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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-01-23

ISL reverse to this picture, which must he
looked upon, and which will not escape the
cautious business man. If things are to go
on as before, may they not also end as thew
uld before, or worse? If the country has he.
lore peen stimulated to undertake gigantic
enterprises which it could not manage. and
winch swallowed the capital and credit of
great houses, until their fall shook the conn
Try, may not recurrence of the stimulous
produce similar imprudence, bringing about
similar dangers? Have we recovered from the
effects of the panic so completely that we can
ailord TO forget that It ever occurred, and to
disregard all the lessons we read ourselves at
that interesting period?
we have been passing through period
when credits were universally shaken and
from which large part of the mercantile
community emerged with an enormous load
"entended obligations to carry. The sys
TEN of banking which depleted the outlying
country Of its currency at the earliest posi-
bic moment, to gather it in New York for
the use and abuse of spectators, is not re-
formed or modified, and stands small chance of
being SO. The whole country through, PEG.
pie are crying to Congress to help them; but
that body is not likely to do anything of the
Kind if, indeed, it does not make matters
worse. Is it not safer, then, in all business
transactions, to move cautiously? We be-
lieye it is, and if we were to sum up the bust
ness situation in phrase we should say it
was one of smooth and rapid sailing in the
midst Of unseen but possibly imminent dan
gers
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-01-23

The New York San of recent date pub
fishes three cases of starvation in that city.
First, the case of Michael O'Connell, pain.
ter by trade, and his family, consisting of a
wife and two children, boy and girl, in
Thompson street. A reporter found the man
in his wretched bed, reduced to skeleton,
The woman was so emaciated rs to be near
ly helpless The children were under thir.
teen years of age, and We're actually starving
for food, the father having been without
work for two weeks. The man, it was
thought, was beyond help. In the same
neighborhood, in the house opposite, Mrs.
Sarah Abingdon, aged sixty-two years, died
OF starvation The third case reported was
al Fordham village, on the Harlem railroad
where respectable AMI intelligent woman
and three children We're discovered freezing
and starving, the husband and father living
on his death bed. Relief was promptly af-
forded
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The Legislature.

In the House of Delegates, the Speaker on
Friday last appointed Mr.. Ohio S. Lee on
the committee on the Chesapeake Bay and
its tributaries, and Dr. David Riley on the
State Board of Health.
In the Senate Mr.. Davis of Baltimore
county, obtained leave to introduce bill
to provide for the general valuation and
assessment of all real and personal property
in the State.
A petition was presented in the House OF
Delegates by Mr.. Grafton, of Sarah Morris,
Elizabeth Sims, Margaret Wright and Vincent
Hudson, for pensions. Also on motion OF
same gentleman, it was ordered that com.
mittee Of seven be appointed TO whom shall
be referred all petitions and bills Oh the sub
jcct of regulating the sale of liquor and re-
port bill. Mcssrs. Seth, Dawson, Stake,
Hodson, Bird and Annon were appointed
the committee.
Leave to introduce bill was granted to
apponte commissioner of immigration to
protect the interests of labor and agriculture
in the State ofMaryland. Also in the Senate,
similar leave for bill for the protection and
culture of fish in the waters of the State
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Local Affairs,

