The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-04-07

Potatoes are offered at 12 cents per BUSH
cl in Granville, northern N. Y.
"A real shad was lately caught in the
Mississippi river, % miles above New Or.
leans.
"A few days ago jury in the Western
wllds gave the following verdict in case of
suicide: 1--WE find the deceased was Il fool"
"A Kentucky farmer has breed of black
swine, the hoots of which are solid. like those
of a horse or mule. 1t is said that they were
originally brought from Africa.
Mrs Harriet Gray of Marquette, has in.
vented II labor saving tea-ketlie, which is
better than delivering lectures on woman"
rights"
"A Lassen county, Cal, farmer recently
had two thousand sheep starved to DEATH
His feed gave out, and the deep snow pre-.
vented the sheep from reaching grass
"A barber shop was opened at Atlanta,
Ga, on Saturday, all the operatives being
young girls. The young men there no longer
shave themselves, bnt palroni2c the barber
shop in numbers.
A little girl four feet high and fourteen
years old, living III Cass county. Ill.,, was
recently married to a farmer who measures
six feet and two inches and is twenty six
years ofage.
II J. Mcgibben of Paris, KY has Just
lost the short-hon bull Second Duke of
Oneida, for which he paid $12 900. The cow,
duchess of Oneida, for which he paid S25.
600, had died previously.
"A Memphis paper has established a claim
to wit: A sktf upset and threw Mr.. Tyler
in the water, whereupon the aspiring jour
nalist remarks that it is a clear case of Zip
a.canoe and Tyler too" Go up head.
-Barnum says he could pay all the mu-
nicipa expenses of Philadelphia, give every
poor family II barrel of -four and Law up
half million, if all the drink money spent
in that city in one year were paid over to
him.
Louis Henry, of Burlington, VT. has
celebrated his 10th birthday. He has Ia
children, 81 grand children, and SO great
grand children, making total of 14S. all of
whom are living. He reads without glasses
has smoked Of years, and last week went to
the polls without assistance and voted.
England has queer jurymen, too. In a
murder trial in London verdict of acauttal
was rendered, contrary to the evidence
THAT is your verdict" said Justice Mellor
TO the jury, "but it is not mine. There is
not the slightest doubt that the prisoner was
guilty. You are masters of the situation.
however, and if you choose TO find the prison
ernot guilty, cannot help it,"
Ex-Governor James T. Smith, of Mary
land, is seriously ill.-Neac York World.
We exceedingly regret to hear of Smiths
illness. If we only knew who he is, where
he lives, and when he was Governor of Mary
land, we should be still more distressed
Until we get this information, we fear our
gricf, 'like worm i the bud" will feed on
our damask cheek. '-Easton Ledger
DIR, Tyndall now finds that air can be
rendered OFFICIALLY pure by merely leaving it
undisturbed three or four days in a close
chamber. All the floating matter subsidies,
and the confined air will not transmit light.
Solutions placed there remain unaltcred
though left for months, while similar solu,
tons open to the ordinary air swarm with
bacteria in twenty-four hours or two days.
Alfred McVey, a young man of Cecil Co. ~,
who had his back hurt while working in the
woods last spring, and has since been bed
ridden, on the 26lh of January commenced to
knit counterpart with No. tidy cotton.
1t contains 696,399 stitches He completed
the job in Al days, at an average of 14,S17
stitches per day. With the kind instruction OF
a lady friend, he has added n six.inch fringe
around it.-tccH Democrat.