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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-03
Havana and Domestic Segars, ETC., etc

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Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
HOW OFFICIALS WE'RE ONCE
PAID.

1t is not generally known historical
fact that from 1777 to 1884 the terri
tory now known as Tennessee formed a
part of North Carolina, and that in
1856 the Tennesseeans, becoming dis
satisfied with their government, or
ganized a State government under
the name Of ''Franklyn,'' p which was
maintained for some years. The or
ganization afterward disbanded, and
Territorial Tennessee was again annex
ed to North Carolina. The following
is among the laws passed by the legisla-
ture of the State of Franklyn. We
copy, as found i'll speech by Daniel
Webster on the currency in 1888:
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Franklyn, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the
same: That from the first day of Jan
uary, 1779, the salaries of the officers Of
this Commonwealth be as follows, to-
wit:
"His excellency the Governor, per
annum, 1000 deer skins;
''His Honor the Chief Justice, 500
deer skins: or, 500 raccoon skins;
"The Treasurer of the State, 45O rae
coon skins;
"Each County Clerk, 300 beaver
skins;
''Clerk of the House of Commons,
200 raceoon skins;
Member of Assembly, per diem,
three raccoon skins (;
Justice fee for signing a warrant,
one muskrat skin;
ITO the Constable for serving a war
rant, one mink skin;
Entered into law the 28th day of
October, 1779, under the great seal Of
the State.''
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
SAD FATE OF LoTTIE MERRILL.

Lottie Merrill, the celebrated young
huntress of Wayne county, Pennsylva-
mia, is dead. A few weeks ago the Sen
tinel published an account of the killing
Of two bears by Miss Merrill. A fear
full tale is told in the Port Jervis Union
of the fate of Miss Merrill. According
to this account she met most tragic
death on the 8th of February, being
attacked in her hut by six bears, killed
and eaten by them and her body burned
with the carcasses of some of them in
her cabin. A party of hunters, it is
said, at the close of that day, found
her cabin still burning, and proofs of
the horrible death she had died 1t APP
pears that she had been hunting that
day, and had killed a fine buck deer,
which, after removing the entrails, she
had dragged home on the snow. Six
hungry bears, drawn by the smell Of
blood, had followed the trail to her
hut, and after deyouring the carcass of
the deer attacked the huntress, killing
her and devouring her body. The girl
had evidently made an heroic defense.
An examination of the carcasses of the
six bears in the cabin showed that she
must have killed two of them before
being overpowered. The carcass of one
bear had fallen against the closed door,
and imprisoned them all within the
cabin, which took fire and burned the
others to death. In the cabin was
found one of the huntress' heavy boots,
with her foot still in it. A bent hunt
ing knife was near her bones, and the
antlers of the deer she had brought
home, which, with carcasses of bears,
furnished a complete key to the mys-
terry. Her funeral took place on We'd
nesday, the 9th. At least three hun
dred people were present at the funer-
al, and the old preacher, William Bud
wick, preached a sermon relating the
story of her death and extolling her
bravery and virtue. The remains were
buried near her burned cabin, and over
her grave was placed pair of antlers
and hemlock slab with this rude epi-
taph 'Lottie Merrill lays hear. She
didn't know what it waz to be Altered,
but she has had her last tussel with the
bars, and they have scooped her. She
was good girl, and she is now in
Heaven. 1t took six big bars to get
away with her. She was only eighteen
wears old -
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
sTOCK-RAIsING IN THE WEST.

