The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-09-01

The object Of the association is to
break up the habit of treating to in
toxicating liquors. The circle was
formed in 1891 and has IS members.
There is no doubt that the pernicious
habit of treating, although perhaps
the impulse of generous and hos
pitable disposition, is responsible for
q great deal of drunkenness, and is a
custom that would be more honored
in it's breach than in its observance.
1t is to be hoped anti,treating will be
come universal.
Hobson City, Alabama, contains
400 negroes and not a single white
man. Lincolnvile, s. c., has 1000
negro inhabitants and 10 white peo-
pie. Princeton, N. c., is another
negro town, where there are no whites.
Unionville or Cowgilltown, in Talbot
county, is another negro town. Ii
was founded in 1864 by Ezekiel Cow
gill, of Delaware, and at one time had
400 inhabitants, who kept the place in
a neat and orderly condition. When
the novelty wore off they became care
less and the town has gone to decay.
Hon. William J. Bryan, in a speech
in Nevada, on Wednesday, declared
that the Chicago platform will be re-
affirmed next year, and said that the
two greatest new issues before the
country are trusts and the Philippine
question. Mr.. Bryan suggested that
trusts might be exterminated by re-
quiring every corporation to obtain IL
license from the Federal government
before doing business outside the
State in which it is organized.
General Otis appears to have re-
ceived q powerful ally, in the person
of Chief Dato, who in a recent battle
slaughtered 80 Filipinos. pato, is a
Mahomedan and the Filipinos are
mostly Christians. Warfare against
them must be particularly agreeable
to Dato, who believes, with all other
followers of the False Prophet, that
the more Christians he kills the
| brighter and sweeter will be his re-
ward hereafter.
The Santo Domingo revolutionists
are sweeping all before them. They
captured Santiago, OH Monday, and
feeling confident of their strength
their leaders have refused the PROPOSE
| tions Of the government to suspend
hostiiities. The revolution is said TO
be a national uprising in favor of good
government, and ultimately American
annexation or protectorate.
The Democrats and Republicans OF
| Talbot county are both advocating -
county treasurer law. There are now
1900 unpaid tax bills of 1898, aggre-
eating $4,000, and the 1899 tax has al
ready been levied and partly collecte I.
There are now five district tax col
lectors, appointed every year, and the
system is not at all satisfactory.
1t lis reported that 100, 900 Finlanders
have decided to leave their country,
owing to the recent action of the
| Russian government in demanding
the right to recruit from the Finland
ers for the Imperial army, in violation
of the Home Rule measures of 1892.
1t is also asserted that Russia demands
Of the Finlanders $1O,OOO,OO0 more
taxes per year.
The enthusiastic reception which
was given to Mr.. Murray Vandiver at
the recent great Democratic assembly
at Colchester, second only to that &C.
corded to Hon. John Walter Smith
and DR.. Herring, was an additional
proof of the high esteem in which the
doughty chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee is held in his
own party.
The Sesqui-centennial or 150th an
niversary of the erection of York
county, Pa, will begin at York on
| September Sd and continue three
| days. A great trades display will be
one of the features of the celebration,
which is expected to be one of the
greatest events in the history of the
| equity.
Strong testimony for the accused
has been presented, during the last
week, in the Dreyfus case, and the
weakness of the prosecution is becom,
ing more apparent. Experts who at
first declared Dreyfus wrote the
bor'iereau now assert positively that
it WAS written by Esterhazy.
Thousands of potato bugs were en-.
eountered by train on the Long
Island Railroad, New York, the other
morning. The wheels of the locomo-
tive crushed SO many of them that the
rails became slippery and the train
was brought to a stand-still.
Over two thousand men have been
enlisted fer the new regiments to serve
in the Philippines, but the appli-
cants for commissions probably ex-
coed the number of men willing to
serve in the ranks.
John p. Poe, Jr., a son of ex-Attor-
ney General John P. Poe, has enlisted
in the Sixteenth United States In
fantry, for service in the Philippines
About Sc, 600 has already been raised
in Baltimore for the relief Of the
Porto Rican sufferers by the great
storms which devastated that island.
The twenty-five mile bicycle race, at
the Colosseum, Baltimore, was won,
on Tuesday, by Charlie Miller, over
Henry Smith. Time 43.1S4-5
BrigadierG General Funston, who
won fame and promotion in the Philip
pines, is about to retire from army
life and reside in Kansas.
1t is estimated that 5000 persons,
mostly the poor, were killed in Porto
Rico by the hurricane of August 8
and 0.
General Wheeler has arrived at
Manila, where he has been given the
command of General Funston's
brigade.
Mayor-elect Thomas G. Hayes, of
Baltimore, has returned, after
months absence, with restored health
and vigor.
Michael J. Cooney, carpenter, was
killed by u falling wall on Charles