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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-27
For the State Senate.

We are authorised to announce Col. WIN. B..
STEPHENSON as candidate for the Senate OF
Maryland, subject TO the decision of the Demo-
cratic. Conservative voters at the primary cleo
tons. ie6
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For the State Senate.

We are authorized TO announce Col. JNO.
CARROLL WALSH for nomination by the
Democratic party as candidate for the Senate
of Maryland for Hartford county.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.

EXECUTORS NOTICE.
THIs IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the
L subscriber has obtained from the Regis
ter of Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters
of Administration on the personal estate OF
ALEXANDER NORRIS,
late of Hartford county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against said deceased are
hereby notified to exhibit the same with the
legal vouchers thereof. on or before the
18Th day Of June, 1874,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
auested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal this 10th
day of June 1878.
G. SMITH NORRIS,
ie2O Executor.
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For Sheriff.

Mr.. EDITOR: You will please to announce
me rs candidate for the next Sheriff
atty, subject 10 denomination of the Democrat
ic party. WIN. ). PRICE.
ABINGDON DISTRICT, MAY 9th, 1873. myl6
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EOl Sheriff.

Mr.. EDITOR PLEASE announce me candi-
date for the next Shcrtlalty of Hartford county,
subject to the decision of the Democratic and
Conservative party at the PrmaryElections:
sep13 w. b. JARRETT.
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For Sheriff.

Mr. EDITOR: Please announce SAMUEL
STREET., of the 4th District, as candidate
for the next Shcrifalty Of Hartford county, sub
jcct to the Democratic Conservative nomination
MANY FRIENDS.
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Enr ShpriT

Mr.. EDITOR: Please announce JOHN j.
ALEXANDER as candidate for the next
Sherifalty of Hartford county, subject to the
Democratic Conservative nomination.
sepoO MANY FRIENDS.
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For Sheriff.

Mr.. EDITOR: Please announce VIM. S. BOW
MAN, of the second election district, Halls X
Roads as candidate for the Sheritialty, subject
to the nomination of the Democratic party
IIopEwELL X ROADS, MAY 18th, 1873. my1G
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For Sheriff,

Mr.. EDITOR: Please announce that ! am q
candidate for the next Sherilfalty of Hartford
county, subject to the endorsement of the Demo-
cratic Conservative party.
nov8 JAMES >. Ll LIE.
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For Sheriff,

MIR. EDITOR: Please announce JOHN HOP
KINS as a candidate for the Sherillalty, subject
to the nomination of the Democratic and Con-
servatve party at the primary elections.
ap4 MANY VOTERS.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the
subscribers have obtained from the Reg
lister of Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters
of Administration on the personal estate of
PETER KELCHNER,
late of Hartford county, deceased. All per-
sons;having claims against said deceased are
hereby notified to exhibit the same, with the
legal vouchers thereof, on or before the
1871 day Of June, 1874,
or they n,ay otherwise by law be excluded
from oil benefit of said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment.
: Given under our hands and seals this 10th
day ofJunc, 1873
MARTHA KELCHNER,
JOHN A. SPENCER,
ie20 Administrators.
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For the State Senate.

We are authorized to announce HENRY A.
SILVER as candidate for the Senate of Mary
land subject to the decision of the Democratic
tnor
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FO,. Sheriff.

Mr. EDITOR: Please announce WM q. HAN
WAY as q candidate for the next Shcriiialty d
Hartford county, subject to the Democratic Con
servative nomination.
sep27 MANY VOTERS.
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PD8YiIgAM.
CHAM Der SCENE.
DY n. p. WILLIS

