The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-08-30

MOUNTAIN, August 26.-On Saturday
morning this neighborhood was visited
by one of the heaviest rainfalls known
for many years. No damage was done,
however, except the washing of the roads
i'll some places, notably the hill near
Stockton Shops, where all the dirt was
washed off, leaving nothing but bed of
large stone. This hill was repaired few
years ago by the joint effort of neighbors
with a small allowance from the county
and put in first class travelling condition,
but through neglect or want acknowledge
how to mend a road it has become a
source of danger to the travelling public
The bitches on the sides have grown up
with bushes and briars and the water
forced to take the middle of the road.
The taxpayers of this section have been
very liberal in giving money and work
for the repairing of the public roads. In
this neighborhood they contributed
probably 2.OOOin the last ten or twelve
years in cash or labor.
Farmers of this section have about all
finished threshing. The wheatcrop was
generally good, but oats were very short
in quantity and poor in quality. Corn
promises to be above the average. To-
matoes will not average halfacrop. Pas
lures were never better at this season Of
the year.
There have been great many city peo-
pie boarding at the farm houses in this
section this summer.
Mr.. w. l. Price has been on the sick list
for several days, but is able to be about
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Alexis Shriver have
gone to Ruxto for a weeks recreation.
Mr.. Percy Lee, of New York, is visiting
his aunt, at Jerusalem farm.
DIR. Frank S. Lewis, of Baltimore, has
taken charge of the property formerly oc-
cupied by his sister, near Jerusalem Mills,
and contemplates building a new house
on the site of the old one, which was de-
stroyed by fire last spring.
Political matters are quiet in this sec
ton at present. The Democratic nomi-
iees seem to be acceptable to members of
chat party so there is no cause for grumb-
ling, but it will not do for members of
that party to sit idle and console them
selves with the thought that the battle
to he fought in November can be won
without a struggle, for the opposition
will put forth every effort to win the
light. The opposition have had their
sample ballots distributed among the
colored population for some time. and are
daily and nightly instructing them how
to vote, and election day will find them
all on hand to cast their ballot. 1t will
be found that very few of them will make
mistakes, notwithstanding they do not
have Lincoln's nose to guide them.
Therefore it behooves every Democratic
voter who has any regard for his home,
for the honor OF his wife, his daughter or
sweetheart, - be up and doing. If we
read the papers we see that in all sections
of the country the colored population is
becoming more bold and insolent every
day. Not a day passes but we read of
some case of assault or murder committed
by some brute of negro. The Demo-
Gratis of Hartford should organize clubs in
every precinct in the county and see that
very voter understands how to cast his
ballot, so that there will be no mistake,
and by so doing we can easily elect our
candidates. &c. c.