LITTLE LOCALS:
Court will begin on the second Monday
the 1G'h, of February.
We regret to learn of the serious illness OF
Mr.. Herman Stump, of Stafford. His life
has been despaircd of.
Our citizens, as many as could took ad.
vantage of the cold snaps last week to store
away ice.
Col. Levin Wool(ord, Comptroller of the
Treasury, will accept our thanks for n copy
of his annual report to the General Assembly
of Maryland.
We learn that on Tuesday last Il young
lady living near Boolhby Hill, committed
suicide by taking poison. We have not
been able to learn the particulars up to the
time of going to press.
Last week valuable young horse be-
longing TO Mr.. Augustus HOFFMAN, who re.
sides near Pcrrymansvillc, was instantly kill.
ed by jumping out of n railway horse power,
in which he had been placed for the first
time.
We have received the Annual Catalogue OF
Vegetable and Flower Seeds issued by James
j. II. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass. Mr..
G. is one of the most reliable dealers in seeds
in the country, and will send his catalogue
free to all applicants.
Rev. S. d. Noyes will deliver lecture at
the Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, on
Thursday Goth of this month. Subject MAN
hood" On the following evening, the same
gentleman will lecture on "Spare hours and
how to use them,' Mt Fallston Presbyterian
Church. Let all attend who would enjoy an
intellectual treat. Time " o'clock, p. M.
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IHE GREAT SoUTH-4 Sriesof Illustrated Pa
pe's IN "Seridme''s NonMly' for 1874 By Ed
ward King. With superb Illustrations b,
Champney. This series of articles was begun
in the issue of Scrib"er's Monthly for November
1913, and will be continued from month to month
until December, 1874 The articles already nre
pared have occupied more than a wear of con.
slant and palnstaking study by practiced Jour
hallst who has thus far visited nearly every city
and town of any Importance in the SoutherT
states; talked with men of all classes and con
ditions; carefully investigated all manufactu
ring enterprises and sites; collated statistics
studied the course of politics in each State since
reconstruction began explored rivers, and meme
trated into mountain regions heretofore rarely
visited by Northern men,
lie has been accompanied during the entire
Journey by conscientious and talented artist
me sPrghtly Champney, pupil and friend OF
that distinguished Frenchman, Edouard Frere,
the prince OF the school of sympathetic art in
Europe; and this artist has made several hun.
dred thorough and finished studies of Southern
types OF men aud things, which in due time will
all be presented to the readers of ,Sc,iJue,,,
NonMty. The friends Of the magazine have nj.
ready had an earnest of what they NAV eynect
In the line OF pictures in the November, Decem.
Der, January and February numbers. whose II.
Illustrations are universally pronounced as the
best ever presented in an American magazine
The varied street life of New Orleans, the wild
panorama OF the Mississippi River, the semi
Spanish costumes and manners of Western Try.
as, ana the rude scenes of the Southwestern
frontier, have thus far been presented. and are
to be followed by series of beautiful sketches
illustrative of Southern mountain life and cha r,
acter.
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OSBURN.-At Clayton, Hartford county
Md, ON the 18th inst, after short but pain.
full illness, NATHAN, eldest son of Benia.
min and Anna d. Osburn, in the 34lh yeai
of his age.
"ln the midst of life we are in death" Never
were these words more truly verified than in the
death OF this promising young man. Full OF
hope, vigor and blessed promise of life, when
suddenly fatal disease seized him, and in few
short days, death laid his icy hand upon him.
and he calmly sunk into that sleep from which
there is no earthly waking. His nature was
calm and serene rs a quiet morning, with malice
towards none, but charity for all. 1t seems
hard to realize that he has gone from lis, never
to return; but it has pleased God in His all wise
providence to remove him from our midst and
may lie help us to bow in humble submission TO
His holy will. We miss him! How much,
none can tell but while bowed down with sor.
row a sweet voice seems to whisper
81 love you love you! pass under the rod"
May He who has for some wise perposc called
him away from earth, help us to pass under this
rod, and comfort and sustain us in this, the hour
of our affection. We have laid him to rest, and
he now calmly sleeps in Jerusalem Church ward,
there TO await the resurrection morn
"Leavcs have their time TO fall
And ilowers TO withcr at the north winds
breath,
And stars to set ; but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, o death "
SISTER.
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MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA RAN

MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA RAIL
RoAD.-The Towsontown Union says:
A considerable force OF workmen are en-
gagged on the grading of this road near the
point at which it intersects the Northern
Central Railroad, and it will require but a
comparatively short time to complete the
grading ofthe entire road bed from Towson-
town to the connecting point and place it in
condition for the reception of the cross.tics
and rails. 1t will then only remain to grade
the short portion of the line embraced be.
tween the York road and Stansbury's Gan,
to complete an unbroken road bed from the
Gunpowdcr river to the Northern Central
Railroad, a distance of nearly nine miles
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Hon. Henry W. Archer.

