents.

"A little girl, in Brooklyn, stabbed her
&ther, the other day, while defending her
mother from his assaults.
"A little girl, four years old, died of
Aydrophobia at Louisville, a few days ago,
having been bitten by a mad dog two
months before.
-One Of the new patent safety lamps
Of the Third avenue New York; railroad
blew out the end of car few evenings
ago, .l.#L
"A rat gnawed through water-pipe..at
ihc Louisville Board of Trade rooms a
few nights ago, and flooded the establish
ment. .plpg Itt.
During the past year 1850 persons
we're killed in the United States by acct
1ents from gunpowder, and only seven by
nitro glycerine.
"A young man in Lewiston, Maine,
lhrashed his father, and the court fined
him one cent, thinking the old man really
deserved it. w.4
The Philadelphia Press says that
within a few years past four persons have
died in that city of hydrophobia, c-nsed
BY the bites of pet dogs in play.
The total number of fires in st. Louis
from January to November 81, 1869, was
1885, the total loss, $64l, no; insurance,
fi67,37O; loss over insurance, $174,400
"A young gentleman refused to give
up his seat in a New Orleans horse car to
m elderly lady, and his fellow passenger
kicked him into the strset. w
"A man in Stocllbridge, Mass, got a
preservation for rheumatism, the other day,
and, with sublime indifference to lldirec-
tions swallowed the whole at dose. He
died. t'n VI" W
The Sheriff of Butler county, Penn
sylvania, excluded all city reporters at
recent execution, on the ground that he
bad contracted to report the thing for
ehree papers himself l.t .E,t 70
"A couple in Troy had dispute the
other night whether they should have a
goose or d turkey for their Christmas din
ner, and it ended by the man nearly
killing MS wife with shovel
The Warren PENN Mil says that a
fecent explosion of nitro-glycerine at Tt
msyille was heard in that county at
points forty miles distant from the place
OF explosion.
While funeral procession, at Tren.
Ton, New Jersey, was going toward the
grave, the whole thing was stopped to al
SOW the man who drove the hearse time to
90 in and take q drink
"A circular saw recently burst at
wood yard in Chillicothe, Ohio, and one
Of the pieces flew three hundred Yards
-four or i've men near the saw were I'M
hurt.
"A young Englishman recently got
INTO quarrel in beer house at Bath
During the alteration he exclaimed,
May God strike me dead" and he had
scarcely uttered the word "dead," when
nc became speechless and lost the entire
use OF his limbs.
Mrs. Letina MaGchett, of indianapolis,
Tas fatally burned by the explosion of a
mp brought about by pouring kerosene
GA The fire to make it burn. The event
furnishes an opportunity of remaking
Anal any fool can match 1t.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-13

