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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-29
VARIETIES.

"A gentleman named More proposed to
lady by letter, and she asked time to con-
slider his proposition, closing her letter
with the words, No more at present"
-" Sam, did you see Mr.. johnson, the
new overseer 2" Yes, massa; l met him
down by the cotton GIN" "He's good
looking fellow isn't he 2" " Well, massa, he
talks like good looking man he made
a bow-dats' all he said"
=" Are you there, my love 2" he wills.
pered through hole in the fence of his
beloved's back yard. " Yes, darling" was
the reply, Jump right over" He did so,
and alighted in the presence of her mother,
broomstick and a policeman
-" Did she not return your love 2" in
CURED sympathizing friend of a Young
man who minated that ho had some diff,
Guilty with his sweetheart Yes, she re-
turned it, and that is exactly where the
trouble is. She said she didn't want it."
-" You see" said Uncle Job, "my wife's
acur'ous woman. She scrimped and saved,
>md almost starved all of us to get the par
lor furnished nice and now she won't let
one of us go into it, and hain't even had
the window blinds of it open for month.
She IS curious woman"
"A lady in describing TO an irreverent
boy an occurrence in which his father tiu.
ured, closed by remarking, I" l am sorry say
to that the thing ended by your father los
ing his temper" ibid father lose his tenn
PERI" exclaimed the young scapegrace :;
" then l hope he'll never find it again, for
1t was the worst temper l ever heard Of"
"A negro prisoner, on his way to the
penltentiary for larceny, was asked what
he thought of his trial. He said "When
dat lawyer dat Tended me talked, made
suah was gwine to take my ole hat and
walk right out Of dat cot room; but when
de udder lawyer got up and he got talking,
L know'd | was dc biggest rascal on dc top
of dc CART"
"A loafer who had load on, I" fetched
up " against the side of house which had
been newly painted. Showing himself
clear by vigorous effort, he took one
glimpse at his shoulder, another at the
house, third at his hand but exclaimed,
Well, that are careless trick in whoever
painted that house, to leave it standing out
all night for the people to run against"
-" An Irishman's friend having fallen
INTO slough, the lrishman called loudly
to another for assistance. The latter, who
was buslly engaged in cutting log, and
wished to procrastinate, inquired, "How
deep is the gentleman in ~ up to his
ankles" "Then there is plenty Of time"
said the other. No there is not rcjoin-
ed the first 81 forgot to tell you he's in
head tirst.n
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VOL. XX---NO. 80.
Speed the ELOU."
Sheep To Clean Land

