The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-05-09
THE sEGZS.
BEL AIR, Md, MAY 9th, 1873,
Our NeighbOrs.
BALTIMORE COUNTY.

BALTIMORE COUNTY.
On Tuesday night of last week the barn Of
Mr.. Samuel Chew, one mile east ofTowsontown,
was entirely destroyed by fire. The property Is
occupied by Mr. John Mason, who succeeded i'll
getting out his horses and cattle before the fire
reached them. About ten tons of hay were des-
troyed together with an express wagon and
reaping machine. The barn was new, having
been built but few years. Loss not stated, but
we understand the property was fully insured.
Mr. Mason is under the impression That the fire
was the work of an incendiary
Two prisoners, escaped from the New DER
sey penitentary were captured near LltherVllle,
last week.
Bread is furnished to the Baltimore county
almshouse at cents per pound, and beef at from
~ to 141a cents per pound.
"A Young man named Charles Buyne, living
at Baynesville, on the Joppa road, whilst at
work on q building on the Hartford road, on
Tuesday last, accidentally fell distance OF
about twenty feet, striking upon his head and
injuring himself severely
john Zellham, residing at Carrollton, COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic. Domestic
trouble the cause assigned
Jacob Tilghman, aged 50 years, and Ira G.
Anderson, aged 81, both Old Defenders of 1872,
died last week.-UniOn
-Strike.--The hands, chiefly colored, engag-
ed in working on the Pennsylvania X. X. IN Tow
sontown made strike for higher wages Thurs
day morning. They have been getting 81. per
day, and work about as long as they could see.
Inc contractors aSrccu W pay IHcHl Sl.oo anu
work them 10 hours, but they refused to go to
work under Sl.75 per day. We had not learned
what compromise had been made when going to
press. There is now great demand for labor
in the vicinity of Towsontown, there being three
heavy jobs OF work under contract.
Mil BaYaed.-Quite recently the Turning
mill, on the Perry Hall Farm, Bel Air Road, and
situated Immediately on the Gunpowder Falls,
and which has been in possession of VIM. Dunty
for some time was burned to the ground, caus-
ing quite q loss to Mr.. Dunty by the burning of
q large amount of timber and other material.
The levy for county taxes in Baltimore coun-
ty, this year, is So cents on the 500, the same
as last year.-Herald.
CECIL COUNTY.
Hon. James McCauley, chief justice of the
Orphans Court, has received patent for an in
genious contrivance for adjusting the gauge of
railway cars from broad to narrowgauge or the
reverse
One hundred hands are at work on the Tide
Water Canal, between Lapidum and Wrights
vile. They expect to have the canal in opera
tion by the latter part of May.-Democrat.
Coal is scarce in Port Deposit.
An effort Is being made in Port Deposit to
organize colored Lodge of Good Templars.
"A colored girl has been lodged in Elkton
Jail on the charge of attempting to poison the
family of Mr.. Benjamin B. Price, of Sassafras
Neck.
"A valuable quarry Of serpentine stone has
been opened in Nottingham Township, Chester
county, Pa. by Mr.. Martin, of Rising Sun, and
Mr.. Dunlap, of Pennsylvania Wig
AT the election for town commissioners of
Elkton, on Monday, Messrs. John Gilpin, w. II.
Bennett, Richard G. Reese, and Morris Dunbar,
Democrats; and Messrs. Isaac ID. Davis and
Robert Marshbank, Republicans, were elected.