The freedom to pasture cattle on ex-
cellent grazing land together with an
accessible market, are the main reasons
why at present stock-farming is par
ticularly profitable. The first of these
conditions is precarious, and it is evil
dent that in ten years there will not be
much good free range left east of the
Missouri River. When immigration to
that extent shall have shut him off from
free pasturage, the stock man can either
sell his farm at probably four times its
present value, and move to Dakotah or
Montana, or else turn his attention to
fattening stock on grain for other par
ties, as l have already suggested.
For instance, as a practical case,
there is cattle man of Council Bluffs
who is said to own 100000 head of cat
tie in Idaho. He has a range of sixty
square miles of land not worth one
cent to the acre for agriculture, yet af-
fording excellent pasture for cattle. He
has ten men employed at wages vary
ing from twenty-four dollars to forty
dollars per month to look after the
stock. These men require 200 ponies
to handle the cattle. An overseer is
hired at $1,000 a year. During the
winter, however, four men can do all
the work required, which is mainly
cattle may have water. Streams serve
as the great checks upon the cattle
straying away, for they never will go
far from water In the spring of the
year the cattle men of the plains have
a grand Ground up" las it is called,
the stock is picked out by means of the
brand, and those cattle that are meant
for the Eastern market are started for
Omaha. They travel about ten miles
day, and generally take the whole sea-
son in the journey from the winter
ground to the Missouri bottom. At
Omaha the cattle are put on the train
and shipped nominally to Chicago, but
really to different points along the road,
to be handed over to farmers for fat
tening. Mr.. Stewart delivered over
1900 head to farmers last fall, and of
these only eight were lost during the
winter. The parties who receive agree
to fatten them at the rate of five cents
for every extra pound of weight they |
add to the animal. This seems small
at first sight, but where cattle put on
250 extra pounds during winter, and |
where two hogs are fed from the refuse
of each OK, the farmer finds that the re-
suit to him is equivalent to selling his
corn at 100 per cent. profit. The cat
tie raisers, of course, have their inspec-
tors. who travel from farm to farm to
look after their property, and gather it
together in the spring for shipment to
Chicago, where they are either slaught-
cred or shipped to Europe. The cattle
men have great advantage over mere
farmers, in that they are to great ex-
tent independent of railways. If they
are badly treated by one corporation,
they have simple remedy in driving
their stock few miles to the next
road. ad.-PoULTNEY BIGELow, in Har-
per's Magazine for April.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

4 LITTLE ADvICE.-The Secretary
then called the attention of the meeting
to the contents of letter signed Chas.
Sumner Perkins, dated at Chicago.
Charles stated that he arrived in Chi
cago on late train and proceeded to
the Grand Pacific, but was told by the
clerk that athecOuldnOt beaccommodated.
He wanted to know if the Lime-Kiln
Club would stand by him in an action
under the Civil Rights bill, and re-
quested an answer by telegraph.
1--WE shan't do any telegrafin' to-
Charles Summer jist at present, y
quietly replied Brother Gardner.
"SOme time when the Seckretary has
lots of spar time he might write him an
answer dat dis club has plenty Of biz
ness on han right heah at home.
Under the ciDil rights law dat man had
right to go to de Grand Pacific.
Under de same law he had Il right to
climb to de top of de fust telegraf pole
he encountered. Under de laws of dis
kentry white man kin put up at a
hotel run by Guild man, but he doan'
do it. De bes' fng dat Charles Summer
kin do fur his race am to sot down an
keep still. Detroit Free Press.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

How THE FRENCH WORKMAN
LIvES.-The French laborer probably
gets more for his wages than any other.
His food is cheaper and more nourish-
ing. His bouillon is the liquid essence
of beef at a penny per bowl. His bread
at the restaurant is thrown in without
any charge, and is the best bread in the
world. His coffee and milk is peddled
about the streets in the morning at q
sou per cup. 1t is coffee, not slops.
His half bottle Of claret is thrown in at
a meal costing twelve cents. For few
cents he may enjoy an evening IS amuse-
ment at one of the many minor thea
tres, with his coffee free. Sixpence
pays for nicely cushioned seat at the
theatre. No gallery gods, no peanuts,
pipe, smoke, drunkenness, yelling or
bowling.
The Jardin des Plantes, the vast gal
leries and museums of the Louvre,
Hotel Cluny, palace of the Luxembourg
and Versailles, are free for him to
enter. Art and sience hold out to him
their choicest treasures at small cost
or no cost at all. French economy and
do not mean that constant re-
trenchment and self denial which
would deprive life of everything which
makes it worth living for.
Economy in France, more than i'll
any other country, means a utilization
Of what America throws away, but it
does not mean pinching process of
reducing life to a barren existence of
work and bread and water.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
A SUMMER HOTEL WITHOUT RO-
1TANTIC NONSENCE.

