The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-09-28


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION.
ERs.-The Commissioners met on Monday, Mr..
VIM. Hope, President, in the chair, all of the
other members of the board being also present.
A petition was received from William Shan
berger, VIM. G. Roberts, Grafton Devoe, John
w. Webster and others, for a public road from
APPOINT near st. CIair's bridge, fourth district,
on the road from Streets Mill to North Bend
church, to the road leading from Clermont Mills
TO Jarrettsville.
Also petition, signed by DR.. j. H. ster, W.
b. Harris, l.. G. Michael, W. T. Cronin and
Others, for public road, beginning near Shan
dy Hall gate, on the road from Aberdeen TO
Michae lsvile, to intersect the public road lead
Ing from Swan Creek to Michaelsville, near A. C.
Morean's gate.
On account OF the sickness of Mr.. c. W. Proc
tor, Clerk to the County Commissioners, bis
brother, Mr. F. B. Proctor, was appointed tenn
porary Clerk.
The Clerk was instructed TO notify Josephus
Reed, of Cooptown, to remove an obstruction
placed by him in side ditch, and also to remove
his fence back to the road line.
The report of the examiners on the Sandy
Bottom road was approved.
DR.. W. d. Scarborough reported that the
Maryland Central Railroad Company has placed
the crossing at Highland station in good repair.
petition was received from VIM H. Schuck,
B. F. Barter, G. W. Harvard, John Trago, 8. A.
s. Kyle, John w. Cole and others for a pension
for VIM. Chenowith, who has been sick for
several months past, with no one to care for
him but mother and sister, who are unable to
support him any longer without some assist
ance.
The board adjourned to meet October 1st.
m
TEMPERANCE MEETING IN BEL ARA meet
ing, called by the county Temperance Alliance,
was held in the Court House, Monday night
1t was opened by music, Miss Carrie Quinby
presiding at the organ. A prayer, by Rev. s. A.
Hobli,zell, followed. Mr.. N. N. Mock intro.
duced, as the first speaker, Mr.. Edwin Higgins,
President of the State Temperance Alliance.
He spoke of the spread of prohibition through
out the world, and particularly In this country
lie contrasted the amended prohibitory law and
the high license law 10 be voted on In Hartford
county, next November and said that to adopt
lntemperance and slavery, he said, came into
tue world on tie same day, when Noah got
drunk II took generations to DESTROY slavery,
and intemperance is going the same way He
predicted that the day would come when alec.
holic liquors would rarely be used, even as
medicine. The principle of prohibition, he
said, was as old as the Decalogue He objected
to the high license law because the liquor traf-
fic is unnecessary and strong drink hurtful; it
creates monopoly and under high license
law one man will sell as much as dozen under
low license. If the high license law should be
adopted In Hartford it will not settle the cues
ton.
When Mr.. Higgins sat down the choir sang
mo High License"
Rev. Mr.. Finney was the next speaker, He
strongly urged the adoption of the amended
prohibitory law, as good for the saloon keepers,
whom 1t would compel to seek more honest
and respectable business good for the distiI-
lers, and better for those who drink, because If
they could not get liquor readily they would
lose their desire for 1t. Bel Air, he said is bad
enough now, but it will be much worse If you
pass the high license law, and liquor will be
sold in places where it is not sold now The
distillers and whisky sellers, he said, are all in
favor of high license. Mr.. Finney quoted some
remarks from prominent Iowa distller, who
said more liquor is sold in that State under
high license than before the law was passed.
The choir sang "There's Danger in the Flow
ing Bowl" and the meeting was dismissed with
the benedictlon by Rev. Mr.. Finney