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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-11-30

RAILROAD DAMAGE CASES SETTlED.-On
wednesday the objections filed in court to the
Verdlcts of the jures in certain condemnation
cases for rights of way for the Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad Company through Hartford coun-
ty were Withdrawn, the cases being ali compro.
missed by the railroad company, through its
counsel, Messrs. Archer ~ VnnBibber and
Wm Young. The cases included those of the
Hartford Furnace Company, for rightof-way
through the Joppa land, Long Bar farm, Slice
land and Otter Creek land the Citizens Nation
al Bank, for the Dairy Farm HenryD. Farnan,
dis, }. Henry Greenway, Capt Chopper, Geo.
v MITCHELL VIM. d. Osborne, Miles White and
E. Law Rogers. The land holders were repre-
scented by Messrs. Henry w. Archer Henry d.
Farnands, Herman Stump, j. r. G. Hopkins
and s. A Williams. The railroad now has the
undisputed right through Hartford
county.
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An interesting protracted meeting is in progress
at the Southern Methodist church.
Mr.. Chas E. jackson, killed an eagle last week
which measured from tip to tip, seven feet
IRREGULAR MAILS.
The Baltimore Sun has of late been discussing
the irregular mail facilities by the Pennsylvania
railroad route agency. There is reform needed
and may the Sun be the instrument in bringing it
about The Hartford papers that should reach
here on Friday, are not seen until Saturday.
This is not all. Your correspondent with his own
hands delivered to the route agent as the mail
train stopped at Perryman, a few weeks ago. an
important letter to lie delivered at Aberdeen,
that had not reached its destination yet. Also
one mailed here for Perryman, Nov. sth, has not
gotten there yet
Miss Florence BeamaD has taken charge of the
public school, vice Miss Sallio Smith, resigned
VIATOR
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AFFAIRS AT PROSPECT.



The protracted meeting, which had been in pro-
gress two weeks at Mt Vernon NJ. L. Church,
closed last Wednesday night Rev. j. b. Hall.
the pastor, was earnest in his labors and much
good was doubtless accomplished.
Our enterprising merchant, X. Thomas, of
Kirkwood, has built an addition to his store and
Is having It and his dwelling handsomely painted.
Mr.. j. b. Ford is the painter
Mr.. John w. Scarborough has made an addi-
tion to his barn and otherwise remodeed it,
making it much more convenient.
Messrs. John II. and Henry G. Stokes raised this
year, on measured acre of land, tCenty.two bar
rels or ITO bushels of corn, and made an average
barrels or 100 bushels to the acre on the entire
held OF eight and a-half acres. A finer field of
corn never grew in Hartford, even on Deer Creek
Scarcely an ear could be found that had not on IL
from quo to 1900 grains of corn. If our popu-
lar ex-senator Col. Herman Stump, should visit
the Governor this winter will furnish him
corn cob as large as that shown the Cover
nor four years ago. and in addition we will leave
the grain on it.
Mr. a. Thomas, coach maker at Prospect, has
finished one of the finest buggies ever seen in this
part OF the county. 1t is u perfect beauty and
the materials are of the very best quality.
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Maryland Sanitary Convention.
Sanitary Regulations Needed In the
COuntrY-CRnnimg House Fever.