. M the event of the resignation of Governor
Shytc during the session of the Legislature
a,ontingency that may arise-the duty will
dWolve upon that body of electing his sue
ctssor, Among those whose names have
been brought forward for the position there
is not one who possesses in higher degree the
attributes that should distinguish the Chief
Magistrate of our glorious old State, than
Henry W. Archer, of Hartford A man of
most unblemished integrity, in private
1 I'D in public life of commanding talents ;
I'm and fearless in the discharge ofevery APP
lsnted duty fully alive to henecessities of
ne times, but always cautious and prudent
lis selection MS Governor Whyte's successor,
I'm the event contemplated, would be an act
on the part of the Legislature.
Archer is distinguished in his profess
" lawyer; has been identified with the
Is s. an of the State. and n,olrbcr Of
Il Constitutional Convention of 1867 with
Pther representatives from Hartford, took
|, Comment part in shaping that instrument
y ~ has never been an Office seeker; but in
ahis Ills native county, and on the Eastern
i hore of the State, where he is better known,
'3sErhaps, than elsewhere, his sterling qualities
s mind and heart are recognized and appre-
a<ed.
Mr.. Archer is descendant of a good old
Maryland family, and being thoroughly I'M
bued with love and devotion to his native
State, no act Of his, in or out of official sta
He is man of whom any county in the
State might well be proud, and in thus pre-
senting his name to the Legislature it is
with the consciousness that we have fallen
far short of doing justice to his distinguished
merits.
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CORRESPONDENCE,
For Tile A5gis And MteHtgencer.
Agricultural Society,

l must confess that | feel very highly com
plimented by the republication of my crud,
thoughts and suggestions upon the subiec
of the organization ola county Agricutura
and Mechanical Association, and more thar
gratified that the business men of Hartford
seem to have taken hold of the matter in ear
nest. see call in your last issue for ;
mass meeting on the 24th, and most sincere
ly hope that all your farmers and mechanics
will let all other holds go, and attend, give
mutual counsel and material aid, and launcl
in deep and promising waters, this grea,
craft Of your future prosperity.
l am not aware of being an enthusiast up.
on any subject, but speak from experience
and observation when say, that if there is
any one enterprise better calculated than any
other to advance and develop an agricultur.
al country, it is the annual exhibition of its
products and natural resources. 1t creates
an emulation that nothing else will, and
brings together all the industrial classes with
the very best of their productions, not only
in stock and the products of the soil, but in
all departments of mechanics and handi.
crafts No people who have experienced
the benefit of annual Fairs could be induced
to forego them, and such an incentive TO ex.
Gel will draw all the people together, and be.
get a social and friendly feeling that no other
enterprise will, This, believe, is universal
experience.
This is an age of intense activities, so
much so rs to lead German savan to re-
mark with regard to Americans, that we
don't take time to think and are educated too
fast. Can this be said of the people of Har-
ford? | think not. 1t seems to me that
they have thought too much and have been
slow to educate as to the promotion of their
own best interests. You have long been i'm
Fortunate for railroad through the heart of
your county, but an Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society, such as you can and ought
to have, would do more to wake up the slum.
bering energies of your people, and develop
their resources, than network of railroads.
Put up your lands and mines to their full ca
pacity, and railroads will seek you instead
of you seeking them.
1t is gratifying to learn that you have Sc
lected location for your Fair Grounds, and
expect to make the long talked of enterprise
n fixed fact. Your selection is n good one,
and the land cheap enough Hoping that
you WILL on Saturday next, make a long
stride toward concentrating the project. /
will not trouble you with further comments
upon the subject, but here and now take
occasion to give you fair warning that ex-
pect to furnish you, in time for your next
issue, the first of short series of letters
growing out of my late visit to Hartford.
Respectfully,
G. B. G.
ABINGDON, Va, Jan. 49, 1874.
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ScRIBNER's MONTHLY FOR FEpRuAny