Yesterday the landlord of an up-coun-
try summer hotel was in the city and
called on several people to see if they
would remember his house when decid-
ing on the place to go next summer.
He struck a broker who has a large
family, and mentioned what he wanted.
SCOT a nice place ?" asked the broker.
First rate," said the landlord
Many attractions p
''Several.
''How's the scenery ?''
''Fair.'
''Any romantic spot where lovers
jumped off a big bluff into pond ?''
"NO ; folks up our way don't make
such cussed fools of themselves y
'Oh, well, have you got any cave
about with an old hermit in it ?''
''No, sir; if any superannuated tramp
tries to loaf about that part of the
country and get money out of my
guests by calling himself hermit, he'll
find himself in the house of correction
quicker than hornet can get his work
in.'
"Ah! Got a medicinal spring on
your place ?''
''No, sir. If a man is sick we've
got a good physician in the vicinity,
and good, pure water is so plenty with
us that we don't try to economize on
it by inducing our guests to drink from
some nasty pool that'll give 'em an at
tack Of cholera. -
81 see. Well, then, how's the fish
ing ?''
''Can't catch two fish a day in the
whole REGION, but there's number of
good places to go to with a supply of
punch and cigars to play cards and have
a good time, and l always keep sup
ply of trout on hand to fill your baskets
when you come home, so you can show
the speckled beauties to the women
folks.''
"H'm! You don't seem to have
such attractions as most of the sum-
mer resorts advertise. -
"No, 1 haven't. L have to rely on
the fact that give man clean room,
decently furnished, plenty of chickens
and vegetables to eat, and lots of milk
to drink. There's all out doors for the
children to play about, and big shady
piazza for the old folks to loaf on.
charge folks fair price for what they
lave, and if 1 catch a servant skirmish-
ng for fees, 1 give that servant the
Dounce. That's about all there is to it. y
And the broker rose up and said
You may expect me with my family
own at your place about the middle of
lay. You've got the sort of a place
we been looking after for ten years. !"
-Ne'r York Mercury.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
HowvACCINEvIRUsI is OBTAINED

A New York Tribune reporter re-
Gently visited the farm where the vac
cine virus is obtained, and thus de-
scribes the matter: ':It is a small one
of thirty acres, and is situated near
Clifton, New Jersey. 1t is so near the
railroad station on the New York, Lake
Erie u Western railroad that one can
see it from car window. The farm
/ house, which is quaint old Dutch
homestead, built of rough blocks of
brown stone, is said to be 200 years old,
and to have once served General Wash
ington as his headquarters. One of the
physicians of the party led the way
along narrow path cut through the
deep snow, which terminated in the
baTnyard. Upon entering hut in one
corner of the yard two calves were
found lying on rude benches OF tables.
They were secured in their positions
by straps passing around their necks
and legs. The hair from the inner sur
face of the upper parts of the thighs.
and from the back part of the belly,
had been shaved, making clean patch
Of skin about four inches square. One
OF the calves was a fresh subject and
ready for vaccination. Taking his
lancet,. one of the physicians made little
scarified patches on the skin like those
made in vaccinating the arm of hu-
man being. After thirty or more of
these catches were made, vaccine virus,
taken from previously vaccinated
calf, was applied from quills. The calf.
beyond starting now and then, seemed
to suffer so little that the operation
would not have excited the compassion
even of Bergh. Then the much vac
cinated little animal was led out to
join its fellows in the barn. The cap
tive on the other table was a sucking
calf, which had been vaccinated in the
same manner week before. Vesicles
or scabs had formed upon the patches
to which the virus had been applied.
When the tops of these vesicles were
removed the virus they contained was
exposed. The quills, which are to two
or three inches in length, were then
charged by simply rolling them in the
matter-frst one end and then the
other. Enough virus is taken from one
subject to vaeeinate from 1000 to 5000
persons. When calf has been once
as in the case of a person,
the operation can not be repeated, and
it is consequently sent to market. The
department. is now using ten to twelve
calves week, which are furnished by
he man who leases the farm. It re-
luired so many, the farmer said, that
lie had to ride over the country far and
vide to find enough of them.''
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
THE BEAUTIFUL BEYOND.

