The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-24
Local Affairs.

The Hartford Furnace property was not
sold last Tuesday.
There will be partial eclipse of the
sun tomorrow afternoon, 25th, beginning at
3 o'clock 46 minutes, and lasting hour and
81 minutes.
"A large horned owl was killed near Bel
Air last Friday, by Oscar Smithson and
Fillmore Rogers, which measured four feet
and four inches, from tip TO tip of its wings,
and twenty -one inches in length.
The N. Y. World makes long and sci .
entific appeal in behalf of the world-renown-
ed canvas back duck, which it says should
only be killed from the 1st of December to
the LIST of March, During that period it is
at the height of its excellence, but after the
LIST of March its peculiar and delicious flavor
is in great degree lost.
AT the last regular meeting of the Mary
land Horticultural Society, on the 10th inst,
Capt Charles II. Snow, Of this county, de-
liVcred an interesting address on "Orchds,"
or air-plants, giving many interesting facts
connected with their history, habits, cultiya-
ton, and exhibiting the plants growing on
cork, on cocoanut husks, and some hower-
ing without soil, and even without roots.
The Denton Journal, says when the
behring's make their advent in the Choptank,
at Denton, III the Spring, if their arrival
happens to be on Sunday, the boys who are
generally on the look out for them, will bolt
into the churches and bawl ont, dad,
they've come" and without waiting to be
dismissed by the preachers, the entire con
gregatons instantly dispcrsc and make for
the river.
-Messrs. Carlisle a. Co. on Monday COM
mcnced the manufacture Of bone dust at the
Bel Air Bone Mills, on Winters Run, near
Bel Air. The machinery was found to work
perfectly, and the mill is capable of crushing
and grinding from six to ten tons of bone
dust per day. The firm invite an inspection
of their operations, and guarantee to furnish
an article of bone dust absolutely pure and
ground as fine as may be desired Read their
advertisement.
Professionalism. Saturday two we'll
known Bel Air lawyers stretched their legs
by walking from the court house TO Reck-
ord's Mills and back, IS miles, which they
accomplished in two hours and thirty-eight
minutes A day OF two before, one Of them
walked to Baltimore, 224 miles, over the
turnpike, in six hours. We are pleased to
note this evidence of industry among the le-
gal profession. The report that they will
walk match at the Centennial against Wes-
ton is not correct.
The steamer Gen. Mccall arrived at
Port Deposit on the god, from her winter
mooring Capt. Holm intends repairing and
painting her, and will place her on the line
between Port and Lapidum, if the Commits
sioners of Hartford county respond to the Of
er made by the late Board of Commissioners
of Cecil. 1t is great convenience to the
travelling public to be able to cross the river
here, and the small amount asked for to
keep up the ferry should be promptly and
cheerfully appropriated.-CecH Wig.
On Thursday morning, Andrew Everett,
a young man employed on Mrs. Corrigan's
farm, near the Hickory, while assisting in
cutting down cherry tree on Mr.. VIM
Smithsons place, adjoining, had narrow
escape. The tree was upon hill side, and
contrary TO expectation fell up the hill
Everett in getting out of the way climed q
fence, but before he could get over the tree
fell, a large limb striking the top of n post
within foot Of his head, and glancing broke
the rail next to him.
On Monday, according to the almanac,
spring commenced; but the almanac makers
idea of spling, TO judge from the weather,
must be vastly different from the common
acceptation of the term. Instead of bud
and blossom, the vernal equinox brought lis
on Monday storm severe enough to satisfy
the taste of all who pinned for real old FASH
toned "equinoctial" The wind blew, the
snow flew, the rain dcscended-in fact, it
was all sorts of day. Amateur gardeners,
eager to commence operations, had their ar
dor cooled, and there was great decline in
the sale of garden seeds. A few days of
bright weather will restore confidence again,
and soon We may expect to have spring in
earnest.