Many think the only advantages of sheen
are in their wool-producinp properties
forgetting that they multiply with great
rapidity, doubling the flock annually, and.
IN TINS climate, taking care mainly ofthem-
selves, if good Winter pasturape and prop
er shelter are afforded.
There is, however, another use for sheen.
which we have found by experience to be
OF great advantage in good farming They
are the best weed and thistle extermina-
tors farmer can have. They keep the past
urage free from these pests oftbe farm
We recollect of hearing. twenty yeors ooo
or more, that the late Richard Gentry
OF Pettis Co, Mo-, had farm off 600 acres
and that not weed could he seen upon it
we ana not put much faith in the rerort
and determined to visit the farm to see
whether the report was true. We did visit
the farm, and such model of ncatness
and cleanliness in farming we never saw
before. But it was not long before we dis.
covered to what it was attributable. Mr.
Gentry kept several thousand merino sheen.
hese lie transferred from field to field, as
lie saw proper, and they nibbled down the
weeds, and kept the pastures free of
them. lie told us that a dozen men CON
stantly engaged could not keep the weeds
under subsection like this flock of sheen.
But, In clearing land, sheep are still
more valuable. They will keen down the
sprouts and shrubs much better than men
can do with the best tools. They give
them no rest. AS soon as a new bind or
zeal shows itself, it is npped off. Hazel,
sassairas, everything is compelled
10 surrender. They give them no chance
lor ilie--no quarter. Every time they make
an effort for new life, they are remorselesslv
cut down. If farmers want TO clear land
OF Tree 1t from weeds and sprouts and foul
growth, sheep are the best aids. Farmers
can we'll afford to keep shec, free ufcharee
the year round, for the work thew per(orm
Tor them. If farmers are not able to buy
sheep, it will be money in their pockets to
keep their neighbours sheep without CHARGE.
They never can have neat farms withont
them. The reason they are not kent by
every farmer is, that dogs are so destrucf.
i've to them. They furnish the best animal
food. A family can cat sheep without
letting the meat spoil. More mutton and
less fat bacon would be better for farm
ers.
But farmers can keep sheen oven with
dogs around them, if they viii tnke some
precautionary measures. If unmhor Of
large bells are put upon sheep, the noise
produced when dogs are in sight, will drive
them away. They want to do the de.
struction SO no one will know it. Ifsheep
are kept with cattle, and dogs pursue them,
instinct teaches them to run to the cattl
Tor protection; and, if the dogs still pursue,
the cattle will fight off the dogs. This we
nave seen DONE But, to make tho keen.
ing OF sheep doubly sure, yard near the
mousse or stable, with high fence to in.
s close the sheep at night, is what is needed,
inc sheep will soon get accustomed to com
ing to their sleeping quarters, and it will
not make much labor to securely incloso
them every night Cotman's Ruiuz World
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81 will do So" was the answer from nv
rescuer, bending over the brink.
l recognized the voice. 1t was that Of
| Madge Barker, an incorporate and aban-
doned creature of the village. She set of
at once for aid, which in due time came,
| and was saved. Thankful for my rescue,
| was conveyed to my home, reaching it
just as my wife, alarmed at my non-appear-
ance, was about to go to the cottages Of my
men to mako inquiries concerning me.
But how came poor Madge Barker there
that dreary nights She told me after
wards, when again expressed to her my
gratitude for her aid. She seemed strange.
ly affected as spoke, as, indeed, she had
been before.
cit was Gods work, not mine" said the
poor creature. You know what wretch
| have been-how everybody despised and
hooted me- l could get no drink that
night, was tired of living, and folks were
tired of having me live; and so just
thought l would go to the lime-kilns, lie
down where could breathe the poison gas,
and die. 1t would be nice, warm, easy
death, thought. That is the truth of the
matter"
She burst into tears; and, as for me,
was startled at this new revelation. She
had saved my life.
"God bless and help you, Madge !" I
said with deep emotion. "Yours has been
sad life, but from this hour try to do
better"
II will II will II want to " she ex-
claimed, piteously.
Her case was taken up by a kind hearted
lady of the village, who before had vainly
endeavored to reform her; and Madge
Barker was sent from the neighborhood to
distant charitable institution, where she
entirely reformed, and became useful
Christian woman.
always cherished kindly feelings to-
wards my rescuer, and asked charity for
her of Others. And so my little and Gu
rious romance ends.
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Poe tic al.
For the 1EgiS d h,telige
Lines Written In a Country Grave Yard.

FOR the AE9tS d HlteHI gencer
Ines Written In a Country Grave Var
BY j. W. CoRNELINs.
What muse will now my pen inspire,
What song unsung by poets Tyre,
Will now attalne to suited strains,
Where silence, sacred silence, reigns?
Here the slab and how'ry bed
Adorn the graves of honored dead;
Here ties of earth in friendship turn,
To drop tear upon the urn.
Here beneath the locust shade,
Dearest kindred ties are laid;
AS mourners DER their graves may weep,
Angels watch them as they sleep.
Here loving hands have drcss'd the tomb,
Here summer flowers blush and bloom;
Here cedars, too, their branches wave,
AS silent guards around the grave.
We scan anon the silent tomb,
But cannot penetrate its gloom;
No eye can search this dark abode,
Save the all.secing eye Of God.
The Grave, to all the world a blight,
To us so dark, TO Him so light
His voice, which storms and seas obey,
Will wake the dead to endless day.
What sanguine hopes and cherished joys,
This dread monster death destroys;
Like meteors flashing through the sky,
We blaze awhile, then flash and die.
We raise the stone, and carve the name
or friends who had pious fame;
Their tombs exotic plants adorn,
Which bloom with every dewy morn.
And yet the stone can meier relate,
What loving hearts commemorative
The epitaph, and simple verse,
Is all these monuments rehearsc.
Like these who now from care reposc
We too the dream of life must close,
In some lone shade we too shall sleep,
While angel vigils DER us keep.
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TRANSIENT ADvERTIsENENTs.-0ne Square, two inser-
lions, 100. Each subsequent insertion, rs cents Lon
ger advertisements in the proportion, space
equal to six lines makes square.
HS- Yearly advertisements at special rates.
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"A Chester county farmer recently ship
ped to Philadelphia twelve Berkshire hogs
ono year old, their gross weight being 4 $50
pounds, an average of $50 pounds. They
dressed 304 pounds each, which at $s26
per hundred, amounted to S3O0.96 for the
LOT
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14
ON THE HOME STRETCH.