Sanitary RegulatiOns Needed In the
COuntry-Canning House Fever.
The Maryland Sanitary Convention met in
Baltimore, on Tuesday. DIR. Richard Nc
Sherry presided, and an address of welcome
was delivered by Mayor Latrobe.
Hon. II. A. Hallowell, of Montgomery
county, read paper on the necessity of sani-
tary regulations in the country particularly
in villages. He said that in his county several
deaths and forty cases of malarial fever were
attributed last year to single pond of stag
nant water, which had been damned up by
the County Comm ssioners. In another part
of the county a neglected fish-pond was the
source of malarial fever to a neighboring
hamlet, victim after victim dying, one house.
hold losing four of its members. Noisome
pig-pens and other nuisances abound in the
country. Wells and springs are vitiated by
surface drainage, and filthy barnyards help to
lower the public health. Mr.. Hallowell ad-
vocated the passage of a sanitary law for the
counties, with boards of health having full
powers.
n NUMBER OF oIner papers were also read,
including one by DR.. w. Stump Forwood,
of Hartford county, on the called Canning
House Fever"
He said that canning was first started in Har-
ford about twelve years ago by Mr.. Nicholas
Baker, since which time it has grown to be a
large and important industry. The refuse mat
ter from these canneries has in many instances
been allowed to accumulate and to become so
offensive that the air is impregnated with it for
miles. In 1881 fever arose and many citizens
were stricken with it. 1t was the popular opin-
ion that this foul stuff from the canneries was
the cause of the disease. He had written TO
physicians in different parts of the county on
the subject, and had found that their views
were radically different. Some of the physicians
houses, but others said that the canneres were
not the cause, but that the evil was in the badly
kept outhouses about the homes of the people.
Though this difference existed as to the can
neries being factors of disease, all the physi.
clans united in declaring them an unmitigated
nuisance so far as stencil was concerned. DIR.
Forwood recommended that the Legislature be
asked to pass law compelling the proprietors
of the canneries to remove the refuse within q
certain time in water-tight tanks 1t could be
put on farms and would be a good fertilizer,
and would not produce nor aggravate disease,
as the sun would dry and make 1t harmless as
well as inofiensive.
On motion of DR., John Morris, all the pa
pers recommending special legislation were
referred to committee, which will confer
with the State board of health relative to the
various matters suggested. The convention
adjourned on Wednesday.
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PETITION FOR A NEW JAIL.-Before adjourn
ing, on Wednesday, the Grand Jury prepared pc
tition to the Legislature representing "that the
present condition Of the Jail building of Hartford
county is unsafe, unhealthy and uncomfortable,
and that the said building is in every way unfit
for the purpose intended and is disgrace to the
county"
The petition then asks the Legislature to
grant authority TO the County Commissioners
to erect a new Jail building, and if in their dis
erection they should think it advisable to do SO,
to issue the bonds of the county for an amount
not to exceed S25, 900 to pay for such building.
The petition is signed by Judge Waters, the
members Of the Grand Jury and others.
Nearly every grand jury for years past, has
called attention to the defective character ofthe
Jail building, both as regards the sate-keeping
of prisoners and its sanitary condition. An i'm.
provement of the building seems to be impossi
BILE and the only remedy is a new one. Taxpay'
| ers, however will perhaps hesitate about running
the county in debt to erect it. An additional tax
of four or five cents on the 500 would in about
| four years provide fund with which to build Q
new Jail, and this might be the most economical
way to make the needed improvement. The
county is now free of debt and we should like
| to see it remain so.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERs.-The County Commissioners met on Mon
day, Mr.. John y. Dallam, President, In the
chair
Messrs. John s. Dallam and Howard A. Bate
man were appointed to inspect the new road
opened by Henry Reckord a. Sons
WIN. A. Hope was instructed to have the
bridge over Kellogg's branch and the cuIyert
near La Grange Furnace repaired as soon as pos
sible.
The Clerk was instructed to notify the Penn
Bridge Company to complete the bridge at CAV
ender's Fording, over Deer Creek, by December
10th, 1888.
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LONG CoRN.-Wc have received from Mr.. Al
bert 2. Silver, of Level, some specimen ears of
corn, which are remarkable even in Hartford,
famed as our county is for big corn and twenty
barrels of it to the acre. One ear measures 161
inches, another 1514 and third liz inches in
length. The two very long ears are as thick as
corn usually grows, but the shortest ear is near
ly 10 inches in circumference, and contains l, O75
grains. Accompanying them is u curiously
shaped cluster of ears, the central one being
eight inches long, with six nubbns hanging
around it. We do not believe Hartford county or
the State can produce longer ears Of corn than
these. The grains are large, deep and perfect.
Mr. Silver's father, Mr.. j. P. Silver, has
been famous for raising large crops of tall corn
with long ears on it.
Some years ago Hartford farmer sent to Gov.
Hamilton quantity of fine seed corn, and with
it some remarkably long corn cobs. 'But
where is the corn ?" said the Governor, when he
saw the long cobs. "Your - tax gatherers
got that" was the reply. The Governor laugh
ed and declared that he was thenceforth pre-
pared to believe all that might be said of Har-
ford county corn crops.
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The Leading Magazine for Boys and Girls.
ST. NICHOLAS.

