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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24


VINO MAKE TIE TROUBLE? THE New
York San ascrbcs all the distress in business
affairs since the recent Presidential election
to the corrupt adventures who are now con-
trolling the destnies of three large Southern
States, and keeping the country in state of
anxiety and suspense. The Sun says:
"And to whom do we owe this blow at
business hopes To miserable set of fell
lows who for ten years have kept three of the
richest and most fertile States in the Union
in a constant turmoil. TO lot of adven
turers who have manipulated the laws of
those States to fertilizer their dcprcdatory
purposes, and who now keep the country in
alarm and anxiety while they proceed to
count in such candidates as they wish to see
elected, including themselves.
" 1t any further argument were needed in
support of the position of the honest men of
the South that their political peace, social
harmony, and business prosperity all depend
upon the overthrow of these corrupt rascals,
and the establishment of an Administrative n
TO which such creatures could not look for
naval and military support iii their rnscality,
we have 1t now. A score of political scamps
against whom are arrayed all the capital and
enterprise of three States, and who profit by
the adversely that surrounds them, have sue
ceedcd in blocking the business of the country,
and hara3sing with uncertainty all mercantile
calculations. 1t is thus brought home to the
people of the North that the scandalous
abuses which have so long retarded the re-
covery and development of the South affect
them also, and that injury 10 the prosperity
of one State is injury to all. The damage
has been going on for ten years, but now we
feel it in its full weight and know just whom
to hold responsible for it.
There can be no permanent peace and
security for the country until these adven
turers are driven from power, along with
their allies at Washington"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
Receipts and Disbursements,
From Sept. 80, 1875, to Sept. 80, 1876.

DIR.
To balance on hand, Sept 80, 1875 s 1877 20
State Treasurer, State Tax 14,3G0 OF
" School Fund . 1858 Oh
Academic fund,
arrears for four years 1900 90
County Tax, ct 15cts,, a
mounting to $19,104 81 11,791 so
County Tax, receipts from
previous years ALT 6S
White Schools
BOOK feeS Cord. Schools
616.4o 5.5U Is
State Appropriations for Col
orod Schools $3.50 10
Interest -. 81 05
Amount received from sale of
Locust Hill School
House 80 90
$43,753 2G
BY Salaries of Teachers $4,000 SO
Fuel and incidental expenses
OF schools 1895 So
Rent ... 455 so
Amount paid for books . 1859 81
Repairs 702 az
Furniture, Black Boar,s and
Stoves 131 10
Interest 1916 60
Salary of present Secretary
Treasurer and Examiner $50 90
" Per diem of School Comm'rs 300 90
" Office expenses 1874 as
Printing and advertising 542 %
Amount paid to Cord schools 4,249 go
for School Jour.
nal, 1874 SO 90
r. Henry, for
salary due him 1886 "a
II. Henry, for
extra services 100 90
" Thos. NJ Cath.
cart for storage
CT books 90 40
" " Jas. Amos, for
hauling 25 AZ
" for office furni-
ture So 50 |
" freight to Com.
mrs and II.
Henry A SO
&C. Alice Numbers,
for teaching in
-, 1871 1S 40
Note and old bills for building 1,440 so |
" Balance on hand, Sept 80, 1876 Ais Ia
$43,75s &c !
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

Governor Carroll and ex-senator VIM.
r. Hamilton have returned from New Or
leans.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
BOARD OF
School Commissioners
ron HARTFORD COUNTY,

Published in accordance with the Require
ments of Chapter 4, Section :, of the
State School Law.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

%" Choice Berkshire Pigs, ont of prizc.win-
ming imported stock. Also Rye Straw for sale
by Ak. NJ. Fulford
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

sB' For Rcnt.-The House in Bel Air belong
ng TO Mrs. Caroline Harryman, and now occu.
pied by Charles d. Bouldin. Apply to John j.
Alexander, Bel Air. octo0
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