New-York next. Now We can appreciate the
importance OF a Republican nomination III this
State which cnlStS the hearty support of the
indcpendcnts Had such a nomination been
made i'm New-YOr as to rcpcl voters OF that
class. there would now be httlc hope OF Re
Duhlican success But Gov. Morgan, though
not the candidate of all others best calculated
to secure that class of voters alone, certainly
commands its confidence III high degree
while retaining the support of the regular
voters Of his party. His record i clear and
honorable. His position with regard to desired
reforms is credtable. BY his nomination the
party invites all who have been Republicans III
the nast to sustain il in the final struggle
against reactiOnary BouIbonism, in the
assurance that the power intiusted to Gov.
Morgan will be used, not to resist but to pro-
mole that thorough reform which all good citi-
zcns desire.
This settled the contest in Ncw-Y0rk will
turn upon two main questions which are so
interlocked as to be in effect but Onc--the
question of the currency and the public honor,
and the question of the attitude and demands
of the South 1t will be made clear to sub
stantial business men that they cannot afford
70 risk the prolonged uncertainty which even
now prostrates firms at the rate OF 500 a
month. They will see that a desperate struggle
for initiation will inevitably follow Democratic
success that the South and West, encouraged
by the comparative success OF the extreme re-
pudiators in Indiana, will be uncompromlNlng
in demands, as at the last session OF Congress; ;
that Mr.. Tilden must be expected to yield to
the wish of his party, as he has yielded already
in respect to the repeal of the Resumption act (;
and that all our hopes of financial recovery,
specie resumption, and business prosperity, will
hang upon the decision of Democratic caucus
in which infationsts now have an OycIwhclm-
ing majority.
But for the wants and claims of the South,
there would be more reason to hope that the
better elements of the party might prevail.
Intelligent leaders of the party know that it
woull be fatal to the welfare of the country
to revoke its pledge of resumption, and start
once more upon career OF initiation. But the
best of them are human, and viii be governed
by the interests and clamor Of their cOnstitu-
ents Unhappily for the country, the idea that
the Government ought to repay all classes of
citizens for their losses during the war has
been encouraged until it has become absO-
lutelyirresistible. Nearly all the more influential
citizens in majority of districts in that see
ton have a direct personal interest in the pay
ment of such claims, and it is stupcndous folly
to suppose that they will be restrained, as
men of loyal Northern communities have
not been restrained, by warm regard
for the Union, from pressing their in
diyidual interests AT the last session
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14
ETOLETLON 1RGTMENTS.