EDITED BY MRS. MARY MAPES DODGE.
The Nem York Tribune once said: I'm the ava
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and ST. NICHOLAS has reached a higher platform,
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THE PROPOSED RAILROAD THROUGH DEER
CREEK VALLEY.-Mr Geo. G. wilkins, Balt-
more general agent of the Pennsylvania Rail
road; Mr.. Hippey, chief engineer of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Road, and
Mr.. Thomas, private secretary of Mr. wilkins,
in Hartford county. They started from Ilavrc dc
Grace and drove through the Deer Creek valley
and the sections of Hartford about Bel Air
Their business was to look over the ground and
report to President Roberts their views as to the
adaptability of the route for II railroad The
proposition is TO continue the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Central Railroad across the Susque
hanna at the mouth of Deer Creek, a couple Of
miles from Port Deposit, thence through Deer
Creek valley across country to Bel Air, and OF
TO Magnolia or Stemmer's Run to the main line
This eXtention would be 35 to 40 miles long, nc
cording to location of route. The bed of the
Susquehanna is rocky at the point mentioned
and the bridge would not be very costly. The
road would probably not cost more than 81 800,
600, with the rights of way which would bt
given. The Baltimore Central extends from
the Susquehanna to Philadelphia. The b. ant
O. examined that part of Hartford county before
locating its line, but declined this upper
route, with the understanding, however, tina
they would build Il feeder in that direction. Il
is believed the Pennsylvania company proposes
to anticipate that arrangcmeut.s
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PERIODICALS.

LADIES FLORAL CABINET.-The November
number of The Ladies' Floral Cabinet, New
York, contains many articles of interest and
value 10 lovers of ffowers-and none truly love
them except those who are willing to take some
tents are Peter Henderson's suggestionsupon
"Wndow Gardening and Care of Plants in
Rooms" besides interesting stories and poems,
descriptions of pretty articles suitable for
Christmas presents, &c. The publishers send to
every yearly subscriber two blooming roses
or ten packets offowerseeds Subscription price
is $3.50 year. Address LddteS' ForM Cabinet,
% Vesey street, New York
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THE SUN
NEW YORK, 1884.

About sixty million copies of the The san have
gone out of our establishment during the past
twelve months.
If you were to paste end to end all the columns
of all THE Suns printed and sold last year you
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and sane wit long enough to reach from Printing
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and then three-quarters of the way back to the
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But The S,nis written for the inhabitants of
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girdle the globe twenty-seven or twenty-eight
times
If every buyer of a copy of The ,Sun during the
past year has spent only one hour over it, and if
his wife or his grandfather has spent another
hour, this newspaper in 1888 has afforded the hui
man race thirteen thousand years of steady read
ing, night and day.
tits only by little calculations like these that you
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and women.
which tells the truth without fear of consequent
ces, which gets at the facts no matter how much
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heart for the cause of honest government, and
which therefore believes that the Republican
party must go. and must go in this coming year
If YOU know THe San, Won like It already, and
you will read IL with accustomed diligence and
profit during what is sure TO be the most inter-
esting year in its history. If you do not yet know
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TERMS TO MAIL sU BsCRIBERs.
The several editions Of The SIN are sent by
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DAILY-50 cents month. SO year with Sun
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sUNDAY-Eight pages This edition furnishes
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EPORT OF THE GRAND JURY.
ON THE
CONDITION OF THE JAIL.
OVEMBER TERN, 1883.

