The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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cuts down the salary of the next President
to the old figure Of $4,000.
1T is stated that marked decrease in the
number of criminals arraigned before tie
courts for petty offences, is noticed in the
Eastern Shore counties where local option
prevails.
"A cultiyutor near Paris, France, is said
10 have produced n variety of potatoes that
will stand the winter. The Minister of Ag-
riculture is about to aid him in further cx-
periments
1t is believed in some quarters n, Wash
ington, that the election will be thrown into
the Senate and House. In that event the
Democrats would secure the President and
the Republicans the Vice President.
A process for king artificial leather has
are coated with a preparation made of glue,
glycerine, lnseed oil, &c ), and when dry i'm
mersed in solution of tannic acid, to give
it the appearance and smell of leather.
The reported death of Hon. Alexander
H. Stephens afforded him an opportunity,
which seldom occurs. of reading his own
obituaries in the flesh, and learning for HIM
self what his contemporaries really thought
of him. At last accounts he was a little bet
ter, but his recovery is not expected.
Judge Carpenter, of South Carolina has
granted the Injunction restraining the banks
from paying any money upon checks drawn
by Cardozo, ChsmbGrnin's State Treasurer
This will inevitably cause the collapse of the
bogus government seeking to fasten itself
upon the unwilling people of South Carolina.
by the report Of Comptroller Woolford,
| it appears that the public debt Of Maryland
has been reduced during the last fiscal year
by the amount of $G77, 0SSS SO. The Comp.
trollcr thinks the tasis of taxation in the
State will be largely increased by the add
ton of property which has hitherto escaped
| taxation.
| Wells, in his testimony, assorted that
| Duncan F. Kenner, a prominent and wealthy
citizen of New Orleans, offered him 5000 .00C
TO count the votes of Louisiana for the Til
| den electors. Mr.. Kenner denounces Weiss
statement as a lie, and says that Wells came
to his office and offered to sell the State Il
| Tild n for the amount named.
Senator West undertook TO make an cx
planaton in The Ser ate of the letter writer
TO him by Returning Board Wells. He tried
TO make it an innocent production, referring
to his (West's) desire to be reelected to th
Senate, hut he failed absolutely in establish
ing good character for Wells, and did no
in the least polish his own furnished reputa
ton,
-BulldoZer Wells, it appears, was walk
ing arsenal Of firearms, when he first appear
ed before the House Committee, which &C
counts for the nsoence of his manner. o.
Tuesday before being taken into the commit
tee room he was disarmed of his pistols ant
an ugly-looking knife. His walking sticl
was rife cane, without which he declares
lie would not go before the committee. II
was allowed To take it with him. but tn
precauton was first taken to see that it wa
unloadcd.
The English are going wild over Amer
lean beef and mutton. II reaches England
in splendid condition and sells in the mar
ke,s for from 4 pence to 8 pence a pound
which is I'd or 81 less than the price
Of the home article. The trade is growing
very large, 700 tons sometimes arriving a
Liverpool in one day. The only persons
who object to it are the Manchester butchers
who, it is said, are trying to njurc the busi
ness by selling tough bull meat as the Amer
lean Article, and when customers are disgust
ed and demand the " Hold Hnglish roas
beef" the butchers supply them with rea
American beef, at the old price The bust
ness will prove a blessing to the poor 0
England and France, and be a corresponding
benefit to our own cattle breeders and gra
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