The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-19
NarrOW-GaMge Railroad.

Mr.. EDITOR: As we are progressing with our
muchneeded improvement, although to some it
is too slow, but | think as fast as the most san
guine could expect take the privilege of your
valuable paper to inform the friends of the road
that it is not by any means dead but still alive
and nourishing. I'VE have, almost without an
effort, got onc-third the amount necessary to
build the road. We have several canvassers,
with books taking stock and those who want to
subsclbe-and every one along the line ought
nj once to make up their minds what they can
subscribe, by asking themselves what the rail
road, combined with their effort, is worth to
them, and educate themselves that it is a ncccs-
sty and must be built, to enable them to COM
pete with the more favored of mankind, in OBJ
tanning the necessaries of life and hunting up n
canvasser's book, give him most liberal sub
| scription.
Why, Mr.. Editor, the people living ON the line
OF Col. Iaylor's recent survey, although within
what ought to be an hours ride of one of the
greatest markets of the country, can scarcely
find purchaser for his land for half the price he
could obtain ten years ago. Some twenty years
| ago the county supported some four or five four
horse mail stages, running the most of the time
| crowded with passengers from different points
| The question why is this is solved in the an
| swer that railroads are becoming so common
elsewhere that the travelling community are fol-
| lowing them and all Of the youth of Industrious
| habits and expansive minds are finding fields for
| Their labor that are more rcmunerativc.
| would like to direct the attention of the
| friends of the Maryland Central railroad who
| believe that it will be built and pay them more
for the right of way than would build some roads,
| to the improvements at Canton and vicinity, for
the efusion Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
and the Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad,
as through line from Washington to New York.
| These improvements are of too permanent q
character to have an idea of future dissolution.
Mr. Editor, would like to arouse the people
to the necessity of the times, which amounts to
this, in plain language-rairoad, or starvation
if not with hunger but with poverty. As hate
to abuse my fellow-men for not thinking as do,
l will close this communication by referring
them to the cheese and farming associations and
companies the steam pillow and its history
the results of combined effort w. 6.
INCIDENT OF Prison LIFE.-Some eight
months since George Harris and Benjamin
Thompson, alias Ben Bolt, were tried before
the Circuit Court for Hartford county, for a
murder committed in the adjoining county OF
Cecil, the case having been removed. Both
were found guilty and Harris was sentenced
to be hung but after much effort on the part
of friends Gov Bowie committed his punish
ment to imprisonment for life in the Mary
land Pcnitentary. Thompson, who was a
nephew of Harris, received u sentence OF
eighteen years at hard labor A few weeks
since Harris, man about so years, was tn.
ken i'll, and DR.. Sias Baldwin, the physician
soon saw that his death was inevitable, and
on the prisoner asking his opinion of his case
the Doctor told him candidly that he had but
a few hours on EARTH Harris then remarked
that he would like to have some private con
versation with the Doctor who having Other
engagements at the time told him he would
call to see him again in the evening. At
p. M DR.. Baldwin returned to the institu
ton and found his patient sinking fast. He
remained with him until midnight, wher
death ended his life of Imprisonment. Har
ris remained perfectly conscious up to within
n few moments of his death. He told tho
Doctor repeatedly during the evening tha
he was entirely innocent ofthe crime ofwhicl
he had been convicted, that he forgave all hi!
enemies, and that he had for some time beer
preparing to meet his God and was fully
ready to die. On the day after the death o
Harris Thompson wrote letter to q relative
in Cecil in which he said: Uncle George
died last night, and | hope he has made
confession generating me from the crime
One thing is certain, Harris cXonerated NJ
one, his great desire being to be thought in
nocent hmself-BaltO. County Union