DY n. p. WILLIS
She rose from her untroublcd sleep
And put away her soft brown hair,
And, in tone as low and deep
AS loves first whisper, breathcd prayer.
Her snow-white hands together pressed,
Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid,
The folded linen on her breast
just swelling with the charms it hid;
And from her long and flowing dress,
Escaped bare and slender foot,
Whose shape upon the earth did press
Like a new snowflake, white and mute.
And there from slumber, pure and sweet,
Like young spirit fresh from heaven,
She bowed her slight and graceful form,
And humbly prayed to be forgiven.
o God if souls unsoiled as these
Need daily mercy from thy throne
If she upon her Bonded knees
Our loveliest and our purest one
She with her face so clear and bright
We deem her some stray child of light
4 If she, with those soft eyes in tears,
Jay after day in her first years,
ffust kneel and pray for grace from Thee,
/ hat far, far deeper need have We?
81 sow hardly, if she win not Heaven,
\ viii our wild errors be forgiven!
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Eor (o,.nf, Commissioner.

MIR. EDITOR: Please announce me as can
didate for County Commissioner for Bel Air
District.
ie6-3t &. w. S. RlGDON.
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Boston, November ~, 1872.
MeEsrs. J. H. SMITH & CO.,
Baltimore.

Youls of the 25th at hand and We have concluded to
cousgn our stock Of CLOTHING saved from the fire to
you, and have shipped per fast freight TWENTY CASES
and will forward the balance of nrstock AS fast rs your
sales Justify it. Yours, respectfully
RAINSF0RD, KILBOuRN WALDO
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Mr.. EDITOR: Please announce FRANK b.
GLENN as a candidate for Sheriff of Hartford
county, subject to the Democratic Conservative
nomination. MANY VOTERS.
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BUSINESS SUITS, So sll, sla, sl5 sls and $40.
BUSINESS PANTS, $3.50, $3.50, 81 so, and $500.
DRESS PANTS, 4.60, $50, 600 aud $500.

BUSINESS SUITS, 80, Sll, Sl3, Sl5, SIS, and $40.
BUSINESS PANTS, $3.50, $3.50, 81 50, and $500
DRESS PANTS, 1850, $50 $50 aud $3.50.
We design to make this large snd speedy SALE and
offer such Inducements will lead you to buy. Let
every one in OF Clothing at and get the
choice of the first consignment. We want our cnsto-
mers and the citizens of Baltimore TO have the whole Of
this stock of Clothing, which, together with our own.
will constitute hundred thousand Coats, Pants
and Vests to be disposed of to the citizens of Baltimore,
If they appreciate efforts to supply them with good
substantial Clothing low prices II this stock does
not meet with speedy sale shall ship it to our Wash
ngton house, but shall give Baltimore chance at it
first We have exerted ourselves TO get the control of
this stock and trust the citizens of Baltimore will AZ
precate Bear in mind that you can now secure sub
stantal bargains in CLOTHING for MEN, YOUTHS aud
BOYS
CHILDRENS OyERC0ATS, $50 to &C.
BOYS OVERCOATS, 81 to $40
MEMS OvERCoATs, " to $l5
YOUTHS SUITS, 50 to SIS.
MEMS SUITS, SO to SIS.
We have increased corps OF statesmen so TO DO
able wait all promptly as possible during the
sale of these goods.
j. ii. SMITH d. CO.,
Marble Hall C!othiers and Taors,
Jec27.ly As and so West Baltimore st.
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SEU,UUU WUKIH UE ULUIHINU
saved from the Boston fire. and shall commence the sale
of them tomorrow. The stock made up by first
class Boston house. and we arc enabled dispose of it
at IS per cent. below the actual cost We can offer
substantial bargains in Clothing. This large stock ad-
ded our own makes the largest and most cOmplt tie
assortment of Clothing offered in this city. We
name in part some OF the goods:
CHILDREN'S 0VERC0ATS ........S 35C to 6.
l5OO BOYS OVERCOATS. .......... 400 to II.
LOCO YOUTHS 0vERC0ATS.. ....... 100 to Is.
MEMS OyERCOATS 100 to 20.
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Mr. P Dear SIR am very h 5 yoa fs @ P ss 9 as Paint
" a3 Paint Very es' used ' -
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No. C. The Paint cam, sy , ss Fses g. % e. e. ' ~ :1 gallon
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Bradley a
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C. p. KNIGHT, Sole Agent,
w. Lombard Street, Baltimore.
SPECIMENS AND PRICE LIST FURNISHED GRATIS -@a
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Read! Read! Read!
GREAT DISCOVERYl
DDAnT TWO PATENT DkTNTT
.DnAUlG | OENAMELl hlW /.
Pure White Lead Linseed Oil Zinc, Chemically Combined
Will long lead and oil mixed in the
ordinary way.
Always ready for use. Sold by the gallon.
Twenty square yards two coats

