The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-12-30

The Closing Year.

BY the time this issue OF The .E,qis reaches
ito more distant subscribers the year of grace
1881 will be numbered with the years before
the food. 1t has been an eyentful and in
some respects disastrous year. In our own
country it has witnessed the murder of Pres.
ident Garfield, being the second time in the
history of our republic that its Chief Magis-
trate has been slain by an assassin's hand
In Russia the late Gar met violent death
at the hands Of the Nihlists and the present
Gar lives in constant dread of a similar fate.
Everywhere crops have failed, and farmers
and the poor have both suffered in conse-
quence Sickness has entered many families
and death has robbed many household OF
its most cherished inmate. Time, the great
healer, will, however, soothe the wound
The scar may never be wholly obliterated
but the memory of loved ones now no more
will grow less painful as the years pass by,
and the springing grass covers their last rest
ing-place with its emerald garb.
On the other hand, the people Of this
country have much to be thankful for. The
winter, so far, has been mild, and the poor
have felt the benefit of the fact in the de-
creased consumption Of fuel and the continu-
ance of work, consequent upon the open
weather.
Every material interest is flourishing-
Many miles ofralroad have been built, man.
ufactories are multiplying, especially in the
South, and every legitimate business venture
has yielded reasonable amount of profit.
Good resolutions for the new year WILL as
usual, be plentifully made, but, alas! for the
frailty Of human nature, the most of them
will be nothing but leaves" which will be
scattered far and wide before the first new
moon of 1852 shows her silver crescent in the
west.
The new year will doubtless bring u.s. as
all Of its predecessors have, many startling
events, and perhaps some things long ex
pected and hoped for. Among the latter is
the completion of our Baltimore and Delta
Railway, and with it the establishment, in
Hartford comfy, of industries of various
kinds, such az cotton, wooden and paper
Hills; AGRICULTURAL Implement manufactures
iron furnaces, foundries, &c. We have in
Hartford county vast quantities of iron ore
the most valuable timber, and everything
needed in the manufacture of agricultural
machinery. There is no reason except the
want Of a railroad through the centre of our
county, why thousands of dollars should be
sent away every year by our farmers, for
their implements Of labor. Every tool and
implement used by them could be manufac.
tured here at home, and sold at lower prices
than are now paid.
A bank in the county ls another thing
which we hope the new year has in store for
lis. The deepening of Bush river is also a
project likely 10 be commenced and proba-
bly, completed next year. 1t would afford
cheap transportation to the farmers over a
large section of country, and add greatly 10
the general prosperity Of the entire county
In conclusion, we wish our readers all the
prosperity and happiness they desire in the
new year, and hope they may have only as
few OF the so-called ills of life as their own
good requires.