Even if distance does lend enchant-
ment to the view, there is no excuse
for people to be constantly craning
their necks looking for some better
place to emigrate to. There are no
''better" places. All places, we can
didly believe, are about as near alike
as wise Providence could create
them and if a person hears of a por-
tion of the country that he thinks will
just about fill the bill, and sells out at a
sacrifice and HES him to a soft snap, he
will likely as not find some discrepan-
cies and pull-backs which were over
looked in the hurry and hustle of the
moment. Where is there a man who
has not, at some time, felt himself ire
sistibly drawn towards the mines of the
west, where the best men that went
have lost every dollar they took along,
while some jay-hawker that was warned
away from civilization, and took ont
only gallon of whisky and pack of
cards, struck it rich the first blunder
he made :? What young farmer has not
longed to go out on tho plains of Idaho
and get rich keeping a stock ranch
out there where the cattle are buried
in sixteen feet of snow, with the indi-
cations pointing towards storm ?
What restless soul, already provided
with a comfortable home and moderate
income, has not felt his bosom burn to
become a Kansas grasshopper-sufferer,
and lose his labor year after year by
hoppers, potato bugs, tOrnadoes, drouth,
prairie fires, and then be deluged with
ten thousand black paupers-and not
only that, but the aggravation Of know
ing that the soil is rich and the~climate |
Salubrious ? What mild-eyed child of |
destiny, carried away by that same en-
chantment which distance lends to the |
view, has not some time resolved to |
cast his lot with the Texans, who hang
a man for stealing a dead horse to get
the shoes off it, and present a murderer
with a gold watch as slight testimo-
nial {; Or with the Manitobians, where
it is cold enough in the winter to freeze
water left standing out doors in pail
IL among the orange groves of Florida,
where every prospect pleases, during
he winter, and only the alligatorS,
Jwamps and six million varieties of
)ugs, flies and fevers during the sum-
ner, are vile We pause for a reply
md breath. There is no harder sight
han to see an enterprising farmer,
lere or in any of the older States, who
when it was wild land, and now, after
ears Of toll and just when he is get
ing to where the solid comfort comes
n, get the idea that he must have
more land.' He sells the old place, Z
.oes out west and begins all over again !
nd after breaking his back for twenty $
ears he gets a piece of land six feet by
wo in the graveyard But we suppose
ONE men get into such a habit of q
that few minutes rest would
olson them like dose of Prussic acid.
-Peck's Sun. |
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

THE GENUINE JUDGE LYNCH.-It
is a curious thing, remarked the Pail
Mall Gazette, that three of the most
expressive words in the English Ian
guage should have been added to it, if
not by Irishmen, at least by men be-
longing by residence or descent to the
west of Ireland. ''To Burke. s'to
Lynch, - and ''to Boycott, have all
taken their places, if not exactly in
classical literature, at least in the ver-
nacular of the English-speaking race
an over the world. There is little dis
pute as to the identity of the Mr..
Burke whose name became a synonym
for murder as to that of Capt. Boycott,
but there is some doubt as to whom
was the original Mr.. Lynch. There
have been several Lynches remarkable
for taking the law into their own hands.
A virginia farmer of that name who
fiogged thief with his own hands has
probably no claim to the honor as
cribed to him by a doubtful tradition.
The claims of Judge Lynch, who was
sent out to suppress piracy in 1868,
are more substantial; but the
genuine aboriginal Lynch is said to
have been Mayor of Galway in the fif-
teenth century, and to have made his
name famous by hanging his son, with
his own hands, out of the upper win
dow, in execution of death sentence
passed upon him for robbery and
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
A QUESTION FOR BACHELORS

Baby growing on your knee
While you sing some little ditty.
Pulls your hair or thumbs your eye;
Wouldn't you think it wasn't pretty;
Tell me, could You?
If you owned ''the bRby''-would you?
Wife with arms about your neck,
Says you ''look just like the baby;''
Wants some cash to make ''spec;"
And you would refuse her-may be!
Could you should you?
If you owned 1.-THE womanr-would you?
Little labor, little strife,
Little care and little cot;
Would you sigh for single life?
Would you murmur at your lot?
Tell me, should you?
If you owned the cottage-wouldy you?
Health and comfort, children fair,
Wife to meet you at the door,
Fond hearts throbbing for you there;
Tell me, would you ask for more?
Should you? could you?
If you owned the "ready''-would you?
-ET.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

