The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-01-31


for smelling iron ores is to be erected in
Havre de Grace, provided $4,000 of the
propose company's stock is taken there.
-"Coloring the ivory" is said to be the
latest Bel Air lingo for taking smile"
Mr. Daniel Wann, q native of Hartford
county, but for the last thirty or forty years
q resident of Galena, Illinois, is now on a
visit to his relatives in Hartford county. Mr.
Wann was at one time engaged in the mer.
camille business in Bel Air-the name of the
firm being Lyle & Wann. No matter where
fate or fortune may lead them, the natives
ofHarford return before they die to the scenes
of their youth.
The County Commissioners recently made
up purse, and presented their clerk, Mr..
james A. Fulton, with pair of gold spec
tacles.
Court will commence Oh Monday, the
10th of February.
The railroad mortgage recorded in the
Clerks Office last week was the same one
formerly recorded, some defect existing in the
acknowledgement.
On Monday Mr.. Jacob Livezcy's horse
got away from him, on the Churchvllle road.
near Bel Air, and made good speed into this
place, with the sleigh runners having left the
body of the sleigh along the road side No
body hurt
Quite procession OF sleghs filled with
our friends of the Fallston neighborhood,
passed through this place on Wednesday
morning, en- route for the Susquehanna to
view the magnificent polar scenery there
Among the sleighs were two large four horse
ones.
No mail yesterday in consequence of the
blocking up of the p, w. & B. r. r by the
locomotive of the morning freight train run
ming of the track, near Magnolia
CEREBRo SPINAL MENINGITIS - The
Hasre Republican says that five quite serious
cases ofthis Undiscovered disease are re-
ported at Aberdeen, and two or three others
in the adjoining neighborhoods. That paper
learns also that a colored man died with the
same disease in Bush River Neck, n few DAYS
ago.
1t is certainly IA matter of regret that this
singular disease-which was unknown and
unsupported by majority of the medical
profession before the late Wharton trial
should have become epidemic in our midst.
Since that trial the reports of every board of
health in the land contain weekly the record
of deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis,
when formerly the disease was unknown, or
known by some other name. The latest
thing brought to light, however, in the pres
ent trial of Mrs Wharton, is what an emf
nent Philadelphia doctor calls phantom TIL.
mor'-whch he AYERS exists only in the i'm
agination of the patcn', but which, strange
to say, can be felt by any physician possess
ing moderate degree of imagination. This
is the age of wonders, and our hope is that if
we are to be afflicted here in Hartford county
with cerebro-spinal meningitis, as an epidem-
ic, we may at least be spared the further in,
Fiction of phantom tumors."
CANDLEMAs DAY.-Sunday next, February
ID, is the day celebrated by the church as the
Feast of the Publication of the Blessed Vir-
gin. In the Roman Catholic Church it is
called Candemas Day, from the number of
lights formerly used in its celebration. Ac-
cording to an old Scottish superstition:
"If Cendlcmas day be dry aud fair,
Tha half of winters to come and mair
IL Candlemas day be wet and foul.
| The half of Winters gone at Yue."
Therefore, those who are curious in such
matters would do well 10 notice the weather
OH Sunday, for the provcrb quoted declares
that if the day is wet and FOUL half of the
winter will have been gone at Christmas
SEND LOCAL NEws.-Always when you
come in possession of any important local
news, go directly to your county paper and
impart the same to the editor. You will not
only receive his grateful acknowledgement of
the favor. but also the thanks Of his patrons.
Many items of news doubtless escape our
notice every week, which wonld interest our
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