ScRIBNER's MONTHLY FOR FEDRUARY.-Scyib-
''er'S Monthly for February opens with versificd
and illustrated rendition of Rishyasringa, Tale
OF the Mahabharata, which, although love sto.
ny we know not how many thousand years old,
is as fresh and ''modern" as if written but YES
terday. Then comes an illustrated article on
the French song writer Beranger by Albert
Rhodes. The principal illustrated paper of the
number, however, is Edward Kings second ar
tlcle on Texas, in the Great South Series. with
pictures from Champney's portfolio. A quaint
story from the Danish, is called The Black Mar
Die. A new paper by the poet Stedman is on
the poets, Hood, Arnold and Proctor, whom he
calls Representative Triad A sketch by Z.
5. Nadal, of English Sundays and London
Churches; a reply by Prof Atwater, of Prince.
ton, to DR.. Blauvclt; Prof VIM. S. Tyler.s adj
dress on 'The Higher Education of Women.
the continuation of Miss Trafton's and Mrs
Daviss scriale, and poems by Celia Thayter.
Julia c. r. Dorr, and Louis Chandler Moultop
complete the list of the principal contributions,
DR.; Holland, in Topics of the Time, writes Of
erich and Poor" Organs" "What Has Been
Done About IT, and '7The Waterman and Re.
Hector" In the Old Cabinet are "Thc Artist
and his Picture "a Deed of Abomination,"
and More Fillainous than Vice" The most
noticeable of the reviews this month is that of
strauss last book, 1.-THE Old Faith and the
New" The Editor announces that hereafter
Social Science" information will appear in The
department of Culture and Progress.
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Memorial Fund for the Rev. VIM Finney.
CHURcuvILLE, Md, Jan. 18th, 1874.


A TIA meeting ofthe Memorial Fund Com
IA mittee, held on the 18th instant, the
following resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted:
Resolced list. That the sum of SO 900 should
he contributed by the Presbyterian churches,
and the friends of the late Rev. VIM. Finncy,
Tor the proposed monument to his memory.
"a. As the Committee wish to erect the
aald monument as early as possible, they again
call the attention of the churches and friends
to the matter, and urge upon the churches
the adoption ofsome plan by which their CON
gregations will be reached, so ms to afford
every opportunity TO contribute.
The Committee would state that they wish
all the funds paid in to the treasurer by the
LIST Of May.
r, r. HARRIS ARCHER,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Memorial
Fund Committee
The following persons are appointed n
committee to receive contributions for the
above purpose, in the neighborhoods of
Bel Air and Falston:
COL. E. III. WEBSTER,
DIR. f. HALL RICHARDSON.
JOHN J. ALEXANDER,
JAMES G. ROBINSON,
WIN. w. CASTNER.
jan1G-1m
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DEATH OF WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF
BALTIMORE CoUNTY.-The death of Dr. ID.
King, which occurred at his residence, on the
18th instant, was serious loss to Baltimore
county He was useful man and a public
spirited citizen, and held in much esteem by a
large circle offriends and acquaintance. As
amember of the Legislature for several terms,
Delegate to the State Convention and
School Commissioner, &C., he has at differ.
ent times served large and important con-
stituency in Baltimore county with zeal and
taithiulness, and his demise will be mourn
ed as public loss.-Balto. Ga5ett.
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GOVERNOR WHITES ELECTION TO TIE
UNITED STATES SENATE.-The election of
Governor Whyte as United States Senator
from Maryland, to serve six years from March
4, 1875, was consummated by the State
Legislature in joint convention on Wednes-
day, and the result formally proclaimed
Governor Whyte was appointed by Cover
nor Swami rs United States Senator, in 1871,
to fill the uneXpired term of Hon. Reverdy
Johnson, when he was appointed minister to
England. During the brief period of his
service in the United States Senate at that
time MIR. Whyte gave evidences of capacity
for this high position in the councils Of the
nation as well as usefulness to his State He
then made many friends, SO that he will now
return not stranger to the halls of national
legislation. Governor Wbyte's career in
Maryland is well known. He has been for
many years connected prominently with
State politics, though all the time actively
and successfully engaged in the practice of
his profession of the law. He filled the of
flee of comptroller of the State treasury with
industry and credit and has been all his life
hard worker, and steadily attached to demo-
cratic principles. His resignation of the
Governorship will leave two years of the I'M
expired term for which he was elected by the
people TO be filled by the Legislature, if he
resigns within the session, as it is understood
he will do, In case he does not so resign
the president of.ne Senate, Hon John Lee
Carroll will succeed to the gubernatorial
chair.-Balto. SIN.
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Notice..