Icy For Sale or Rent.-Haykins' Shops
Wheelwright and Blacksmith Shops - with
Dwelling House and Lot attached. mile above
the Hickory. Enquire of Geo. Y. Maynadler,
Attorney, Bel Air, Nd. au11
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

tB- Hauling.-All kinds of heavy hauling
done, such as Hay, Grain, Coal, Store Goods
&c, by Carlisle 4 Co, Bel Air lelG
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

REMAINS DIsINTERRED.-It has been as
certained that the man who committed
suicide in the woods near Magnolia, on the
11th inst, was Thomas b. Grub, IL farmer
of Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington,
Del. His remains, which were inferred near
the spot where the decl was committed, were
disnicrrcd last Thursday by some of his
friends and removed to his late re sdence
IL is noted that n daughter of the unfor-
tunate man, Mary Jane Grubb, disappeared
from home in strange manner on the 23l
of September, 1875, and was subsequently
found drowned in the Brandywinc, with her
ankles tied together with her shoe strings
She was supposed to have committed suicide.
ROBBERY AT A SCHOOL HoUsE.-On last
Friday week three tramps ea tered the vcsli
bule of Hartford Furnace school house which
is situated on the road leading from the Har.
ford Furnace to Aberdeen, while the school
was in session, and unperceivcd stole there
from The cloaks shawls, bonnes AT d hats of
about fifteen of the girls. The robbery was
not discovered until recess, and the girls were
obliged to go home barc.hcaded and shawl.
less. The thieves next made their appear.
ance at Edgewood, where they offered the
articles to Mrs Edward Golden, in exchange
for bread. Plying their condition and not
suspecting the articles were stolen she sup
piled their wants and they took the next
train for Baltimore, leaving the goods AS
soon as informed of the robbery Mrs. Golden
returned the garments to the teacher of the
school, Miss Lizzie Barnes.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

The effect upon this country would be 10
greatly increase the exports of grain and
other commodities, thus ensuring for our
farmers better prices for their produce than
they have obtained for the last few years.
An impetus would be given to the carrying
trade, so that employment might be found
for thousands of men now out of work.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24

we believe very many Republicans, all
over the country, who cast their votes for
Hayes and Wheeler, were secretly glad, the
day after the election, when their papers an
nounced the election of Tilden and Hendricks
They felt the pressure Of hard times in COM
mon with every one else, and were anxious
for change. They knew their party was
corrupt, but they were constrained by party
Ties to vote agains. their feelings and better
Judgment VIII they not now take manly
and honorable course in behalf of what they
feel is simply justice and fair play, and insist
that Gov. Tilden shall not be cheated out OF
his election by the political adventures who
control the three disputed Southern States ?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-24
By order,

w VT. IT. IIAItLAN,
novel Secretary.
Hdgre Republican copy too times.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
A Curious Study in Currents.

At the gathering of people on the oc- casion of the opening of the Centennial Exhibition, striking example and illustration was observed of the fact that crowd lives only by the aid of the ascending current from the bodies of the persons composing it. The observer was sitting on the platform in front of Memorial hall, and all the space between this platform and the Main building, a space of probably one hundred and fifty feet in width by five hundred feet in length (of dense crowd), was occupied by about forty thousand persons, stand ing as closely as comfort would allow. The air was quite warm, about seventy five degrees Fahrenheit, and 8 light breeze was blowing from the west. There were many smokers in the crowd, and 1t was noticeable that tEe course of tobacco smoke, which showed white against the brown front of the Main Exhibition building, indicat ed the course of the current at different points. A breath of smoke on the outskirts of the crowd was dispersed irregularly. A puff of white smoke anywhere toward the middle of the crowd rose with great apparent rapidity until 1t was lost to sight by ascending above the line of roof of the building the background of white clouds, with which the blue sky was then broken, not allowing it to be distinguished higher up. The swiftness with which the smoke rose showed that the ascending current in the center of 80 thickly thronged and SO large space was rapid. In fact, 1t showed set of currents like those at Q fre-on the putshists tending toward ths center, iu tho ennter upward.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
Mountain Scenery in California.