10 linn. las u. Waters,
J"dge CfHe circuit court toy HGt0id TO-:
The Grand Jury beg leave to report that we
have been in session IL days, and have examined
l6l witnesses We have found 45 true bills of in
dctment.
We have visited the Jail and found IL PRISONERS
confined therein. The buildings are unfit for
uses made of them, and also found the kitchen to
Jail in very dilapidatcd condition, while many of
the members of the Grand Jury were in favor of
finding an Indictment against the County Com
missoners for maintaining nuisance. 1t
was decided to as body to censure the last board
of Commissioners and ask that the present board
abate it by erecting new building, suitable for
the purpose required
The Grand Jury not knowing any benefit to the
County by this body visiting the Almshouse, have
concluded not to do so.
We have concluded all the business that was
brought before us. so far as has come TO our
knowledge, all which respectfully submit;e ed by
the Grand Jury.
Thanking the Court and all the officers con-
nected Herewith for their uniform kindness in
aiding us in discharge of our duties, we most re-
spectfully ask to be discharged.
SILAS W. BARNES,
nov30 Foreman.
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TWO CARRIAGES IN CoLLIsIoN.-Last Thurs
day evening, at the Bel Air depot, Mr.. Joseph
r. Wetherill's buggy was badly damaged by
coming into collision with the carriage of Mr..
John q. Rouse, of Bel Air. One vehicle con-
tanned Mrs. Wetherill and her son Lewis, and
the other Mrs. Rouse and her son Chapman
The ladies were much frightened, but no one
was injured. Mrs Wetherill obtained another
conveyance andrwent on TO her home at the
Rocks.
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SPEEDY JUsTICE.-On Thursday Of last wecl
Deputy Sheriff Carman arrested Joseph Zeman
for assaulting Benjamin Bearman, Jewish ped
dler, and taking his pack away from him. lie
man was indicted on Monday, tried on Tuesda,
and convicted of highway robbery. The atiai
occurred on the Philadelphia turnpike, nea
Abingdon, and was witnessed by Mr.. Carman
Zeman is also apeddler and native Of Hungary
His evidence In court was interpreted by Prof
w. Sokol
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INSTALLATION OF A PAsToR.-Rev. G. d..
Wilson, the newly. elected pastor of Churchvlle
Presbyterian Church, will beformally installed,
on Tuesday next, December 4lh, at II o'clock,
A. NJ. The installation sermon will be deliver
ed by Rev. Mr.. Branch, of Ellicott City, the
charge to the pastor by Rev. Mr.. Maxwell, of
Baltimore, and the charge to the people by Rev.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-11-30