ME Right Reverend the Assistant Bishor
J. of Maryland, William Pinkney, d. ID.
Will make his VISITATION of Christ
Church, Rock Spring, and Emmanuel Church
Bel Air, on THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
18th and 18th of FEBRUARY, as follows:
Rock Spring, THURSDAY, 18th Febru.
airy, at IL o'clock, A, NJ. Service, Sermon
Confirmation and Holy Communion.
Emmanuel Church, Bel Air, FRIDAY
18th February, at Il o'clock, A. NJ Service
Sermon, Confirmation and Holy Communion
request those who desire to receive the
Holy Kite of Confirmation, to make their
wishes known to me at as early day as pos
siDie; as the Churchs rule requires the names
of the candidates to be presented to the Bisb-
op by the Rector beforehand.
Janl6 w. L. SNOWDEN.
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Money Matters.

New York is undoubtedly the chief money
centre of this county, the great heart, as il
were, whose financial pulsatons regulate the
circulation throughout the vast body of the
whole amount. Although sometimes, trou
blcd with palpitatt0', as the recent panic un
mistakeably indicates, yet its powers of re-
cuperation are wonderful to witness. 1t would
naturally be supposed that with the lesson Of
the recent prst fresh in the Recollection that
capitalists would be 10th to embarke upon
the same perilous enterprises that ship.
wrecked the fortunes of so many of them and
cntailed such widespread disaster upon the
country generally, but if the follwing article
from the Times is to be depended upon as true
the rash spirit of speculation seems to have
revived with undated force in New York
No one who knew this country only from
observations made say between the middle
of September and the middle of October last
would believe it possible that within three
months from the latter date the characteristic
of the money market should be full supply,
not to say an oyer-supply, ofmoney, seeking
almost in vain for profitable investment. Yet
W.
There is not the slightest question among
Business men that the accumulation of money
so rapidly and in such large amounts is re-
yiving the spirit of speculation, is getting q
great many shaky enterprises on their legs
again, is making dealers vcntulesome, and is,
in short, paving the way to an expansion of
operations the end of which no one can fore.
see. We have already pointed out that the
vicious mode ofdoing business on the stock
exchange which prevailed before the panic
and which was one of the things which caused
the panic, has been resumed. We do not
suppose it has lost its power for evil. 1t was
argued then, and still is that if the banks
could not follow up the old methods of lend
ing their money, they could not profitably
handle the immense balances which, as
consequence of our banking system are peri
odicaly heapcd up in this city.
Money has been ARRIVING in New York for
three weeks at an average rate of twelve mil.
lions o week. The result is that it has
pressed, and is pressing into all the avenues
where it can hope to find employment at
even moderate profit, and we may be sure
that the stimuous of n plethoric money mar
ket in New ork will be felt from the Attain
tic to the Pacific.
We need not point out the cheerful view
which is taken of the condition of things by
those who are brought most Immediately in
contact with it. There is very general and |
not an unnatural feeling, that the effects of
the panic have passed away and that now |
everything is to 60 prosperousy With mon
ey plentiful, trade is expected to be active, |
new enterprises popular, and the recovery |
from old embarrassmenis possible. But there
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SNAKE IN DECENPER
For The 4Hyis d Mt''1igcncc'
Turnpike Meeting.

The citizens Of Fallston met a t Amber IL IIol
lingsworths store, on Wednesday, the 18th in
slant, at p. NJ, to take into consideration Tho
condition Of the Fallston Turnpike, and to de
wise means TO repair the same.
The meeting was organized by calling Johr
Amber TO the chair, and appointing Dr. F. Mari
on Hawkins Secretary.
On motion by Joseph w. Shrotf, Esq, a com
mittee was appointed by the chair, and were
authorized TO solicit and collect funds for tho
benefit of the pike, and disburse the same Dr.
NJ Price, &. r. lIollingswortl and Joseph W
Shroif constituting said committee.
On motion ofC r. 1Iollingswoith, it was re.
solved TO have the proceedings of the meeting
published in the Bel Air papers.
The meeting then adjourned to meet again at
the same place, on the 2Sth inst, at P. NJ.
JOHN AMBLER, Chairman,
+. MARION HAWKINS, NJ d., Sec'y