The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-07-02
Local Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS :

Tho Rector being absent, there will be
no service at ST. Mary's Church, next Sun.
day, July 4th.
A gentleman living near Towsontown
had about seven hundred tomato plants de-
stroyed by the potato bugs-Union.
1t is about an even thing, says the Balti-
more County Union, as regards numbers be-
tween candidates for office and potato bugs
in this county.
The Gunpowder Agricultural Club, of
Baltimore county, has offered purse to any
of its members who will raise twenty five
barrels of corn to The acre.
The distribution of the balance of the
school tax has been made by the State. Har-
ford's share is $2,080.6t for the white and
$S05.03 for the colored schools.
Mr.. J. Clinton, Jr, whose postoflice adj
dress is Havre de Grace, has been appointed
general agent for Hartford county for the
celebrated Howe sewing machines
Those in need of the services of dentist
will find in DR.. Benjamin Smith, of Bel Air,
one on whom they can rely, as q skillful op-
orator, who understands his profession in all
its scientific and practical details.
Mr. Mark Moulsdale, who lives near
Aberdeen, is an excellent gardener as well as
good farmer Proof of the former assertion
is before us in the shape of a basket full of
fine Early Rose potatoes sent to us by him.
pretty Little Jakey," comic song and
chorus, and Darling Aroon," song and
chorus, are the titles of new music received
from the publisher, F. W. Hclmick, 27S W.
Sixth street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
One day last week, while Mis-. Opah
Glenn, who lives near Clermont Mills, was
driving along the road in buggy, one of the
wheels came of, throwing her out upon the
ground, whereby one of her arms was bro .
ken and dslocatcd
"A few days ago Mr.. Mitchell, living at
Mitchells Mill, Winters Run, captured n
swapping turtle weighing ten pounds, in his
corn field. The "critter" had left its native
clement, and had been clawing up the corn in
dextcrous manner before it was captured
The REIMBURSEMENT of the salaries Of post
masters, under the act of Congress of 1878,
has just been completed. The posto1lices
thereby benefited in Hartford county are as
follows: Castlcton, salary raised from $t2
to SAC; Hartford Furnace from $19 to 800.
Lnpidum, frcm $12 to 500.
Mr.. VIM. H. Gladdens method of catch
ing potato bugs, is by means ola fiat piece or
hickory, eighteen inches in length, the ends
of which arc brought together something
like pair of sheep shears. With this lie
pinches the life out of every bug or egg he
can find. He says it is rapid and sure
On Saturday afternoon Colin Stewart, a
grandson of John Stewart, Esq, of this
place, while bathing in the Spring Gardens,
Baltimore, was seized with cramps and al
though good swimmer sank beneath the
surface He was rescued by Francis McGin-
mis-, Sr., and was restored to consciousness
with some difficulty.
-EX-Sherff Stephen Boyd, ESQ., of Peach
bottom, Lancaster county, Pa, had the
Sheriff of Lancaster TO take charge of Mr.
Charles Yard. proprietor of the slate quar-
sizes, for obstructng the Susquehanna river
by dumping slate rubbish into it, We pco-
pie of Port Deposit would feel under many
obligations TO OK Sheriff Boyd if he could find
the proprietors of our boom piers and make
them show cause why "this is thus" -ENto1,
Democrat.
"A gentleman who has seen it tried,
writes as follows: "In view of the rayapes
made by the Colorado beetle it may be inter.
esling TO your many readers to learn an easy,
cheap and sure preventive of their further
damage to the potato crop, which is by
simply sprinkling the vines with oyster shell
lime, which must be done while the dew is
on, or Immediately after rain. The beetle
will disappear at once and the vines will as
sumo a healthy look"
MIR. Ferguson, one of the Maryland Fish
Commissioners, recently put into the Gun
powder, near Ashland, about thirty thousand
young shad. The object of putting them in
at the point named is to accustom the Young
shad to the river in the expectation that they
will return to it when growing, and by the
use of fsh-ways, which are to be provided,
breed as was customary in former DAYS in
the upper waters of the Gunpowdcr, from
which since then they have been practically
excluded 1onsontoUn Union.
Mr. p, Howard, who lives near Bel Air
has left at Tile 1Eqis Office n sample of the
kind of wheat he raises. There are thir-
ty distinct stalks, all having sprung from
only one seed. The heads are well filed, and
the finest and largest we have seen this sea
son-measuring, some of them, five inches
in length. He calls it the Wells wheat. The
seed was obtained from Col Edwin II. Web
ste:. Ii any body can show more prolific
yield from one grain of wheat, Mr.. Howard
and The -tyis w ould like to hear oft.
Master Harvey Russell, son of Martin
RUSSELL Of this place, has brought to us
large moth, the name of which he desires to
know lis body, which is about II inches
III length, is gray and black, with four vel
low spots on each side The wings are gray
their cXpanse being about two inches. The
most cu'ious feature about it is u proboscis,
about 3! inches in length, which it thrusts
into the heart of flowers such as the honey
sucklc, &c to extract their sweetness. 1t
not unlike humming bird, and is probably
what is known in the South as the tobacco
sucker"
MIR. Hugh r. Heaps has showed us a
specimen of the precious Serpcntinc" rock
which the Havrc Iron Company are quarry
Ing upon their property on Broad Creek. 1t
Justifles all that has beln said in its favor