The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-09-03

The woods meeting at Wesleyan Chap
cl has been postponed until Sunday, Sept.
18th.
The friends Of DR.. w. Stump Forwood
will be PLEASED to learn that he is recovering
from his recent severe illness. He is still con-
fined to his room, however.
MIR. James Harry has very fine large
Chester White SOW that recently gave birth
to II litter of twenty-one pigs, eighteen Of
which lived and are doing well.
Hon John Carroll Walsh, of this county
who is at present sojourning with his wife,
and daughter in Edinburg, Scotland, will |
please accept our thanks for copies of til C
London Times.
Mr. Burt Whitson, formerly of Hartford
county, Md, died near Martinsburg, Va, on
the 9th instant, in the SD year of his age.
Mr.. Whitson was highly respected, and was
n soldier III the war of 1919.
The Clawson wheat seems to have stood
the hard winter and made the best yield of
any variety sown in this section. 1t is re-
ported that b. L. Wood, Doe Run, had one
hundred bushels of This variety from 81 BUSH
els sown. 1t. is n very nice, large plump
grained wheat.-Orf,2d Press.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Baltimore county, on Wednesday adopted
the Crawford County system of making nom,
nations. The primary elections are to be
held on Saturday, September 25th, except in
the list, 3D., 9th, 10Th and 18th districts, which
are to be held on Friday, the 24th
"A large temperance and local option mass
meeting was held at Woodawn, Cecil cou H.
ty, on Thursday of last week, at which
Brick" Pomeroy was the principal speaker,
and the lion of the occasion. His speech
was interspcrsed with humorous anecdotes
and striking illustrations, and was received
with much applause by the large audience.
We have received from MI Edwin Sill
yer, son of Henry A. Silver, Esq, formerly
of Dublin, in this county, n copy of the new
Constitution of the State of Missouri, upon
the adoption of which IL vote will be taken
on the Both of October. Mr.. Silver resides
at Jefferson City, Missouri. where he holds
the position of Secretary to the Governor of
the State.
Farmers who wish to make their own
super phosphate Of lime can obtain all the
requisite materials from Mr. f. NJ. Allen, at
Stafford Mills. They can also get, at the
same place, perfectly pure bone dust, and if
seeing is believing, can see it made before
their very eyes. Mr.. Allen also supplies
Baltimore Company and other coal, at the
lowest prices.
Our neighbor, the Havre de Grace Re
publican, Is mistaken in asserting that the
shooting of Mr. James II. Monks by Thomas
X. Archer i'll Bel Air, on the night ofthc 21st
of August, was brought about by king
Whisky" Mr.. Monks is n strictly, temperate
man, and his assailant was also sober ut the
time he shot him. King Whisky" has
crimes enough to answer for, without charg-
ing him with those in which he had no hand
Our Dublin correspondent, Mars, has q
snake story to record this week. He tells
the tale as twas told to him, and i. the meas
urements of the monster are correct, the big
snakes heretofore reported at Halls Springs
and elsewhere might rs well stay in their
holes. Perhaps this Susquehanna river snake
is the veritablc sea serpent itself, whose huge
dimensions have formed the ground work
many sailors yarn.
-Mcssrs. r. i. Morgan s. Co., are agents
for Hartford county, for the Keller Drill for
grain, grass seeds or fertilizers. 1t is repre-
scented as the best in USE Messrs Morgan s.
Co. also have on hand, at their agricultural
warehouse, in Bel Air, large assortment of
agricultural implements of all kinds, which
they will sell nj the lowest prices. Call and
see them. They can supply you with any
kind agricultural implements ormachinery,
at the manufacturers lowest prices.
PRoCEEDINGs OF THE CoMMIssIoNERs.-
An order was passed allowing Joshua Will
son $25 for damages on road
William S. Bowman, G. Ii. Walker and
VIM. Silver, (of David,) were appointed Ex-
amners to locate public road from point
on the post road near Darlington station to
n point on the road leading from Hoofman's
Chapel to Havre de Grace, near jarrett
Wards.
Samuel j. Scarborough, Richard Taylor
and j. Martin McNabb were appointed Ex-
aminers to locate two roads in the 9Th dis