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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-29
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

1 hereby announce myself as the Peoples Can
didate for County Commissioner from the Fifth
District, subject to endorsement by the Demo-
cratic party.
ipS MTCHhET, WHITFEOPD
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-29
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Letter From Aberdeen,
HARVEST

HARVEST.
The harvesters arc busy gathering the
wheat. The yield, it is thought by exper-
fenced farmers, will exceed that of several
noet
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31


THE STATE BANEs.-Nearly all the papers
in the State have insisted that there should
be Il public exhibit of the affairs of our
State Banks, yet the Legislature has thrust
aside motion 10 that effect, which was in
troduced last week. The School Fund and
all the unappropriated State funds, 100000
and over, are in their keeping, and there
should be something besides faith for the
public to rest its confidence upon. There
should be no mysteries of government in
accessible to the public eye, says jefferson,
we believe, and this is particularly appli-
cable in tiduciary matters, where large sums
Of money are held IN trust for the people.
1t is not business-lile for tie State to
neglect this matter and make no showing.
The officers Of the National Banks have
been required to make FIVE sworn state
mentS within the past year and publish
them to the world. Two of these state.
ments nave been made within the past
twenty days. But our State Banks, holding
puolic us well as individual deposits, and
IN 'retore under greater responsibility to the
psope at large, never make showing of
their affairs, under oath from their officers
Fortunately, the public, for the most part,
think Things are all rights but they ought to
k'.ow so; they have Il right to know so, and
If an oath-bOund statement can give it it
ought to come. There is nothing incom.
patible to the interests of these institutions
in making such an exhibit, while it is en-.
tirely Incompatible with good public policy
not to do so.
Whether the examinations of a Legisla
tive Committee would amount to much
may be questioned, however. An ex-mem
Der Of tue Legislature, who was once on
surI II committee, don't think it would
50 he informs u. A. 4 rule, lie says, oul
Legislators are not experienced bankers
an4 wiitn they enter tIe Farmers Bank tC
examine Il lot oil heures that have beer
liked up especially Tor their coming, the
heu.es look rs Clear as mud to the com
nsttce. lie thinks that if an investigation
be- "utnorz'd ty the present set of law
TO do the investigating, otherwise it is no
likely To Result in any practical good. Blu
II law requiring authentic statements Of til
officers OF such banks, at stated periods, j
what is required Of these as well as al
other public banking institutions. That
or an investigation by experts, would put
stop to the IDLE rumors that are known t
be ahoat constantly about musty old az
counts against some Of the stockholde
which the institution has been nursing fo
years TO keep them from dying on its hand,
There Is too much responsibility restin
upon it for its transactions to remain
sealed book to tho public. We have n
reason to think .hat the institution is nc
ready for any investigation that may
demanded.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
aking the waters of the Della.

repealed thus making the waters of the Della
ware free to fishermen.
The challenge of the New Jersey Legislature
to Delaware to settle the disputed boundary
question between the two States in their claims
to jurisdiction over the waters of the Delaware,
by referring it to the Supreme Court of the
United States, has been accepted by this Legis-
lature. The committee who had the matter
in charge have passed resolutions informing
the Legislature of New Jersey that they had
instructed the Attorney General of this State
to meet the authorities of that State in suit
before the Supreme Court of the United States
to settle the disputed claims.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Messick of Sussex
county to make all parties going away from
the State to marry liable to misdemeanor
seems to have had one effect, if none other and
that is to create merriment But he sticks
steadfastlv to the bill, and declares that he
shall do all within his power to have it made Il
law.
There is considerable gossip among the
members, concerning an application, which it
is said will be made to this Legislature by the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, and
a number of Baltimore capitalists to have n
charter granted them. to cut canal through
the Sassafras river and Appoquinimink Creek
The object of asking this is to get canal COM
peting with the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal which is enjoying the benefit of the
large freight traffic between Philadelphia
Baltimore and southern cities. How much
truth there Is IN the gossip am unable TO say,
but there is also a statement that two of the
officials of the Baltimore and Ohio road have
consulted a prominent attorney here in regard
to the matter. Yesterday afternoon n bill
passed the House giving the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Company power to own and
run sail and steam vessels upon their canal
The idea of this is to prevent the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore rail road from
gaining control of the Errcson line of
steamers, which now transport all the fright
through this canal. By having line of
steamers of their own, if the Rail Road
Company should get control of the line
spoken of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Company could start them out by putting on
their own vessels
Senator Causey has returned to his place,
and although, suffering considerably with his
injured limb looks quite well.
The Governor and Secretary of State arrived
to-day.
Edwin L. Martin brother of the Speaker of
the House, is here looking after the culture OF
fish as food
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

