The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-09-08
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

army officer and was in charge of
government works at Savannah,
Georgia. He was suddenly relieved
from duty and tried by court martial
on the charge of misusing or embeZ-
cling 81, 100000 in the improvements
made in Savannah harbor, under his
direction. He was found guilty and
sentenced to fine. Imprisonment and
dismissal from the army. That was
more than It year ago, and yet he is
today holding iis position III the army
and drawing his pay. The President
referred the matter to ex-senator
Edmunds, vino sustained the verdict
or the court martial. This does not
appeal 10 have been satisfactory and
the question was referred, four months
ago, to Attorney General GriSgs. The
delay in settling the question arouses
asuspicion that Capt. Carter has some
political influence which is seeking to
defeat Justice.
The Republican convention OF
Priuse GEORGES county met at Upper
Marlboro, on Monday, but broke up
in an uproar, without nominating
candidates. 1t appears that Congress,
man Mudd made compact with a
faction heretofore opposing him, by
which the leader of the faction, K. n.
Ryon, was to be made County Treas
urar. Mudd's former friends resented
this endeavor to boss the convention.
Hot speeches were made, one colored
orator declaring that the black men
| were more numerous in Prince
Georges comfy conventions for 81
wears, ard it was time they took the
making of tickets away from the
whites. Later the convention reas-
sembied and elected delegates to the
State convention. The quarrel, it is
believed, dissipated the hopes the Re
public&ns had of carrying the county.
Monday, being Labor Day, was
celebrated in Baltimore by the FEEDER
alton of Labor with pic mic at barley
Park. Mayor. elect Hayes made an
| excellent speech, in which he told the
| assembled toilers that when member
| of the State Senate, IL 1884, he offered,
defended and had passed law max
| ing it possible for worlimen to form
trade unioqs. Before the passage OF
that law it was an offense against the
law for the laboring classes to combine
together against their employers. He
| COMMUNICATED the Baltimore work
men upon the fact that while firm in
demanding their rights no infringe.
ment of law had been tolerated by
| their organization. Mr.. Hayes
speech was we'll recaived.
The people of North Carolina are
making an effort to secure the un'
doubted control of their State affairs
in the hands of the white people. An
amendment to the Copstitut ton is pro,
posed which will effectually bar from
the polls 10000 colored voters. The
amendment provides that "every per
son of eligible age, who applies fol
registration, for instance, must be able
to read and write any section or sec
tions of the Federal Constitution.
There are also many iiliterate white
voters in North Carolina, and in orde,
to permit them to vote it is provided
"that any lineai descendant of any
voter in this country prior to 1888
shall be entitled to vote whether he
can read and write or not"
Many years ago when Flora Temple
accomplished the wonderful feat o.
trotting q mile on the old Herring
Run course, at Baltimore, in $40, the
sporting fraternity were astounded
Since that day, the question Of speed
has been studied closely and in eact
recurring year the standard has beer
lowered But it seems as if the ems
must certainly have been reached. Or
Thursday, August 81, Star Pointer
made the mile at Charter Oak Park
Hartford, Connecticut, in two min
utes. The time by quarters wa'
recorded at so, 100, 1.30&, 200. Or
Wednesday, however, Star Pointer
was defeated by Joe Patchen, anC
distanced in the third heat. John Il
Gentry was also in the race.
Ex-Governor Frank Brown arrive c
in New York, from Europe, on Fri
day of last week. In an interview he
expressed his satisfaction with tie
Democratic State ticket and urgeC
that good legislative nominations be
made. He said: Taken in it,
entirety the ticket is good one ana
ought to win There is no reason, i:
seems to me, why the party should moi
be united in the State. The nomina
tions at the head of the ticket were
made after a healthy canvass and the
ma iority having determined in favor
of the nominees, the minority ought
to naturally fall in line and support
the ticket"
The Prohibitlonists of Baltimore
county named their ticket at Towson
on Monday. DR.. J. S. Green, who
was nominated for the State Senat c
said that the party was badly in nee
of ginger" that it was supported By
"A few members. This was not right
That the members whose services
we're almost wholly professions were
of no practical benefit; that devotion
to prohibition was a sacrifice; that
those who went on tpe ticket did not
go as a matter of dollars and cents,
and they should be well supported.
The trial of the negro rioters in Il G
Delagel affair, commenced at Darien,
Ga, On August 81. The scenes arouL d
the court house are described as beipg
extremely unusual. Soldiers fully
armed patrolled the place and every
| passer.by was halted and compelled
to tell his business. The negroes were
noticeably absent, a few of the leaders
only being present. Judge Seabrook
presided over the court. Four of the
81 negroes indicted we've convicted
last Friday.
Mrs. Norwood, wife of Edward Nor
wood, of Howard county, met her
death in a peculiar manner. In the
yard at her home was a hogshead
sunk in the ground to hold rain water.
There was 10 inches of water in this.
Ii is supposed that she went to the
hogshead to draw bucket of water,
| and heinn saized with q faintinp sne.i