a rev udys ago wOrkmen III the coal
mine Off The Pacific Coal Company, at
Centertown, Cole county, No. dug into a
red hot fire OF coal, while taking out coal.
1t is supposed the fire has been burning
there since 1862, when it was kindled by
some laborers TO warm themselves. Is
Twenty years ago a Connecticut man
left watch with a jeweler, to be cleaned
and repaired, saying he would be in town
in a day or two and call for it. A few
days ago, the man called in at The jeweler's
and asked: "Do you remember my leay-
ing watch with you a number of years
since to be cleaned." eyes" replied tie
leweler, "and here it is"
"A man gave himself into the custody
of the Philadelphia police the other even
ing, representing that he had, on the Goth
of November, killed his mother by blow
at Canandaigua, N. Y. He was searched,
as is usual, and put into cell, and subse-
luently it was discovered that he had a
razor, and was in the act of cutting his
throat. On the day following the sister
of the prisoner waited upon Detective
Gordon and said that her mother was alive
and well.
--On getting into bed recently, at Bren-
ham, Texas, man was bitten by one of
the monster spiders called tarantulas He
applied some linlment, and, by the aid of
chloroform, went to sleep About mid
night he awoke in chill, with violent
pains in the spine and legs. Physicians
were called in, who administered NOR
phine, whisky, and turpentine internally,
and turpentine also externally. The pa
tient slow y recovered
DIR. Cyrus. Ramsey, of New York,
married beautiful girl, one of his pa.
tents, three years ago. She induced him
to make over to her half Of his property,
worth some $4,000, then she went to
Cuba for her health Soon afterward her
Tother wrote that she was dead The
corpse was forwarded to the doctor, who
buried it in Greenwood. The mother
then came on, showed her daughters will,
and entered into possession of half the
doctors property. Since then the doctor
has learned that his wife is still in Cuba,
and that he was imposed upon through
spurious corpse. The case will come up
in the courts.
"A man by the name of Wing, at work
in the bottom of well at Cutter village,
in Winchester, Mass suddenly found him
self sinking in the quicksand to his knees,
and with all his efforts he was unable to
,extricate himself The well had been
sunk to the depth of thirty feet, and Wing,
being heavy, all efforts to hoist him out
were unavailing, the work being carried
on through the whole of the night, and
much excitement prevailing on his ac-
COUNT. Two professional miners were
procured in Boston the next morning to
try their skill, and his release was finally
effected by the use of long bitted augers,
with which the operators bored into the
clay around his legs, and in this manner
so relieved the pressure upon them that,
at about 100 in the afternoon, he was
taken out, In very exhausted condition,
having been there nearly twenty four
hours Z no ft.l -t#t|R - X
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-13
PARAGRAPHS.
Religions and Educational.


There are 81, 1000 Baptists in Indiana.
Lsan Antonio, Tex, has al free school
m successful operation
The ITniversalist Church will celebrate
az centenary some time this year.
In Nevada the church membership is
less than one. fifth of the population.
The Charleston, Massachusetts, State
,rison has an evening school for convicts.
The American Presbyterians have
MORE missionaries in China than any other
The Holyoke (Mass) Young Mems
Christian Association voted to admit wo-
men to membership. I +" U"~i
The Baptists of New York spent
$1,000 900 during 1859 in building and re-
pairing churches. "a
Within FIVE years there have been
sfty.fve Congregational churches organ
ized in Missouri, where before there was
but one. -,
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
zion of Boston, having made $4,000 net
nrodt on a recent fair, propose erecting a
new building. r"N'"
New York city has 429 churches, of
which AZ are Baptist, SO Methodist Epis-
cona. II Old School Presbyterian, 96
Protestant Episcopal, and 80 Catholic.
In the new Lutheran church at Ha-
cerstown, Md, large hand is painted on
The wall in the vestibule, pointing down
to a spittoon with the inscription, Please
leave your tobacco there"
The pastor of the American chapel in
Paris writes that, during one year, one
hundred and three members have been re-
ceiyed-thirteen of them on profession of
the faith. LJlaI I
Some of the women school teachers of
Randolph, Mass, are selling books to their
scholars for twenty per cent. more than
the regular price, alleging that their salary
is too small to support them without this
traffic. t41J
Henry Hoyt, the Sunday School pub
Usher of Boston, offers respectively. $500
and $500 for the two best Sunday School
books, to be winning in style, free from
UNCONVENTIONAL bias, and decidedly Evan
gelcal in character and spirit, to contain
$4,000 words, and to be sent in by March
18th
One ofthe Pensioners of the church
of Redburn, England, describes the kind
Of a pastor they want for their vacant
pulpit They do not want stuck-up
parson, nor a stuckup parsons wife, who
will be running after the great people all
the time, but they want one who will
come and take tea and make himself at
home with the plain farmers families"
The Congregational Church at Pc
oria Ill, has adopted the free seat sys-
tenn The Trustees have employed novel
feature to raise the current expenses with
out a formal collection, namely: A box
is set in the book rack of each seat. On
this box is a printed card These seats
are all free, and the worship is sustained
by the voluntary offerings. Casual at
PENDANTS cast their gifts and regular sub
scrlbers put their weekly sums, enclosed
in envelopes, on which they write their
names, into the boxes, and the Treasurer,
after service, gathers up the funds.