OCE State taxes ought to he reduced.
Tn, call in this direction is no mere idle
talk. What is the use OF drawing from the
people money for which the State has no
need, while the people have >uch pressing
needs Tor all they have? $4,000 ale now
accumulated to the credit Of the State. as so
much over aud above its wants, yet the
sum is doing tie State no good, is paying
no debts and drawing no interest. 1t is so
much taken from the resources Of the co~l-
monweath, only to fttten the individual
stockholders of Il State Bank, into the
true inwardness of which the State will
not allow lis citizens even peep.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
Fur ne Smyrna nme
The Legislature.

D0yif. u..t., january Both, 1877.
TL)se VINO expected the development of any
very important business in the Legislature
during The ;:et ~ 't.e hcen very sadly dis
appointed. '-.. a. prominent mem
Der, tD-Hlg..., .... ....- J.cn returned to the
House three times by his constituency, and he
informed me that in all Of his legislative ex-
perience he never knew business 10 come in 80
slowly. II IS true that there has been con-
siderable done, but the best part Of il was made
by the members TO keep themselves employed.
One thing has been accomplished, which all
the Kent members, with but one exception.
seem TO be heartily glad OF, and that is the re-
peal of the dog law. Mr.. Brown was the defender
of the dog law, and be fought hard against its
repeal, but when he found that il was the full
intention Of the House to throw it over board,
be left II too, and took sides with the enemies
of the bill. The members from Kent il seems
had pledged themselves to faithfully obey a
rec jluton passed in mass convention last Fall
to either repeal CT modify this law. They took
hold Of the biggest horn Of the dilemma, and
expunged the Objectionable law from tho
statutes.
The biggest row that the Legislature has yel
had is likely to occur over the bill disposing o
the Sheriff printing. The Committee on Re
yised Statutes had il under consideration nearl,
q month, and patched and scratched at Il
until they finally returned bill to the House
which gave the Sheriff the choice of one pape
and the other paper In which the sales are ad
verused is TO be the paper Of the largest circu
lasion. In this condition it passed the House
and went 10 the Senate. where II received
number Of black eyes, in the shape of amend
M snts which SO altered it, that the Shriff shoul
select one paper and the defendant the othel
besides reducing the number Of insertions I
two Back 1t came to the House, and this
body by an overwhelming vote refused to cor
cnr In the Amendments. The result 10 that
Conference Committee has been appointed col
sisting of two from the Senate and thras frol
the House, who win consider it, and what the
will do with il nobody seems to know, not eve
thoee who have been appointed on the con
mittee.
The fisherman troubles have been effectuall
disposed Of The law licensing them has bee
repealed, and this afternoon in the Senate M
Ray had the law creating Fish Commissioner
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SINCE Saturday the weather has been in
a decidedly melting mood.
THE cold weather has killed the celery
beds-froze and rotted the stalks.
PETITIONS in favor Of work house are
being pretty generally signed in this town.
A NEW post office has been established at
Downs Chapel, in Kenton Hd., with James
B. Messer as postmaster.
FoUR marriages were performed by one
Of the ministers of this town last Thursday.
We publish three. The other party would
not consent to publication.
An engine house is nearly completed at
Clayton for the Smyrna BrancE locomotive,
which is 10 rOost at Clayton hereafter, and
engineer McConaughy will have to make
his headquarters there also.
The wheat crop in this section seems to
have stood the cold weather very well, and
il looks thrifty for the most part. The
Sleet has not caused the disadvantages here
that some sections are complaining Of.
Mrs. MARY E. BECK, (wif- of Edward)
has bought of n. F. Wild, his lot on Mann
st., adjoining Major Blacks for $500. 1t Is
understood that the object is 10 erect a
dwelling thereon, sometime in the near
future.
THE protracted meetings in this town
are now in their fifth week, with undimin-
lshed audiences, noon and evening. The
stores close at at night, and will continue
thus while the meetings last. Four candi-
dates were taken into membership on Sun
day last.
| IT looks now as if there will he very few
vendues in this neIghhOrhood this season.
The tendency is all towards farming, it
seems, and parties having farms to rent are
overwhelmed with applicants. There are
to he numerous changes, however, among
our aiming cummunity on moving day
March lst.
A CONCERT will he given by the Episcopal
| Sunday school of this town, assisted by the
young ladies and gentlemen of the church,
to toe he'll in the Chapel on Friday, Feb.
9th. 1877. Admission free, hut collection
will he taken for the benefit of the poor
Doors open at hali.past six O'clock exercises
commence at I.
MEETING of the WOman's Christian
Temperance Union for the election Ot
officers for the ensuing year, will hp held il
the Young Mems Reading Room, on Mnir
street, on Friday, Feb. I'd, at 3 o'clock p N
Not only the me mtmbrrs, but all ladiei
favorable to the Temperance cause are
cordially invited to be present.
YESTERDAY, at Dover, at the sale of th'
estate of the late jas. Robbins (Richar'lsOr
& RObbins) some stock Of the new bank
in this town Fruit Growers National) wal
aurtioned of at $l0l.75. An advance O
$l.75 in the stock. Of an institution only si1
months old. This is decidedly cOnsoling t
, the stockholders. We also learn that, not
withstanding the expenses in fitting up, tn
institution will declare 3 per cent. div:den'
for the six months it has been in operation
PUBLIC SCHOOL No 3 & 77.-The follow
ing are the names Of ten first standing il
the general average Of studies, attendanc
and department in the Grammar Depart
mtnt Of this school for the month {
. January.
E ], Florence Hough; 2. Jefferson 1
: Scout; 3. Flora Bicon; 4, Louisa De-
: kyne; 5, Ella A. McClusky 6, Clement '
e Scout; 7, Carrie Beck; 8, Maria Brinton
: Q, Juliet Wright; 10, James McCusky.
o HERMAN Roe, Prin.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