II was not to be expected that the advanced
poSition assumed by Prof. Huxley in regard to
thc doctrine of the evolution of species would
remain unchallcnged. His claim that the doc
trine now "TeSts upon as secure foundation
"as the COpernican theory of the motions of
"the heavenly bodies is, to say the least of
il, very striking assumption. Even to the
advocates of the new doctrine this statement
must have been somewhat surprise. Doubt
less there will be long list of formal replies
to Prof Huxley, aside from the transient
discOurses from the pulpit which have taken
his lectures for Sunday theme. Among the
counter-arguments thus far elected there are
none that treat the subject with more ability
and earnestness than that of the Rev. Dr. VIM.
NJ Taylor, which we print to-day. In several
of the pulpit reviews the mistake has been
made of attacking Prof. Huxley as an enemy
of religion, and thereby the notion has been
conveyed to the outside public that his OppO-
ncnts were following the tradition of the bar
"In n weak case, abuse the opposite counsel"
DR.. Taylor does not present his criticism of
Prof. Huxley's views in er cdthedra style, as a
prominent clergyman, but attacks the profess
sors logic with lOgics own weapons.
When Prof. Tyndall at Belfast stepped into
the arena and threw down the gauntlet for
high debate upon the origin of all things his
pluck was more admired by the majority of
his scientific friends than his DISCRETION. So
long as they confine themselves to purely phys
ical topics the trained experts of science hold
high vantage ground. SO soon as they ad-
vance into the fog of metaphysics they must
give and take blows on field with which
theologians are familiar. There was almost
an equal audacity on the part of Prof. Huxley
in the attempt to prove the doctrine Of eyolu-
tion by the processes OF logic. He at once
laid himself open to the attacks of the trained
logician. DR.. Taylor has seized this advan-
tage and makes use of it with merciless
severity.
Whether the doctrine of the evolution of
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14
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species be true or false, is problem that can.
not in the present state of human kpowledgs
be demonstrated absolutely. Strong cumula-
tive evidence may be brought in favor Of the
theory. Arguments against it may be fully
controverted. 1t may be shown, as in the case
of the wave-theory of light, that no other ly-
pOthesis so fully meets all requirements. But
proof. absolute, demonstrative proof, is not
yet furnished, even by the strong array Of
indisputable facts which Prof. Huxley has so
ably presented. The facts indeed, are more
convincing than his logic Secure in these, the
advocates of evolution can afford to wait
For long time to come they will have quite
enough to do in demolishing the new fabrics
of theory which their opponents will raise
upon the fresh contributions of knowledge
And even if successful in these contests it by
no means follows that their own position ia
impregnable.
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14

every Democratic mahb& who offered
bills of this character did so knowing that his
act would iniure his party and diminish its
chances of success, but the demands from
constituents were overwhelming; scarcely a
member dared to resist them. Nor should we
forget the enormous schemes OF Improvement
which appeal so successfully TO the feelings OF
the Southern people. When we remember how
zcalonsly some of the most dangerous OF these
were pressed last Winter by the most cautious,
nrlIdent. and conservative Democrats ana how
even Sneaker Kerr and Mr.. Lamar ardehtiy
onDroyed the Southern Pacific scheme, we may
well conclude that a combination of these jobs,
each with a skilled lobby and plenty OF money,
and each with its strong hold upon some local
interest at the South, will be quite Irresistible
when the restraint Of fear OF defeat IL removed
Initiation will sweep the Democratic party
onward because these claims cannot Otherwise
be paid. or these grc:t jobs made ccessipi'
The natural inclination of that party to be
Indifferent as to the payment of the war debt
preparcs the way Powerful personal inter-
ests reaching into every Congressional dlstilct
at the South, will Oycrwhelm the better mem
bers whose Judgment and patriotism couhsel Il
wiser course Thus imitation VIII surely come
and an enormous increase of the public debt,
and an undermining of the public credit not
so much because Democrats intend to do mis-
chief. but because they cannot resist the de-
mands of solid South. This question, forced
home upon the intelligent voters OF this State.
will make it impossible for the Democratic
party to carry Ncw-lOrk unless by fraud.
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14
TRIPLE SH Z E T .
THE NEBS THIS MORNING.