Professor Davidson, chief of the United States coast survey, who IS now engaged with 8 corps of engineers Tn making signal observations upon the summit of Mount Diabolo, high noun tain on the Pacific coast, near Benicia, Cal, gives some interesting items con- corning the latitude and distance of some of the most prominent points visible from his quarters on the mou,.tain top. The view from the summit Is a grand one and embraces an area, including land aud ocean, of no less than 32 coo square miles. The most distant point within range of observation is Lassen's Peak, in tho Sierra Nevada, which is 1S3 m les from Mount Diabolo, and has latitude of 10,650 feet; Snow mountain, 1000 feet high, IA miles distant; Downie- vile Buttes, 8,720 teet, 157 miles dis tant Lolo mountain, near Truckee, S,290 feet high aud 136 miles distant. are also alt visible. Nearly all the mountains of the Sierra Nevada range are to be seen, and the coast range all the way up to the northern end of tho State are in view. Of the nearer noun tains Clay street hill, in San Francisco, thirty-two miles distant, can be dis cerned, and Mount Lyell, the site of the new Lick observatory, 4,300 feet high and fifty-two miles away, is in sight. At a distance of eighty-three miles tho horizon of the sea is seen, and on all sides the eye rests upon miles and miles of tho mining and sgricuitural country of California,
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
Farmers Ruined by Mice.

The London Daily Ne,Us says: The Scotch farmers, with all their shrewd- ness, are apparently utterly beaten by the mouse. So far at least they have been unable to devise any means of rid ding themselves of the armies of these insignificant creatures which have quar- tered themselves on the border farms. About three months ago the attention of the public in general, and of local agri- cultural clubs in particular, was called to the depredations caused by these tiny quadrupeds, which, it was suddenly dis covered, had increased to such an alarm ing extent as to have actually destroyed 8 large expanse of pasturage and to threaten to overrun this country. The ground iu the neighborhood of targets with hole.; the whole of the vegetation is destroyed in certain localities in Teviotdale, not merely the blades of grass being eaten by the mice, but the roots being consumed as well. The consequence has been that the sheep have been robbed of their natural food, and the recent lambing season has been one of the most disastrous ever known, both ewes and lambs being deprived of sustenance and perishing in numbers The plague is almost identical with that which has so seriously interfered with the progress of sheep farming ill New Zealand, only there it is the rabbits that have caused the mischief: and unless it can be stamped out it threatens the ruin of many sheep breeders and wool growers. One farmer in New Zealand has actually sacrificed 15, GOO acres of land by inclosing that area with solid masonry wall in order to prevent the spread of colony of rabbits which had taken possession of portion of his farm. But land is too scarce and valua- ble in Scotland to permit of such an heroic method of cure. The question for the Scotch farmers is whether they can reduce the number of the mice by encouraging the increase of weasels, hawks, owls and other carnivorous birds and beasts, or whether they must take the law into their own hands and drive out the enemy. The unfortunate part of the business is that the little rodents are of no value, unlike rabbits, whose skins and flesh are both of a certain worth, and tiey are too small to attract sportsmen with their guns. One thing is certain, that the Scotch farmers will not in future encourage the use of the gun at hawks and weasels, but will rather encourage the visits of these mouse catchers.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
WaShingtOn'S Watch.

Up to two or three days ago Detroit pawnbroker had on sale watch which he exhibited in his showwindow as General Washington's faithful watch. '' Along came troop of excursionists the other day, and one of them saw the watch, was overcome by rush of senti- ment, and he went in and paid good round price for the ticket. It kept first rate time while the buyer walked four or five blocks, and during the next two hours it would run for one minute and stop for two. He found his way back to the shop, handed the watch over the counter, and sad
 "Here, give me half what paid you. '
 " Is there anything the matter with the watch9" asked the seller. "Don' you feel able to carry watch which the great George Washington once car ried9"
 I'm perfectly able to do that" said the down hearted stranger, "but can't spare the time to look up the blacksmith who put in the running gear, and have him hammer out some new wheels l"
 He sacrificed $6 in the cause of senti- ment, and when the crowd filed down to the depot he was the only one whose breath didn't smell of raw peanuts.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
They Are Giants.

