The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-12

LITTLE LOCALS:

LITTLE LOCALS:
There will be divine service ID. W at
Emmanuel Church, Bel Air. on Friday, Feb.
18th, at u P. NJ. Subject of sermon-"The
Danger of Delay
Tuesday night is said to have been the
coolest this winter. The thermometer at
several points in Bel Air, early Wednesday
morning registered six degrees below zero.
The young ladies and gentlemen of Bush
Chapel, in this county, will give an exhibi.
ton and concert, at the Chapel, on Wedncs
day evening, February 18th, at r o'clock.
A pleasant time may be expected.
"A fine large fox was secured some days
ago, near Cooptown, l,y Mr.. Ira George, and
Reynard will be set at libery tomorrow, at
the Changers Hotel, Bel Air. A large num-
Der of hunters arc expected to take part in
the chase.
We appreciate the honor conferred upon
Tile 1EgiS by our venerable and esteemed CO.
temporary, the Marlborough Gazette, in trans
ferring to its columns, as original editorial
matter, our article Of January Goth, headed
"The Louisiana Problem"
"A colorcd man named Sam Turner, liv-
ing near Bel Air, While going home drunk,
on Saturday night, fell down in field, and
laid there all night. In the morning when
he was discovered he was so badly frozen
that he could not walk
Mr.. John d. Toy, one of the Oldest print
Grs of Baltimore, died last week, in his DIST
year. The senior proprietor ofthe american
was a compositor in his Office tweniy-cight
years ago. DIR. Toy was well known and
had many friends in this county.
The young men who board at the Eagle
Hotel say that Ben Franlslin's maxim about
early to bed and early to rise" &C., is an
exploded idea and relic of barbarism. One
of them tried it few days ago, with so little
success that he has succeeded in convincing
all the rest that the rule won't work.
AT Grace Church. Baltimore, OF Sunday,
January 31st, Rev. VIM. T. Morrison, son of
Rev. DR.. Morrison, formerly rector of Rock
Spring Church, i'll this county, was ordained
deacon. Mr.. Morrison returns to his studies
at the General Seminary, and will assist on
Sundays at parish near New York.
We learn from the Republican that Miss
Hannah L. Clark, who has so acccptably
filled for the past two years the position of
teacher in the Primary Department of the
Havre de Grace High School, has resigned.
She has been succeeded by Miss Matte NJ.
Offley, of Baltimore, a graduate Of the State
Normal School, who comes bearing the high
est recommendations as a teacher.
On Sunday, during the absence of the
family, the dwelling house of J. Fred c. Tai.
bot, Esq, States Attorney for Baltimore
county, was entered by thief and robbed of
about $500 worth of iewelry, belonging to
Mrs. Talbot. Two servants returned before
the thief got away, and recognized him rs a
negro named Lewis Jones, formerly in the
employ of Mr.. Talbot but they were unable
to capture him.
"A number of deaths have recently oc-
CURED in the neighborhood Of Hopewell
Cross Roads, in this county Among them
IRE the following: December 29th, 1874, of
consumption Miss Lucy Standifort, in her
18th year; January 9th, 1875, of apopexy,
Mrs Sarah Mahon, in the 9th year of her
age; Mrs. Eliza Ewing, in her 10Th year
January Goth, of consumption, VIM. Sheri-
dan; January Goth, Miss Sarah Carroll, in the
10th year of her age.
Garrison Archer, or rs he was more ia
miliarly known, "Uncle Garrison an old
colored man, died here on Monday night,
aged about SO years. In his younger days
he was q famous fiddler, and was frequently
called upon to furnish the musical inspira-
ton to which the lads and lasses Of the neigh.
borhood, half It century ago, trippcl it on the
light, fantastic toe. He was also, in olden
times, an inseparable adjunct at the quarter
races held at Bel Air, and boosted with pride
that the horse he attended to was always the
one that came out ahead. He worked indus,
triously almost TO tie last day of his life, his
labor, of late years, having been confined
principally to keeping the Main street clean,
from the corner of Office street to the Post
Office. Peace to his memory
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SINGULAR AccIDENT.-O day last week,
as Mr.. Samuel L. Bond and daughter, of this