The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-19

acre. Mr.. McComas says he has come to the
conclusion that the only way to make the toma.
to crop profitable is to use fertilizers literally
On his crop this year he used COO lbs of bore
and 400 lbs. of dried blood per acre The latter
is highly ammoniated article. These were
mixed and sowed in the row and covered with
q corn coverer. He thinks ton per acre would
have paid him better. Mr., McComas says from
repeated experiments he has found that by
heavy fertilizing the crop yields better, ripens
earlier and the tomatoes have deeper color-a
desirable quality in canned tomatoes. Besides,
the land is left in condition TO bring large crops
of wheat and grass.
Mr. McComas shares in the opinion of many
of our best farmers that to make their business
more profitable less land should be plowed, and
the fertilizers now used should be concentrated
on the decreased acreage. A saving of labor
and larger crops, he thinks, would result
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! FOUND DEAD IN HIS HoUsE.-Last Sunday
morning, John Iscn, a farm laborer, about 60
years of age, was found dead on the floor of his
house, adjoining Mr., Garrett Browns store, at
Jerusalem Mills. Justice VIM. ]. Price was
notified and held an inquest with the following
jury:
Garrett Brown, foreman John T. Hurley, Sr.,
John Hurley, Dr., VIM. Vogts, John Holdings
worth, Z. Z. Crcswcl, Chas. Gilbert, L. X.
Clark, f. L. Phillips, Albert Phillips, Charles
Coae and Walter Sellers.
| Mrs. Isen, wife of the deceased, les
titled that her husband came home
drunk, last Friday afternoon, and went up
stairs TO bed. About9 or 10 O'Clock he fell
down stairs and after stumbling about for
awhile, sat down aud laid his head on the
Kitchen table. She left him there at II o'clock,
aud went to bed. On Saturday morning he was
| lying on the floor, breathing heavily his head
being under safe. lie remained in the same
position, the witness said, all day Saturday and
Saturday night. When the jury came Sunday
morning, lsens body was still lying on the
iloor in the same place.
The deceased was an industrious, hard-work-
ing man, and not habtual drinkcr. lie had
been employed by Mr.. E. Hall Richardson, on
his farm, near wilma, and removed with him,
on the lst of November, to the SiX-Nic House.
Hartford turnpike. lie had net been living with
his wife for several months past Occasionally
he went TO see his children. On Fri
day afternoon he returned to Jerusalem
Mills with Mr.. Charles T.. Creswell, who had
been hauling hay to Mr.. Richardson. Mr.
Creswell testified that Iseu had been unloading
hay in the rain and when he got home his cloth
ing was very wet. He had been drinking n little
| but was only slightly intoxicated when he left
him at his Ioor lie had two small TASKS of
whisky with him, when he eft the Six-Miie
House, the contents of one of which, Mr.. Cres-
well thinks, were spilled Oh the way. The
other was about one-third emptied, when Iscn
got home. A flask similar to the one Isen had
with him in the wagon, was found in the house.
with some whisky in it,
Dr.. Holmes Smith made An examination of he
body but could discover nothing to indicate that
lsen had been toully dealt with. The jury, there
fore, upon the evidence of Mrs. Isen, brought in
Il verdict OF death from intox!cation and expo.
sure.
On Monday, upon statements made by cit-
zens of the neghborhood, States Attorney May
nader requested Drs. Holmes Smith and Nun
nikhuysen to make more careful examination
of lsen's body. Dr. Munnikhuysen was unable
to find DR.. Smith but made an examination
himself. lie found confusion on the temple,
which was probably made when Isen fell down
the stairs DR.. Munnikhuysen discovered moth
ing TO show that death had ensued from any
other cause than intoXication and neglect A
grand jury, but the evidence, it appears, was
not sufficient to justify the suspicion OF foul
play.