There is now on exhibition perhaps the most remarkable couple in the world-a man and woman who are giants in stature. They are MT. and Mrs. M. V. Bates, whose home is now in Seville, Medina county, Ohio. They are each seven feet eleven and one ha.f inches in height, the husband weighing 479 pounds, while the wife weighs 413 pounds. The common sized visitor, when placed tetween them, feels very much as Gulliver must have felt when he fell among the giants.
 Mr., or Capt. Bates, as he is called, is finely proportioned man, Of ruddy, healthy looking complexion, straight and military looking in his regimentals. His immense stature is not so notice able as that of his wife, who seems al most awkward somehow on account of her length, she being actually taller for 8 woman than he is for man. They are evidently people who, if not so won derfuuy tall, would be considered com monplace.
 They are intelligent, however, and the lady especially feels the awkwardness of her position as the object of the curiosity and open mouthed wonder of the multitude. In an interesting con- versation with our reporter, she showed openly her dislike of the life she is lead ing, and her longing to return to her home in Ohio. Their home, by the way, was one built and furnished especially for them. The ceilings are twelve and one-half feet high, and no doorway is less than eight and e-half feet high. Of course they find the hotel accommodations unsuitable to them wherever they go. as the doorways are so low and the beds so short.
 One of the strangest facts about their history is that they were the children of common people. Mrs. Bates father was only five feet four inches in height, while her mother was orly common sized woman. Her brothers and sisters are of no remarkable height. Capt. Bates father was six feet two inches in height-a tall man, but dwarf, com- pared with his son. Bates is now twenty-nine years of age. He is na- tive of fletcher county, Kentucky. His wife is a Nova Scotian, twenty-seven years of age. They were married in London, England, while travelling in that country on exhibition.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
Harvest Home.

Into the harvest fields to-day
 Singing ], went The fields where once met the May,
 All flower and scent; And there rich autumn, warm and sweet, Went laughing through the windy wheat
 In glad content. Both hands were full of grass and grain,
 Both feet kept time To some low murmuring refrain,
 Some breathing chime, That blew through golden ears and leaves The promise of the full ripe sheaves
 In quaint old rhyme "rbis is the happy harvest time: Then cut the corn ard press the wine; Gather the sheaves, and load the vain, And bring the harvest home again." And was glad ss glad could be
 To meet her there; "Oh, queen!" sa d, "give unto me
 My harvest fair My splendid lover, strorg and true Whose witching eyes of tender blue
 My heart ensnare. "The golden corn, the ruby wine,
 Is not the best; A richer harvest home is nuns,
 A sweeter quest, Give me my lcve- ! In his kiss I have 8 rounded world of bliss:
 Keep all the rest"
 -Hdrper's.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
An Iceland Cave.

The interior of Iceland, as is generally known, is great uninhabited grassless desert, for the population (only about 1000 for an area one-fourth larger than Ireland) is mostly confined to the sea- shores and neighboring valleys. In go- ing from coast to coast this desert must be crossed it edges the inhabited land as the sea does on the other side, and gives 1t a wild charm-for us, at least, who suffer from over-population. We were now on the borders of this region, crossing a great valley or plain of old lava, with a background of snow noun tains. The lava was rather like 8 very rent and crevassed glacier, but all black, the somber coloring being only relieved by the parches of gray and yellow hchen. Right in the middle rose the dark crags below, and perpetual snow and ice above. Even on that sunny day, the scene conveyed the strongest impress We rode over the lava till we reached @ great gaping pit, and then dismounting we clambered down over rough rocks into the cave of Surtsheier, which they say runs for two miles underground. The floor of the cavern was of transps- rent hard ice, covered near the entrance with some inches of water. The last sight of daylight, looking back, was therefore very pretty, as the ice gave 8 perfect blue reflection of the overreach- ing rocks. Now lighting candles, we scrambled on over icy slopes. Down in the clear depths we could see the strange black shapes of the lava, as Dante saw the traitors like flies in amber in the ice of his frozen Inferno. All this cavern must have been once a huge bubble in the boiling lava, and these fantastic powders flung from some furi- ous volcano. Then came the frost giants and made the place their summer palace, for where the cavern is at it's highest and the clear ice stands in tall columns, and fretted arches reaching to the roof, it is curious and pretty enough for any fairy tale. In the light of our torch, the whole place flashed back prismatic colors with blaze that made our two little candles seem very dim when it was out. At the end of the cave, in hollow rock, we found seals and coin, and carved names left by former travellers, some of them dating from early in the century. We added our names, as we were the first ladies who had been in the caverns-not that there is any special difficulty about going there, but that, speaking broadly, no ladies travel in Iceland. We were glad to return to the warm daylight, feeling convinced that the outlaws who once inhabited these caves must soon have become the most rheumatic of men.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
A Legend of the Skies.