following
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SEQ. 600 NORTH OF CLOTHING

TO OUR PATRONS
We are pleased to inform you that We have secured
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C. affords
believe durability More
most respectfully, ISAAC ALBERTSO
w. SteetsB i'm
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C. p. KNIGHT, Sole Ager

~ SPECIMENS AND PRICE LIST FURNISHED GRATIS so
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M 9. 7. Knight-Dear Sir: have been using
Paint and am happy to say that it gives entire satis
to whom have furnished it for other painters to us
mont, Mills, to whom furnished the Bradley Paint
permission to use his name in recommending so goo
with me as to the durability off, your most excellent
do will look to their advantage and apply Bradley's
mble paint now in 1t holds its gloss longer tn
Yours, truly, E.
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Ptent
it truly ALL
o, dcount,M Eel.
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9. p. Knight, ESq.-Agent for Bradley's Patent Enamel
paint which purchased from you has given entire
intend follow my example, and have their houses painted
but it looks better after it is put than any paint
lighted with it. He that he can paint twice fast
with the Enamel paint than any other paint he used
commend public of the very best articles
Yours, very truly,
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Mr. C. p Knqht-Bw Having paint of six mon
in
eve cen Very respectfully MUIR
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M. G. r. Knght-Dear Sir: The paints we received
of our own buildings and those of friends and have
qualities gloss and in adaptabity to all kinds of suract
mend it, especially that class of consumers who have
to mix and furnish materials, wherein we have found Il
Yours, truly
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had the Bradleys
durability and beauty Yours TOS.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
Agricultural.
Stick to the Farm.

Miss Mary A. e. Wager of Noore's
Rural says she is quite sure that the
more person knows of life, in great
oities the greater emphasis will he or
she give to the advice contained IN the
head line, and for these reasons:
The majority of country boys are In
no sense of the word fitted or prepared
for participation in the rivalry and COM
petion of business in the city. They
would find themselves as much out of
their sphere or groove for usefulness as
a statesman would be placed In COM
mand of ship. Or to make the Illus
tration more pertinent, they would sue
ceed in the city in about equal measure
with the city men who go to the coun-
try to get rich farming, and you know
how that is.
Hundreds of young men come from
from the country to the city weekly IN
search of work. ] see them anxiously
walking the streets, or standing at the
street corners in brown study Often
times they are robbed of their little
store of money; decoyed into hells
where in a single hour they learn more
of the ways of death than would have
come to them in entire life time else
where. An but you wouldn't be Sc
duced from truth and virtue Perhaps
not; but granting you to be firm as the
everlasting hills in Righteousness, what
could you do to insure success Can
you ket type? Can you keep books !?
Do Aou understand commercial busi-
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
Roots nCellars