KICKED BY HoRsE.-J. y. Gibson, of Balti-
more, who was employed in building the new
telegraph line along the route of the Maryland
Central Railroad, was kicked in the stomach by
a horse, at Fallston, on Wednesday and 1t is
feared, seriously injured. lie had unlocked his
team, for the purpose of feeding them, aud
while eating his own dinner one of the horses
became entangled in the traces. In cndeavour
ing 10 release the animal he received the kick
lie was brought to Bel Air by the freight train
and carried to Stagmer's Hotel, where Drs. E
Hall Richardson and c. A. Hollingsworth gave
him the necessary medical aid
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THE NEW b. AND o. BRIDGE across the Sus-
quehanna, at Watson's Island, is to rest on five
granite piers which will be founded on bed
rock, from so to 81 feet below the water surface,
by means of five pneumatic caissons, to be
built by VIM. s. Smith u Son, of Chicago. The
piers of the p, W. and b. Railroad bridge,
near the same point, are of granite, founded on
wooden piles, saved of at the mud line. Ow-
ing to scour OF the surrounding material all of
them have to be kept well riprapped at con
siderable cost. This will be avoided In the Bal
timore and Ohio bridge through the introduce
ton of the pneumatic caissons
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SALES OF CATTLE.-Mr. John Moores last Fri
day sold nineteen head of fat cattle to Mr.
VIM Sales, for shipment to Philadelphia
These cattle, when bought in December, 1889,
averaged in weight ZIG lbs, and cost ~ cents
per ID. The gain per steer was 4991I lbs, and
the price obtained for them was 53l. The ay-
crage cost per steer was S32.22, and the average
profit S32. 50 They were wintered in the field
and received no grain until four weeks before
they were sold.
--Messrs. j. Frank Reasin Il Son, of GlenNller
recently sold % head of cattle to the same deal
er. They were bought in October, 1882, at 5
cents per lb. and sold at $500. The average
grain was 5l2 lbs. per steer
-Messrs. s. b. and Geo. f.. Silver, of Deer
Creek, also sold to Mr.. Sales, last Friday, 30
head of cattle, which had gained in IL months
an average of 4S1 lbs. each They cost a. Is and
sold at 5.25. One home raised steer, 2years and
s months old, weighed 1850 lbs, and another
also raised on the farm, 9 years and 3 months
old, weighed 1,050 lbs.
Mr.. s. Martin Bayless has sold u head of
cattle to Mr.. Sales at $G2 per head.
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THE YOUTHS CoMPANIoN.-Eyery family that
desires to provide for its young people whole
some and instructive reading matter should
send for specimen copies of the Youths Com.
pd"iOn, of Boston. 1t is the brightest and best
of papers for young people. Its columns give
more than TWO hundred stories yearly by the
most noted authors, including j. r. Trow-
bridge, William Black, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Oliphant and many others,
besides scientific articles by eminent specialists,
tales of adventure by noted travellers, papers of
encouragement and advance by men and women
of ability and experience, and "reminiscences and
anecdotes offamous people. With circulation
rapidly approaching 100000 copies a week, the
Youths Companion can well afford to spread
such feast before its patrons; and spreading
such feast, it is no wonder it has such tire
mendous circulation.
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FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT HAvRE DE
GRAcE.-An east bound extra freight train, No.
90, on Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, at O'Clock Sunday morning struck
and horribly mutiated Moses Ii. Lowthet, q
shoemaker, of Philadelphia. He lived long
enough to give his name and address, No. 1918
cambridge street. When found he had fifty
dollars and some cents on his person. The
verdict OF the corners jury exonerated the rail
road company and Its employees from all blame.
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BICYCLE PRIzE.-On Tuesday Mr.. John A.
W. Richardson received from the Hartford Coun-
ty Agricultural Society the prize won by him in
the bicycle race at the fair, last October 1t
consists of a handsome gold badge, suitably en-.
graved. To secure perpetual ownership 1t must
be won by the same person three times Mr.,
Richardson will wear the badge until the next
fair and can then compete again for it, If he de
sires,
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

East Hartford Southern Methodist Church.
Quarterly meeting occasion next Sunday. Rev
II. II. s. Hough, presiding elder, will preach at
Aberdeen, II A. NJ, and at Perryman ~ p. M
Rev. J. M. Hawley, of Baltimore, will preach at
Aberdeen, TX P. NJ.
]. W. STEELE, Pastor.
Rev. 4. ID. Valiant will preach at Abingdon
N. p. Church, Sunday, Dec. I'd, at II A. M; Mt
Carmel, p. M. ; Union Chapel, 7.30 p. NJ. Revi-
val services at Union Chapel every night next
week, except Saturday night.
REV. w T. Valiant will preach in the NJ. P
Church, Bel Air, Sunday, Dec. I'd, at IL A. NJ.
and ut Deer Creek, at $3.50 p. NJ. Admission OF
members at Deer Creek