The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-05-18
lot opposite Cochran q Youug's store, Bel Air,

lot opposite Cochran d Young's store, Bel Air,
June 9Th, 9th and 7tli.
Messrs. George Y. Maynadier and J. Royston
Stiiler, attorneys at law, have removed to the
office on CORTLAND street. formerly occupied
by Messrs. Archer and VanB.bber. Mr.. Geo.
W. Richardson las opened his magisrrates
Office in the room lately vacated l,y Mr.. Mayna-
der, where Mr.. John J. Alexander NAV vet be
found.
| Mrs. 5. a. llOblitzell, of Bel Air, left ON
Thursday morning for Washington, where she
will spend several weeks.
Miss Quincy, of Boston, is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. J. II. G. Watts, Bel Air
! Mt Tom L. Warner of Baltimore. a grandson
OF the late Col. Edward Rutlcdge, of tins coun-
ty, was in Bel Air yesterday.
| Officer Bateman arrested George Smith. color
ed, on Thursday, for drunkenness. Justice
Richardson committed him 10 jai for hearing.
Robert Hill, colored, was arrested, or We'd
ncsGay, by Bailiif Small, for disordery conduct.
He was fined 81 and costs By Justice Proctor.
LECTURY ON FREEMAsoNRY. Geo, l..
Wellington, of Cumberland, Nd, delivered "A
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day evening, IN the history aud tenels of Free
masonry. lie was introduced by Hon. Steven
son Archer.
Col. Wellington rapidly and graphically
skeichcd the history of Frremasonry, reversing
the usual chronological sequence, and tracing
the order backwards. Last year, he said, the
Grand Lodge Of Mary land celebrated its ceuten-
NAL. Washington and nearly all of his generals
were FrccmasUns. Robert Burns was also A
Freemason. Two centuries ago Sir Christopher
Wren called the Freemasons of England TO-
gether to rebuild London after the great fire of
1866. Two hundred and fifty years ago Elias
Ashmoe founded the masonic ritual of to-day
800 years ago Queen Elizabeth undertook with
soldiers to break up an assembly of masous,
but upon bcihg convinced that their meeting
was not for disloyal purposes, became patron
ers of the order. $50 years ago Robert Bruce
was Grand Master of the Frccmasons in Scot
land and gave an asylum to the prosecuted
Knights Tcmplar. 600 years ago a Masonic
Congress was held at Strasburg on the Rhine
500 years ago, Edmund, grandson of Alfred the
Great, convened the grand lodges of England at
York
King Solomon, he claimed, was the first
Grand Master of Freemasons Three thousand
five hundred years ago when Achilles dragged
the dead body of the vanquished Hector around
the walls of Troy, the aged Priam appeared
on the battlements, parley was called and
Achilles, recognizing Priam AS Il brother
mason by grasp of the hand, gave him back
the body of his dead son. 1000 years ago the
pyramids OF Egypt were built by Freemasons
and the hierogyphics on CIeopatra's needle, in
Central Park, New York, he said, tell the his.
tory of Freemasonry. Standing ON The dim
shore of that far distant period we lind the
question rcverberating, "When did Free.
masonry originator"
The reason why Frcemasonry has untlvcd all
other human institution, said Col Wellington,
is because it is founded upon eternal truth and
is adapted o all generations, cimes and peoples.
Masonry is only religion in 50 far rs it de.
mands belief in Supreme Being and does
not bind its members to any creed.