Every farmer knows, or thinks he
knows, how TO take care of potatoes for
winter use, but we will describe briefly
our methods. Dig the potatoes, if possi-
BILE, when the ground is dry; but if this
cannotor has not been done, they should
be allowed to dry ON barn floor, the
adhering soil removed, and then the
roots may be carried to the cellar. We
provide large boxes, which will hold
about twenty bushels each (cast-off tree
boxes), raise them few inches from the
cement floor by cross pieces of scantling,
and then fill them with the clean and
dry potatoes. If there happen to be
a few wide cracks in the bottom of the
box, the ventilation will bo better; and
if the tubers are clean and the cellar
cool, there viii be little of the rot
Beets, turnips, carrots and parsnips
will not keep fresh in this way, as they
have not the impervious skin of the
potato. Our plan is to pack them in
barrels, or gocds-boxes procured from
the county stores. They viii shrivel
and spoil if the moisture is not retained
in them by some substance 60 pack them
in, or to fill the interstices. Finely
broken and moderately damp moss is
best for this purpose but in its absence,
saw-dust answers quite we'll At this
season of the year, there is great deal
of this material in the ice-house, after
the removal of the ice, that is quite
damp enough for use. Put in layer
or two of the roots then scatter enough
of the saw-dust over them to fill the
interstices, then another layer, and so
on. In barrels, more roots may be
put in at time, the saw-dust being
shaken among them by rocking the
barrels Packed in this way, we have
seen beets taken out one full year after
they were put III, as fresh as the day
they were lifted from the soil while
those which were placed uncovered on
the cellar bottom were spoiled in
month by drying mp
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
Sabbath Day Suggestions.

1t is dangerous for the feeble brain of
man to wade far into the doings of the
Most High, whom, although to know
be life, and joy te make mention of his
name, yet our soundest knowledge is to
know that we know him not as indeed
he is, neither can know him. and that
our safest eloquence concerning him is
our silence, whereby we confess without
confession that his glory is inexplicable,
his greatness beyond our capacity and
reach - Thomas Hooker.
Good is eternal, evil is phantom of
time. Good is real and indestructible
evil is unreal, and exists only as shad-
ow made by the sunlight of infinite
wisdom.
Complete and perfect piety unites
these three: The great thought-of the
infnity of God; the great feeling-of
absolute love of Him; and the great
win-the resolution to serve Him.
Theodore Parker.
To know that God Is, and that all is
God, this is the substance of the vedas.
When one attains this, there is no more
need of reading or of works; they are
but the bark. the straw. the envelope.
Nc more need of them when one has
the seed, the substance. the creator
When one knows Him by science. he
may abandon science, as the torch which
has conducted him 20 the end. - The
Pe5as,
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
The Charm Of Reserve.


Do not be too anxious to give away
yourself, to wear your heart upon your
sleeve. 1t is not only unwise, it is
wrong to make your secret soul common
property. For you bring the delicate
things of the heart into contempt byex-
posing them to those who cannot under
stand them. II you throw pearls be-
fore swine, they will turn again and
rend you. Nor, again, should you claim
too much openness, as a duty due to you,
from your child, your friend, your wife,
or your husband. Much of the charm
of life is ruined by exacting demands of
confidence. Respect the natural mo-
dssty of the soul its more delicate
flowers of feeling close their petals
when they are touched too rudely.
Wait with curious love-with eager IN
terest-for the time when, all being
harmonious, the revelation will come Of
its own accord, undemanded. Tho ex-
pectation has its charm, for as long as
life has something to learn, life Is inter
esting: as long as friend has some
thing to give, friendship is delightful.
Those who wish to destroy all mystery
in those they love, to have everything
revealed, are unconsciously killing their
own happiness. 1t is much TO be with |
those who have many things to say TO |
MS which we cannot bear now. 1t is
much to live with those who sometimes
speak to us in parables-f we love
them. Love needs some indefniteness
in order to keep its charm. Respect,
which saves love from the familiarity
which legrades it, is kept vivid when
we feel that there is mystery in those
we love which comes of depth of char
lcser. Remenaber thst in ,Xiplating-I
ai>ilfown reserve, or tifst =. another, |
you destroy that sensitiveness of char
acter which makes so much of the beau
BY of character and beauty of charac-
ter is not so common as not to make it n |
cruel thing to spoil it.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
Polssned TO Death.