The GREAT FALL IN THE VALUE OF REAL
EsTATE.-Says the BALTIC. Nun: The press
OF ali the principle cities in the North and
West Is talking about the great deprecia-
ton III the value of real estate, which is
generally the last to be affected by hard
times and the last to advance in Lrice
when change takes place in business
affairs. letter from New York on other
subjects alludes to real estate and rents as
follows: TO let, as the first Of February
approaches, Is beginning to meet the eye
wherever one turns. 1t is all the same
whether it Is up town, along the avenues.
or down town, among the merchants Say
what they will about the impos,lmlity OF
landlords and house agents reducing rents
any farther, it is quite clear that unlc.s s
they make further concessions there will
/ be Il good many empty premises on their
hands on and after May day, for the ques-
ton Is not what landlords are willing to TAX e
but what tenants can afford to give. Bust
ness Of all kinds is down to so low an pbb
;hat the high rents of previous years are
/ simply impossible. 1t is true rents have
been going down spring after spring ever
since the panic. and, if there were now a
! general revival of trade the prevailing
/ figures no doubt would be acceItcd as the
/ 7toPP'"S l'Oii' S'', do II ~ lHc conviction
i Of persons who are well informed Of the
feeling between landlord and tenant is thai
further decline is inevitable. Comptroller
kellys statement that of the Sl2.OOO.OOC
taxes now i'll arrears more than - per cent
are due from property used as stores ant
offices and for other business purposes, is al
argument on that score which it is hard to
answer. TO get any rate at all it must b,
/ reduced to figure which will not absolute q
ly push business to the wall.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
New Hardware Store. VIM. FAIRIES &


New Hardware Store. VIM. FAIRIES & Co.
W. F. A. Woodcock has Just returned
from the city with splendid assortment
of Goods.
just received another lot of Rustic
Frames for MOttos, at Raymond's, opposite
Delaware House.
Hardware, Nails and Bolts at lower rates
than ever offered in Smyrna, at VIM. Fares
& Co.'S. jan 3l-2m
Don't fail to call and see the Economy
Coffee Pot" for sale at Hamilton & Cum-
Minis store, Smyrna, Del. jan l7-4w
Having a new Stock of Kerseys, Flannels,
Blankets, Shawls, Dress Goods will sell them
Low. Raymond's, opposite Delaware House.
| am now prepared to fill orders for all
kinds Of Castings at low rates. Plows,
Plow Castings, Cultivators apd Cultivator
Teeth, Harrows and all kinds of Farming
Implements sold cheap, at Wholesale or
Retail Give me u call before pul Chasing
elsewhere, ut the boundary (Lockwood's
old stand) or the office at the Bask ct
Factory on the Hill. If you are dealer
send for wholesale price list. The highest
cash price paid for old iron. J. +. WORDRN
In order to avoid having to carry over
any Stock, come and see what you can buy
Cheap. Raymond's, opposite Delaware
House.
Those who wish to purchase lumber
cheap, would do well to call at Worden's
Lumber Yard, office at the mill, and inquire
prices. The railroad being out of the
street, parties can drive to the yard with
out fear of their teams taking fright at the
trains.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

