The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-05-18


lost ground can be regained, it will max
the tomato season commence considera
| bly, later, thus shortening the ordinar
time for the pack, unless frost stays ava
later than usual. The freeze has made tn
packers feel chary about selling any NOR
10 cent futures until the extent of the in
Jury can be more accurately determined
The grand jury adjourned on Tues
day afternoon, a record breaking session
in point of time. Until the meeting o
the present grand jury, the honor hat
been held by the jury of which Mr.. Muir
ray Vandiver was foreman several year:
ago. Foreman Allen has established {
new precedent and while it will probably
be hard to lower the time limit, yet the
example is a commendable one for sue
ceeding iuries to follow. Our crimina
matters should not be passed over toe
hastily, yet as rule, grand juries have
often consumed more time than was
actually necessary for the proper dis
charge of their duties.
On Monday, J. Martin McNabb and
Charles H. MacNabb attorneys, sold the
fair grounds property at public sale at
the Court House door. After spirited
bidding, it was knocked down to Mr..
Lawson Cooley for $4,000. The sale
was afterwards reported to Mr.. w.
Beatty Harlan, who was represented by
Mr. Cooley. Joshua w. Mccall was the
auctioneer 1t is understood that the
property will be developed for some pur-
pose which will not be disclosed at
means the passing away of an institution
that has meant much to Hartford county.
We regret to see it 60, and even at this
late day, if the proper spirit became
manifest, we believe the exhibitions could
be continued. However, the great mass
of our people will have to undergo
change of heart, and make up their minds
to sustain a local institution instead of
going elsewhere for such diversion.
There is proposition to inaugurate
in the schools of the State, subtarget
guns for rifle practice. Adjutant-General
Riggs has just addressed a letter to the
State Board of Education, stating that
this is entirely practicable and can Re
conducted with perfect safety. The sub
target gun is now generally used in the
United States military and naval acade-
mics and by the better organized national
guards of the states. 1t is an apparatus
for holding a regulation rifle and an elec-
trical device for indicating the point
where the bullet would have struck tie
target. The machine is simple of con-
struction and may be aimed fully at a re-
duced target which bears the same rela-
ton as distance does to size in the ordi-
nary range practice. General Riggs calls
attention to the benefits that would &C
crue to the country in case of war if this
public training was given. The national
guard of the State will be equipped with
these machines this fall.
Contractor c. A. Bull a few nights
ago narrowly escaped a serious disaster
at his residence, near Bel Air. While car
rying a little child and lighted lamp to
the second story, Mrs. Bull to her horror
saw the handle of the same break and
the burning lamp fall to the floor, scat
tering oil on her clothing in its fall. The
flames Immediately shot upward as high
as the ceiling, passing out of window
at the head of the staircase, which
caused a powerful draught. Mr.. Bull
was in the first story suffering with an
Cured. he dashed upstairs, covering the
flames with blanket, and removed his
wife from her dangerous position. Pass
ing neighbors in a few moments came to
the rescue and soon put the fire out, but
not before the staircase and washboard
had been charred by the flames and the
paper DESTROYED on the wall. A mo-
ment's delay would have resulted i'll the
destruction of the house and the possible
death of Mrs. Bull and her child, who
were penned in the upper story above
the flames.
The copy of the Southern -Egis,
which we received from Mrs. Mary
Montgomery, of Shrewsbury, Pennsyl-
vania, last week, bears the date of Sep
TENDER 10, 1857. 1t il the eleventhis issue
of volume one, and newsy little sheet.
The editor was the late John Cox, who
directed the destinies of the paper for
number of years. At the head of the
editorial columns is the following ticket:
For Governor, Colonel John B. Groome;
comptroller, Bradley 7. Johnson; lottery
commissioner, DR.. Joshua X. Nelson; COM
missioner of LAND Office; James Murray;
Congress, Colonel Ramsay McHenry;
Judge of the Court of Appeals, James L.
Bartol; commissioner of Public Works,
Abraham Letter. One of the editorialsis
strong against Know Nothingism, and it
has also an article On the race question,
which was engrossing the people even in
those times. The paper is full of adver
tisements and shows apparent prosperi-
ty. The Know Nothing nominations are
also given in the same issue. They in
clude, William Galloway, candidate for
clerk; Benedict H. Hanson, Register of
Wills; Michael Whiteford, sheriff; Thomas
M. Bacon, Franklin Hanway and John
H. Baker, House of Delegates; William S.
Young, Jackson Michael. Barnett J..
Clark, Joshua Luckey and William
Beaver, county commissioners; Frank
Barr, county surveyor.