healthy liver secretes each day about
two and a half pounds of bile, which
contains a great amount of waste mate
rial taken from the blood. When the liver
eliminate this vast amount of noxious sub
stance, which, therefore, remains to poison
the blood and be conveyed to every part of the
system. What must be the condition of the
blood when 1t is receiving and retaining each
day two and a half pounds of poison Nature
tries to work off this poison. through other
channels and organs; the kidneys, lungs, skin,
performing this labor, in addition to their
natural functions, and can not long Withstand
the pressure, but become variously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical cen
tire of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood which passes to it from the
heart, and it fails to perform its Office health
fully. Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache, incapacity to
keep the mind on any subject, impairing of
memory, dizzy, sleepy, or nervous feelings,
gloomy forebodings and irritabiiity of temper.
The blood itself being diseased, as it forms the
sweat upon the surface of the skin, is so irri-
tating and poisonous that it produces discol-
ored brown spots pimples, blotches and other
eTuptions, sores, boils, carbunclek and scrofu-
lous tumors.- The stomach. bowels and other
organs spoken of, cannot escape becoming
affected, sooner or later, and costiyeness, piles,
dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrhpa female weakness,
and many other forms of chronic disease, are
among the necessary results As remedy
for all these manifestations of disease. DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is positively
unequaled. By it the liver and stomach are
changed to an active and healthy state, the
appetite regulated and restored, the blood and
secretions thoroughly purified and enriched,
and the whole system renovated and built up
anew. Sold by al first-clsss druggists. e25
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
How to Get the Front Door Opened.

There is no end 10 the effectiveness of
a good knocking on the outside of a
house. We remember one cold. bitter,
miserable winter night when we came
home late-and yet not SO very late
either, but it was 50 cold that everybody
had gone to bed in the big house in
which we lived and to which we had no
latch-key. At the bell we pulled, we
pulled and we pulled, and the more we
pulled the more nobody came. At last
we were about giving up in despair and
going to the station-house or a hotel,
when policeman came along. "You
can't make 'em hear, eh r. said he.
''Now just wait minute p And then
he stepped into the street and picked
up brick from a pile near by. With
this he knocked, apparently very gently,
on the wall of the house. The effect
was magical As the dull, drum-like
booming resounded through the house,
every window was thrown open and
heads popped out on every story. a
dozen people were ready to let us in, if
we would but knock no more We
might even have entered at the back of
the honse had we been there. In such
a case as this bell was of 10 use at all
and as it is easy to see that it would be
inconvenient to carry cobble-stones or
bricks about with us, for they are not
always to be found in the street, what
i- tl,ere that VIC can really depend upon
in such emergencies but knocking p
.Sc5.i6uer'S
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
An oft-Told Story.

The story of the results of the whale
fishery for the past year, like an oft-told
tale, is almost precisely that Of a num-
Der Of previous years, one of ill-success
as to pecuniary returns. The year open
ed with fair prospects and good prices,
the Arctic disaster of 1871 having rem
dered firm the prices for sperm and
whale oil and whalebone. But more
oil was imported than anticipated, and
there was less home demand. 1t is
stated that Of the sixty-fve completed
voyages arrived at home ports during
1872, but one or two made handsome
profits, several have only saved them
selves from loss. and most of them have
lost money. The whaling fleet, too,
continues to decrease by the loss and
sale of vessels, few being added. OF
the twenty vessels now in port at New
Bedford half are known to be fer sale,
and the same is true of the vessels in
port at New London.
The number Of whalers now cruising
is the same as it was year ago, 156,
and the number from New Bedford is
Ill, only two more than a year ago.
The sperm whalers in the different
oceans have met with only moderate
success, bat one branch of whaling,
however, has been successful The
number of vessels expected to arrive at
home ports the coming year is about
fifty, exclusive of Provincetown and
New London vessels. According to the
New Bedford Standard the importation
of catchings the past year were 45,474
barrels of sperm oil, 3,77O barrels of
whale oil, and 210, ,S76 pounds whale
bone; being an increase of 3,940 bar
rels sperm oil, and decrease of Il, 1882
barrels whale oil, and a decrease of $780,
779 pounds whalebone, when compared
with the catchings of 1871.