The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-10-04
BE Registered.


| The last opportunity Of being registered
this year will occur next week. The officer
ofregistratOn, as will be seen by their pub
lshed notice, will sit at their respective of
fees every day next week for the purpose o
correcting the registration lists and adding
the names Of qualified voters. They will
also meet on the 14th, but only to hear ap
peals for reinstatement of names enormously
stricken off.
1t is very important that every man who
desires TO vote the Democratic ticket SHOULD
be properly registered, and every one who
hopes for the success of the Democratic par
~ this fall should look around his reigbbor
hood and if there are any Democrats not re
gistered, induce them to have their names
added to the registry lists, Important cleo
tons have more than once been decided by
single vote, and hence tue necessity ofhaying
every Democrat registered and afterwards o.
getting them all out on election day.
Corporal Tanner appears to be as free
with his pen as he was with his tongue. A
letter written by him to Private DaIzell, Of
Ohio, is published in which the extension
Commissioner says he chose to resign rather
than be removed. He tells how the present
Acting Commissioner Smith was re-rated
and drew from the treasury $G03j after
which lie issued an order stopping the re.
ratings. Tanner says if"the boys" acquescc
in his discharge he will be left where he is
"in the soup Grand Army Posts in vari.
GUS places are dealing President Harrison Sc.
we're blows for dismissing Tanner. Mr.. Har.
risOn has found it difficult to fill Tanners
place He cannot find man who will be
acceptable TO the claim agents-among whom
is Bockso.!iye Dudley-the G. A. X. and
the people vino have to foot the bills.
"A new chair Of Natural History was
created by the directors of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural College, at their meeting on Mon
day. Mr.. Dice McLarcn, S. b. and b. D. OF
Johns Hopkins University, was appointed
to fill it. Among the Hartford directors who
attended the meeting were State Treasurer
Archer Col John Carroll Walsh and Mr.. J.
p. Silver. Mr.. J. p. Silver with other mem
bers of committee appointed by the direct
ors, left Baltimore on Wednesday 10 visit
some OF the experimental stations in the
Northern and Eastern States. He will be
away for about ten days.
Mr.. Geo. William Curtis delivered nm
ablespccch in Philadelphia, Tuesday evening,
in which he merciessly scored President
Harrison for breaking his own promises and
the pledges of the Republican party to pro.
secute civil service reform. He says
There was never a more comprehensive
and significant declaration of reform made in
party platform than that under which the
present administration came into power.
But no party ever broke faith with itself and
with the country more completely"
Postmaster General Wanamakcr has
punished tic people of Luverne, Ala, by dis
continuing their postoflce, because the pa
irons of the Office objected to colorcd post.
master and some disordcrly persons burned
down the shauty in which he kept the office.
This looks like an attempt on the part of the
administration to force cOlorcd officials on
the South against the wishes Of the white
population.
st. Louis now steps bIskly to the front
with circulars, maps, &C. purporting to show
why that interesting city is, above all others
the place for the worlds fair in 1892. A live
ly contest is in progress between New York
and Chicago, and with st. Louis also in the
fight our voice is still for Washington.