A FORTUNE TELLER DoUDrEp.-Susan n
Shroc< had the reputation in Princeton, KY,
of being a wonderful trustworthy fortune tel.
Ter. She was not an old hag, according to
custom, but rather young and pretty. She
predicted that c. Lewis HollingswOrth
would meet death at the hands OF unknown
men on the highway, and that his horse
would return home alone, and that his
body would never be found. A few
days age he started on horseback journey,
and soon the horse came back riderless.
His wife was grief stricken until she learned
that Susan had also disappeared, and that
her husband had taken his best clothes and
all the money he could accumulate. Now
she is searching for his body, but she ex.
poets to find IL alive, near by Susan.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

THERE is hPtteroutlooli for orhousebuiding
iE town now than has been manifested for
sometime past. j. &. Brinton has under
way Il large double dwelling, which he is
going to erect on the site of his present
residence on Methodist st.. nearly opposite
the tannery. 1t is to be 3Sx36 feet, two
stories, and quite commodious. Tllghman
& Pratt are also putting lumber on the
ground. preparatory to erecting a double
dwelling on Delaware st., adjoining the resi-
lpnce of Weldon and FARES. John Purnell,
(coloredl has contracted to build snug
dwelling on Main ST., on the site of the
little old tenement that has so long stood
ut the corner of Chestnut st. VIM. Miller
has commenced the erection of dwelling
on the road to Clayton, adjoining Francis
WoOdhull's. Three or four others expect
oLuild, but have taken no definite steps vet.
There are to Ie some improvements, also.
Samuel Reynolds, on Delaware ST., is to re-
model his residence and give it a new and
lnOrdern finish. Others are contemplating
quite as extended changes.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

Georgetown is fearfully afflicted with
measles. Almost every family in town has
been visited. 1t is said that there were
over one hundred cases in the town last
week.
Two or three town meetings have been
held in Milford to take action to procure
from the Legislature law consolidating
the public schools of the town under II
Board OF Education, like Dover. 4 law has
been framed and is to be submitted to the
Legislature.
REVIVAL IN A SUNDAY SCHooL.-For some
time past there have been indications of
seriousness amongst the scholars Of Hanover
Presbyterian Sunday School in Wilmington.
This feeling has increased to such an extent
that revival of religion has broken out,
and meetings are held every evening.
John West prominent citizen of Frede-
rlca, died yesterday about noon. He had
been declining in health for Il year or more.
lie was over 60 years of age. He was en-
gagged in the foundry and smithing business
IN Frederick for q number of years, by
which he acquired an easy competency.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.-Mr. John Kemp. of
tho firm of Lindley e. Kemp, Middletown,
met with Il painful accident last Friday.
He was in the act of examining Il revolver
which had been brought to him for repairs,
when 10y some accident cartridge which
had been left in one of the chambers was
exploded and the bullet passed through
Mr.. Kemp's hand and lodged in his arm,
inflicting painful wound. He is recover
ing.
BAD ACcIDENT-Thomas Cor'lrey, of Far
mngton, met with quite a serious acci-
dent on Tuesday last. He was hanging up
a quarter of beef, when the bench upon
which he was standing gave way and he
fell. the big iron hook upon which he was
trying to hang the beef, hung him just
under the jaw and ripped its iron way
through the jaw and cheek up through the
side of the head to the top, making "a
drradIully lacerated wound, which will pro-
badly dlshgure him for lte.-.MJord NcpS.
The PROPOSED WORKHoUSE OR PENITEN-
TIARY.-ltisrcported that propositions have
been made to supcrintcnd the prison and
work the prisoners, 10y responsible men who
will pay the State $500 year for the use
of the men and building and charge twenty
! three cents a day only for their board
/ Interest on the cost Of the Luilding-$l00,.
! OO0-at SIX per cent. would be $4,000 pen
annum, and the State would lose money
fast under such an arrangement. Better
not undertake it if nothing better than this
can be dome Hiond Ntos.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