A missionary, employed for twenty two years in the Hervey group, small cluster of islands in the South Pacific, relates a legend current there on tho origin of pumice stone. The sly is built of solid blue stone, and at one time almost touched the earth, so that men had but the space of few feet to live in. Plying their condition, the divine hero, Ruu, pushed the sky up a few feet. Some time afterward he was offended by his son Mani, and flung him into the air. When the the boy came down he threw the old man and sky so high that the blue could never get back to it's former place. The fathers head stuck among tho stars, and he died. His bones, of vast proportions, tumbled down from time to time, and were shiv- cred into fragments. To this day what are known as the bones of Ruu are found all over the island of Magala.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.

The cost of their execution is enormous, and 1t is believed they will find welcome re- ception as an admirable feature of the Cyclo- p@dia, and worthy of its high character. The work is sold to subscribers only, payable on delivery of each volume. It will be coml lete in SIXTEEN LARGE OcTAvo VOLUMES, each con- taining abont 800 pages, fully illustrated with several thousand wood engravlngs, and with numerous colored lithographic maps.
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15

DEFAorNa COUNTERFEIT NorEs.-The circulation of counterfeit bank notes will be materially lessened in the Uni ted States by the strict enforcement of the act of Congress requiring bank officials to deface such notes on pre- sentation and thereby render them en- tirely worthless. Tho secretary of the treasury has issued q timely circular on the subject,
Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15

A CHANaE.-In 1867 Russia supplied forty-four per cent. and the United States fourteen per cent. of England's demand for foreign wheat. In 1878 the Ueited States supplied forty-four per esut. aad Russia only twenty-eneper cent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-30
Hide Out. CrampS!

Lasi Tuesday night twelve tramps
congregated in a vacant house in the
northern part of town, belonging to
Mai. Hallstrom, where they were
burning fencing and holding regular
camp-meeting. On being informed
Of this fact, the Major called on Mar
shall Mcdonald, when they went and
arrested the whole crowd and calaboos-
ed them until morning. Friday they
were tried before Esq. Jordan and fin
ed each SO and costs. Being unable
to settle this little bill, they were tied
together, put in a big wagon and sent
to the county work house at Trenton.
We understandsome of them had been
begging around town several days.
Nearly all Of them were stout, able
bodied men. Several other vags loaf
ing around the depot, when they saw
the fate of their friends, Immediately
made tracks in the direction of Jack
son. Our citizens have had quite a
rest since this occurrence-none Of the
road gentry calling on them since.
We hope the good work will be kept
up. and that the next botch Will beput
to work on orr streets,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-30
OVER THE COUNTY.

All the fruit in this region, except
perhaps the apples, is killed. There
will not be enough to make une pie iii
these parts. A substitute for peach
pie is now In order.
A monument TO the late Vice Presi-
dent Wilson by the regular army Is
proposed, Company D, 10th Infantry,
stationed at Humboldt, Tenn,, has
raised $50 for this purpose
We regret to learn that the fine
stallion belonging to W. II. Simmons
fell in a well at jackson last week and
was killed. Mr. Simmons has moved
to Milan recently. We regret to learn
of his loss.
What have the board of President
and Directors Of the Tennessee Gem
trail Il. X. done toward getting the
old president, DIR Lea to settle? Our
people want to know. Have they
taken any steps to compel him to dis
gorge?
Milan authorities arc pretty hard on
tramps as we understand that there
was something less than dOEer
tnmps pat In the lookup, Welncsda,