The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-05-02
Local Affairs i.

Bel Air.
The ground was frozen in places ON Sat
urday morning last
Mr.. William Murray has our thanks for
late copies of the London Punch
A great many lumber RATS are daily gil.
ding down the Susquchanna.
-"The Teachers Ordeal" has been re-
cciyed, and will he published next week.
The County Commissioners were en-
Gagged on Monday in making transfers and
attachments.
The repairs ON the Tide Water Canal are
being vigorously prosecuted by Mr.. ID. F.
Shurc, the Superintendent.
1t is expected that the cars will he run
ming on the Columbia and Port Deposit Rail
road during the present year.
The State Board of Public W orks, which
met at Annapolis on Friday last, elected Col
j. Carroll Walsh, of this county, as one of
the directors to represent the State in the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
We are pleased to learn that DR.. s. b.
Silver, an esteemed physician of this county,
who has been confined to his room for the
past five or six weeks with sickness, has 50
far recovered AS to be able to he out again.
A hundred horse power engine and boil
crs for the Peach Bottom Slate Company ar
rived in Oxford by railroad a day or two
ago, and were transported by teams across to
their place of destination ut Peach Bottom,
Lancaster county.
Mr.. e. L. Puc, son Of NJ. Il. Pur, ESD
of this county, is at his fathers house ON a
visit Mr. Puc was Il gallant soldier in the
Confederate army, and after the close of the
war settled in the Fauquicr county, Va. His
friends here were glad TO see him.
ENLARGED.--Our ncighhors Of the Htr-
! j"W Democrat last week sent ont their paper
in an enlarged form. It presents quite Il
handsome appearance.
| ACCIDENT.-Un FRIDAY of last week, MIR.
Wesley Upton, who lives on the Philadelphia
Turnpike, near Hanways store, was thrown
from his sulky and had his right thigh diSlo-
Gated. Drs. Cuttings and Schubert set the
dislocatcd limb, and Mr. Upton in now rap.
! idly recovering.
IMPRovEMENTS.-A company are about
erecting a steam Flint Spar mill at Conown-
| go, There is some very fine spar in the vi
entity There is mill on Broad Greek, IIar-
ford county, which has been doing an extern
! sive business for some years. They ship their
spar from Connecticut. A company has pur-
chased Browns slate quarrcs, at Peach Bot
tom and are erecting Il steam mill for grind
inc the Otfal slate for roofing. Cecil Fhg
HORSE STOLEN. On Wednesday Of last
week n horse and sulky were hired from C.
w. Shippers stable, at North East, Cecil Co.,
and not returned. The thief was traced to
Oak Hill Lancaster county, Pa. He is des-
cribed as man 40 years old, feet g inches
in height with long black chin whiskers.
The sulky was painted red. $50 reward is
offered for the return OF property and an
equal amount for the conviction of the thief
SALE OF PROPERTY On Tuesday, Henry
ID. FarnandiS ESD. as trustee, sold at public
sale, n parcel of land, containing 49, acres,
!
road 1t is improved by dwelling house.
Purchased by Mr.. Azariah Jones, for 81 500.
ON Saturday, April 2Gth, Hon. John II.
Price, as trustee sold at public sale six acres
Of land, improved hy a small dwelling house,
situated near Hopcwcll Purchased by Mar
tin Fahcy, for $3.50.
GUnFORD iloUsE.-The above is the name
ola newly established hotel at Govanstown,
Baltimore county, which is to he under the
charge of the owner, Mr.. Charles F. Smith,
formerly of MaXwcll's Point, in this county
His numerous friends in Hartford will he
! pleased to hear of his prospecting in his new
undertaking, and feel satisfied that in the
the words of his circular, "IIe will spare no
expense or trouble to provide the very best
the Baltimore markets afford for his table,
and he is determined that the house shall be
conducted in tirst-class manner"
SALES TO TAKE PLACE.-On Thursday.
May eth, at the Court House door, by Henry
| W. Archer, Esq, trustee. sixty acres of land
in Bush River Neck; improvements good
| NN'IiiiS, p'd'ii anu apIi' ol'ldluS, Nt.
On Monday, May 26th, at the Court
House door, by Herman Stump, Jr, trustee,
80 acres of land, situated ON the road leading
from lIavrc lie Grace to the Wesleyan Chapel.
ON Tuesday, ,Innc 3D. at the Court House
door by Geo. VIM. Brown and Arthur Geo.
Brown trustees, four PARCELS of land in the
1at district, comprising @0G acres, with valu-
able improvements.
VINO ARE ENTITLED TO PENSIONS -
Among the provisions of the new pension act
are the following:
"All persons who have lost leg above the
knee and are SO disabled thereby that they
cannot use an artificial limb, shall be rated
in the second class, and receive twenty four
dollars per month. All persons having lost
the hearing of both ears, to receive thirteen
dollars per month. Section five provides
that the rate of eighteen dollars per month
may be proportionatey decided for any de.
gree of disability, established for which the
second sectiony akes no provision. The
new law also adds two years to the lmita-
tons under which claims may be established.