EGYPTIAN OBELIsKs.-- are
thirty Of them at the present time scat
tered over Europe. Rome has eleven,
four of which are higher than our New
York obelisk. The highest of the Ro-
man obelisks, which is also the highest
in Europe, stands before the church of
st. John Lateran. The obelisk in the
piazza of st. Peters is 81 feet 8 inches
high. Both of these were mounted on
high pedestals. The pedestal of the
st. johns Lateran obelisk is "A feet
high, making the entire height of obe-
lisk and pedestal $50 feet. The pedes-
tai of the st. Peters obelisk is tri-
fe less than so feet high, making the
whole height of the monument 132 feet
two inches.-Scientifc american.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

THE farmer of the future must be a
man of resource he must be ready to
adapt himself to new circumstances,
and to adopt new crops when he finds
he is undersold. He must look upon
the air and soil as his agents for the
production of vegetable and animal
forms, the precise type of which must
depend upon the supply and demand.
If an ironmonger finds he has strong
competition in the sale of locks, he
turns his attention to lamps, or some
thing else, and so must the farmer.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

THIS has been a hard winter indeed
for settlers in the northwest. The star
walton and freezing of cattle in Mon
tana have caused, it is said, a loss Of
about 20 per cent. Hay has not been
obtainable off the main lines of travel
at any cost, and the deep snow has
made transportation and browsing
alike impossible. Hay at S45 ton in
country where fodder does not usually
enter into the expense account of stock
raising, makes it sometimes cheaper to
kill cattle than to save them. Dakota
has also fuel famine.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

LOST EXPECTATIONS gentleman
had five daughter, the first Of whom
married man by the name of Poor,
the second a Mr.. Little, the third a
Mr.. Short, the fourth Mr.. Brown, the
fifth Mr. Hogg. At the wedding of
the latter her sisters with their hus-
bands were there, and the old gentleman
said to his guests II have taken pains
to educate my daughters that they
might act well their part in life and do
honor to my family. 1 find that all my
pains, care, and expectations have
turned out nothing but Poor, Little
Short, Brown, Hogg.''
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

1.-THE following articles on "Ducks,
and Duck Shooting" was contributed
to little paper published, some time
ago, by the Port Penn Debating So
ciety. A valued correspondent has
kindly copied the article for our col
umnS.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

HAD SOME HUMOR.-Old General
Wrangel, of Prussia, not long since de-
ceased, was grabbed and queer char
acter, but he had some humor. The
Bear, Berlin periodical, tells how one
of his officers called on him one day,
wearing spurs that did not conform to
the army regulations, noticing which,
Wrangel imposed a penalty of twenty
four hours confinement upon him.
The officer, seeing that Wrangel wore
the same kind of spurs himself, called
his attention to the fact. ''That is
so, +" replied the old soldier. ''You are
right, and you may therefore remain
under twenty-four hours additional
arrest for me-.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

AN easy method of showing whether
butter is adulterated with beef fat has
been submitted by Hager. He satu-
rates a cotton wick with a suspected
sample, which is first melted. He then
lights the wick and permits it to burn
for about two minutes. AT the end of
that time, when the wick is extin-
guished, an odor like that given off by
tallow candle, when its flame is blown
out, is readily perceived if the butter is
artificial.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

SMITHINGToN in recounting to a
friend the advantages of house which
he wished to lease to him said eyes,
and there is quite a good garden con-
nected with the house. - 'sYes,' said
his friend, II can probably hire a man
to take care of the garden for SIS or
500, and can gather 81 or SIS worth of
vegetables from it. That garden would
be regular bonanza for me. Rome
Sentinel.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

AN enormous increase in the evapo-
rated fruit business is taking place in
western New York, the recent legal de-
cision that there is no monopoly of the
sulphur process of bleaching having
had stimulating effect on the indus
try. A single New York firm last year
evaporated 10000 bushels, and bought
fruit evaporated by others equivalent
to 300, 900 bushels. OF this a London
house took 100 tons, and has doubled
its order. The growers throughout New
York State are preparing to develop the
foreign market for this product.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

WHEN the mercury gets so low that
a man has to lie down on his stomach
to feel around for it with pole, it is
cold.-Cin. Sat. Night.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

It is said King Koffee has a large
army in Africa ready to attack the
British. With eggs at preset prices, it
will cost the British government a
mint Of money to settle Koffee. Rome
Sentinel.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

A bowling dog and an amateur ac-
cordeon player will cause the angel of
peace to plume its wings and flee from
the best locality on which the sun ever
shone.-Qoincy Modern ArgO.