j. F. MANCHA has made three sales of
real estate, two farms hy his Smvrna office
and one 10y his Dover Office. The sales by
his office here were the VIM. NJ. Shake.
spear Clouds farm. a part of the Tilghman
tract, in Kenton Hd., 200 acres, to John
Hutton, OF Ontario, Canada, for $3.50;
also the Robinson farm, "Sportmans
Retreat" in the Neck, between Smyrna
and Bombay Hook, 50 acres, to II. B. iIoff.
man, of DAuphn co., Pa, for Sl,O5O. The
Dover office has sold farm of Il acres, two
miles north OF Dover, belonging to L. Eager,
of Pennsylvania. to Samuel Ilitchins, OF
New York State, for $1,000, and all were
cash sales
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

JOSH START, one of the escaped prisoners
from Dover Jail, has had rather an animated
time around here for two or three days
past. On Monday deputy Sheriff Meyers
called To see the MannlngS, at the Landing,
and give them Il hearing for being with the
escaped prisoners the day the house WAS
burned on John r. Wilson's farm As the
depury entered out popped Josh. He
plunged into the creek, (now clear of ice J
and SWAN to the New Castle side, making
good his escape. The next day, yesterday.
he was on hand again, ut the house of VIM.
Conley, in ''Iri>htown." Officer StaytOn
went 10 search for him ,cdhom a ,crd or
search ,arrat and WAS denied admittance.
of course. While going for the necessary
papers Josh. jumped through a window,
carrying glass, sash and all out with him.
Parties outside at once gave chase and ran
the culprlt about five miles into New
Castle again, but they could not atone for
official hlunders. In the meantime the
proposed hearing to be given the Mannings
has not been had. 1t was set for Yesterday,
hut the deputy was not in town. We learn
that Josh. feels safer at home than away
from home. He saws that by going off the
telegraph might set experienced officers on
his track and his fun would he cut short.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

SUDDEN DEATH.-Last Saturday evening,
Geo. w. Preston, freight dellvtrer in this
town for the railroad, was strangled to
death in about twenty minutes by the rush
of blood from an internal atscess. He was
not known to be sick until the community
was startled by the announcement of his
death. lie had been complaining some
what during the day, however, and was in
his room when the calamity came upon
him. George was a respected, industrious
young man, and though afflicted from early
childhood with broken hack, he managed
in spite Of frail constitution, TO cnntributt
largely to the support Of an aged mother
with whom he lived. He was hurled with
Masonic honors, and his funeral was largely
| attended yesterday.
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

Jos. WELLS, one of our most Substantive
farmers. died early this morning, at his
residence, near Green Spring Station, 22
miles from town. He was man of fne
business capacity and most genial social
qualities. As head OF the firm OF Wells 4
Bibbitt, among the leading grocerymen in
Phia twenty years ago, he accumulated an
easy estate. In 1857 be became afflicted
with the dropsy Of the knee, and for twenty
years he had suffered greatly ut times from
disease that finally rendered him helpless
in his lower limbs. For nearly ten years bis
legs were almost totally powerless--fol
FIVE years he was hardly out of doors
Yet few men endured affection witha mor'
cheerful spirit About the time abov'
named be came back to bis farm, which
with bis fathers adjoining, he highly de
yeloped
Smyrna times., 1877-01-31

The REDUCED STREET.CAR FARES in Phila-
delphia does not give satisfaction to the
city people. When the price was Tets. four
tickets could be had for quarter; but now
that it has been put down to 6cts. no
package tickets are sold. Says correspon-
dent:
We have got our reduced car fares-hut
what does the reduction amount to? 4
gain of a quarter Of cent is not much after
all the bother that has been raised, and
that margin" is all that the companies
design to allow. The original promise was
that the fare should be six cents, or five
tickets for a quarter of dollar, but the an
nOuncement is now made that there will be
no discount, consequently those who buy
tickets will be no better off than those who
pay single fares. BY far the greater part
of the riding has been done on tickets, by
which we see the reduction will amount to
hardly any thing. Tickets will now be
bought rarely, so that the receipts of the
companies will be much the same as here
tofore. The complaint against the greedi-
ness of the companies is as strong as ever,
and will be until the demanded FIVE tickets
for quarter are allowed.