FdREIGN-The MOntcnegrins have defeated Dery-
ish Pasha and attacked Pod yontza. -- Count
Won Arnm's sentence involves the forfeiture of his
title and possibly his property. = general war
is deemed inevitable at the French Foreign Office;
Germany alone can prevent it; Chefket Pasha has
been placed under arrest; he was concerned i'll the
Bulgarian atrocities.
DoNESTIC-A hearing of the charges against
Capitol Superintendent Eaton is fixed for Friday.
80 Unemployed wOTkmen in Albany are growing
riotous, and are to hold a meeting to-day.
CITY AND SUBUEDAN.--An hopes of a union OF
the Tammany and anti-Tammany organizations
were relnquisled. == Both Democrats and Re
pubcans expressed satisfaction with the results Of
the recent elections. =-=- The Grand Jury of the
Court of General Sessions made public a statement
in regard to its charges against the Excise Commls
sioners. =-= The trial of Police Captain Irving
was begun. == The number Of failures i'll tins
city in the last three months has been BOB with to-
tai liabilities of BS 1J5, 900. == Gold. 100, lO9ls
100. Gold value Of the legal-tender dollar at the
close 91o cents. Stocks active and declining, clos
ing weak.
The WEATHEE.-THE TRIBUNE's local obserYa-
tions indicate clear weather, with clouds and rain
toward night -- In this city yesterday the day
was mild sunny, and hazy. Thermometer. 45',
So, $50.
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14

solved to keep both Loan Exhibitions open
until the night of Friday. Nov, 10, when the
great International Exhibition in Philadelphia
closes. The number of visitors is now increas-
ing at such rate that every extension OF
time granted by the generous owners OF the
pictures doubles the boon to the public and
the two institutions. A very large extra at
tendance from strangers might, in fact, be
counted upon for fortnight longer than the
closing of the Centennial Exhibition. There
will then be a returning tide of travel, and
thousands will gain their first chance OF seeing
the present wealth of beauty. If we regret that
they will come too late, we cannot complain that
a liberalty SO beneicen in its results las at last
fixed its limit. The and thereby secured to the
National Academy of Design is of almost vital
importance. Up to Thursday night, the total
receipts for admissions were $29, 4S6, including
the important amount of $2,SO6 yielded by
the opening of Mr.. Belmont's gallery. This
latter sum will he divided equally between
the Academy and the Museum, each OF which
retains its own income from admissions, after
n proper division of the cOS@ and running
expenses. This arrangement is entirely just
and we believe it is satisfactory to both the
exhibitors and the officers of the two institu-
tions For the four weeks yet to come, the
receipts will in all probability amount to half
the gross sum already received. But the IN
.nuence and permanent effect of the exhibitions
is something which figures cannot express.
New-York tribune., 1876-10-14
THO SCILNOLS.

A meeting was held in Philadelphia on
Tuesday to establish means for the better en-
dowmcnt of Washington and Lee University.
There was no lack of enthusiasm not only
the Southcrncrs but the Northcrncrs present
were evidently impressed with the propncV'
from historical reasons, of maintaining this
institution in which Washington took deep
interest and which is rcpctc with sacred as
soclations of that earlier time. Men eminent
in politics and letters were among the pro-
iectnrs of the movement. On the organized
aboard we find such names as William NJ.
Eyarts, Charles Francis Adams, George Ban
croft, Robert Winthrop etc. etc. There Is
certainly no lack of prestige or variety IN the
characters of the men who urge the help to
make it Il popular movement. Subscriptions
are solicited at once, payable in five annual
installmcnts Gen. Lilly is authorized To pro-
cccd in the work of subscription and collection.
The ship is thus well launched but whether
if, VOYAGE is successful depends good deaf
on the strength of its own timbcrs. The
American people are usually very glad that
places and houses "rich in historic association
4" should be preserved as priceless hcrtages to
" the nation," provided they do not have to
pay for them. As a rule they invest very little
money in sacred memories. Witness the diff
Guilty in saving the Old South Church and the
destruction of almost every historic building
in New-l ork and Philadelphia. The Washing
ton and Lee University is, however, apart from
all associations, IN institution deserving of help
and we heartily wish it success. We would
advise Gen. Lilly and the other members of
the Executive Committee to push the matter
briskly during the present fcryOr of feeling in
the Centennial year. No better place for II
Southern University could be found than the
hcalthful Valley of Virginia, and nothing will
be of more advantage to the South than a
university solidly founded where thorough.
broad, and liberal education can be gained at
small cost.