The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-03-26

ment; A. j. Barry, photographs; Cornish res
taurant, in Odd Fellows building; Phil. Nc
Cracker and Catharine Smith, restaurants /;
Jesse Stebbings, grocery, &C.; Henry John
son, grocery; houses owned by the Rhine
hart estate; q number of tenement dwelling, |
owned by j. Tome. G. L. Jamart, residence; |
DIR. Wakeman, residence; Joseph Abrahams,
grocery and dry goods, postoffice building; |
Reynolds l. Bro, hardware; 2. Kirwin, gro
Gerry and dry goods; p. Santer, bakery; Miss
Jones, millinery; Miss Nickel, do; engine
house and public school; +. NJ. Alexander,
saddle and harness; Z. Hopkins, carpenter;
Mrs. Margaret Blunt, boarding. John B.
Wilson, boot and shoe maker; f. t. Tarring,
mail agent; Hamilton Morrison, quarryman;
Edward Brickley, merchant; Levi johnson,
carpenter; Isaac Rial, machinist; Alonzo
Snow, postmaster; John G.. Vannort, carpen-
ter; Clinton White, do; Mrs. Atkinson,
dressmaker; Mrs. Eliza Reynolds; James A.
Davis, lumber dealer; W. w. Davis, do;
John Vannort, merchant; A. Fl. Reynolds,
builder; Methodist parsonage; Dr. G. A.
Shure; conductor Taylor; Thomas FitZgib-
bons, merchant; VIM Armstrong, moulder;
Alex. Maglll, James Orr, plasterer; John
Shannon restaurant; George A. Vannort,
grocer, &c; James Mccullough, George Van
diver, telegraph operator; A. l.. Barry, pho
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Sitzler, baker; Mrs CathRrnc Moran, hotel
and store; John kcaveny, railroad contractor
dwelling and number of houses; Kaufman
KATE, tannery; VIM. Hines and Mrs. Wier,
dwellings; Jacob Jennings, shoemaker; SAM
uel Hines, VIM. Ewing, Joseph Balance,
Nelson Grant, VIM. Parker clerk; John
Archibald, pattern maker; Joseph Giesler,
constable; @. P. Knight stone cutter; J.
Butchnhard, machinest; David Doughty,
badly flooded, town bailif; houses of ].
Tome, occupied by Dr. j. II. Mccullough,
Prof n. B. Smith, dentist; X. Katz, clothing;
Gottschalk s. Orr, liquors; W. w. Nckle,
dwelling; Mrs. VIM. Mccullough, dwelling /;
and many others.
IAPIpUM.
Iapidum, on the Hartford side, opposite
Port Deposit, also had its share ofthe flood,
but the losses are of course not so heavy rs
across the river. The large warehouse of
Messrs Davis Il Pugh in charge OF S. W.
Barnes, was again submerged as in the food
of 1878, the water nearly filling the lower
story, but we have not heard what loss was
sustained. The water covered the road en-
tirely, rising to the front Of the hotel and
store. The river opposite Lapidum presen-
ted a curious spectacle after the ice became
gorged. Mingled with the broken mass were
logs and timber ruins of houses, &c, demo-
ting fearful amount ofdestruction higher up
the river.
pEsTITUTIos IN p, TT DEPOSIT
Port Deposit has population of probably
$500 of whom 600 are mechanics and labor.
ing men, Some Of these men have been out
of employment nearly the whole winter, and
now that their homes are deluged they are
in very sad plight indeed, with dependent
families. 1t is estimated that about one hun
bred men are in restitution and want. OF
the leading industries stone quarrymen and
stone cutters seems to be the worst off. This
is large business in Port Deposit, coming
next to the lumber interest McClenahan &
Bro, employ two hundred men, and they
had to stop ON account of inability to ship.
They had recommended only short while
before the flood, but the gorge has made it
| impossible to prosecute their business, though
| the quarry is not flooded. J. w. Malone, in
the same business, employs seventy-five men;
Keaveny 81 Buck, stone Quarters and rail
road contractors, employ seventy-five to one
hundred men Armstrong e Co., iron foun.
ders and machinsts, fifty men, and all their
industries are shut down. Besides these, J
II. Pugh & Co., sash and door factory, sixty
men, had to shut down for some time on &C
count of the winter blockade, and now the
food has hurt them very much. The lum
Der and timber trade employs large portion
of the capital of the town and the greater
part of its labor. This industry IL knocked
into cooked hat.
TAKING CARE OF THE HOMELESS.
Many cases of large heartedness have beer
developed by the misfortunes to the people
of this place. One citizen has been enter
tanning flfty-four persons under his owl
roof, and said that as many more were wei
come if they could find room. A country
genatlemq9pp sent his Wagon into town Ida,
meats and other provisions ior tie Il homeless il
people. All cases OF destitution are beine
ferreted out by the town Commissioners, who
are doing all they can to relieve the suffer
ing. A wagon load of bread came into towr
this morning from Northeast, and was bough
and distributed by the commissioners. Flour
and other necessaries are being furnished tc
all who need it. No one who will allow
their wants to be known will suffer.
Tenders of assistance have come from Ok
ford, Pennsylvania, and other places, bu
their committees have been kindly informed
that the people have preferred to use theil
own means first, and when that was exhaus
ted they would gratefully accept the protfer
ed kindness. Some voluntary contributions
of supplies have, however, been received from
West Grove, Rowlandville, Rising Sun and
other points. The bike les and groceries
which were all seriously damaged by the
flood, were again put in operation to-day.
THE ISLAND FAMILIES.
The Roberts family, who were rescued will
SO much difficulty two years ago, still occu
py their island home on Caro- Island. A
party of gentlemen yesterday, learning that
they were III distress, procured boats and
tackle, and after considerable peril to life
and limb, reached the island over the hills o.
ice. They found the lower story of thu
dwelling house submerged, and the family
living in the second story. They had q
plentiful supply of provisions, and refused &c
leave their abode.
THE UPPER sUbQUEHANNA.
The railroad bridge at Columbia, Pa, was
badly injured so that trains could not cross
for several days.
At Wrightsville the abutment of the Tide
Water Canal Company was badly injured
and the basin gorgud full of ice, canal boats
and logs. The winding bridge was raised
off its abutments and carried about three
hundred yards hy The ice and landed on the
BERN bank oil the canal, with one end laying
over canal boat.
In Marietta the loss was very heavy by the
lumbermen having their RATS, &c, swept
away. Miller d Muss' r's saw mill was en-.
tirely ruined by being crushed in. One ca
nal boat is laying againsr large tree, in from,
of private residence the tree having saved
the house from being sto c in. Ice is piled
up over the towpalh at some points from
twenty-five to thirty feet high.
At Williamsport n huge gorge formed
among which Were the bridges from Pitts
ton, which were swept away, and held fast
at Wiliamsport. These were saturated with
benZine and burned.
the TIDE WATER CANAL.
Mr. D. F. Shure, Superintendent of tho
Tide Water Canal, reports that the canal i.
intact from WrightsvilIe through. The only
apprehension existing is on the level from
Lapidum 10 Hayrc DE- Grace, where the grea
break occurred in 1873.